Kirk Hammet

[UGS]

Anyone else think he's extremely overrated? I mean he is a good guitar player, but I really cannot think of a more overrated player. GuitarWorld routinely puts him way up there on their "all time greats" lists. They even inducted him to their little "hall of fame" before they inducted EVH. Every Megadeth lead guitarist has been better than him IMO, but they rarely get the credit he does. Kirk Hammet vs Marty Friedman? Give me a break! Am I alone here?

[kentuckyklira]

He´s not a great guitar player. He sucks. And he´s gay!

I´ll play anything he does with one hand tied to my back!

[nosuchluck]

yep. he's terribly overrated. just like the rest of the band (Post-Burton).

[rob100]

Yeah, overrated. Suffers from wah wah disease too.

[UGS]

Originally posted by rob100
Yeah, overrated. Suffers from wah wah disease too.

That's what I mean. He has no right hand and he hides it with tons of distortion and wah. He does these random chromatic runs up the neck and rapes his wah pedal to make it sound decent.

He's done some good stuff too. He wrote the Sandman riff, which is one of the most classic heavy riffs ever, and his solo in Dyer's Eve on AJFA is very well done IMO, but nonetheless, he gets WAY too much critical acclaim

[WARF]

It would be nice to see Kirk start doing solos again!
Metallica is fucking crap!
Cliff Burton would be rolling is his grave. listening to ST Anger!

[Soul Reaper]

Kirk Hammet is a great lead player, especially on Master of Puppets, but he can't match players like EVH and Steve Vai.

[tydhurst]

I just think he looks like Beetlejuice!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by UGS
Anyone else think he's extremely overrated?

YES

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by tydhurst
I just think he looks like Beetlejuice!

lol. I defintely agree with you.

[loss of fools]

metalica suck
MEGADETH RULE

[fe_lung]

I remember reading somewhere that he practiced scales three hours per day and you know what, it shows in his solos. They all sound like scale excercises.

[DLR_EngineRoom]

Originally posted by UGS
Anyone else think he's extremely overrated? I mean he is a good guitar player, but I really cannot think of a more overrated player. GuitarWorld routinely puts him way up there on their "all time greats" lists. They even inducted him to their little "hall of fame" before they inducted EVH. Every Megadeth lead guitarist has been better than him IMO, but they rarely get the credit he does. Kirk Hammet vs Marty Friedman? Give me a break! Am I alone here?

I wish Rik Emmett would've kicked his overrated ass in a guitar duel when both Triumph and Metallica were big in the mid to late eighties.

[tydhurst]

i like Kirk Hammet.

[bueno bob]

I like his playing...he's not one of my overall favorite guitarists, and definitely not one of the top 10 ever, but his style is decent and he's worth his chops, for what he does. Of course, Metallica's sucked since, oh, 1988 or thereabouts, but there have been occasions when I've been interested in what he was doing (I WILL admit that I was interested by the different things he was doing on "Load", but that does NOT mean that I thought "Load" was worth a shit)...a lot of that I blame on Metallica/Bob Rock, though.