METALLICA's LARS ULRICH Says He Was Caught Off Guard By NAPSTER Issue

July 13, 2004

While promoting METALLICA's documentary, "Some Kind of Monster", in New York City last week, the band's drummer, Lars Ulrich, was asked if whether he had any regrets about how he handled the whole Napster issue in 2001 and being the target of the subsequent backlash.

"I wish that I was more… you know, I felt kind of ambushed by the whole thing because I didn't really know enough about what we were getting ourselves into when we jumped," he said, according to Launch Radio Networks. "We didn't know enough about the kind of grassroots thing, and what had been going on the last couple of months in the country as this whole new phenomenon was going on. We were just so stuck in our controlling ways of wanting to control everything that had to do with METALLICA. So we were caught off guard and we had a little bit of a rougher landing on that one than on other times than when we just blindly leap. But you know, I'm still proud of the fact that we did leap… and I took a lot of hits and it was difficult."

Ulrich says he can't watch the scenes about his Napster battle in the METALLICA documentary "Some Kind of Monster". But he admits he’s a "three iPod kind of guy" and downloads songs for 99 cents each.

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