Thrash Stache

Eric "Wobbles" Granston has been dealing with disappointment since 1982. Not only was this the first year he was forced into repeating the fifth grade, but it was also when Cliff Burton replaced Ron McGovney as the lead bassist in Metallica. Wobbles turned to smoking marijuana when he first learned of the untimely death of Burton in 1986; and by the time Jason Newsted had won his turn as Metallica's bassist, Wobbles was a 15 year old high-schooler who was experimenting with LSD and mutilating animal corpses. Fast forward to 2008 and we can find a dramatically aged Eric (who no longer uses his alias) living in his grandmothers basement and showing the wear and tear of a life lived in the fast lane. He found God while in prison for a short stint in 2002, and ironically enough lost his anal virginity to Bleed For Me by Black Label Society - with whom Metallica's latest bassist, Robert Trujillo, was playing at the time.

Many thanks to Brandy for her brilliant and brazen photograph, taken at Heavy MTL.