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NOBODY LOOKS GOOD IN THEIR YEAR BOOK PHOTO

 Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 12:00pm by

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There’s something reassuring about knowing that people one sometimes considers cooler than him or herself were not, in fact, always so cool.

Our newest correspondent, Angela Gossowski, sent me this communiqué over the weekend:

Stumbled upon this earlier. The only thing that has changed is the fact that they shop on Rodeo Drive now rather then wearing the hand-me-downs from the uncle who touched them inappropriately when they were kids.

Above are high school year book photos for Dave Mustaine, James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett; you can find more – including Eddie Van Halen, Axl Rose, Slash, Tommy Lee, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, and Jon Bon Jovi – here.

-AR

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  • Metallibrarian

    EVH look exactly like Amy Irving in Carrie. I don’t know who should be more bothered by that fact…

    • BlakMetallistKrieg

      Dude, hellyeah! Pics like this always crack me up. :D

  • metalguy

    kirk looks like a little asian kid!

    • Sammy

      Maybe that’s because his mother is from the Philippines.

      • Grace

        That’s what I was going to say, and I don’t think this photo is from high school. I knew him then and he didn’t look like that.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ihopeyourot Dave

    Dave and James you can see in the way their faces are built, but Kirk Hammet looks like an asian girl

  • Shep

    HAHAHA, I love these pictures

  • oblivion

    wearing a suit to school, those were days

  • West Virginia

    Mustaine looks like one of the kids from that Colombine thing

    Kirk looks like Data from the Goonies

    • harbingerofdoom

      Bahahaha, he does look like Data.

  • http://runningthevoodoodown.blogspot.com pdf

    I could easily ID Mustaine and Hetfield above, but had to read the entry to figure out that that was a picture of Kirk Hammett – I thought it was Alex Van Halen.

    • wackomann

      I also totally thought it was Alex Van Halen.

  • Mike

    I recognized Kirk and James right away. Mustaine I didn’t recognize until I looked closer. Mustaine looks normal but the other two look ridiculous

  • griffo110

    mustaine looks stoned

  • jwean

    I could have mistaken Kirk for Myung had there not been a caption.

  • wormdrive

    Paul Stanley looks like Adam Sandler doing Opera Boy.

  • Internet Research

    Wow look at those pictures. Hello internet! Welcome to 5 years ago. Didn’t Metal Sludge post these before? Hey Metalsucks, show the keyboard cat next.

  • We killed Ziltoid

    In a sorta creepy way, all but the EVH pics look like milk carton missing children photos.
    The EVH has the same hair as a young Valerie Bertinelli, …fate perhaps?

  • http://www.myspace.com/437666934 Noel

    mustaine looks just like Beavis. If you look at gene simmons pic, he would totally be Butthead.

  • Kerry King’s hairdresser

    If Metallica had used these pics for the back cover of Death Magnetic, I might respect them.

    Too bad we can’t see Paul Stanley’s cauliflower-ear.
    He didn’t get it fixed until around Alive I.

    • Nikke’s preist

      Right dude, I have always wanted to see that, his ear I mean. These actual yearbooks would be gold on eBay.

      • Cheeseburger Walrus

        Difficult maybe to be a Rock Star/chick magnet when you have a John Merrick ear?

  • bearwizard

    kirk is wearing a motherfucking leather jacket, everyone else is wearing suits or button ups. He looks like a fucking badass.

    • http://www.myspace.com/anlace Gothian

      LOL

  • HOOTNEY

    CONGRATS TO YOU DAVE. SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY WE WERE ON THE BRIDE IN HIGH SCHOOL PUFFIN BIG FATTYS B4 1ST PERIOD . WHO WOULDA KNOWN YOUD BE IN THE HOTTEST METAL BAD EVER. GREAT JOB DAVE. PROUD OF YOU.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gorgenoob-Rod/100000409833488 Gorgenoob Rod

    so???? look what music they do you fking look at the beauty of ppl instead of understanding that ppl like kirk or james or dave mustaine there are not anymore at the world and wont be cause devil rule world now and kirk is a great guy he looks an normal kid that want to get somthing in his life not like u making mess-up at school to show how men u r.