Throughout an look on the most recent episode of the “Urge for food For Distortion” podcast, WINGER frontman Kip Winger spoke about METALLICA‘s “Nothing Else Issues” video, which is probably finest remembered for a scene the place METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich throws darts at a poster of Kip. Requested if he ever came upon why Lars did that, Kip responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Nah, man, you’ll be able to see a video on ‘Howard Stern’ the place he is going, ‘Man, I threw darts at Kip, but it surely was nothing private.’ He is by no means apologized, however [METALLICA frontman] James Hetfield known as me a couple of 12 months and a half in the past and apologized for the incident. James was actually cool. James is the type of man I can completely be pals with. And he was very honest; it wasn’t like he simply known as to apologize after which blow me off. He is really texted me just a few instances; we textual content from time to time. I do not suppose Lars would ever name me to apologize.
“I believe everyone was simply younger youngsters, and so they have been pondering it was humorous,” Kip continued. “To me, it isn’t humorous to slag off a fellow musician. However who is aware of? They have been simply doing what they have been doing. I do not know. I can not reply to that.”
Referencing the unprovoked ridicule on MTV‘s widespread “Beavis And Butt-Head” present, which, compounded with the change in musical local weather of the mid-’90s, in the end led WINGER to go on hiatus in 1994, Kip stated: “‘Beavis And Butt-Head’ was hysterical; it was actually humorous. I ended up on the mistaken finish of it.
“I believe that is simply gang mentality,” he added. “Gang mentality — folks wanna cover behind… And particularly on the Web, they’ll cover behind their keyboard and go, ‘That man sucks.’ But when I used to be within the room with the man, he’d be, like, ‘Hey, man, how’s it going?'”
Circling again to the dartboard scene in METALLICA‘s “Nothing Else Issues” video, Kip stated: “I simply do not suppose it is an awesome apply to slag your fellow artists. All people has their opinion. There’s bands that I do not like essentially. However the level is that the older I get, the extra I notice what goes into these items. So there is not any band that I do not like the place I can not recognize what work they put into it. As a result of I do not care who you’re, if you happen to’ve taken the time to get your tune on a file and put it on the market and made a video, you labored onerous on that. I do not care if it is good or unhealthy to me — no matter; it does not matter — you set numerous work into that, and I can respect that on each degree.”
Lars touched upon the Kip scene within the “Nothing Else Issues” video throughout a 2020 look on “The Howard Stern Present”. On the time he stated: “Within the ‘Nothing Else Issues’ video, which was filmed on the studio whereas we have been recording the Black Album, we had a dartboard… We might get Creem journal, Circus journal, and we would take posters of people that look significantly obnoxious and put them up on the board and throw darts at them. There is a shot in that video of me throwing darts at Kip Winger. To at the present time I apologize when it is introduced up in interviews; it was nothing in opposition to Kip Winger personally.”
WINGER‘s seventh studio album, “Seven”, is due on Might 5 through Frontiers Music Srl. The 12-track album was produced by Kip and recorded in Nashville.
