Metallica The Club Dayz 1982-1984
Tari
legendary rock band Metallica that were shot by renown metal
photographer Bill Hale during the band’s formative years in the Bay
Area club circuit between 1982 and 1984.
This book contains rare and exclusive photographs from six of the
band’s earliest performances including their first shows in San
Francisco at The Stone and The Old Waldorf which featured the original
lineup with Dave Mustaine (guitar) and Ron McGovney (bass), Cliff
Burton’s introductory gig with the band at The Stone, the last
Metallica show with Dave Mustaine in San Francisco, and Kirk Hammett’s
Metallica debut in the Bay area.
As chief photographer of Metal Rendezvous International, a
groundbreaking heavy rock magazine that was published throughout the
’80s, Bill Hale was given unlimited access to hang out with and
photograph this then-fledgling metal band. His job at the time was to
capture the band onstage and offstage and provide the magazine with
unique photographs of the band showcasing their brazen live energy in
concert to unveiling some of their crazy and unpredictable backstage
antics.
Bill Hale was right there from the very beginning, capturing the band
before, during and after their performances. He was at every one of
their early Bay Area shows, without the safety of a photo pit, crushed
among the savage crowd as they head-banged fearlessly to the music of
their local heroes. Here, for the first time Bill Hale opens up his
photo vault. Witness one of the greatest rock bands of all time during
their embryonic stage.
Influenced musically by the new breed of British metal yet epitomizing
the punk rock attitude, Metallica’s loud, snotty and don’t five a f**k
attitude is very evident in these photographs. Most of the photos in
this book have never been published and many of the images have never
before been revealed to the public. Metallica: The Club Dayz is a long
lost chapter of this band’s visual history.
All the best,
Bob Nalbandian