August 1991: MuchMusic rarely did phone interviews, but when Lars Ulrich is on a big promotional binge, you take what you can get! Michael Williams, proudly sporting his Fishbone shirt, got to quiz Lars with questions on the new album, and new video “Enter Sandman”, for roughly 10 minutes.
We all knew the next Metallica album was going to be huge. The hype had been building for a year. It was just a matter of the release date.
It’s “the record people say Metallica were always trying to make,” said Lars. Too much of a big deal was being made about Bob Rock, he claims.
“We had Canadian flags all over the studio,” says Lars of the studio vibe with Bob Rock, in answer to Lars’ Danish flag and James’ Star Spangled Banners.
Lars characterizes Rock as someone to bounce ideas off of. He doesn’t really know what a producer does, but had an idea of what he wanted Bob Rock to capture in the studio. The last two months was spent overdubbing and layering; stuff that Lars was not familiar with.
Lars also discusses a massive album release party with 18,000 people at Madison Square Gardens.
Is Metallica finally becoming more “video-friendly”? Watch this legendary interview with Ulrich to find out.
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Crazy you posted this tonight. Only because I threw on Lulu for the first time in years tonight and was enjoying it. What an interesting anomaly that record continues to be to this day. I respect Metallica for stretching themselves like that.
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Lulu is underrated but don’t tell Metal Roger that who, two years later, still thinks it’s something to tease me about.
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One of the best Lou Reed stories ever. Kirk Hammett said he went to stomp on his wah pedal and Lou goes to stop him simply saying, “No.”
So Kirk writes Lou an email explaining to him why he thinks the song should have a wah solo really pouring his heart out.
Next day in practice they’re all getting set up and Lou casually says to Kirk, “Oh, I got your email.”
He didn’t elaborate any further. That was the end of it. No wah on that song.
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