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"&amp;quot;Any type of situation where you can just do something different and put yourself in a different place for inspiration is always great,&amp;quot; says Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich at the launch party for Lulu, his band&amp;apos;s new collaboration with Lou Reed, at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan. &amp;quot;Everything we did on this project was so impulsive, so momentary, off the floor, in a great big circle playing to each other &amp;#x2013; that&amp;apos;s not how we normally make music.&amp;quot;Lulu is based on a series of plays by German dramatist Frank Wedekind, as interpreted by Robert Wilson. &amp;quot;Laurie Anderson and I sat going through it scene by scene to get the basic plot, the way Bob was approaching it,&amp;quot; says Reed, describing his process before taking his lyrics to Metallica.Related&amp;#x2022; When Metallica Met Lou Reed"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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