Metallica brought their M72 tour to the Rogers Centre in Toronto last night and guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo paid tribute to Rush during their nightly doodle session, where they designate a few minutes in each set to cover a popular song by an artist local to whichever city/country the band is in. For last night's Rush tribute the pair tackled Rush's La Villa Strangiato as seen in this fan-shot video starting at about the 1-minute mark. They did a short little YYZ intro, and then played about 2.5 minutes of the song. Trujillo then addresses the crowd, "Thank you so much! Rush, we love you. Geddy, Alex, Neil - we love you" (thanks Blabbermouth). The pair also covered Rush during last year's stop in Edmonton, where they did a snippet of Rush's Working Man. Kirk and Rob had also gotten together with Alex Lifeson earlier in the week while they were in town as Lerxst described in this Prog Report interview:

.. Last night Metallica were in town, and they came in a little early. So I had dinner with Kirk and Rob and after dinner we went up to Kirk's room and we sort of sat around for a bit. And of course he had a few guitars in the room and we started playing. And I was there for a few hours we were just playing on a semi acoustic guitar - an electric guitar not plugged in - and we were lost in it and it was so fun. So we're gonna have dinner tonight again and he said, "Let's get back together again. Let's do it again." So he's gonna come here and I already re-strung a few guitars. And Rob's going to come and we're just going to jam here tonight after dinner and I'm sure we'll be here till the wee hours just doing the thing that we love to do so much ...