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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2012, 08:39:54 PM »
As posted on NS4, you can get this book on Amazon for $25:

http://www.amazon.com/Much-Horror-Business-Kirk-Hammett/dp/0810996596



Thanks for posting this Mel.  I remember reading about it a few months ago.  It's in my cart...

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2012, 09:09:44 AM »
Thanks Mel, book has been rumored for awhile, glad to see it hit print.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2012, 05:38:17 PM »
So HE'S the bastid that has the daybill!
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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2012, 05:44:23 PM »
Is that a Franky daybill?  I thought it was an insert...

I'm in love with the French 2p.  Go big or go home.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2012, 11:21:18 PM »
So HE'S the bastid that has the daybill!

AND my argie London After Midnight  moron1
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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2012, 11:34:45 PM »
That French Frankenstein was in Robert Florey's collection. I met with his widow, and she explained that he wanted one poster each from all his movies, and he had a U.S. poster on ALL except Frankenstein, because Laemmle had cheated him terribly, promising him to let him direct him he gave Laemmle the script, but once he did, Laemmle took him off of it, and to add insult to injury did not credit him for his script!

But he somehow DID get credit on the French poster, which was why Florey had it in his collection! Interestingly, he was a major collector of other types of items, like swords, but the only posters he had were the one each from his movies.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2012, 01:03:22 PM »
I thought the Frankenstein 6-Sheet was the pinnacle of our hobby, that is until I picked this book up...The 3-Sheet for The Mummy is...SPECTACULAR.  Wowza!  That is art.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2012, 02:00:30 PM »
Man this type of stuff just depresses the hell out of me... Never going to have even one of those pieces...

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2012, 02:49:26 PM »
Don't let it bring you down Charlie.
You can always learn playing the guitar, form a metal band, do some gigs until you achieve playing before metallica in a concert, befriend Kirk, make him invite you to his house, kick the crap out of him and while he's unconscious grab all you can and run.
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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2012, 03:34:54 PM »
Don't let it bring you down Charlie.
You can always learn playing the guitar, form a metal band, do some gigs until you achieve playing before metallica in a concert, befriend Kirk, make him invite you to his house, kick the crap out of him and while he's unconscious grab all you can and run.

NOT HELPING...

I would never open for Metallica!  :P

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2012, 03:47:56 PM »
Don't let it bring you down Charlie.
You can always learn playing the guitar, form a metal band, do some gigs until you achieve playing before metallica in a concert, befriend Kirk, make him invite you to his house, kick the crap out of him and while he's unconscious grab all you can and run.

That's crazy talk Matias... Quit living in a dream world!  All Charlie needs to do is to take his restoration hobby pro.  Lets say he makes $50 per poster after expenses and time. If he can complete one poster per day and doesn't take any days off for weekends or vacations, in 41 short years he'll have saved up enough to buy Todd F's Dracula on eBay! 

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #12 on: October 03, 2012, 04:10:29 PM »
That's crazy talk Matias... Quit living in a dream world!  All Charlie needs to do is to take his restoration hobby pro.  Lets say he makes $50 per poster after expenses and time. If he can complete one poster per day and doesn't take any days off for weekends or vacations, in 41 short years he'll have saved up enough to buy Todd F's Dracula on eBay!  

NOT HELPING!  You forgot inflation, making it a statistical improbability... as I would have to make $61 a day (plus 1.03 annually) just to keep up with it, the inflation alone.  So I would have to make $111/day + inflation... :'(  

Based on an annual 3% inflation rate at $50/day I will still be $1.76 million short... since the poster will most likely be worth $2.5 million in 2053...

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #13 on: October 03, 2012, 06:37:56 PM »
That's crazy talk Matias... Quit living in a dream world!  All Charlie needs to do is to take his restoration hobby pro.  Lets say he makes $50 per poster after expenses and time. If he can complete one poster per day and doesn't take any days off for weekends or vacations, in 41 short years he'll have saved up enough to buy Todd F's Dracula on eBay! 

Fair enough. If we want to go the restoration route, it's even easier. Become pro, get Kirk's posters for linenbacking. Do some fine reproductions glued to real vintage paper. Keep originals. Return the fakes to Kirk. Just make sure you don't get caught, Haggard style  ;)
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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #14 on: October 03, 2012, 07:16:02 PM »
Don't let it bring you down Charlie.
You can always learn playing the guitar, form a metal band, do some gigs until you achieve playing before metallica in a concert, befriend Kirk, make him invite you to his house, kick the crap out of him and while he's unconscious grab all you can and run.

 eyeroll

Y'all obviously didn't read this thread: http://www.allposterforum.com/index.php/topic,2788.0.html    :P

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #15 on: October 04, 2012, 01:41:52 AM »
Anthony sez he's coming back to finish that epic soon...
Great read.
Thanks for re-posting it Neo.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #16 on: October 04, 2012, 10:19:44 AM »
His collection is really just stunning... I can't wait for my book to arrive later today. 

http://www.wired.com/video/latest-videos/latest/1815816633/metallica-guitarist-is-a-horror-nerd/1871434782001

And on a side note, so that is who bought that incredible Lugosi oil portrait that HA sold!

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #17 on: October 04, 2012, 04:20:24 PM »
You won't be disappointed Matt.  The Posters are all photographed beautifully.  And there is a great story (almost like 2 pages long) on how he ended up picking up one of the Styles of The Mummy poster, the only one known to exist.  Unfortunately it was laminated, but still...

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #18 on: October 04, 2012, 05:27:10 PM »
His collection is really just stunning... I can't wait for my book to arrive later today. 

+1 I ordered one too; just to see what he's got...

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #19 on: October 04, 2012, 06:13:47 PM »

Anthony sez he's coming back to finish that epic soon...


Cool.  pcorn

Great video there, H.C.  Mr. Hammett has quite the awesome display.  cool1  Probably one of the best in the world for that genre, eh?

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #20 on: October 04, 2012, 11:00:41 PM »
So who has the greatest horror memorabilia collection?  Hammett says he has the "second" greatest collection.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2012, 12:18:48 AM »
Great book!  I haven't read through it yet, just browsed.... but wow!  Seeing him standing next to that Mummy 3-sheet.  Damn.  I'm speechless. 

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2012, 08:16:08 AM »
Fishler?

Here is a shot of Todds wall 10 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQgmmim_gfw

Rob Zombie has a nice collection as well.

Sean tracks where the big moves go pretty well.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2012, 08:36:35 AM »
Looking at collections of that magnitude make me want to toss my paper in the dumpster.

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Re: The Kirk Hammett Collection: Too Much Horror Business
« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2012, 12:26:07 PM »
Very cool that those guys are generous and brave to video their stuff.  cool1

Here's another video with some horror stuff, including Mr. Fishler.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nx2zuM9isM&feature=related