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Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties.
I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.
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 as being on a higher level than our fans.
I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me... (more Kirk Hammett quotes)
Kirk was voted #11 on Rolling Stones Magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time."
He has toured and recorded with Metallica for more then twenty years.
In 1982, he formed the band Exodus.
He likes to collect horror movies.
He currently lives in San Francisco.... (more Kirk Hammett trivia)