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Yo! Back with part II of our Metallica members close up! Let's get going wit
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the co-founder, and drummer LARS ULRICH!!
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As a co-founder, Lars is usually the one who talks to the media.
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He's exteremely talkative 'n' can sometimes be intensely serious, but he can
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also get as fucked up as the rest of the band. Born 'n' raised in Copenhagen
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he tried a career at tennis just like his father until he moved to L.A. in
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1980. When he realized that just about everyone there was not only into tennis
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but was better than him, he quickly gave it up. Now he dove full tilt into
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his other passion: muzak! Drummin' in particular. In '77 he got a drumkit
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from his grandmother and started fantasizing that he was Deep Purple's Ian
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Pace.
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When he first moved to L.A., hardly anyone had heard of Iron Maiden,
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Saxon, Motorhead and other cool European bands. He searched for a guitarist
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with his tastes and found one bad-assed James Hetfield, a guy who appriciated
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the finer things in metal. Months later, METALLICA was born in a skanchy old
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garage.
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QUOTES: "We are doing this first and foremost for ourselves. If we as
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a band feel comfortable and good about it, that's enough. We haven't been
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forced into doing anything...putting out something that we are not
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completely satisfied with could never happen."
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ADVICE: "If we're trying to tell people anything, it's just do it
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yourself, get your own shit together, cause that's what we've always tried to
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do. Follow your instinct and and be a leader instead of a follower."
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FACTS 'YA PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW
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Born: December 26, 1963
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Birthplace: Copenhagen, Dennmark
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Bro's 'n' Sisters: none
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First concert: Deep Purple
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Influences: Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Status Quo, Diamond
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Head, 'n' Nazareth
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First band: Metallica
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Former jobs: paper route, gas station attendant
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Self-description: "Energetic, confident, humble, sarcastically
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obnoxious when I'm drunk, and clumsy-I always spill drinks and walk
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into walls when I'm preoccupied."
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Pretty cool, huh? 'Ya hungry fer more? How about Jason Newstead, current
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replacement of the late, great Cliff Burton?
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Jason is a real serious-lookin' dude in Metallica. In interviews, he
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doesn't kid around much, with answers direct 'n' to the point. He looked like
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the most dignified Metallican, until I saw his starrin' role in "amplified
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body" noises "on their Justice show." Can't be in Metallica if you're not a
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little crazy right?
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He got his first bass after being "corrupted" by KISS at age thirteen.
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He fucked around with it for a while, then put it in his closet for 5 years.
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When he heard Black Sabbath 'n' Rush at 18, he was again inspired and started
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playin' bass seriously. He quit school to go with a band of older guys to
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California. In Arizona they ran out of money, and all but Jason went home.
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He stuck it out with dishwashin' jobs and eventually hooked up with drummer
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Kelly Smith. Together they formed Flotsam and Jetsam. In the fall of '86 Cliff
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Burton of Metallica was killed under a bus. He was recommended to Metallica
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and was asked to audition wit them. Around 2 a.m. after talkin' with the rest
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of the band, Lars casually asked, "You want a job?" Jason casually "screamed
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at the top of his lungs in the middle of this restaraunt". After rehearsing a
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couple of days Jason played his first gigs with Metallica: two surprise "warm
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up " sets at L.A.'s Country Club. After that, they toured Japan and Europe "
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Cliff was a tough act to follow, but Jason did it with style!
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QUOTES: "You gotta play like you are never gonna play again.You just
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gotta roar EVERYWHERE, whether the are 20 people or 20 million."
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ADVICE: "Success is being able to play what we want, and not having to
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conform to anybody and still coming through over and over, still being
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accepted. Being true to ourselves that's what it comes down to"
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FACTS 'YA PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW
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Born: March 4, 1963
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Born in: Battle Creek, Michigan
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Is He married: fuck yeah!
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First concert: Ted Nugent
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that's about it for the rest of the band! These metal files are really
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getting around so if you have anything special you want to see E-mail
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Splattergut in about any board in Lubbock or me, Blind Cyclops on Virtual
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Madness. 'Till then "try, fail, live, learn, and die happy trying!"-Diamond
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Darrel.
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BLind Cyclops
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Metal Madness Copyright (c) 1993
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All Right Reserved Wahahahaha!
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