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So What! Book Out Now!
August 17, 2004
The So What! book is out today! Don't have your copy yet? Order from the Official Online Store now! Click here to buy now!
A rather smart idea from...Lars. yes, he was the one who thought it'd be great to give each band member a tape recorder and let them interview Jason alone without the attentions of said-editor (this was for the Jason Newsted special issue). And so they did! And how they came out! Wow! To think, these were the last detailed interviews Jason ever did before leaving Metallica. The plan had been for everyone to undergo the same but, well, stuff started happening after that and...
Another Lars collage just because, well, I like it. the design team did a tremendous job taking the elements we wanted in there and incorporating them into such limited space.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
Looking back on this, it might be one of the best things So What! has ever done. Dead of winter 2001, dead of Metallica 2001, two band members who didn't even know if it was a band anymore. The photography for this story was fantastic from Mark Leialoha (who shot over half the material in the book) and the sort-of round-table was, in retrospect, both heavy and a huge beam of informational light for clubbers who had waited a long time for any information.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
Nothing fancy here, just a page from the 'Garage Inc' story we initially ran and which I re-edited here. You can get an idea of how we have re-designed every page in the book and tried to vary the photo use too. Mark Abramson and his design team did a fine job reinterpreting my overall creative design concepts and adding dimensions to both it and the design of the book overall which I would never have got close to.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
An example of how we have handled the massive task of grabbing sponsor section highlights. Each band member has two blasts within the book, and we decided to 'collage' as many things as we could without making it completely illegible. Thus we see here a hodge-podge of cool Larsian moments and some poignant memories. Bless him. With Kirk, we can see an artist at work, plus some magnificent pictures of the even more magnificent Darla.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
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A rather smart idea from...Lars. yes, he was the one who thought it'd be great to give each band member a tape recorder and let them interview Jason alone without the attentions of said-editor (this was for the Jason Newsted special issue). And so they did! And how they came out! Wow! To think, these were the last detailed interviews Jason ever did before leaving Metallica. The plan had been for everyone to undergo the same but, well, stuff started happening after that and...
Another Lars collage just because, well, I like it. the design team did a tremendous job taking the elements we wanted in there and incorporating them into such limited space.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
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Looking back on this, it might be one of the best things So What! has ever done. Dead of winter 2001, dead of Metallica 2001, two band members who didn't even know if it was a band anymore. The photography for this story was fantastic from Mark Leialoha (who shot over half the material in the book) and the sort-of round-table was, in retrospect, both heavy and a huge beam of informational light for clubbers who had waited a long time for any information.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
Nothing fancy here, just a page from the 'Garage Inc' story we initially ran and which I re-edited here. You can get an idea of how we have re-designed every page in the book and tried to vary the photo use too. Mark Abramson and his design team did a fine job reinterpreting my overall creative design concepts and adding dimensions to both it and the design of the book overall which I would never have got close to.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
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|
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An example of how we have handled the massive task of grabbing sponsor section highlights. Each band member has two blasts within the book, and we decided to 'collage' as many things as we could without making it completely illegible. Thus we see here a hodge-podge of cool Larsian moments and some poignant memories. Bless him. With Kirk, we can see an artist at work, plus some magnificent pictures of the even more magnificent Darla.
-So What! editor Steffan Chirazi
Starting this week, Metallica.com will give you a special preview of the new So What! book each week until it's release on Aug 17th 2004.