METALLICA's Lars Ulrich On Big Four Set - "We're Bringing All The Bells And Whistles And All Of The Stuff That Turns On And Off And All Of The Stuff That Pops And Goes Boom"
April 22, 2011, 13 years ago
Vanessa Franko from The Press-Enterprise spoke with METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich ahead of the Big Four tomorrow (Saturday, April 23rd) at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, CA. A few excerpts from the chat follow:
On the big four bands of thrash metal - Metallica, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX - getting together and touring Europe last year:
"It was definitely an experiment. We were all keeping our fingers crossed that the experiment would work. When we played the first show in Warsaw, just about ten months ago, in June of last year, everybody felt right away that this thing was really working and the 75,000 people who showed up in Warsaw really felt that it was working, too. There's a fine line. You don't want to push it to the point so 'Now we're going to hit every arena, every theater, every backyard, everywhere.' You want to keep it special."On Metallica's set tomorrow: "We're bringing all the bells and whistles and all of the stuff that turns on and off and all of the stuff that pops and goes boom. Hopefully people all over Southern California will be able to experience some part of this, if not by direct association, then at least by indirect association. It will be cool. If the weather's clear, they'll be able to share this all over Southern California."
On Metallica's 30th anniversary: "I think we sort of forgot. When you get to have been around as long as we have, you can almost find an anniversary in anything - 10 years since this, 20 years since that came out, 15 years since somebody picked their nose. There's always an anniversary you can celebrate."
Read the entire interview here.
