QOTD: Scott Ian On Metallica’s Plans To Fire Lars Back In ’86

But yeah, the story was that they had made a plan that they were gonna make a change and get a new drummer. We were all kind of blown away by that, because it was the four of them. It was just, like, ‘Wow! Really?’ And they were, like, ‘Yeah. When we finish this tour, we’re gonna find a new drummer.’ – Scott Ian adresses the part in his book, I’m The Man, where he talks about Metallica’s plan to fire Lars Ulrich back in ’86