Lars Ulrich is famous for getting in the way of Napster, but is the Metallica drummer now standing in the way of a Guns N' Roses music video? The internet is rife with speculation after a posting at an unofficial Guns N' Roses website.
The posting was made by Fernando Lebeis, who is, umm, the son of Axl Rose's personal assistant.
Guns N' Roses fans on mygnrforum.com were discussing, in a heated debate, the still-unreleased video for Better, a new song, which Axl Rose had promised weeks ago. And then, according to Rolling Stone, Lebeis weighed in.
"Tell Lars to OK the vid and it's done," Lebeis wrote. "That's all that is pending."
Lars?! Who, fans wanted to know, was this "Lars"? There is no "Lars" in Guns N' Roses. And searching for "Lars" brings up some 54 million Google results. So Lebeis clarified. "Lars Ulrich," he wrote. "We are pending his release form to be signed."
According to Lebeis, Ulrich appears in live and backstage footage used for Better's video, and the notoriously prickly drummer is, well ... prickling.
Within hours, Lebeis's writing had been pulled from mygnrforum.com and the assistant's son appealed to fans to calm down. The post was meant "as a fun comment and not an attack on Lars", Lebeis told Blabbermouth.net.
An official statement from Guns N' Roses followed. "Lars isn't holding anything up with our video," the band's representatives insisted. "[The] message board comments were meant casually, in fun and amongst friends. Unfortunately, someone ... may have taken things a bit out of context and made them into a bit more than they are in reality. Our apologies to anyone who may have been confused. We hope to have our video out shortly."
Of course, given that the last Guns N' Roses music video was released in 1994, "shortly" might not mean very much.
