Lars Ulrich drumming Metallica - Nothing Else Matters (Amsterdam 4/27/2023)

Lars' drum set rising up the stage and him drumming during Metallica's Nothing Else Matters.

[@MateuszModrzejewski]

My man Lars not even trying and sounding like he's butchering the song on purpose in a packed arena. 10/10 amazing

[@SyeDrums]

His new kit looks gorgeous

[@nikobrul7994]

On the recording the drumming sounds so bad because of the delay berween him drumming and the sound coming frommthe speakers

[@sergiosantos3426]

Show❤

[@xvarzka33]

You do realise it sounds out of time due to delay on such big stage ?XD no shit you'll hear drums in front of you way before PA or other if youre standing right beside

[@edwardkerner8525]

I would like to see the old drum style and set

[@mariaelenanavarrete9317]

es una de las canciones que me gusta mucho 🌹

[@Edu0596]

Great footage! 1:47 damn lars, that fill was weird haha

[@Faris-me8le]

But its hard to hate this guy tho😆

[@muriloninja]

He's so awful it's hilarious...random ass nonsensical fills all over the place! hahaha! Caveman drumming has its place and the black album was ripe for it...caveman drumming coupled with all the nonsensical crap is so off putting and makes no sense.

[@muriloninja]

@@Faris-me8le "to like" you mean.

[@jd0879]

His playing in this entire clip isn’t good. Way too hard for a soft song. In the making of the Black Album even Bob told Lars to keep the dynamics cool on the Hi-Hat

[@cableroyson9992]

1:45

[@mahikhan6757]

😂

[@revivedfears]

I really don't get why he does this all the time. It's the most I'm out of place fill he could possibly put in a fucking ballad but he does it on every single slow or mid tempo tune. I love Lars' drumming as a general rule but this makes some of the slower songs almost unlistenable live

[@shallex5744]

@@revivedfears i think he sees a slow, quiet song like this, and in his mind he sees a beautiful clean white canvas with plenty of open space for him to poopie brown all over. he does the same thing with Sanitarium, and it's infuriating

[@patriciogonzalez2290]

hi hat out of time... i´ve seen it all

[@michaeldavey3099]

Ya done great Lars ya done real good 60 years old much love ❤

[@vegasgone07-dh4lb]

Zildjian Dyno Beats?

[@mariano2395]

On HH, yes. Cymbals A Custom.

[@Johnyevil]

@@mariano2395 Nope, hats aren't Dyno beats, Zildjian don't make 'em anymore.. those are A Customs

[@JurekLipka-xu4dn]

1:47 do the same sa me i diffrent speeds

[@leif7474]

It´s amazing. The drumming for this song on record is perfection. And then (like on a lot of other songs) for some reason he goes up on stage and totally destroys it. He doesn´t honor anything of his work on record, or maybe he is not able to. Who knows. All these midtempo or slow song are played live the same way. To fast, out of time, no trace of the orginally recordning what so ever and full of horrible new fills. Sounds like somebody that been playing drums for 2 years

[@AndreBentrup]

Too much Coke

[@shallex5744]

that's one of the things that's so interesting about lars to me, is that he lays down absolute perfection in almost every track, then he just butchers almost all of the songs so badly live in various little (or big) ways. i think he just doesn't care anymore. most drummers, they'd probably want to keep up the standard of what they wrote and be able to play it consistently, but i don't think lars has that amount of respect for his own work. when you're a fan, you look up to the musician's work as a work of art, something to be respected and admired, it can seem otherworldly in how awe-inspiring it is, but you know, i guess sometimes when you're the creator of that art, it's a lot easier for you to think "eh, what value does this have? that was just something i threw together". maybe you don't think so highly of your own work, so you don't love it as much as the fans do. maybe lars thinks it's no big deal to just destroy the art he originally laid down in studio, because maybe to him, it was just a "throwaway" to begin with, so to speak. interchangeable with anything else he could come up with. that's all just speculation, of course, but it seems to me there's really no other explanation for how he could let this happen other than just simply, he doesn't care, and his classic work doesn't mean much to him. maybe he's self-deprecating in that regard and he thinks his own material isn't worth learning and maintaining. maybe he never thought much of himself to begin with, so he figures why bother. the point is, if he really cared about it, he could easily spend some time learning it. it really wouldn't be all that much work for him. but obviously he doesn't. he chooses not to do that. it's sort of known that he doesn't practice, and he never really practiced in the early days, he just wanted to get up there and drum away on stage with a band, not sit there and practice, which is reflected in his attitude on stage today and seemingly for the last 30+ years, which seems to be just "go on stage, have fun, and freestyle whatever comes to mind in the moment"

[@lewisrichards3083]

surely if your this close to the kit you would hear it coming from the kit itself and through the PA no? if you get my drift, thats why his timing sounds off

[@zaiabivatel]

Его работа с хай-хетом это нечто, абсолютно никто так не сыграет.

[@neaionqwe]

So close, love it

[@YevhenRight]

It was my the best day last 2 years! Metallica is amazing!

[@Taylor___]

It would be well annoying being that close to the kit, all you can hear is Lars

[@kasogamer]

That hi hat hurts my ears

[@justempty7036]

Yeah his kit is really not my thing lol

[@SpiritualGangs]

well well Inc.

[@Vincent.Duquesne.]

Big class !

[@ezekialalvarado2444]

Bluds high hat is broken

[@maccatavares]

Is this drums white or yellow?

[@brianpatrickreddington1750]

I am thinking that they are the classic white

[@Taylor___]

Yellow for 72 seasons

[@alvinyakitori8720]

They are yellow in honor of TRANS KIDS and their RIGHTS. Get it right

[@vegasgone07-dh4lb]

Yellow Yuck.

[@yeyoandrew1987]

@@alvinyakitori8720 what? No. It’s because of the new album cover and theme

[@RosaLeeJean]

Respect for founder of Metallica,Lars is suffering hearing loss.Please little bit respect

[@brodo4495]

Hearing loss doesn’t justify all the unnecessary “fills” / snare rolls. This is just BAD.

[@lildavisofficial]

@@brodo4495 why people hate lars??

[@brodo4495]

@@lildavisofficial he’s lost his touch. don’t get me wrong some songs he plays well. I don’t hate Lars though. He’s one of the reasons I picked up drumming.

[@lildavisofficial]

@@brodo4495 me too

[@davidadams1800]

Talent loss.

[@MR_THINQ]

His drumming is woeful. You watch the video for the song, he’s playing the whole song wrong on stage! The guy is an awful drummer, I’ve seen 16 year olds play that song better than him!

[@mycatralph]

He is atleast the foundation of mettalica and a succesfull songwriter. You dont have to be the best drummer in the world to be a succesful one.

[@metal4lifewp]

I played drums in a Metallica tribute a few years ago and to Lars his defence I found it difficult to play this seriously too. But that was in the rehearsal room. And it was more like adding things that don't belong like double bass.

[@justempty7036]

Yep İTS called stage improvising....Have You never been to a concert before? However this is the not the original tempo so the band itself doesnt even play the Song in the original tempo.İ would Like to meet with That 16 year olds everyone has been talking about bro.

[@lewisrichards3083]

Because those 16 year olds have learned the studio song. This is live, he doesn't play their songs exactly like the studio version.

[@davidadams1800]

Trainwreck.

[@cutitshaveit]

Zildjian cymbals sound horrible.

[@mcbrain6666]

agree, that sound looks cheap!

[@lewisrichards3083]

@@mcbrain6666 Haha, they are zildjian A customs. Not cheap at all. They are way better than classic zildjian cymbals.

[@mcbrain6666]

@@lewisrichards3083 I’m saying that they sound like cheap cymbals not that they are, idiot.

[@minstinct280]

All the non-musicians trying to denigrate Lars....what a joke. The Napster thieving issue is ancient history - get over it! Lars is one of the most creative drummers on earth who knows how to enhance any song. He kicks ass, just as Bob Rock has also commented. BUT the butt-hurt babies who don't get breastfed by Napster anymore know more than any musician or producer. LMAO.

[@kskslslslsoooao]

Well, I'm a non-non-musician, so to speak. I play the drums. And Lars Ulrich nowadays is an awful drummer, live. Horrible timekeeping, superfluous fills all over the place, overusing the cymbals -- just no taste whatsoever. Lars late eighties or early nineties is a different story, I'll give you that. But present-day Lars is easily the worst drummer playing in a successful band. Someone called him a spoiled little bitch in another comment section. That is very accurate. Not serving the song and the audience, only busy drumming his boredom away.

[@shallex5744]

you're unfortunately conflating his studio compositions with the spew that he's been producing on stage for the last 30 years. comments like yours come across just as mindless as they often accuse the Lars critics of being

[@damsam6566]

Gdzie ten Lars? Jak to gdzie? Odpoczywa On jest poirytowany. Jak długo jeszcze sześćdziesięciolatek ma walić, w teraz już żółtą, jakby z przedszkola wyjętą perkusję, i to do piosenek tak już oklepannych, że mdlących. Rozumiem jego dystans do roboty. Jeszcze trochę zarobić, ale już naprawdę nie musi się wysilać. Tak czy inaczej lubiłem go jako chłopaka, a teraz ta jego duńskość, i szacunek do zarobionych pieniędzy jest jeszcze większy i jeszcze bardziej go lubię za to. Lars był, i jest łebski, i guzik sobie robi z tego co ludzie gadają. Kasa musi się zgadzać. A propos - jak słychać - Polacy są wszędzie.

[@thefuse03101]

Regardless if you think he's a legend or not, he's been doing this nonsense for decades. It's not like he's just became senile and only recently started playing like garbage on stage. Those fills during the verse are beyond out of place and just make it sound like constant mistakes are happening.

[@shallex5744]

that's what's so interesting about lars to me, is that his drum senility happened very early on, like early 90s, arguably with signs appearing as early as late 80s if you pay attention. the only performances i've seen where he seems super cogent and determined/able to play the songs almost exactly as they were written, with no superfluous fills, weird dynamics, omission of cool fills/parts, and general silliness, is the few years from around 1983 to 1986. after that he starts simplifying and even the earliest performances of some justice songs, like the shortest straw for example, he doesn't play a lot of the fills and just simplifies it into being kinda boring

[@revivedfears]

​@@shallex5744I genuinely don't know why the rest of the band let him slip so much. It's okay to have a bad night but to consistently skip pretty integral drum parts and play every ballad like this, at this level of the game. Put any drummer up there who's been playing for a few years and they'll likely do a way better job than Lars. I loved Lars in the 80's and he is still capable of at least thinking up some decent drum parts, he just won't play them like. The big fill after the solo in Moth Into Flame, it's not super crazy to play but I've never saw Lars play it, ever.

[@shallex5744]

@@revivedfears i think at this point, Lars is their/James' brother, and not only do they probably not want him gone, but they know it will look bad and upset a lot of fans. he also created the band, so maybe that helps too, though it is claimed that Metallica were considering firing him in the 80s. i'm sure James and the rest of the band, but probably mostly James, has confronted him on his drumming many times, and Lars being Lars, probably comes up with an excuse or a reason to not take it to heart and be better, leaving James in an uncomfortable position where he can't really do anything, because if he presses the matter further, he knows he'll just be beating a dead horse and making things uncomfortable, with practically no chance of things actually improving. that's just speculation of course, but i think they just feel stuck with him, both due to personal reasons of friendship, and because removing him would definitely upset a lot of people

[@revivedfears]

@@shallex5744 insightful comment mate. You're likely right. I had heard they were going to replace him early on, I think it was mustaine who said that. But yeah, Lars is very important to the band behind the scenes. I just can't fathom how he has no interest in getting better. He has the best gear, all the time and money in the world. All I can guess is that Lars perhaps considers himself more a composer, than a drummer.

[@shallex5744]

@@revivedfears a popular theory is that lars just lost the passion after a while, or after he became very successful, so sometime in the late 80s or early 90s. i mean i get it, sometimes you just lose the passion and you want to do other things in life and live your life and explore other avenues. but if you're gonna continue to stay in the band, that is adored by millions, i feel like you have a responsibility to your fans and to yourself to be as good as you can. to do otherwise seems quite a bit disrespectful to me. but maybe Lars doesn't see it that way, maybe he views his classic drumming as nothing special and nothing that deserves to be upheld, despite so many of his fans thinking the exact opposite. i saw a documentary on the making of Load once, and in it, Lars made a joke/remark about sparing fans from having to listen to his shitty drumming, or something to that effect, so i think he has some self awareness in that regard. maybe he feels he'll never be a "great" drummer in the traditional sense (which i'm not sure i believe, i believe anyone can be better and practice if they really are determined) so instead he'll be the only thing he can be, which is to be Lars, Larsing it up Lars-style on the kit, for better and for worse, being unmistakably him with no restraint. here's another theory: maybe he just lost his mind, lol. maybe unlikely, but it's just so shocking to hear the stark contrast in the perfect, well-executed and well-composed studio tracks (even if they were spliced together from dozens of takes), where he shows clear signs of sharp musical intelligence and being in tune with what is happening, and then on stage it's like they hired a new guy who had never heard of metallica before and was given 24 hours to learn all their songs. i don't want to be too melodramatic about it but it really is just one of those cases where you see the before and after and just wonder how the H that was allowed to happen

[@mibr8148]

What a complete disaster 😀 More videos come from this tour I'm more happy I saved my money 🙂

[@lorenzocalonaci]

He is really embarrassing

[@cohenjoseph1763]

Sounds like crap

[@peytonkoehler4554]

ok

[@PauloTV]

Почему он играет эту песню так небрежно? Ведь на альбоме она звучит намного круче! Почему он вставляет куски, которые совершенно не подходят к этому и слушается будто он криво играет или вообще не умеет. Я не верю.

[@Burden82]

worst drummer in a popular band

[@andreadg5429]

God that was awful

[@philbis2774]

Lars is sick of that song , so am i

[@bigjwiz]

Love that song but not great consistency!

[@jd0879]

This was way too hard hitting for a soft song

[@mcbrain6666]

He sucks and yet he's great at what he does. You can't hate little Lars!