Kirk Hammett's Three Favorite (non-Metallica) Guitar Riffs 

02:05 "Stuff like that"

It is wonderful! I had the same kinda of love for a thing I did until it was all stripped away. And the person that did it had no soul and didn't care. A completely soulless inhumane purpose.

That's so awesome that he is that way!

I don't know. For him to not have innovated or progressed past 1992, that he is still around getting into feuds with RU-vidrs that are so much more proficient than him.... he was a hero of mine, and I just find him anything but compelling nowadays with his ruby slippers and anti-guitar solo thinking. The Metallica I know has 5 albums. Iconic solos, artists really pushing themselves and the limits. That band has been gone a long time and was replaced by body snatchers with painted fingernails and deep laziness.

Rick you have to show your thougts about The Unforguiven..Production, performance..I will love and im not the ONLY one?

He seems like the nicest person

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Kirk seems like a great guy but I don’t think he’s as down to earth as he comes across. He seems like he’s always a second away from saying he just needs to get away for a few months to relax.

You don't have to love the golden Adidas loafers though! They're like the dressy Trump sneaker.

Glad they have a pill for that.

It's the way she goes. Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't.

Y'know, as I realized how awkward the talking is in this interview, I remembered this one guy FlyingKitty who made a YTP or "poop" of a Kanye West interview, and named it "Kanye West has a Mental Breakdown" and I'm just imagining what it might be like if he did the same with this

@@angeldiaz762 I've seen that one lol

Sometimes maybe good Sometimes maybe shit

he is playing like he just started out tho

Has he made hundreds of millions? Probably got a poor split of live and didn't write metallics songs

Net worth is $200,000,000​@@nicolasaguilar1258

His net worth is estimated at $200 million, google it. Also Metallica has in the past made more of their swag than their music. @@nicolasaguilar1258

I got the feeling that Kirk regards Metallica as just his job, and that he is busy with a lot of other things that he really finds interesting and will never be able to express within this band.

He's been playing for over 40 years and sounds like playing for 1 year

​@@bouxesas2046says the guy who can't hold a guitar properly

@@bouxesas2046 Play the creeping death solo and say that :-) even the riff downstroked is nothing for loosers. Kirk got some attitude. in early years more than now (coked and boozed up), but who cares. I respect him.

​@@ivaerz4977nah, somebody who just picked a guitar will meet kirk right there. That "lol well YOU can't play" is the most immature bs ever and closes all possibilities of conversations towards an artist. Tell me you have a low IQ without actually telling me.

@@bouxesas2046 hahahahahaha says the keyboard warrior lmao

Right?? Rick is the best interviewer EVER!!

Spot on. A good interviewer simply finds the right "key" and lets the subject take it from there. Rick has this by the tonne 👍

Yah, no matter how high or drunk they are lol.

Not like Jordi Madafokin Wild

He’s the polar opposite of Eddie Trunk!

Well, he does have the luxury of not having to work a dayjob to be the rent. But that's no excuse, because there are plenty of other artists who have reached financial security and who then start doing complete other things.

Why wouldn't he be? It's his life.

@@Kgio-2112 Bro… Even Porn Stars get sick of their job

@@rugdnit911😂😂😂

@@Kgio-2112Come on… Think about it. He’s excited still. Show some respek.

I thought that too.

Who’s to say it wasn’t his recollection of it? I thought it was the Smiths too

ya he is wasted . what the heck was that ?

Jackson 5: I Want You Back

Same

Let me share my theory: There can only be a certain number of Les Paul guitars in tune in the world. So each time someone tunes a Les Paul onother one goes out of tune. This number is not known yet, but it's estimated to be between 10 and 37. In the early days, with fewer guitars in circulation it was les noticiable, but with rising production numbers it's impossible to keep one in tune.

@@impossivel2006 After 20 years of playing my Les Paul I've concluded that they're needlessly heavy and imperfect instruments indeed.

I can just imagine the tuning pegs turning by themselves and detuning right in front your eyes, ​while elsewhere another person is tuning up 😂😂 @impossivel2006

if you want a guitar that stays in tune, don't buy gibson.

if Greeny can go out of tune being THE Les Paul all les pauls and copies can go too

I agree. Arick is a great interviewer.

@@JoeSmith-v7oHa ha!

Yeah. Funny how musicians are way more open minded than some of their hardcore fans. Most of them would choke on their beer hearing that their favorite guitarist actually appreciates Genesis works. Usually though, guitarists more often refer to the solo of Firth of fifth rather than the strumming of Turn it on again. One guitar part from Mike Rutherford that is also underrated in my opinion is Second Home by the sea.

one second of any genesis song worth more than the entire metallica discography

@@Kouros-t6dBeing a major fan of Genesis (especially their proggier 70s output), I do not agree with you. Metallicas 80s albums are excellent in my book

Love how badly he played it as well! Awesome!! 😂

@@Kouros-t6d I am a fan of both, and don't need to make such a ridiculous grand standing comparison.

His guitar playing sounds just like a teen starting out on guitar too!

@@Animosity6792 You think so😕?

@@nemesis0217yup. It sounds like he’s playing on his first cheap amp, on a $100 guitar your aunt got for you from radio shack

He's drunk

@@nemesis0217 Facts

Or drunk. I’m not entirely sure yet. Something seems a bit odd about this interview but maybe he’s just excited like you said.

@@Ryan-rn3cfdefinitely under the influence of something… pills or booze? He’s slurring a bit

I don't think so. James is pretty stright about his sobriety routine (I've heard) but I do believe that the lingering effects of decades of substance abuse may leave some marks. Ozzy, anyone? Well ok, maybe a bit of extreme exaxmple but you get my point.

@@jeffo2448 This is the man with one of the best quotes from "Some Kind of Monster" that could have also been a Spinal Tap line.... "I stopped doing... the drugs that I was doing."

​@@jeffo2448he always speaks like that, I think his mind is going slightly.

This is probably the most important comment here. These candid sessions are critical to the ongoing history of music.

I liked his playing in the early years, but they have been going for so long he starts to repeat himself sometimes I think. And they totally lost me after the Black album anyway, But I appreciate that the mighty Met is still around, even if I can't be bothered to listen to their stuff after say 1996.

He didn't get upset Dave banged his girl so he is a very even tempered guy

@@amandahuginkiss6868how can you say the outlaw torn S&M version isn’t a freaking masterpiece of a song. Especially that solo. Gives me goosebumps every time.

​@@amandahuginkiss6868repetition is what made you fall in love with it in the first place 🥱

@@vw1610When I say I haven't listened after 96, I don't mean I have listened to everything up until and through that time frame. Garage Inc, all covers, is my last favorite Metallica compilation. I listen to maybe 4 songs off S&M. What is this Outlaw torn you speak of? One of their country songs? I can't be bothered friend, they lost me, it's just not heavy enough. In '96 my tastes had changed to heavier heavier heavier. Believe it or not, at this point in time, Metallica was going radio friendly, radio friendly, radio friendly. For those that are under 50, "radio" was how we listened to music before the Internet, usually, or on CD / cassette / vinyl. And it was sellout culture aimed at the least common denominator, which is what Metallica pivoted to. Loved them when they where my band, but they aren't anymore. It will happen to you! /Grandpa Simpson

Or "Power of Soul"

@@9defebrerodel79Yup there’s a version of Power of soul with this riff in the ‘Songs for Groovy Children’ live show. His best live show in my opinion

@@9defebrerodel79Also, Kirk playing it is so cute compared to Hendrix blazing through it as easy as Michael Jackson could moonwalk 😂

it’s the band of gypsys album isnt it? some seriously good stuff ❤

I love that band of gypsies album. Too bad there isn't more of them aside from that live album

Good drugs will do that for U. :)

Basic, sloppy player at best. It's like listening to a 10 year old who's been playing for like 3 months and has picked up the minor pentatonic scale.

​@@nw9036whether you're right or not doesn't matter. He loves music and loves learning. That's all that matters.

​@@jimmyjams5038 Look I respect the point you have made, he's played on some fantastic songs which counts for a lot, but let's be real, he had all the possible advantages of production, an entire team of studio professionals. The problem with Kirk's playing has always been there. He brought up a specific Genesis tune (Turn it on again), said he 'learned it', and then simply played the wrong chords, wrong voicings, and the wrong rhythm, he sounded scrappy at best and frankly, he demonstrated the problem he has as a musician which is a lack of detail and commitment to his craft. Music is wonderful thing and I have spent my life working at it, but it isn't magic, it's an ordered system with rules, no matter the genre, no matter the style.

@@Scotmend and yet many many great technical musicians never make it a career. you need enough skills, but at some point you're fine - unless technicality is your whole act.

​@@genesises I completely agree with you about not fixating on 'technical playing'. My point doesn't diminish Kirk's achievements it's just an observation that his attitude towards the instrument has held him back throughout his career. Success is often specific to the individual right? It doesn't revolve purely around the money or the size of the crowd, getting better at what 'you' do on the guitar makes everything easier and sound better, more enjoyable, it keeps you interested in doing it. I'm not suggesting that Kirk should take up modern jazz or become Malmsteen. I'm just honestly shocked that his ego has got in the way of him really taking advantage of his insane luck. When you see how slow Kirk is in the studio, it really brings home what I'm saying. I work as a musician fulltime and I do some work in what remains of the "session industry". He is, remarkably slow as a recording guitarist and a sloppy live player.

kirk is clearly high on drugs and is speaking gibberish for half of this. His guitar isnt in tune and hese playing nonsense. "Maple capped strats [these didnt exist by the way lol[] and being out of tune is jimi's sound"... literally WHAT? The only "talent" portrayed here is rick's patience with kirk acting like a child.

@@JgHaverty I bet you're living a pathetic life where everyone despises you as a person including your family.

Kirk perma-blazed himself at some point in the '90s. I don't think he's actually on drugs any more, his brain is just fried to bits.

He is sober...

He is quirky. That is what makes him likeable and interesting to listen to.

Quirk Hammet

Pretty average guitarist but yes icon

Icon...? Nowadays everything can be an icon i see

​@@michnyy"nowadays"? They started in the 70s and blew up in the 80s. How is 40 years ago "nowadays"?

@@GameTimeWhy Was he called an icon in '70s or '80s? I don't think so. I wrote nowadays because he is called that recently in relation to his long term career.

@@michnyy in the 80s he was an icon.

Schenker brothers are guitar heroes to many many people no matter if you are Kirk or a random guy like me

Anyone who knows guitar knows michael schenker is an absolute master

So, you didn’t see the That Metal Show episode with Kirk and Michael. Kirk idolizes Schenker.

I wish I had started listening to Jeff Beck earlier, I only became interested after he passed. Big mistake. I bought a few albums recently, and they freaking scorch. I'm a massive heavy metal fan (for my weight class) and Beck isn't metal in the current sense in 2024, but he's still totally fucking metal.

Kirk Hammett had a column in guitar world and he always talked about how Schenker was a massive influence on him

I did not see that one coming lol

@@BeerLeagueGoalieGodfather me either! Who knew?

I mean, he was in Exodus.

You got it bro jajj

@@jamesshelley5912 this is a good point. Even if Exodus is a different genre than Genesis.

Those were the opening chords for that song I swear! I thought I was the only one who would have thought that here.

First thing that came to my mind, too 👍🏻

Same here!

Now I wonder if Marr ripped it off lol

Kirk wouldn't be able to play it tbh

He's still as tall as he was when he was 16 too.

He’s a proof of concept for hard work: not even being stupid can hold you back.

@@RockResume335 What the hell do you mean?

​@@TerryRosariojr he talks and make facial expressions as a teenager

You talk like you’re 8 lol. Leave Kirk alone

He and Robert are the nice guys of the band. And because they are the nice guys of the band they get shafted by the a-holes of the band. But they have LOTS of money to comfort themselves and Kirk seems to be happy doing what he does, make and play music.

​​​Well Lars comes across as a bit of a knob, but James seems like a nice guy tbh. I saw some live footage recently where kirk completely screwed up a part, a James put his arm around kirk like a loving brother, as to say its all cool bro. ​@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

In the hands of a tool.

And later Gary Moore's

​​@@Gto1927Coming from a toolbag most likely living home at mommas

wow

Greeny is a weird guitar to play stuff on

Old Les Pauls has to be worked, not super easy players, and even if being a pro player anything unfamiliar is just that: unfamiliar, like it is for everyone. Nice sounding stuff has to be practised, and Kirk said this was stuff he never had played which he loves but yes it was hard for him. He really struggled LoL but nothing strange with that

@@NoobGamingXXX because youve really put in some time with it im sure

@@Urohpls no because of the feedback of its owners through time !

They got into playing their own material at such a young age and have been touring and recording. I can imagine this all develop you in a very specific way regarding muscle memory. In the end it all comes down to practice and the scope of it. Also kirk was never a rhythm guitarist, even if he plays the riffs hes way sloppier than james. Still love the guy and his playing has shaped my own also.

Mos def

It’s, he is. Or he’s fucked, because of all the shit he did back in the day. I think he’s tweaking on something.

I think he's invested a lot of his money in Columbia. 🙄

Who cares if he is lol (as long as it's nothing too dangerous of course). A succesful musician being high or smth is nothing new lmao

Totally agree

Bro he’s like intermediate/advanced but just lazy as heck

"He didn't play a random song he learned the other day perfectly on a light and casual interview, the horror!!!!" Please get a job bro

Yeah man the shoes are slick

​@@chrississon5954chucks and golden boots

He always gave “on the spectrum” vibes even before that was an expression.

Sure...never knew that but it makes sense.@@BeerLeagueGoalieGodfather

​@suspicionofdeceit same. There is so many videos of Smith playing crazy stuff. Pink Floyd, ZZ Top, Black Crowes, Clapton,

Pretty sure that riff was This Charming Man right out of the gate on this interview? Excellent interview

@@david.majchrzak7069 yeah, in the 3 chord rundown, it was clear, TCM.

Ha ha! I was thinking the exact same thing

Peter's guitar.

GARY. (Del Boy)

I wish it would have ended up with Bonamassa…

It's called Greeny for a reason.

Thayil is a sonic shaman, so many weird tunings and the way he manipulates the guild bridge

@@nunestunes Yes, an East Indian way of utilizing open strings too. An Innovator and legend.

Nobody knows who that is