Strange headline, eh? Well, not if you’re serving as a customs official in Belarus. Apparently, on the recent Red Hot Chili Peppers stop through the country, the band was asked to sign some merchandise and photos from said customs officials. This is all normal, right? Wrong. The problem was that it wasn’t RHCP merch and photos… It was Metallica merch and photos… So, it appears that, In Belarus, The Red Hot Chili Peppers are Metallica.
The band’s bassist Flea described the strange event with the following statement and photo:
We were called into customs officials office at an airport in Belarus and they asked us to sign a bunch of Metallica cd’s and photos. We tried to explain to them that we weren’t Metallica but they insisted that we sign anyway. They had the power. Well I did play fight fire with with with Metallica once. I love Metallica anyways but I’m no Robert Trujillo.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: Facebook // Official Website // Merch
Metallica: Facebook // Twitter // iTunes
