DM: Sure, they didn't show Lars getting up, crying and then running to the bathroom to wash his face...
BN: I've yet to see the movie, but it seems to me [like their last album] this movie is just their attempt of trying to stay hip with the younger MTV generation. Reality TV is the popular trend these days, and this is simply Metallica's version of The Real World...is there anything you can do, or would like to do or say to set the record straight?
DM: I really don't care. Lars and I are done. If James wants to talk, that's fine, but I'm not gonna talk to Lars ever again. He just killed the relationship for good and for all. And he can call up and say he's sorry, but that's it...it's over. I always had hopes that we would someday play together again, but now, the only thing I would play with Lars is Russian Roulette, and I'd let him go first with all six bullets [slight laughter].
BN: How's your relationship with Kirk Hammett?
DM: I don't like Kirk, I never have liked him and I still don't like him, and I don't think I ever will like him. He made this comment like, 'well, you signed the paper' [referring to the movie]. Kirk should just stay out of this and just continue to live his life as a Johnny Depp wannabe .
BN: When you were in Metallica and you first hit the scene, with the "No Life til' Leather" demo, there weren't any bands here in the US doing that style of music. And obviously you personally brought a lot to the table with your guitar riffs and solos and the fact that you were influenced by the NWOBHM as well. I had seen your early shows in LA and OC, but never made it up to San Francisco for the shows. Before the band moved to SF, Metallica was portrayed, and written off, in Los Angeles as an amateur metal band that had no place in the Hollywood glam-rock scene. Did you foresee back then, that Metallica had the potential to become hugely popular and that the band would inspire a whole new genre of thrash metal? Or did you just look at it as having fun jamming and playing clubs?
DM: The whole Metallica thing...we just didn't want to be associated with LA. Lars was a spoiled tennis star's kid from Newport Beach, James was suffering from the loss of his mother, and Ron [McGovney] was a little pretty boy whose parents owned a condo where the band sometimes stayed and rehearsed at. And me, I was a young guitar player that sold drugs to survive. It was a recipe for disaster.
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