All of Lars Ulrich's drumsets

Matt300ZXT said:
No matter what you think about Lars, he is definitely one of the drummers of all time.
Click to expand...
Most metal drummers now would completely mop the floor with him playing wise, but as an old man who thankfully got to watch Metallica's rise during my high school years, Lars was the dude back then. A lot of them took what he learned from Phil Taylor and Ian Paice and ascended to a whole different level.

I have always said that it is easy to be better than those players now because everyone knows thr recipe. Lars was playing fast, unpopular stuff when most people were listening to Crue, Dokken, Ratt, etc. In high school, we had to beg the bus driver to play the Metallica cassettes because only about five of us dug that band.
 
Floyd Eye said:
Never thought he was a great drummer or a bad drummer. As a person he's clearly a douche, but...
Click to expand...
That's not nice.


oSIG9K5.jpg
 
I remember in the very early 2000’s my internet service was shut off for a while or at least throttled to being useless because of some DAW software I downloaded off Limewire. I guess they had an agreement with the ISP’s and tracked the DL’s to the providers I.P’s. I was in internet jail until I deleted the software.
Lars was right about Napster though. I’ll give him that, he took so much shit over his stance and stood strong. Probably because he was right and he knew it. It destroyed medium and lower tier artists ability to make any money from physical media sales and started the, tour ‘til you die or breakup, whichever comes first method, of making a living. Shortly after concert tickets and shirts etc. got a lot more expensive…🙂
 
skoora said:
I remember in the very early 2000’s my internet service was shut off for a while or at least throttled to being useless because of some DAW software I downloaded off Limewire. I guess they had an agreement with the ISP’s and tracked the DL’s to the providers I.P’s. I was in internet jail until I deleted the software.
Lars was right about Napster though. I’ll give him that, he took so much shit over his stance and stood strong. Probably because he was right and he knew it. It destroyed medium and lower tier artists ability to make any money from physical media sales and started the, tour ‘til you die or breakup, whichever comes first method, of making a living. Shortly after concert tickets and shirts etc. got a lot more expensive…🙂
Click to expand...
agreed, I thought the concept was right, just the method was whacked. They went after the end users, instead of the people that could actually control it.
 
Erock said:
agreed, I thought the concept was right, just the method was whacked. They went after the end users, instead of the people that could actually control it.
Click to expand...

Considering how many promo copies of music to be released or that had been released were floating around, once file sharing came along the industry was fucked.
I became friends with the Metal DJ at WBCN in Boston in the very early 90’s and I would drop by the studio when he was doing his show. He would point at a table and tell me to pick whatever I wanted that looked interesting. I remember looking at the first RATM cover and thinking hmmm, what’s this? But it was still, record it to a cassette back then. To me a computer was something from movies or what the SSL console used to automate.
 
skoora said:
“This one’s black”
“This one’s silver”
“This one’s white”
“This one’s green…..it sparkles”

Got it, thanks bro.
Click to expand...
Thought you were joking around, but that's really what the video is. He mostly talks about color combos and how he came up with them... Couple bits about him reducing the kit, but he never really talks about the tone or construction too much. 12 minutes about how he came up with colors and sparkles.
 
Lars is nowhere close to the "best" drummer around, but his drum tone and feel cannot be separated from Metallica's best records.

Also, say what you want about the guy being a douche and not having any idea what he's doing on a technical level, but again, during Metallica's best years, the dude had killer stage presence and his playing was rock solid, even including those weird-ass fills he did. On stage, most drummers dress and act like they're just sitting at some piece of gym equipment banging out a few reps before work, but Lars managed to actually earn some spotlight. He always acted like he was having the time of his life behind the kit, and that's not nothing.
 
Last edited:
TheGreatGreen said:
Lars is nowhere close to the "best" drummer around, but his drum tone and feel cannot be separated from Metallica's best records.

Also, say what you want about the guy being a douche and not having any idea what he's doing on a technical level, but again, during Metallica's best years, the dude had killer stage presence and his playing was rock solid, even including those weird-ass fills he did. On stage, most drummers dress and act like they're just sitting at some piece of gym equipment banging out a few reps before work, but Lars managed to actually earn some spotlight. He always acted like he was having the time of his life behind the kit, and that's not nothing.
Click to expand...
To me, Larswas a fan who got into this to be a rock star and not to be an amazing drummer. Metallica wouldn't have sounded like Metallica without him back then IMO.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top