Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich responded in kind to ‘Metallica Who?’ being written on the mirror at a bar in Dublin.
Ulrich wrote on Instagram, “The word around Dublin is…..#wanna #MetAtSlaneCastle.” You can view the photo below.
Anvil frontman Stevie “Lips” Kudlow discussed Metallica coming off as whiny in the ‘Some Kind of Monster’ documentary in a new Rock Hard With Jay Conroy interview.
“The thing is, when people make documentaries, they make documentaries about retrospect. That doesn’t work. Ultimately, that does not work. That’s what the biggest difference about that movie was. It’s not about telling about tales of the past and how great you were. It’s not about that. It’s about how great we are now and where we’re going now, in the moment, and not blowing bullshit. It’s not bullshit. And that’s the other thing: Everybody who makes a video or a DVD, it’s all blowing fucking fan shit. It’s, like, ‘We are great!’ They don’t show any of the hardships, any of the stuff that really is the truth.
There’s a dozen great bands and thousands of bands that are like Anvil. Thousands. Way more like Anvil than there is that have made it; no question about it. And if you’re one of the bands that make it, going out and making a movie, who gives a shit? You already made it! [Laughs] What are you even doing it for? And if you’re successful and you come in with the approach that you’re not happy with your success, then you come across [like Metallica’s] ‘Some Kind Of Monster’. It’s, like, ‘What’s wrong with you fucking guys? You got the world at your fucking feet! You’re fucking whining and complaining and going to rehab!’
It’s the polar opposite. A band who has had nothing but hardships its whole fucking existence has a brighter outlook and is fucking happier to be onstage than a pig in shit. It makes no fucking sense. But, on the other side of it, it makes a lot of sense, because human nature is to whine and complain, even when there’s nothing to whine and complain about. [Laughs] But when there really is stuff to whine and complain, then what do you have to do? You have the opposite: I’m gonna make it better. I’m gonna have a brighter future. You close the door on the negativity and only think about the positive. Because when you’re in a positive universe, all you can worry about is the negative coming in. That’s what the difference is. You can’t hope, as a successful band or a successful musician, to make a DVD and do what Anvil did because you’re gonna just come across as a whiny little fucking baby. What are you complaining about?
And then, if you go out and go how great you are, then you’re coming across as a fucking rock star. You think you’re fucking great. You come across as a pompous piece of shit. So what’s the right chemistry? What Anvil did. And you can’t reproduce that. You need 30 years in obscurity and hard work and hardship and fucking a dozen albums and the credibility that other musicians who have made it look at you as you’re something to look to up to and something that inspired them. That’s what’s different about Anvil that makes it different, is you’ve got Lars [Ulrich], and you’ve Slash, and you’ve got Lemmy [Kilmister]… and the list is huge. It’s not about patting myself on the back. It’s about them patting me on the back. I’m not saying shit. I don’t go around telling people I’m great. People tell me I’m great. And that’s what the difference is. That’s not my job to go around telling people how great I am. Let the word spread from what I do and how I go about doing it. That’s what it’s all about.”
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