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James Alan Hetfield |  |
| opera singer on August 3rd, 1963, in Los Angeles. His family's Christian Science religious beliefs are often mentioned as the root of James' "tortured soul" lyrics. Musically, he began at age 9 with piano lessons, then banging away on his brother David's drums and finally to guitar. |
 | James had some other band`s, One of them where named Obsession The band was made up of the Veloz brothers on bass and drums and Jim Arnold on guitar. After the band had broken up James started a new band called "THE PHANTOM LORD" The band consited of: Hugh on guitar and Mulligan on drums, James sang and played guitar. |
| James Hetfield's third band overall, Leather Charm was formed from the members of Phantom Lord, except that James performed sole singing duties (no guitar) and Ron McGovney was added to play bass guitar. Completing the line-up were Phantom Lord carry-overs Hugh Tanner and Jim Mulligan. |
 | After Leather Charm James met Lars Ulrich. They formed METALLICA. From the very start, James has been the main songwriter in Metallica, from the riffs to the lyrics. When he's not writing, singing or playing, James indulges in hunting and various sports. He's recently taken up snowboarding, as he has hung up his skateboard after a series of mishaps. James is very intrested in old gitars, particularly those manufactured in 1963. He started collecting old gitars very early in his life. |