Instrument: Lead guitar

Birthday: November 18, 1962

Originally From: San Francisco, California

Vitals: 5'8" & 134 lbs (1.7 meters & 60.78 kilos); brown hair & brown eyes

Marital status: Married

Drives: Land Cruiser, mountain bike, '55 Dodge Coronet, '66 Mercedes Benz

Drinks: Martinis, Sky Vodka, green tea

Eats: Sushi, Mexican food, pasta, Indian food

Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!")

Band before Metallica: Exodus

Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing, collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars, philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft

Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin, Kiss, John Coltrane, Goul, Mule, Chet Baker, Prez Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King Crimson, Robert Johnson

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