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    Lars Ulrich Recalls Trying to Hide Behind His Drums During First Metallica Gig

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    The 57-year-old drummer remembers shivering and trying to hide behind his drum kit during the first Metallica gig years ago at Radio City in Anaheim, California.

    Jan 10, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Lars Ulrich still gets chills thinking about his first Metallica gig.
    The 57-year-old drummer – who made his debut on stage as a founding member of the “Enter Sandman” rockers in 1982 – has reflected on the buzz he felt getting behind his kit on that fateful night.
    He told Classic Rock magazine, “Well, the interesting thing about that first gig was it was just Metallica, on a Sunday night at Radio City in Anaheim, California.”
    “And on the very first song, Hit the Lights, Dave Mustaine broke a guitar string, and so the space between the first song and the second song seemed like a never-ending eternity. It felt like my whole life!”
    “I was just sitting up there trying to hide behind these drums. It was the strangest thing.”

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    “But Dave got the guitar back together and we ended up playing the rest of the set. But there was a significant lull there. Trust me, I start shivering just talking about it now.”
    Live music has been largely halted during the pandemic, with many artists having to rely on livestream shows as large audiences are not possible due to the coronavirus.
    Asked how much he’s missed the thrill of watching a great gig, Lars said, “I just think of how lucky I’ve been in the past, all the great shows I’ve seen. I saw Thin Lizzy multiple times between ’76 and ’80 – incredible.”
    “I saw Motorhead multiple times, ’79 to ’81 – insane. I saw AC/DC open for Black Sabbath in 1976. And I saw AC/DC headline in Copenhagen in ’77, and Bon Scott was so great, you couldn’t take your eyes off him.”
    “That was Bon in his heyday, with the tight jeans, the tennis shoes, the shirt off.”
    “And I loved the way he would hold the mic with the cord rolled up two or three times, and he would stand out there at the very edge of the stage when he wasn’t singing, stand over on Malcolm’s side and let Angus bounce around in front of him…”

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      Lars Ulrich Promises Best Ever Metallica Album for Next Studio Installment

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      The next studio album by James Hetfield and his bandmates is described as ‘the heaviest’ and ‘the coolest’ album that the rock band will have ever made.

      Jan 8, 2021
      AceShowbiz – Metallica always want to make the “best record” they’ve ever produced.
      The heavy metal group – who formed in 1981 – can’t imagine ever giving up making music because they love the “creative process” and always strive to make each new album better than the last.
      Asked if they’ve thought about their plans for their next album yet, drummer Lars Ulrich told Classic Rock magazine, “It’s going to be the best album we’ve ever done! Insert the rest of the cliches – it’s the heaviest thing, the coolest…”
      “But all kidding aside, if it wasn’t because we thought that the best record was still ahead of us, then why keep doing it? In Metallica we love the creative process, and it’s hard for me to imagine that we’ll ever stop making records.”

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      The drummer insisted the group – which also includes James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and Robert Trujillo – never compare their albums to their previous efforts, and he wouldn’t want to change anything about their back catalogue because each record represents a period in time for the band.
      “I don’t think like that at all. Each record to me is a picture of a time period. 1988, …And Justice for All, that was what we did and we made all those choices, and I’m happy accepting it,” he said. “Sometimes I think why did we do that and what were we thinking, without necessarily wanting to change it.”
      “But of the ones that we’ve done, it’s with Hardwired that I have the fewest bewildered questions about the choices we made.”
      With the coronavirus pandemic keeping the band off the road, Lars has kept his skills sharp by playing along to their most recent studio album, 2016’s “Hardwired… To Self Destruct”, as well as Rage Against the Machine’s self-titled 1992 LP.
      “Another record I’ve played along to is Rage Against the Machine, that first album (’92),” he added. “That has been the soundtrack to this pandemic for me. I’m just blasting those songs, and they sound more relevant and more contemporary than they ever have.”

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