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Metallica Drummer Skips to the Loo

Lars Ulrich can't stop hanging out in bathrooms

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 1, 2008 12:03 PM CST

(Newser) – He’s quit cocaine, but Lars Ulrich still likes to hang out in bathroom stalls, the Metallica drummer tells Blender magazine, “Two guys in a bathroom stall—it feels like the most important place in the whole world in that moment.” He pops in to not use the facilities occasionally, he says, "just so I still have a little bit of that bonding."

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In this May 14, 2008 file photo, Lars Ulrich of Metallica poses backstage before his band plays a benefit concert for The Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)

Metallica members Robert Trujillo, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and James Hetfield, from left, are seen as they promote their new album 'Death Magnetic' in Berlin, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Miguel Villagran)

Drummer Lars Ulrich of Metallica performs during the band's benefit concert for The Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

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Metallica Drummer Skips to the Loo