{"id":54821,"date":"2017-04-11T04:52:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T09:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=54821"},"modified":"2017-04-11T04:52:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T09:52:02","slug":"lars-ulrich-hetfields-put-up-with-my-shit-for-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=54821","title":{"rendered":"LARS ULRICH – Hetfield’s ‘Put Up With My Shit For 35 years’"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\nTo say the past couple of months have been eventful for Lars Ulrich and his band, METALLICA, would not only be an understatement… it would just prove you really don’t understand the full impact of what has transpired. In fact, it’s safe to say that things have been going no less than chaotic as hell<\/em> since his band’s disastrous collaboration at The Grammys with pop star Lady Gaga, when frontman James Hetfield’s mic would not work for the first quarter of the song, the rock world itself was left scratching its head like never before. Did that really just happen?<\/em> And joking or not, the further idea of inviting <\/a>the woman to be the band’s 5th member truly scared the shit out of millions of us devoted metal heads. You know, the ones who actually buy the records, pay for the expensive concert tickets and purchase all the group’s endless merchandise. Although, Ulrich and his bandmates believe the Gaga pairing “Was a good fit”, tougher to please music critics have nonetheless had a field day carving up The Four Horsemen for performing with the dance music queen.
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\n“Yeah-yeah, sharing a microphone sucks balls!”<\/strong>
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\nWell, the purported publicity stunt has done well to pick album sales back up after slowing down… so that’s a plus, right? Or maybe not. Perhaps the long term damage that was done can’t ever be repaired.
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\nIn a brief Q&A <\/a>with Rolling Stone in March, a few weeks after the incident, Ulrich took some time to reflect on his relationship with longtime partner in crime, James Hetfield. He even went as far as to admit that James is actually one of his heroes in life.
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\n“He is just the coolest musician. He\u2019s put up with my shit for 35 years, so there\u2019s gotta be appreciation in there for that. Sometimes I think he may be underappreciated in terms of just how vast his talent is.”<\/strong>
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\nEven after going to therapy together years ago to save their band from breaking up, the two men still go at it from time to time, most recently not having spoke to each other for one week period after a blow up happened during the songwriting phase for their new studio effort.
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\nHetfield explained: \u201cWe were in the studio and it was like, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m the guitar player, I like this guitar part, I wanna play it.\u2019 He\u2019d be like, \u2018This part is better,\u2019 and I was like, \u2018Since when are you the Riff Police?\u2019 So at that point it was, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m done…\u2019<\/strong>
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\nUlrich confided during the Q&A: “I\u2019ve learned that there\u2019s nothing more important than the health of the band. Rather than force people to do something they dont want to do…”<\/strong>
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\nWith his band<\/em> set to kick off their US tour in support of their latest studio release “Hardwired…To Self Destruct” in May, Ulrich, now 53 years of age, seems to believe fans are ready to forgive and forget all of the ‘shit’ they have been subjected to, much like James Hetfield himself. <\/small><\/big><\/small><\/big>
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\n\u201cSlow down. Take it all in. Appreciate what\u2019s going on…\u201d, he concludes.<\/strong>
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\nLars the only thing any of us appreciates is when you recognize that you aren’t the only member of METALLICA.<\/em>
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