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" Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm. "
Kirk Hammett
Say
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Rhythm
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" There's something about a wah pedal that really gets my gut going! People will probably say, 'He's just hiding behind the wah.' But that isn't the case. It's just that those frequencies really bring out a lot of aggression in my approach. "
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" I've always been attracted to the darker things in life. I was never one to go for light, airy stuff, even as a child. My whole aesthetic has always been one of the darker side. That rings true also in my tastes in music. It's just always something I've gravitated to naturally. "
Kirk Hammett
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Child
" When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist. "
Kirk Hammett
Temptation
Hide
Control
" Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate. "
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Inside
Complicated
Outside
" A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. "
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Horror
Kind
" Deep Purple definitely belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 'Cause they had great songs, great musicianship, they had an impact, and they're a huge influence on the heavy metal community as a whole. "
Kirk Hammett
Deep
Rock
Influence
" I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm. "
Kirk Hammett
Guitar
Me
Mean
" The concept of clearing one's mind before performing a task so that it is consumed by nothing but that task, yet is open at the same time to anything that might happen - that concept can be applied to playing guitar, and it's enormously helpful for improvising. "
Kirk Hammett
Open
Nothing
Mind
" I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.' "
Kirk Hammett
Influence
Through
Nineties
" 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. "
Kirk Hammett
Guitar
Just
Race
" 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 aspect that much more. "
Kirk Hammett
Just
Much
Out
" I've always loved horror, I've always loved collecting, I've always loved weird and macabre things, and I've always loved conventions. So what could be better than having your own Fear FestEviL where all those great and crazy things can be enjoyed by like-minded people under one pretty cool roof? Nothing! "
Kirk Hammett
Fear
Crazy
Cool
" Getting sequestered and not really knowing what to do with your time and then discovering, 'Oh, I can watch a bunch of horror movies' has probably played out in a lot of people's discovery of horror. "
Kirk Hammett
Time
Discovery
Horror
" Jeff Beck is one of my heroes and has been since I first picked up a guitar. "
Kirk Hammett
Since
Up
Heroes
" I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy. "
Kirk Hammett
Someone
Think
Wrong
" Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood. "
Kirk Hammett
Misunderstood
Everyone
Kind
" I think it goes without saying that a lot of big horror fans are just nerds and geeks. "
Kirk Hammett
Think
Saying
Horror
" I was really, really wild in my early twenties and a bit self-destructive. "
Kirk Hammett
Early
Really
Self-Destructive
" My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. "
Kirk Hammett
Wired
Head
Directly
" Horror movies started to wane around the onset of World War II, and after World War II, when all the troops came home, people weren't really interested in seeing horror movies, because they had the real horror right on their front doorsteps. "
Kirk Hammett
War
Home
Horror
" When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react. "
Kirk Hammett
Never
People
React
" If I had unlimited funds, wall space and storage, I would collect a lot more things, like 'Planet of the Apes,' 'Star Wars,' science fiction stuff, autographs, and prop guns and weapons. I have to draw the line somewhere. "
Kirk Hammett
Science Fiction
Science
Space
" Technology has given us convenience, but at the same time it's making musicians work harder in that if you really want to make money making music and selling albums, you have to go out there and perform. And hope you sell stuff like merch, and get on YouTube, and all the other ancillary sort of things that go along with that. "
Kirk Hammett
Work
You
Time
" A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living. "
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Lived
Living
Worth
" Guitar players in the nineties seem to be reacting against the technique oriented eighties. "
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Seem
Eighties
Guitar
" 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. "
Kirk Hammett
Never
See
Think
" When I see my kids totally into their Legos, it brings me back to the days I was hanging out and playing with my monster models. It brings me there in a second. "
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Days
Me
Hanging
" For me, one of the most perfect times to watch a horror movie is when it's cold and raining outside and there's pretty much no outdoor activity to be done. It kind of sets the mood. "
Kirk Hammett
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Kind
Horror
" I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with. "
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Good
Understand
Sound
" I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! "
Kirk Hammett
Sheep
Death
House