Unlike his colleague James Hetfield, who is covered in tattoos, drummer Lars Ulrich has never had himself tattooed.
This curious detail was questioned in an interview carried out by Phillip, from channel 11Alive in 2017. After showing a mosquito bite, a vein, and jokingly asking if this could be considered a tattoo, he tried to explain his decision not to get tattooed. “I’ve never thought about why I don’t have it, it’s just the idea of someone putting needles in me and leaving permanent ink stains seems to me, I don’t know, why don’t you eat coal or jump off the Empire State Building? It doesn’t seem like part of the which I would call normal behavior,” he said.
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Then Lars tried to make amends, saying, “No disrespect, of course, to those with tattoos, but it’s not for me. I’ll take that part out of ‘normal behavior,’ I don’t want to be offensive, but tattoos aren’t for me.”
When the interviewer mentioned not having tattoos, Lars took the microphone and returned the question. “I don’t know, I never thought about it, same answer as yours,” Phillip said.
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