The New Jersey metal lands on Wednesday night after being hit in the crotch by a lighter thrown from the audience. Rose was not seriously hurt and after walking off stage about two hours into the band's usual three hour said, he said, quote, I got my philosophy on this from Lemmy in Motorhead. Don't let them throw things at your show because it could happen at the next band show and someone could get hurt. Rose's voice also started going during the band's New York stand, forcing Rose on doctors orders to cancel a Friday show at Foxboro Stadium near Boston, which has been rescheduled for September 11th. On Sunday night showing, seven, a concert in Minneapolis next Wednesday, however, is still on. Said Rose after reluctantly agreeing to the cancellations, I'm bummed. We're going to step aside. Recent memory blew into the Canadian provincial capital of Montreal on Saturday night and ended in a riot after Metallica frontman James Hetfield was sent to the hospital with exploding pyro-technic injuries and guns frontman Axel Rose abruptly ended his band set with some ominous comments about the band's future. At least eight police and ten concert goers sustained minor injuries in the melee that followed. A dozen arrests were made and initial reports estimated damage to the stadium to nearby stores to total as much as $1 million. Things started going wrong about halfway through Metallica set when a stage prop exploded and flicking second degree burns on James Hetfield's arms and legs. The band was forced to terminate its set, promising the crowd would return to play a makeup show and Hetfield was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. When guns and roses took the stage about two hours and fifteen minutes later, according to Montreal Gazette Rock critic Mark LaPage, who was in the audience, the band played about six songs before Axel Rose told the audience, quote, we got it together in Europe only to have it come apart here. In case anyone is interested, this is going to be our last show for a long time. Rose then sang double-talk and jive and then civil war and then walked off. Although press reports have blamed Rose's hasty exit on his ongoing throat problems, which have forced cancellation of three US shows in the last two weeks. Journalist LaPage says there was no announcement or explanation offered before the house lights suddenly came up. As the audience of 53,000 people filed out of the stadium, some 2,000 disgruntled concert goers began to set fires, break into souvenir stands, smash windows and overturn cars. Here's what a representative for the concert promoter said afterwards. The presenter's position is that there was a 45-minute set by Faith No More, an 80-minute set by Metallica, and a 55-minute set by Guns and Roses. We have decided there is nothing further that our organization can effectively say at the present time. In fact however, talks are scheduled for a possible makeup show this fall, while Guns and Roses have had no comment on the incident yet. For another first-person point of view on the Montreal show, we've got Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on the phone right now. How is James? Is he still in the hospital? James is here in Denver with me and he's under the circumstances doing incredibly well. It's a miracle. Everybody's saying it's a miracle that he got off. We're just burns on his arms and hands and a little bit up on his face. Considering he was pretty much in love in flames for about a full second. It's all the doctors are saying it's a miracle he got off. It's good as he did. He's out here now in Denver with us and there's a bunch of doctors and burn specialists and stuff like that that are attending to him out here. Like I said, on the circumstances, he's doing very good. He's very coherent. How did something like that happen? Were the pyrotechnics in the same spot as they were every single night? We were doing...it was in the song Fates of Black and we were doing the same place in the song that we've done the cue for the whole tour. But our pyroman was extending the flames to go all the way out on the sides of the stage. And when he was communicating that to James before the show about where the flames was going to be, there was clearly a misunderstanding there about where they were going to be. And James just basically just walked right into a flame that came up from behind and basically. Oh, well glad he's okay. As far as the riots are concerned, were you there when the trouble started? Yeah, we were sitting eating dinner in our dressing room and we were watching guns on the monitor in our dressing room and it was clear that they were not having one of their better shows. And I actually went in to take a phone call in the dressing room to talk to our manager about James's situation. And then I was told that actually it just walked off stage. At that point, we were just told to stay in our dressing rooms and we basically just kept to our dressing rooms and things didn't really get to our hand inside the venue as far as I could see. But it was mostly up in the concourses and outside the place and so but nothing much was clearly evident from where we were inside the dressing room. Have you talked to any of the guns and roses more since then? And you know why they left the stage? Axel still didn't feel like he was fully recovered with his throat stuff and there's been what we have out here is a combination of our PA and some of their monitors and stuff like that. And it's not been completely right yet for both bands and Axel just didn't feel like he wanted to keep taking chances with his voice and stuff like that. And he had been going through like monitor guys like right left and central for the whole tour and nobody had really been able to give him what they needed up on stage and I knew that he had just come to the point where it was too much for him to deal with. Well we know the Toronto show had to be canceled. Do you have any idea how many other shows have to be canceled and right now we're playing again? You're right now we're in a waiting situation. I was in after the show and sat down with Axel and we talked this through and there's a definite, both of us are obviously going to make all these dates up and that is our priority and we're going to stop at nothing to do that. But right now both of us have commitments starting around October 10th which is kind of our card off date. So we're trying to run out to schedule as many of the shows in up till part of some time in early October. What it's looking like is that there are two options right now depending on how quick James can heal his hands and stuff like that. Right now they're saying that it could be as little as two weeks. So we're going to probably the next couple days trying to find a guitar player who can be on standby if James's hands don't heal that quickly. And there's two options like I said basically one is waiting for James to completely heal and then go on play the shows like that. Axel told me that that guns would definitely wait for us till we were ready and like said the other option is to get a second guitar player that would come in and play our James's parts and when James is ready to just get up on stage and go out and sing basically as a front man then that's then he would do that. So those are the two options that we're weighing right now and as soon as we figure out which one we're going to go with and where we're going to start playing and obviously you guys will be among the first to know. So does on Wednesday as have been planned? No Denver is officially postponed and right now there's a make-up date for Denver sometime the third week of September and so that's official Denver is postponed till the third week of September and we're basically taking them taking the shows on a one by one basis right now but like I said the main thing is right now to figure out if James is going to be ready in two weeks then we'll wait for that. Okay well we hope he gets better as soon as possible thanks for taking the time to talk to us. Of course, have it any time. Bye bye. According to the latest word from the venue and the concerts promoter damages were not as extensive as first thought although no exact figure has yet been released. And choose a new loose news mean one.