KIRK HAMMETT



Instrument/band job: Guitar
Birthday: November 18, 1962
From: San Francisco, California
Stature: 5'8" , 134 lbs
Marital status: Happily Married
Drives: Land Cruiser, mountain bike, '55 Dodge Coronet, '66 Mercedes Benz
Eats: Sushi, Mexican food, pasta, Indian food
Drinks: Martinis, Sky Vodka, green tea
Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!")
Before Metallica: Played in Exodus, drank a lot
Pre-Metallica career: Paper boy, gas station attendant
Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing, collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars, philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft
Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin, Kiss, John Coltrane, Goul, Mule, Chet Baker, Prez Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King Crimson, Robert Johnson
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


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