Lars Ulrich on U2

I interviewed Lars Ulrich before Metallica’s show in Sydney last night, which was totally fun and surprising because he was super nice and funny which was maybe because we didn’t ask anything about Napster because he’s talked about that to death, and instead we chatted about music and I discovered that Lars Ulrich’s favourite band is U2. “I would go so far as to call myself a fucking U2 groupie, man. I am the biggest U2 fan in the world,” and I said “No, not really, I am,” and he said, “Oh really, you are?” and I was like, “YEP.” And he was laughing, well ok. “I would play in the fucking parking lot of the venue where U2 were playing inside on the stage, I would not even care, I would do that for them.” Then I was saying “Well, can’t you just ask Bono about this tete-a-tete and make it happen? He’s meant to be the nicest person in the world, I’m sure he’d go for it.” And Lars was saying, well maybe...

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