Kirk+Hammett

​​ ** Kirk Hammett

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“I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.” -Kirk Hammett When Kirk Hammett was 15 when he started to play guitar. The first band he was in was Exodus which he stared. In 1983 he quit Exodus and joined Metallica after Dave Mustaine left. After a while in his career he went to Joe Satriani for professional guitar lessons on musical theory. Still to this day Kirk Hammett is in Metallica and they are very scuccesful. In 2003 Kirk Hammett won the 11th place in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Guitarists of all time".
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Kirk Hammet was born in San Francisco on November 18 1962. His Mom was filipino and his father was a Irish merchant. His wife's name is Lani and he has two kids named Angel Ray Keala Hammett and Vincenzo Kainalu Hammett. media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/sv?cbp=12,186.13,,0,-8.49&cbll=37.77332,-122.418405&panoid=&v=1&hl=en&gl=us" height="240" width="425" media type="youtube" key="AOje5eecMMI" height="344" width="425" ​ ** Why he is my hero **.** ​ ** Kirk Hammett is one of my Heros because he wasnt afraid to expirement with sounds on guitar and he revolutionized metal. By albatton
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