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Notable Dates and Details of ENTER MAILMAN 3
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METALLICA CLUB NEWS 8
RAIDER ROAD WARRIOR 10
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how you can help - write!!
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To all of my wacky Metalli-club-fuckerz,
Well, what can I say but life is good! I put my
tiny brain to work, sent in two bucks, and ended up
with a gold mine! I am, of course, referring to win-
ning Shortest Straw contest #3 and receiving an
Ibanez played and autographed by all the guys in the
band. Fuck yeah! See, I told you life was good!
Seriously, I want to take a minute to thank everyone
at the Metallica Club for all of their hard work.
Never before have I been associated with an organi-
zation who cares so much about its members.
Whenever someone asks me why I love Metallica so
much, I always reply with the same answer,
“Because they give a shit.” You do, and I love ya for
it! Thanks again for giving me the ultimate
Christmas gift!
CHRIS W.
DENVER, COLORADO
Metallica,
I listen to music often and many different
varieties of music appeal to me. I am writing this
letter in concern of your music. I think it is a trav-
esty the way you have exploited God, love, and life
in your music. When your CDs require parental
guidance, that should tell you that something’s
wrong. As a fourteen year old, music is a great
part of my past time. Good musicians are looked up
to. You do not fall into that category. Your music
is a disgrace to society. This is not just another
letter to be looked at, thrown away, and forgot-
ten about. would you like your children to grow
up listening to the words of your music??? Think
about it.
HEATHER G.
WARROAD, MINNESOTA
Dear Metallica,
I’d like to fully support Mark B. from Hebron,
Connecticut, whose letter was published in issue #5
of SO WHAT!
I think that this fan club was supposed to be for
true Metallica fans, and not for fucking wimps who’d
never realize that there exists such a band if they
hadn’t seen fucking “Enter Sandman” on fucking
MTV!
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This mag and this whole club stuff should be for
people who are already familiar with the band and
who have been listening to them for some time now,
and who want to get closer both to Metallica and
other true fans.
Please do something about it and not allow in
the club dickheads who ask for Cliff’s recordings
from 1965 or where the hell “Helpless” or “The
Wait” come from or who wrote fucking “Enter
Sandman”!
Mark B. is right, $30 doesn’t make you a fan!
P.S. A big “Fuck No!” to early renewals!
ALEX P.
POLAND
Metallica,
I agree with Mark B. from Hebron,
Connecticut who wrote about the bandwagon fuck-
erz in the holiday issue of SO WHAT! I have a
friend who is just like that. When he’s over at my
house and I pop in one of the Metalli-classics
(“Creeping Death”, etc.) he’ll be like, “Aw, man,
why can’t we listen to your Black CD?” Hey, don’t
get me wrong, that shit is great, but I don’t see
how a so-called “fan” can like that and not like the
older shit. I love it all, from “Whiplash” to “Enter
Sandman”. It’s all Metallica so it’s all great!
GREG O.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK
Greetings!
In the last issue (The Holiday Issue) you stat-
ed that the current policy was to say no to early
renewals, and that you would be interested in
opinions concerning this. I agree that members
should not be allowed to renew early for several
reasons. If members are allowed to renew early
now, what happens a year or two or three from
now? Will members joining then be allowed to pay
for the two or three missed years to “catch up”
to silver, gold, or platinum level (if these levels
exist) and receive the same benefits as members
who have reached silver or higher level? And, say
for example a member who has been in the club
for six months wants to renew early and is
allowed to. Does the renewal last for a year from
this date, or does the member get another 18
months (which would total 2 years)? I do not
think that it is fair to silver level members to
allow other members to catch up and receive the
same benefits. These members will still receive the
magazine and everything, so why can’t they wait
just as silver level members did? If you establish
“levels” of membership (and you have with the sil-
ver level), these levels become meaningless if you
allow people to renew early. If it was allowed for
anyone to just catch up, then there is no value in
earning a silver or higher level.
Anyway, those are basically my thoughts on
early renewals, and I think that you are doing the
right thing.
JAMES R.
WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA
Hey guys…
I have some constructive criticism for the SO
WHAT! magazine. First, find higher quality writing.
Between the letters section, the Whiplash section, the
fan fiction section, there is almost too much fan prose
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in the mag. I’m glad it’s a forum for fans, but I would
like to see more professional quality writing, espe-
cially in the articles. I like the fan review page, but
entire articles written by fans is a little much. As a
fairly articulate Metallica fan, I’m sometimes a little
embarrassed by the poor language skills exhibited by
my fellow fans… (sorry, I don’t mean to be a snob
but…). Secondly, more insight into past albums and
tours. More articles regarding the making of previous
albums and more on the new album!! And lastly,
more onstage photos!!!
MITCH G.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
You asked…
We want more videos! With “Binge & Purge”
there is plenty of live shit, but not enough off stage
shit.
I want to see what you do in your free time.
Many of us want to feel that you guys are our per-
sonal friends, but we really can’t do that if we only
see you up on stage. We want to know YOU! What it
would be like to hang out with the Metallibrats just
doing ordinary stuff.
It may seem boring to you, but just ask us,
you are more interesting doing nothing than some
people who knock themselves out trying. James,
Jason, Kirk and Lars could each have their very
own (2-3 hour) video where they do anything they
want. Maybe put it in a boxed edition of 4!)
KARL R.
FERNDALE, MICHIGAN
Dear Club Members,
What the fuck is the deal with treating
Metallica like gods? They’re just some guys who
play in a rock band, who just so happen to be
liked by millions all over the world. The only thing
that makes them different than every other band
out there is that they care. If they didn’t care
about how we felt as fans they’d be another Guns
’N Poses. Metallica deserve every damn thing that
they have ever received since day one and it’s not
because of their ability to write songs, it’s because
of their ability to fight hard.
I am in no way a religious person, but to all
you people who say Metallica has helped you
through this and through that, that’s not the sole
reason for you getting better, or whatever. The
stories are getting way fucking old. I’ve been hear-
ing them for too long now. I’m going to do a little
good-letter / bad-letter summary now and I want
whoever reads this to correspond and tell me
their opinions on my opinions. All letters reviewed
came out of volume 1, issue 5, The Holiday Issue.
Bad: Jesus from Venezuela (We know already.)
Good: Vicki from Lakeland, Florida, and Janet (nice
suggestion, but I don’t know if Metallica would go
for it.) Bad: Paul from Cheshire, Connecticut
(Coincidence.), Anonymous from Brooklyn, New
York, (Why anonymous, if you truly believe what
you wrote, have some balls.) Good: Richard Dixon
from Illinois (Nice to hear from ya man.) Bad:
David from Manassas, virginia (They are not trying
to get money, dick, read “Corporate Shit” in vol. 1,
issue 4 one more time.) Lovely: Samantha N. from
Hopkinton, Mass. Horrible: (I really hope you were
really fucked up when you wrote your letter
Chrystal G. from Portland, Oregon, cause if you
weren’t, FUCK…) Good: Karen from New York, Steve
from Minnesota, and Aaron from New Zealand.
Samar S. from India wrote the best letter I’ve read
thus far.
Many, most likely all, will probably want to
kill me for writing this, but hey it can’t be as bad
as “So I got it today. My Metallica Club shit, cool.
Got the box back – November I think it wuz.…”
STEWART A.
MESA, ARIZONA
Dear Metalliclub!
SO WHAT! magazine is beyond cool. But
here’s a suggestion that I would very much like to
see in SO WHAT!: I think there are many of us in
the club that play in bands, small time bands that
have been immensely inspired by Metallica. My sug-
gestion is that the members of Metallica review
demos sent in by club members’ bands, or give a
small comment. I know this can put Lars, Jaymz, Kirk
and Jason in an awkward position since they might
not want to sound harsh and cynical when reviewing
the work of the people who admire them, but I think
anyone can take a healthy opinion, even more so if it
comes from Metallica. This is something I’ve always
dreamed of and I’m sure other club members feel the
same way I do.
ERNESTO C.
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO
Dear Club,
I have something to say about issue #4,
Jason’s issue. I was a bit disappointed to see arti-

cles about both Jason and Cliff because first of all,
I want to know a lot more about Jason, and second-
ly, I was hoping you’d make an issue on only Cliff
too. I didn’t know Metallica yet when Cliff was in it,
but I’ve found out he was absolutely great. To me,
he’s still part of the band, and I want to know a lot
more about him.
AMARYLLIS B.
BELGIUM
Dear Metallica Club,
I am writing this letter as a response to a
letter I read in SO WHAT! from a girl who was
disappointed that she only got to see two band
members at a show in Illinois. After getting back-
stage passes from the club (something a lot of
people didn’t get) I think it takes a lot of balls to
complain that she ONLY met two members. I have
worshiped Metallica for years and was fortunate
enough to get backstage passes for a concert in
Middletown, N.Y. Jason was the only member to
come out and I was fucking thrilled! The opportu-
nity to get GREAT seats, a possibility for backstage
passes and a kick ass concert are more than
enough reasons to be extremely grateful to the
club and the band. If the band is tired after a
show and doesn’t want to stick around (they were
probably doing another show in a day or two)
they have every right after the fucking energy
they put out on stage. I think you should just be
happy that you met any of them and consider
yourself lucky that you got backstage at all. I’m
not trying to blast your letter but give these guys
a fucking break.
HAL K.
YONKERS, NEW YORK
Hi there!!
I have some new ideas/improvements for you.
I think that you would really do a lot of tape/video
traders a really big favor if you started printing the
exact dates and venues of past Metallica tours in the
magazine. A lot of traders don’t know exactly where
and when Metallica played and how many times etc.
Just start way back in 1982 and print every single
show the band played since then. It would help a lot
of fans to see how many recordings they’re still
missing and what they already have!
Another idea would be the release of limited
edition Fanclub 7"! These would be really rare and
collectable items and would give members something
in their collection to be extra proud of.
Try to make sure that we (the members) get to
hear the new album before it’s in stores and before
we hear and/or read about it in the press!
And last, I’d like to admit the idea of selling
more Metallica rarities to the fans through the
Metallica Club. Just anything concerning the band
that’s not available anywhere else. For example old
tourposters or crew stuff like old t-shirts, itineraries
etc. These are the really rare and interesting collec-
tables for fans! Very hard to get and usually very,
very expensive!
MATTHIJS K.
THE NETHERLANDS
Editor’s Note: We’re working on it! Members
can expect a complete list of dates and venues of
previous concerts starting with this issue of SO
WHAT!.
ENTER MAILMAN
Metallica,
I am wondering about your
merchandise offers. $12.50 is a
bargain compared to what you get
at the concerts, however, that is
all you sell. For the diehard, you
offer little. Why, I can open, let’s
say, a Hit Parader and find a lot
more than what you guys have
(but I can’t find a Metallistock
shirt in there, can I?). For
instance, there’s two styles of key
rings, five posters, two backstage
passes from older concerts, three
8 by 10 photos, two tapestries,
several kinds of patches, neck-
laces, calendars, buttons, and a
zillion stickers. So what? Tell me
please, cause I bet I’m not the only
one who wonders about these
things. It would be a lot better
(and cheaper???) to order these
things through the Metallica Club.
CHRISTOPHER K.
GREENVILLE, MAINE
Editor’s Note: Thanks,
Christopher, and you’re
absolutely right about the mer-
chandise. We should offer more
stuff, and we are going to. We’re
just wantin’ to make sure we get
cool, good quality stuff at a good
price. So it’s takin’ us some time,
but we think the stuff we get will
definitely be worth the wait.
Hang in there!
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Dear Metallica,
I saw you twice on the Summer Shit ’94 tour. I Metallica?! Shit, that really gives you guys a bad
was totally prepared to not see any of you back- name! To some people, it may seem like a trivial
stage, or get anything signed. I’d already had more issue. But I was pissed off by it. I think that if you’re
than I expected anyway. So, the bummer was not going to do a story on hard drugs and the lifestyle
that Kirk left early, or that Jaymz stayed tantaliz- that goes with them, you should choose the music
ingly out of reach while I was there, or that I clips accordingly. Metal gets a bad enough rep as it
couldn’t get near Jason when he began generously is, you know? As a devoted metal fan, I despise any
signing, talking and sharing time. The bummer was unfair representation of Metallica, or any other decent
that your crew treated us abysmally as follows: I band in the genre. There are enough misconceptions
heard moo-ing, baa-ing and snickering as we all in the world, don’t you think?
were herded to the backstage waiting area. I COLETTE B.
watched crew members come out to the area above QUINCEY, MASSACHUSETTS
us, eating and drinking and looking down at us
occasionally as though we were a zoo exhibit. It Metallica,
seemed to me that they were laughing at and My name is Dera Dickerson. I like the new and
deriding us for our devotion to you. Or maybe they old Metallica. Jaymz, I like you.
just couldn’t believe it, that we’d still wait 2-3 DERA DICKERSON (5 YEARS OLD)
hours to see you when we’d just had you playing CAYCE, SOUTH CAROLINA
your hearts out for us for 3 hours earlier. In any
case, I don’t understand what that was about.
MOIRA R.
This feature will publish your
letters to us. We will print as many as
NEW YORK, NEW YORK space allows–usually without editorial
comment (unless we just cannot resist!).
Hey guys! Send your letter with membership
Watching “Hard Copy” on t.v. a few days ago, I number, name, address, etc. to:
noticed that the story, which dealt with “Hollywood
Cocaine”, used snippets from three Metallica songs, THE METALLICA CLUB
all from the Black album. The only other song they ENTER MAILMAN
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Metallica Itinerary
The First In a Series of Articles Listing All of the Notable Dates and Details of Metallica
by Cris Lepurage

Most of the dates here look pretty correct and reasonable, but a lot of vodka has flowed under these proverbial bridges so there
could be some errors. If there are, I’m sure you guys will let us know.
April 11 – Dave Mustaine fired
and bused back to California
1982 April 16 – Dover, New Jersey
(The Showplace) Kirk’s first
March 14 – Anaheim, California
(Radio City) ★ First Show ★ show
March 26 – Anaheim, California May 10 – Rochester, New
(The Woodstock) York (Barret Alley Studios)
start album
March 27 – Whiskey A Go-Go
(Saxxon) 2 sets 9:00/11:00 May 27 – “Kill ’Em All”
finished
April 1982 – Recorded “Power
Metal” demos (Mustaine and July 1983 – “Kill ’Em All” is
McGovney) released
April 23 – Costa Mesa, California July 27 – New Brunswick,
(The Concert Factory) with Brad New Jersey (first show of
Parker “Kill ’Em All” tour)
May 25 – Costa Mesa, California July 28 – Bridgeport,
(Backbay High School) James’ Connecticut
first on guitar July 29 – Yonkers, New York
May 28 – Costa Mesa, California July 30 – Boston, Mass.
(The Concert Factory) The
The Old
Old Waldorf,
Waldorf, S.F.
S.F. October
October 18, 18, 1982
1982 PHOTO: BRIAN LEW
July 31 – Boston, Mass.
June 14 – “Metal Massacre”
released August 2 – Jamestown, NY
June 26 – Costa Mesa, California (The Concert Factory)
1983 August 3 – Buffalo, New York (James’ 20th birthday)
March 5 – San Francisco, California (The Stone) Cliff’s August 4 – Rochester, New York
July 1982 – Recorded “No Life ’Til Leather” (Chateau East) first gig
July 3 – Costa Mesa, California (The Concert Factory) August 5 – Elmhurst, New York (L’Amour East)
March 16 – Recorded “Whiplash” and “No Remorse”
? – Billy Barty’s Roller Rink (Mustaine/Burton) August 6 – Brooklyn, New York (L’Amours)
August 2 – Hollywood, California (The Troubadour) March 19 – San Francisco (The Stone) Mustaine’s last August 7 – Long Island, New York
California show August 8 – Morganville, New Jersey
August 4 – Hollywood, California (Whiskey A Go-Go)
with Steeler April 1 – Metallica leaves for New York to meet Johnny August 9 – Baltimore, Maryland
Zazula
August 7 – Long Beach, California (Bruin Den) August 10 – Baltimore, Maryland
April 9 – Brooklyn, New York (L’Amours) Mustaine’s
August 18 – Hollywood, California (The Troubadour) last gig August 12 – Chicago, Illinois
with Ratt
August 13 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin
August 20 – Anaheim, California
(The Woodstock) August 16 – Bald Knob, Arkansas
August 29 – North Hollywood, August 17 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas
California (H.J.’s) August 18 – Texarcana, Texas
September 18 – The Stone, first San August 19 – Russelville, Arkansas
Francisco gig, first “No Remorse”
August 20 – Roland, Oklahoma
October 18 – San Francisco, California
(Old Waldorf) August 22 – Tyler, Texas
November 11 – Anaheim, California August 24 – Austin, Texas
(The Woodstock) August 25 – San Antonio, Texas
November 25 – The Troubadour August 26 – Odessa, Texas
November 29 – Old Waldorf, first S.F. August 27 – Port Alis, New Mexico
headlining gig, first “Whiplash”
August 28 – Las Cruces, New Mexico
November 30 – Mabuhay Gardens:
benefit (McGovney’s last) August 30 – Reseda, California
(Country Club)
December 28 – First rehearsal with
Cliff Burton The
The Stone,
Stone, San
San Francisco,
Francisco, MarchMarch 5, 5, 1983
1983 PHOTO: BRIAN LEW
September 1 – Palo Alto, California
(Keystone)

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September 2 – Berkeley, California (Keystone)
September 3 – Autograph session at “Record Vault”
San Francisco
September 3 – San Francisco, California (The Stone)
last show of tour
October 24 – Recorded “Seek & Destroy”/”Phantom
Lord” for EP
October 31 – Palo Alto, California (Keystone)
Halloween Party
November 24 – Palo Alto, California (Keystone)
November 25 – Berkeley, California (Keystone)
November 26 – San Francisco, California (The Stone)
December 15 – Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Pavilion)
December 18 – Cleveland, Ohio (Agora Ballroom)
1984
January 14 – Boston show cancelled due to snow.
Equipment stolen.
January 21 – Valley Stream, New York (Rio Theater)
February 3 – Zurich, Switzerland (Volkshaus) first
European show
February 5 – Milan, Italy (Teatro Tenda)
February 7 – Nuremburg, Germany (Hemmerleinhalle)
February 9 – Paris, France (Espace Ballard)
February 11 – Zwolle, Holland (Aardshock Festival) Ijesshal
February 12 – Poperinge, belgium (Maecke Blyde)
Last Venom show
February 13 – Fly to Copenhagen to begin “Ride
The Lightning”
February 20 – “Jump In The Fire” EP (Music For Nations)
released
March 14 – “Ride The Lightning” finished
March 27 – London, England (Marquee) Metallica’s first
UK show
The Keystone, Palo Alto, California, October 31, 1983
Metallica Itinerary
Rehearsal – El Cerrito, California, January 1983
April 8 – London, England (Marquee)
June 6 – Leiden, Holland (Stadsgehoorzaal) with
Twisted Sister
June 7 – Frankfurt, Germany (Volksbildungsheim)
w/Twisted Sister
June 8 – Oldenzaal, Holland (Jumbo) w/Twisted Sister
June 9 – Zwaagwesteinde, Holland (Evenementenhal)
w/Twisted Sister
June 10 – Poperinge, Belgium (Sportsfields) Heavy
Sound Festival
July 20 – San Francisco, California (Mabuhay Gardens)
★ Secret gig ★
July 27 – “Ride The Lightning” released in Europe (MFN)
August 1984 – “Ride The Lightning released
(Megaforce Records)
August ? – New York City (Roseland) Showcase
(Anthrax/Raven)
PHOTO: BRIAN LEW
PHOTO: BRIAN LEW
August 12 – Metallica signs with Elektra Records
August 29 – Paris, France (Le Bourget) Breaking Sound
Festival
November 16 – Rouen, France (Exosept) first show of
European Tour
November 17 – Poperinge, Belgium (Maecke Blyde)
November 18 – Paris, France (Espace Ballard) Kirk’s
22nd birthday
November 20 – Lyon, France (Palais D’Hiver)
November 21 – Marseilles, France (Stadium)
November 22 – Toulouse, France (Le Riff)
November 23 – “Creeping Death 12' released (Music
For Nations)
November 23 – Bordeux, France (Grand Parc)
November 24 – Montpellier, France (Grand Odeon)
November 25 – Nice, France (Theatre De Verdue)
November 27 – Milan, Italy (Palas Giovani)
November 30 – Zurich, Switzerland (Volkshaus)
December 1 – Mainz, West Germany (Elzerhof)
December 2 – Nuremburg, Germany (Hemmerleinhalle)
December 3 – Mannheim, Germany (Kulturhaus)
December 4 – Sindelfingen, Germany (Ausstellungshalle)
December 5 – Kiln, Germany (Stadthalle)
December 7 – Amsterdam, Holland (Paradiso)
December 8 – Osnabruck, Germany (Halle Gartlage)
December 9 – Hamburg, Germany (Markthalle)
December 11 – Copenhagen, Denmark (Saga)
December 12 – Stockholm, Sweden (Gotalejon)
December 14 – Lieto, Finland (Travashovi)
December 15 – Kaavi, Finland (Iioharjn)
December 16 – Helsinki, Finland (House of Culture)
December 20 – London, England (Lyceum) Last
European show
To Be Continued… 7

NEWS’N’VIEWS
KEEPING YOU
INFORMED ABOUT
WHAT IS
HAPPENING IN AND
ABOUT THE WORLD OF
METALLICA.
LARS’ UPDATE
Well, well, well, if this issue was
gonna go to press around a week later,
I could tell you that we have
re-signed with Elektra. But since I don’t
want to hold this whole issue cuz of
that, I will merely tell ya, as has been
rumored and you might have heard
snippets of, that basically all our shit
with Elektra has been resolved and all
the ugliness and whatever else crap
floating around, has been laid to rest.
Here are the details of the deal: we
get… ooops, part of the vibe wuz to
shut the fuck up about it… so sorry!!!!
My hands are tied. Actually, as you can
probably imagine, being who I am, it’s
pretty difficult not to share this shit
with you guys, especially with all the
rumors flying around and shit and me
really wanting to set the record
straight, but the fuckin’ story is that all
I can say is that it’s taken care of,
things with Elektra are back to being
cool and end of fuckin’ story. So next
week (early March), we are supposed
to flip to New York and scribble on the
contract and… Bob’s your uncle!!!! We
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CLUB NEWS
have gotten tons of really cool letters
and other supportive shit from all cor-
ners, including a few checks to help
pay for the legal shit(!!!) and other very
unique Metallisupport (like “Where can I
find these fuckers and I’ll eliminate your
problem”!!?? Thank you??!!) The lawsuit
and the legal bullshit was just some-
thing that had to be dealt with and we
all know and felt it was for the better.
Just understand, that it is quite normal
that these type of things start out with
a big fanfare and bang and when they
become settled, that it is usually done
very low key, cuz the bigger entity (the
record company!) don’t want the details
to become public (so other bands and
shit will become pissed off!!). Anyway,
enough about that shit. What else is
going on?? Well, the number of new
songs is obviously a lot higher than 3
months ago (surprise!!) and now the
number sits around “a shitload” (and
no, I still can’t tell you what they sound
like!! No, not cuz my hands are tied, I
already used that one!!), but simply cuz
I’m still too fuckin’ close to the shit, but
believe me when I say that big, fat,
fuckin’ huge metal riffs are alive and
well in Northern California and are
gonna come crushing your way in…
well, as soon as we finish writing and
record the fuckin’ shit!! There you go!!
Actually, good old Bob (as in Rock) wuz
down here in early February and we
had a good week all of us jamming and
doing a bit of preproduction, which
basically means Bob sitting takin’ some
kind of notes(!!???) and throwing ideas
at us and all of us together in the same
room and shit. So now Jaymz and me
are gonna try and wrap the writing up
the next coupla weeks and we should
hopefully be in the goddamn studio by
late March/early April (knock on a big
fuckin’ chunk of wood!!!) and will of
course try and get as much work done
around the San Jose Sharks’ home
schedule and playoff situation (yeah, I
know it’s early and I probably just
damned it!!! Oh well…). So when the
album is delayed you/we can just
blame it on the Sharks’ triumphant run
through the season all the way to the
Stanley Cup Final (wishful fuckin’ think-
ing considering they just lost 5 in a
row. Boy, that 5 and 1 start is a dis-
tant fuckin’ memory!!)
Anyway, enough of me sittin’ here
waffling on, I believe Tony is already
down at the printers waiting for this
crap…
C-Ya in a bit.
EUROPEAN
FANCLUB
A number of our European club
members have written to us asking
what is the deal with a set-up called
The European Metallica Fanclub based
in Melick, Netherlands. Apparently this
organization, in letters and in its
fanzine, are claiming to be affiliated
with The Metallica Club and insist that
Local Chapters must work with them!
THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! Although we
are vaguely aware of their existence
and of their claim to be “official” (what-
ever that means), neither Metallica or
The Metallica Club is involved in the
organization or running of the European
Metallica Fanclub. This means we can-
not say if they offer a good or bad ser-
vice and we cannot help with com-
plaints about them.
In response to the letters we
received, we did contact Leon Zelissen,
EMF Club Manager, and ask that he
stop using The Metallica Club name in
correspondence and his fanzine.
We have in our possession a letter
from Leon to one of our Local Chapter
heads stating that he had “..called a
few days ago with Lars Ulrich and Tony
Smith and we agreed that the local
chapters have to work closely with
European Metallica Fanclub…”. This is
quite simply, a LIE!!! No such calls and
no such agreements exist outside of
Leon’s imagination. Our entire contact
with Leon consists of one letter asking
him to stop using our name!!
Now, we have no problem with the
existence of, or people wishing to join,
the European Metallica Fanclub, but we
do want to make you aware that it is in
no way connected with The Metallica
Club. Therefore WE cannot guarantee
the level of service and honesty you will
receive.

MORE
EUROPEAN
STUFF…
To further confuse you.... A new
fan club has been opened in Lund,
Sweden. This one is called Metallica
Club Scandinavia. Although not operat-
ed by Metallica or The Metallica Club,
the Scandinavia Club is being set up
with our help and co-operation. Niclas
Swanlund, Scandinavia Club Manager,
is in constant and close touch with us
and will be attempting to run the
Scandinavia Club in a manner of which
we approve. (If that actually means
something!!)
For more details write to: Metallica
Club Scandinavia, P.O. Box 4178, 227
22 Lund, Sweden.
As we have said from the start, as
The Metallica Club grows and becomes
more established, we will attempt to
help our members outside of the US
enjoy the prices and benefits which our
US members receive. With our involve-
ment in Metallibasher (France),
Metallica Italia and now Metallica Club
Scandinavia, we are slowly beginning to
make that happen. We shall continue
to try to expand throughout the rest of
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 RAIDER by Steffan Chirazi

O A D
R RRIOR
WA

I T IS a truly ridiculous question to ask if you have thing else and we only had the one TV. Our parents would
eyes, which this guy has. Before him stands a man wearing go out for dinner on Monday nights and I'd wrestle my sis-
the prominent silver and black NFL shirt of the Raiders ter for the TV. I remember ripping the couch apart after a
(we’ll leave Los Angeles out of this OK) complete with a bad play as a kid… but after I did it they started doing a lot
big, fat 75 on the front. He has walked through the parking better! Not a good message for a kid, when things broke
lot slapping “fives” with Raiders fans dotted around the the game went well!”
blue and yellow-decked cars. Yet still, this oaf asks the We get in early, being offered freebee Charger “rags” to
question... wave above our heads. Hetfield turns his down, I accept
“Erruummm, uh, hey. Are you a Raiders fan then?” mine on the premise I might be in the woods one day
Let this be the official press statement for the blind: James without a toilet or paper...hmmm.
Hetfield is a Raiders fan. A long-time Raiders fan. A 20-odd “They've gotta go to the air more, less on the ground,”
year Raiders fan. A Raiders fan who, whenever possible, sighs a nervous Hetfield as the players warm-up, “too
goes to watch the silver and black attack live in the flesh. much on the ground ain't the Raider way.”
Tonight it’s brought us to Jack Murphy Stadium, home of Indeed. First Raider drive of the game, beers barely in
the San Diego Chargers. It's Monday night football and the hands, ball barely in Hostetler's grasp when the Raider QB
atmosphere is electric, charged with local hatred of the lofts a 76 yard ball deep to Wright for an immediate TD.
Raiders and the possibility of a Hetfield cannot, and will not, con-
sewn-up western division AFC. Out Let this be the official tain himself, a quick check for
of town, hostile territory, backs-to- press statement for the penalty flags (necessary game con-
the-wall. If the Raiders screw-up, duct for watching the Raiders) giv-
then forget about play-offs, forget blind: James Hetfield is ing way to a deep
about everything until the next a Raiders fan. “YEEEEAAAAH!”. The cheering
season. Naturally Hetfield finds Charger fans are stuffed silent:
none of this imposing, instead soaking it all in and shouts Hetfield's roar seems huge. Some inebriated buffoon
it all out, his not inconsiderably loud voice yelling and behind us starts immediately tossing choicy morsels of
booming out directives. abuse. Hetfield turns his head and simply tells the guy he
This is the man off the stage, the man being the man, can't hear him properly.
Hetfield doing what Hetfield does when he isn't on Metalli- “Why don't fucking guys just settle down and watch
duty. Not too different from you eh? A few beers, some the damn game! That's all I'm here to do,” he sighs, a
football, a good yell. It's a return to past passions, those touch aggravated. The motor's running, the game is on.
childhood days when silver & black were his colors and the It's obvious that this Monday night match-up is set to be a
bad boys of turf held pole position over the bad boys of classic, with the Raiders obviously motivated above and
rock on his young bedroom wall. beyond belief. Six resulting penalties for various infractions
“I remember being a kid and being pissed off when I from offside to punching the opposition confirming the
had to go to Sunday school and there was a big game on, fact.
I'd always end up trying to sneak my little radio in with the As a youngster, Hetfield would watch the old Raiders
ear-piece. And there were always huge battles with my sis- thump and charge their way through people with glee.
ter over the TV on Monday nights. I wanted to watch “I always liked that ‘scary guy’ logo too,” he laughs,
Monday Night Football and she wanted to watch some- “that's kinda where our ‘scary guy’ idea came from. And
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 RAIDER ROAD WARRIOR
that was the Raiders, these big, scary guys.
I'd gone to a couple of Rams games but
they were really more like ‘the lambs', not
too happenin', so my walls were covered
with Raiders stuff and rock‘n'roll stuff.
Fred Belitnikoff and Kenny ‘Snake' Stabler
were my favorites, but Belitnikoff for sure.
25 was my favorite number, whenever I
played in school I had to have number 25.
We played ‘pop warner' tag football a lot
and I was quarter-back which was cool.
But then in High School I ended up not
playing much. I wanted to be a receiver
but we didn't have many big guys in that
year so they put me in the line. And I ain't
that thick y'know, I'm tall but with these
long-ass legs and I wasn't fully into it so I
didn't put myself fully into it. That's also
when my hair was starting to grow longer and I was dis-
covering music in a big way. And I remember having to
watch every game, and it's like now, if I don't see a game
they'll lose. I have to say certain things or they'll fuck up,
every time they're defending I have to say ‘brick wall dee-
fence' or they'll fuck up, superstitious crap.”
Hetfield isn't a coach. He'll scream encouragement,
he'll yell a few obscenities but one thing he won't do is
continually second-guess the team. It isn't about being a
frustrated footballer, it's about being a fan. Quiet, deter-
mined loyalty with his team tells you a lot about the man.
It was an attitude developed early.
“My best friend was John Zander, and we went through
the music and football stuff together. But we were always
battling. I was a Raider fan no matter what, but he'd
switch from year to year depending on who won the
Superbowl. One year a total Dolphins fan, next a Steelers
fan. He liked Kiss, I liked Aerosmith, it was always a battle.
I haven't seen him for a long time, but just recently over
the holidays my Dad brought some old slides along and
one of them was a picture my Mum had taken of me and
John dressed up as Kiss, face and all. I was Ace, he was
Paul…a very scary thing.”
With Ismail squeezing in for TD as I dodge some pre-
half-time Charger beer-barf near our seats, it's hard to
imagine a time when Hetfield didn't care. But it existed, as
it will for all sports fans since childhood. There comes a
time, usually during teenage years, when other things take
priority for a while.
“When they were moving to LA I kinda said ‘fuck 'em.’
Right when the band moved up north to the Bay Area, the
Raiders moved south. Missed 'em. It was hard when Snake
and Madden and all of them were gone, Tom Flores was
OK but around the time of Jim Plunkett I started to lose
interest. Then came those ugly years of Schroeder and I
wasn't a big Beurlein fan either.
“I got my interest back once we were playing colise-
ums and such on tour, and you kinda ask ‘hey could I get
some Raiders swag' or whatever. It was pretty much killin'
time during the black album. Jason's really into basketball,
so if we were in town the night before the show and there
was a game in the place we were playing in, we'd go down.
I'm not that big on basketball but it was something to do
and the waitress' bring you beers to your seat.”
Another sporting event to catch Hetfield's attention
was the 1994 World Cup soccer tournament, an interest
sparked by the British members of the band's roadcrew for
whom soccer is religious (something I understand only too
well).
It isn’t about being a
frustrated footballer,
it’s about being a fan.
“I really got into the World Cup. We have some crew
members from the UK which always makes it interesting,
plus the US had a good team and had a chance. And it was
here. Hell, it may never be back here. And this was really
the one chance for soccer to catch on, they needed the US
to do well and they did.”
He's even developed an interest in pro hockey and the
San Jose Sharks.
“The fucking Sharks! If they ever play again! We had
season tickets there too. I'd been to a couple of Kings
games back in LA years ago and it was OK. I went to a
couple of Sharks games when they played in San
Francisco's Cow Palace which was a little closer, now
they're down in the Shark tank (San Jose Arena) it's a little
bit more of a hike. But in New York on the last tour it was
pretty cool. New York's not my favorite place to hang, I'm
11

not too into the shopping and that
crap like Kirk is. But we were there
for about 10 days at the beginning of
this summer thing which tied in per-
fectly with the Stanley Cup Finals
and we got to three of them, one,
two and five. Five was when the cup
was there, they could've taken it but
they didn't.”
For a man so famous and suc-
cessful and worshiped, football is an
equalizer, a stabilizer, an anchor back
to normal life and normal hobbies.
“Yeah, sure. Even though they're
not the same Raiders they used to be.
I've also got back into actually play-
ing sports again. We bring a football
out on the road, we had a soccer ball
out there too for a while…”
How hard is it to find time to be
a ‘normal person' and let go of the
band when wherever you go there's
always someone who reminds you…
“Well it ain't such a horrible
thing to be ‘the dude in Metallica', I
can think of way worse things. But
whenever I am at football or other
sporting events people don't pester
you too much. They respect the fact
that you're there to fuckin' relax and
watch the game. You've got your
game face on and sometimes you're
not payin' attention to people and
they look at you and think ‘oh what
an asshole' but that's just the way it
goes.”
It's taken a few years for this to
happen, but the Raiders finally get us
out of our seats for a good, simple,
low-down, bullshit-dirty cheap-shot,
Land storming through the middle to
clothesline the Charger's punt return
man who'd called a fair catch. It's
like watching a freight train take
someone out at the neck. The boo’s
ringing around Jack Murphy Stadium
are scary, we try to plead with
Chargerheads around us that ol'
Danny Land mis-timed himself / did-
n't see the signal / had a momentary
flash of insanity caused by childhood
trauma. Quietly Hetfield turns to me
and grins.
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RAIDER ROAD WARRIOR
For a man so
famous and
successful and
worshiped,
football is an
equalizer, a
stabilizer, an
anchor back to
normal life and
normal hobbies.
“This is Raider football… you
either love 'em or hate 'em that's the
way it is. They are the bad boys and
that's what always turned me on to
'em. They'd always juuust win and it's
exciting football no matter what, even
if they do lose. That's why TV loves
'em...beautiful cheap shots, ha ha
ha… that's Raider football. But
y'know, sometimes those cheap shots
are worth the penalty. I'll bet that guy
hears those footsteps all night.”
The poor Charger indeed did,
fumbling late in the game, fearing
that one more hit like that would
send his head into our laps.
You have to wonder what the
comparisons are between psyching
yourself up for a Raider game as a
player and psyching yourself up for a
gig on a Metallica tour?
“Sure. There's a lot of psyching
up and all that, but the thing we
don't do is practice! HA HA! We do a
soundcheck at the beginning of the
tour and that's it. But psyching up,
sure, all that and maybe after a gig
y'don't feel personally that you sang
or played that great, those personal
goals you're always after achieving. I
don't have any great psyching rituals,
I do certain things to warm my voice
up every night but that's like loosen-
ing a muscle. I don't ‘have to take
three of these pills and eat a certain
meal two hours before showtime' or
that stuff. Lars has a certain ritual he
goes through, but I can kinda show
up and just get out there, Jason has
to get there two hours before and do
his thing. I just don't like to sit
around too long because you start
losing the excitement a little bit. I
used to show up 5 minutes before
the gig on some previous tours, stay
at the hotel. But then other tours I've
wanted to be there a few hours early
to jam and bullshit. This last
‘Shed…' tour was one of those show-
ing up early ones.”
If there has ever been a rock-
'n'roll play-off series, it came when
Metallica decided to go on tour with
Guns N'Roses. Harmonies were
briefly exchanged before the snippy
piss-fighting began, most of it from
Axl Rose. Metallica, for the most part,
allowed their tremendously potent 2
hour set to talk for them, and after
the developing stagnation of just
touring with themselves a year and
no-one else, these were the best
shows the band did during the whole
tour. Fired up or what?
“Yeah it was definitely competi-
tive I think. It is like going in and
playing another team, and it did get
us hepped up a little more, like we
wanted to kick these fucker's asses
 RAIDER ROAD WARRIOR
every night, there
was a little more
fire up our asses.
After showing
people before our
3 hour set who
we were and what
we were going to
do all night,
which was a great
thing and I loved
doing it, but after
a while it hits you
that everyone's
there to see you.
Whereas on the
Guns thing you
could see the
Guns shirts out
there, so it was a
challenge to grab
some of the peo-
ple by the throat
who weren't just there to see you.”
The Superbowl, though, came surely with
Woodstock.
“We're really into eye-contact, as close-up as we
can get. Basically, that was none of that. The
crowd was 50 yards away! They had the TV crew,
then the MTV crew then the photographer's pit,
then some other pit just to have a pit, so they
were miles away. The whole thing became a huge
blur. We came in, did it and went away. It was
kinda last minute, plus you had to kick and
scream to get what you wanted, which we did,
and that upset other bands. ‘We want pyro', kick
and scream for it and you'll get it. It's like MTV
Awards or any of that sorta stuff, you're relying a
lot on your crew people to pull you through and
hep you up. And when you hit the stage anywhere
like that, you don't know it. It was a bit nerve-
wracking going in like that.
“It was pretty amazing 'coptering in and see-
ing all these muddy folks, and as we came down near the
landing area we ripped up a few tents. People were yelling
at us ‘you assholes' and we were smiling like, ‘hello we've
arrived!' I don't think they liked me too much there over-
all. As soon as we landed they bought us to all the CNN's
and shit, so we landed and went straight into that stuff
without really having had a chance to think about being
there and so on. Lars, of course, had his shit all prepared
and what have you, getting all psychological on their asses
but I ended up making up stupid jokes so I was edited out
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of everything pretty much. I didn't like the fact
that they were comparing it so hard to the last
one, which was pretty much a political thing.
This was the exact opposite.”
Ismail carries in the game's deciding TD.
24-17 Raiders, and the play-offs are on again.
Charger-mania has died down to a hush. Those
ridiculous little Charger face cloth things aren't
being waved anymore. Indeed, the only appropri-
ate use for them is illustrated by Hetfield in the
accompanying photo guide “WHAT TO DO
WITH THOSE SILLY CHARGER MINI TOW-
ELS.” It has been an evening of loud yelling,
edgy stuff that despite the Raider's dominance
was never conclusive until the end. Remember,
this is Raider football and anything can happen.
For the tall fan on my left, this season is turning
out to be a good one. Indeed, some childhood
dreams were gratefully, and excitedly, fulfilled.
“Jonathan
Kraft, who's the
son of the
owner of the
New England
Patriots and not
anything to do
with the cheese,
was at the show
we did up there
this summer.
Some of the
Patriots came
down and hung
out, so we kinda
got friendly with
him. They
brought us
down some
Patriot jerseys
which was when
I told him I was
a Raiders fan.
December ’94 He invited me
down to a game there if I was in the area, so I was kinda in
the area when the Raiders were there. Me and my girl
went, we got the special treatment, sat in the owner's box
on the 50 yard line. I was sitting next to the commissioner
Tagliabue, it was Andre Tippett's big day so he was there
too. They invited us down to the field and we took pic-
tures, with all these people in the stands thinking ‘who the
fuck's that guy down there?’
“Then Jonathan asked me if I wanted to watch the
players run out or go and meet Al. Al Davis. He told me Al
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there we were stuck to the bumper of that

…he’s thing for miles.”
happiest But James Hetfield is not a man to
immerse himself in comfort. He's happiest in
leaving those the stands, where the people get drunk and
Raiders swear and yell and throw up and drink and
where they’ve yell again. He's happiest in the parking lot
after the game, running around drunk, toss-
always been: ing a ball into other people's campers, shar-
on his ing beers, yakking about 'ball, 'Tallica, what-
ever with whoever. And he's happiest leaving
wall and those Raiders where they've always been: on
in his his wall and in his imagination.
“I took Lars down to a game and he
imagination. wanted to know ‘hey let's go and meet the
guys, see where they're partying' and
stuff. And I explained to him that I
didn't really wanna get to know the
was expecting me and shit, that he guys. It was nice to meet them that
knew who I was and was waiting to be once, but I just like to leave them
introduced to me, and I'm thinkin' where they are, leave them be, just
‘yeah right!' So we ended up down in be a fan…"
the press room, and we shook hands. That night, just like this night,
He was a pretty big strong guy, I James Hetfield retired to the parking
thought he'd be some frail dude. But lot for his post-game beers and fun,
he gripped my arm and wouldn't let tossing a ball with whoever, shooting
go! He had his game face on though, the shit with anyone around. Just
so he looked a little foggy. Back up in like you and I…
the box someone sent me up a bag of
Raider swag, which I was asked not to PS. A little PS from James
wear in the box. But then the Raiders here, to the city and people of
San Diego, don’t take all this
won, we went down to the losing team too personally, as much as
press conference with Bill Parcels James may like San Diego
which was pretty cool. And then we itself, when it comes to foot-
kinda waltzed into the Raider dressing, ball, especially the Raiders..
where there were all these huge naked well, you know how that goes!!
black guys wandering around, little
kids wanting autographs. I was like
‘wow'! I was like a little kid, Hostetler was over there, Jim Otto was hangin',
I'm asking Jonathan to introduce me to him and him.
“So I saw Al, he waved me over and I said to him ‘good game' and stuff,
and he just started off ‘hell no I'm shocked, I can't believe these fuckin'
guys' and he's yellin' at them after they've won! So then he calls over a
couple of guys and introduces me to 'em. He couldn't remember my name
exactly, so I told 'em who I was and they were like ‘hell yeah we know you
guys…' So then Al got it all together and made another introduction. He
said, ‘yeah this is Jim Hettman from Heavy Metallic!' HA HA HA! But it was
quite all right, it was Al. When I'd initially met him you see, I'd told him I
was James Hetfield from a heavy metal band called Metallica, so he just cut
out some stuff and got to that. And the evening ended up with something
cool. There was pretty bad traffic by the time we got to leave, so Johnathan
said we should just follow the Raider police escort out of the building and
up the freeway. I'd always wanted to follow the Raider bus as a kid, and
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 Q. I wanted to know if any members of
feel the same. I’m not saying he is, but the
feud between Metallica and GnR got me think-
Metallica smoke and if so, which members? ing.
DONNA S. SARBJIT P.
CANADA ENGLAND
A. JAMES: “Only when I’m on fire.” A. JAMES: “I’m not racist, I hate every-
one equally. You have more problems if you
LARS: “Fuck no!”
believe Axl W. Rose.”

Q. Can anyone tell me what the hell has Q. Kirk, you seem to be the quiet one. Do
happened to Kirk? First was this experiment
you like to party hard, or just sit back and
above his lip, then he started getting all happy
relax?
with piercing his face God only knows how
ANGELA C.
many times, and now it’s Rasta Kirk. What
MIDDLETOWN, INDIANA
happened to the poor guy?

EAST BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY

BRIAN H. A. KIRK: “You obviously don’t know me!
I just don’t let on that I’m actually a raving
A. KIRK: “I’ve found God now, so don’t
worry, you sinner.”
lunatic when I get drunk or whatever!!! I am
a bit moody, and so I just don’t feel like com-
municating to people some of the time, that’s
LARS: “We wuz wondering the same! Maybe all.”
he has just hit adolescence and this is his way
of rebelling.”
Q. Do you keep any of the stuff thrown on
Q. Would your band ever allow samples of
stage during a concert?
KRISTI D.
your music to be used by rap artists to make OMAHA, NEBRASKA
hit records as so many other groups have
done?
A. JASON: “Yes, I have banners and stuff
in my garage and studio and stuff.”
JEANETTE R.
NEDROW, NEW YORK JAMES: “Women’s panties. (They might
A. LARS: “The obvious answer is no, but,
in actuality, you cannot prevent anyone from
fit.)”

sampling. It’s not illegal as long as thy credit

and pay you.”
Q. Why did you all choose Knoxville to be
the Metallica Club headquarters? Not bitching,
JAMES: “Basically you can’t stop someone just curious!
from using it as long as they acknowledge it’s MARSHA I.
yours and give you the credit.” WALLAND, TENNESSEE

Q. A. JASON: “’Cause Tony Smith rules

Knoxville!”
When and why did you decide to make
music your career?
EMILIE D.
ALBANY, ILLINOIS
Q. Have any of you tried to commit suicide
before or after Cliff died?
A. JAMES: “After the Black Album.” BRIAN K.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK
KIRK: “When my career as a nun failed me.”
JASON: “About 1980 at age 17, I wanted to
A. JASON: “ABSOLUTELY FUCKING
NOT!!!”
do something that really meant a lot to me, at
least try it before I went the college / occupa- JAMES: “What for?”
tion route.
LARS: “…Next question!!”
LARS: “Fuck knows! At that point in time it
seemed like the right thing to do.
Q. Larz, if I sent you $50 could you make
Q. I have heard rumors of James being
me a copy of “No Life Til Leather” like you
did for others in the early dayz? I know $50
racist. I am an Asian and I feel very out of might not mean anything to you guys (except
place at times. I am very devoted to Metallica for Jason), but maybe you could put it towards
and am aware that 99% of Metallica fans are the fan club.
white. Can you please put my mind at rest? I JIM H.
know many non-white fans and am sure they MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
16

A. LARS: “Don’t forget to send a return
address also.”
JASON: “$50 is $50 whether you have $100
or a squillion $.”
JAMES: “I’ll do it for $45.”
Q. Does anyone know how much “Garage
Days” is worth on records? I bought one the
other day for twenty bucks and was wondering
if I got ripped off.
JOHN B.
INDEPENDENCE, OREGON
A. LARS: “I have a shitload of ’em in my
storage space – any takers??”
JASON: “You didn’t get ripped off – that’s
about the going rate now.”
Q. I want to know if there is any chance of
getting a charter lifetime membership to this
club? I believe that any true Metallica fan
would want to become a LIFETIME member!
MIRKO M.
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA
A. KIRK: “That would require your soul.”
Q. Do you guys wear earplugs or anything
to protect your hearing? James, are your arms
and hands insured?
AIDA N.
BRONX, NEW YORK
A. JAMES: “What? What about the rest,
Mrs. Bobbitt?”
LARS: “Yeah, all four of us. Not only pro-
tects hearing but makes on stage sound more
definable.”
JASON: “We all wear earplugs on stage – it’s
the smart thing to do.”
Q. Kirk, how did you end up getting
lessons from Joe Satriani? What age were you?
What’s the stuff you keep eating throughout
Summer ’94
WHIPLASH
the first “Year And A Half In The Life Of…”
video?
JAMES E.
WALES, U.K.
A. KIRK: “I met Joe at a music store that
he gave lessons from, and I was about 21 at
the time. The stuff that I keep eating is ice
cream!!!”
Q. Maybe I’m a dork for not knowing, but
can someone explain the story behind “Four
Horsemen” and Dave Mustaine’s version
“Mechanix”?
SMYRNA, DELAWARE
SEAN T.
A. JAMES: “Simple: ours is great, his
sucks.”
LARS: “Dave Mustaine had the basic skele-
ton of a song called ‘The Mechanix’, about a
guy sticking his dick in a car’s gas tank or
something silly like that. After we threw Dave
out, we changed the vibe of the song by
adding 3 or 4 minutes and making the lyrics
slightly less stupid.”
Q.
Kirk, why do you play with your middle
finger sticking out, is it habit or image?
JAIME C.
PLANO, TEXAS
A. KIRK: “I like flipping off everyone and
getting away with it! I never really noticed
that my finger stuck out till I started seeing
pix of myself playing live, and I thought that
it was pretty funny, actually!”
Q. I was very disappointed when I was
looking through the “Leper Messiah” lyrics. I
always knew that the song wasn’t one of the
nicest Metallica songs, but I didn’t think it was
so negative. Is it a song that you would rethink
if you guys were going to do it again?
GARY K.
WAYNE, NEW JERSEY
PHOTO: ROSS HALFIN
A. JAMES: “A negative Metallica song?
Sorry, Reverend Gary.”
LARS: “Since everything we do is 100%
instinctive, I never question things we’ve
done.”
JASON: “Hell no – it is excellent the way
that it is. What bothers you about it so
much? Jaymz is just speaking truth!”
KIRK: “Are you considering a job in the
Television Evangelist field?
Q. What was the most embarrassing thing
that ever happened on stage? You all are real-
ly good looking, has anybody ever thought
about getting into movies?
NIKKI Y.
EDISON, NEW JERSEY
A. KIRK: “I once fell down on stage and
Lars started laughing at me, I was really
embarassed, so I tried to look cool and tack-
led him for laughing at me!!!
JASON: “I fell down on stage in one of my
first U.S. ’Tallica shows and last tour I
fucked up my neck bad and couldn’t play for
a few minutes. That sucked. Lars wants to be
in pictures, he practices constantly.”
JAMES: “Button popped and zipper broke (I
was excited.) I sneak into movies once a
week.”
LARS: “Yes – I want to follow the great
paths of rockstars turned movie stars such as
Vince Neil, Brett Michaels and Janie Lane!!
As for embarrassing, pick one: Houston ’89,
something hits me on the forehead while we
are playing. I stop in the middle of a song
and ask James to announce that if anyone
throws anything else, we will leave the stage.
We finish the show without incident. After
the show my drum tech informs me that I
had actually hit myself with a drumstick!
…or Madison, WI ’91. During “Four
Horsemen”, the drumkit I am playing on
begins to be lowered under the stage, instead
of the other kit on the other side of the stage.
Try playing whilst you are under a stage that
the other guys are on top of!!”
This section is devoted to answering your
questions. Primarily about Metallica, but if
someone asks an interesting question about
an unrelated topic, we shall attempt to answer
it. Questions about Metallica will either be
answered by the relevant person in the
Metallica setup or by the band themselves.
Please keep questions brief and include your
membership number, name, address,
and telephone number.
Send questions to:
THE METALLICA CLUB
PO BOX 18327
KNOXVILLE
TN 37928-2327
USA
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 Portrait of an Artist
“Are you
Pushead?”
This question has
been asked of me more
times than I can remem-
ber. When I am at
Metallica shows and I
meet people who ask
me what I do for the
band, it’s after I tell
them that I designed
some of their crew
shirts that the question
comes out.
“No, I am not
Pushead. I’m
Pimple.”
Seriously, I respect
the hell out of Pushead.
I have been a huge fan
of his work ever since I
was his Exploited Skull
that he designed for that
punk band. When I
heard that they ripped
him off for that killer
piece, I could sympa-
thize since I had been
ripped off for my art so
many times. Ever since
then, I have followed his
work with dedication.
And when he began doing art for
Metallica, I knew that he would create
an image for the band that would
never be equaled. For me to have the
opportunity to draw for my favorite
band that also has one of my artistic
mentors in its employ, is indeed an
honor and a privilege.
O.K. Enough brown-nosing.
Well, I’m not quite sure what to
write. Who the hell am I anyway. I
mean to say, I am no celebrity and I
am definitely not Pushead, but I have
designed at least six shirts for
Metallica and that’s kinda cool. I
mean, hell. Let’s start this way.
I was brought up in the Bay Area
as an Atlanta, Georgia reject. Having
grown up in the San Francisco area, I
18
by Mark DeVito
Next. This ain’t
easy. O.K. Clubs.
Man, there were the
best fuckin’ clubs
ever in the Bay Area
and I hit ’em all. My
friends and I used to
go to the Keystone
Berkeley and see
Motorhead,
Plasmatics, Metallica,
Legacy (now
Testament), Loudness,
Stevie Ray Vaughn,
everybody. Ruthies
was cool, too. Death
Angel, Slayer, exodus,
D.R.I, Suicidal
Tendencies. The
Mabuhay Gardens
and the Rock on
Broadway would have
FEAR, Black Flag,
Flipper (boo!), Bun
Club, Circle Jerks.
The Stone would have
Misfits, anyway you
get the point. Anyway,
since I could draw I
would sit out in front
of these clubs and
copy the re-entry
stamps onto the hands of my friends
have had the opportunity to be exposed to for the low price of a beer. After I had
hundreds of great bands ranging from earned enough so that I couldn’t
punk to metal. Yeah, sure there was a draw straight (this became apparent
bunch of hippie crap and most of the when disgruntled customers would
freaks here at the time were into Journey return demanding their beer back on
and Loverboy, but that only made it easier denial of entry) I would go inside and
for metal junkies like me to find all those check out some of the greatest shows
hard to get European 45’s and mags for I have ever seen. I saw Metallica at
next to nothing. Man, every time I walked the Keystone Berkeley with Raven and
into a record store I would get, “What the they blew doors off hinges. I mean,
hell are you buying that Motorhead junk they really knew at that point that
for, don’t ya want the new Boz there was no stopping this band and
Scaggs?”. I’m telling you I got these that I had to try and do some artwork
things for three bucks where now you for them.
gotta pay forty-five bucks to some pimple- Hey, let me interrupt my trip here
faced geek that never heard of the band. to tell you a story. We were all at
Well, you probably deal with those geeks Ruthie’s Inn late one night, I think
trying to find the cool spins anyway. Spastic Children were playing that
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END OF THE ROAM: I had called Q-Prime and asked if I could submit a design that I had come up with for the end of
the tour. Tony DiCioccio, one of their managers, said sure. I came up with the idea while thinking of what the band
(as individuals) would actually do with themselves if they weren’t on tour anymore. Even though the colors came
out weird (due to my haste), they used the design for the end of the tour shows in Belgium.

night, and everyone was drinking in
the Big-O parking lot across the street
from the club. Anyway, James, Fred
Cotton (singer for Spastic), my friend
Andy and myself were piss drunk and
standing in the middle of the street
between the parking lot and Ruthies.
Fred had a set of golf clubs and a
dozen balls, so we were teeing off in
the grass of the center divide of the
street. Laughing and swinging we
knocked golf balls down the middle of
the road with everyone in the parking
lot laughing at us. James took a fero-
cious swing and sent a ball speeding
into a group of Japanese motorcyclists
about eight blocks down. We all
grabbed up the clubs, tossed them into
Fred’s car trunk, and sat on the
trunk acting like nothing happened. All
of a sudden, the roar of about ten
motorcycles came into the parking lot.
All of the bikers dismounted and this
one little guy, dressed from head to
toe in red leather racing gear walked
right up to us and took off his helmet. He
was holding a golf ball and walked right up
into James’ face and shouted, “Does this
belong to you?” only he said it in
Japanese inflection. We all cracked up
laughing and I guess we laughed for so
long that the motorcycle guys gave up try-
ing to get us to confess or pay retribution.
That was fun. Sorry, but I thought a good-
natured James story was needed right here.
Anyway, back to the other story.
Since I had already done backdrops,
logos, and flyers for other local bands like
Legacy, Laaz Rockit, Exodus, and the
Ruffians, I felt that I was somewhat ready
to ask Metallica if I could do something
for them. I was real nervous, but one night
I went up to James at Ruthies Inn and
asked him if they needed a backdrop for
their upcoming “Ride The Lightning”
tour. He politely told me “No” and that
they already had one. I was disappointed
but he was so cool about it, I figured that
there could possible be a future project
that I could do.
Years later, I had gotten a job at
a local record store (hey, Ted, bite
me!) and was designing and making
all of the store’s display billboards.
A contest came up through the local
ticket agency to win tickets and back-
stage passes to the upcoming
Metallica shows for the best billboard
advertising Metallica’s shows. It was
the “Justice” tour and I was even
more of a fan than before. My friend
Zak suggested that I parody their
Crunch style music with the cereal
somehow, and by the end of the day I
had made a six foot tall cereal box
with the Capn’s of Krunch on the
front. I hung it in the front window of
the store and tons of people came in
to tell me how funny they thought it
was. Hell of kids came in wanting to
buy it with their moms behind them
telling me it would never fit in their
car. I politely declined all their offers
and left it there for the shows. I took
a photo of the box and brought to the
19

show (you know, I never sent
the photo in for the contest. I
wonder if I could have won?).
The show was great, as usual,
and after I saw a friend of
mine who was running toward
the backstage area. I stopped
and asked him if he would
mind having the band sign the
photo of the display I did and
he told me that that would be
no problem. A couple of min-
utes passed, and my friend
came running out from the
backstage gate. “They want to
meet you, they think this is
funny as hell.” I was floored.
They all signed the photo and
told me that they thought it was
a cool idea. Lars asked where
the box was and I told him that
I had left it in the front window
of the store I worked at. I
thanked them and left feeling
pretty good.
Later that month, Lars
came into my work and asked
to see the box. He wanted it
for his new house so we
walked up to my workshop
and I showed it to him. It was to their “Day On The Green” concert in Oakland and asked gone out of his way to keep
far too big to fit in his house
so I offered to make a scaled course) and hauled all my ideas to the arena. I drew up a band and has always been
down version for him. A week
later he came to pick up the
new box and I gave him an
outline of the design in case
he wanted to make a sticker
of it of something. He thanked
me and left the store with both.
The Grammys were on T.V. one
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PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST
used for crew shirts, and just
recently they sold my
Metallistock design at
Woodstock 2. According to
management and various
news sources, the shirt
sparked some sort of fight
between Aerosmith’s man-
ager and Woodstock pro-
moter John Scher which
ended in a punch in the
nose. Ah, controversy. Ya
gotta love it. The first Club
T-shirt design was some-
thing I came up with after
Tony Smith and Jason had
asked me to think of a shirt
design in Belgium. The
book concept for the second
year’s Club shirt came
from Alesha at the Club and
I drew it.
Lars and James have
the final say in the approval
or disapproval of the designs
and they also add personal
input into the designs. There
isn’t a design that goes
through without the J & L
TRAILS WE HAVE CREPT: Lars had called me and invited me seal of approval. Lars has
me busy doing work for the
me to bring some designs if I had any. I accepted (of
extremely cool to me. I am
huge comic book cover in the horror vein because I knew indeed thankful to him for
that Kirk was a big fan of comics. This design was chosen the opportunities he has
as one of the crew shirt designs at the beginning of the given me. Oh no. How
“Black Album Tour”. brown is my nose now?
Well, I do appreciate it so
night and that’s when it started. Metallica FUCK OFF!
came on and played “One” and to my Anyway, that is how I got to draw
surprise, Jason was wearing a Capn’s of junk for Metallica and it has been fun
Krunch T-shirt! Yet again, I was blown as hell. Sure, there are highs and lows,
away. They had made shirts out of my but there is no thrill greater than hav-
design and Jason debuted it on national ing someone you dig, dig your shit
television. I flipped. Lars came back to back. After all the shows, stories,
my job a couple of months later with a shirts, and shit, I still can’t wait to do
handful of the shirts and a cool tour jack- it all over again.
et.
Ever since I have harassed them with
weird designs, most of which they have
YOSEMITE SLAM: A friend of mine
asked me why James always looks so
“ornery”. After I finished laughing, I
thought of how James would look as
Yosemite Sam, the cartoon character.
Hearing the word “ornery” made me
think of Yosemite Sam, so I drew this
up.
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GRIFFINIZED LOGO: Somebody called Metallica “the

Grateful Dead of the 90’s” so I started to wonder
what their logo would look like if it was drawn in the
Grateful Dead style. My favorite artist is Rick Griffin,
and since Rick was responsible for some of the most
outrageous 60’s psychedelic concert posters, I decid-
ed to draw their logo in his style. When I showed it to
Lars, he couldn’t read it no matter how hard he tried.
HARVESTER OF SAPPORRO, BEVERAGE OF THE BAND: I
He said that someone would have to be on acid to
came up with this as a parody of Pushead’s Harvester
read it, hence the inscription.
of Sorrow design of the fist crushing through a skull
holding a scales. I was going to sign it “Pisswater” but
I thought it would offend Pushead, whom I respect and
admire far too much. Needless to say, it was not used.

FAN CLUB SHIRT (1st): At the end of the “Roam

METALLISTOCK: When I heard that Metallica was going
to play Woodstock 2, I called Tony DiCioccio and asked
him if I could fax him a crew shirt idea. I took the
James’ “Scary Guy” drawing and “hippied” it out a bit.
They printed it up and actually sold it at Woodstock for
one day only. It apparently was part of some backstage
controversy and was part of the reason that
Aerosmith’s manager slugged the promoter. All for fun,
right guys?
Tour” in Belgium, Tony Smith and Jason told me of
their plan to create a new Fan Club and asked if I
would come up with a design. They wanted to incor-
porate all the past album images somehow. I was
stumped until I thought about this old coat of arms
that hangs in the house I stay at. I sketched the
shield out with different album covers on it and the
two crossed clubs behind it. You know, it’s on your
back.
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 We had some big winners for
SHORTEST STRAW #4
To enter, club members were to provide a caption for the photo below.
Here are the winners that Lars chose:
GRAND PRIZE WINNER
After seeing “Pulp Fiction” for the
tenth time, Lars loses his grasp
on reality and becomes thoroughly
convinced, much to James’
dismay, that “the Gimp” is asleep
and locked safely inside one of
Metallica’s roadcases.
BRENT HARRISON
BLUFF CITY, TENNESSEE
BRENT WILL Receive an autographed
bass guitar that Jason used in his
pre-Flotsam days.
FIRST PRIZE WINNERS
Yet another band waiting for the
end of the bass solo!!!
ANTOINE CHUZEVILLE
FRANCE
Lars: “…And that concludes the
story of my life!”
James: “Am I dead yet?!”
LISA HALBROOK
FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA
ANTOINE AND LISA WILL EACH RECEIVE
AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF THE ABOVE
PHOTO, A METALLISTOCK T-SHIRT, AND
A “ONE” EUROPEAN GATEFOLD CD.
SECOND PRIZE WINNERS
For Whom The Taco Bell Tolls.
“Oops, sorry about that Jaymz.
You better hold your nose.”
NEIL RUTHENBERG
GALENA, ILLINOIS
“Man, I knew Jason was cheap,
but flying to Japan in a trunk to
save the airfare is totally crazy!”
ANGELA DiNICOLA
EDISON, NEW JERSEY
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It’s all fun and games until some-
one losses their plane ticket!
MIRKO MINAYA
TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA
NEIL, ANGELA AND MIRKO WILL EACH
RECEIVE A METALLISTOCK T-SHIRT AND
AUTOGRAPHED PHOTOS OF THE BAND.
THIRD PRIZE WINNERS
Larz: I got somethin’ to say
I had to wait in line today
so sittin’ on my rear
is a relief for this Dane
Jaymz: I got somethin’ to say
I wish I was killin’ today
instead of sittin’ here
waitin’ for the fuckin’ plane
DAVID NUNO
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
“Will James Hetfield and Lars
Ulrich please come to the
information desk to collect their
bassist who is annoying members
of the staff.”
ALAN DALY
IRELAND
Lars get that foil wrapped
cucumber out of your pants!
BECKY BURROWS
WARD COVE, ALASKA
Lars: Hey, so I fucked up! How
was I supposed to know when you
told me to tell Kirk and Jason to
meet us in Paris you meant Paris,
Texas – not Paris, France.
BRANDON BORGEL
SPRING, TEXAS
DAVID, ALAN, BECKY, AND BRANDON
WILL EACH RECEIVE AUTOGRAPHED
PHOTOS OF THE BAND.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
MIDORI OHKAWA, JAPAN
IAIN JOHNSTON, SCOTLAND
FREDERIK DE VOS, BELGIUM
HAL KAUFMAN, NEW YORK
GRAHAM SEDAM, ILLINOIS
NO PRIZE WINNER ’CUZ
HE’S INELIGIBLE
Lars: “Well, I guess we’re fucking
stuck here until one of us
remembers HOW to carry our
own bags!”
TONY SMITH
METALLICA CLUB
Special note from Lars:
“Obviously this loser ain’t gonna
win a prize because we already
pay him too much anyway, but
Tony’s “entry”(?) made me laugh
the most – which made me think,
surely you Metalli-freaks can come
up with more fucked-up, out there
stuff than he can. So let’s cut
loose and really go for some sillier
shit. Hey, we’re Metallica – we
can take it (I think)!!!!!!
 for Issue 6
HoW tO wIn
There will be many possible ways to win Shortest Straw #6.
The theme will be “Nothing Else Matters”.
Either write an essay between 500–1,000 words, send us a photograph,
or draw a picture with this theme – anything!!!

PrIzEs
THREE PEOPLE WILL WIN THE GRAND PRIZE:
As you know, Metallica will be in the studio this fall, producing their next album.

The Metallica Club will provide the three grand

prize winners with an all expense paid visit
to the studio!
ENTRIES MUST INCLUDE:
1. Your entry
2. Your name, address, phone
number, and membership
number (very important)
3. The entry fee of $2 per entry
This visit will be for two days
(we don’t know exactly when
yet, but it will be sometime in
early fall). Due to the nature of
this prize, we must emphasize
that the winners should be of SEND YOUR ENTRY TO:
sufficient age and able Shortest Straw #6
to travel alone.
P.O. Box 18327
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Black eyes, too many to count, Beer bottle broken over
fighting and headbanging head in fight (nice scar)

40 stitches – ATV accident

Tinitus, both ears
constantly ring –
135 db stage Brain damage – too much
monitors for 8 years metal, booze and Lars!
and gunshots

Left side of face

burned with pyro

Upper right arm

burned
Pyrotechnics
accident – deep
second degree
burns over left
arm with ques-
tionable skin
graft on hand
Wrist sliced
open by
beer bottle
(not on
purpose)
 Both bones of
left forearm,
Two broken compound
knuckles fractures, two
fighting metal plates
with screws
Inside hand – and 85
6 stitches, fell stitches
down with
vodka bottle
on first night Left wrist broken
of Venom tour skateboarding,
Both hands – Ozzy tour
numerous knife
wounds hunting
and fishing
Right knee –
20 stitches,
knife wound James Hetfield’s Statistics:

Date of Birth: August 3, 1963

Place: L.A.
Height: 6' 1"
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
Weight (On Tour): 175 lbs.
(Off Tour): 185 lbs.

Foot cut open,

beer bottle –
Alaska, May ’89
5 stitches
 Live at Sao Paulo Metallica”. The following Metallica songs
can be found on that CD: “Enter Sandman”,
“Nothing Else Matters”, “Blackened”,

To Listen Or “L ive at Sao Paulo” is a video taped

October 7, 1989 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. I
got this from a mail order place for about
“Battery”, and “For Whom The Bell Tolls”.
In my opinion the result is really good, these
songs get a whole new dimension to them
$20 five years ago, and it’s almost worn out. hearing them electronically with heavy gui-
It’s the typical “Justice” set list and I believe tar riffs mixed through. Of course, this
Not To Listen… it’s the last, or almost the last date on the
tour. The tape starts off kind of blurry (due
release is a must for Metallica fans, you can
hear these songs in really, really different
to the fact the camera’s far back) but when versions here!
That Is The James begins to tear the vocals to
“Blackened”, the zoom is on, and never lets
In 1993 the band released a new
album called “II The Final Option”. By then
up. From then on the picture and the sound the line-up has been completed with guitarist
Question are both pretty good. The camera jumps
around a few times, but not too bad. It’s
Lee Altus (ex-Heathen) and Darren Minter
(drums). The music is even heavier than on
cool to see the Brazilians go crazy as I’m the first album and sounds more and more
sure it’s a rarity for them to see an American like industrial metal than like dance music.
band, let alone the greatest American band. Finally in 1994 they released an album
James taunts the crowd (of course), and the with remixes of songs from both the “I” and
guys seem real loose, especially towards the “II” albums. The songs were remixed by
end. They play a few bars of “Twist of members of other bands as (among others)
Cain”, a little bit of “Ride The Lightning”, Biohazard, the Sisters Of Mercy and Jim
and some Deep Purple. One hilarious Martin (ex Faith No More). The result is an
moment is when the band switches instru- album with a lot of really different versions
ments during “Am I Evil?”. The audience is of already surprising songs.
constantly throwing shit on the stage. To end, I’d like to recommend every
During “Puppets” someone lands a t-shirt on openminded Metallica fan to check this band
James’ guitar, prompting a “Fucking Dick!”.
Of course, nothing can compare to the box,
but it’s cool to see guys play in a different
country, and rip them to shreds, too!
Songs: “Blackened”, “Bells”,
“Sanitarium”, “Harvester”, “Horsemen”,
Jason’s solo “To Live Is To Die”, “Puppets”
(yes, the whole song!), “Fade”, “Seek”,
“Justice”, encores: “One”, “Creeping
Death”, Kirk’s solo “Battery”, “Last
Caress”, “Am I Evil?”, and finally
“Damage, Inc.”
Chad Wilkison
Peru, Indiana

Die Krupps
D ie Krupps were formed in the early
eighties by band leader Jürgen Engler in
Düsseldorf, Germany. The band has some
success in those years with their electronic
dance music. After a few years of silence
the band starts making more heavy music at
the end of the decade. The band then con-
sists of Engler (vocals and guitars), Ralf
Dorper (samples and effects) and Rudiger
Esch (bass guitar).
In 1992 they released an album that’s
simply called “I” (One) that contains a cover
version of Metallica’s “One”. This electron-
ic version sounds really great and is a really
good effort!! The rest of the album consists
of heavy electronic cross over music. If pos-
sible you should check this album out.
Later in ’92 they released a mini-CD PHOTO: JODI HILDERBRAND
with 5 Metallica covers called “A Tribute to
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 SO LET IT BE WRITTEN

out! Not only because they covered some for a Metallica Tribute Part II. Please con-
songs of our favorite band but also because tact Black Sun Records.
they’re an excellent band who aren’t afraid
to expand their horizon and try out new
things! Go and listen to them and find out
yourselves!
Favorite Live Versions
Matthijs Kropff
The Netherlands
E verybody has their own favorite album
or bootleg, but I thought I’d do some-

Metal Militia – A thing a little different for this review. I’m

going to look at my favorite live versions of
different song. It’s cool to see and compare
Tribute To Metallica which songs people like to hear done live.
Maybe this can make you think of your own
favorites.
“Creeping Death” from the San Diego
show on “Binge & Purge”, “Creep” from El
Paso on 5/12/86 – Cliff’s back-up vocals
were killer! “Phantom Lord” from
Stockholm, sweden on 12/12/84 – the crowd
made it really cool. “No Remorse” from San
Francisco on 5/14 or 5/15/85. “For Whom
The Bell Tolls” from “Cliff Em All” home
video. “Bellz” from August 17, 1991.
“Bellz” from Woodstock ’94. “The Thing
That Should Not Be” from the Seattle show
on “Binge & Purge” wasn’t that the heaviest
shit ever? “Enter Sandman” from San
Bernardino on 7/24/94. “One” from
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on 4/4/92.
“Metal Militia” from London on 12/20/84 –
“Metal up you ass!!” “Seek And Destroy”

O from Den Bosch,, Holland on 12/7/92 – that PHOTO: ROSS HALFIN

ut now on Black Sun Records. This
album contains cover versions of the
mighty Metallica, spanning from “Kill ’Em
All” to the “Metallica” album, performed by
the cream of Swedish heavier bands. All
songs are interpreted with intelligence,
integrity and love, as the featured bands all
have grown up with Metallica’s music and
have stuck with them over the years.
Forget about “Nativity In Black”. This is
the most complete and heavy tribute album
of all time.
The line-up is as follows: Sarcazm
(Motorbreath), Luciferion (Fight Fire With
Fire), Idiots Rule (For Whom The Bell
Tolls), Miscreant (Fade To Black),
Snotrocket (Escape), Pagandom (Battery),
Flegma (The Thing That Should Not Be),
Ceremonial Oath (Disposable Heroes),
Afflicted (Leper Messiah), Crystal Age
(Damage, Inc.), In Flames (Eye Of The
Beholder), Dark Tranquillity (My Friend Of
Misery).
Here are the details:
Black Sun Records. Box 129. 401 22
Göteborg, Sweden. Ph +46 31-15 23 23.
Fax +46 31-15 23 40
Semaphore. P.O. Box 213. 1740 AE
Schagen. The Netherlands. Ph 02240-
150 45. Fax 02240-160 01
Plastic Head Music Distribution LTD.
Units 15/15A. Bushell Business Estate.
Hithercoft Wallingford Oxon OX10
9DD England. Ph (0491) 82 50 29, 82 62
33. Fax (0491) 82 63 20.
The price is $15, postage paid all over
the world.
One more thing, we are looking for
bands who play their own material and
bands that feel like doing a Metallica cover
was the best crowd I’ve heard doing that
song with Jaymz! “So What” from San
Bernardino on 7/24/94 – I was there and
that song is always best when you hear it in
person and live.
Well, there you go. Just for the record,
my own personal favorite (studio) song is
“Thingy”. Anyone out there have a similar
list with different songs?
Joe Sarosy
West Covina, California
Friends of Misery
T his live CD starts right away with “Enter
Sandman.” It’s a great version, with the
“bam” right before the music really kicks in.
Right away you can tell “Friends of Misery”
doesn’t have the best quality, but I think that
just makes the music sound a lot heavier. This
is a two CD set, with a picture of James on the
first one and a picture of who I think is Jason
on the second, although it’s hard to tell
because the eyes are not really shown and
instead cut off by the hole in the middle of the
CD. It could be Cliff, but the date of the con-
cert is 2/29/92, so I really doubt that. Here’s
the song line-up: “Enter Sandman”, “Creeping
Death”, “Harvester of Sorrow” (the album
“with the little lady on it”), Guitar Solo Kirk
Hammett, “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”,
“Sad But True”, (“a happy tune”), “Wherever
I May Roam”, Bass Solo Jason Newsted, “My
Friend of Misery” (1 minute 48 seconds of the
beginning bass only), “Orion”, “Through the
Never”, “The Unforgiven”, the three songs
“Eye of the Beholder”, “And Justice for All”,
and “Blackened” (written as individual songs,
but really a Justice medley, as James says), and
finally, Drum Solo. This is a really cool
“song,” it has both Lars and James on separate
drum kits, like in “Live Shit” from San Diego.
Good drumming by both band mates (they
could have a song on their next album with just
drums, and it’d still sound as good as with all
four instruments). But that’s just CD 1. CD 2’s
line-up: “Black Sabbath / Drum Solo” (with
part of “Ironman”, and everyone’s favorite part
in “One”…), then there is Jam Session, where
Kirk plays Deep Purple’s “Mistreated”, the
“For Whom the Bell Tolls”, “Fade to Black”,
“Whiplash”, Jam Session, “Master of Puppets”,
“Seek and Destroy” (15 minutes!!), “One”,
“Last Caress”, “Am I Evil?”, “Battery”, and
then another medley, labeled as the songs:
“Damage Inc.”, “Jumpin’(?) the Fire”, “Fight
Fire With Fire”, and “Metal Militia”. Finally,
they play the usual show-ender, “Stone Cold
Crazy”. If you see the CD, BUY IT!!!! It rules,
and makes the $50 price tag seem like a steal.
Cris Good
Clifton, Virginia
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 A DAY IN THE LIFE
AN ARGUMENT FOR GUN CONTROL?!?
H
i gang! Upon hearing
Tony Smith’s request
for an article for this
new SO WHAT! mag you’re
holding, I had to only scan my memory
banks for an instant to come up with
a story which provides that secure
warm feeling.
This particular story happened
years ago in Northern California and
many details have been lost to time but
you will get the basic picture of what I
was feeling. An interesting note to the
story involves the fact that we all like
to just jam. Just grab guitars and
make up songs or beat on tribal drums.
One song James was playing on the
trip, you’re about to read about, later
became “The God That Failed” from the
Black Album. He was just playing that
on an acoustic guitar while
we all sang along providing
very goofy lyrics. Little
did I know, that song
would some six or seven
years later be on one of
the most successful hard
rock albums of all time.
It was the fall of
1987 and I’ll never forget
the time I went on a
weekend shoot-em up
trip with James and
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By Eric Braverman
This is where I
learned of the boys’
Jason. Jason
invited me up to
extra special
California for a
affection for
weekend cabin cocktails and
trip with the
promise of fun
firearms.
with guns and alcohol. This is where I
learned of the boys’ extra special affec-
tion for cocktails and firearms. The
Ranch House is about an hour or two
north of San Francisco and is owned by
former Faith No More guitarist Jim
Martin and his brother Lou. These guys
have been going there for years party-
ing and pulling triggers. This is a very
special place where Cliff Burton’s ashes
are spread amongst the woodlands, he
so much used to enjoy visiting
while in various stages of
intoxication.
Jason and I met up
with Lou early on during
that weekend and started
drinking and smoking, while
we waited for James and
Jim to show. They were held
up in the city for that
Friday night at a Slayer
show at the now defunct
world famous Stone, where
I’m sure they were
just trying to steal
cool song ideas.
When
they finally did
show up in the
forest, drunk with
guns loaded, they
were unusually
belligerent. All they did was talk shit,
make threats, and shoot rifles and pis-
tols in any direction that suited them.
At this point my safety became a con-
cern, even though being shot to death
by members of Faith and Metallica
would be a cool way to go for a rock-
n-roll fan like myself.
After a few hours of this extreme
terror and danger, I noticed I was get-
ting quite drunk on beer. At this point
the boys broke out the wine, port wine
yuck! I’m not much of a drinker and
thought the port wine would put me too
far into the barf range and tried to
refuse my share of the bottle. The other
campers, all friends of the Hetfields
and Martins, did not appreciate my
stance on responsible drinking. Before I
knew it the boys were joining each
other in a chorus of song about forcing
me to drink the port wine. The song
went something like:
 A DAY IN THE LIFE

Put your mouth on the bottle,

put your mouth on the bottle,
Eric Braverman start drinking,
put your mouth on the bottle
’cause it’s a long long way to
the airport Eric Braverman
It’s a long way to walk to
the airport so...
put your mouth on the bottle

Nothing like peer pressure being

administered by armed long hairs
drunk out of their minds in the middle
of nowhere, especially when it is their
middle of nowhere. I did end up drinking
the wine, which tasted bad going down
and even worse coming back up. But I
did start standing up to Lou, Jim and
James’ harshness, making as many
smart ass comments an hour as I
could. They did not stop threatening me
with either drinking more wine, shoot-
ing me or walking back to my home in
Arizona. That night I tried to bed down
in my sleeping bag to the eerie strains
of the drunken rock stars singing “put
your mouth on the bottle”needless to say
that night I did have to “sleep with one
eye open gripping my pillow tight.”
After an awful night’s sleep which
included about five thousand rounds
shot just yards from my head, I awoke
to more threats and intimidation. I
would like to say at this point that
Jason Newsted was not taking a direct
part in the machismo Wyatt Earp
antics, but can not be excused because
he did laugh quite a bit without coming
to my defense as Martin and Hetfield
continued to brandish weapons in my
direction.
Early that morning as the guys
continued to reload and get loaded I
decided to take a short hike up a close-
by mountain. James asked me to take
some exploding targets up the hill so he
could get some long range shooting
practice in. Little targets actually filled
with gun powder when hit by a high
James and the members of one of his topless hunting clubs.
powered rifle. The targets were painted
with a florescent orange and could be
seen from a great distance. When I got
to the top of the ridge, I looked down
towards the cabin, through the pines I
could barely see Jason, James and Jim
sitting on the porch. I put down the
first target and immediately starting
hearing gunshots. Glancing back down
towards the cabin I see gunsmoke ris-
ing out of gun barrels and hear the
sounds of giggling men and guns locking
and loading. No big deal just some of
my rock-n-roll musical heroes taking
pot shots at me with hunting rifles
from a quarter mile away. Needless to
say I made it back down the hill alive
and bitched at the guys who acted like
I was just some kind of weak spined
person who should have enjoyed being
buzzed by the bullets. I’ve often thought
of plotting a sort of revenge on them
while they are at their most vulnerable,
performing on stage. But at every sin-
gle Metallica show I’ve ever been to,
millions of projectiles are headed
towards the stage anyway as over-
excited stupid fans throw anything
they can towards the band. I have lit-
erally seen two thousand shoes hit the
stage this summer as concert goers are
compelled for some reason to throw
something. In life what comes around
usually goes around and so is the case
in the world of Metallica. Now, don’t
think James and Jason are dangerous
gun-toting maniacs, (just James). This
was just one particular trip I thought
you guys would like to hear about.
Editor’s Note:
Guns are dangerous! Metallica
and The Metallica Club do not recom-
mend or endorse this kind of behavior.
The mixing of guns, alcohol and stu-
pidity is not something we recommend.

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W elcome back to the next installment of
my bootleg review and discography. I was on
vacation during last issue of SO WHAT! for
the holidays, but now I’m back and ready to
get back to doing what I love to do best – talk
to all of you about bootlegs.
First of all I forgot in the last installment
to thank the authors of the METALLIGUIDE
for their help in cross-referencing all of my
entries. This book is the first and only book
that has pictures and track listings for every
Metallica LP that has ever been made. It is
very accurate with venue listings, dates, sound
quality ratings, and countries of origin for the
various LPs, about 117 entries are detailed.
Keep in mind that this book does not have
any information on bootleg CDs. That would
be impossible to be current because there are
about 10 new Metallica CDs coming out every
month from Europe, though that may soon
change. Italy’s government has just changed
their laws regarding the manufacturing of
bootlegs. After Jan. 1, 1995 it will be illegal.
I’m sure there will be a few Italian companies
that will ignore the law and continue to man-
ufacture CDs, but the number of new CDs
starting this year will drastically drop. So I
suggest that if you like to collect these things,
you buy every one you can find, because with-
in a couple of years they will become very,
very hard to find. Italy was the last country in
Europe that allowed LEGAL production of
bootlegs. Germany, and Luxemburg have
changed their laws a few years ago, so now
you have been told! If you would like a copy of
the METALLIGUIDE you should write to fel-
low Club member:
Frank Wegner
Hagenbacher Ring 214
74523 Schwabisch Hall, Germany
OR
Mattias Kraussle
Zeppelinring 14
65468 Trebur, Germany
I have a few updates to mention – songs
that have appeared since the first installment
of this section. First we will discuss new
demos.
1982 MARCH
PRACTICE SESSION
Songs: “Sucking My Love”, “Am I Evil?”, “The
Prince”, “Helpless”, “Hit The Lights”, “Jump
In The Fire”, “Let It Loose”, “Killing Time”.
Band Members: James Hetfield – vocals, Lars
Ulrich – drums, Dave Mustaine – guitar, Ron
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McGovney – bass.
Place Recorded: Ron’s garage – 13004 Curtis
& King Way, Norwalk, CA (please do not write
to this address, it is now in the middle of the
freeway, it was torn down years ago).
These songs formed the band’s first true
demo tape, but only the versions of “Killing
Time” and “Let It Loose” have ever been cir-
culated to anyone except for band members
and friends. The most interesting song is defi-
nitely the old Diamond Head song “Sucking
My Love” from their classic album “Lightning
To The Nations.” This session is the only
known recording of that song, although the
band did play it live at those very early club
shows in March and April of 1982. The song is
filled with great guitar work from a very young
Dave Mustaine, and James doing his best Sean
Harris/Vince Neil vocal. This is an example of
the band doing a cover song straight to the
original, unlike later cover tunes that the band
Metallized and gave their own distinct sound.
The rest of the Diamond Head covers were
also performed in the same style, although it
is very primitive sounding because the band
had only been playing together for three
months at this time. Also James was only
singing on this session, Dave Mustaine was
playing the only guitar part. The versions of
“Hit The Lights” and “Jump In The Fire” are
very primitive, especially “Jump In The Fire.”
Ron McGovney told me this was about the
third time the band had played this song
together, this was a song that Dave had
brought with him when he joined the group
in January 1982. These lyrics are quite differ-
ent than the version on “Kill ’Em All.” From
what I can make out, it’s about a horny guy
being tempted by the devil with sex. Do not
confuse these versions of “Hit The Lights” and
“Jump In The Fire” with the “Metal Massacre
I” or “Power Metal” demos; these are totally
different.
CD – “Sucking My Love” (5 trax) (“Helpless”,
“Killing Time”, and “Let It Loose” are exclud-
ed)
1983 WHIPLASH / NO
REMORSE DEMOS
These demos were discussed in SO
WHAT! Vol. 1, Issue 3, but they have now
come out on CD, and at the correct speed for
the first time. Also on the CD – “Sucking My
Love” (2 trax).
Now back to the live discography starting
with 1986.
by Pat O’Connor
4/05/86 CHICAGO,
ILLINOIS; CHICAGO
PAVILION
LP – “Molten Rock”, “Molten Rock” picture
disc (14 trax)
CD– None to date
This bootleg is a prime example of incor-
rect info on the record causing mass confu-
sion. First of all, the date on the record jacket
says 4/20/86, at the Chicago Pavilion. The
problem with that is Metallica was playing in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on that date. A
quick check of the Japanese “Master of
Puppets” tour book dates verifies this.
Secondly, this 2 LP set is a compilation of two
different shows; one from ’85 and ’86, both
from Chicago, but from different tours. The
sound quality is a good but not great, audi-
ence recording. To fill up space they put on
the “Metal Massacre I” version of “Hit The
Lights” and the March ’82 demos of “Let It
Loose” and “Killing Time.” This bootleg is
pretty rare and the picture discs even more
rare, so swoop on this one if you see it. It’s
also the first bootleg of the “Puppets” tour.
4/27/86 GLEN FALLS,
NY; CIVIC CENTER
LP – “Live Before Death” (7 trax)
CD – None to date for this show; CD called
“Live Before Death” are from different shows
in ’82 and ’84.
This is one of the worst recordings you
will ever hear. This 2 LP and bonus 7" set is a
combination of three shows. The first is the
band’s first S.F. show on 9/18/82, the next is
from the 10/18/82 S.F. show, and next is this
show from Glen Falls, N.Y., from 4/27/86. This
set came on black, red, and pink colored vinyl.
Only if you are a diehard collector should you
buy this set, the price for the colored ones
being quite high for such a poor recording.
4/28/86 UNIONDALE,
NY; NASSAU COLISEUM
LP – “Upshot” (9 trax)
CD – None to date
Another horrible audience recording from
this tour. Why haven’t any soundboards
leaked out from this last American tour with
Cliff? This 2 LP set is another one I can only
recommend if you must have everything and
do not care about the sound.

5/30/86 DAVENPORT,
IOWA; COLISEUM
BALLROOM
LP – None to date
CD – “The Wild Bunch” (14 trax)
This show was finally pressed on a boot-
leg CD in 1993, it took 7 years to surface. This
is a full length show, unlike the 45
minute set the band was given opening
for Ozzy on this tour. I think this was a
headlining Metallica show, because they
played for 70 minutes and even got called
back for a second encore. James states
that this was the first time this happened
on this tour. This is a soundboard record-
ing, unfortunately it is at the wrong
speed, as it plays a little fast. This CD
came from Luxemburg in ’93, which
means it’s out of print now, so it will take
a bit of luck to locate.
7/6/86 ROSKILDE,
DENMARK; ROSKILDE
FESTIVAL
LPs – “Time For Some Fucking Danish
Beer” (12 trax), “Monster of Rock (14
trax), “Damage Inc.” (10 trax)
CD – “Things That Should Not Be” (1
track)
This is the Festival in Denmark that
had Metallica sharing the bill with the
likes of Eric Clapton and Phil Collins. It
has been released on three different LPs.
The one to get is called “Monsters of Rock”,
because it has the full show including the
soundcheck and “Whiplash” with Lars intro-
ducing the song in Danish! This is also on the
above mentioned CD. These LPs are very hard
to find, especially the one called “Damage
Inc.”, even though that LP does not contain
the complete show.
9/21/86 LONDON,
ENGLAND;
HAMMERSMITH ODEON
LPs – “Demonic Invocation” (18 trax), “On
Tour” (10 trax)
CD – “Hammersmith London, ’86”
First off this album is a must have for a
couple of reasons: John Marshall plays guitar
and it is a headlining show where the band
gets a full 90 minutes on stage, so they per-
form a lot of songs that there was not time for
during the Ozzy tour. If you are looking for
this show, get the 2 LP set called “Demonic
Invocation” as it contains the full show with a
great audience recording. This LP is quite rare
so it will not be easy or cheap to find.
9/24/86 LUND,
SWEDEN; OLYMPEN
STADIUM
DISCOGRAPHY
LP – None to date
CD – “Almost The Last Gig Parts I & II” (14
trax)
This is from a very rare show that is mis-
labeled on the CD cover as being from
9/25/86, when in fact they played this city on
9/24/86. This show also had John Marshall fill-
ing in for James on guitar. The sound on this
CD is from an excellent audience recording
with a great Cliff bass solo where he plays the
PHOTO: PAT O’CONNOR
1988 “Monsters Of Rock”,
L.A. California
“Star Spangled Banner” on bass guitar! This is
definitely a must-have show if you can find
this CD. It was never on a record.
9/26/86 STOCKHOLM,
SWEDEN;
SOLNAHALLEN
LP – “The Final Gig” (17 trax)
CD – None to date
As the title implies this recording is from
Cliff’s final gig, on a great night for the band
as this was James’ first show back on guitar,
following his skateboard accident. They also
played a rare live version of “Blitzkrieg”,
replacing “Fight Fire With Fire” which had
been the last encore for the beginning of this
European headlining tour. This 2 LP set is
very hard to find and commands a high price,
usually about $75, which is quite expensive
for a better than average audience recording.
It does have an excellent front cover picture,
from that early set of Ross Halfin pics where
Lars is riding a blow-up bottle of Smirnoff
vodka, with a crazy drunken smile on his face.
11/15/86 JAPAN;
EXACT DATE AND
VENUE UNCONFIRMED
LP – “The Metallilive ’86” (15 trax)
CD – None to date
First off the LP does not verify which of 5
shows that Metallica played in Japan is the
show on this record, so I will list them all
here. November 15, 1986 – Tokyo; Shibuya
Kokido Hall, November 17, 1986 – Nagoya;
Kinro Kaikan Hall, November 18, 1986 –
Osaka; Festival Hall, and two shows November
19 and 20, 1986 – Tokyo; Sun Plaza Hall.
Through research with various Metallica
tape traders (thanks Karl) we have deter-
mined that this show was from the
November 15, Tokyo show. This is one
of the rarest bootlegs that exists. The 2
LP set has been known to go for as high
as $125, so if you got this show consider
yourself lucky. The recording is from an
excellent audience tape, and is the first
bootleg to feature Jason Newsted on bass
guitar. This one is a must for Metallica
fans.
11/28/86 POUGH-
KEEPSIE, NY; CIVIC
CENTER ARENA
LP – “The Freak’s Not Here” (18 trax)
CD – None to date
This is a fairly common 2 LP set
from late in ’86, an excellent audience
recording, and getting live versions of
both “Fight Fire With Fire” and
“Blitzkrieg”, and great cover make this a
show worth buying. You should be able
to buy this for about $40.
12/1/86 NEW YORK
CITY, NY; FELT FORUM
LP – “Assassin” (17 trax), “Angels From Hell”
(4 trax)
CD – None to date
This is a soundboard recording although
it’s a few generations from the master. This 2
LP set was so popular it was repressed 3 differ-
ent times. This LP should be very easy and
inexpensive; no more than $30. Kirk’s guitar
solo entitled here as “The Hamster’s Rage”, is
really cool. He plays “The Munsters” TV show
theme song. Part of this show appears on the
LP “Angels From Hell”, but only 4 songs, so
seek out the “Assassin” LP.
12/13/86 WINNIPEG,
CANADA;
PLAYHOUSE THEATER
LP – “Metal Masters” (8 trax)
CD – “Metal Masters”
The problem with this recording is that it
is at the wrong speed, it plays too fast. That’s
too bad because it was a very energetic perfor-
mance that is ruined with the wrong speed,
pass on this one.
TO BE CONTINUED IN FUTURE ISSUE…
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 AMSTERDAM
DUBLIN
ROME
So Let It Be Done
PARIS
KNOXVILLE
LONDON
LOCAL CHAPTER INFO
PERTH El Paso Blitzkrieg Mid Ohio Militia
OSAKA Objectives: Objectives:
• form a Metallifanzine Mid Ohio Militia is just a small chapter (20
RIO DE JANEIRO • carpool to concerts members) but it’s growing bigger everyday with
NEGRIL MOSCOW • getting together for meetings / parties the help of heavy recruiting by all. We call this
• recruiting new members chapter MOM because the average age of the
If interested, write to: original members is 28. We stress the importance
PITTSBURGH Patricia (Pat) Bernal to our younger members of staying in school and
KIEV 1106 E. Yandell #2 drug free.
BERN El Paso, Texas 79902, USA • recruit new members
BELFAST • design chapter t-shirt
BERLIN • tailgate parties before shows
The Fort Horsemen • correspond with other chapters
• club meetings/parties
BELGRADE Objectives: • charity work
NEW YORK • Metallica listening parties If interested, write to:
• world domination John Sims
• newsletter 1121 Tarkiln Rd. #126
• carpool to concerts Lancaster, Ohio 43130, USA
• jam sessions
• kill or at least seriously maim Jethro Tull
If interested, write to:
The Fort Horsemen The Northeast Leathered
Brian Wohlgemuth
1716 Franklin Ave., Apt. B
Armies
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46808, USA Objectives:
or call (219) 426-SEEK (7335) • put together a tribute to Cliff Burton
• keep in touch with other chapters
• carpools to shows
Danish Anesthesia • getting together for meetings
• hanging out (clubs, parties, movies, etc.)
Objectives: • promote THE CLUB at shows
• swap meets • catalog the chapter’s audio, video
• carpool to concerts collection
• writing letters to The Metallica Club • tape trading
• listening parties If interested, write to:
• corresponding with other chapters Jason Nowinski
• getting new members HC 62 Box 30A
• design local chapter t-shirt Long Pond, Pennsylvania 18334, USA
If interested, write to:
DALLAS BUDAPEST Niels Christmann
Bregnevej 10
9800 Hjørring, Denmark Are We Evil?!?!
BETHEL PARK Objectives:
BIRMINGHAM • carpool to concerts

ATHENS
Hellbent For Free Beerz • hanging out / jamming together
• Metallica listening parties
SEATTLE Objectives: If interested, write to:
• carpool to concerts Dave Frank
MADRID • trade bootlegs, videos, and other goodies 723 3rd St. S.E.
MANILA • correspondence with other chapters Cresco, Iowa 52136, USA
• recruiting new members or call: (319) 547-4143
LISBON OSLO • newsletter which tells you about what’s
SAN FRANCISCO going on in our chapter
If interested, write to:
Mads Bregenou
Middlesex Area Metallicats
HELSINKI MEXICO CITY Espedalen 85 Objectives:
8240 Risskou, Denmark • tape trading
• “pure and sick” fanzine
• jam sessions
STOCKHOLM Creep and Destroy Reno • car pooling for shows
• roaming on Metallica tours
ISTANBUL Objectives: • hanging with other chapters
CHICAGO To be decided by members. If interested, write to:
If interested, write to: Samantha Nickerson
Nicole Lake 7 Briarcliff Rd.
COPENHAGEN 924 Greenbrae Dr. Hopkinton, Massachusetts 01748, USA
Sparks, Nevada 89431-2104, USA or call: (508) 435-4830
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 SO LET IT BE DONE
No Name At This This Time ing or being a member of a local chapter) and could
be quite a time consuming job! Think about it care-
Objectives: fully before you decide to become a Chapter Head.
• vote on chapter name
• design chapter t-shirt HOW DO I JOIN A LOCAL CHAPTER?
• concert road trips First, you should be a member of The Metallica
• listening parties Club. Then you read the notices in this section to
• send in contest entries and letters as a chapter find a local chapter near you OR you send a self
If interested, write to: addressed stamped envelope to us and we will send
Rachel Tulley you a list of all registered local chapters. Then sim-
7517 Terry Drive ply contact the Chapter Head of whichever chapter
LaVista, Nebraska 68128, USA interests you. Remember, local chapters, registered
or unregistered, are NOT part of The Metallica
Club, therefore we cannot guarantee or comment on
Trapped Under Kulpsville how efficient, good or honest a local chapter,
Chapter Head or chapter members will be.
Objectives:
• SSDC: Same Stuff, Different Chapter
Philly, ’burbs and nearby areas.
HOW DO I REGISTER A LOCAL CHAPTER?
Once you have at least three Metallica Club
If interested, write to:
Ginna DiDonato
members in your chapter, the Chapter Head should
write to us with the following: a) Chapter Head’s
P.O. Box 165 name, address, telephone number, and membership
Kulpsville, Pennsylvania 19443, USA
number. b) Name of chapter (remember this name
must include your local area). c) List of chapter
No Name At This Time members with their Metallica Club membership
numbers.
Objectives: Upon verification, we will then assign a regis-
• organize “Metallimosh nights” tered chapter number and inform the Chapter Head.
• gatherings (movies, malls) All future local chapter correspondence will be
• jam sessions directed through the Chapter Head.
• swap meets Being a registered local chapter basically means:
If interested, write to: 1) If someone writes to us asking for a list of local
Joe Click chapters then only registered local chapters will be
100 West Michelle Lane on that list. 2) Correspondence from The Metallica
Pendleton, Indiana 46064 will only be sent to “registered” local chapters.
or call: (317) 778-7053
WHY FORM OR JOIN A LOCAL CHAPTER?
Milwaukee Metallians We do not particularly recommend or suggest
that forming or joining a local chapter is the right
Objectives: thing for you to do. It is merely an idea that we
• Metallibashes think has some interesting possibilities. Local chap-
• tape trading ters will be given some priority when special events
• newsletter are planned by The Metallica Club. It is difficult to
• correspondence with other chapters
If you want to join the chapter, I’ll need your
club membership # and $4.00 to cover paper and
stamp costs.
If interested, write to:
BULLETIN BOARD
T.J. Rinaldi
3890 Neuberry Court TheHere
Frayed Ends of Arlington
Brookfield, Wisconsin 53005 is a list of objectives for our chapter:
1) get new members for The Metallica Club, 2)
create a newsletter, 3) design a local chapter t-
HOW TO START A LOCAL CHAPTER shirt, 4) any ideas members can think of.
I was thinking of a way of having a trivia
WHAT IS A LOCAL CHAPTER? contest between local chapters. We can use
A non-fee paying group made up of at least three computers! I’m sure most everyone would have
Metallica Club members, in a particular area, who access to a computer that they could use. Using
are in contact with each other on a regular basis and a simple bulletin board program we could set
who register with The Metallica Club. Joining a up a trivia contest between a couple of chapters
local chapter should be free. If anyone attempts to at a time, depending on how many phone lines
charge money we suggest that you do not join and the host computer would have. I think this
inform us immediately. If, however, a chapter head would be a really cool way to bring together the
requests a small fee for mailing purposes that you members without the travel hassles. Just a
consider reasonable, this is acceptable. wacky idea, or a plan for the future, you decide.
Darren Grabowski, Chapter Head
HOW DO I VOLUNTEER TO FORM A LOCAL 1905 W. Arbrook, Arlington, TX 76015, USA
CHAPTER?
When a member is interested in forming (not just
joining) a local chapter they should write to us at Creepin’ Dortmund
our address with the following details: 1) Name and Thanks Creepin’ Dortmund for sending us
membership number, 2) A name for their chapter at The Metallica Club a copy of your newslet-
(should include the local area eg. The Fort Worth ter. It was quite amusing.
Horsemen), 3) An address which we can publish in
the magazine, to which anyone who is interested in
joining can write, 4) A list of aims and activities
Metal Militia Aalst
Here I am again with some news about
that the chapter is or will be involved in eg. swap what we’ve been doing here. First of all, we’re
meets, vehicle pooling for shows, etc.
counting ten now. I’m looking forward to the
This person will then be known as a “Chapter Belgian Metal Convention because things like
Head.” Be aware!! Being a Chapter Head is volun-
tary work (no fees should ever be charged for join-
be specific at this point but some examples of possi-
ble events are: 1) Backstage passes to some
Metallica shows. 2) Assistance in getting tickets to
some sold out Metallica shows. 3) Special awards to
local chapters who do exceptional things, i.e. charity
work, contributions or ideas for improving The
Metallica Club etc.
These are merely examples, as you and we both
come up with more ideas and suggestions, the The
Metallica Club could become more involved with
local chapters. We are not placing any limitations
(except all activities must be legal!) on what ideas
we will or will not consider. If you suggest it, we
will consider it! We do not wish to make receiving
benefits from The Metallica Club the reason for
forming or joining local chapters. We see it more as
an opportunity for Metallica supporters to get to
know other like-minded people in their area.
THINGS WE HATE TO SAY – BUT HAVE TO!
Being a registered local chapter does not mean or
imply that The Metallica Club in any way endorses or
approves of the Chapter Head, chapter members or
chapter activities. It simply means that a chapter has
registered to receive any benefits and information
which local chapters, and Metallica Club members in
general, may be eligible for. Local chapters are not
affiliated with, do not represent, and cannot act, or
make promises, on behalf of The Metallica Club.
SOME GENERAL COMMON SENSE ADVICE:
It is always a good idea to be cautious about what
information and personal details you give out to
people.
It is never a good idea to arrange to meet with a
single or group of strangers in unfamiliar or uncer-
tain circumstances. Public places, daylight hours and
a friend or parent accompanying are always good
ideas.
It is never a good idea to part with money or
goods unless you know exactly what and when you
will be receiving in exchange. Be aware of any
uncertainties that you may have – be sensible!
these don’t happen too often around here.
Here are some future plans:
• First of all, in the past I asked for some
money to pay for posting the newsletters. I’m
planning to make this chapter completely for
free very soon.
• If ordering in small quantities is possible, I
am going to make some MMA stickers to hand
over to the members.
• We would also like to organize a competition
for this chapter. We’re still looking for an inter-
esting prize.
Yves Lagrou
Blektestraat 96
9308 Hofstade (AALST), Belgium
THE METALLICA CLUB
BULLETIN BOARD
This is a feature that will advertise upcoming
events, oddities and items from around the
world which may be of interest to members.
We will also advertise local Club chapters
and their plans. To have an item included in
this feature send it to:
THE METALLICA CLUB
SO LET IT BE DONE
PO BOX 18327
KNOXVILLE, TN 37928-2327, USA
Sorry! We are unable to return any items!
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 The section which features the guys themselves! In each issue one (or more) of the guys will write an article about… well, just about
anything! Subjects which we come up with, subjects which you come up with or just stuff that they feel like writing.
In this issue, James provides a visual documentary of his killer instincts, Kirk tells us about a family car, and Jason continues his playlist.

Many of you write in and ask about James’ hunting experiences, so

we thought what could be better than to let you see some photos of
James in the field, so to speak. We should point out, not all of the guys in
Metallica are keen hunters, or for that matter, any kind of hunters.
James is the most avid, but he is quick to point out, he does indeed eat
what he kills.
As you can see, some of the photos are quite graphic in nature, but to
pretend that hunting is any less bloody would be an injustice on our part.
We know there are those amongst our members who do not agree
with or condone hunting, we respect their opinions and trust they will
realize we are not attempting to glorify or make light of the subject.
Indeed, we believe the photos themselves show exactly how seriously
hunting must be taken. From either viewpoint, pro or anti, it is some-
thing that should not be taken lightly..
But for now, from the safety of these pages, let’s put on our hunting
caps, pick up our shotguns and join James in the hunt for that Wascally
Wabbit!.. That’s all folks!

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JAMES’ AND • Skiing in Colorado

• “Hard Boiled”
KIRK’S PLAYLIST • “Meantime”
• New Metallica songs!! • Hangin’ at KNAC for the
last 3 hours of airtime
• Killing Joke
“Pandemonium”
LARS’ PLAYLIST • Oasis live at the Fillmore
• Mercyful Fate live at
Once again in place of a The Troc
playlist (much too limiting) • Mercyful Fate jam at
here is the current “vibe my house
list”: • Running
• Tribal art
• The new Metallica tunes • Barnett Newman
• Oasis “Definitely Maybe” “Selected Writings and
• Bombay Sapphire Martini Interviews”
• Sharks Hockey • Corrosion of Conformity
• The new White Zombie “Deliverance”
PHOTO: ROSS HALFIN

album • Buddy Guy “Slippin In”

• Armored Saint “Symbol • “Pulp Fiction” Soundtrack • Abstract expressionism
Of Salvation” • Dead Can Dance “A Passage In Time” • Grape Nuts
• “The Last Seduction” • AC/DC “Let There Be Rock” • blah…blah…blah…

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9

CLUB NEWS

◆ 10 credits – A rare “Summer Shit”

WE GOT IT!!!
At last, we can now accept Visa
and Mastercard as a method of pay-
ment for any of the services we offer.
The minimum charge amount is $5.00.
As with all credit charges we need the
card holder’s name, the card type and
number, expiration date, amount to be
bership # and enclose payment of
$17.90 (includes p+p). Send to:
Metallistock Shirt c/o the regular
address. This is open to ALL members,
but we do only have a very few remain-
ing.
METALLI-
local crew t-shirt
◆ 15 credits – A special “Gold
Signature” framed award
◆ 20 credits – $50.00 credit
towards merchandise
◆ 25 credits – A personal phone call
from band member of your choice
◆ 30 credits – Two tickets and VIP

MEMBERS
charged and authorized signature. We
hope this proves to be a help. passes to any future Metallica show
◆ 100 credits – A personalized

METALLISTOCK Due to popular demand we have

decided to extend our Metalli-
Members reward scheme until
Black Album Platinum Award
◆ Between 31 – 99 credits – Lots
of cool stuff! We won’t let it go unre-

SHIRTS
Being the thoughtful, diligent people
November 30th 1995. For those
who are unaware, the Metalli-
Members scheme works as follows:
warded!!!

we are, when we first received the STEP 1 Complete and return follow-
Metallistock shirts we held back a num- ing form to register in Metalli- Okay, sounds kinda cool. Register
ber of them to accommodate our over- Members. (If you don’t register we me for Metalli-Members
seas members and local chapter mem-
bers (who had priority). It has now been can’t keep track.) NAME:
__________________________________
a reasonable STEP 2 We will send the required
amount of time, number of application forms to you
we believe, for MEMBERSHIP #:
__________________________________
these people to
with your membership # on them.
respond, so we STEP 3 Whenever we receive one of ADDRESS:
are now releasing __________________________________
these forms back from a new mem- __________________________________
the last few ber we will add a credit to your
shirts to all mem- __________________________________
bers. We only record.
__________________________________
have size XL STEP 4 As your credits grow you will
remaining. If you receive the following: I would like ______ application forms.
wish to order one (Enter # – max. 25. More available
please write out ◆ 5 credits – A personalized auto- on request.)
your name, mem- graphed 8" x 10" picture
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 A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

The Car That

Wouldn’t Die!!!

O nce upon a time

(1971–1973 to be exact)
Kirk and his family owned PHOTO: ROSS HALFIN

a 1956 Dodge Coronet.

They used to have such a
wonderful time in that car
going to drive-in movies,
picnics, and sometimes
just cruising around town.
The family sold the car
in 1973 much to Kirk’s
dismay. However, many
years later and after a lot
of detective work, Kirk
found the car in a vacant
lot, up on wooden blocks,
rusted and trashed. He
bought it for $500.
Kirk and his family
worked together to
restore it, and after one
and a half years, their
hard work paid off. They
preserved the original fin-
ish and the original interi-
or. After putting in a new
engine, the transforma-
tion was complete!
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 A WORD FROM OUR SPONSORS

Howdy Metallifreaks!!
As you guys know, we’re headed into the stu-
GENERAL PLAYLIST
dio once again. Usually in the days and weeks lead- Beatles – “Revolver”
ing up to recording, our off-tour everyday life Led Zeppelin – “Physical Graffiti”
becomes filled with busy-ness and a certain cool,
grinding, unnerving Metalli-tension. Motörhead – “Bomber”
It’s about this time that I dig back into the Los Lobos – “Will The Wolf Survive”
fundamentals of my instrument and turn to the Black Sabbath – 1st 5 albums
music that guides me in that the best.
So, my playlist for the super-duty Hatefield AC/DC – 1st 5 albums
issue includes some names that you’ve seen on all Mountain – “Best Of Mountain”
of our lists before. I’m also going to start a series Kiss – “Hotter Than Hell”, “Love Gun”,
here with some of the first and most important blues
cats that formed the building blocks of true, dark “Alive”
grooves and the basis and roots of the heavy music Riot – “Narita”, “Fire Down Under”
we all dig so much. Jump in and hang on! O’Jays – Best
C-Ya
Jackson 5 – 3rd album
Police – Box
Sly and the Family Stone – Anthology
BLUES DUDES UFO – All
Clash – “London Calling”
Thin Lizzy – All
Venom – All

I can’t close this first episode of the Blues

CHARLIE PATTON – Born in 1887, Charlie
Patton was one of the creators of what is
known as the Mississippi Delta Blues. I
chose Charlie first because he was the
most influential artist of his time and
region. His unusual guttural, gruff and bark-
ing vocal along with unheard of guitar
prowess set the standard for what was to
come. Recorded on Vocalion 1930-4.
N’ Grooves without also mentioning these
other greats of the time!
BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
LEROY CARR
LONNIE JOHNSON (KIRK’S FAVE)
LEADBELLY (HUDDIE LEDBETTER) – A huge man in HONEY BOY EDWARDS
stature and in the history of black American folk FURRY LEWIS
song. He composed and recorded many ballads, BIG BILL BROONZY
blues, dance songs and children’s songs. He BLIND WILLIE McTELL
accompanied his massive voice with 12-string gui- SCRAPPER BLACKWELL
tar, accordion, harmonica and more. He most like- BROWNIE McGHEE
ly would have been recorded prior to 1933, but he SONNY TERRY
spent many of his middle years in prison for
assault and murder. There are over 200 pieces of
Leadbelly music in existence for us to enjoy today.
recorded for various labels 1933-48. Check out
Library of Congress recordings.

SON HOUSE – My personal favorite acoustic blues

performer. His amazingly mature recordings are
unsurpassed in their unity of voice and instrument.
His hand strength and coordination, cut-to-the-bone
slide style, and chilling, God-fearing vocal preach-
ings are unmatched in my opinion. Son House BLIND WILLIE McTELL LONNIE JOHNSON
1930-42 Library of Congress recordings are bril-
liant. (There is also great video available of this
guy, if you ever get a chance, do yourself a favor…)

ROBERT JOHNSON – Regarded by many as the “King of the Delta Blues”, Robert
Johnson has become incredibly well known 60 years after his mysterious death,
and with good reason. A visionary artist whose charisma carries on strong
through his inventive, suave, boogie-based music. A “student” of Charlie Patton,
Willie Brown, and Son House, and “teacher” to Muddy Waters, Elmore James,
BB King and scores more to follow. His importance as a transitional figure
between country-blues style and Chicago and other styles cannot be stressed
enough. His effect on music-specialists, musicians and listeners is being heard BROWNIE McGHEE FURRY LEWIS
and felt as hauntingly as ever today. (The complete recordings from Vocalion
are superb.) Give ’em an ear if you get the opportunity!
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 “…And Justice
For All Thy People”
by
by Nilesh
Nilesh Zacharias
Zacharias

Hail, holy Metallica,

Ruler of our planet.
The four great emperors:
Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted and
Hammett.
Thou art the supreme power;
My existence, I owe to thee.
Thy faithful follower,
I shall be eternally.
Metallica’s celestial empire;
One that will never fall.
Do not ignore thy people in
India,
Please hear us call.
I survive on thy heavenly music,
Like it’s pure oxygen gas.
O holy one, please come to
Bombay
And kick some fuckin’ ass!!
William Hendrickson

Grace Hudecek

UNTITLED by Amy Kay

Too smart to believe my being different is a God-given affliction and too dumb to try to conform
myself. Ever seen fly paper? Once a fly gets stuck on it he lives the rest of his life there. Only the ones
who really wanna live get free, they sacrifice their legs and then they can never walk again, only fly. I can’t
even begin to struggle yet – I’m still a baby, a larvae. But I cry for those who did not make it, and maybe
the wetness may loosen the glue a little for others who try.
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 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Tribute To Metallica
Author unknown, James found it and thought it was cool.

People often wonder what makes me like this band

My undying admiration, they just can’t understand
They tell me it’s just violent shit, this phase will pass with youth
They don’t look below the surface to find a deeper, darker truth.

They tune it out instinctively, they have some inbred screening

They say they hear the biting words, they don’t listen for the meaning
Taken at face value, the lyrics may offend
But there’s a striking truth and wisdom in the messages they send.

There’s something in the music, you hear, but more, you feel
Something almost tangible, something very real
To most, it may seem hectic, a raging blur of speed
But that supplies the power for the impact that they need.

I like my music hard and fast, I think it’s really great

There’s just so much they look right past, they can’t appreciate
I don’t ask that they like it – it’s an acquired taste
But sometimes I get so angry when with ignorance I’m faced.

Just accept that it has merit, even though it’s not your style
And stop ripping it apart with your smug and mocking smile
I’ll stand by my conviction, your approval I don’t need
I seek only to enlighten of the true nature of the breed.

Paula Pasalodos Perez

Paco Hammett Desterbecq Claude

The Idiot Nation and the Boy Who Questioned

The idiots marched ’round and ’round in a perfect circle
flanked on either side by the men in blue who kept them
in line. There was but one gap in the circle where the
head, whom everyone called “the man,” marched. He
spoke softly and carried a big stick. Everyone did what
the man told them, and he told them to walk in an orderly
circle; no one questioned, until one day, a boy left his
spot in the line, and walked to the center of the circle.
“Hey man,” said the boy. “Why do we walk around in a
circle?” The idiots stopped.
The man, momentarily shocked, gathered his wits and
replied, “I do not believe I understand the question, boy.”
by Michael Hukkanen
“Well,” said the boy, “There are so many directions to
walk; why do we just walk in a circle?”
“You forget,” said the man. “When we walk in a circle
we travel in every direction possible.”
“But we go nowhere,” said the boy.
“And where would you have us go?”
“Anywhere, look” said the boy; he gestured to the land
around them.
“But there is nothing to see,” said the man.
“Then listen.”
“But there is nothing to hear.”
“Every day we walk in a circle, digging a trench with
our feet; eventually we will be unable to climb out, for the
trench will be too deep,” said the boy.
“Do you claim to be a prophet, boy?”
“No, but every time we try to talk you say ‘Be silent
and listen.’ If we had a possession for every truth you told
we wouldn’t have a pot to collectively piss in.”
“Ah, the lad fancies himself a poet,” said the man to
the masses as he bashed in the boy’s skull.
Left, right, left, right, the idiots resumed marching. In
the end though, the boy proved a prophet indeed, for the
Idiot Nation died of starvation at the bottom of the trench
in desperate need of a place to pee.

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 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Jennifer Castillo

Debbie Burrows

So What
(the Nebraska version)
by Rachel Tulley and Jeffrey Delzeit
Well I’ve been to Hastings and I’ve been to Lincoln
I’ve been to Bellvue too
So what, so what

Well I’ve shucked here, I’ve shucked there

I’ve shucked every shucking where
So what, so what, so what so what
You fat ol’ fuck

Well who shares, who shares

With you?
Well who shares, who shares
WE do, do, do do, do-be-do-be-do

We hate fags, we hate punks

We hate them city-folk too
So what, so what Jerry Ahkang

We raise cows, we raise hogs

We hunt deers with big rabid dogs
So what, so what, so what so what
Iowegians suck

Well who shares, who shares

With you?
Well who shares, who shares
WE do, do, do do, do-be-do-be-do

We got bears, we got guns

Ain’t y’all heard of the Henry Doorly Zoo?
So what, so what

We smoke grass, we chew dip

We drink beer and we don’t sip
So what, so what, so what so what
You fat ol’ fuck

Well who shares, who shares

With you?
Well who shares, who shares
WE do, do, do do, doooooooooo-oh…SO CORNHUSKERS SUCK! Ingo Knollmann

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 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

Akam. Hetfield Alejandro Hernández

Luke Hamlin Gustavo Lopez Maria Alamo

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 EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

The Frontman
by Cheryl DeCicco

Standing outside the Village Gate,

Two hours in the biting winds of change
Blowing down MacDougal Street.
Your blonde, arrogant self
Trying to bum that last cigarette.
Should have known then that you were
Mom’s proverbial bad boy.
Fascination with your hair, your eyes.
Disbelieving that such as you,
Could be attracted to such as I.
Thinking I was just a casual, diverting fuck.
How was I to know intentions purely honorable?
Hit me like a thunderbolt.
I know you sensed my hesitation.
But then, you always read me like a book.
Why should the first time be any different?
Out of my mind with lust, you know.
Something counted on by you.
Just a little, naive fool.
You played me like that damn guitar.
Never quite expected to wind up where we are.
Forbid me not to love you, now.
You’ve gotten underneath my skin,
Just like that fucking snake tattoo.

This is your section to display your artistic tenden-

Metallica
Metallica And
And Justice
Justice For
For All
All
by Brian McCarty
Along with us as we traveled the land,
Were four men in a heavy metal band.
They are a strange collage.
They started the band from their garage.
They traveled playing hard and fast,
And everyone knew that their music would last.
As they played quickly with their picks,
Fire shot into the air from pyrotechnics.
Fans spread wide and far.
To see the show they came by foot and car.
A man named Cliff used to play bass,
But the Reaper came and Jason took his place.
Kirk, who now has long dreds,
Plays the guitar as everyone bangs their heads.
Jaymz s voice and metal riffs strong and loud,
Rip through the energetic crowd.
Lars pounding drums pierce the black night,
As he plays among the bright and colorful
dancing lights.
People said that their music was evil and bad,
But the fans don t care and they never had.
Some fans say, “They are of wolf and man!”
But they just play with their heart and soul the best
as they can.
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 Interview With the
Scary Guy by AOL Club Member
Stevene127

KL: So, tell me Scary Guy, how did you meet for these guys. I did feel a little naked up there, but
As you may have Metallica? I think that allowed me to score with more chicks
after the show. After all, I got a lot to offer!!!
SG: Well, let me see Kurt. This Hetfield guy was
pissing around with a pen one day, and squirted KL: How do you feel about the comparisons
noticed, MTV’s Kurt some ink in the wrong place, and lo and behold I
was born.
between you and Eddie (of Iron Maiden)?
SG: Eddie likes to be flashy and fashionable, and I
KL: So you refer to Jaymz as Dad? like to be very simplistic – as plain and simple as
Loder, recently visited SG: Jaymz may be my creator, but all the guys are
possible. I think that I am much more suited to
Metallica based on my personality; and Eddie, of
like brothers to me.
course, in his and their own way, suits Maiden.
and interviewed KL: How did you feel about the guys adopting you
as a mascot?
KL: Are you friends?
SG: We talk on occasion, but not much as of late.
SG: Well, Kurt, I cannot tell you how thrilled I
Madonna in Spain and was. It made my body quiver, like… well I don’t
want to get into that… but anyway, I was ecstatic
KL: I noticed at the Woodstock festival you were
really “into it”, complete with bandanna, flowers,
to say the least. and peace necklace. What was this all about?

talked to her about KL: Were you equally received by the guys in the
crew?
SG: Well Kurt, the guys put me up to it. As we all
now know Woodstock is spelled, “Wood$tock” –
run by money hungry corporate sponsors, so we
SG: Oh, yes, they were supportive the whole way
her new video, “Take a through. In fact we all drink and hang out together
on a regular basis.
thought it would be cool to poke some fun at it,
thus the “Hippie Shit: Beads & Peace” thing with
the flowers and the contact lenses with the dollar
KL: Although you have been around for several signs in them – they hurt like hell!! And since
Bow”. I thought this years now, it seems that you got your big break
during the latter half of the “Black” album tour.
Metallica Ruled, we renamed it “Metallistock”.
KL: And of course, “Hippie Shit: Beads & Peace”
Where were you before that time, and how did you
is analogous to “Live Shit: Binge and Purge” –
interview/special was get thrust into the limelight?
SG: Well, you see, Kurt, I was just finishing my
Metallica’s live video-CD box set!!??
SG: That is correct. And don’t forget there is a
Master’s degree at Stanford at the time when Lars
stencil of me in there!!!
so absurd that I approached me about joining the tour. I wasn’t
available at the time, but I told him that in a month KL: How does it feel to be so highly regarded that
or so I would be open. As far as getting thrust into there is a stencil of you?
the spotlight, we felt equally that I was fully quali-
couldn’t resist having fied for the position.
SG: I’ve come a long way baby… people have
expressed interest in having me on neckties, and
KL: And so you’re pursuing your Ph.D. in psy- tattoos as well!!! Yes it feels good. But the underly-
chology? ing focus remains the same – to symbolize the best
Kurt interview SG: Yes, Kurt… By the way is that a microphone
band in the world in a very subtle way, without
being flashy.
in you pants???

Metallica’s very own KL: I beg your pardon!!!???

KL: Well, Scary Guy, this has been a very enjoy-
able interview do you have any final comments or
SG: Aww, never mind. questions?

Scary Guy. Here’s how KL: How did you feel about being the backdrop to
Metallica’s stage.
SG: Yes Kurt, Is that REALLY a microphone in
your pants?
SG: Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t settle

it went: for “second fiddle”, but as I said before, anything

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 I’M A STUDENT in Montpellier, in the south of
PERSONAL CLASSIFIEDS France. I’m learning physical geography. Next year
IN CONCERT METALLICA PHOTOS! Shot by will be my fourth year, so I have to write a memoir (in
myself 7/30/94 in Las Vegas. Selling 20x28 poster size French) about a particular item. I think mine will deal
prints. Send S.A.S.E. for price list and free 3x5 sam- with Maritime Life. In order to write it, I will have to
ples. Scott Harrison , P.O. Box 12365, Las Vegas, travel in many countries. But I can’t afford it. So I’d
NV 89112, USA, Phone and Fax: (702) 435-3686 like to find people who could receive me for a few
days. Of course, I could receive him/her in France. For
PICTURE DISCS and other rare Metallica vinyl. more information please write: Frédéric Galinier, 126
Also rare CDs and audio/video for sale or trade. Send rue de la Frigoule, 34700 Lodeve, France
S.A.S.E. legal size envelope for updated list. John
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Phone: (805) 526-1973 quality audio and video to offer, either low generation
or on CD. Your list gets mine, write me!: Eric
VIDEO: WOODSTOCK II, Saugerties, New York Nielsen, 1300 University City Blvd., Apt. #2501,
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Highest quality! This video kicks ass!! Send $20 1348, E-Mail: nielsen@apollo.aoe.vt.edu
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QUALITY AUDIOS BY METALLICA and related
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Please send SAE/IRC or your low generation trade list
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ATTENTION METALLICA AUDIO/VIDEO
COLLECTORS! If you have any rare audio/video
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me!! Call or write: Andy Zook, 12-9 Woodlake Rd.
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METALLIBASHERS! One of the best world selec-
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video from 1982 to 1994. Trades welcome. Write for
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ATTENTION METALLIFREAKS! I have tons of
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quality! Send S.A.S.E. for shitlist! Matt Schneider
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WANTED Metallica audio from 1982 to 1994. Will
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200 shows. Low generations and high quality. To get
my list please send your lists to: Greg Vick, 825 E.
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BUSINESS CLASSIFIEDS
65 CONCERTS WITH CLIFF. Plus over 160 other C.B.X. KIX ASS: Tons of CDz, vidz, and tapes. Free
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come from New Jersey, I’m a big hock- Grand Centre, Alberta TOA 1T1 P.O. Box 591 Send it to:
ey fan, and I also sing.) Canada Bar Mills, Maine 04005, USA The Metallica Club
MUHAMMAD SHAMIM IMRAN
Wherever I May Write
GREGORY McGEARY ANDREA BERRUTTI P.O. Box 18327
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Petaling Jaya, (I’m currently in the U.S. Navy, but C.P. 1826, Buenos Aires, Argentina on mail to come to you.
Selangor, Malaysia would like to correspond with people in (I would like someone to send me the We cannot be responsible for death or dis-
(Would like to correspond with mem- my hometown Pittsburgh, PA. I’ll be words from whichever Metallica memberment as a result of publishing your
bers from Malaysia.) address. You know the risks.
back there real soon.) covers.)
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