Lars Ulrich, it’s late afternoon and we’re talking on the phone. Where are you? At my house in San Francisco. I took my son to school this morning, now I talk to them, at noon I take the son to the dentist. father life. And where are you?

In Hamburg, about 350 kilometers from your hometown of Gentoffe near Copenhagen. This used to be the first foreign station for Danish Interrail tourists heading south. Many of them were already drunk in Hamburg. (laughs) I wasn’t there, we always traveled abroad via Sweden.

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