Metallica will close out this weekend's Power Trip festival, but until then, Lars Ulrich will be just another super-fan: 'I’m going to see every band.'
Metallica is accustomed to operating at a massive scale, filling stadiums worldwide with epic heavy-metal riffs and monster drum beats. But between tour dates, things can quickly return to human size, as drummer Lars Ulrich suggested in a recent call from his home in San Francisco. A few hours earlier, he found himself distracted by a fast-approaching appointment to chaperon his teenage son to his driver’s license test.
The Coachella site is a familiar one for Metallica, which hosted its own Big 4 festival there in 2011, alongside other originators of thrash metal: Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. All but New York’s Anthrax were formed in Southern California in the 1980s, though Metallica soon fled to San Francisco after finding only indifference amid the hair metal scene of the Sunset Strip.
and the rest of that incredible lineup. It was so cool, because it was different than other festivals. My wife and I have been going to Glastonbury [in England] every year. We’ve been to Coachella many times, and to Lollapalooza. But Desert Trip was just the headliners on one stage. It’s a great site, with a lot of music history. Subsequently, there was some chatter about doing a hard rock version; the offer finally came in six or nine months ago.
A lot of people have seen the 2004 “Some Kind of Monster” documentary and the personal fireworks that erupted onscreen, but obviously, your partnership with James has lasted for a reason. What has kept that going? Kirk, Rob and James each had their own version of that, and that’s what we bring to the table. We’ve never been shy about the fact that we’re very musically curious creatures and have always, for our own sanity and survival, needed to turn over rocks and see what lies underneath them.
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