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	Lars Ulrich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His father, Torben Ulrich, who was an acclaimed tennis pro from the late 1940s into the early 1980s, was also a musician, playing jazz with such giants as Stan Getz and Miles Davis; another jazz legend, Dexter Gordon, was Lars' godfather.
		What was surprising, however, was when Ulrich made a sudden and dramatic change in his musical interests: he went from loving jazz to becoming obsessed with the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal; the heavy metal era that was sweeping its heavy, rough, leather-clad way through all of Britain.
		Ulrich's first concert was that of great metal—Deep Purple in Copenhagen when he was barely nine years old.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lars_Ulrich (442 words)

	Lars Ulrich biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lars Ulrich is the drummer of Metallica, a heavy metal band which originally appeared in California, USA.
		Ulrich moved to Los Angeles, California at the age of ten, and at the age of thirteen he begged his grandmother to buy him his first drum kit.
		His father, Torben Ulrich, was already a musician, playing jazz, and he had a jazz club which Lars was in a lot as a child.
	lars-ulrich.biography.ms (296 words)

	Metallica - who are you unforgiven to?
		Lars was son of Torben Ulrich, who had a jazz club in the 50s.
		Torben Ulrich's professional work was through the 60s and 70s as a tennis player.
		In February 1973 Torben had invited 5 of his friends to a Deep Purple concert, which was near a tennis tournament.
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Birdland/6975/Metallica.html (780 words)

	History
		Torben Ulrich was a tennis pro who wanted his son, Lars, to follow in his very steps.
		Ulrich on the other hand wasn't too great playing drums, but what was lacked in expertise he made up for in enthusaisim.
		Ulrich gave the tape to all his heavy metal fans, then these fans dubbed copies and the demo tape was sent around and Metallica became the largest unsigned band on the planet.
	www.geocities.com /metallica818/history.html (1704 words)

	Tennis Week
		Torben Ulrich may be the only player in Wimbledon history whose fortnight could commence in a phone booth and conclude on court, but whether he was playing behind glass or on grass life has seldom been a spectator sport for Ulrich.
		Ulrich played tennis a bit like he plays music: using shots like notes as a starting point to explore and expand the possibilities of where a point could take the player.
		Ulrich's appetite for life was so voracious he often viewed sleep as on obstacle to realizing his waking dreams and recalls being hospitalized for exhaustion after staying awake for three to four days straight, writing, playing music, drinking and playing tennis.
	www.sportsmediainc.net /tennisweek/index.cfm?func=showarticle&newsid=12738&bannerregion= (988 words)

	New York Cool
		We then follow Lars Ulrich, seeing him at home with his art collection as he shows us a huge, beautiful modern painting and points out the artistic genius it took for the artist to put cross hatching on one part of the canvas and not another.
		Lars's father, Torben Ulrich, is a skinny wizened looking old man who walks with a cane and has a long white beard hanging down to his waist.
		Ulrich in particular is shocked to discover that Mustaine is still feels hurt becuase he was cut from the band, even though he has gone on to great fame with Megadeath.
	www.newyorkcool.com /archives/August2004/film_2.html (1132 words)

	All Metallica - News
		Torben Ulrich, father of Lars Ulrich of Metallica, recently spoke with Amazon.Com about the documentary 'Some Kind of Monster' and his feelings about the movie and everything leading up to it.
		Torben: No, no. The main thing was that he do what he thought was his choice — not our choice.
		Torben: One thing that I thought was interesting about the film was that it started out as some kind of public relations thing.
	www.allmetallica.com /news.php?id=258 (609 words)

	SI.com - Writers - Wertheim: Metallica's 'first dad,' Torben Ulrich, is not your average tennis fan - Friday October ...
		Sporting a beard that would shame any member of ZZ Top, and speaking like a mystic with a Danish accent, Torben is one of the few folks who offers honest assessment of the music.
		On the surface, Ulrich pere is a walking cliché: just another Danish Buddhist filmmaker/music critic/poet who backed up Louis Armstrong on clarinet and is currently preparing an exhibit of his artistic renderings on rice paper.
		And though it barely registers a line on his uber-resume, Torben was also a longtime fixture on the tennis tour, a smooth and, not surprisingly, cerebral, left-hander who reached the fourth round of the U.S. Open, the third round of Wimbledon and played more than 100 Davis Cup ties for Denmark.
	sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/jon_wertheim/10/01/daily.blog (974 words)

	i l e e c h c o w s d r y: Torben Ulrich, metal Gandalf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Later on, Torben ambles into the studio and launches into this discourse on the evolution of heavy metal and his son's role in it, then gently but powerfully offers these choice, immortal words of wisdom as he listens to some of the newly recorded Metallica tracks:
		Torben also wrote at least one book from his experiences, and ended up in a couple movies.
		Now Torben lives in Seattle, paints by volleying a tennis ball againt a canvas, speaks on art and sports [PDF] and makes mystic artsy films about conscious movement.
	www.ileechcowsdry.com /ileechcowsdry/2004/07/torben_ulrich_m.html (851 words)

	Short Films by Jorgen Leth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Motion Picture is an experimental film with and not about the Danish tennis player Torben Ulrich, who is merely credited as "Example." The film may be viewed as a study of the nature of the medium and more specifically of the phenomena of framing, movement, and synchronicity of sound and picture.
		The material consists of Ulrich training strokes against a wall, volleys at the net and serves, but also of strange enactments in which Ulrich runs towards the camera, arms and legs twitching, dances a crazy racket dance or fakes slow motion as he sits down at a table and pours a cup of tea.
		At the same time, the framing is absolute: Ulrich moves in and out of the picture without any attempt by the camera to follow him, thus constantly emphasizing the role of framing.
	www.ammi.org /film_programs/program_notes/l/leth_short_films.html (1382 words)

	Metallica news: Torben Ulrich interview
		Torben Ulrich, father of Lars, speaks to amazon.com about Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, his own fascinating career, and what it's like to be a rock & roll parent.
		Torben: It was a constant problem in the late '40s and early '50s.
		Torben: When I was very young, he was my [musical] mentor.
	www.encycmet.com /news/2005-02-06.shtml (1414 words)

	Amazon.com : Who Was That Bearded Man? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Torben Ulrich, father of Lars, speaks about Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, his own fascinating career, and what it's like to be a rock and roll parent.
		Although his appearance in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster was brief, the consensus is that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich's father Torben stole the show.
		Torben's résumé holds its own in any crowd: he was a jazz clarinetist who played with Louis Armstrong (among others), and a tennis pro who won matches at numerous international tournaments, including Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Davis Cup.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/555037 (1491 words)

	Movies \| Fade to black (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Drummer Lars Ulrich, the privileged son of famous Danish tennis pro Torben Ulrich, is a smug dilettante who styles himself a European intellectual.
		In the clip, Ulrich is depicted as a greedy, weasel-faced snitch; meanwhile, Hetfield, a stocky Frankenstein’s monster, grunts compliantly.
		Ulrich’s grizzled papa makes a sublime entrance, looking like a cross between Obi Wan Kenobi and the ghost of Hamlet’s father.
	www.providencephoenix.com /movies/tripping/documents/04011852.asp (1366 words)

	'Metallica': Heavy and Human (washingtonpost.com)
		James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett -- Metallica's core unit -- earnestly discuss their creative differences, personality quirks and the elephant-size matter of Hetfield's sobriety.
		Drummer Ulrich, for instance, takes exception to the word Hetfield chooses ("solid") when he asks him to play differently.
		Hetfield's absence goes from weeks to months, as Ulrich, Hammett and producer Bob Rock continue their discussions with Towle, one another and the filmmakers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A24557-2004Jul29.html (488 words)

	Movie Database - [TV Guide Online] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Towle, whose lucrative specialty (career counselors, take note) is helping people who can't stand the sight of each other get along on the job, stayed to help the remaining three band members through the process of writing and recording their next album.
		Hetfield returns, newly fluent in recovery-speak; Ulrich crusades against Napster, alienating fans; Towle gets his walking papers for starting to behave as though he's in the band, not working for the band; Newsted gives his old friends the cold shoulder and a new bassist, Robert Trujillo, is hired.
		Ulrich and Hetfield supply the fireworks; lead guitarist Kirk Hammett worries; former lead guitarist Dave Mustaine, whom Hammett replaced after Mustaine was fired in 1983, has a sullen heart-to-heart with Ulrich; wives, children and various relatives wander in and out.
	online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=45402 (417 words)

	Las Vegas Mercury: Off the Charts: Metallica
		The son of Danish tennis champion Torben Ulrich, Lars was the byproduct of country club opulence--a lifestyle notoriously at odds with the blue-collar aesthetic of heavy metal.
		Unlike Ulrich, Hetfield--a sometime-delinquent and full-time drunk--was the mirror image of the heavy metal audience.
		Ulrich may have been the band's mouthpiece, but Hetfield was its guts--a fact that made it all the more disturbing when he chopped off his hair and started suing everyone within arm's reach.
	www.lasvegasmercury.com /2004/MERC-Mar-11-Thu-2004/23362833.html (560 words)

	STLtoday - Entertainment - Movies
		Hetfield, having accused Ulrich of "picking at me all night," storms out of their meeting room, punctuating the moment with a blistering push of his exit door.
		There's an eye-opening "clear the air" meeting between Ulrich and guitarist Dave Mustaine, who was kicked out of the group in 1983 and who later founded Megadeth.
		And a memorable exchange between European-born Ulrich and his long-beard hippie pop, Torben Ulrich, who, after his son has played for him a recording of the new album's likely first song, says quite matter-of-factly, "If you are asking me as an adviser, I'd say, 'Delete that!'"
	www.stltoday.com /stltoday/entertainment/MovieTimes.nsf/Movies/D2D1D0BF2A51794C86256EDF006BBF65?opendocument (684 words)

	METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER - Review
		Early on in the film before Hetfield heads off to rehab and the band is recording in a vacated Army barrack, we are introduced to the most interesting character who unfortunately is only in the film for about 10 minutes.
		He's a documentary waiting to happen having been a pro tennis player, journalist, jazz performer/club owner, painter, and father to the drummer of the world's most successful metal band.
		Hetfield is a control freak, Ulrich is a stubborn whiner with a decent sense of humor, and Kirk Hammett is just along for the ride having fun playing with his money.
	www.supercalafragalistic.com /somekindofmonsterreview.htm (640 words)

	On This Digital Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The initial hit was made by Lars Ulrich — outdoors, to let the sound resonate.
		For many years Torben had wondered what the imprint of the ball would look like, and so when asked in 1971 to make a painting of a blue elephant for a charity exhibition in Copenhagen, he played balls dipped in paint onto a canvas to make his contribution.
		Edited by Rick New and Torben Ulrich on a Mac 9600 and G4 using Adobe After Effects.
	www.beforethewall.com /epilogues.htm (464 words)

	OptusNet Movies
		The conflict between drummer Lars Ulrich and vocalist James Hetfield is the compelling axis about which events revolve.
		This may have something to do with the fact that I had a bit of an epiphany near the end of Metallica, when the title of their latest album, St Anger, was born.
		And I say of all people because it is Ulrich who emerges from the film as the quarrelsome and complicated angry young man, despite having the most middle class lifestyle, complete with a sensational art collection which is auctioned by Christie's for millions as part of the film's document.
	www.mpx.com.au /movies/reviews/urban/9353 (835 words)

	Torben Ulrich: music
		Claus (Bøje) suggested that we might take the texts back to Seattle and work with them and underline some parts that would be less loaded, from these two perspectives.
		On that basis, Torben and I made two sets of what we called distillations.
		But then Torben sat down and sort of re-worked or played with those distillations...
	www.torbenulrich.com /music/music5.htm (495 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
		You're unlikely to leave the film with a better understanding of founding members James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich as musicians, but as people, they're apparently just like you and me. You see, Some Kind of Monster isn't so such a "rock n' roll movie" as much as it is two hours of couple's therapy.
		It was at this point that Metallica hired a therapist to help them conquer their inner demons, and Berlinger and Sinofsky were there to chronicle just how difficult it was for the group to play nice with each other.
		There's a moment in the film where Berlinger and Sinofsky force a fascinating correlation between the paintings that hang in Ulrich's home and the music the band makes, calling attention to the relationship between art and the spectator and the way that art is consumed.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1148 (375 words)

	Film Threat - Film Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Historically, bandmates Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, and a cluster of cursed bassists have sold a stupendous, obscene number of records (90 million and counting), while remaining more or less intact as other metal immortals implode, fade away, or fall into self-parody.
		Ulrich appears to cringe at his ex-buddy’s cathartic venting, and we’re not sure the drummer is really hearing what’s being said.
		Indeed, the inability to relate to Ulrich and other group co-founder Hetfield is one of the problems with “Some Kind of Monster.” The arguments and complaints voiced against these two bandleaders are easy to understand.
	www.filmthreat.com /FilmFestivals.asp?Id=1516 (1912 words)

	nofreelist.com - Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's essentially a fly-on-the-wall documentary, and, according to Joe Berlinger, one of the film's directors, who spoke about the process of shooting during the Melbourne International Film Festival, the members of the band had a decidedly small amount of input into the final editing of the film - so it's fairly bones-and-all stuff.
		Add into the mix the "session bassist" (he's also their regular producer) that the band are using for recording, a guy named Bob Rock who comes across as almost like a wise man, with his metered and always very fair contributions to discussion.
		You can see where Lars gets his outspokenness from, as Torben listens to some of the tracks recorded thus far for the new album, and tells Lars that the one they're currently considering as the opener they should instead consider throwing into the bin.
	nofreelist.com /review?movieid=915 (984 words)

	BLABBERMOUTH.NET - LARS ULRICH's Father Talks About 'Some Kind Of Monster'
		Torben Ulrich, father of METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, recently spoke to Amazon.com about "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster", his own fascinating career, and what it's like to be a rock 'n' roll parent.
		There is a scene in there where Torben is sitting in the studio and Lars is playing him some of the new songs and Torben flat out told him the songs sucked and said "Delete That".
		Torben walked away in the middle of the game at the semi finals of the danish tennis championship so he could go home and see the finals in world championship of soccer on tv!
	www.roadrunnerrecords.com /blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=32505 (2973 words)

	Torben Ulrich: ballplaying: Profiles, interviews
		Tennis magazine, "Second Serve: Torben Ulrich", by Allen St. John, June 2005.
		"Torben Ulrich, Metal Gandalf,", a blog after the release of "Some Kind of Monster", July 2004.
		"Torben Ulrich – Athlete And Sage," Tennis Week, Aug. 11, 1983.
	torbenulrich.com /ballplaying/ballplaying4.htm (450 words)

	lars ulrich family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lars Ulrich is a man of many names, but one thing's for sure: he is the co-founder of and the mouthpiece behind...
		Lars Ulrich: Drums Lars Ulrich, born December 26, 1963 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Ulrich enjoyed the breezy independance and cultural exposure in a truly bohemian family.
		Lars Ulrich: When we were playing this record back for people in March or April, one of the...
	www.drumsearch.net /drums/lars-ulrich-family.html (629 words)

	TUMP Metallica Info! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This band would make the song that made Metallica a hit -Hit the Lights." James was approached by a young man named Lars Ulrich, who finally convinced him to start another band.
		LArs ULrich was born in Gentofte, Denmark on December 26, 1963.
		Lars' father is Torben Ulrich, a pro tennis player with an intreset in Jazz.
	www.angelfire.com /il2/jadjad/info.html (403 words)

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