{"id":806909,"date":"2020-04-29T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=991480"},"modified":"2020-04-29T08:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T14:11:14","slug":"watch-lars-ulrichs-kids-summon-noise-in-cover-of-beatles-eleanor-rigby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-lars-ulrichs-kids-summon-noise-in-cover-of-beatles-eleanor-rigby\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Lars Ulrich\u2019s Kids Summon Noise in Cover of Beatles\u2019 \u2018Eleanor Rigby\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lars Ulrich<\/a> faced a conundrum when Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff invited him to be a guest for one of his company\u2019s fireside chats this week. Usually Benioff\u2019s musical guests have been playing a song at the end of the interviews, which are broadcast on Salesforce\u2019s social media channels, and the Metallica<\/a> drummer didn\u2019t know what he wanted to bring to the table. \u201cI\u2019m like, \u2018Nobody wants a fucking drum solo,’\u201d Ulrich tells Rolling Stone <\/em>with a laugh. \u201cIt\u2019s just kind of not the right moment for that type of thing.\u201d Then he got a burst of inspiration.<\/p>\n

Since his sons Myles and Layne were home from NYU for the rest of the semester because of pandemic-related shutdowns and had been heartily using the jam room in the family\u2019s Bay Area home, he asked if they wanted to record something. They sequestered themselves with a bass and drums for 30 minutes before calling their dad back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like this insane, three-minute Blue Cheer, crazy, garage-rock version of \u2018Eleanor Rigby,’\u201d Lars says, beaming. \u201cObviously, there\u2019s been some incredible versions of \u2018Eleanor Rigby\u2019 along the way, but I\u2019m pretty sure there\u2019s never been one that had this kind of sound, this kind of feel, this kind of energy and madness to it. I was like, \u2018You know what, boys? You done me proud.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Metallica drummer then donned his cinematographer\u2019s hat and filmed his sons\u2019 noisy Beatles tribute. He says, \u201cThat\u2019s me standing in the corner filming it, going, \u2018Holy fuck!’\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulrich says he\u2019s not quite sure why they picked that song or how they arrived at such a freewheeling take on it. \u201cKids in their generation are multi-instrumental,\u201d Ulrich says. Myles, 21, has been studying drums for years, having spent two years at the Berklee College of Music after spells playing clarinet and guitar. \u201cIn every room of the house, we have acoustic guitars and basses lying around, so you can always pick up a guitar and jam,\u201d Ulrich says. \u201cIt\u2019s great to have a guitar in the kitchen or family room.\u201d Layne, an NYU freshman who plays bass on the recording and will be turning 19 next week, plays both guitar and bass.<\/p>\n

The kids\u2019 taste formed over years of Lars driving them to school and playing them a mix of AC\/DC, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Guns N\u2019 Roses, Rage Against the Machine, and System of a Down, among others. \u201cWhen you\u2019re in a car, you can throw a lot of music their way, and the doors are locked and they can\u2019t go anywhere,\u201d he says with a laugh. But he\u2019s been amazed at the ways their palates have expanded with Myles embracing jazz fusion and prog music \u2014 Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Return to Forever\u2019s Lenny White \u2014 and Layne digging the likes of Stanley Clarke.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was their age, my tastes were literally just half an inch wide,\u201d Ulrich says. \u201cWhen I was 19, it was New Wave of British Heavy Metal. That was it. But between the two of them, it covers so<\/em> much ground. Both of them are huge Radiohead fans; they listen to a lot of Arctic Monkeys, they definitely listen to a lot of more like noise rock, White Stripes and Jack White, and a lot of punkier stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen James [Hetfield] and I were 19 years old, if it wasn\u2019t exactly what we were listening to, it was like, \u2018Eh\u2019 \u2014 we didn\u2019t want to know,\u201d he adds. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t until we got with Cliff Burton and Kirk [Hammett] that we started kind of broadening our horizons a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Incidentally, when asked if Myles and Layne are Metallica fans, Lars laughs. \u201cI don\u2019t know if \u2018fans\u2019 is the first word I\u2019d use,\u201d he says. \u201cBut I think they respect it. They\u2019re appreciative. \u2026 I think they\u2019re fans enough, I would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ulrich is most proud of the recording\u2019s energy. To his ears, he hears a line back to the wild looseness of the Stooges and the MC5, and it gives him hope for what else the Ulrich boys are capable of. \u201cIt just feels like there\u2019s increasingly less and less madness and unpredictability in music,\u201d Ulrich says. \u201cAnd when I see that clip, it just feels like, holy fuck, it\u2019s like a moment. If they can bring that out to the world and not have it be too watered down or overproduced, then that\u2019s certainly promising for what could come.\u201d But whatever his children do next will have to happen in between their studies.<\/p>\n

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