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, Hungary.
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 I 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).
22.08.97
Metallica played 3 festivals in Europe this summer to get out of the studio
for a while. First day was at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, Belgium
23.08.97
Blindman's Ball Festival, Stuttgart, Germany
24.08.97
Reading Festival, Reading, U.K.
06.10.97
To celebrate the release of their new album, Metallica wanted to play a concert
- for free. The only problem was that they didn't know where! They gave the
fans a few details and a 800 telephone number where they could call in to make
suggestions. The free concert had to be held on Tuesday, November 11 (Veteran's
Day), outdoors as this had to be a big free show for anyone wishing to make
the trip. Over 120,000 Metallica fans bombarded a phone lines.
10.10.97
Photo session for the launch of the new album has already took place,
and it is a stunning live session by Anton Corbijn. These live photos
will be included in the packaging for the new album. There was further
two photo sessions prior to the album release, which was for press
use.
18.10.97
The 11th Annual Bridge School Benefit Shows at Shoreline
Amphitheater, San Francisco. They played an entirely acoustic set
which lasted about an hour. Jerry Cantrell from Alice In Chains came
out and played the Lynrd Skynrd song Tuesday's Gone. They also
played Lowman's Lyrics for the first time.
19.10.97
The second Annual Bridge School Benefit Show at the save venue. the
sets were the same except on Saturday they did not play Low Mans
Lyric, instead they played another new tune called "My Eye's". Also
on the bill was Kacy Crowley, Blues Traveler's, Lou Reed, Smashing
Pumpkins, Alanis Morissette, Dave Matthew's Band, and Neil Young.
20 & 21.10.97
The band shot the "Memory remains" video in LA, actually at the Van
Nuys airport. It costed $400.000.00 and featured the band it a huge
box that costed over $100.000.00. The video had it's world premiere on
MTV's Mattrock show the 15th of November 1997.
26.10.97
The final day for the fans to call in to teh 800 telefone number and
suggest a place where Metallica could play their free show. The
"winner"? Philadelphia's CoreStates Arena parking lot.
07.11.97
Neighbors of the Philadelphia's CoreStates Arena parking lot in South
Philadelphia are going went court on morning to try to block the free
outdoor concert by the "heavy-metal band". It wasVincent Fumo who
asked his Harrisburg lawyer, Christopher Craig, to see what he could
do. Craig spent all day drafting a request for an injunction that he
delivered to Common Pleas.
11.11.97
Metallica's free concert, dubbed the "Million Decibel March," was
helt
in Philadelphia parking lot and was a great success. For the show's
intro, they showed Jaymz playing the famous ESPN commercials'
"Da-na-na, na-na-na" from the Sportscenter music on his guitar. Here
is what the local newspapaer Philadelphia Inquirer had to say about
the show: "It was part burlesque show, part rugby match, and
hearing-loss loud. The band was profane on stage and charming
before the show. Police pronounced the fans better behaved than a
Philadelphia Eagles crowd. And neighbors who feared the worst from
the self-styled Loudest Band in the World complained more about the
sound from the news choppers circling overhead."
12.11.97
Memory Remains single released in America. It has been available in
Europe ant the rest of the world for a few weeks
13.11.97
Lars and his bandmates played a free show at London's premier
dance venue Ministry Of Sound to launch their new album 'Re-Load'.
Prior to the show Lars said in a press release: "I've never heard of the
Ministry Of Sound but I'm sure Metallica playing there will making it a
hit!"
06.12.97
Metallica performed live on NBC's Saturday Night Live show
Mars 98
The world tour in support of Reload in Asia. Metallica wasn't there on
their Load tour, and they did Australia as well.
23 Jun 1998
Rehearsals for the upcomming "Poor re-touring me 98". The tour
started the day after in West Palm Beach, Florida, and ended in San
Diego, California September the 13th.
15 Aug 1998
Lars becomes a father. Skylar Ulrich gave birth to a baby boy, Myles
Ulrich, at 4:15 am in New York City. He was 7 pounds, 8 ounces and
was 20 inches
5 Sep 1998
George, WA (The Gorge) Someone in the crowd threw a glass bottle
towards the stage and hit Jason in the head! Jason got hurt but came
back and finished the show as strong as ever. "We are here to give it
all we got but I don t understand why we have to watch out for shit
thrown at us during the show. I hope they find that fucker who did it"
-
James comments to the audience after the incident.
14 Sep 1998
Metallica went straight in to the studio the day after the last show in
San Diego. They recorded the new songs on the "Garage Inc." CD
18 Oct 1998
Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles. A 45 minutes gig in front of some of
the most beautiful women in the world and other celebrities. Metallica
played at the Playboy party
Oct 19 1998
Photo shoot in Los Angeles Metallica spent 6 hours at the old
"Ambassador Hotel" together with photographer Danny Clinch. The
pictures was ment for the "Garage Inc." cover
21 Oct 1998
Metallica spent Wednesday the 21st recording the video for their
version of Bob Seger's Turn The Page from the upcoming Garage Inc.
album. The clip is directed by Swedish director Jonas Akerlund, who
also filmed Madonna's Ray of Light video and Prodigy´s Smack my
Bitch. It all took place at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles.
Nov 98
Metallica filed a lawsuit against online store Amazon.com over the
bootleg album entitled "Bay Area Thrashers: The Early Days." The
group is seeking an unspecified amount in damages, in addition to an
injunction preventing future sales of the album.
22 Nov 98
Metallica finished the videoshoot for 'Whiskey in the Jar' in Brooklyn,
NY in the first week of December 1998.
19 & 20 Nov 98
Metallica perform to promote the release of Garage Inc. The Aragon
Ballroom -Chicago the 19th and State Theatre, Detroit, MI on the Nov
20th. According to the industry trade publication Pollstar Metallica
made $32 million dollars this year
14 Jan 99
Metallica filed a lawsuit against Victoria's Secret and Victoria's Secret
Catalogue, citing trademark infringement, false designation of origin,
unfair competition, and dilution.
The following is from the lawsuit: "Victoria's Secret manufactures and
sells lip pencils bearing the mark Metallica. The packaging for
Victoria's Secret's Metallica lip pencils also bear the mark Metallica.
These lip pencils continue to be sold by Victoria's Secret throughout
the United States.
25 Jan 99
Whiskey in the Jar video and singles released. The single comes as a
3 CD set where parts 2 and 3 are limited to 10,000 copies
24 Feb 99
41st annual Grammy Award winners announced. Best metal
performance: "Better Than You" by Metallica
16 Mar 99
The Recording Industry Association of America gave Diamond awards
to AC/DC, The Eagles, and Metallica. The Diamond award goes to
single titles that sell 10 million or more copies, and Metallica got it for
the black album. The awards was presented at a special ceremony in
New York City's Roseland Ballroom with 46 recording artists
representing 62 titles.
Until this day, the RIAA has only presented record sales awards for
Gold (500,000 units), Platinum (1 million units) and Muti-Platinum® (2
million or more units). The Diamond Award was bestowed for the first
time by the RIAA to the biggest names in the music industry.
James Hetfield thanked producer Bob Rock "for making the big noises
extra big."
20 Mar 99
Kirk Hammett played with Swarm, a band formed by several of his
friends
11 Apr 99
Metallica started their world tour in Honolulu. They also did two dates
at the Berkeley Community Theatre in San Francisco which later
ended up on the S&M album. A few dates in south America followed
before they headed over to Europe where they ended the tour in
Lisbon, Portugal. Many festival shows, including the Roskilde festival
in Lars' home country Denmark
21 - 22 Apr 99
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra conducted by
Michael Kamen perform together the 10 songs later know as S&M at
Berkeley Community Theatre.
Gig reports said that ".....thrashier songs as "Battery" the
orchestra
basically bolsters the sturm und drang by underscoring the powerful
themes that drive it. With other numbers, notably "Master of Puppets"
and newer tunes like "Devil's Dance," there's more room for interplay
between rock and classical elements - horns flash brassily in the mix
and percussion peppers the grinding grooves."
30 Apr 99
Pantera frontman Phil "Animal" Anselmo joined Metallica onstage in
Mexico City on April 30th. The quintet performed Creeping Death to
the delight of 50.000 Mexican fans.
23 May 99
At the Dynamo Open Air show Metallica invited Evan, Billy and Danny
from Biohazard, Scott Ian from Anthrax and Anthony from Merauder
on stage to sing the "die die die" part of Creeping Death.
5 Jun 99
Metallica had a nice surprise in Milan, Italy. They invited King
Diamond and Hank Sherman from Mercyful Fate for the 12 minute
long Mercyful Fate medley!
14 Jun 99
Die Die Die My Darling single released with live tracks recorded at the
Roseland Ballroom in New York november 1998. In Australia the
single was released the 19th and it included as a bonusan enhanced
CD-ROM with "Turn The Page" and "Whiskey In The Jar" video
clips.
22-25 Jul 99
US Woodstock 1999 which commemorated the 30th anniversary of
the original festival held in Bethel, N.Y. Of cource, Metallica played
there as they did in 1994.
Sep 99
Power. Performance. Attitude. These are keywords when we do talk
about the HotWeels Turbo racing game. And this time they can really
call it Powerfull. The game released on Nintendo64 and Playstation
Septemer 1999 with Metallicas "Fuel" in the soundtrack on the
Playstation edition.
19 & 23 Nov 99
In conjunction with the new release "S&M, Metallica played two live
symphony shows, one in Madison Square Gardens, New York with
the New York Symphony orchestra, and a show in Germany with
Babelsberger Film Orchester. A short tour followed.
23 Nov 99
The 2CD live album S&M released in the states. The date did vary
depending on where you lived on the planet. Several Metallica videos
were released on DVD at the same time "Cliff 'Em All" and "A
Year
and A Half... PT 1 & 2".
31 Dec 99
Silverdome, Pontiac, USA . Metallica and Ted Nugent will usher in the
next millennium together with a New Year's Eve show in Pontiac, Mich
9 Jan '00
Kid rock joined Metallica on stage in Minneapolis, MN, USA and sang
the chorus of Turn the Page along with James. Kid Rock was
supporting Metallica on their short mini tour.
23 Feb '00
The big M added another Grammy Award to their collection. This one
for Garage Inc's Whiskey In The Jar for Best Hard Rock Performance.
This is Metallica's fifth Grammy.
20 Mar '00
single "No Leaf Clover" released. Again there will be 3 different
versions of the single. Fans can also watch a 45 minute CD-ROM
documentary on Metallica's symphonic collaboration split in 15 minute
edits across the single's 3-CD format
13 Apr '00
11 year old Rueben Moss fronts with 14 year old Evan Moss on drums
and backing vocals. Jason is to sit in on 6 of their songs from their
first CD "North Side of the Tree." The show was at Last Day Saloon
in
San Francisco.
13 Apr '00
In what marks the first significant blow in the brewing battle between
artists and the emerging online music distribution aid Napster,
Metallica has filed suit against the tech company.
The metal giants filed suit in U.S. District Court naming Napster, and
several schools. The suit charges Napster and the schools in question
with copyright infringement, unlawful use of digital audio interface
device, and violations of the Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt
Organizations Act
Napster is still in its relative infancy, but the technology has managed
to nestle itself at the center of a media storm (and to raised the ire of
the music) during its brief life span. Napster boasts that its technology
gives users one simple interface through which to search for and
download MP3s of their favorite songs.
Metallica and co-plaintiffs E/M Ventures and Creeping Death Music
claim that the company "encourages and enables visitors to its
website to unlawfully exchange with others copyrighted songs and
sound recordings without the knowledge or permission of Metallica."
25 Apr '00
The radio play for the soundtrack song "I dissappear" for the movie
"Mission impossible II" started on the 25th of April. The movie
soundtrack was released two weeks later. This song was available on
the net in MP3 format prior to this and some radio station even played
it before it was official released.
2 May '00
The band did an online chat with the fans to explain why they started
the Napster case.