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The Bay Area will always proudly claim Metallica as their own, but it recently lost one member of the band to Vail, Colorado. Why?

James Hetfield told Joe Rogan that he felt judgement living in Marin:

I kind of got sick of the Bay Area, the attitudes of the people there, a little bit…They talk about how diverse they are, and things like that, and it’s fine if you’re diverse like them. But showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn’t fly in Marin County. My form of eating organic doesn’t vibe with theirs.

He admitted that he could have made up the angst in his head, but he continued on to say that in the Bay Area:

…There was an elitist attitude there — that if you weren’t their way politically, their way environmentally, all of that, that you were looked down upon. I love the ocean, and I love the Bay Area, I love what it’s got to offer, but there’s just an attitude that it was… It wasn’t healthy for me. [I was] starting to feel like I was just fighting all the time, and I just had to get out of my own head. So Colorado does it for me.

Hetfield says he feels that in Vail there’s less posturing and more focus on doing what you’re enjoying…do you agree?

Catch the full 2 hour interview here: