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BEATALLICA Frontman: 'I Wouldn't Want To Mess' With LARS ULRICH

September 7, 2005

RiverFrontTimes.com recently conducted an interview with frontman Jaymz Lennfield of Milwaukee-based BEATALLICA, a satirical mashup act whose hilarious schtick marries the songwriting prowess of the BEATLES to the deep-throated rock growl of METALLICA. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

RiverFrontTimes.com: If [METALLICA's Lars Ulrich] and Ringo Starr [of THE BEATLES] got into a fight, who'd win?

Jaymz Lennfield: "Definitely Lars. Ringo's a really smart guy, but Lars has a ridiculous amount of energy. When he called me up about the cease-and-desist order [in February, BEATALLICA found themselves on the ugly end of a cease-and-desist order from Sony, demanding that they shut down their heavily trafficked site for good], he was out on the slopes on a skiing vacation with his family in Colorado and the guy was talking a mile a minute. Every few words would have to be bleeped out. I wouldn't want to mess with that guy."

On their upcoming European tour:

Jaymz Lennfield: "We definitely like to play dress-up, but we're a real band — these guys can play. You remember that scene from 'The Blues Brothers' where they have the fence up around them as they're playing? Well, we need to have chainlink fence up just to keep Krk [Hammettson, BEATALLICA guitarist] from jumping out from the stage and landing on people. He's ruined so much perfectly good equipment that way."

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