Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett
Metallica are coming to the UK next month: the veteran metal crew play the revamped Wembley Stadium on 8 July. No better time, then, to draw attention to their stoic lead guitarist.
Kirk Hammett has spent the last twenty-five years maintaining a Zen-like calm while stuck between the Metallica’s permanently scrapping leadership, singer James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich. Anyone who saw 2004’s fly-on-the-wall documentary Some Kind Of Monster will know just how much fun watching two grown men arguing about snare drums can be. Somehow Hammett wanders through the chaos with an air of beatific calm, apart from when its suggested the band should ditch guitar solos from now on, as they’re a bit old hat.
Hammett was also possibly the only person pleased when Metallica went trendy and acquired fashionably short, distinctly un-metal haircuts circa 1996’s Load. This must have been a Godsend to someone losing his locks so rapidly. They’ve grown back since, largely thanks to hair-loss treatment Rogaine, use of which Hammett is charmingly open about, certainly for a rock star. This is quite something coming from a man who, in his youth, resembled Charles II and would now, by his own admission, have a head like a billiard ball if not for the magic of biochemistry.
Kirk Hammett, we salute you.
11:56 AM | 22/06/2007
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