During a new episode of “The Metallica Report,” Metallica guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield discussed the rehearsals for the band’s set at the Power Trip festival in Indio, CA. Notably, he also revealed that drummer Lars Ulrich “never rehearsed” for the group’s shows until several years ago.
Hetfield said the following:
“An interesting fact: Lars never rehearsed ever until — I don’t know — I’d say maybe four or five years ago, he started really getting into rehearsing. And now he’ll — I mean, he’ll rehearse four days for a two-hour set, which is what he needs to do, which is awesome.
So there was gonna be rehearsals [for Power Trip] down at HQ [METALLICA’s headquarters in San Rafael, California] for a couple days beforehand. And I said, ‘I’m not gonna show up guys. I would love it if we could find a rehearsal place here [closer to the Power Trip festival], ’cause I’d love to see all these other bands.’ And [bassist] Robert [Trujillo] got on board, and then we found a place over here in the polo grounds [at the Empire Polo Club] to rehearse. And I’m grateful that Lars was up for it. So they did their rehearsals down there and then we came up and we have rehearsals and get to watch these bands. It’s so frickin’ cool to have your own compound at a festival for all the days of the festival… We show up, go rehearse and then go out there and watch IRON MAIDEN. I mean, how cool is that?”
[via Blabbermouth]
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