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Summary: The complete history, Full discography with 100s of photos
Review: The complete history - starting where it all began, in Ron McGovney's garage. A comprehensive discography with listings of several hundred official albums, CDs, singles, promos, limited editions and bootlegs all with pictures and cover scans! A complete list of all the cover songs Metallica have ever played, in the studio or on stage. A family tree telling you where the band members have played before they joined Metallica, and where they went when they left. Fuel & Fire, The Illustrated Collectors Guide to Metallica is written by Sem Hadland, the editor of "Encyclopedia Metallica", the largest and most visited Metallica web site.
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Summary: The complete cataloge of Metallica
Review: This book is the most detailed Metallica book I have ever seen. It should be and there are so many items in the book not only the text but with tons of pictures so you know what to look for. Do yourself a favour and buy this book. I call it the bible for Metallica fans.
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Summary: A must for _all_ MetallicA fans!
Review: This book's got everything a die-hard Metallica fan could ask for. I just finished reading it and I couldn't put it down. Normally, I don't read anything, but this being the best book about the best band in the world, I never stopped until the end. Complete history, all the songs played over the years, whatever you wanna know about the band, you'll find it here. If you've never read this book, you're not a full-fledged Metallica fan. Great job, Sem!
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Summary: Buy Good book
Review: This is a good book that I spent alot of time on it!
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Summary: Needs to be Updated
Review: When this book originally came out several years ago, it was a pretty handy and interesting guide to the world of collecting Metallica CDs, Vinyl, Cassettes and Promo only items. To anyone not a collector, the book probably wouldn't hold much interest, even though there is a brief historical timeline to major events in the life of Metallica at the start of the book. The family tree of the various bands that members were once in towards the end of the book goes into a little more detail than some other books I've read, as those tend to usually gloss over the pre-Metallica bands, so it's nice to have. The demos and cover songs section is decent too, although it's missing a few items and lacks details for some. Also included is a radio interview CD. The main problems with the book are mostly due to the format. It's understandable with the sheer number of bootlegs out there, that the author can't really do more than give them a passing mention (they'd be a book unto themselves). But any type of listing that tries to encompass everything that a (still) recording artist does is going to get stale pretty fast -- as new releases come and never before discovered versions of the albums and singles come to light. This type of listing is really better suited to the internet, which since the time the book was published, everybody and their grandmother has access to. There are several excellent sites that cover this material (the author has one himself) and is really the proper way to pass on this type of info. The book is also marred by some egregious typos and poorly reproduced scans that make the book look cheap (in quality, not price), which is too bad because this the only place to get a lot of this info in book form.
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