Episode 187 - Heavy Tales with Jonny Z

METAL UP YOUR PODCAST - All Things Metallica

Clint Wells

Clint Wells, Ethan Luck, Heavy Metal, Arts, Nashville, Metal Up Your Podcast, Metal, Music, Society & Culture, Thrash Metal, Metallica

4.9 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jon Zazula is the founder of Megaforce records. After discovering Metallica and bringing them to the east coast, he signed the band to their first label deal and released their debut album, 1983's Kill Em All. Other bands associated with Megaforce records are Overkill, Raven, King's X, Ministry and Anthrax, whom Jon managed for several years. Jon's autobiography is called Heavy Tales: The Metal, The Music and The Madness and can be found in hardback, kindle and audio formats. In this episode we talk with Jon about his book. hearing Metallica for the first time, booking their first east coast shows, firing Mustaine, recording Kill Em All, touring with Raven, the transition to Elektra Records, memories of Cliff and more. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Metallica, here they come, the kings of metal!
0:04.0	Oh, nah!
0:06.0	Oh, nah not burn!
0:23.5	Hey, this is Jay Weinberg from Slipknot, and you're listening to Metal Up Your Podcast.
0:48.5	Music Welcome to Mel up your podcast. I'm Ethan Luck. And I'm Clint Wells.
0:49.3	And folks, we have an insanely exciting episode.
0:52.2	We have none other than Johnny Z z on the show johnny z
0:56.4	mega force records most listeners of the podcast and fans of metallica will have heard of him
1:01.8	he is the dude who got a copy of the no left to a leather cassette loved it knew he had to be
1:07.2	you know somehow involved with the band brought him to the east coast sign him to their first deal, recorded Killem All, put him on tour with Raven. And in this episode,
1:16.0	he sat down with us from his home in Florida, gave us a rundown. He's got a book out called
1:21.6	Heavy Tales. And it came out last year, but he's released the audiobook, too.
1:28.0	And we are going to be given away two of those via our socials.
1:31.5	So go check out the socials to get involved.
1:34.4	Ethan, you want to tell them all the lovely socials we have?
1:36.5	We have all the good socials, by the way.
1:38.0	Oh, my gosh.
1:38.6	You guys aren't going to believe this.
1:39.8	Because there are a lot of socials to choose from, we have the good ones i think we have the good ones we have twitter we have instagram we have facebook speaking of the good ones we're on youtube clint wow
1:48.9	you believe it unbelievable youtube huh stitcher spotify everywhere anywhere anywhere you listen to the
1:54.6	podcast you'll find us anywhere any social media platform you're on minus tictock we're there well
1:59.8	you know john was so sweet and so cool.
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