Lars Ulrich vertelt over groupies, afgunst en identeitscrisis

Artist news 30-03-2005 10:50

"You would meet somebody. Then you would sleep with them and then you would decide like whether you liked them or not, whether you would continue to sleep with them and whether you could actually tolerate being with them during the day."

Tot halverwege de jaren negentig draaide het leven van de drummer slechts om één ding: Metallica. Toen brak een periode van zelfreflectie aan, waarin de drummer zich afvroeg wie hij als persoon was:

"My life was one-dimensional. It was all about Metallica. There was nothing else. It wasn't really until some time in the mid-nineties when all of a sudden you sit there and you start thinking about kids and settling down that the one-dimensionality of the whole thing starts becoming... a little unfulfilling. I felt the hardest thing for me in the wake of our success was trying to figure out who I was and establishing my own identity, coming to grips with 'Who is Lars?' and not just 'Who's Lars, the drummer of Metallica?' "

Op de vraag of James Hetfield meer talent heeft dan hijzelf, antwoordde Ulrich:

"At what? Musically? Than me? I mean he has a very effortless relationship with music. It just pours out, but he needs someone to edit him — and that's where I come in. Is he the greater talent? Great question! Nobody's ever asked me that! I would hope he's the greater talent because if he's not, then God help us!"

Ulrich ontkende echter dat er sprake is van afgunst en jaloezie op de populariteit van frontman James Hetfield:

"Frontman envy? No, I mean we've been battling for poll position in this band pretty much since day one and I came to realize that the only thing we could ever agree on is that me and him were the leaders and whoever else was around were the followers."

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