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fabianexp844 · 3 months

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❗️exclusive 📸❗️my absolute favourite Guitar❤️

Original James Hetfield First Gibson Explorer 1984 „SoWhat“ 🤘🏽Master of Puppets Guitar 🤌🏽

Workbench photography by „Zach Harmon“

•James: My favorite piece that I only use in the studio is a formerly white, now yellow Explorer. But I will never part with it again. Very simple, because this is the guitar on which I found my sound.And then this shape! The explorer shape simply suits me best.

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#gibson guitars #james hetfield #master of puppets #1984 #72 seasons #heavy metal #james hetfield 1985 #kirk hammett #thrash metal #metallica 1984 #1986 #cliff burton #Metallica #metallica family #gibson explorer

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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THRASHERS BY NAME -- STREET PUNK-METAL ASSASSINS IN ATTITUDE.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega-spotlight on late, great bassist Cliff Burton and rhythm guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield of American thrash metal band METALLICA, performing live at the Breaking Sound Festival at Le Bourget Airport outside of Paris, France, on August 29, 1984. 📸: Pete Cronin (I believe he took all of these).

Man, these took a while to track down, and I'll bet there's even more out there that probably haven't even been published yet. I also had to double-check that they were all different, too, seeing as they're multiple shots of just Cliff & James. Stay HEAVY!!

Sources: Various, Classic Rockers, Loudwire, Rolling Stone, the NME, and https://notefornoteblog.wordpress.com/2014/08/06/metallica-ride-the-lightning-1984.

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 2 years

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#Metallica #Ride the Lightning #80's #classic album #thrash metal #cliff burton era #metal #Full-length #mega force records #1984 #k7 #cassette #Cassette Tape #Lyrical themes: Corruption Death Life Internal struggles Anger War #USA #cover #album

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kirkybabygo · 11 months

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This picture was in my Revolver Magazine Spring 2023 Metallica Issue I ordered back in April. It made me so happy because I’ve never seen it before! Thought I’d share it along with an excerpt from the article interview with Lars 🤍

Interviewer (J. Bennett): Some of those shows [M72 tour] will be with Pantera. You’ve known them since they were playing clubs, before Philip Anselmo was even in the band, haven’t you?

Lars: We met the brothers [Dimebag and Vinnie Paul] on the Ride the Lightning tour and became friends with them. This was in Dallas in - what - 1622 or something? It was about 400 years ago. [Laughs] We obviously loved both of them, and they had a posse down there, and we would see them whenever we came through Texas. We watched the band evolve over the years from more rock vibes into that creative, unique force that they became. So we’ve had a relationship with them for decades and decades, yeah.

#metallica #james hetfield #lars ulrich #pantera #dimebag darrell #diamond darrell #rex brown #1984 #the picture is so cute 😭#silly lil dudes #love them fr #literally my two fav bands

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the-young-metal-attack · 10 months

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James's diary, 1984

#mine #metallica #rare #james hetfield #diary #1984

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heavymetalarchive · 7 months

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4 pages on METALLICA in Kerrang issue 83, December 1984.

#metallica #lars ulrich #kirk hammett #james hetfield #cliff burton #1984 #kerrang

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garyholt · 6 months

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Metallica in Belgium, Feb 12th, 1984. Photos by Frederick Moulaert

#metallica #1984 #thrash metal #james hetfield #lars ulrich #cliff burton #kirk hammett #uploads #80s #early 80s

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blackros78 · 1 year

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Cliff Burton performing at the Breaking Sound festival in France in August, 1984.

#cliff burton #metallica #1980s #heavy metal #classic rock #on stage #breaking sound festival #france #1984 #thrash metal

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imgonnabesic · 11 months

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Metallica, Ride The Lightning era 🔛🔝

their looks here 💙

#metallica #metal #heavy metal #thrash #1984 #80s #photoshoot #80s bands #kirk hammett #james hetfield #lars ulrich #cliff burton

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fabianexp844 · 5 months

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@metallica 2022

James Hetfield with his Master of Puppes Guitar🤘🏽

Gibson Explorer 84 SoWhat 🤘🏽

#gibson guitars #master of puppets #1984 #james hetfield 1985 #metallica 1984 #james hetfield #72 seasons #thrash metal #heavy metal #esp guitars #lars ulrich #kirk hammett

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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HAMMETT IS ROCKING DISCHARGE IN ALL OF THESE -- WELCOME TO 1984.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a mega photo-dump of metal maniacs James Hetfield & Kirk Hammett (both playing Gibson Flying V's, too) of METALLICA performing live onstage during the Aardshock Festival (Holland) on February 11, 1984, while on the Seven Dates of Hell Tour with VENOM. 📸: Pete Cronin.

Seriously though, the DISCHARGE tee on Kirk really makes these photographs, and maybe 50% of the whole American thrash scene in general wouldn't even fucking exist had it not been for the monolithic power and influence of DISCHARGE. Shit, man, just ask Kirk.

Source: Too many websites to name, and I scoured the whole of the Internet to make sure they were all different, but all of the same '84 Holland gig!

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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Metallica, 1984.

#Metallica 1984.#Metallica #Ride the Lightning #Ride the Lightning era #kirk hammett #james hetfield #cliff burton #lars ulrich #Genre: Thrash Metal #thrash metal #metal #USA

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tallicafanpage · 1 year

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larsulrich: Here’s to denim jackets for all, and futile facial hair… But attitude overload!

Happy Birthday Cliff… Thinking of you brother!

#Lars Ulrich #Cliff Burton #Metallica #1984 #The Old Dayz #Instagram Pics

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dy3rs3v3 · 2 years

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Metallica doing their best to look badass on tour in London, 1984

#looking good #james cracking out the bullet belt #nice scarf kirk #theyre so cute #tryina look all tough #metallica #james hetfield #lars ulrich #cliff burton #kirk hammett #1984 #ross halfin pics #80s #metal #mmp

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the-young-metal-attack · 1 year

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1987

#mine #metallica #1984 #lars ulrich #james hetfield #jason newsted #kirk hammett

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phant0m-l0rd · 1 year

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I wanted to share this cool find I made a few weeks ago while going through some of my uncle's old music magazines from the early 80s : an article from June 1984 written by Hervé Picart about a little up and coming band called Metallica... Finding this article felt like opening a time capsule.

(Magazine: BEST N°191, June 1984, French.)

I translated the article to English for the non-French speakers- translation after the cut:

Everything is currently changing on the good old West Coast. Just as we thought Frisco and Los Angeles forever attached to FM rock, poppy hits and beach boy philosophy, a surprising push of hard fever has come to contaminate them. Van Halen is no longer alone. Mötley Crüe, Heaven, and many others are shaking up the prophet kingdom in California, to such an extent that it might soon be necessary to rebaptise the Golden Gate "Metal Gate". Among all these new groups which are currently candidates to convert Jerry Garcia to heavy music and force everyone to trade their flower patterned bermuda for a black leather jacket, Metallica is without a doubt the most significant, and the most jostling act. These Californians have only released one album as of right now, but an album of such power, and accompanied by such emotion that a regular dose of Metallica has become a priority for all metalheads worthy of that name. There is no doubt both from a musical standpoint and from a purely emotional one that America now beholds its own Iron Maiden. Nothing less.

Like always in the case of rising waves, it was a compilation of various heavy groups, created in 1982 by the little local label Metal Blade Records and baptised "Metal Massacre", which revealed to the public of aficionados and curious minds alike the existence of Metallica. Their unique title, the henceforth mythical "Hit the lights", crushed all competition like Maiden's "Sanctuary" had done on the legendary "Metal For Muthas". "Hit the lights", it was a sort of sonic whirlwind which makes one want to take from all bands known for their label of "speed" that very label and reserve it for Metallica. The gang was then at the tail-end of their first chapter and was finishing off their work with their first formation, as five, with two guitarists.

Of this initial quintet, today there only remains the singer/rhythm guitarist James Hetfield and the drummer Lars Ulrich. The others, exhausted, passed the baton to the bassist Cliff Burton (speaking of which, treacherous minds have said ever since his solo "Anesthesia" that he had a dinosaur for a teacher), and the electrifying lead guitarist Kirk Hammett. As evidenced, Hetfield and Hammett are the two poles of Metallica, one with his warm and powerful voice which lends itself well to choruses of miraculously melodic quality amongst such chaos, and the other with his totally insane solos. Visibly, Kirk Hammett has learned to play his Flying V thinking it was a machine gun because he seems to create blasts more than anything. His virtuosity, the speed of his going along the fretboard inevitably make you dizzy.

After having blown minds from the get-go thanks to "Hit the lights", Metallica found a peculiar glory as immediate as it was underground, as those wired into heavy music consider it the pinnacle of power to be able to share, like sharp conspirators, precious copies of cassettes of demo tapes the band had made in order to make the rounds among record labels. While some official labels, rather frightened, quickly closed the door on them, the incredible interest from the underground scene acted like propaganda for the group, from Frisco to LA. Metallica then decided to play this game in their favour and opted for the small label Megaforce in order to release their first album, the crushing "Kill 'em all", very quickly released in England by the knowing people of Music for Nations, then later here by Bernett.

This more than mighty album does a good job in presenting two different aspects of Metallica. On one hand, relatively short songs, but hyper-accelerated, like "Hit the lights", the famous "Motorbreath", or the terrific "Whiplash". On the other, much longer tracks, composed of various sequences which battle each other, superposing riffs, rhythmic sections syncopated to an extreme, and more labyrinthine tracks that undeniably make one think of Iron Maiden. And all of that magnetised by the two bewitching Flying Vs, that of Hetfield which sounds like a metallic cavalcade (that of the "Four horsemen" of the apocalypse), and that of Hammett which comes again and again like a Mirage plane attacking. Midway between Motörhead and Maiden, then.

Ever since this incandescent record which has made them appear in Europe like the saviours of American rock, Metallica is progressively emerging from its lair. This spring, they were in Europe recording a new album. "Ride the Lightning", which will come out in June when they'll come to shake the first swarms of French fans, will give you all the occasion to fully integrate their healthy maxim, "Bang that head that doesn't bang"!!!

- Hervé Picart

Discography:

- In French pressing: "Kill 'em all" (Bernett- Musidisc)

- Imported:

"Seek and destroy " (max 45 live tours)

"Metal up your ass" (other version of "Kill 'em all")

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