Why Rockers Can't Stand Metallica’s Lars Ulrich

Metallica co-founder Lars Ulrich has often found himself at odds with his heavy metal colleagues. From former bandmates, current bandmates, and everyone in between lets take a look at some of the people who can't stand Lars Ulrich.

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Jason Newsted | 0:00
Steve Thompson | 1:10
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx | 2:05
Eagle's of Death Metal's Jesse Hughes | 2:42
Dave Mustaine | 3:20
James Hetfield | 4:20

[barleytalk]

Lars is the type of dude who wakes his wife up to tell her he’s going to sleep

[christhompson]

Lars gave me a drumset through the make a wish foundation when i was 15. A complete replica of his sparkle green Tama starclassic. Not only that but signed a bunch of merch and sent me tickets to see Metallica and godsmack in san José. Unfortunately i missed my chance to meet him and the band. His assistant arranged for me and my family to meet him however we missed the phone call during the show. I never asked Metallica or lars for anything. Lars along with the make a wish team built this drumset for me. Now 33 and cancer free its one of my most prized possessions. Pretty good dude in my book.

[zakkmiller]

Nikki Sixx calling people out on being assholes is the most ironic moment in music history.

[adolfohernandez]

When I first bought that "and Justice for all" album..the first thing I noticed and didn't like was the lack of bass guitar in the recording...I never understood it until now...thanks for the info.

[lifeofgaming]

You gotta love to hate Lars. That simple. I had a cat as a kid in 1991. I named it Lars. My favorite Metallica member. That cat literally lost its mind and attacked all my friends when they came over. It got so bad nobody would ever come over unless I locked Lars in a room first 😆 looking back he was just like the real Lars. Very controlling and when he wanted something he would go after it claws first.

[morbid.deceiver]

I can appreciate what he's done for the band on Metallica's early records but at the same time personality wise he just always struck me as a diva and egotistical prick

[evilboxevil]

I kind of miss the old days when you enjoyed a band for their music, and there wasn't stuff all over the internet about what they eat, or how crappy a person they are. When I listen to Metallica I enjoy the music. I'm not thinking about Lars being a dick.

[alex]

The whole thing with Jason is sad, he didn't deserve to be treated the way he was, and I wish he was still part of Metallica. While Robert Trujillo is an awesome bass player, his backing vocals leave something to be desired (watch the recent live performances of "of wolf and man" and you will see what I mean) - sometimes bands can just be petty and childish - look at how Michael Anthony from Van Halen was treated by the Van Halen brothers, then you have Roger Waters and the rift with Pink Floyd... Childish. I wish some of these bands could put aside petty differences and egos end just get on with making great music.

[salva]

Gotta fact check something: Newsted disagreement was mostly with James not with Lars.

[TigerdriverAcademy]

Nikki Sixx has no room to talk about anyone 🤣

[mike]

Lars is like that one guy that joins a friend group and thinks hes the leader

[randomactsofvideos]

He looks like Anthony Hopkins from Silence of the Lambs in that thumbnail or was it made to look that way?

[lisaindahouse]

During the Midwest leg of the 'And Justice for All' tour in 88 I hung out with Jason.
Here are two things I noticed- He never wanted to hang out with Lars. And when Ulrich blessed us with his presence, he had an 'Entourage' around him at all times and he acted like a TOTAL TOOL.

[TheSWCantina]

Met the guy years ago. I've met a few rockstars over the years and many celebrities at cons. He genuinely was the nicest celeb I met. He took the time to talk and he was happy to be there and having a bit of a laugh. I felt great talking to him.

Hetfield and Kirk were there but it felt like they just had to be there. Which I can't blame them, they've been doing meet and greets the past 40 years and hearing the same things over and over.

[ll]

As a drummer who was originally influenced by 70s & 80s hardcore punk and thrash, particularly Dave Lombardo on Show No Mercy, Lars has always been one of the weakest live drummers, I learned a lot of Cliff era Metallica on drums and it's not that difficult, I could tell when he lost tempo or covered for a missed beat with a random roll/fill, it frustrated the shit out of me. I also found out his studio recordings are edited and put together from multiple tracks, sometimes flat out copy/pasted. No wonder he can never play a song the same way twice, he never recorded them in a single playthrough.

[scandata]

I met him after a show on the Justice tour. He was cool and casual like any of us average headbangers that were hanging out. It wasn't a meet and greet, he was just waiting around until it was time to head to the next town and was glad to chat.

[spooktatorbob]

Funny, because that whole Jason bit, in the past, it was said by sources that Hetfield was the one in Jason's face about side projects, said he was just drunk and apologized while begging Jason to stay, etc. Now it's Lars?

I agree Lars can have an attitude; but, holy crap, that's really picking & choosing because all those big (rock) stars have bad f'n attitudes.

The bass sound thing has several stories on who did what.

Motley Crue; they're currently lying about everything and such spoiled babies that all they do is bicker and fight. My cousin is a first hand witness t MC's spoiled bickerings when she met them in Cincinnati and said she could not believe four grown men could act that way. She said it ruined her from ever wanting meet rock stars again. I remember back when Motley Crue called out several bands including Pink Floyd for live back tracking. I think Lars, here, was probably just striking back at MC after they called people out for backing tracks. My source was Metal Edge back in the early 90's. I remember being angry at MC for that.

Tommy Lee is a woman beating pos and is no John Bonham so he should not criticize Lars much because Lars is a much better person than any of the MC guys by far. Nikki Sixx was onstage and used racial slurs against an African American security guard, look it up.

I can't say anything about Jesse Hughes. I know nothing about him or the band. Maybe they're cool af and awesome people. I do not know so I can't say anything. Besides, I'm not really trying to defend that little weasel Lars, just pointing out the hypocrisy of most people.

Dave Mustaine, has legitimate gripes but then so does Metallica about Dave's behaviors and demons. Dave admits to get drunk and/or stoned and violent. He and James scrapped a few times, from what I hear. How many f'n chances did he actually get? And why didn't he give Ellefson a second chance? Who gives af if a grown man is having sexual encounters with a consenting adult female?

James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich have always had battles; but also say they are best friends. Look at Hetfield's attitude on the "Some Kind of Monster" when he screamed at Hammett. That was BS. Even Hetfield admitted he was having serious problems including alcoholism causing him to be angry and hostile so he went and got help. And in recent years, it happened again.

This video has alot of truths but also fallacies. Obvious taking advantage of the "hate on Lars" movement to get a video out and feed the masses to generate money. That's the problem with gossip; people get a small perspective only, they never get the full story so the victim gets the hate.

Before you judge Lars, you may want to know all the full stories. If he a spoiled little whiny-bag? Yes. But he is human and has points. And, as Jesus said: "Let those that haven't sinned cast the first stone." The hypocrites will. Yes, they cast stones to appear sin-free, but, they are fools only. The innocent know better.

BTW, I'm not calling myself Mr, Innocent. I'm a f'n @$$hole!! lol

[davidphillips]

I met Machine Head once. They had opened for 'tallica when The Blackening came out. As we're standing in line, there's security for Machine Head standing around, and, a couple other guys and I were just kind of casually joking about Lars being a douche. This went on for like 5 minutes. Soon, the one ginormous security guy walks up to us and calmly grabs my shoulder and says, "I understand all the Lars jokes and the hate he got over the whole napster issue, but, the reality is that he is one of the nicest, most down to earth, most accommodating person that we've ever worked with. Whatever hate you see posted in articles or comment sections is 100% bullshit. That's not who Lars is at all." Obviously, I'm paraphrasing because it's been a few years since then, but, this is really close to what the gist was. We actually ended up bullshitting with the guy for the next 10 minutes or so we were in line waiting. Just thought I'd add this perspective to the bunch.

[TheNothing]

I love Lars! He's written many iconic drum beats and songs! He's also inspired many to pick up the sticks! Mike Portnoy, Joey Jordison, and Mario Duplantier love Lars..I think they know a little about drumming.

[cmkaad]

Met Lars once. He was so down to earth and took his time to chat.