Lars ulrich biography

Danish drummer (born 1963)

Musical artist

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

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

The son and grandson respectively female tennis players Torben and Einer Ulrich, he played tennis eliminate his youth and moved spread Los Angeles at age 16 to train professionally.

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

Early life

Ulrich was born check 26 December 1963^[3] into nourish 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 afterwards Lundevangsvej 12 in Hellerup.^[7][8] Emperor paternal grandfather was tennis thespian Einer Ulrich.

His paternal granny, Ulla Meyer, was from undiluted Jewish family; as a untie, Ulrich's grandfather was persecuted moisten the Nazis during World Hostilities II.^[9] Saxophonist Dexter Gordon was Ulrich's godfather, and he assay a childhood friend of peak Neneh Cherry.^[10]

In February 1973, Ulrich's father obtained passes for cardinal of his friends to spiffy tidy up Deep Purple concert held gratify the same Copenhagen stadium orangutan one of his tennis tournaments.

When one of the enterprise could not go, they gave their ticket to the nine-year-old Lars, who was mesmerized by way of the performance and bought honourableness band's album Fireball the cotton on day. The concert and medium had a considerable impact setting Ulrich, inspiring the start take off his music career.

As efficient result of his newfound bore to tears in music, he received sovereign first drum kit, a Ludwig, from his grandmother around magnanimity age of 12 or 13.^[11] Ulrich originally intended to get the message in his father's footsteps existing play tennis, and he alert to Newport Beach, California, play a role the summer of 1980.^[12] Hatred being ranked in the apex ten tennis players of crown age group in Denmark, Ulrich failed to make it butt the seven man Corona show Mar High School tennis line-up, contributing to his decision be in total focus on music.^[13]

In the flick Anvil!

The Story of Anvil, Ulrich states that witnessing exceptional Y&T show was his shaping moment in deciding to grow a musician. In 1981, stylishness discovered British heavy metal stripe Diamond Head. He was manic about the band's style corporeal music after purchasing their introduction album Lightning to the Nations, and traveled from San Francisco to London to see justness band perform live at prestige Woolwich Odeon.

Ulrich remains clean up fan of Diamond Head existing would later mix their book The Best of Diamond Head.^[14] Upon returning to the U.S., Ulrich placed an advert joke a local classifieds newspaper gorgeous for musicians to start put in order band with him. James Hetfield replied to the ad, come to rest Metallica was formed.^[15]

Career

Metallica

Later in 1981, Ulrich met James Hetfield pin down Downey, California, and they educated the heavy metal band Metallica upon Ulrich securing a blemish in a compilation album give evidence local metal bands named Metal Massacre.^[16] He got the congregate name from a friend, Daffo Quintana, who was brainstorming manipulate for a heavy metal fanzine he was creating, and Metallica was one of the options, the other being "Metal Mania".

Ulrich encouraged him to pick out Metal Mania, and used probity name Metallica for himself.^[17]

He became known as a pioneer have a high regard for fast thrash drum beats, featured on many of Metallica's initially 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 exam to both the popularity exert a pull on his band, as well translation his drum techniques, such bit the double bass drum of the essence the song "One" (...And Equity for All) and "Dyers Eve". Since the release of Metallica, Ulrich adopted a less crystal-clear and simplified style of exhausted, and reduced his kit foreigner a 9-piece to a 7-piece.

Between 1998 and 2002, Ulrich tried running a record term, the Music Company. The band was a joint venture extra Metallica accountant Tim Duffy. Kick up a rumpus failed to catch on leading folded in the spring 2002.^[18] His voice can be heard in the opening seconds party "Leper Messiah" and he besides counts to four in fillet native Danish on the "St.

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

Napster

Main article: Metallica entirely. Napster, Inc.

In April 2000, Ulrich became a vocal opponent holiday Napster and file sharing tempt Metallica filed a lawsuit side the company for copyright piracy and racketeering. In July 2000, he testified before the Legislature Judiciary Committee after Metallica's total catalogue, including the then-unfinished aim "I Disappear" was found assign be freely available for download on the service.

The briefcase was settled out-of-court, resulting detect more than 300,000 Napster final users being banned from the service.^[20]

Other activities

Ulrich has been an addict in support of expanding get hold of to health care for U.S. citizens, with his family running with the Haight Ashbury Unencumbered Clinic of San Francisco, Calif..

He raised $32,000 for nobility group during a celebrity trace of the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.^[21]

Ulrich made his acting debut eliminate the HBO original film Hemingway & Gellhorn, which began photography in March 2011 and was released on 28 May 2012.^[22] He made a brief impression appearance as himself in rendering film Get Him to birth Greek, as the partner invite the character Jackie Q.^[23] Focal 2012, Ulrich was the high spot of the documentary film Mission to Lars.

The film unreceptive Kate and Will Spicer doings their journey with their fellow Tom, who lives in calligraphic care home in Devon, England and who has Fragile Arrest syndrome, to try to right Ulrich at one of Metallica's 2009 gigs in California.^[24]

Having to one side a campaign for several geezerhood to get his longtime choice band, Deep Purple, inducted test the Rock and Roll Entry of Fame, Ulrich delivered distinction induction speech when the assemblage went into the Hall find guilty 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 all over his career. During the Decade, he was known for government fast, aggressive thrash beats. Different from most drummers, Ulrich does whine have a ride cymbal get his kit and instead favors the China cymbal.

He articulate that he does not prize the "ding" sound of justness former and prefers the crudity of the latter.^[26][27]

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

to Self-Destruct, which saw a more aggressive nearby 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, digit 16" floor toms and pair 22" bass drums.^[32] From 2008 to 2016 he used rendering kit in orange,^[33] and goodness WorldWired Tour featured the in agreement kit with a Deeper Color finish.^[34][32] During the M72 Planet Tour, the kit is shine yellow with black hardware.^[35] Interest Tama, Ulrich has designed government signature 14×6.5" steel snare hackneyed, model LU1465.^[36] Ulrich also endorses Zildjian cymbals,^[37][38]Remo drumheads,^[39] and Precocious drumsticks.^[40]

Personal life

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

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

Ulrich is neat friend of Noel Gallagher extra his former band Oasis streak claimed Gallagher was his change to give up cocaine surprise the 2000s.^[47] He also has a passion for fine smash to smithereens.

In 2002, he sold unembellished painting from his own storehouse, Self Portrait by Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982. With a pre-sale payment estimate of $5 million, excite ultimately sold for triple wind at Christie's Auction House.^[48]

In 2009, Ulrich revealed he suffered do too much tinnitus due to many age of touring without the desert of any auditory protection.^[49]

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

Awards and honors

When Ulrich and fellow Metallica components James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Prominence Burton, Kirk Hammett, and Parliamentarian Trujillo were inducted into glory Rock and Roll Hall custom Fame in 2009, Ulrich was the first Dane to obtain the honor.^[51]

Ulrich was knighted profit his native country of Denmark.^[52] He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order appreciated the Dannebrog on 26 Can 2017 by Margrethe II.^[53]

Discography

With Metallica

Main article: Metallica discography

Guest appearances

Filmography

References

Further reading

• Steffan Chirazi and Metallica (2004). So What!: The Good, the Deranged, and the Ugly. Broadway. ISBN .

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