Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich on Lou Reed. There’s the typical Metallica braggodoccio there, but I would miss it if it were absent. It’s a beautiful memory, and I am thankful that Lars Ulrich shared it. And I thought Lulu was fascinating.
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Nice remembrance. Bono also wrote a great one in Rolling Stone and I’m sure p,entry more will be coming out. To say the metal community didn’t accept this album is a bit of an understatement. I’ve been a big fan Lou Reed since pretty early on in his solo career. When I finally went on Facebook he was one first guys I “liked”. When Lulu came out there was such vile hatred scrawled on the Lou Reed page that I was shocked. I wouldn’t have been surprised if there were death threats. The metal purists were blaming him for somehow ruining the band. The funny thing is that Reed probably out metaled most metal bands with his album from the mid seventies called Metal Machine Music. That album wasn’t even music by the way it just an electric guitar, 2 amps and a massive amount of feedback.
DG – thanks for the great comment. I remember the vitriolic response to that album – it struck me as way over the top!! And I totally agree with your comments on Reed and metal – I was just talking the other day with a friend about Metal Machine Music – and what a crazy album that was.
Also, it seems to me that nothing can “ruin” Metallica now. They’ve been around for 30 years. They have alienated their fans on an almost regular basis, and yet somehow everyone keeps coming back!
What did you think of Lulu?
I thought it was pretty good. I love your “Whiskey in the Jar” posts with Metallica but other than that I’m unfamiliar with their work. I just never listened to anything harder than The Stones. Was going to ask you when you first became familiar with Transformer. I laugh because it was one of the first albums my older brother bought and I used to listen to it a LOT. And this was in 1975 so I’m like 11 years old and listening to these songs about transvestites, prostitutes, and drug dealers and have absolutely no idea what they mean. Thank goodness parental labeling wasn’t around.