I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo. - Kirk Hammett
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
- Kirk Hammett
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar. - Kirk Hammett
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. - Kirk Hammett
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic as… - Kirk Hammett
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic as…
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha! - Kirk Hammett
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves a… - Kirk Hammett
I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves a…
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. - Kirk Hammett
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. - Kirk Hammett
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it… - Kirk Hammett
Ampeg made incredible guitar heads in the early Nineties and then stopped. And I don't know why. The one we used had a nice clean, warm sound, and it…
Login to join the discussion
Login to join the discussion