
Name: Kirk Hammett
Date Of The Birth: November 18, 1962
From: San Francisco, California
Instrument: Guitars
Some
Equipment
Guitars
4 E.S.P M-2 with different motives
1 Fly-V (Devil)
1 Les Paul, Jr. Spider
1 Gibson Les Paul
2 Fender Stratocaster
1 Jackson Fly-V
1 Ibanez Stratocaster
Amps
Mesa Boogie Strategy 400 power amps
Mesa Boogie MK IV Amp
Mesa Boogie Triaxis preamp
Nady 1200 Wireless receivers and transmitters
ADA MP-1 preamp
Marshall practice amps
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Marital status: Married Sports teams: None (He hates sports!) Before Metallica: Exodus |
Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing, collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars...
Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Kiss, David Bowie...
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