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And Finally
Lars Ulrich calls Metallica doc a mistake
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 20 July 2010
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has admitted that allowing a documentary film crew to film the band behind the scenes during the recording of their 2003 ‘St Anger’ album was a mistake. The resulting film, ‘Some Kind Of Monster’, released in 2004, sees the band hire a therapist to help them work together and gradually descends into a farce of ‘Spinal Tap’ proportions.
My favourite bits are when Ulrich tells lead guitarist Kirk Hammett that guitar solos are out of fashion and he shouldn’t play any on this album (essentially making him redundant) and their group therapy session with former guitarist (and now frontman of Megadeth) Dave Mustaine to discuss how he felt when he was sacked. Oh, and when the therapist tells the band that he’s going to leave his family and come to live with them. It’s a work of unrivalled genius.
Ulrich told the Sydney Herald Sun last week: “Every time I see Noel Gallagher he quotes lines from that movie back to me. That thing has taken on a life of its own. I had to live that shit for three fucking years! The whole thing was a mindfuck. I am aware a lot of other musicians seem to have lived a lot of those moments. They weren’t necessarily stupid enough to film them like we were and share them with the rest of the world”.
