Have you FORGIVEN Lars Ulrich?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Poll question: Have you FORGIVEN Lars Ulrich?

[LaraMN]

1. Not for the excessive tooth whitening.

Geez.

[PeaceNikki]

2. Strongly in the "Fuck no" camp here.

I was one of the users he got booted from Napster back when Napster was cool.

Thankfully, I knew how to hack my registry to get back in under another user ID.

THOUGH... I ALMOST forgave him when I heard he told Sony to back off of "Beatallica" and helped then get "Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band" released.

[rcrush]

3. Same here, FUCK NO.

I used to be the biggest Metallica fan in high school then Lars gets a hair up his ass and gets me booted from Napster. Then they start filing lawsuits. Who the fuck does that little shit think he is?


AND NOW They start selling mp3's online.

Plus I also wont forgive them for making crappy music after the black album.

[rcrush]

4. I didnt watch their little crybaby documentary either.

Fuck Metallica Fuck them up their stupid asses.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

9. I watched it, and "pathetic" isn't a strong enough word.

I feel bad about Roberto Trujillo, who seems like a genuine rocker (Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell, Ozzy Osbourne).

But he also needs to earn a living, and if Metallica waved a steady paycheck under MY nose, who the hell would I be to say "no?"

[Lyric]

5. Nope. I used to love Metallica.

I'll never give them another dollar now. Fuck Lars.

NAPSTER BAD!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y

[rcrush]

7. I trashed all my posters and my CD's when they did that.

Gave away the tshirts to my friends and made sure to visit www.metallicasucks.com all the time.

[Lucian]

6. Fuck no.

[rcrush]

8. God I hate Lars so much.

I fucking hate that guy.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

10. I saw ALL of the MTV clips...all of the Napster court hearings...

...and the little shit DID refer to "the kids," and for that, I hope his rockin' ass burns in Hell.

[rcrush]

12. That whole Napster things really showed me who a lot of these musicians really were.

Especially Eminem and Dr Dre. That also was a big disapointment.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. The Grateful Dead REALLY knew how to draw a line in the sand...

...as long as the fans made NO money from their performances...$0.00...they had a passive, friendly "tapers section" attitude.

The minute people started trying to make a buck, they stepped up, and I supported it.

I don't believe that anyone should profit from "free" music that really isn't "free."

But that's not what the Metallica-Napster thing was all about.

Lars felt that "the kids" were "ripping him off," and so he went after "the kids."

And they, in turn, fucked him back.

Poetic justice.

:toast:

[rcrush]

14. Lars Ulrich - Lifelong defender of the RIAA.

And douche overlord.

[rcrush]

15. Its not ok for fans to get some free songs

But its ok to sell your catalog to fucking Guitar Hero.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. The Guitar Hero thing, for Metallica, was "Jump a SECOND shark."

I saw the BestBuy "Special Guitar Hero" packaging of "Death Magnetic" and thought "are you fucking KIDDING me?"

[rcrush]

21. And to think they got their start by encouraging fans to pass around bootleg tapes.

Its how they became well known and made all their money. But I guess once you can buy a gold toilet fans dont mean much anymore.

[rcrush]

11. Kids today who love Metallica...

GAWD I know people who think the black album was their first album and think that Load and ReLoad were brilliant.

[RoyGBiv]

56. Those people suck ...

I still here that shit on the radio and have to struggle with wanting to throw said radio into a vat of acid.

I have this recurring image in my head of Lars doing a funky-face air drum solo while Avril Lavigne was singing ... well, she was doing something that could be interpreted as singing on some planets ... a cover of one of their songs, like he thought it was the coolest thing in the world.

Told me all I ever needed to know about Lars.

:puke:

Pisses me off even more because of how much I *liked* the bastard in the early days.

[Iggo]

16. No, no, and fuck no.

Edited to add: I did have a blast at the Metallica show last month.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

17. Not even if I could dispense forgiveness

With a ball-peen hammer

Millionaires whining. Not much else gets more pathetic than that.

[rcrush]

18. I wish I could scream how much I hate Lars right to his face sometimes.

Just right in his stupid face. His stupid douchey face.

[Orrex]

20. How can you hate a pale Oompa Loompa with a bulging forehead vein?

[trof]

22. I dunno, but I haven't forgiven John Edwards.

:cry:

[Cabcere]

47. Yeah, I know the feeling.

:( That made me very sad and angry.

[Radical Activist]

23. For the napster thing or his shitty music?

No and no.

[Left Is Write]

24. For being a general, all-around dick?

No.

[rcrush]

25. How Metallica reacted when they heard their music was used in prisoner torture.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/03/torture-playlist.html
6 min into the audio the reporter states that Rage Against the Machine was angry but when Metallica found out they were using Enter Sandman to torture prisoners they were excited and happy.

http://killpalmtrees.blogspot.com/2008/07/3-reasons-why-metallica-sucks.html

[rcrush]

27. James Hetfield torture quote.

http://www.revolvermag.com/content/james-hetfield-proud-metallica’s-music-was-used-torture-guantanamo-prisoners

Metallica frontman James Hetfield recently told German-language TV network 3sat that part of him was proud the U.S. military chose the band’s music to torture prisoners at U.S. detention centers in Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay. “It’s strong; it’s music that’s powerful,” Hetfield says. “It represents something that they don’t like—maybe freedom, aggression… I don’t know… Freedom of speech. And then part of me is kind of bummed about it that people worry about us being attached to some political statement because of that. We’ve got nothing to do with this and we’re trying to be as apolitical as possible, ’cause I think politics and music, at least for us, don’t mix.” Watch the interview below. And for more Hetfield, read “the Best of the Rest” of Revolver’s recent Metallica interviews, right here.

[Systematic Chaos]

29. Translated:

"We made our money and will continue to do so. We're wealthy beyond measure, so why should we be concerned? And besides, these are just a bunch of brown-skinned freaks in some hick country with no indoor plumbing, let alone decent stereo equipment! Like any of those ragheads are actually gonna buy our albums?"

:grr:

My problems with Metallica began when I noticed that every fucking song on Master of Puppets was in the same key! I mean, how hard is it to switch up key signatures once in a while? That, to me, represented a fundamental lack of talent. All this Napster crap was just the icing on the cake.

[no name no slogan]

26. Lars and the rest of Metallica can eat a bowl of dicks

[ACTION BASTARD]

34. That quote and picture is fucking priceless. Hetfield is such a monument to douchebags.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Now THAT'S what I call "upping your street cred."

Oy VEY.

:eyes:

:rofl:

[ACTION BASTARD]

28. Fuck no! And fuck you Lars.

Your piece of shit band died with Clifford on that bus. It's really something when people you respect and admire turn around and bite you in the ass over $$$? These guys are already multi millionaries 100X over and they screamed the loudest and longest over Napster.

I've never brought another cd (limewire, torrents ahoy!) or will ever spend a dime to go to any of their concerts or buy another t-shirt ever again. This POS band is dead to me.

Yeah, I don't hate on Roberto Trujillo though. He wasn't around for the Napster/Lars bullshit. If I was him I'd take the gig & the millions too. Motherfucker gotta eat know what I'm saying?

[rcrush]

30. I cant even make myself listen to their "Good" songs

The songs I liked pre load. It just makes me mad now.

[rcrush]

31. I was pissed cause I wasnt even sharing metallica songs on Napster.

I had actually bought a cd and ripped some songs to my computer back then and somehow they detected it and banned me.

[rcrush]

32. They are being inducted into the rock and roll hallf of fame for trying to kill rock and roll.

Thats the only thing I can think of that Metallica has accomplished.

[Initech]

33. To quote the Dude:

"I was a roadie for Metallica. Speed of Sound tour '87. Bunch of assholes."

[rcrush]

35. Of all people in the history of the world not deserving of forgiveness

This man is definateley number 3 or 4 on that list.

[City of Mills]

36. I'll never forgive him for stealing Gary Busey's teeth.

He has enough money to buy his own, there was no need Gary's grill.

[rcrush]

38. Lars still sucks.

[chknltl]

39. I had to say other:

I pity his pettiness and greed. Imo, it cost him and Metallica, (a band I once had quite a bit of fondness for), more than just financially.

[MrSlayer]

40. I've never really forgiven him for selling out to commercial radio, long before Napster.

Their first four releases are classics of the genre. Everything after that was progressively more commercial, except St. Anger which was just a disaster all around. The latest release has a few good tunes on it. Some of the old school style is present and Kirk plays his ass off.

I still hold a grudge but I also did go see them last Saturday. Took my son for his 14th birthday. Pretty good show, they still play the old stuff with intensity and I'm just getting over the whiplash.

[Swede]

41. There was nothing to forgive in my opinion.

Metallica was and is a great,innovative rock band.

[SacredCow]

42. No commentary needed....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuR5TNyL8Y

on edit: except that someone already beat me to it!

[Forkboy]

43. If I judged bands by how cool their members were I'd have to ditch 1/2 of my shit.

:)

Lars is a dick, but so are a ton of people in music. He's no worse than most of them, and he played on some of the best thrash albums of all-time, no matter how much Metallica may lack now.

Besides, it would damned hypocritical of me to talk about how crappy a person Lars is and then turn around and slap that Burzum CD in.

[mvd]

48. That's true

The new Metallica is good. However, even though I don't share and download copywritten music anymore, I would buy that CD at the lowest price I could find. :-)

[WildEyedLiberal]

50. OMG I thought for sure I was the only DUer who listened to Burzum

Varg can DIAF, but I can't help it - Burzum is some good shit.

I mean, hell, I'm a practicing Catholic, but probably a good quarter of my music library is openly, proudly blasphemous and satanic. I can't afford to lose any sleep worrying about the ideologies of the people who make the music I like.

[Forkboy]

51. It sucks when assholes make good music.

But it keeps happening, and I can't stop it. :)

[no name no slogan]

54. One of my most Catholic, best friends from when I was a kid loves Death Metal

In fact, he's got a pink iPod stuffed full of it.

Also, my ex-mother-in-law who was as Catholic as they come loved movies about the occult. She loved The Exorcist.

So, therefore, being a good Catholic == closet devil worshipper.

This is the DU member formerly known as Ozzy Osbourne.

[WildEyedLiberal]

55. LOL, apparently

That's what all the fundie Bible thumpers believe anyway, so why not live it up?

[Jetboy]

44. I'll forgive him the day he turns himself in to the authorities for

trading Angel Witch and Diamond Head tapes illegally as a kid.

[DarkTirade]

45. No, he remains Unforgiven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQq-VsaNFBQ

[LanternWaste]

46. Isn't Metallica the group that tried to

Isn't Metallica the group that tried to copyright a specific musical chord?

(or was that some other trendy, highly-marketable-to-the-cynic-crowd, untalented, half-educated, knuckle-dragging, sub-literate, can't-read-or-write-music band pretending to be talented?)

[nickgutierrez]

49. Give them credit for developing a novel approach to countering file-sharing:

Making albums so bad that nobody wants to listen to them.

[DarkTirade]

53. Yeah, by the time file-sharing came around

I already had the decent CDs so I didn't NEED to download 'em. Go figure.

[Danger Mouse]

52. Lars can lick the toilet bowl after a sumo wreslter's convention.