Metallican Lars Ulrich: ”Mielestäni olisi kaikille tärkeää, että levykaupat selviäisivät”
Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metal -yhtye Metallican rumpali Lars Ulrich on antanut hiljattain BBC Radio 6 Musicille haastattelun, jossa Lars on kertonut levykauppojen merkityksestä omaan elämäänsä. Lars on kertonut aiheesta seuraavaa:
”I was born into a family in Denmark. My dad, basically, lived and breathed music and had an intense record collection and actually was a part-time music critic for Danish newspapers and so on. So I remember, when I was a little kid, going to record stores with him, and particularly to the main one in the heart of Copenhagen. When I was about ten, eleven years old, I started going to record stores myself and buying records, buying a lot of singles and 45s from the U.K. and started kind of buying albums and that whole thing — ’73, ’74, when I was about, like I said, around eleven or twelve years old. It was like the most exciting thing in the world to make the trip into central Copenhagen, go to the record store, look at records, listen to records in the store, engage in conversation with the people that worked in record stores. The record store was your portal, like your gateway to everything music.”
Minkä takia levykaupat merkitsevät niin paljon Metallicalle:
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”Record stores have always had a very significant place in my life, and METALLICA has always championed, obviously, independence, and championed autonomy and championed being edgy and kind of… I guess, to a degree, without getting too poetic about it, challenging the status quo and being the small fish in the big pond or whatever. So helping the independent record stores and all that out there, and shouting their worth from every rooftop is something that we’re quite happy to do.”
Kuinka tärkeänä Lars näkee itse levykauppojen selviämisen musiikin kannalta tulevaisuudessa:
”I think it’s… Not just as an artist, but I think it’s important for everybody that record stores survive. I have three boys, and one of my kids just started getting into vinyl over the last year or two and going to Amoeba [Music] and going to Rasputin [Music], and so on, in Northern California, which are two of our local [stores], it’s a huge thing. And so, as an artist, it’s important, and I think as a fan of a music, as just a connoisseur of that particular kind of culture, it’s important — the human connection.”
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