Lars Ulrich Metallica's Story Often Pays Fines For Stealing Alas In Concert Areas

JAKARTA - Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told how he had to stop fans from stealing a seat from where they performed and threw him during the concert.

Ulrich recently appeared on the Conan O'Brien's Needs A Friend podcast, where he reflected on Metallica's tour history in Los Angeles, the city where he formed the band with James Hetfield.

Los Angeles is also a place that Ulrich says has hosted some of the best shows in Metallica's career thanks to some excited' fans.

However, this has sometimes increased to become a fan throwing a seat that makes Metallica have to pay a large amount of bills.

"What's going on, 16 thousand seats there? We paid about 15 thousand of those 16 thousand seats over the years because every time we played at the Long Beach Arena, people would just take a seat, you know, play a frisbee with it in the arena," Ulrich said.

"The next day [venue staff] will be like, 'Okay, Metallica, this is a pillow worth 300 thousand US dollars you have to pay for'."

Ulrich added that Metallica should explicitly warn fans against doing the same thing to avoid them from paying bills.

We have to go to the KNAC [radio station] several times and say 'Listen, whatever. You know, you are our fans, and we are your fans and we are all together. We want you to have fun and we support it," Ulrich said.

"But understand one thing, if you think you're revolt against a building or rebel against the authority or rebel against that man or whatever, do you think you're rebeling? The only person you're really fighting is Metallica."

Ulrich also discussed a concert at LA Coliseum where Metallica had to stop the show when fans started throwing folding chairs on stage.

At the time, things might be a little bit more unpredictable about the physical elements of the array of shows, and in front of the entire stage of the grassman, the football pitch at LA Coliseum [consisting of] all the folding chairs, "he said.

I don't know if any of you want to guess where 40 thousand folding seats produce three songs into the set. Yes. That's true. All of that no matter how many 30, 40 thousand folding seats end on stage. So we have to stop the show.