kirk hammet?

impmann

Sassafras said:

And who can forgive him for burning down that orphanage?
I know I can't.

Ah, well that's an easy mistake to make, y'see he was asked to 'burn down the house' with his guitar... he just didn't hear the 'with his guitar' bit. ;-)

Bucket

Reverend said:

All of Metallica were great in their heyday. 

Lars is the key to the band's success. Slag his drumming now (the problem is apparently code name William) but it perfectly fitted the music in the 80s. He is the driving force in all ways, so perhaps it would be good for him to dig out his old 7"s and stop listening to Oasis. 

Lars used to be fine.

Rave

Best not get started on Slash!..

usedtobe

Rave said:

Best not get started on Slash!..

Hahaahhahahaha.. That's fucking hilarious!

usedtobe

Bucket said:

Reverend said:

All of Metallica were great in their heyday. 

Lars is the key to the band's success. Slag his drumming now (the problem is apparently code name William) but it perfectly fitted the music in the 80s. He is the driving force in all ways, so perhaps it would be good for him to dig out his old 7"s and stop listening to Oasis. 

Lars used to be fine.

That was pretty good. 1989..? Younger, hungrier.. whatever..? Maybe that style of music is a younger guys game, and maybe as you get older, it's hard to keep that up..? 

I've got a mate who's a big Metallica fan. He LOVES the earlier stuff, but he hasn't liked ANYTHING they've done for a LONG TIME! Getting old is a bitch, I guess!

octatonic

usedtobe said:

Bucket said:

Reverend said:

All of Metallica were great in their heyday. 

Lars is the key to the band's success. Slag his drumming now (the problem is apparently code name William) but it perfectly fitted the music in the 80s. He is the driving force in all ways, so perhaps it would be good for him to dig out his old 7"s and stop listening to Oasis. 

Lars used to be fine.

That was pretty good. 1989..? Younger, hungrier.. whatever..? Maybe that style of music is a younger guys game, and maybe as you get older, it's hard to keep that up..? 

I've got a mate who's a big Metallica fan. He LOVES the earlier stuff, but he hasn't liked ANYTHING they've done for a LONG TIME! Getting old is a bitch, I guess!

Most of the guys in Testament are only 4-5 years younger than the guys in Metallica.
Chuck is the same ages as Lars.
Gene Hoglan is still a fucking machine at 49- his nickname is 'the atomic clock'.
 


And Live:

usedtobe

Obviously there are exceptions. Please forgive me for generalising....

I guess some guys keep the fire, and some guys lose it, along the way....

octatonic

usedtobe said:

Obviously there are exceptions. Please forgive me for generalising....

I guess some guys keep the fire, and some guys lose it, along the way....

This has been my point though- Kirk lost it- MoP period he was totally on it but post black album things started slipping.

I don't really blame him- if I had a squllion dollars and had played all the biggest stages in the world for decades maybe I'd want to kick back and take it a bit easy too.
I'm sure he has a lot of distractions in his life.

musicman100

I'm not really into that style of music but I appreciate that kirk is an amazing guitarist oh and yes he like gretsch guitars too. Lol. 

mikeyrob73

usedtobe said:

Bucket said:

Reverend said:

All of Metallica were great in their heyday. 

Lars is the key to the band's success. Slag his drumming now (the problem is apparently code name William) but it perfectly fitted the music in the 80s. He is the driving force in all ways, so perhaps it would be good for him to dig out his old 7"s and stop listening to Oasis. 

Lars used to be fine.

That was pretty good. 1989..? Younger, hungrier.. whatever..? Maybe that style of music is a younger guys game, and maybe as you get older, it's hard to keep that up..? 

I've got a mate who's a big Metallica fan. He LOVES the earlier stuff, but he hasn't liked ANYTHING they've done for a LONG TIME! Getting old is a bitch, I guess!

Man that is just ferocious , love it 

Sassafras

Oh Hell, No!
I'd heard of the existence of such bands but never experienced their "music" before now.
Never again.

Grumpyrocker

Here's the brand new Metallica track released today. Have a listen to Kirk's solo.

BloodEagle

Well that was thoroughly pedestrian

octatonic

Same old same old.

samzadgan

first of all...lets break this down, people are talking shit about Kirk now and for the last 10-15 years...but to me the last 26 years metallica hasn't put out anything worth while to begin with, so you cant just Kirks performance when you are talking in context of mediocre music.

I was a metallica fan when Ride the Lightning first came out, and from Kill 'em all to And Justice for all, Metallica was the best band, by far. Slayer was great...but in that period no one came close to Metallica (in my opinion).

So if you want to talk about Kirk being lazy or a not deserving of his fame for guitar playing, you need to listen to those albums...the solo's he did were memorable and amazing, and because those 4 albums (4 of the most important albums in metal history) Kirk is a guitar god till the day he dies.

As for Lars...again...see above. The drumming he did in Master of Puppets was incredible.

Its easy to say "you're only as good as your last performance or your last album" but fuck, some respect needs to be given to what these guys have done for music over a 10 year period that arguable changed a whole genre beyond just thrash metal.

Maynehead

The first short solo sounds exacty like something I'd play when I'm just randomly widdling out an Em pentatonic lick, and I'm rubbish. I do like the melodic breakdown section though, when he's just playing long sustaining notes.

Bridgehouse

Grumpyrocker said:

Here's the brand new Metallica track released today. Have a listen to Kirk's solo.

1:02 - Love the fact they can't spell their own band name 

Rave

Grumpyrocker said:

Here's the brand new Metallica track released today. Have a listen to Kirk's solo.

They really did run out of ideas about 20 years ago didn't they?

Philly_Q

Errrr.... I quite like it.  Not sure about the vocal melody, but on the whole I thought it was alright.

Those bits where Lars is playing and wearing phones and a white headband... he looks like Karl Pilkington having a panic attack.

mburekenge

I didn't 'make it' either. I'm sure it must be Kirk Hammetts fault. 

he may not be the greatest, but he's not 'mustang sally through a CS guitar, OG Klon & Lazy J to an empty pub' shit,  is he?

(Including myself in this bracket)