I met Lars through an ad in Recycler, a local classified ads newspaper, the ad read "looking for a guitar player influenced by Motorhead and Iron Maiden". I called the ad and told him some of the bands I liked, and I mentioned Budgie, and Lars said, "f**k man, you like Budgie!" [mimicking Lars' Danish accent]. So I went to his house and sat in his bedroom and we smoked a little pot next to a huge stack of Danish pornography and licorice, and I thought 'this is interesting for a teenager to have this much Danish porno', but I didn't ask any questions. I told him that the version of "Hit The Lights" with Lloyd [Grant] on it needed more guitar solos, so I put a solo on the track with Lloyd. It was like a 45 single and he just thought it was the shit, and I listened to it and didn't think it was that great, the drums were pretty bad too. Then I met with James and Ron [McGovney] and it was time for me to audition so I turned on the amp and started warming up but nobody had come in to listen. So, I went into the other room and said "what's going on?", and they said, "you got the gig," so I was like, "wow, that's cool". I was actually pretty pleased with that, to go from Panic to joining Metallica, even though I didn't know what was going on. And then I remembered Lars introducing James to me as their singer, and I looked at James and thought "aren't front-men supposed to be sexy?"
