Céline Dion Plays Air Bass as Jack Black Rocks Out at Metallica’s Sphere Show
Metallica opened its November 7 show at Sphere in Las Vegas with “Blackened.” The band had barely gotten started when a camera in the audience found two familiar faces already absorbed in the riff. Céline Dion was playing along on an imaginary bass. A few seats away, Jack Black was moving to the same song with his whole body.
The footage works because you notice them at different times. Black is easy to pick out, leaning into the beat with the energy people associate with Tenacious D and School of Rock. Then your eye moves across the row to Dion and the much smaller movement of her hands. The bass she’s playing exists entirely in her head, but she commits to it like she has a part to play.
Dion had been at Sphere on November 5 as well. That earlier visit produced its own fan footage of her miming bass during the show. By Saturday she was back for the second night of the pair, this time with Black nearby and a different set of songs coming from the stage.
“Blackened” was a fitting opener for a clip that feels like it starts at full speed. The song opens …And Justice for All, and its tightly wound guitar figure leaves little room to settle in once it arrives. Metallica followed it with “Fuel” and “Leper Messiah” that night, according to the band’s published setlist.
From the angle of the audience video, Sphere is mostly a place you hear. There is no broad view of the stage to study. Instead, the camera stays with the people in the box, leaving the riff to tell you what they’re reacting to.
Look at Dion’s hands on a second watch. Black’s head and shoulders give away the beat immediately. She makes you follow the playing more closely, and that difference is what makes the shot worth replaying.
Another angle from the audience
Later in the set, the cameras caught a different side of the night during “Enter Sandman.” The movements grew bigger and the clapping went overhead, the sort of audience response a band can see even from the far side of a room. The clips capture separate moments in the same concert.
Dion also shared photos of her backstage visit with the band. That gave fans the posed image they might have expected from a meeting of famous musicians. The fan footage offered something more casual, a glimpse of how much fun she was having before anybody lined up for a photo.
The November 7 show finished Metallica’s 2026 dates at Sphere. The band billed its paired nights as No Repeat Weekends, giving concertgoers who came twice a different set each time. Dion made it to both dates of the last pair, and both nights gave fans something to look for in the crowd.
