Let It Loose
-Orignal: Savage (Bradley,Dawson)
- recorded Mars 82 for their first demo

Run to the Hills
-Original: Iron Maiden (Harris) 1982
-I'm not sure if it is right to put this track under the "recorded tracks" heading,
as you'll only hear a few improved seconds at the end of "Garage days". Only the intro,
and no vocals, but they have played the complete version live several times

 

COVERS ONLY PLAYED LIVE

MOTORHEAD
Metallica played the following Motorhead tunes as "The Lemmys" November 95 at Lemmy's 50th birtday
party at Whiskey A Go-Go
Overkill
Damage Case
Stone Dead Forever
To Late, Too Late
The Chase is Better than the Catch
Ace of spades

Are You Gonna Go My Way?
-Original: Lenny Kravitz
-A short 25 second live improv at Buenos Aries, Argentina 08.05.93

Back in Black
-Original: AC/DC 1980, (album: Back in black)
-Short 15 second live improv at Basel, Switzerland 25.08.91

Black Magic
Original: Slayer
Performed at the Monsters of rock festival at Donnington 95. They played a little bit of the
intro when jaymz was asking the crowd if they liked the rest of the bill. Slayer played on
the same Festival

Black Night
-Original: Deep Purple
- short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Burn
-Original: Deep Purple (Burn)
-Five seconds live in Gothenburg, Sweden (13.2.87)

Cat Scratch Fever
-Original: Ted Nugent
-Short live improv at Sacramento, CA 01.10.91

Cold Gin
-Original: Kiss
-Short version played at the Lollapalooza tour in '96 which ended in Enter Sandman.

A Corpse Without a Soul
-Original: recorded by Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Custard Pie
-Original: Led Zeppelin
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Death Comes Ripping
-Original: The Misfits 1983
-James performed this once with i4Ni

Dazed and Confused
-Original: Led Zeppelin
-Metallica: Part of Jason & Kirk's solos in Mexico City (LS:B&P)

Detroit Rock City
-Original: Kiss (Album: Destroyer)
-30 second live improv at the palloza tour, US 05.07.96

Death Kiss (Walking Back to Hell)
-Original: Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Devil Eyes
-Original: Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Don't Touch Me There
-Original: Tygers of Pan Tang
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Do You Know the Way To San Jose
- Original: Dionne Warwick
- Kirk started playing a riff. James then asked "is that a new riff your working on,
Let's hear it" Kirk then stepped up to the mic and played and sang several lines of
"Do You Know the Way To San Jose" (lasting about 30-40 seconds), San Jose 31.12.96.

Euthenaisia
-Original: Tygers of Pan Tang in 1980
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Guilty of Love
-Original: Whitesnake
- played the intro at the Monsters Of Rock festival, England 1995.

Halloween II
Original: The Misfits 1981
- James and Kirk performed this live with Danzig at San Francisco, CA 05.01.89

Hells Bells
Original: AC/DC 1980
-Short 15 second live improv at Paris, France 21.09.91

Hey Jude
-Original: The Beatles
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Highway Star
-Original: Deep Purple (Machine Head)
Metallica: a few seconds live in Alpine Valley, WI, USA (28.5.88)

Holier
-Original: Corrosion of Conformity
-Metallica version: live doodle at Donington (26.8.95) and LA2 (23.8.95)

How Many More Times
-Original: Led Zeppelin
-Performed several times as a short 70 second live improv Tokyo, Japan 14.05.89

In My Time of Dying
-Original: Led Zeppelin
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Into the Coven
-Original Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Iron Man
-Original: Black Sabbath "Paranoid"
-Performed as a 30 second live improv at Newark, DE 07.08.89

It Ain't Like That
- Original: Alice in Chains "Facelift" (1991)
The song that they start into right before "King Nothing" on the "Mama Said" single is
"It Ain't Like That" by from Facelift.

La Bamba
-Original: Richie Valens
-Short 30 second live improv at Austin, TX 03.02.89

La Grange
-Original: ZZ Top
-Short 60 second instrumental live improv at New Orleans, LA 18.01.92

Let There Be Rock
Original: AC/DC 1977 (Album: Let there be rock)
4th April 1998 in Sydney, Australia.

Linus and Lucy
Original: Vince Guaraldi
Metallica: part of their live doodle in Gothenburg, Sweden (13.2.87)

Little Wing
-Original: Jimi Hendrix 1967
-Performed instrumentally at several concerts in '89

London Dungeon
-Original: The Misfits 1981
-Performed a short version here and there over the years in concert, a full version was
performed with Danzig at Chicago, IL 03.07.94

'man in the box'
-Original: Alice in Chains
-Performed live every now and then

Mistreated
-Original Deep Purple "Burn"
-Performed instrumentally on several occasions, (Hamilton, Canada 14.04.92)

Moby Dick
Original: Led Zeppelin (II)
Metallica: Jason plays the bass part before the drum solo on the San Diego "Live Shit" video

"More Human than Human"
-Original: White Zombie (Astro Creep 2000...)
-live doodle at Donington (26.8.95)

"My Sharona"
- Original: The Knack's
- 20 seconds played at the encore at March 2 at the Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA, USA

N.I.B.
-Original: Black Sabbath 1976
-Short 15 second live improv version at Belfast, Ireland 01.10.88

Nightmare
-Original: Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Nuns Have No Fun
-Original: Mercyful Fate
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

the ole' charlie brown theme
-Original: Peanuts
-About one minute live at the Aardshock festival 02.08.87

Postmortem
-Original: Slayer 1986
-Performed live as a 25 second improv at Austin, TX 03.02.89

Prowler
-Original: Iron Maiden 1980
-Performed as a live 80 second improv a few times, (Sheffeild, UK 30.09.88)

Raining blood
-Original: Slayer 1886
-Performed as a live 60 second version, (new jersey, USA, 04.04.92)

Rapid fire
-Original: Judas Priest
-Rob Halford Judas Priests old vocalist sings this song with the band 21.08.94 at
Bicentennial Park, Miami

Remember Tommorow
-Original Iron Maiden
- performed live at the Monsters of rock festival Donnington 26.08.95

Return of the Vampire
Original: Mercyful Fate
-A short 25 second live improv version at Frolundaborg, Sweden 13.02.87

Round and Round
Original: Ratt
played live at Merriweather Post Pavillion, Maryland in 1993.

Smoke on the Water
-Original: Deep Purple
-Instrumental version was performed several times live (Los Angeles, CA 22.02.93)

Stairway to Heaven
-Original: Led Zeppelin (IV/ZOSO)
-Metallica: Jaymz plays it during "A Year... Part 1"

The Star Spangled Banner
Original: Francis Scott Key
Metallica: many live shows including "Binge & Purge" in San Diego in the middle of "Am I Evil?"

Stranglehold
Original: Ted Nugent
Ted Nugent came on stage and sang this tune with James. (22.02.97 Palace of auburn hills, michigan)

Sucking My Love
-Original: Diamond Head
-Rehearsed in Ron McGovney's garage Mars 82, never performed live .

Sweet Home Alabama
-Original: Lynyrd Skynyrd
-Quick 30 second version before startin with One. (Buffalo, NY USA, Dec. 1993 Buffalo, NY USA)

Symptom of the Universe
-Original: Black Sabbath 1975
-Several short 30 second live improv versions (Hamilton, Canada 14.04.92)

Third Stone From The Sun
Original: Jimi Hendrix Experience
Metallica: "Live Shit: Binge & Purge" in Mexico City before "Of Wolf And Man"

Twist of Cain
-Original: Danzig (Danzig)
-Metallica version: live in Rutherford, NJ, USA (21.7.89) during beginning of "Seek & Destroy"

When the Money Comes Rolling In
-Original: Fang
-Performed live in Berkley, CA on 24.08.85

Walk this way
-Original: Aerosmith
-Short improv versions played several times. Can be heard on "Live shit - binge & purge"

"Welcome to the Jungle"
Original: Guns'n roses, "Appetite for destruction"
Played at the "Monsters Of Rock" festival Donnington 95. James asked the crowd if they liked
the rest of the bill when they played the intro to this song

-Original; Oasis, 1995
-Short version recorded during rehearsal on the fan-club CD "FanCan #1"

Youth Gone Wild
-Original: Skid Row
-Played the intro to this song at the Monsters of rock festival at Donnington, England 95.

We did it again (featuring JA Rule)

53rd and 3rd cover Ramones
This song was released on February 10th 2003 on the "We're a Happy Family" Ramones tribute
album including various famous bands and artists. Actually Metallica recorded 4 Ramones cover
songs and picked that one for the tribute album.

Album:
"We're a Happy Family" - a tribute to Ramones

The cover of:
The song "53rd & 3rd" was originally written by the Ramo

Veteran of the psychic wars original by Blue Oyster Cult covered by metallica at the
Bridge School Benefit Mountain View CA  28 October 2007