A lot of marriages don't last as long as the relationship you've had with Lars. Yet the two of you have maintained an incredible partnership. Some of the more popular metal bands that had made it over into the States.” some of the bands we had gotten turned on to at the time – Saxon, Judas Priest, things like the Scorpions. When I met Lars I was jamming with this other guy in high school, forming this band, Phantom Lord. I had been in this band, Obsession, I had brought an original song to play and none of them liked it so that’s when I basically kind of said goodbye to them. I had never seen him or heard of him before that. When you and Lars first got together, was it as teenage buddies or was it specifically about playing in a band together? I don’t remember learning guitar, ha ha ha! I just remember picking up a guitar for the first time and going, ‘How do they make all these noises?’” We’d do Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath, some Robin Trower, some Led Zeppelin… And we’d do a couple of parties that was pretty much it. Obsession was a high school band and we would basically just jam in my friend’s garage, doing cover songs. Did any of them sound anything like what Metallica became? ”īy the time you met Metallica drummer and co-founder Lars Ulrich, you were a teenager, playing guitar, and had been through your first high school bands – Obsession, Phantom Lord etc. Singing and playing is somewhat easier than it probably would have been if I hadn’t had piano. But I am so glad it was somewhat forced upon me, because the act of the left and right hand doing different things, and also singing at the same time, it gave me some inkling of what I do now. Okay, we’ll sign him up for piano.’ I did that for a couple of years and it was really a bit of a turn-off because it was learning classical pieces, stuff that I wasn’t listening to on the radio, you know? I remember it was at an older woman’s house and the cookies at the end was the big deal. My mom had seen me over at a friend’s house just kind of start bashing on the piano, and she thought, ‘Oh, he’s gonna be a musician. Were the piano lessons in classical music? You first studied piano at the age of nine, and then later got interested in your brother David's drums. But also it helped me embrace the spiritual concept later on, you know, and actually see the power in that, along with the knowledge of doctors these days, so it did help me with my concept of spirituality.” All I saw was the people in the church that had broken bones and they were healing wrong. It helped me carve my own path, and even the spiritual part of it, when you’re a kid you can’t really grasp the concept of spirituality, and for me not going to the doctor was strange. ![]() But I see the uniqueness in it now and it’s helped me to, uh, you know, accept and embrace the uniqueness of me.”ĭo you think it was those experiences that, long-term, gave you the ability to say, 'No, I'm not gonna run with the gang'? “It was it helped mould who I was, you know? When you’re young you want to be like everyone else, you don’t want to be unique. Everyone who walked by would look at me like I’d been some criminal of sorts, you know?” When health class would begin, I would be standing in the hallway, which was basically a form of punishment in other aspects. So I felt really like an outcast, and, you know, kids would laugh about it. And, say, I’m trying out for the football team you have to get a physical, to get a doctor’s note, I’d have to go and explain to the coach that, you know, our religion says this. And so at school I wasn’t allowed to sit through health class, to learn about the body, to learn about illnesses and things like that. We were basically relying on the spiritual power of the religion to heal us or to shield us from being sick or injured. Our parents didn’t take us to the doctor. It certainly did affect me though – more than my sister and my brothers, I took it a little more personally. It wasn’t like going to a Catholic school. Loved sports.īecause of your parents' strong Christian Science faith, did that impact in terms of the school you went to or the way you were treated as a child? Pretty quiet, pretty reserved, just kind of get it done and then go home and have fun and play. ![]() They were not quite old enough to tell me what to do and not young enough to understand what I wanted to hear, so it was kind of an awkward middle position there.” ![]() But my older brothers, they were pretty much a generation apart and unfortunately it wasn’t as bonding. My younger sister, we would fight like cats and dogs and then when parents came home we’d help each other clean up the mess, and cover for each other. “Yes, two older half-brothers, Chris and Dave, and a younger sister, Deanna.
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