Instrument: Guitar
Specialty: Kick-ass, full-blown lead guitar vocals
Birthday: November 18, 1962
From: San Francisco, California
Vitals: 5'8" & 134 lbs (1.7 meters & 60.78 kilos); brown hair & brown eyes

GUITARS
E.S.P. M-2 Skull #1
E.S.P M-2 Skull #2
E.S.P M-2 Ouija
E.S.P M-2 F--k You
Fly-V Devil
Les Paul, Jr. Spider
Gibson Les Paul, black
Fender Stratocaster-S.R.V., black
Fender Stratocaster, natural finish
Jackson Fly-V, black
Ibanez Stratocaster, black

AMPS
Mesa Boogie Strategy 400 power amps
Mesa Boogie MK IV Amp
Mesa Boogie 4 x 12 speaker cabinets
Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp
Nady 1200 Wireless receivers and transmitters
ADA MP-1 preamp
ADA MQ-1 E.Q.
Marshall practice amps

OTHER SHIT
Alesis Data Disk
Juice Goose power strip
Eventide H3000 SE
Boss SE-50
Rocktron Juice Extractor
Custom Audio Electronics preamp
Multiple Foot Pedals Custom Rackmount
EMB Audio Remote Wah units
EMB/Ernie Ball Wah Pedals-custom
Aphex Parametric E.Q.
Rocktron Patchmate
Bradshaw Switching System
Bradshaw Patch Bay Custom
Marshall 4 x 12 speaker cabinets
Ascot Road cases
Dunlop pedals
Dunlop picks
Pro-Co sound cables
EMG Pickups
Peterson 520 strobe tuner
Floyd Rose Tremelo Systems
Dean Markley strings
Whirlwind channel boxes
Ultra guitar stands
Rocktron RSB-18F pedal boards
Ibanez Tube Screamer
R & R road cases
DiMarzio guitar straps

Marital status: Happily married to Lani
Drives: Land Cruiser, mountain bike, '55 Dodge Coronet
Drinks: Martinis, Sky Vodka, green tea
Eats: Sushi, Mexican food, pasta, Indian food, Thai food
Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!")
Before Metallica: Played in Exodus, drank a lot
Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing, collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars, philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft, Taxidermy, Pinball
Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin, Kiss, John Coltrane, Gout, Mule, Chet Baker, Prez Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King Crimson, Robert Johnson, Radiohead
Heroes: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimi Hendrix, Chet Baker, Diane Arbus, John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Edward Munch, Joel Peter Whitkin
First concert: Day on the Green with the Eagles, Steve Miller, Heart, and Foreigner
Describes self as: Smelly, ugly, happy, obsessive, progressive, curious