… Metallica though, taking us on board, under their wing so to speak, telling us that they couldn't put the song down and they fuckin’ loved it, were just a great bunch of blokes. I thought, ‘Well, I don't want to outstay my welcome,’ but I was tempted. Go around on their jet and be a guest each night around the world on their tour. “It was them that said, ‘What the fuck are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’ve quit now, haven't I? I don't do stage work any more.’ ‘Getcha band back on the road man!’” He admitted to being a “bit of a bread head,” interested in making money, and noted, “I didn't really know Metallica … but going up there and being involved with it, they've got chefs and they've got money and great big set up. The band had split and he’d gone back to college when the cover of “So What?” was released, and then Animal received an invitation to guest with Metallica at London’s Wembley Stadium in 1992. If it weren’t for Metallica, frontman Animal might still be working for his father’s roofing business. I know we have noticed a younger generation at our shows and also attending more classic metal shows in the last two years.” So, they are going out and discovering why Metallica likes Blitzkrieg, Diamond Head, etc., and instead of listening to the likes of Avenged Sevenfold, a lot of the younger audience is discovering Priest, Accept, Scorpions, etc. They quite strongly said, ‘No, it’s not our song.’ They promoted it quite well.” Guitarist Ken Johnson took a slightly different angle in 2017, saying, “Maybe to some young bands, some of what is classed as metal these days isn't quite cutting it for them to listen to. Not that Metallica has ever claimed that the song is theirs, they haven’t. That is not really where you want it to be. It was really nice for them to say that we influenced them in their early days and actually still do influence them apparently, because every time a new Blitzkrieg album comes out, Lars is on the phone saying, ‘Can I get a copy of this, please?’" But, "on the other side of the sword," he said, "It’s kind of been difficult in that there is an awful lot of Metallica fans out there that actually think that ‘Blitzkrieg’ is a Metallica song. “On one edge of the sword, obviously it was an honor for them to do that. “It’s a double-edged sword,” frontman Brian Ross said in 2016. I was supposed to talk to some bloke about getting paid, but I just took it for granted that he was gonna come across with the money after the gig. They gave me all this merchandising stuff, like scarves and hats and T-shirts and sorta said, ‘Okay, man. They went on for about three hours, and then I came on to do ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ with them. I said yeah, so I flew over with them on their private plane. They were staying at this very plush hotel in Marble Arch, and they asked me to play ‘Whiskey in the Jar’ with them in Dublin. "They phoned me up about eight or nine years ago when they were in London, where I was living at this point. And the bastards didn’t pay me,” he laughed in 2015. “They phoned me up and asked me to do a gig with them. Then everyone started copying them, and now there's 100,000 bands that sound like Metallica.”Įven though Thin Lizzy didn’t write the song – it’s a traditional folk anthem in Ireland – Metallica based their version on Lizzy’s, and original guitarist Eric Bell won’t forget his run-in with them afterward. … But by the time Master of Puppets came out, I think they'd left that style and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal influence probably behind, and they pushed into some new territory that no one had been before. Yeah, they were influenced by bands like Diamond Head and Motorhead and Maiden. To have met Lars when he was just a Diamond Head fan - and he never mentioned playing the drums or forming a band or anything - and watch him rise to the top and headline the biggest festivals in world is something I've never seen happen before or since to anyone I actually knew and could count on as a friend. I've been to see them probably at least 20 times.
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“I'm full of admiration for what Metallica have done," he said in 2016. Diamond Head guitarist Brian Tatler is comfortable with the fact that, the first time he met Ulrich, the drummer was a fan – and the tables have turned since then.
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