kirk hammet's bio

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Instrument: Guitar 

Specialty: Kick-ass, full-blown lead guitar vocals 

Birthday: November 18, 1962 

From: San Francisco, California 

Vitals: 5'8" & 134 lbs (1.7 meters &
60.78 kilos); brown hair & brown eyes 

Marital status: Happily Divorced 
Drives: Land Cruiser, mountain bike, '55 Dodge Coronet

Drinks: Martinis, Sky Vodka, green tea 

Eats: Sushi, Mexican food, pasta, Indian food, Thai food 

Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!") 

Before Metallica: Played in Exodus, drank a lot 

Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing, collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars, philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft, Taxidermy, Pinball 

Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin, Kiss, John Coltrane, Gout, Mule, Chet Baker, Prez Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King Crimson, Robert Johnson, Radiohead 

Heroes: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimi Hendrix, Chet Baker, Diane Arbus, John Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Edward Munch, Joel Peter Whitkin 

First concert: Day on the Green with the Eagles, Steve Miller, Heart, and Foreigner 

Describes self as: Smelly, ugly, happy, obsessive, progressive, curious