Kirk Hammett, now a few months shy of 60, reflects on the journey that led to his first solo record.
“Doing a solo album was always in the back of my mind; Metallica stuff was always at the forefront of my mind,” he tellsHe planted the first seed forfor years. All that was missing was some mood music, so he and his wife, Lani, collaborated on “Maiden and the Monster,” a seven-minute audio vignette full of light, shade, and melodrama that Hammett likens to a soundtrack to a nonexistent movie. “My initial vision was to explore, musically, the movies of the Twenties and Thirties,” he says.
Here, Hammett, now a few months shy of 60, reflects on the journey that led to his first solo record.their blessing. In 2001, the band did an interview withwhere James Hetfield said, “When someone does a side project, it takes away from the strength of Metallica.” What’s changed? We’re much more open. We listen to each other. We’re much more considerate. This is not stuff we all sit down and talk about; I’m judging this just from what the current behavior is in the band and what it feels like. We kind of instinctually feel things, and sometimes we talk about them, sometimes we don’t, and we really don’t talk about the bad things. That’s led us to get into all these weird situations in the past. We’re just such a fucking human band. We’re not perfect as people.
When Jason was doing all that solo stuff and there were two or three things he did, it wasn’t just one, my attitude was like, “That’s cool,” but it wasn’t for me. My head was somewhere else. I was still trying to come up with cool riffs and stuff. I had this thing: When I do something, I want it to be new, different, and original. Of course, nothing is a hundred percent original, but I just want something that’s a different flavor that has not been tasted a million times.
In the past on tour, we’d play a show, go out for three or four hours and then I’d end up in my hotel room wasted. I play guitar for three or four hours until I passed out; I wake up next morning, have no recollection what I played the night before, and this went on for decades.
I play guitar freaking every single day. I’m actually sitting with one in my lap right now. I could play a whole range of styles, ranging from fucking jazz music to bossa nova to blues to classical to fucking polka. I’m fucking pretty adept at a lot of different styles, but 90 percent of our fan base out there only hears me in a Metallica context. And so I realized this EP is a great opportunity to show a side of my playing that a lot of people aren’t aware of.
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