TRUE or FALSE: Lars Ulrich of Metallica is a terrible drummer

Lars doesn't drum, he sits there while 4 burly me move his body up and down

so I'm watching one of the vids that came with the AJFA boxed set, and Lars is a split second off beat consistently during the "dun nuh nuh, duh nuh nuh" Part during "...And Justice for All", so it sounds like the aural equivalent of someone's boots getting stuck in the mud every few seconds.

the band is having to adjust to it and it is distracting af.

I’m inspired by your posts to revisit the remasters - working my way through the earlier stuff, the single RTL DVD and the two MOP DVDs, and Cliff Em All. The four (4!) Justice DVDs look a bit intimidating I have to say.

As a Johnny-come-lately to the metal scene, I even struggle with Metallica's classic studio recordings, let alone their live releases. Ride the Lightning comes closest to fully swaying me.

xpost it's really more like two actual shows, one video of handheld camcorder clips of parts of songs, and......i don't think i've seen the 4th one yet, i think it's interviews

the dvd from the Stone Balloon is great, cuz it's Metallica performing in a teeny club just so they could say htey play Delaware

I have a story about that Delaware show... I posted this on my Facebook some time ago but some here might enjoy it...

Metallica decided that they wanted to play all 50 states on the Damaged Justice Tour so they did a surprise show at the Stone Balloon, a beloved college-town club in Wilmington, Delaware. Seeing Metallica in a small club would have been amazing!

I have no idea how I figured it out in the pre-internet days but I found out about the show in advance and called the local promoters Cellar Door a few weeks in advance of the show. The guy on the phone was stunned that I heard about it and said he would reserve me tickets for the show!

Friend and sometime photographer David Rogers and Jeff Vander Clute of Metal Meltdown fanzine fame took the trip with me. We made a weekend of it - the day before I went to L'AMOUR in Brooklyn for the first time ever and caught DBC (Dead Brain Cells).

We crashed with my grandmother who lived in Jamaica. The next day we went into the city and visited some record labels (my fanzine Curious Goods was a reality at this point and Metal Meltdown was legendary in the underground so i was able to glom off of Jeff's established cred).

I remember meeting Larry Getlen, then a publicist for Roadracer (not Roadrunner yet) who gave me tons of stuff including Obituary's "Slowly We Rot" on vinyl and the first Last Crack cassette (he said of the latter project "that's really weird.")

We also visited Noise Records' NYC office and Sal Treppiedi hooked me up with a Kreator Extreme Aggression tee-shirt (when I wore it to a DC show people were in awe how I got it) as well as a shit ton of music.

Then we drove down to Delaware where a huge throng was there. My name was on the list but not to get in for free, just to get into the sold out show... And I was broke! But the guy from Cellar Door said he would trust me to mail him a check... Yay! We were going on!

But then they checked my ID. I was not 21. Entrance denied. Horrible!

In the forthcoming months I would get letters from other fanzine guys saying to me "Did you see me onstage singing 'Seek & Destroy'" and a little part of me died.

The show was bootlegged and released on vinyl (the cover of which is pictured here).

http://img.discogs.com/pLSy2faHu8-LRw6BYPTrudNkaZ8=/fit-in/600x605/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-626440-1140233939.jpeg.jpg

I never got it. The show is on YouTube if anyone wants to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WkLm6yLO_Q

Jeff is not on Facebook but I did exchange emails with him a couple years ago when I picked up the entire series of Metal Meltdown on eBay.

Oh man. Oh man oh man. I died with you during that story.

yeah that would have gutted me.

course I was 9 at the time so