Lars Ulrich Quashes Hulk Hogan's Claims That He Almost Joined Metallica
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich has quashed wrestler Hollywood Hulk Hogan's claims that he was almost drafted in as bass player in Metallica – admitting that he doesn't even know the star.
Hogan told The Sun back in January that he was 'big pals' with Ulrich back in the day, and was a session musician before he became a wrestler – before adding that 'he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days'. But, in comments that may be a little bit embarrassing for Hogan, Lars revealed that the story wasn't true – and that he was never friends with him either.
“I’m blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with having more or less a photographic memory for pretty much anything that I’ve been a part of,” Ulrich told Blabbermouth. “That one, when that showed up two or three months ago, I was scratching my head over that one.”
He continued: “I don’t know Hulk Hogan, I don’t know enough about him. I'm not a huge wrestling fan. Unless he went by, like, his Christian name or something, and I don’t know if anybody knows what his Christian name was, Dave Smith or something — if there was a whole thing that we had with him under a different name, but I certainly have no recollection of doing anything with quote Hulk Hogan endquote. That one, I was scratching my head on that one, too.”
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