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Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?

 
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yes
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He is probably as good as any other just you only ever see him play Metallica style.
Needs to make his own Album like Satriani.
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05/03/2015 05:06 PM
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Just change your title to "best heavy metal guitar player" and all will be well. There are many different styles of guitar playing, as far as the best is concerned it is totally up to interpretation.
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05/03/2015 05:09 PM
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Definitely one of the best.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Shane Gibson was a great guitarist. He passed away last year due to a blood clotting disorder.

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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
No Hammett is not even the best Metallica guitarist ever.

Mustaine >>>> Hammett
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Uhm nope.

Yngwie malmsteen, steve vai, joe satriani, dave mustaine, marty freidman, jimi hendrix, jeff loomis, zakk wylde, jake lee, randy rhoads, stevie ray vaughn, eric johnson, jeff young, chris poland, chris broderick, slash, jeff haneman, gus g...just to name a few.

Hammet is a great stepping stone guitarist when youre new to pentatonic scales and basic major and minor scales...but all the people above employ a more wide ranging and difficult technique in my opinion.

Chet atkins, reverend horton heat, paul gilbert, rusty cooley, al di meola, paco de lucia, john mclaughlin....to name a few more.
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All them

Jimmy Page, Clapton, etc

Even George Harrison owns Hammett
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Angel Vivaldi is a pretty great guitarist also.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Tosin Abasi is also very awesome.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
bump for awesome guitarists.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
No, but he's one of the most boring. Forgettable just like Metallica's all-testosterone-but-no-talent music.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
He is when you are 16...
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
He's good, but hasn't advanced much. I consider him too one dimensional.

Vai, Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Scofield, Petrucci, Steve Morse...on and on.
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You must also play. I agree...Hammet is a very good guitar player in one of the all time greatest metal bands...but no where near the best.

Petrucci and Vai top my list.

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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Malmsteen,young,page,hendricks,too name just a few much better- in fact he replaced a guy who is much better and in my view stared the mettalica sound on early records like kill them all Dave mustaine .
national socialist, eh

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cruise


dave mustaine could play better than him high, drunk, sleeping ,and yes even fucking dead.
a veracious one.
gott mit uns.
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nope..... Joe is [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
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dave mustaine could play better than him high, drunk, sleeping ,and yes even fucking dead.
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MegaDave!

He has the most unique licks and style.

When I bought "Killing..." in '84 merely for it's stupid album cover, my head nearly exploded.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Not even close.

Joe Bonnamassa, anyone?
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05/03/2015 08:08 PM
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
I know a few guitarists who aren't in bands that can play better than most.

Professionally...
I don't think I could pin down one guitar player who is the best. There are many who have different skill sets that make them stand out.

My personal preference is Fred Glotz
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Uhm nope.

Yngwie malmsteen, steve vai, joe satriani, dave mustaine, marty freidman, jimi hendrix, jeff loomis, zakk wylde, jake lee, randy rhoads, stevie ray vaughn, eric johnson, jeff young, chris poland, chris broderick, slash, jeff haneman, gus g...just to name a few.

Hammet is a great stepping stone guitarist when youre new to pentatonic scales and basic major and minor scales...but all the people above employ a more wide ranging and difficult technique in my opinion.

Chet atkins, reverend horton heat, paul gilbert, rusty cooley, al di meola, paco de lucia, john mclaughlin....to name a few more.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3650141


All them

Jimmy Page, Clapton, etc

Even George Harrison owns Hammett
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 48178830


Oh give me a break, Clapton is not better than Hammet.
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05/04/2015 02:13 AM
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
No.
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Then who is, in your opinion?
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joe satriani
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Shawn Lane was...is and forever shall be the greatest guitarist on the planet...he was probably the best ever when he was 15.

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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
No one has mentioned Tommy yet. I think he is the best all around player. Seen him about 4 or 5 times.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Jeff Beck is the best guitarist ever, followed closely by Freddie King and Albert King. None of you so called guitar players even mentioned freddie, LOL, u r just kids. Beck rules.
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
Yngwie is the best,then Uli and then Marty Friedman? I like how he played on rust in peace. Kirk is good though and a better fit for Metallica on the first three albums. After that I lost interest [/youtube] [link to www.youtube.com (secure)]
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Dimebag and Zakk Wylde
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danny gatton
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Re: Is Kirk Hammet The Best Guitar Player Ever?
he always seemed genuine and nice ~ like he would hold a door if he saw you coming the other way and you were nobody to him

but his "my first mustache" he wore around always cracked me up

Jimi, Saul, Eric, Eddie,
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