29.09.86
The dazed group dealt with their anxiety in the manner with which they
were most familiar: drinking. James broke two hotel windows and
screamed, venting his rage. Kirk and his guitar tech, John Marshall,
were so shaken that they left the light on in their room that night.
On this day James, Lars and Kirk returned to the United States.
28.10.86
Jason Newsted goes to an audition, in the hopes to become the new
bass player. He learned all the songs in a couple of days, so when the
three of them asked Jason what song he would like to play, he said
"anyone you like." At the end of the audition, Metallica had five
candidates, but invited Jason to have a drink with them at Tommy's
Joint. Before leaving the place, the three members went to the loo,
and when they came back, they told Jason, "Welcome to Metallica."
08.11.86
Jason's first gig with Metallica, opening for Metal Church at The
Country Club in Reseda. His second gig was the very next night at
Jezabelle's in Anaheim.
10.08.87
The EP Garage Days Re-Revisited was released only including cover
tunes to introduce Jason on vinyl to the fans. One of the tracks was
left off the British version so it could qualify for the singles
chart. This masterpiece is no longer available, and is now a rare
collector's item.
20.08.87
The band started their European festival tour with a small secret gig
at Club 100 in London. Thousands of people showed up, even though the
gig wasn't advertised; however, many were denied at the door, as the
club only had capacity for a few hundred!
04.12.87
Metallica's first home video, Cliff 'Em All, is released. This is
Metallica's homage to their previous bass player. They didn't have any
footage from the old shows, so bootleg videos taped by fans were added
to the home video.
24.05.88
First show of the American "Monsters of Rock" Festival tour, with Van
Halen at the Country Club in Los Angeles.
25.08.88
...And Justice for All is released by Elektra records in September
1988.
11.09.88
First show on the Damaged Justice Tour 88-89 in Budapest, Hungry.
06.12.88
Metallica filmed their first music video, One. They always said that
they wouldn’t do a music video, but they now felt that the time was
right, and were given maximum artistic freedom from their label.
22.02.89
This year Metallica received a nomination in the heavy metal category
for the Grammy Awards. They performed One live at the show, but the
award went to Jethro Tull. Metallica didn't seem to care, though; they
added a sticker to their album reading "Grammy Award LOOSERS".
20.06.89
The home video "Two Of One" is released.
xx.02.90
Metallica wins a Grammy for Best Metal Performance, for One. While on
stage receiving the award, the band gives Jethro Tull a big thank you
for not releasing anything this year, as they won last year.
06.10.90
Metallica enters the studio "One On One" in North Hollywood to record
their next album. Time passes, and the band is not finished until June
16th of the next year. The album is recorded by Randy Staub and
assistant Mike Tacci, and produced by Bob Rock together with Hetfield
and Ulrich.
04.11.90
Metallica recorded the track Stone Cold Crazy for an Elektra sampler.
xx.02.91
Metallica wins its second Grammy, for Best Metal Performance for Stone
Cold Crazy.
30.07.91
World premiere of the video for Enter Sandman.
01.08.91
First show on the megatour - 'Wherever We May Roam' 91-92-93 at Phoenix
Theatre - Petaluma, CA.
12.08.91.
The black album Metallica saw the light of day. Some shops opened the
doors at 00:01 in the morning to be the first to sell the black album.
xx.02.92
Performed Enter Sandman at Grammys, and won for Best Metal
Performance.
26.02.92
World premiere for the video Nothing Else Matters.
20.04.92
Played at "Concert For Life," a tribute show to Freddy Mercury at the
Wembley Stadium in London. Metallica played three songs, which were
released as a single only days later. All proceeds from this gig and
the sales of the single were donated to Freddy Mercury's AIDS fund.
The show was also TV broadcasted to the whole world.
09.08.92
James got burned by the pyrotechnics in Montreal, Canada. The next
gigs had to be cancelled because James couldn't play the guitar with
his burnt hand.
25.10.92
The first time Metallica played So What? live. What obviously made it
so cool was that Animal, the vocalist from the Anti-Nowhere League who
wrote this song, was dragged up to sing this masterpiece at Wembley
Area, London, England.
05.11.92
All four members of Diamond Head were on the guest list this day in
Birmingham, England. This started Metallica thinking of the
possibility of jamming with them. With two drum sets on the stage, all
eight band members played Am I Evil? and Helpless together. The
members of Diamond Head are close friends of Lars, for he traveled
with them on tour before Metallica was formed. Both of these tracks,
and the jam with Animal ten days earlier, are available on the
"Metallican vid" that comes in the Metallican-box for ...And Justice
For All.
Nov. 92
The two home videos, "A Year And A Half In Ihe Life Of Metallica,"
parts 1 & 2, were released.
21.01.93
Some people at Elektra suggested that Metallica should come to
Manhattan, and transform a record store into their own Metalli-store.
The guys liked the idea and opened the store to a flood of fans on
this day, selling only Metallica albums and merchandise. A tape was
released for this day, and was exclusively sold at this shop on the
Grand Opening. The tape consists of a medley recorded in Moscow. It
was James who designed the tape cover with a drawing of Scary Guy.
22.01.93
A new tour saw the light of day. The "Nowhere Else To Roam" Tour '93
began in Kalamazoo, MI.
29.11.93
The box set "Live Shit: Binge & Purge" was released containing three
CD's, three videos and a book.
28.05.94
'Shit hits the Sheds' starts with a Rehearsal Show in Buffalo, NY.
22.06.94.
Performed live at the Pine Knob Music Theatre in Detroit. Glenn Danzig
and Chuck Biscuts from Danzig played Last Caress with the band. Last
Caress was written by Danzig when he was a member in Misfits.
03.07.94.
Performed live at the World Music Theatre in Chicago. This is Danzig's
last show on the tour; Glenn Danzig sings London Dungeon, Last Caress,
and Green Hell with the band. Suicidal Tendencies joins the band
during So What?
21.08.94.
Performed live at the Bicentennial Park in Miami. The last show of the
"Summer Shit Tour". Special guest is Rob Halford (ex-Judas Priest, now
Fight) who sings Rapid Fire (an old Judas Priest song) with the band.
23.08.95
The tracks 2 x 4 and Devil's Dance are played for the first time in
front of an audience at the London Astoria in England. This was a
private show, and only members of the fan club were invited. According
to Metallica this was the best gig they had ever played. This was also
the first date on their short tour "Escape From The Studio" 95.
03.09.95
The Arctic Circle show, sponsored by Molson Breweries in Canada. 500
or so contest winners were invited to the "Coldest Show On Earth," in
arctic northern Canada, a place so desolate and frigid that the only
way in or out was by charter flights. The show was played in a huge,
clover-shaped tent. Using four massive, fuel-burning, heating units
they managed to keep the temperature warm enough for the instruments
to function!
13.11.95
Metallica performed 7 Motorhead songs (dubbing their performance the
"Lemmys") during Lemmy's birthday party at the famous club "Whiskey A
Go-Go". This is also the club where Lars and James met Cliff Burton.
xx.12.95 - xx.02.96.
The band went into the Plant studio in Sausalito, California, where
they recorded 18 of the 25 tracks due to appear on the new album.
Again, Bob Rock is producing.
09.06.96
The four guys played at Slims Club, in San Francisco, for fan club
members only. They did three members-only gigs in a row this month.
06-07.05.96
The video for Until It Sleeps was shot at locations around and in Los
Angeles.
MAY.96
Our four guys spent time travelling around the world to promote the
new album. They conducted numerous interviews, and organized huge
listening parties where they would set up a truck full of speakers and
play the new album, then sign some autographs for the fans. This
occurred all over the world; in the States, Europe, Australia and
Japan.
20.05.96
The single Until It Sleeps is released world-wide, excluding Northern
America, where the fans would have to wait one more day.
26.05.96.
A huge Metallica listening party was held on the second day of the
DYNAMO Festival in Eindhoven, Holland. Metallica's new album, Load,
was played through the PA at the festival site for the 60,000+
audience, making this the largest listening party held, ever!! Two
band members (probably Lars & Kirk) were at the festival site to
present this event, to give interviews, and to promote the new album.
Load was released a whole week earlier in Holland than the rest of the
world, to make it possible to be sold at the festival. Therefore,
Eindhoven was blessed not only with hosting the world premiere, but
also with the release of the album for the first time anywhere in the
world!
01.06.96
Load is released in Japan only.
03.06.96.
The album is released world-wide.
04.06.96.
The album is released in North America.
11.06.96
Metallica played live for the entire world, via the Internet. The
broadcast site was Slim's, a small club in San Francisco, where the
Webcast crew beamed the show across the globe, live as it happened, in
spycams, music, video, pictures and descriptions.
17.06.96
MTV presented a Metallica contest that was so huge it took four
tractor trailers to deliver the prizes to the homes of the four
contest winners. The four band members of Metallica hung out with the
grand prize winner, met the neighbors, and played some tunes. The
contest final was aired July 1.
27.06.96
The American Loolapalooza festival tour starts in Kansas City with
Metallica headlining the bill.
12.09.96
Another European tour begins. This time the tour starts in Ostenhalle,
Germany.
23.09.96
Recorded the live video of Hero Of The Day in Barcelona, Spain. They
weren't using a recording, and 5 seconds before each of the 3 times
they played the song, a metronom was introducing the band to the
required rythym, and the beeps of it sounded throughout the whole
audio system at the stadium. Also, Kirk got 3 or 4 notes wrong on the
intro during the first attempt. Moreover, Lars asked the crowd to be
more energetic in each one of the new versions they played. So, by the
third try, it sounded louder than hell!
13.11.96
Metallica recorded 3 live songs for the TV program "Later With Jools
Holland," on the British channel BBC2. Wasting My Hate, Mama Said
(James only acoustic) and King Nothing were performed completely live,
with no playback.. It was broadcast on November 16th.
14.11.96
Metallica was intoduced to perform King Nothing live on stage at the
MTV Europe Video Awards show. The lights went down and the band
launched into the song Last Caress followed by So What? A few classic
minutes of television to savour. The band was nominated earlier that
evening, in the "Best Rock Video" catagory, but the award went to the
Smashing Pumpkins. James later said in an interview: We needed to wake
people up at the show! We felt it was a little boring, and we had been
daring each other to do that for years.
18.11.96
The single Mama Said is released world wide.
18 & 19.11.96
Apocalyptica, the band who released an album containing Metallica
covers performed with cellos, opened for Metallica in Helsinki,
Finland.
17.01.97
King Nothing premiered on MTV on 1/17/97. It was shot in Salt Lake
City, Utah about a month earlier.
26.01.97.
Lars got married to his long time girlfriend Skylar. Apparantly Lars
said that thing about them breaking it off was so that they would not
get mobbed by fans at the church they got married in.
27.01.97
MetallicA played "King Nothing" on the American Music Awards and won
the price for best metal/hard rock album. When they went up to accept
their award, Lars said, "I would like to thank this man, James
Hetfield, for putting on his best suit and being my best man at my
wedding last night."
22.02.97
Ted Nugent was guest star at the gig at Palace Of Auburn Hills. They
weren't too happy with him for what he did. Ted basically forced his
way into their show, then ruined their moment in the sun (throwing
pics and sticks and thanking the crowd).
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