Drummer for Metallica, Lars Ulrich

he moved to America at age seventeen to pursue his dream of playing tennis professionally, he transferred to Los Angeles, California. In place of playing tennis for a full time income, he wound up being one of the best drummers to ever perform in a metal band.

Lars'father was a credentialed professional tennis player from the 1940s to the 1980s, which explains why golf was Lars'unique goal.Lars Dybkjær However, his dad was also a musician, who enjoyed punk with musicians like Stan Getz and Miles Davis. In reality, Dexter Gordon, the celebrated saxophonist was Ulrich's godfather. Torben Ulrich was his title, and he is the main reason that Lars first found myself in music. At era 9, Lars was invited by his dad to go to a Deep Pink concert and was completely captivated by the efficiency, it actually got him in to steel and roll and ultimately led to his curiosity about metal. He got his first drum kit from his grandmother at the age of a dozen, and so began his great experience as a drummer.

In 1981, Lars found a British heavy metal group named Stone Mind that affected him so significantly he traveled entirely from San Francisco to London just so that he can start to see the band perform. He did not approach the journey perfectly however and he did not have everywhere to keep following the show. However, he wound up meeting the group backstage and the cause musician Brian Tatler allowed him to remain with him in Birmingham. Lars invest these couple of weeks touring with the band, offering him his first connection with life on the road.

That really year is when Lars met Wayne Hetfield in Downey, Colorado and ergo shaped the band Metallica. The name Metallica based on a buddy named Ron Quintana who was simply actually thinking up names for a heavy metal publication he was taking care of, Metallica was one of many options. That name appealed to Lars, and therefore he persuaded his buddy to pick one other name for the journal (Metal Mania) therefore that he can keep the name Metallica for himself.

In early days of Metallica, Ulrich turned known as a leader of quickly thrash drum defeats, which he used for almost most of the early Metallica tunes on the'Destroy'Them All'album. To this date, Lars remains with Metallica and has recorded 9 albums using them, the latest being Demise Magnetic.

His personal living isn't all that particular, although he did marry twice. First he committed Debbie Jones in 1988 whom he'd met on visit, however they divorced for a couple different reasons. His 2nd marriage survived from 1997 to 2004 and was with Skylar Satenstein, a crisis medicine physician. Although they did divorce, he got two daughters out of it and is specialized in the both of them. Ever since then, he has been dating Connie Nielsen, a Danish actor whom with he has already had one child with.

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