Answers:

1. Kirk Hammet. Before him were Lloyd Grant and Dave Mustaine.

2. Hit the Lights. It appeared on an album of local metal bands called "Metal Massacre."

3. Dave formed Megadeth.

4. McGoveney was replaced by Burton from the San Francisco band Trauma. 'Tallica had to relocate to get him in.

5. They were released by Megaforce.  I have received numerous e-mails saying it was by Elektra. Wrong. Elektra re-released it after aquiring the band a few weeks after Megaforce released Ride the Lightning. The re-releases came years later, but the originals were by Megaforce.

6. He died in a tour bus crash in Sweden on the way to a show in Denmark.

7. "One" became their first video, with three versions of differing length including a "jam" video that's only about 5 minutes and is only the band playing. Another version includes movie clips from the film "Johnny's Got His Gun" a movie with a similar story line to the song.

8. He wasn't given credit for Of Wolf And Man.

9. His final song was "To Live is to Die" which was put together by Metallica after he died from various riffs he wrote and a poem as the lyrics.

10. It was Doris.

11. Lars stole the name from Ron Quintana, who suggested the name for his own metal fanzine.

12. James said it.

13. His mother was Christian Scientist and died because her beliefs kept her from getting chemotherapy to kill her cancer.

14. Jethro Tull, for not putting out an album that year. They controversially won the metal category.

15. Wayne Isham directed Fuel and a few others.

16. They were based on the stories of HP Lovecraft, a horror writer. Kirk and Cliff were interested in his writing.

17. Motorhead.

18. Miles.

19. King Nothing.

20. Ecstasy of Gold, a song taken from the movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

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