Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has recounted how he needed to cease followers from stealing cushions from venues they have been taking part in and throwing them round throughout their units.
Ulrich not too long ago appeared on the podcast Conan O’Brien’s Wants A Buddy, through which he mirrored on Metallica’s tour historical past in Los Angeles, town the place he fashioned the band with James Hetfield, and a spot which he says has performed host to “a number of the finest reveals of our profession” because of some significantly “passionate” followers.
Nonetheless, this typically escalated into followers throwing round cushions and leaving the band with a hefty invoice to pay.
Talking of the Lengthy Seashore Area particularly, Ulrich stated: “What are there, 16,000 seats in there? We’ve paid for about 15,000 of these 16,000 seats through the years as a result of each time we have been taking part in Lengthy Seashore Area, individuals would simply take the cushion, you recognize, play frisbee with it inside the world.
“The subsequent day [the venue staff] could be like, ‘Okay, Metallica, right here’s these $300,000 price of cushions that you must pay for’.”
Ulrich added that the band needed to explicitly warn followers off doing something just like keep away from them having to foot the invoice. “We needed to go on KNAC [radio station] a number of instances and go ‘Hear, no matter. You recognize, you’re our followers, and we’re your followers and we’re all on this collectively. We would like you to have a superb time and we help that,” he stated.
“However perceive one factor, for those who suppose you’re rebelling in opposition to the constructing or rebelling in opposition to authority or rebelling in opposition to the person or regardless of the fuck it’s, do you suppose you’re rebellious? The one individuals you’re actually rebelling in opposition to is Metallica.”
Ulrich additionally mentioned a present on the LA Coliseum the place Metallica needed to cease a efficiency when followers began throwing folding chairs on stage.
“At the moment, issues have been possibly barely extra unpredictable in regards to the bodily components of the make-up of the reveals, and in entrance of the stage the entire garden, the soccer area on the LA Coliseum was [made up of] all folding chairs,” he stated.
“I don’t know if any of you wish to guess the place 40,000 folding chairs ended up three songs into the set. Yeah. That’s proper. All these – no matter there was – 30, 40,000 folding chairs ended up on stage. And so we needed to cease the present”.
Ulrich mentioned this at a time the place varied incidents have taken place in latest weeks involving followers throwing issues at artists throughout dwell reveals. Most not too long ago, Cardi B threw her microphone at a fan who lobbed a drink at her on stage.
In the meantime, one of the crucial harmful instances occurred final month, when pop star Bebe Rexha was seen falling to her knees after a cell phone struck her within the face, leaving her needing stitches above the attention.
Drake has additionally been the goal of things thrown from the group. Earlier this month, he was hit by an object whereas on stage in Chicago, throughout the opening evening of his ‘All A Blur Tour’ with 21 Savage. The item, which hit him within the arm throughout the efficiency, turned out to be a cell phone though he didn’t touch upon the incident throughout the present.
Later within the tour, he halted certainly one of his gigs to name out a fan after a vape was thrown at him mid-performance.
Moreover, P!nk was left confused after a fan tossed their lifeless mom’s ashes onto her stage in London, Harry Kinds was hit within the eye by a mysterious object thrown at him in Vienna, and Ava Max was slapped in the face by someone who ran onto the stage throughout a gig in Los Angeles.
