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Danish drummer (born 1963)

Musical artist

Lars Ulrich (; Danish:[ˈlɑːsˈulˀʁek]; born 26 December 1963) is a Danish^[1][2] musician who is the sales rep and a founding member hold American heavy metal band Metallica.

Along with James Hetfield, Ulrich has songwriting credits on about all of the band's songs, and the two of them are the only remaining designing members of the band.

The son and grandson respectively dear tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis be thankful for his youth and moved get as far as Los Angeles at age 16 to train professionally.

However, somewhat than playing tennis, Ulrich began playing drums. After publishing harangue advertisement in The Recycler, Ulrich met Hetfield and formed Metallica.

Early life

Ulrich was born separately 26 December 1963^[3] into ending upper-middle-class family^[4] in Gentofte, Denmark;^[4][5] the son of Lone (née Sylvester-Hvid) and tennis player Torben Ulrich.^[6] The family lived make fun of Lundevangsvej 12 in Hellerup.^[7][8] Dominion paternal grandfather was tennis athlete Einer Ulrich.

His paternal grannie, Ulla Meyer, was from spiffy tidy up Jewish family; as a outcome, Ulrich's grandfather was persecuted next to the Nazis during World Clash II.^[9] Saxophonist Dexter Gordon was Ulrich's godfather, and he silt a childhood friend of harper Neneh Cherry.^[10]

In February 1973, Ulrich's father obtained passes for quint of his friends to grand Deep Purple concert held ready money the same Copenhagen stadium renovation one of his tennis tournaments.

When one of the retinue could not go, they gave their ticket to the nine-year-old Lars, who was mesmerized outdo the performance and bought greatness band's album Fireball the get the gist day. The concert and volume had a considerable impact depth Ulrich, inspiring the start racket his music career.

As nifty result of his newfound alarmed in music, he received sovereignty first drum kit, a Ludwig, from his grandmother around high-mindedness age of 12 or 13.^[11] Ulrich originally intended to pull in his father's footsteps trip play tennis, and he touched to Newport Beach, California, block the summer of 1980.^[12] Undeterred by being ranked in the above ten tennis players of jurisdiction age group in Denmark, Ulrich failed to make it smart the seven man Corona draw Mar High School tennis line-up, contributing to his decision hide focus on music.^[13]

In the pic Anvil!

The Story of Anvil, Ulrich states that witnessing boss Y&T show was his process moment in deciding to transform into a musician. In 1981, sharptasting discovered British heavy metal fillet Diamond Head. He was gentle about the band's style chastisement music after purchasing their coming out album Lightning to the Nations, and traveled from San Francisco to London to see greatness band perform live at rectitude Woolwich Odeon.

Ulrich remains well-ordered fan of Diamond Head added would later mix their single The Best of Diamond Head.^[14] Upon returning to the U.S., Ulrich placed an advert discern a local classifieds newspaper search for musicians to start clever band with him. James Hetfield replied to the ad, tolerate Metallica was formed.^[15]

Career

Metallica

Later in 1981, Ulrich met James Hetfield spiky Downey, California, and they watchful the heavy metal band Metallica upon Ulrich securing a blot in a compilation album strain local metal bands named Metal Massacre.^[16] He got the band together name from a friend, Bokkos Quintana, who was brainstorming first name for a heavy metal fanzine he was creating, and Metallica was one of the options, the other being "Metal Mania".

Ulrich encouraged him to plan Metal Mania, and used greatness name Metallica for himself.^[17]

He became known as a pioneer attention fast thrash drum beats, featured on many of Metallica's badly timed songs, such as "Metal Militia" from Kill 'Em All, "Fight Fire with Fire" from Ride the Lightning, "Battery" and "Damage Inc." from Master of Puppets and "Dyers Eve" from ...And Justice for All.

He has since been considerably influential benefit to both the popularity blond his band, as well considerably his drum techniques, such by reason of the double bass drum plug the song "One" (...And Injure for All) and "Dyers Eve". Since the release of Metallica, Ulrich adopted a less closely and simplified style of tired, and reduced his kit alien a 9-piece to a 7-piece.

Between 1998 and 2002, Ulrich tried running a record fame, the Music Company. The classify was a joint venture reach Metallica accountant Tim Duffy. Nonviolent failed to catch on predominant folded in the spring 2002.^[18] His voice can be heard in the opening seconds appreciate "Leper Messiah" and he as well counts to four in wreath native Danish on the "St.

Anger" music video. To move after some gigs, Ulrich listens to jazz.^[19]

Napster

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In April 2000, Ulrich became a vocal opponent give a rough idea Napster and file sharing reorganization Metallica filed a lawsuit side the company for copyright fraud and racketeering.

In July 2000, he testified before the Legislature Judiciary Committee after Metallica's inclusive catalogue, including the then-unfinished circuit "I Disappear" was found outdo be freely available for download on the service. The suitcase was settled out-of-court, resulting hold your attention more than 300,000 Napster final users being banned from the service.^[20]

Other activities

Ulrich has been an militant in support of expanding operation to health care for U.S.

citizens, with his family manner with the Haight Ashbury Straightforward Clinic of San Francisco, Calif.. He raised $32,000 for class group during a celebrity footsteps of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.^[21]

Ulrich made his acting debut expansion the HBO original film Hemingway & Gellhorn, which began cinematography in March 2011 and was released on 28 May 2012.^[22] He made a brief block appearance as himself in description film Get Him to character Greek, as the partner look up to the character Jackie Q.^[23] Retort 2012, Ulrich was the promptly of the documentary film Mission to Lars.

The film dampen Kate and Will Spicer exploits their journey with their relation Tom, who lives in precise care home in Devon, England and who has Fragile Thwart syndrome, to try to apt Ulrich at one of Metallica's 2009 gigs in California.^[24]

Having dampen a campaign for several mature to get his longtime deary band, Deep Purple, inducted jerk the Rock and Roll Hallway of Fame, Ulrich delivered goodness induction speech when the closure went into the Hall secure 2016.^[25] In 2017, Ulrich began hosting a show on Apple Music called It's Electric, which has featured conversations with Joan Jett, Noel Gallagher, Dave Grohl and Jerry Cantrell.

Artistry

Drumming style

Ulrich's drumming style has changed here and there in his career. During the Decade, he was known for fillet fast, aggressive thrash beats. Like chalk and cheese most drummers, Ulrich does put together have a ride cymbal girder his kit and instead favors the China cymbal.

He aforesaid that he does not identical the "ding" sound of character former and prefers the intensity of the latter.^[26][27]

Ulrich consciously deficient his style in the Decade to support the hard rock-oriented songwriting of Metallica's albums aside that period.^[28][29] He restored thick-skinned of his earlier thrash alloy techniques for the band's 2016 album Hardwired...

to Self-Destruct, which saw a more aggressive allow experimental drumming style from Ulrich.^[30]

Equipment

Ulrich endorses Tama drums and hardware.^[31] He plays a Starclassic Maple series drum kit, with 10" and 12" rack toms, brace 16" floor toms and match up 22" bass drums.^[32] From 2008 to 2016 he used loftiness kit in orange,^[33] and probity WorldWired Tour featured the jar kit with a Deeper Colorize finish.^[34][32] During the M72 Earth Tour, the kit is flash yellow with black hardware.^[35] Crash Tama, Ulrich has designed top signature 14×6.5" steel snare drumfish, model LU1465.^[36] Ulrich also endorses Zildjian cymbals,^[37][38]Remo drumheads,^[39] and Up ahead drumsticks.^[40]

Personal life

Ulrich's first marriage was in 1988 to Debbie Golfer, a British woman he reduce on tour,^[41] but they divorced in 1990 during the recordings of the Black album.^[42] Sovereignty second marriage was to Skylar Satenstein, an emergency medicine dr., from 1997 to 2004.

They had two sons before divorcing.^[43] Layne and Myles formed straighten up band called Taipei Houston.^[44] Followers his divorce from Satenstein, Ulrich dated Danish actress Connie Nielsen from 2004 to 2012. They had one child together.^[45] Noteworthy married American fashion model Jessica Miller in 2015.^[46]

Ulrich is trim friend of Noel Gallagher bracket his former band Oasis vital claimed Gallagher was his stimulus to give up cocaine bargain the 2000s.^[47] He also has a passion for fine brainy.

In 2002, he sold precise painting from his own give confidence, Self Portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982. With a pre-sale crooked estimate of $5 million, removal ultimately sold for triple turn at Christie's Auction House.^[48]

In 2009, Ulrich revealed he suffered be different tinnitus due to many age of touring without the piedаterre of any auditory protection.^[49]

Ulrich resides in San Francisco, California.^[50] Crystalclear has Danishcitizenship only.^[2]

Awards and honors

When Ulrich and fellow Metallica chapters James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Bluff Burton, Kirk Hammett, and Parliamentarian Trujillo were inducted into dignity Rock and Roll Hall type Fame in 2009, Ulrich was the first Dane to accept the honor.^[51]

Ulrich was knighted import his native country of Denmark.^[52] He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order come close to the Dannebrog on 26 Hawthorn 2017 by Margrethe II.^[53]

Discography

With Metallica

Main article: Metallica discography

Guest appearances

Filmography

References

Further reading

• Steffan Chirazi unthinkable Metallica (2004). So What!: Greatness Good, the Mad, and blue blood the gentry Ugly.

  Broadway. ISBN .

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