People Related To Metallica
Andy Battye
Jayms' guitar
roadie
John Bush
John Bush is
currently the lead singer for Anthrax, formerly the singer for Armored Saint.
John
is a tremendously gifted
vocalist who was asked to join the band just previous to "Ride The
Lightning", this
move would have enabled James to handle rhythm guitar only. James, at this
point was still not very
confident about playing guitar AND singing.
Paul Curcio
Producer of
Kill'em All.
Jim David
Owner of One on
One recording studios in Hollywood. The Black Album AND "...And Justice
For All" were
recorded there.
Mark Devito
Mark Devito (and
Pushead) do a majority of the artwork for T shirts and merchandise
Steve Doherty
He tought Cliff
playing the bass from end of the year 1978 to the beginning of 1980. Steve
introduced Cliff several
styles ranging from Classical to Jazz.
Adam Dubin
directed the
video for "Nothing Else Matters" and the behind-the-scenes footage in
the video for
"Wherever I May
Roam". The footage for these two videos was part of the footage from his
two
part documentary on
Metallica, "A Year And A Half In The Life". A graduate of New York
University film school.
Ross Halfin
Metallicas
photograph on many of their tours. You can find his work on many of their
albums,
as well as in tour
programmes, magazines etc. Mr. Halfin has also worked for Iron Maiden, and
other famous metal bands
Rebecca Hammett
Kirk's ex-wife
Zach Harmon
Jason's bass
roadie
Tomi Iommi
Tony Iommi of
Black Sabbath taught James his guitar techniques.
Wayne Isham
directed the
videos for "Enter Sandman", "Wherever May I Roam", "Sad
But True" and "I Dissapear". Also
directed the San Diego
portion of "Live Shit: Binge And Purge" which he used footage from to
make the videos for
"Roam" and "Sad...". A great video director who has worked
with many
different artists
including a great deal of work with Bon Jovi. He won a MTV Video Vanguard
Award with Bon Jovi at
the VMAs one year.
Ken "3AM" Jack
On the Ride thi
Lightning thank you list you'll find the Ken 3am mentioned. His really name is
Ken Jacobsen, an old
friend of the band. He is credited in "Ride The Lightning" as Ken
"3AM"
Jack because, according
to James and Ken, they went to his apartment at 3 in the morning
looking to borrow his
acoustic guitar. This is the acoustic guitar you hear on "Ride...", as
they
could not find a guitar
to sound right.
Fleming Larsen
Lars Ulrich's
drum roadie. Lars is Danish, so is Fleming, and that's the reason why you can
see
a Danish flag on the
live drum kit.
Matt Mahurin
directed the
vidoes for "The Unforgiven" and "King Nothing". Was asked to
direct "One" but
turned it down because
he didn't want to deal with the footage from "Johnny Got His Gun".
Another superb director
who has worked with everyone from Motley Crue to Bonnie Raitt.
Directed a number of
videos for Queensryche as well.
John Marshall
John Marshall was Kirks'
long time friend and guitar tech (or roadie) at the time of James'
"accident"
during the Ozzy tour. John was the natural choice to fill in for James' rhythm
playing
because he was familiar
with the songs. John subsequently joined Metal Church, but was
called to fill in for
James when James got burned on the Met/G'n'R tour in 1992.
Jim Martin (ex - Faith No
More)
He regularly hangs out,
goes hunting with James Hetfield. Besides Hetfield singing on Jim's
Milk & Blood album,
they both were very close friends with Cliff Burton.That's how Jim met
James. Martin also jams
with Jason Newstead all the time.
Dan Murphy
Kirk's
guitar technician
Judy Newstead
Jason's ex-wife
Pushead
The artist who have
painted the album cover for One, as well as many T-shirt designs etc. His
work are well known, and
his style is unique. He has also worked for other bands like Misfits,
and is now working for
Kerrang magazine. His real name is Brian Schroeder.
Flemming Rasmussen
He is working in Sweet
Silence studios in Kopenhagen, Denmark, that is where Ride The
Lightning, Master Of
Puppets and And Justice For All were recorded. He is the producer (or
coproducer) of these
albums
Bob Rock
A well known producer
who has produced many top selling hard rock albums as well as the
"black album"
and load. When they were looking for a new producer for the black album Lars
and James flied over to
Vancouver to hang out with Bob Rock a couple of days, to see if he was
the right person for the
job, and he was. He had a big influence on the music, both on the black
album and on
"load".
Skylar Satinstein
Lars got married to her
in a small ceremony in Las Vegas. She is is a medical student
specializing in internal
medicine. Jayms was their main man.
Joe Satriani
Joe is a well know
"guitar hero" and was Kirk's guitar teacher.
Anrdes Serrano
The image on the cover
of "Load" is a photograph called "Blood and Semen III" by
Anrdes
Serrano. It was done by
mixing bovine blood and the artist's own semen between two sheets of
plexiglass. Kirk
discovered the photo while looking through a collection of the artist's work at
a
bookstore.
Brian Slagel
The person who told Lars
and James about this great bassist in Los Angeles Cliff Burton. Brian
was also the first who
got Metallicas signature on a contract in 1981when he released the
compilation "Metal
massacre".
Corrosion of Conformity
Jaymz did recording
workfor Corrosion of Conformity on their song "Man or Ash" on the
a,bum
"Wiseblood".
His growling vocals are heard during the chorus saying, "These are,
primitive,
times!
Torben Ulrich
The father to lars was a
well known tennis player in denmark.
Alan Molder
Alan Molder has
engineered the Until I sleep (Herman Meville mix) which is available on the
"Until I
Sleep" single part 2. Hes work can also be heard on Nine Inch Nails CD
called
"Downward
Spiral".
Ron Quintana
The person who first
came up with the name "Metallica". He was doing a metal magazine
called
"Metallica",
but had to re-name it to Metal mania when Lars and Jayms stole the name.
John and Marsha Zazula
A couple from NYC, that
owed a music store called "Rock'n'Roll Heaven". When John first heard
the No Life 'Til
Leather demo he invited the band for the first
tour on the east coast (the tour that Dave was fired and replaced by Kirk). John
was trying to find a label that would sign
Metallica for a debut album. He didn't find any so he founded Megaforce which
released Kill'em All and first print of Ride The
Lightning
