makes me wonder if they just doubled hetfields guitar on the recording. they don't do any st anger songs live do they, maybe this is why.

heh poor Kirk...

Is this from the new album? If so I am not hearing a return to the "classic" sound.
Kirk Hammett Live was pretty much there for the solos - James was always the rhythm of the band -
I think the truth is they simply aren't the same band and shouldn't try to be. The Beatles playing " I wanna hold your hand" were not the same people they were when they wrote "Dear Prudence" of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - people grow up and sometimes apart.

Well, at any given time, ANYONE can give a riff to a guitar master that will stump them. Kirk shoulda taken it home, owned it, THEN worked the details with James... but hey, the studio needs to make cash too! lol


I remember a dude I jammed with on and off, decent player but SPAZZY sounding. He was a Vai freak, only no legato and anything fast left ya wondering, "hmnnnnn....Pretty wanky, not defined at all..." Anyways, he became an overnight "Blues Guitarist" , (Still a shredder, though. I think he says it 'cause he thinks it gets him respect...) declared he'd reformed, had no interest in the "shred" (Or rock and metal of any kind) anymore, and that was fine. He comes over, we're jamming, it's OK. Nice and simple, exchange of ideas. Then, he rattles off this almost Hendrixy cliche, and wants to "jam on it" (maj chord hammering on a min7th) and then a barrage of descending pentatonic wankery WHAAADALAIDLYWHAADALALALALALALALALALADOOO!
Thing was, it was never played consistently the same way 2x in a row, and he could not explain the riff, nor could he slow it down a bit so's w could get an exact pulse on it... My response was "Let's record it. We'll learn it, loop it and tempo map it, and jam to it, it'll groove and it'll be good..." HE couldn't even play to his own riff. we just gave up on it, but I kept the recording and learned the lick. The guy was a knob, but had an idea or 2 that were OK.

All we could do was just move on to playing something else, but any of the "riffs" he presented to jam with me or anyone else were these things that he'd obviously spent a lot of time working out, and then expected his jam partners to just "pick it up".
It's all good, Kirk's situation's kinda similar I think...

Who comes to the studio drunk?

Seriously, that's just disrespectful to the band. You're supposed to get drunk AFTER jamming. I'm 14 and I know that...

When you're in metallica, you're drunk every day. Just don't come to the studio TOTALLY drunk, and it's OK.

haha that could be true in a band like that, I would be pissed if I rented a studio and my bandmate was too shitfaced to play...

I good laugh to fix my shitty morning start :D !


I can relate to that story Scott.
Whenever my bro and I feel like doing something together (and that's rare) we're stuck as there is nothing to jam with. He's the riff guy in the house and he makes riffs that often won't stay in one place, hell some of them even break out of the time signature at spots. Now, I'm pretty slow on assimilating such stuff on the fly and I can't follow his riffs even if he breaks them down for me. I tell him to record the riffwork and let me figure it out on my own, but he never does that... At least he can play them twice the same. I'm not sure I could say that about myself...




PS: Mikey,
you're not supposed to even get drunk at your age, whether it is before or after a jam...