METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich interviewed in 2007 about how he got into metal | Raw & Uncut

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Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich interviewed by sam Dunn at Metallica HQ in California in 2007 for the documentary Global Metal about how he got into heavy metal. This extended interview excerpt is presented raw and uncut, with new director's commentary.
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[@KilianxFire27]

Lars is a cool guy, dunno why some people hate him

[@Abrahamhamham]

just because he's lazy and, apparently, doesn't care about developing his drumming skills and makes beginner's mistakes. He's not very creative nowadays, drumming-wise, to be honest. But, fuck it, he started Metallica, so i don't think there's any reason to complain. I totally love this guy. And another reason why people hate him is because that's how metal-heads are. They can't accept the fact that he doesn't give a shit about what people think and i feel like sometimes he does it on purpose just to piss them off.

[@borek92]

Maybe because he forces his roadies to put his fucking socks on

[@baconSlayerX]

Because he's such a shitty drummer it's unbelievable.

[@jaredklock8754]

Why you hating? I've seen you multiple times on this video. If you hate him then why are you watching it?

[@baconSlayerX]

It annoys me how shitty he is. And that he's being treated like some kind of expert, Lars is fucking oblivious to what music is. And that is the truth.

[@JPMongeS]

It is always amazing to see how after all those years of alcohol, drugs and all that, Lars can mention events from his life giving you specific details like dates, season of the year, weather report, bonus facts, etc. His memory is outstanding to say the least!.

[@jacktowers7533]

30 years of a well regulated intake of high quality cocaine will do that

[@bobbyosborne2375]

He gets SO MUCH HATE. The worst part anout it is that he genuinely loves the fans, has loads of humility, and is extremely grounded. I guess it's napster still...that wasn't about money. It was about having control of the bands art. I don't blame Lars at all. Let's not forget that he wasn't the only one to go to court, but he took all the hate. I love the guy to death. Been a fan of Metallica since I was 6 in 1987.

[@hu9204]

Many people hate him beacuse of his drumming, which is terrible nowadays. I like him as a person though.

[@rstlesswarrior]

Jakub G how is his drumming terrible?

[@zodiacmanan]

And that too, in hindsight, he was right about Napster..... artistes everywhere are struggling because of piracy.....

[@temporarymomentary]

Actally, he's drumming improve a lot.

[@xrgiok]

Lol! Ask Mr Newsted how cool is Lars .

[@andreasbru3408]

Aaron Paul would be a good choice playing Lars if there would ever be a Metallica movie.

[@smarkmalark]

I was just thinking that! They look like lost brothers!

[@aaronmontgomery4000]

I love lars's detailed answer it's awesome how he remembers all this

[@MadChaos11]

this is the best channel dedicated for metal, period thank you Sam

[@Nightbreed82]

+JinX Agreed. It's the only channel I subscribe to, metal or otherwise, that I've watched every single video and eagerly anticipate the next.

[@nimanikpoor2135]

I dont think any other "person" has been so dedicated to metal more than sam, ive seen all the movies and series millions of times and i never get tired. This channel needs more viewers and subscribers

[@Payduro]

+thrasherballs1983 I fucking hate it. All they do is fucking talk about glam bands and hard rock bands

[@angelapalmaperalta3474]

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[@angelapalmaperalta3474]

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[@chris7077]

I always love Lars' honesty. He gives the best interviews.

[@tomtanaka841]

Lars knows his shit.

[@baconSlayerX]

Nope.

[@tomtanaka841]

CptEgo fuck you.

[@outis439-A]

he really was the full headbanger, the things he says really sounds like something from tom G i guess every headbanger from those regions were into it completely.

[@SunCityGamer]

CptEgo yeah ok. How many times did you see Rainbow? Or Thin Lizzy?

[@ricochetsixtyten]

he was like the metal-hipster for his time, knew all the bands

[@sarcophagist4097]

The extremely detailed way Lars answers the sole question in this video is remarkable. I'm almost certain he has hyperthymesia, which is the gift (and curse) that causes near perfect autobiographical recall.

[@Kongorlobo]

Thin Lizzy and Blue Öyster Cult, probably the most underrated hard rock bands of the 70s

[@MrSlowpoke-jn9lv]

Lars is the man! Super cool and super talented! I'm sure after you hear the same questions over and over its like hearing the same joke over and over it becomes really old

[@dillonx11]

its an interview,I DONT want a short,distance answers I WANT a conversation with answers that are thorough

[@poojockmcplop1038]

Lars is actually a very underrated drummer, he plays what the songs need and is a great song arranger. After ‘Justice ‘ there wasn’t anywhere else to go, they’d lost their main man Cliff - the greatest bass player ever - made the Black album to secure their eternal connection to mainstream audiences and being the cash cow would pay their bills forever. Lars isnt just a drummer, he is Metallica- period ! 🤘

[@Otium83]

it's strange that he didn't mention Motorhead

[@rosemarylobartolo6051]

+Otium83 That would of required more than a 10 minute-long response for Lars.

[@justinkillsaquino]

Motorhead was talked about in Metal Evolution: Thrash Metal. They interviewed the drummer because he was basically the first to use double bass in the way that would influence thrash metal.

[@Omar_E11]

@drummer for life Maybe he got into Motorhead a little later, or maybe it just slipped his mind to mention them during this interview. But there's no doubt Metallica wouldn't exist without Motorhead. If you want to see a Tallica member fanboy about Lemmy, see Hetfield. lol

[@Omar_E11]

@drummer for life They're all nice folks I'm sure. Lars wrote the tribute to Lemmy with Hetfield on Hardwired (Murder One) so he definitely appreciates him as well.

[@fabricio2467]

@@Omar_E11 actually lars is the most fanboy about motorhead

[@chrispeters1918]

Love that he includes Bob Marley.

[@temporarymomentary]

There is no Metallica without Lars Ulrich. And i don't get it why so much people hate him. He was right about Napster etc. Give him a fucking break.

[@Doyledeth]

"Uhm" ~Lars Ulrich

[@skuppejou844]

Lars Uhmrich

[@TheMastermind729]

If someone mashes up Lars's "Um"'s to the drumming on "Master of Puppets" I will laugh, a lot.

[@Liad138]

YEAH

[@ryanzonneveld4817]

" all of that stuff " - Lars Ulrich

[@bgrajeda1]

People call him a shitty drummer but listen to the first four albums they were perfect I wouldn't change a thing but I've seen metallica 3 times and I must say I could play just as good but I can't hate when I was younger I wanted to be him so bad! Probably the biggest reason u became a drummer \m/

[@matszetterberg1437]

His father, Torben Ulrich, was a very talented Danish tennis player. A true hippie.

[@MamasBasementEnt]

Drinking game: drink every time Lars says "umm", "y'know", "blah blah blah", and "all that stuff".

[@gmorton916]

+The Scrap I wouldnt b able 2 c straight-LOL

[@GMVinc]

+Gregg731 Or type at all

[@Sirtalksalot92]

Blah Blah Blah

[@mikestckl6939]

anybody else recognized the krank krankenstein dime signature amp in the background ? :D

[@llongone2]

The Michael Keaton of heavy metal. Great drummer, though!

[@bartonofarrell2693]

Lars a Kool dude.great talent and I was a child like that a safe place to live in a lot of different music to enjoy.nice interview.

[@Zicrom]

"Mi casa es su casa" ----> "My home is your home".

[@tysolonynko5728]

such an awesome interview.

[@chrissargeant2254]

HOW IRONIC, I SAW METALLICA TEN TIMES IN TWO YEARS , MONSTERS OF ROCK AND NEW ENGLAND! THANK YOU LARS!

[@Distortedstaticaddicts]

I always wondered about the absence of Metallica from the first movie. Only noticed after watching it like 5 times...

[@StGroovy]

+Detriment Official In the commentary, Sam explains that Metallica had just done Some Kind of Monster and were interviewed out.

[@MyEnemy]

Look up "Jim Breuer Lars Ulrich Howard Stern" here on KZbin and enjoy.

[@BoyAditya]

I love global metal documentary. that's the first time I knew your work :-)

[@Chuloloc]

Awesome. Great interview. Hail Metallica.

[@gamerdareswins2825]

Fuck metallica... they are a fucking joke now and their new album sounds like shit.

[@jaredklock8754]

Fuck you guy! Metallica rocks! And their new album kicks ass!

[@pkj77]

Hi Sam whatever happen to that evolution of metal....episode you made of punk?? i wanted to show a friend but cant find it anywhere

[@MrCapone1996]

Thanks Lars for showing us how to spell Pop

[@dean1618]

Lars may not be the best drummer but Metallica are the biggest band coz Lars has got a amazing mind.

[@Brunetto46]

BOC shirt hellyeah man!!

[@charlespetitclerc1256]

That last comment could not have been more real!

[@kevinc9292]

A living legend.

[@TheOfficialArnauld]

brill! ur 1st question was the best!

[@Kronix86]

awesome interview. \m/

[@jondubb35]

Say what you will about Lars.... but heavy metal wouldn’t be where it is today without him and the connections he made in California when he first got to the US.

[@pgrove]

1 question interview? Did you leave after that?

[@zodiacmanan]

Its a vault cut. There were other parts that were used on Global Metal.

[@mikkorantanen2544]

"Next level jazz music" :D Gonna use that

[@theunderdog7921]

lars amaba,vivia y moria por el rock en general un grande.

[@neralex83]

Really SMART person...

[@darkriff777]

How else do you spell 'pop'?

[@JordanGrimbly11]

+DoomPowerMetal PAWP

[@jordanmahony4268]

papp

[@itspetahhh5304]

Poop

[@AugustBurnsNick]

Turns out Lars was right about music after all. All music has went to shit and you can't provide for yourself or your family being a musician anymore because of how you can obtain music now-a-days...

[@BakersBass]

AugustBurnsNick Of course he was, but somehow still gets shit, and if you ask me, people who gave him shit in the first place were clueless retards, and that's even more true for those who still do it to this day

[@distortiontildeafness]

AugustBurnsNick people shouldn't make a living through art anyway

[@BakersBass]

Deathculture why not?

[@darrellkoch8962]

One question = one interview

[@katthemetalhead7980]

I met sam dunn at a motely crue concert

[@philippvoid1800]

thats some good old school shit

[@feel.s1304]

Damn. It's the best drummer ever!

[@legendlemmylivetowin7185]

Banger is awesome

[@glen3509]

I'm going to look for and watch this documentary. I haven't watched Sam's first one Metal Evolution in a while. In that one, Sam says a certain word about the black album, and the ceo was kinda surprised. HaHa!

[@sideact2044]

Lars is king!

[@1dylrocks]

OMG HE SAID RONNIE JAMES DIO

[@poser_disposer]

good little speal he went on here.

[@masonharris6015]

As an interviewer and filmmaker shouldn't you want the answers to be thorough?

[@noahfaber8303]

Pretty Slick, guys. keep it up :) Please, if you can, check out Savage Messiah. Great Band

[@gannddan]

so um...

[@muriloninja]

lol..that opening question was dumb as fuck that even Lars had to comment "Hadn't that been documented enough"...strike 1 right out of the gate!

[@xbmpr]

About 8 years late...

[@dragunmane3029]

The downloading of music is why we all have watered down bullshit. Lars was right from the beginning.

[@nostalga44jo]

can.relate.to.the.deep.purple.story..mid-seventies.them.and.K.I.S.S..were.the.talk.of.town.with.us.ten.year.olds

[@gunner7791]

For the fuck sake he was the president of motörhead ♤ fan club back in the day .

[@southernmomma5832]

And how did he get into metal????????

[@dsl32]

Lars is a cool guy cool. He gets to much hate.

[@santiagodayenoff3146]

9:12 does anyone can spell who he names there ? thanks

[@magzorentertainment6887]

+Marechal megafonrecords his name is Robin Trower.

[@santiagodayenoff3146]

+Magzor Entertainment Thank you very much.

[@021Sweden]

is lars forhead getting bigger or is it his hairline that taking steps back xD

[@Headbanger9000]

both

[@einarabelc5]

Why doesn't this guy work with Malmsteen?

[@acdcking1234]

He likes nwobhm as do I.

[@texasneuendorf4207]

Uhm - Lars Ulrich

[@MistermookS]

How i got into metal? uh, metallica & megadeth... thats pretty much it.

[@makefilms9344]

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[@titohablateenseriodiciendo1818]

Suou hally say my..you espect look of me.maybe it made.

[@glen3509]

I haven't watched Sam's first doc Metal Evolution in a while. The Metallica ceo seemed a bit taken back when Sam said a certain word about the black album. HaHa.

[@1asotspla]

why does he sound like a New yorker?

[@1asotspla]

YEAH I KNOW BUT HIS ACCENT ISNT EUROPE ITS NEW YORK

THE ETERNAL SCHOOL he doesn't he has a Danish dialect because he is from Denmark

[@StephenDanielAddeo]

P-Bass at Metallica rehearsal space? Must be the "loaner". (P-Bass for the win!)

[@zodiacmanan]

Metallica collectively own close to 600 guitars...... I am sure they have quite a few basses lying around.....

[@StephenDanielAddeo]

manan dedhia obviously, but they tend to stay with their sponsors for videos.

[@zodiacmanan]

Not really... Kirk is known for using his Jackson flying V in live gigs..... Lars famously uses a Sabian hi-hat setup at the HQ recording studio........James Hetfield has a bunch of Gibsons during recording and playing live (especially the "EET FUK" guitar)...... Metallica is in a position where the company they are endorsing cannot impose any requirements on them....

[@StephenDanielAddeo]

manan dedhia yes, I said in videos.

[@philoconnell4271]

Sam hates lars so much.

[@lukenotskywalker2957]

\m/ !MEGADETH! \m/

[@johstybach]

What?

[@Unklechopchop]

Sucks

[@chriscox3658]

'tallica are back in the studio puting together a new album after nearly 8 years. the only bass player i can think of whom would even work for lars/'tallica is ron mcgovney the bands true original bassist from their "no life til leather demo days" just before firing him to get trauma bass-freak cliff burton, when they were in L.A. and had to move to san fransisco to get him in. if not for a petty argument over beds on the swedish tour bus in 1986 between kirk hammett and cliff burton, it would be hammett who would be dead and not burton. kirk hammett pre-'tallica when he was still in HIS own band exodus, hammett was a speed metal guitarist and "atheist", lars by todays standards screwed gary holt out of hammett and ended up with rick hunolt whom after a bit more than 20 years in, quit the band over a woman because she was apparently "PG" today called "preggars" and is a B.A.C. i seriously doubt i would even consider buying 'tallica next album. but at least lars is NOT known for being a homophobic ass-hat like phincter boy mustaine.

[@hyperbiscuit2284]

Holy crap! That paragraph was hard to read.

[@nanahernandes2399]

pena q quase sempre q o metallica vem pra cá, tem q v um monte de banda lixo no msm dia.........venham p tocar sozinhos....

[@Agostoic]

How he got into metal? out of tempo, of course! *mic drop*

[@dereksmallsuk]

pish

[@michaelblankenship7975]

🦊

[@jsemartinez2905]

what else is there to talk about? The world knows how he stole the name Metallica from a friend whom was going to start a metal magazine. The whole world knows how they stole the best songs to record Kill'm all from Dave Mustaine, including ride the lightining and call of. The whole world knows he's a money hungry troll that loves to sue his own fans and pretend nothing ever happened. The whole world knows they recorded St. Anger and suckered their fans out of millions of dollars on the worst album ever recorded in history. It's not that people don't like them. I did back then. But who are we to judge right? However, we can and have the power to buy or not buy their product. They earned a great reputation and then murdered it along with their respect... And how about a predictable live show.. They play the same songs over and over and over..Don't people get sick of hearing for whom the bell tolls? one? enter sandman? roam? one? when having so many other great old songs to pick from? then to top it off, Kirk cant play a solo right if his life depended on it. Lars is always either on purpose or by choice messing up or taking shortcuts on the drumming. And James, let's face it he is done. His voice is and will never be the same. His humming kills me..what ever happened to the lion type voice he had. He hums his songs because his voice is dead. Everything post black album is poo poo.. including Death Magnetic. Long boring songs that make no sense. People liked it because it was followed by horrible, horrible albums that made that seem a step up from the trash they put out before. And finally, as previously mentioned and has to come up again. What type of butt hole takes his own fans to court because they download music from the internet? But hold on a minute you say? it's hard work making albums.. that's how they earn their living stealing is not right...To their fans who still support this train wreck.. by all means.. keep giving them your hard earned money they sure have earned it... And what a slap in the face with the release of the remastered Killm all and Ride box set. Megadeth remastered a couple of their first albums. When they asked this bag, he said that metallicas first albums were classics and shouldn't be remastered. Not a direct quote but do the research. Next thing you know they decide to conduct operation re-sucker the 80's fans who payed for James Hetfield's Tesla and Lars 5 million dollar painting... by trying to remastering those albums for over 100$ a box... Really? No shame!! Last but not least, there are no big four.. and if Metallica is one of the big ones someone made a mistake.. Big 4 are Anthrax, Slayer, Megadeth, Iron Maiden

[@VinyLegends]

jse martinez Iron Maiden isn't thrash metal you chode.

[@jeremyboehm5512]

@Joe Martinez You talk like you know Lars and James personally? But we know you don't they wouldn't associate with a bitter fucktard like you.Wow Lars stole all of this supposed great music from Dave huh? Dave wrote little riffs with stupid words (mechanix)We all know James is the real wordsmith of Metallica.They gave Dave what he deserved for being such a great bandmate (a bus ticket and royalties for his contribution).Metallica made Mustaine relevant while he got Megadeth together and kept him relevant until he got his shit together.