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 1) How did Lars and James first meet?
    
   Lars had taken out an ad in a newspaper called the Recycler, saying he was looking for people to jam with. James answered the ad, and was unimpressed with Lars' playing, partly due to the fact that Lars' cymbals fell over everytime he hit them. Shortly after, Lars went to England to follow his favorite band, Diamond Head on tour, and after returning to the States got a spot on Brian Slagel's "Metal Massacre" album. Using this as bait, he talked James into recording a song for the album, and the rest is history.
   
 2) What is "Creeping Death" about?
   
   About the tale of the plagues bestowed upon the Egyptians, inspired by the second half of the movie 'The Ten Commandments'
      
 3) What is Spastic Children?
   
    Spastic Children was a "joke band" created originally by James, Cliff and Fred Cotton and James (Flunky) McDaniel. SC never practiced and played rather ludicrous songs, Cliff played bass and Jaymz drummed, when Cliff died Kirk took over the bass duties. Kirk says "Spastic Children was a good excuse to drink and be silly on stage." Spastic has not been seen around lately.

 4) Metallica moved from LA to SF, why?
   
    Cliff lived in SF and refused to move to LA. In order to get Cliff as the bass player the band had to relocate.

 5) What movie are the clips from "One" from?
  
    "Johnny Got His Gun", which was made from the book by Dalton Trumbo. who also directed the movie.
   
 6) Lars, where is he from?
   
   Gentofte (North of Copenhagen), Denmark.
    
 7) Who designed the new Metallica logo?
   
    James is responsible for it.
    
 8) Who is John Marshall? Why did he play guitar for James?
   
    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.
   
 9) Where did the name Metallica come from?
   
    Lars stole it. "Mr. Metal" of San Francisco, Ron Quintana, was getting ready to launch a metal fanzine and he had a few names. He asked his friend Lars for help.. after hearing the name "Metallica", Lars quickly suggested a different name and kept "Metallica" for himself!
      
 10) Where is Cliff buried?
   
    Cliff's ashes were spread at various points around the bay area, including the Maxwell Ranch House area.
 
 11) Why was Dave Mustaine kicked out of Metallica? 
  
     Because he regularly over-abused alcohol and proved to be a major pain in the ass towards the band and their potential friends, on the band's trip to New Jersey to sign with Megaforce Records.
   
 12) What happened to Cliff Burton, the former bass player?
   
    Cliff was killed in a bus accident en route from Stockholm, Sweden to their next show in the early morning hours of September 27,1986.
   
 13) What was Jason's first show with Metallica?
  
    Jason's first gig with Metallica was opening for Metal Church at The Country Club in Reseda in the first week of November 1986. His second gig was the very next night at Jezabelle's in Anaheim.

 14) In what show did Jaymz get burned by the pyrotechnics?
   
    Montreal, August 9,1992
 
 15) What was Cliffs last show?
   
     Stockholm, Sweden. Sept. 26, 1986.
 
 16) When was Jason's last gig with Flotsam and Jetsam?
   
    Oct.31(Halloween night),1986.

 17) What's Lady Justices' nickname?
   
    Doris
  
 18) What is Alcoholica?
  
    A nickname for Metallica,given to them somewhere in Europe in 1985, because of their love of drinking., A fan was spotted wearing a t-shirt he had made of the cover of "Kill 'Em All", only instead of a hammer and blood, the t-shirt showed a bottle spilling Vodka. The band members liked it so much, they adopted it for their own use.
 
 19) Why did they stop selling "Garage Days Re-revisited?
   
     It was something done for fun to get a "vibe' going with Jason back in 1987, it was never intended to be around forever.
 
 20) Who were Metallica's main influences?
   
    James Hetfield: Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Ted Nugent. 
    Lars Ulrich: DiamondHead, Motorhead, Deep Purple 
    Kirk Hammett: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Kiss,
    Jason Newsted: Kiss, Rush, Black Sabbath, Ted Nugent
 
 21) Why did Jason cut his hair?
   
    It was fried from concert lighting and smoke etc.

 22) What is the Snake Pit?
   
    The Snake Pit was a large pit in the middle of Metallica's diamond shaped Wherever I May Roam stage, set aside for a few lucky fans to stand in the middle of the action on stage. It is also an OnLine meeting place for Metallica fans on AOL.
 
 23) Who does Metallica's artwork?
 
     Pushead (Brian Schroeder) and Mark Devito do a majority of the artwork for T shirts and merchandise, and Jaymz came up with the scary guy logo and each album cover is a different and unique situation.
 
 24) When was Cliff's first gig?
 
    March 5, 1983, The Stone in San Francisco.
 
 25) When and where was the first Metallica show?
 
      Featuring Ron McGovney on bass and Dave Mustaine on guitar, Metallica's first show was at Radio City in Anaheim, CA. The date is said to be March 14,1982.
 
 26) Where did recorded Metallica first appear? 
 
      On "Metal Massacre I", the very first Metallica song called "Hit The Lights" appeared. That song featured James on vocals, rhythm guitar and bass! Lars on drums, Mustaine on lead guitar, and another guitar player named Lloyd Grant added the 2nd guitar solo. Later issuing's of "Metal Massacre" included a different version of the song with McGovney on bass and without Grant.
 
 27) Where is the "Snake" from the black album from?
 
     The "Snake" is from the Culpepper Minute Men flag from which the motto "Don't Tread On Me" also originates.
 
 28) Why did Lars thank Jethro Tull when they won the Grammy in 1992?
 
   Jethro Tull won the award that many think Metallica deserved in 1989. The "thanks to Jethro Tull for NOT putting out an album this year," was an underhanded salute to the Industry for not recognizing Metallica in 1989.
 
 29) What band was Cliff Burton in before Metallica, and how did Metallica meet him?
 
    Lars feeling unhappy with Ron McGovney's role with the band, heard about a bassist in San Francisco from Brian Slagel. They went up to the Whisky a GoGo in Los Angeles and saw Cliff playing in the band, Trauma. They were so impressed that Lars took it upon himself to get Cliff to join the band.

 
   
   
 
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