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LOS ANGELES, March 22 — Signing on for a “Guitar Hero” game was a “no brainer,” according to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. “When ‘Guitar Hero’ came to us in April of last year, we said yes very quickly,” Ulrich told Billboard.com on Friday during the quartet’s drop-in appearance at the South By Southwest music conference to promote “Guitar Hero: Metallica,” which comes out on March 29. “It ...

(AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)Metallica's Kirk Hammell, left, and James Hetfield perform at the SXSW Music Festival in Austin, Texas on Friday. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Invading South By Southwest, Metallica attempted to pose as one of the hundreds of smaller bands...

Signing on for a Guitar Hero game was a no brainer, according to Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.

Time flies. So do falcons, reimagined as ancient hieroglyphs and impressed upon modern glazed ceramic tiles together with a host of the world's other language symbols.

Last week's Dave Matthews Band at Fenway announcement (May 29-30) - and this week's Phish at Fenway rumors (maybe May 31)-tricked us into thinking it was summer....