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Kirk Hammett remembers going to see Metallica live for the first time: “These guys are pretty goddamn good”

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has remembered going to see the band live for the first time before he joined.Hammett joined the metal titans in 1983, and prior to that he played in the band Exodus.In a lengthy new interview for Gibson’s ‘Icons’ series, Hammett remembered being dragged to a Metallica show by Exodus vocalist Paul Baloff.“I remember we were just sitting around one day, and the singer of Exodus, a guy named Paul Baloff, who was an absolute maniac, he walked into the rehearsal and said, ‘Metallica.

So heavy. They’re so heavy’,” Hammett remembered.“And I was, like, ‘Metallica.’ And I thought, ‘What a great name. It’s like the best name in the world.’ [Baloff] said, ‘Yeah, they’re playing The Stone tonight.

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