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The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in
New York City in October 2009. METALLICA (singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert
Trujillo) played with Reed on VELVET UNDERGROUND classics "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat". "We knew from then that we were
made for each other," Reed says.
After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed's older
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The idea for these two giants of modern music to work together was born after the 25th anniversary Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame concerts in
New York City in October 2009. METALLICA (singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert
Trujillo) played with Reed on VELVET UNDERGROUND classics "Sweet Jane" and "White Light/White Heat". "We knew from then that we were
made for each other," Reed says.
After that triumphant performance, Reed suggested they all make a record together. At first they planned to record an album of Reed's older
material, what Ulrich describes as "some of Lou's lost jewels — songs that he felt he'd like to give a second spin, and we could do whatever it
is we do to some of those songs." That idea "hung in the air for a couple of months." Then, a week or two before that session was to begin,
"Lou called up and said, 'Listen, I have this other idea,'" Ulrich explains.
That idea was to record a series of songs Reed had written for American avant-garde theater director Robert Wilson and German theater
group the Berliner Ensemble's production of The Lulu Plays, which premiered in April at the Theatre am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin,
founded by Bertolt Brecht. The songs are inspired by German expressionist Frank Wedekind's early 20th century plays Earth Spirit and
Pandora's Box, and were a rewrite of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", which emerged as a graphic novel on Fantagraphics Press.
"We were very interested in working with Lou," says Hetfield. "I had these giant question marks: What's it going to be like? What's going to
happen? So it was great when he sent us the lyrics for the Lulu body of work. It was something we could sink our teeth into. I could
take off my singer and lyricist hat and concentrate on the music part. These were very potent lyrics, with a soundscape behind them for
atmosphere.
"Lars and I sat there with an acoustic guitar and let this blank canvas take us where it needed to go. It was a great gift, to be asked to stamp
'TALLICA on it. And that's what we did," Hetfield enthuses.
"We had to bring Lulu to life in a sophisticated way, using rock. And the hardest power rock you could come up with would have to be
METALLICA. They live on that planet. We played together, and I knew it: dream come true. This is the best thing I ever did. And I did it with
the best group I could possibly find. By definition, everybody involved was honest. This has come into the world pure. We pushed as far as
we possibly could within the realms of reality," says Reed.
"It's definitely not a METALLICA album, or a Lou Reed album," adds Hammett. "It's something else. It's a new animal, a hybrid." « hide |
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