My wife's friend has a 16 year old son who got a gutiar for christmas. He wants to learn a bunch of metallica songs. He was going on an on about how awesome kirk hammet is and then was getting pissy with me when I didn't agree. Eventually he asked me to name someone better than Kirk Hammet.
I said Kirk Hammet's wah pedal was pretty awesome.
My wife's friend has a 16 year old son who got a gutiar for christmas. He wants to learn a bunch of metallica songs. He was going on an on about how awesome kirk hammet is and then was getting pissy with me when I didn't agree. Eventually he asked me to name someone better than Kirk Hammet.
I said Kirk Hammet's wah pedal was pretty awesome.
Kirk is a good guitar player. Are there better? Absolutely. His biggest problem is his constant wah-slobbering of every solo. I remember watching the year and a half thing when he is burning through a solo and wondering where the hell it was on the black album. Turns out it's Struggle Within, but he hadn't added the crappy wah to it yet.
Doesn't help that he's a wimp and let them completely leave his ass off an album. He's a lead guitarist, with no leads. Not that it would have helped St Anger.