Lars Ulrich defended Lulu, Metallica’s 2011 collaboration with Lou Reed, saying followers who didn’t just like the work have been displaying ignorance.
The controversial file was greeted with bewilderment and frustration by a few of Metallica’s followers, lots of whom felt the band ought to have been specializing in a follow-up to Death Magnetic, which was launched three years earlier.
In The Art of the Straight Line, a newly revealed posthumous memoir by Reed and his widow Laurie Anderson, the Velvet Underground icon – who died in 2013 – shared some feedback by Ulrich.
“What the fuck is it about Lulu that it acquired that type of response?” the drummer puzzled (by way of Loudwire). “I can’t fairly determine it out, however years later, it’s aged extraordinarily effectively. It feels like a motherfucker nonetheless. So I can solely put the response right down to ignorance. … It took our followers to a spot I want they might go extra typically. Possibly it will be a greater time to launch it now with what is going on on exterior on the earth, the chaos. I do not know, however I’m very happy with this file.”
He added that “James [Hetfield] and I might be determining methods via a chunk of music after which Lou would look over and go, ‘That’s it. I’m not doing one other fucking take of that.’ That’s not the way in which we often labored, however it was so stunning and nice, the entire thing.”
Whereas Reed celebrated the ability and affect of tai chi in his life – noting within the e book that the “historic artwork … makes the skin sounds right into a extra musical surroundings” – Ulrich noticed, “I by no means was absolutely immersed in it with him. Like along with his guitar setup, I attempted my finest to remain out of the way in which.”
Metallica Albums Ranked
There are moments of indecision when compiling this gallery of Metallica Albums, Ranked Worst to Finest. In any case, we actually may have had – for the primary time ever – a three-way tie for first.
