Metallica Fans Can Score a Private Dinner With James Hetfield In Charity Auction

If you’ve always dreamed of sitting down to a meal with Metallica singer/guitarist James Hetfield you’re in luck. The metal legend is offering up a private dinner for you and up to three of your friends in a charity auction to support the Adaptive Sports Foundation.

The only catch is that it will cost you a pretty penny, as the current bid for the outing stood at $28,500 at press time. According to the listing for the auction, the meal for four with Hetfield in Vail-adjacent Edwards, CO will also feature a guest appearance from an athlete from the Adaptive Sports Foundation — which provides sports and recreational opportunities to children and adults with cognitive and physical disabilities — and an accompanying staff member who will share their success stories with Hetfield and your crew.

Bidding for the auction expires on Aug. 21. The fine print notes that the participant in the 90-120-minute meal has to be 21-years-old or older, that they may take a photo with Hetfield and ask him to sign one small item and the scheduling is subject to a mutual agreement on a date between the singer, the charity and the winner. In addition, the winner is responsible for the total cost of the meal for all participants and travel and accommodations are not included.

Billboard recently compiled a list of the artists whose albums spent the most weeks at No. 1 on the Top Catalog Albums chart, with Metallica’s Grammy-winning self-titled 1991 album logging 45 weeks and representing the only hard rock/metal album on the list. In addition, the LP colloquially known as the Black Album just celebrated a mind-blowing 750 weeks on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it only the fourth LP in history to cross that threshold.