Comedian Dean Delray hosts the “Let There Be Talk” podcast, and he has drawn rave reviews for his interviews with legendary musicians that typically go much deeper than the standard interview fare.
Recently, Delray had former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted as a guest for a wide-ranging chat that clocked in just under two hours. Newsted staunchly defended his former bandmate, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, and blasted his critics.
On critics of Lars being dismissed as an average drummer: “Anybody that says that is a f*cking idiot. They have no idea what they’re talking about. The depth of this guy, his foresight, his comprehension of what the hell was going on when he was 21, 22, 23. Seriously?”
“So if he can’t play the same fill as Dave Lombardo or whoever the f*ck you pick for today, so what? Look at the scoreboard, motherf*cker. Do not talk sh*t about that guy. He’s way ahead of you in most things, I promise you that — I promise you. If we wouldn’t have had him and his ability to anticipate, to predict, to know geography, to understand what country and what city and what did what at what time and all this stuff, no way Metallica would be what they were. No way! So you need to get ahold of yourselves because there’s way more to it than just being able to hit a snare drum.”
Ulrich previously commented on Newsted’s famous exit from the band in an interview with Apple Music.
“If you think about it, Jason is the only member of Metallica who’s ever left willingly, and that in itself is a statistic,” Ulrich said. “And the resentment from James and I was just so… you can’t do that. You can only leave if we want you to leave. And then we weren’t equipped at the time to do a deep dive into why he was leaving. And so, of course, now you can see 20 years later, it makes complete sense.”
“We write the songs; we make the decisions; we do all of it. You have no creative outlet in this band; you have no creative voice. And then when you go and do something that gives you satisfaction and a way for you to express yourself to the rest of the world, then we get f*cking p*ssed at you. And then that resentment then goes to you leaving the band. I mean, that’s kind of Psychiatry 101 here. But we weren’t equipped to see that side of it. Twenty years later, so now it makes complete sense.”
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