Kirk Hammett’s favourite songs of all time
With some surprising selections
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The Metallica song Kirk Hammett always struggles to play live: “I’m liable to mess it up”
The guitar riff too hard for a metal god.
The one band that made Kirk Hammett love heavy metal: “More extreme, more aggressive”
The beginning of the musical love affair.
Kirk Hammett believes Jason Newstead only wrote one good Metallica song: “It was a nonstarter”
Sometimes getting your dream gig isn’t worth it.
When Lou Reed forbid Kirk Hammett from playing guitar solos: “No belly dancing music”
It takes gravitas to shut down a guitar god.