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1996	Various	Chris Lepurage
A professional photographer. Chris Lepurage has photographed for bands and celebrities like U2, Motley Crue, Metallica, Heather Locklear, Claudia Schiffer and so on. You can also see his work on various CD covers as well as magazines like "So What", "LiveWire", and "Metal Edge" among others. Papercopies are for sale on his webpage. James Hetfield singing live James with the skull explorer guitar Lars walking on stage James singing Kirk Hammett guitar solo

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16 May 1996	Stockholm, Sweden	Johan Ylitalo
The pictures was taken at the Gino, a little club in Stockholm, the 16th of may 1996. It was a free listening of the "Load" album and Kirk showed up to sign some stuff. Kirk in the crowd Talking about the album Signing stuff Signing more stuff

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23 Nov 1996	Backstage, Oslo, Norway	Sem Hadland
Lucky me, I met Jason backstage after the show in Norway 1996. A famous Norwegian soap-opera star were there as well. Jason signing autographs Jason signing autographs again Jason making an angry face Jason and Norwegian soap opera star Jason and Norwegian soap opera star2

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8 Jul 1997	Cuyahoga Falls, OH, USA	David LeFebvre
"I snuck a camera into the show. It was just a disposable without a flash, so most of the pictures didn't even come out, but one of the pyros during "Fuel" came out great. It's got Jason standing with arms outstreched in front of a pillar of bright red flame with the crowd in a fist-pumping frenzy". Jason and Pyro

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22 Aug 1997	Pukkelpop Festival	Various
The Pictures were taken at the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, Belgium, on August 22nd. It was the first of three festival shows Metallica played in Europe. The mini-tour was dubbed 'poor recording me' By: Davy Coolen James singing and playing James in the limelight James again Playing with the crowd More photos from the same day, these are by Geoffroy Cornette Lars and James Kirk in a solo Kirk in a solo 2 James talking to the crowd

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11 Nov 1997	Philly, PA, USA	Steve Puccia
Live at the Core State Center parking lot in Philly, PA, USA. This show was filmed and used in the FanCan4 video. Kirk and James in the sun James and camera Jason banging James clapping

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16 Nov 1997	Stockholm, sweden	Jonar Håkansson
Re-Load release party. Munich Brewery in Stockholm. Jonar H�kansson sent me these photos from the Re-load tour in Sweden. he didn't have a scanner so he sent me the paper-pix. I scanned them for him and returned the photos. James and Jason playing hard Whole stage and whole band Jason banging a solo Jason again James and Jason singing Kirk playing for the crowd, James singing Jason, James and Lars working hard James + Kirk Whole stage

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17 Jul 1998	Giants stadium, San Francisco	Godzilla
Photos taken by Godzilla, scanned and uploaded by The Goon 5. Thanks a lot for letting me use them. The stage with purple light The stage with green light Kirk playing a solo James clapping James playing his brown electric Kirk with James in the background Cool shot of Jason and Kirk Awesome picture of James Kirk playing another solo Jason and James at the K-Rock booth Kirk yelling Jason playing another tune

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18 Jul 1998	Mansfield, MA, USA	Samantha Nickerson
Live photos from GreatWoods, Mansfield, MA, USA by Samantha Nickerson from AbsolutMetal.com Kirk playing Jason with the microphone Lars hitting hard James slide guitar Jason and kirk doodeling

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3 Nov 1998	Warsaw music store, Poland	?
I went to the biggest Warsaw music store Planet Music to meet Metallica. I didn't know what band members are gonna be there. Later I heard it's gonna be Lars and Kirk. 250 people was expected but about 3000 actually came. I was there 4 hours before the signing time and already a large group of fans was standing in front of the big window, facing the table arranged for the band. Happy Kirk entering the shop Lars and Kirk with awards Lars and Kirk with awards outside Signing autographs Kirk Hammett

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