People Related to the 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.
- 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
- 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
tecniques.
- Wayne Isham
- directed the videos for "Enter Sandman",
"Wherever May I Roam", and "Sad But
True". 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.
- Ron Quintana
- the friend of Lars who came up with the name Metallica
- 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.
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- 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.
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