METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich‘s childhood residence is in the marketplace for 48 million Danish kroner, or about 6.85 million U.S. {dollars}.
The now-60-year-old Ulrich lived in the home, positioned on one of many small residential streets of Hellerup, essentially the most modern a part of the municipality of Gentofte, in japanese Denmark, together with his mother and father Torben and Lene for 17 years till he moved to Los Angeles and launched METALLICA.
In a video exhibiting Lars visiting his childhood home in Hellerup, he associated tales about his upbringing, together with his musical influences and initiation into drumming.
“That is the place I spent 17 years, proper in there,” he mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET) whereas standing in entrance of the four-level residence (see video under). “Up there on the balcony was my dad’s playroom, the place he sat and listened to Miles Davis and [John] Coltrane information. Copenhagen was kind of the hotbed of jazz music in Europe within the ’60s… All of the jazz musicians would come and hang around right here, and quite a lot of the hippies, and that was his form of atmosphere away from tennis. When he was right here chillin’, that was form of what he did, and hung with all these loopy cats.”
He admitted: “There wasn’t something typical about any of this. That is why when folks like [METALLICA frontman James] Hetfield, and so forth, sit there and speak about their childhoods and all this sort of stuff, what went on in right here was like an entire totally different universe.”
Mentioning his “playroom”, Lars mentioned: “That window and that window and the 2 home windows over, that is the place I had my drums. That was the room the place I had all my posters and the room the place I had my stereo and all my information and all 700 posters of DEEP PURPLE proper in there.”
The gorgeous, iconic property was in-built 1907 and designed by the legendary architect Carl Brummer. It’s positioned within the extraordinarily enticing embassy quarter — proper between Østerbro and Hellerup.
Ulrich performed tennis professionally as an adolescent and will have gone on to a profession as a tennis star, however selected music as an alternative.
METALLICA was fashioned when Ulrich, who had moved to Los Angeles, positioned an advert in an area paper known as the Recycler searching for different musicians to play with. The advert was answered by guitarists James Hetfield and Hugh Tanner of the band LEATHER CHARM.
METALLICA formally fashioned in October 1981 and the band’s first recording was “Hit The Lights” for the compilation “Metallic Bloodbath”.
Bay Space DJ Ron Quintana got here up with the group’s title: he was debating between utilizing “Metallica” and “Metallic Mania” for the title of his radio present and Ulrich inspired him to make use of “Metallic Mania” in order that he might use “Metallica” for his new band.
METALLICA‘s first full lineup — that includes Hetfield, Ulrich, guitarist Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney — performed its first gig on March 14, 1982 at Radio Metropolis in Anaheim, California.