Lars Ulrich Recalls His Greatest Mistake...No Not Lulu
LouTallica has yet to release Lulu, but Newsweek decided to ask Lars Ulrich his biggest mistake. Newsweek has a column called My Favorite Mistake, in which a guest author recalls...well you know what that's pretty self-explanatory.
Lars' biggest mistake isn't turning down the bass on ...And Justice For All, nor was it St. Anger. Nope his biggest mistake was not calling Quentin Tarantino back when Tarantino wanted Lars to do the soundtrack for Kill Bill. Here's Lars own words:
"[Reading the script] page by page, I realized that most of this was written in a language that was outside of my realm of understanding. I had never encountered a narrative like this, set in, to me, a very foreign culture of martial arts and Asian myths. I just couldn't wrap my thick Danish head around it. I championed [Quentin's] movies, loved him as a person, but at the end of the 180 pages, I sat there somewhat bewildered and felt very uncool for not getting it. I wasn't capable of appreciating its brilliance. Then I started overthinking it. 'Do it, do it,' my gut screamed, but my head was confused. Cautious. I experienced a rare inability to pull the trigger.
"Over the next few weeks the whole thing fizzled out as I continued not trusting my instincts. In the end, I never got back to him. Probably the single biggest mistake I've made in the creative department. Of course 'Kill Bill' turned out to be above and beyond brilliant, as have [Tarantino's] subsequent movies, which have all been a significant part of my life in the 2000s."
I want to interview Metallica two years from now and ask them if they regret softly accepting the wrinkled shaft of Lou Reed into their mouths, cupping his older sagging ass cheeks, and having him thrust his ideas down their throats one spurt at a time.
Lars' biggest mistake isn't turning down the bass on ...And Justice For All, nor was it St. Anger. Nope his biggest mistake was not calling Quentin Tarantino back when Tarantino wanted Lars to do the soundtrack for Kill Bill. Here's Lars own words:
"[Reading the script] page by page, I realized that most of this was written in a language that was outside of my realm of understanding. I had never encountered a narrative like this, set in, to me, a very foreign culture of martial arts and Asian myths. I just couldn't wrap my thick Danish head around it. I championed [Quentin's] movies, loved him as a person, but at the end of the 180 pages, I sat there somewhat bewildered and felt very uncool for not getting it. I wasn't capable of appreciating its brilliance. Then I started overthinking it. 'Do it, do it,' my gut screamed, but my head was confused. Cautious. I experienced a rare inability to pull the trigger.
"Over the next few weeks the whole thing fizzled out as I continued not trusting my instincts. In the end, I never got back to him. Probably the single biggest mistake I've made in the creative department. Of course 'Kill Bill' turned out to be above and beyond brilliant, as have [Tarantino's] subsequent movies, which have all been a significant part of my life in the 2000s."
I want to interview Metallica two years from now and ask them if they regret softly accepting the wrinkled shaft of Lou Reed into their mouths, cupping his older sagging ass cheeks, and having him thrust his ideas down their throats one spurt at a time.
Posted by Craig Wettner at 10/17/2011 6:57 PM 
Categories: Lou Reed and Metallica
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Categories: Lou Reed and Metallica
Tags: Lou Reed and Metallica
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