Next month, James Hetfield, Metallica vocalist, will be honored in a concert and dinner held at Music Box at Henry Fonda. Funds will be raised for MusicCares MAP which provides musicians with access to treatment for recovery after addiction, no matter their financial situation. Since most stars' finances are going pretty well in nowadays showbiz, it will probably be more of a moral support to overcome the plague of addiction.

Hetfield and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo will play together with guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney from Alice in Chains. It will probably be a kind of "father and son" gig, with Hetfield as the big daddy taking care of the "kids" from Alice in Chains.

Both "father" and "sons" though know what addiction is about from personal experience. Hetfield's battle with drugs has already been chronicled in the documentary "Some Kind of Monster". Alice in Chains lost their frontman, Layne Staley, much like Nirvana lost Kurt Cobain, because of a drug abuse four years ago.

But addiction is not the only common ground for the two bands. Alice in Chains bassist Mike Inez was between the ones to aspire to take Jason Newsted's role as a bassist for Metallica, after his leaving the band in 2001. Alice in Chains were also supposed to open up some Metallica concerts, but the project was not fulfilled because of Staley's desperate situation at that time.

Some other big rock names will also join the gig. Hetfield's bandmates - Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett, Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Navarro, Tom Waits or Godsmack will be just some of the ones to take part in the benefit show.
Each and every one of them has had his own hard times with drug or alcohol related problems, so they all seem to know what they're … singing about.

As for the price… you should know that a balcony ticket reaches 250$. Indeed, poor rich stars need a whole lot of money to overcome their addictions.