The following information is a part of my original "Traces of Burning Friends on the Moon". I edited it again, which should be regarded as a relatively comprehensive Metallica file …
Band introduction:
The story of Metal Band should start with their drummer Lars Ulrich. This is not only because Lars is the founder and spokesman of Metallica, but also because he has taken a somewhat legendary road of rock music.
1963165438+1October 26th, Lars was born in a sports family in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father is Tobin ulrich, a famous Danish tennis star. He followed his father to participate in competitions all over the world since he was a child, and began professional tennis training under his influence. Young Lars is very successful in tennis and has become a "star of tomorrow" in Danish tennis since he was a teenager. All this seems to indicate that Lars will follow in his father's footsteps and move towards becoming a sports star. But in 1973, the famous heavy metal band Deep Purple toured Denmark, and Lars fell in love with rock music after watching the concert with his grandfather. Two years later, Lars began to practice drums, when he was only 12 years old.
From 65438 to 0980, Lars was sent to Los Angeles for tennis training, which became a turning point in his life. As he had no friends in America, Lars practiced drums alone after training. Gradually, music replaced tennis, and Lars finally gave up tennis, left Wimbledon and embarked on the road of rock music he loved. It is worth mentioning that Lars finally arrived at Wimbledon stadium, but not at the famous Wimbledon Open, but at a concert in Metallica.
At that time, the new wave of heavy metals in Britain was on the rise, and Lars was fascinated by it. He advertised in Recyler magazine (a magazine that can publish free advertisements, which is used by many rock bands to find people in need, and later the famous Hole band was formed through this magazine) to find artists with similar interests, but he didn't get a response. Disappointed, Lars flew to London alone to pursue his musical dream.
From 65438 to 0980, Lars was sent to Los Angeles for tennis training, which became a turning point in his life. As he had no friends in America, Lars practiced drums alone after training. Gradually, music replaced tennis, and Lars finally gave up tennis, left Wimbledon and embarked on the road of rock music he loved. It is worth mentioning that Lars finally arrived at Wimbledon stadium, but not at the famous Wimbledon Open, but at a concert in Metallica.
At 198 1, Lars returned to Los Angeles and met James Hetfield. James is a native of Los Angeles and a worker in a printing factory. Influenced by bands such as Black Sabbath, he began to learn to play the guitar very early. In high school, James organized a rock band called Obsession. James found an advertisement for Lars in an old magazine and found him. They hit it off and immediately set about forming a band. They first found James' partner, bassist Ron McGoverney, in Obsession. Because James wants to be a guitarist, they have been looking for a lead singer, but there has been no suitable candidate, so James also serves as the lead singer. James soon found it difficult to sing and play the lead guitar at the same time, so they recruited Lloyd Grande as the lead guitarist and James played the rhythm guitar instead. They named their band Metallica, which is the original lineup of the band.
Lloyd Grande left after a few months in the band, and Dave Mastin was an excellent guitarist. From the beginning, the band picked up some chord structures of AC/DC and Judas priests, played at the speed of Motorhead, and combined with their own performances, formed a unique structure focusing on English heavy metals, which quickly attracted people's attention. As an underground band, Metal Band has become famous all over the country.
During this period, a guitarist named Jeff Warner once joined the band, but he soon quit. By the end of 1982, vital personnel changes had taken place in Metallica. Because bass player Ron is not interested in the development of the band, Lars and James decide to find a new bass player. In a bar called Wiskey-A-Go-Go in San Francisco, they found a bassist named Cliff Burton. Cliff's performance left a deep impression on them. They recruited Cliff to join the band and agreed to his request to move the Metal Band to San Francisco.
Cliff's high professionalism and strange playing style soon influenced the band. Soon, they went to new york to record at the invitation of an independent record company called Megafore. At this time, the relationship between guitarist Dave Mustin and other members of the band, mainly James Hitfield, became more and more tense. This is not only because of his musical views, but also because of Dave's drinking and drug abuse and his bad temper. The band finally decided to fire Dave before recording the first album. Because Metallica was poor at that time, the band could only scrape together enough money to buy a long-distance bus ticket, so Dave had to go back to Los Angeles by bus for four days. This major setback in life also made Dave mature, and he later became the core figure of another successful band Megadeth in Tarsh metal style. The new lead guitarist of Metal Band is Crick hammett from new york, who is a disciple of "Guitar Wizard" Joe Satriani. The real metal band was formed at this time.
1983, Metallica's first album "Kill 'Em All" was released, and the style of this record is considered as the first Thrash Metal album. It has sold 300,000 records, and the band has gained a certain popularity in the United States and Europe. A few months later, several other heavy metal bands, such as Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, began to try thrash metal. The following year, Metallica's second album, Ride The Lighting, was also released under Megafore, which was once again a success. This album sold gold records without any publicity, and stayed on Billboard's top 200 album list for 50 weeks. Thrash Metal began to be introduced to the world.
1986, Metallica's third album "Puppet Master" was released, which achieved better results than the previous two albums and pushed Metallica to the peak of heavy metal. Subsequently, the band accompanied Ozzy O-oume on a national tour. Through Metallica's high-speed guitar chords, fast guitar solo and changeable drums, more and more people began to understand the power of Thrash Metal, and Metallica became one of the most popular heavy metal bands.
However, with the success of the band, trouble followed. The last words left by a teenager after committing suicide demanded that a Metallica song about attempted suicide be played at the funeral, which caused other teenage suicides to follow suit. Many people copied the lyrics of this song on their suicide notes. Although Lars argued that they received thousands of letters in a few years, telling how Fade To Black gave them the courage to survive. However, the band had to face criticism from the media during this period.
To make matters worse, there was a shooting in Texas. A teenager shot and killed people crazily after taking drugs. Witnesses said that he sang Metallica's song "No regrets" during the filming. When the court sentenced him to death, he even quoted the lyrics of this song. Public opinion is in an uproar, and the band is under more pressure. But all this is nothing compared with what happened next.
1At 6 o'clock in the morning on September 27th, 986, the band crashed while touring from Stockholm to Copenhagen, and bassist Cliff Burton died unfortunately. Lars said: "You often hear the word' bad news', but you won't understand what it means until it suddenly falls on your head." Fortunately, the band didn't break up because of this blow. Six weeks later, the band found a new bass player: Flotsam &；; Jason Newsted-from Jessam-jumped up and down in the hotel when James invited him to join us. 1987, Metallica released an EP album "Time in the Garage", covering the works of underground metal bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and then participated in the Monster Of Rock tour in van halen. By this time, the band had come out of the shadow of Cliff's death, and Jason was completely integrated into the band's style.
After experiencing ups and downs, the band finally released its first real album "... and Justice for All" after Cliff died in 1988. This album has made unprecedented achievements, and many music critics think it is the best album in the history of heavy metal music, among which the single One won the Grammy Award for Best Heavy Metal Song. 199 1 year, the band released the album Metallica with the same name, with a cumulative sales of150,000 copies, becoming the best-selling Thrash Metal album, which was simply unimaginable in that era when Metallica was not accepted. Compared with the band's previous albums, "Metallica" has changed in style, which is softer and more depressing, but it does not affect its actual weight at all, and the overall performance of the band has reached a perfect position.
Metal Band's next album, Load, was released on 1996, five years later than Metal Band. During these five years, the rock music scene has undergone earth-shaking changes. The tide of alternative music has broken through the iron wall of heavy metals, and the pride of heavy metals has become a thing of the past. Facing the strong challenge of Seattle's junk music, Metallica made bold changes on Load in order to maintain the status of heavy metal music.
Load is an experimental album, which has also caused great controversy. Opponents believe that this album is a betrayal of heavy metals, and Metallica has deviated from the Tarsh metal road they created; Advocates highly appreciate Metallica's bold experiment, believing that it is a change that Thrash Metal must face when it develops to a certain period. In the face of controversy, Metallica still went its own way and released some songs written at the same time as Load in 1997, named Reload. All this shows that no matter what the outside comments are, Metallica will go her own way and have no regrets!
At the end of 1998, Metallica released two albums, Garage Inc, which is a collection of B-side and cover songs. It is rare for a band of the status of "Metal Band" to cover other people's works on such a large scale. Most of the songs in the album are metallized, so although it is a cover album, it sounds like a typical metal band style. It is reported that Metal Band will be nominated for this year's Grammy Award. Today, when the alternative tide is gradually receding, if heavy metal music wants to recover, it can't be supported by industrial metals alone. The metal band reinterpreted the works of the NWOBHM era and continued their heavy metal road.
At the end of the century, the band and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra jointly released the live album S&; amp； M is called "the most powerful symphony orchestra in America and the most powerful rock band in the world". It was very popular as soon as it was launched. It seems that this heavy metal ace Tiejun will never get old.
Since 2 1 century, the exchange of Mp3 music files on the Internet has become increasingly frequent, and Napster Company came into being. Its working principle is: let users all over the world log on to its website, and everyone can enjoy Mp3 on their hard disk and search through its search engine, so as to achieve the goal of enjoying MP3 all over the world. However, corresponding problems have emerged. Is this exchange a kind of piracy? In April 2000, Metallica took Napster to court, accusing Napster of illegally using copyright-free Mp3 for commercial purposes. An influential lawsuit began. As a result of this protracted lawsuit, in April of 200 1 year, the court ruled that Metallica won the case. Internet companies like Napster are not allowed to use Mp3 for network exchange before obtaining copyright permission. Even if they provide search, they should block the works of singers or bands who claim copyright.
In the same year that Napster was sued, Metallica scored the most popular action movie of the year, Mission Impossible 2, which was later published on the soundtrack CD and widely broadcast on the radio.
200 1 1 14, there is a shocking news. Jason Newsted, the bassist who played for the band for 14 years, announced that he had left the band for personal reasons. Jason left, but left behind six albums and five Grammy awards. Kirk Hammett said, "Jason is our brother. We will miss him. " Yes, although not as vigorous as Cliff Burton, people will miss Jason.
After more than a year, all kinds of rumors about the new bass player have been kept, but they have not been implemented. The band with only three people left is still busy with the new album. ......
Name: James Hetfield.
Band location: lead singer and rhythm guitarist
Joining time: 198 1 year to form a band with Lars * * *
Date of birth:1August 3, 963
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California
Height: 1 85cm (6ft1inch).
Weight: 86 kg (180 lb)
Marital status: 1997 got married in August 17.
Wife: Francesca Hoertfield
Used to be in a band: obsession, leather charm
Professional experience: painter in factory.
Favorite music:
Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Skynyrd, Thin Lizzy, tom waits, nick cave, pasta with western music.
Favorite celebrity: Clint Eastwood.
First contact with rock music:
1978 AC/DC Concert in Long Beach, California
"I sat there and thought,' God, what should I write?' It just happened. The first line is broken, and then there is hell.
Equipment used:
ESP guitar:
Black explorer-deer skull inlay
Black Explorer-Dot Mosaic
Black Explorer-Eagle Mosaic
Black Explorer-"Fuk Emup"
Black Explorer-Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade Mosaic
Black seeker-N.R.A (national rifle association) inlay
Black Explorer-Snake Mosaic
Black explorer-burning wooden elk skull-barbed wire inlay
Black JH- 1 Feitian V-Red Rider Rod Flame
Black JH- 1 flying V-green rider rod flame
Black JH-2 Explorer-black diamond plate (body)-deer skull inlay
Black JH 3 circular top eclipse flag mosaic
Black Explorer-Black Diamond Board-Used for I-Vanishing Video-4M logo at 1st fret and diamonds at the rest.
Black explorer-chrome diamond plate (body and; Bedside)-used in MTV Film Awards 2000-Mother of Pearl 4M logo at 1st fret and diamonds at rest.
Black explorer-chrome diamond plate (body and; Bedside)-abalone color inlay
White explorer-"eet fuk" (1stesp)
White Explorer-Point Mosaic (favorite ESP)
Other guitars for the performance:
White Gibson Explorer.-So what?
White Gibson Explorer-More Beer
Ken Lawrence explorer
Mudguard reissue? telecaster w/Parsons-White B-bender
National resolution
Gibson chet atkins Audio/Electric Company
1963 Gibson SG-cherry red
Other guitars used in the studio:
1966 Martin D-28 (acoustics)
Late? Gibson les paul-Sunbest Standards Ltd.
Late? S Gibson les paul-Golden Top
Late? S Gibson les paul-custom made
Gretsch White Falcon II (model 7594)
Coral electric sitar (red)
Power amplifier:
Mesabuji Strategic 400 Power Amplifier
Mesa Bujimake IV
Mesabuji Triaxial Preamplifier (Stock)
Mesabuji Triaxial Preamplifier (Modified)
Mesabuji triple rectifier
Mesabuji custom graphics equipment
Mesabuji amplifier switch
Mesabuji 4x 12 speaker
Roland JC 120
Celestion retro 30w speaker
Effector:
Bradshaw R-12 switch system and pedal
Bradshaw patch wan custom made
Boss SE-50 stereo effect processor
Fruit juice goose rack power 300
Aphex parameter E.Q
Moli Rack Installation Unit Customization
Peterson 520 strobe tuner
Other equipment:
Sony 820 Wireless Receiver and Transmitter
Nady 950 UHF receiver and transmitter
Pro Co voice cable
Ascot Road Case
Ultra-portable guitar stand
Earth three guitar straps
Chord:
Ernie ball string (.010-.046)
Gibson strings
Pick:
Deng Lupu green Tortex .88 88mm guitar pick
Name: Lars Ulrich.
Band location: drummer
Joining time: the original organizer of the band
Date of birth:196365438+February 26th.
Place of birth: tofte, Denmark.
Height:170cm (5ft 7in).
Weight: 59 kg (130 lb)
Marital status:1997 65438+1married on October 27th.
Wife: Skylar Ulrich
Band you were in: No.
Professional experience: newsboy, gas station attendant.
Favorite music: oasis, AIC, black grapes.
Favorite celebrities: Villa Guillermo, Richie Blackmore, and Ace Frauley.
First contact with rock music: 1973 Copenhagen deep purple concert
It was there the moment you woke up. The feeling in your stomach ... is like, it's noon, you want to go on stage, but you have nine hours of sweaty palms waiting for you. "
Equipment used:
Drum in use now:
Live drum set
Acoustic drum set
Warm-up drum set (black)
Studio drum set
Drums used in previous performances:
TAMA (black-stolen in Boston)
Camco Camco bulge
TAMA Imperial Star (Silver /9)
TAMA Imperial Star (Maroon /9)
TAMA Gransta II (dark gray /9 pieces)
TAMA Gransta II Lars Ulrich Signature Drum (white /9 pieces)
TAMA Gransta II Lars Ulrich Signature Drum (white /7 pieces)
Drum previously used for preheating:
TAMA Starclassic maple (white)-reload warm-up drum package
TAMA Starclassic maple (blue)-Garage Inc warm-up drum kit
Drums used in previous recording studios:
Ludwig Drum Kit
TAMA Empire Star-TBA Studio (Black)
TAMA rock star-page-turning video bulge
Studio microphone:
Shure BETA 56-snare drum Jr. and Tom
Shure BETA 52 bass drum
Shure SM94-Top hat and other cymbals
Microphones used in the field:
Shure SM57 (x2)-Drum
Audio technology-ATM87R (x2)-bass drum
Audio technology-ATM23HE (x2)-drum set
Audio technology-ATM25 (x2)-floor drum
Audio technica-at4041(X5)-overhead microphone+Neumann-overhead microphone
Other musical instruments:
Tambourine (acoustic part)
Drumstick:
Easton Qianjin Alloy-Lars Ulrich Special Order
Name: Crick hammett
Band location: lead guitarist
Login time: 1982
Date of birth:1September 1962 18.
Place of birth: San Francisco, California
Height: 17 1 cm (5 feet 8 inches).
Weight: 6 1 kg (134 lb)
Marital status: married on April 4th. 1998.
Wife: Lanny hammett.
The band I once joined: Exodus
Favorite music:
Jimi hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, deep purple. Led zeppelin, Kiss, John Coltrane, Gout, Mule, chet baker, Prez Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King Crimson, robert johnson, Radio Commander.
Favorite celebrity:
Boris karloff, Bela Lugosi, jimi hendrix, chet baker, Diane Arbus, John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, edvard munch, Joel Peter Whitkin.
First contact with rock music:
Eagles, steve miller, Heart and Foreign Music.
My guitar is my umbilical cord. They were implanted directly into my brain. "
Equipment used:
ESP guitar:
Wave maker
Red Frankenstein graphic-"The monster is still alive!"
M-II-skull and bones. Cross one
KH- 1-flying V-devil inlay
KH-2-M-II-Skull & Cross II
KH-2-M-II-apparition
KH-2-M-II-boris karloff Mummy Pattern
KH-3-Eclipse-Pushead Spider Graphics
KH-4 - M-II - f\*
Co., ltd.-smash guitar
Eclipse-Similar to KH-3, but without Pushead Spider graphics.
Half-sound eclipse
Other guitars for the performance:
Dan electronic U2
Fender Stratocaster-cream color
Fernandez flight five
Fernandez Stracaster
Gibson flight V # 1-black
Gibson Flight V #2-Red
Gibson Flight V #3-Black
Gibson les paul Customized-Black
Gibson les paul Standard-Cherry Burst
Godin Multiac (acoustics)
Jackson Landy Rhodes Custom Made
Jackson soloist
Yibanna RG470
Tom anderson Proam
Other guitars used in the recording studio:
Fender Stratocaster Company-Black
Fender Stratocaster-natural finish
Fender Stratocaster-Sepiolite Green
Pike fly
All-aluminum Roswell Landy Rhodes flight V
Gibson Super 400
1963 gold fender synchronous belt
1958 Gibson flight v
1960 Gibson explorer
Early Gibson les paul
The rumored new guitar:
LTD custom 7-string guitar w/ new EMG 707 pickup
Power amplifier:
Mesabuji Strategy 300 Power Amplifier
Mesa Bujimak four amplifier
Mesabuji 4 x 12 speaker
Mesabuji triaxial preamplifier
Mesabuji double rectifier solo head
Mesabuji Triple Rectifier Solo Head (for Lollapalloza 1996 Tour)
Marshall JMP- 1 preamplifier
Marshall 4 x 12 speaker with 25w speaker
Marshall 2 x 12 speaker box
Marshall practice amplifier
Customized audio electronic preamplifier
ADA MP- 1 preamplifier
Bradshaw preamplifier
VHT power amplifier
Matchless fire-breathing
Vox AC-30
Fender tweed combination
Flextone
Ken Fisher's train wreck
Line-6 digital amplifier head (you can see it in the brochure of Garage Inc)
Effector:
Deng Lupu cry baby wa wa pedal
Roland VG-8
EMB audio remote wow unit
EMB/ Ernie Qiuhua Pedal-Customized
Multi-pedal customized rack installation
Rocktron R-18F pedal
Ibana tube squealer
Bradshaw switching system
Bradshaw patch wan custom made
Lovetone meatball pedal (used for the wow-like sound in the opening repetition of "I disappeared")
Other equipment:
Furman power board
Nady 1200 wireless receiver and transmitter
ADA MQ- 1 E.Q
Alesis data disk
Juice goose power board
Evening H3000 SE
Boss SE-50
Locktron juicer
Aphex parameter E.Q
Rocktron Patchmate
Ascot Road Case
Deng Lupu pedal
Pro-Co sound cable
Peterson 520 strobe tuner
Floyd Ross Tremolo Systems Ltd.
Cyclone channel box
Super guitar stand
R & ampr road case
DiMarzio guitar strap
Chord:
Dean macri Strings Co., Ltd. (.01.013/.017/.030/.042/.052)
Pick:
Deng Lupu green Tortex .88 88mm guitar pick
Name: Jason Curtis Newstead
Band location: bassist
Joining time: 1985, replacing Clifford Burton.
Date of birth:1May 4, 963
Place of birth: Bater Creek, Michigan.
Height: 175 cm (5 feet 9 inches).
Weight: 68 kg (150 lb)
Marital status: divorced
Used to be in a band: Flotsam and Jetsam Dogz.
Occupation: pizza maker, truck driver.
Favorite music:
Kiss, Black Sabbath, tom waits, Steve Ray Vaughan, Machine Head, Slay and family stone, Sepú ltura, Weiss Montgomery, Snoopy Dog, bob marley, johnny cash, Jacob Pastori.
Favorite celebrity:
Gene simmons, Al Pacino, B.B. King, Zach Harmon, bob marley.
First contact with rock music:
Ted Nugent Concert of Notre Dame University in Indiana
"I'm still playing music for the same reason as when I first started; Energy, feeling, interaction with others. Not for money, ego or greed. "
Equipment used:
Sadofsky Beth:
Sadowsky-black retro-gray body
Sadowsky-Black vintage (x2)
Sadofsky-PJ-Cherry Rising Sun
Sadofsky-PJ-caramel rising sun
Sadofsky-Retro-Lake Placid Blue # 1 (4 strings)
Sadofsky-Wine-Lake Placid Blue #2 (5 strings)
Sadofsky-Wine-Cherry Rising Sun
Sadofsky-Black Retro-24 (x2)
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