One of many a number of footnotes to Metallica‘s music video for “Nothing Else Issues” is a scene that includes a recreation of darts, so to talk, with a really particular goal: Winger chief Kip Winger. Nicely, not Kip Winger actually, however a photograph of him from {a magazine} affixed to a dart board within the studio rec room the place Metallica recorded The Black Album. Drummer Lars Ulrich will be seen, clear as day, throwing darts at Kip‘s picture, intently aiming for killer contact. To be trustworthy, it was fairly goddamn humorous.
Now, in some methods, it is higher that it was solely the video that almost all of viewers noticed. The “Nothing Else Issues” video is among the nice examples of old-fashioned, “behind-the-scenes making of our album” music movies. However the Kip dart recreation sequence can also be featured in its authentic context in Half 1 of Metallica‘s pre-Some Form of Monster movie opus, A 12 months and a Half In The Lifetime of Metallica (1992 house video), the place each Ulrich and vocalist-guitarist James Hetfield are screaming, “Die, Kip, Die!” repeatedly because the darts hold flying.
However apparently, at the very least one particular person felt dangerous about it, in accordance with Kip Winger, who just lately sat down for an interview on the current episode of the Urge for food for Distortion podcast, which you’ll be able to watch in full slightly below.
Requested if he took offense, Winger stated, “Nah, man, you may see a video on [the] Howard Stern [Show], the place [Lars is] going, ‘Man, I threw darts at Kip, nevertheless it was nothing private.’ He is by no means apologized, however 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 form of man I can completely be buddies with. And he was very honest; it wasn’t like he simply known as to apologize after which blow me off. He is truly texted me a number of occasions; we textual content now and again. I do not assume Lars would ever name me to apologize.”
Winger continued, saying “I believe all people was simply younger youngsters, they usually had been considering it was humorous. To me, it isn’t humorous to slag off a fellow musician. However who is aware of? They had been simply doing what they had been doing. I do not know. I can not reply to that.”
Nicely, look… Kip Winger has obtained for use to this by now—it isn’t simply Metallica whose taken the piss out of him by the years. Keep in mind how a lot he was relentlessly mocked on the unique Beavis and Butt-head sequence? Though, in equity, Kip does assume that was humorous, for what it is value. “Beavis And Butt-Head was hysterical; it was actually humorous, Winger stated. “I [just] ended up on the fallacious finish of it.”
There are some folks that imagine that any publicity is nice publicity. And much more folks imagine that should you’re not getting observed by somebody for actually something, then you definitely’re doing this present enterprise factor all fallacious. So, given the selection, what would you are taking: being remembered for writing “Seventeen,” or having Metallica throw darts at you?
I will take the darts.
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