Kirk Hammett Archives - Alan Cross' A Journal of Musical Things

Ongoing History Daily: Losing a Porsche the Metallica way

When Metallica finished up their “black” album, no one was really sure if the record was going to be a

Wanna see exactly how creepy and invasive Facebook is? Take a look at this. Once you’ve regained your composure, take

Feeling groggy and weird? Blame turning the clocks back. It’s time we got rid of DST, period. Meanwhile, in the

All the guys in Metallica have their non-musical passions. James into guitars. Lars plays tennis and is into collecting art.

Kirk Hammett, Metallica’s lead guitarist since the dawn of time, is a world-class collector of horror and sci-fi movie memorabilia.

School’s out. Anyone want to bet on when we’ll see the first back to school commercials? I say three weeks.

Jaguars from the 1960s were horribly unreliable but indisputably gorgeous. The pinnacle of that era of design was the E-Type

Has anyone famous died yet this year? Read on to find out. You never know what you’ll find amongst the

There’s some kind of big Pokemon Go update today. Are people still into that? Here’s some music news… Prince’s best

Back on this day in 1991, the first version of Linux was released. That has nothing to do with music

On this date in 1992, Johnny Carson hosted his last Tonight Show after 30 years. Here’s an interesting list of

The Goldilocks of Canadian Production Companies – Mark Bishop in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 037 November 25, 2021
Our latest guest on The Backstage Project podcast comes to us from the world of Canadian television. TBP was thrilled to have a chance to visit and catch up with marblemedia’s Mark Bishop. Mark is an accomplished entrepreneur, brand-builder and trusted media industry advocate. In 2001 Mark and Co-Founder Matt Hornburg founded marblemedia, one of […]
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Chasing a Dream – Kevin Porter in Conversation with TBP Podcast EP 036 October 11, 2021
Many of us – at one time or another – dream of being professional athletes. Most of us realize in high school that we won’t be making it to the big leagues – unfortunately. The lucky among us flirt with the minor leagues in hopes of that big break. But what happens when that big […]
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Being your Authentic Self – Richard Crouse in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 035 July 2, 2021
You would be given a free pass if you forgot that before the rise of the social media influencer there were already pundits and personalities on TV, radio and print. There’s just been that much exponential change in the media business over the last 15 years. Yet today, those who were formerly the audience are […]
Mark Silver