Lars Ulrich appeared on Baltimore’s 98 Rock for an interview, where he played a game of hypotheticals.
When asked who he would pick as his own successor in Metallica, Lars picked AC/DC’s Phil Rudd – who is actually looking for a gig after being booted from the band’s most recent tour on account of his legal troubles.
“If I could pick it, if I could hear somebody drum behind Hetfield‘s riffs, I’d take Phil Rudd”, Ulrich revealed. “Just having his kind of vibe, like what he would do.
“He’s been probably my main, biggest source of inspiration when we did the turn away from the super-progressive stuff, the crazy stuff after Justice, when we got into the Black Album and the Load stuff, when it got a little more about the bounce and the riffs and the feel and the groove and all that. Phil Rudd, he’s the top of that pyramid. Hearing Phil Rudd play behind James, that’d be pretty cool.”
Lars was also asked whether the band would continue if either he, James Hetfield or Kirk Hammett left, to which he began,”That’s one of those extra-hard questions to answer…”
Check out the video, below.
