MetallicA Who's Who

Andy Battye 
     Jaymz' 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. Jaymz, 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 Jaymz flew 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 Jaymz 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 album "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
          Jaymz stole the name. 


                            Past and Present Band Members
Clifford Lee Burton
        Cliff Burton was in my opinion, a god of heavy metal.  He could do anything on bass.
        Cliff came into the band and played as bassist replacing Ron McGovney.  He unfortunately,
	died in a bus accident.  Cliff's ashes were spread at various points around the bay area,
        including the Maxwell Ranch House area. 

Lloyd Grant
        Lloyd Grant did the solos on the first demo, but he would never become a full member
        of the band, as Lars and Jaymz could't work with him. He later started a band called
        Defcon together with a guitarist called Patrick Scott who also did Metallica's lights
        the first years. 

Mike
         Lloyd Grant left and was replaced by a guy called Mike, who stayed for one week
         before being kicked out. 

Jef Warner
        Jef Warner was Metallica's second guitarist when Jaymz was just singing. At
        this time they were a five piece band and did some gigs in May 82. Warner wanted to
        play double-lead with Dave, but he didn't let him, and at the end Lars and Jaymz kicked
        him out because they didn't think he looked cool enough. Jef later joined the band
        "Black'n blue". 

Dave Mustaine 
        Dave was an old friend of Jaymz, but was asked to leave the band because of an alchohol
	addiction. 

Ron McGovney
        bass, removed. 

Damien Philips 
        One appearance ,in concert as a second guitarist,