Metallica - C or D?

I've often wondered if Lars has been dealing with some sort of back issues over the years, I know it's showmanship of sorts, but he stands up at every given opportunity, perhaps he's trying to relieve some stress on his lower back or butt.

Here's the Nate Wood interview, starts comparing Lars to Elvin Jones at about 1:06.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9gh6eay4R4

Haha, I guess they won't - although I'm reading this was a one-off medical emergency kind of thing. Lombardo is no spring chicken himself anyway.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/music/after-years-of-heavy-playing-older-drummers-feel-toll-on-health/article33175055/

In that same Nate Wood podcast he talks about singers who got voice lessons in their 30s and kept their voices into their 70s, vs ones who didn't and can barely sing at all. I think it's similar with drummers, any kind of tension and non-ergonomic setup is going to have cumulative damage over time, especially if you're touring.

If you watch live Slayer footage you can see Lombardo doing the mid-song stretching out thing too, keeps the muscles supple I guess. No-one quite beats John Stanier's high crash cymbal technique though. See Phil Collins for an example of poor drum posture leading to nerve damage.

I always figured the standing up thing is just because everyone else gets to stand up and the drummer is always hidden behind the drums, more of a showpersonship thing.

yeah, plus he has been doing that for decades, so that would scan. there was an ep of Beavis and Butthead where they showed For Whom the Bell Tolls from the Black album tour and Beavis kept yelling at Lars to quit standing up and sit down and play the drums like he was supposed to.