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Fan Can
The fan cans are paint cans including a CD and a video with some other goodies. They are released by the official fan club and sold to members only, this makes the early versions particuly hard to find. Here is a description of the four sets released so far.

Fan can 1996
In my opinion, this is the best can as the CD contains unreleased studio music. On one of the Load sessions they recorded this disc in one take, without stoping the tape between songs. Because of this you can hear the band and Bob Rock discuss what to play and such. They do their own versions of songs by AC/DC, Mercyful Fate, The Beatles and one of Lars favourites at that time, Oasis. These covers are often short or cut in half as they haven't played them before. The video is excellent too with footage not available anywhere else. Video and CD cover is drawn by Hetfield and as a bonus you get a Metalica bottle opener and a t-shirt.

Fan can 1997
A live CD this time, recorded in England. The video contains live stuff to, recorded several places in 1995, interesting. Bonus in this box is the regular shirt and a door hanger, "Do not disturb, Metallica in play"

Fan can #3, High grade metal
This time the club added a rain poncho. Who is the brain behind all this? The video is from a show in Germany which was sent live on german TV in 1997. A regular outdoor Metallica show. More interesting is the CD which includes many demos from load and Re-load. Some of these have been on various singles before, but some is new. A good collection, and it is always fun to hear the familar Metallica songs with different lyrics, or as Metallica say "write in progress versions". Again, both the CD and video cover is drawings by James, very well done and cool. He is talented.

Fan can #4, ...And all this for you
The can design and name is a parody of the Justice album. The live stuff is some years old which is cool, especially the CD, recorded in 1989. The CD and video cover designs mach the year the recording was done, and the t-shirt is a "local crew" shirt from the same tour. the bonus is a fanclub dog-tag. Not as fancy as the raincoat included some years earlier. This should have been the 1999 fan can but was delayed.


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    Fan can : 1996
     Format  Country  Label  Year  Catalog#  Short description  More info
    Box  USA  Metallica club  1996  FC-001 Tin can with CD, video, bottle opener and t-shirtMore info



    Fan can : 1997
     Format  Country  Label  Year  Catalog#  Short description  More info
    Box  USA  Metallica club  1997  FC-002 Tin can with CD, video, door hanger, luggage tag and t-shirtMore info



    Fan can : 3 high grade metal
     Format  Country  Label  Year  Catalog#  Short description  More info
    Box  USA  Metallica club  1998  FC-003 Tin can with CD, video, poncho and t-shirtMore info



    Fan can : 4 and all this for you
     Format  Country  Label  Year  Catalog#  Short description  More info
    Box  USA  Metallica club  2000  FC-004 Tin can with CD, T-shirt, dog tag and videoMore info