"Virginia Fuel Freedom Festival"
The 10th Year of Virginia Fuel celebration on July 7, 2007 was a HUGE success! This was -- by far -- our most successful event ever! Thanx to everyone who contributed. Click HERE to read the recap. Pictures from the event can be viewed at the Damage, Intoxicated MySpace page.

Download Live Music
Members of Virginia Fuel can download every song that our "cover" band, Damage, Intoxicated, played at the "The Virginia Fuel Freedom Festival." Click HERE to download the songs (in mp3 format). If you're not a member, you can listen to some of the songs on the...

Damage Intoxicated MySpace
As you know, Virginia Fuel has a MySpace page -- which has been recently revamped. We now also have a Damage, Intoxicated MySpace page. This page is solely dedicated to our "cover" band. Pictures, videos and songs from past jam sessions are on the site.

New Virginia Fuel T-Shirt
I hope you got your pre-orders in for the new Virginia Fuel t-shirt because unless there is great demand, there will not be another batch of t-shirts made. The new design was done by our very own chapter digital artist, George. Click HERE to see the new t-shirt design and read how this t-shirt came to be.

New Virginia Fuel Website
Sometime later this spring/early summer, we will have a brand new Virginia Fuel website! This is also being designed by George. It's going to be an amazing site once it's done. Stay tuned...

Interview with Steven Wiig
We have got an amazing interview with Lars' assistant, Steven Wiig, who has been a very good friend of Virginia Fuel's for 10+ years. The interview was so long, that we had to split it up into 6 parts! Check it out! Steve also did the cover artwork for this issue (colors by GTP Digital Designs).

What does 2008 have in store for Metallica?
New Metallica album (Spring? Summer? Fall?), new US tour (hopefully...because they haven't toured the US since 2004! WTF?!?!), the 25th anniversary of Kill 'Em All, the 20th anniversary of ...And Justice For All, and according to my records, the 10/28/07 Bridge School Benefit was Metallica's 1500th live performance (concerts, playing on award shows, etc.) Technically, it was their #1478th concert. I wonder if they'll do anything special for concert #1500???

What does 2008 have in store for Virginia Fuel?
Click HERE to view the 2008 Event Schedule. Please note that it's HIGHLY subject to change -- mainly depending on what Metallica does in 2008. Also in 2008: the 20th issue of EFI (8.2), the 10th Jam Session (Halloween 2008), and FYI - the 2007 Fuel Halloween party was our 25th official event.

Hope to see you at the Hippie-Fest '08 in Manchester, Tennessee this June!

Jeff Holland
Chapter Head