I remember when 'Surfing with the Alien' dropped. I was at a party and the music was incredible, just groovy and smooth, rocking stuff. This was the CD era and after asking about the music, the guy hosting the 'get together' grabs this CD with a cartoon drawing on the front. I thought it was so cool. I became a fan that day and I turned others onto his stuff, too. The song that has ALWAYS blown my doors off though is 'Flying in a Blue Dream' from the album AFTER 'surfing'. It's like he's talking with the guitar.
Kirk's a very good guitar player. He played very well on "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" in 1997. His solos are well constructed and lots of cool ideas in them.
Fact: In the early days, Kirk used to use a VOX AC30 used by Brian May from Queen. It was actually one of the first 'Solid State' models, which is why Brian May sold it. It was still sold for a fairly high price-around £2400 in todays money.
@@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi I love Megadeth and even prefer them over Metallica, especially over the past 20 years comparing their material. However, I think Kirk's frenetic shred style is much better than Dave's! A good example of this, compare the demo tape recordings of The Prince (Mustaine) to the Garage Inc. version (Kirk). Kirk's intro solo is technically and melodically superior.
I remember watching Joe on one of his G3 tours, I saw several, but think it was the one w/Vai and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Joe’s right hand was moving around so fast it looked like it was on a rubber band, I actually laughed it looked so ridiculous. Vai also took lessons from Joe in SF.
this is great stuff! impossible to get info back in the late 70s - 80s -- how bout a L'Amour recap? that's where i saw most of these early thrashers etc ...
@@TheRustedShackleford it certainly has - in rock n roll - many or most don’t attend a music school and so technique in one’s ability does vary. Turn it to 11 and have some attitude seems to be a winning recipe
any video of Joe in the 70s or early 80s? guess we just have to take his word for it. sometimes I think Joe gets to much credit. Hes good, but in the 70s he was no EVH but he became much better thru years of dedication
Good eye.. that was early ‘84. Opening for Raven,.. I remember that strap. Very much like Randy’s.. it was from a small outfit in Burbank CA.. I’d see the ads in the back pages of music mags in early 80’s. Damn. Good eye,
@@cwheremonster8870 thank you. I seen that photo b4, not long ago, not sure if it was this video or someone else's. but yea, I noticed it, this time though.
You really should watch out for those so-called guitar teachers, they might be Gods under cover. Like Joe Satriani, and like the very little guy who did the Mr. Crowley solo thang~
Joe my guitar hero he use too be, now there is no point getting lesson for me its just playing hard rock and roll and getting drunk ,sharing guitar solo with my friends😂😂😂 love the video, nice story. This message for CZcams 😊
joe: "hey kid are you the guy who wants to learn guitar?" kirk: :waht? joe : "you came for guitar lessons?" kirk: "yeah I need to learn the pentatonic"
You are an idi0t that just repeats what others say. If you go over Metallica's discography, you can hear that Kirk uses so many more scales then pentatonic. anyways. Listen to Ride the Lightning album, Master of Puppets, Justice. Not at all just pentatonic. Even on Black Album he is not just using the pentatonic scale. have you listened to the solo in Unforgiven without having your ears full of $hit.. Ok if you have, you can hear that that solo for example is far away from only having pentatonic scale... Anyways, it is not about how many scale you and use that makes a great solo. it is the composition, taste, and feel what suits the song, and that is where Kirk Hammett buries almost all other guitar player in metal in. Even on Load and Re-Load he comes up with the best way to suit the song and still make it interesting.
I think he meant he brought a copy of unfinished demos. Kirk must have wanted the recordings to help him write the solos in his own time without needing the rest of the band around.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 I know he grew up in NY and knew Vai since then. Knew Hammett when He moved to Cali. BucketHead and Vai's statement just seem to jive better. Don't get me wrong I love all of them. I am in my 50's and have heard a lot of these stories decades ago and I'm trying to put all of it into perspective.
Well Dave Mustaine is great but check out the Metallica live video with Dave Mustaine on solo guitar and his soloing mostly sound like a mess. Anyway looks like Kirk borrowed a few ideas from Dave but Kirk's solos are well constructed and sound really great!
Howard Beach Queens, N.Y 1980's I got tired of the guitar player in my band never getting any better. I paid Joe Satriani for one lesson to teach my friend, he advanced one year in one lesson. Lesson 2 worry about myself.
I don’t get the guitar trashing part…so many people would love to have it. Why destroy it? It would be like race car drivers crashing their cars on purpose after the race
Kirk Hammett was a guitar God to me back when Kill em All was first released. I bought the album because I liked the name Metallica and the cool album cover. When I got it home and played it, I was blown away at how fast the solos were. I couldn't get enough of Kirk's leads. I didn't know how Kirk got.the wah sound. I found out what a wah pedal was and tried one out at this hole in the wall guitar shop in Chula Vista CA. I bought it and took it home to my fender amp with a distortion peda and my knock off Strat and fell in love. Kirk is one of my top 3 biggest guitar influences besides Ace Frehly and EVH.
And I still like his solos and playing. Of course Kirk's not perfect but anyway I believe he's a very good guitar player. He plays very well on the "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" 1997.
That sounds quite made up. In the early 90s Kirk said that he looked for Joe after Kill 'em All because somebody told him that his playing was awful basic. And it's quite noticeable that his solos are better in Ride than in Kill (man, there's a little sweeping phrase in the Creeping Death solo) that that sounds true.
Lots of jealous people commenting. Please list all your musical accomplishments after slamming the guy. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. Go flip some burgers.
I watched those early Metallica videos and looks like Kirk borrowed a few ideas from Dave but he did a really great job on that first Metallica album. Kirk's solos are brilliantly done!
Probably man. I still loved them both back then. I feel blessed to have seen both Dave and Kirk when they were really firing on all cylinders. Oh and I stood right in front of Satriani for Surfing With the Alien. Great days I tell ya!
People shit on Kirk and Slash all the time, yet they have more soulful and memorable riff and solos than most. And by a mile. Satriani was dead right about speed... the number of notes played don't equal what's being played. Most times less is better. Yngwie can razzle and dazzle until everything after 2 minutes seems like he's on a loop but he could never capture you the same as the guitar(s) of Master.
I don't see anything that could have came from a Satch lesson. Hammett has never been anything special especially when you look at other styles of playing. There's way more to guitar then power chords and easy scales. Paul Gilbert and so many others are so far beyond metallica riffs.
When I was about 14 years old, I thought it looked wild and beautiful (for example Whitesnake Still of the Night video). That was very cool! But sadly those days are over.
Back then glam rock was popular. Many rock stars put on make-up and had better hairdressers than women. I also don’t approve. Men should be men, women be women. Other bands like Metallica and GNR were the opposite of glam rockers.
@Chocolate Cookie but when they get older, their anatomy is right. I'm not talking Adam's Apple, or anything like that. It goes much much deeper. I'll just leave it at that.
Sadly, Kirk remains a mediocre guitarist whose playing had never been innovative, musical nor technical. Pentatonics all day long. I’m sure Kirk’s a cool dude though. But still..
Kirk's a very good guitar player. He played very well on "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" in 1997. His solos are well constructed and lots of cool ideas in them.
I always knew about Joe teaching kirk but I never knew the details.
Thanks for the journey!
Many thanks, great pleasure!!
I remember when 'Surfing with the Alien' dropped. I was at a party and the music was incredible, just groovy and smooth, rocking stuff. This was the CD era and after asking about the music, the guy hosting the 'get together' grabs this CD with a cartoon drawing on the front. I thought it was so cool. I became a fan that day and I turned others onto his stuff, too.
The song that has ALWAYS blown my doors off though is 'Flying in a Blue Dream' from the album AFTER 'surfing'. It's like he's talking with the guitar.
I bought that album.
Satch gave him the Tools and was very wise regarding restraining himself from directing him creatively. He was perfect, it was destiny for sure.
Master of puppets was so head of its times, still rocks to this day. Top notch talent!
my first real concert, Joe in 1989. Ive seen him in 4 different decades. Yet to see him the 2020s to make it five but def will.
Thank you for sharing this, l'm a big of Joe (& others). l love stories like this !
Many thanks, great pleasure!!
Thank you for your service Satch!
Best rock channel around . Another great vid..thanks man !
Many thanks, great pleasure!
My old guitar player took lessons from him, my guy was already a badass but after a couple years of lessons, he was unstoppable.
Thank you for compilation, this is what I searched for.
Big thanks!!
Excellent Rock History ! 🤘🏻
Many thanks Scott! Have an awesome rocking day!
Very informative, thanks!
Big thanks!!!
I love that pic of joe with a pacer imperial…mostly because I have a cream coloured pacer imperial :)
Honestly, I never thought kirk was a bad player. This explains why. 👍🏻
Kirk's a very good guitar player. He played very well on "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" in 1997. His solos are well constructed and lots of cool ideas in them.
Fact: In the early days, Kirk used to use a VOX AC30 used by Brian May from Queen. It was actually one of the first 'Solid State' models, which is why Brian May sold it. It was still sold for a fairly high price-around £2400 in todays money.
One can think and say this or that about Kirk. He started a real big thing with Metallica. Success proves that he did something right.
He is part of the Metallica sound. I couldn't imagine anyone else playing those licks we all love...💚🎸
@@syfman6 Dave Mustaine. :;-)
@@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi I love Megadeth and even prefer them over Metallica, especially over the past 20 years comparing their material. However, I think Kirk's frenetic shred style is much better than Dave's! A good example of this, compare the demo tape recordings of The Prince (Mustaine) to the Garage Inc. version (Kirk). Kirk's intro solo is technically and melodically superior.
@@DenkendeMystik-ll8oi stop 🙄
Joe is very humble.
WOW great info
That thumbnail photo of Kirk was before he transitioned ..
(:
Still laughing
Kirk was and still is a dork, he's also my favorite member of Metallica.
I heard his comic book collection is epic...
I remember watching Joe on one of his G3 tours, I saw several, but think it was the one w/Vai and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Joe’s right hand was moving around so fast it looked like it was on a rubber band, I actually laughed it looked so ridiculous. Vai also took lessons from Joe in SF.
I have not listened to any of exodus really but I'm a have to study up on them. Any songs that you would recommend?
this is great stuff! impossible to get info back in the late 70s - 80s -- how bout a L'Amour recap? that's where i saw most of these early thrashers etc ...
Imagine if Kirk took lessons at musonia from Lynch or Rhoads.
And then Kirk discovered the wah-wah pedal
Yes worst pedal ever. That is why every guitarist have used it, including Slash and Jimi Hendrix which used so much that it was there signature sound.
I really love these videos you make! Thank you for sharing them with us!
I met Satriani once, really cool guy
My teacher was the same. Firm and fair. Satch is the man ✌️ 🇦🇺
Kirk must have skipped the lesson on finger and wrist vibrato
Yeah agreed
He left it for you.
Why? Did you take it instead ?
Seems to be working out for him
@@TheRustedShackleford it certainly has - in rock n roll - many or most don’t attend a music school and so technique in one’s ability does vary. Turn it to 11 and have some attitude seems to be a winning recipe
kirk hammetts school photos SCARE ME
any video of Joe in the 70s or early 80s? guess we just have to take his word for it. sometimes I think Joe gets to much credit. Hes good, but in the 70s he was no EVH but he became much better thru years of dedication
last picture, Kirk's guitar strap, looks like Randy Rhoad's guitar strap. I believe a little different in designed.
Good eye.. that was early ‘84. Opening for Raven,.. I remember that strap. Very much like Randy’s.. it was from a small outfit in Burbank CA.. I’d see the ads in the back pages of music mags in early 80’s. Damn. Good eye,
@@cwheremonster8870 thank you. I seen that photo b4, not long ago, not sure if it was this video or someone else's. but yea, I noticed it, this time though.
You really should watch out for those so-called guitar teachers, they might be Gods under cover. Like Joe Satriani, and like the very little guy who did the Mr. Crowley solo thang~
Joe my guitar hero he use too be, now there is no point getting lesson for me its just playing hard rock and roll and getting drunk ,sharing guitar solo with my friends😂😂😂 love the video, nice story. This message for CZcams 😊
Many thanks for checking out, great pleasure!!
@@karsguitarchannel6088 its funny theyhave the same story as to Buckethead to Paul Gilbert as to riding a bike to get guitar lesson.
I wonder how much difference those lessons made, definitely added bells and whistles to him and gave him a leg up.
i got to see satriani play the experance hendix in 2019
joe: "hey kid are you the guy who wants to learn guitar?"
kirk: :waht?
joe : "you came for guitar lessons?"
kirk: "yeah I need to learn the pentatonic"
You are an idi0t that just repeats what others say. If you go over Metallica's discography, you can hear that Kirk uses so many more scales then pentatonic. anyways. Listen to Ride the Lightning album, Master of Puppets, Justice. Not at all just pentatonic. Even on Black Album he is not just using the pentatonic scale. have you listened to the solo in Unforgiven without having your ears full of $hit.. Ok if you have, you can hear that that solo for example is far away from only having pentatonic scale... Anyways, it is not about how many scale you and use that makes a great solo. it is the composition, taste, and feel what suits the song, and that is where Kirk Hammett buries almost all other guitar player in metal in. Even on Load and Re-Load he comes up with the best way to suit the song and still make it interesting.
Sorry but in 83 Kurt was 20 yrs old not 14 🎉😮
work hard matters, good job, Kirk!
Wow. I can totally see Kirk getting stuffed in lockers and getting atomic wedgies in school.
Ten years later, Biff the bully goes to his first Metallica concert and says "...wait a minute, is that..."?
Ya I would say he has the last laugh though.
So Joe Satriani taught Hammett how to play the solos on Kill em all. After it was released. Did I catch that right?
I think he meant he brought a copy of unfinished demos. Kirk must have wanted the recordings to help him write the solos in his own time without needing the rest of the band around.
1:42 I heard that “hey dude” in kirk’s voice lol
according to joe satriani interview with howard stern is that kirk was still in exodus when the was teaching kirk.
Is that a Fernandes guitar Satriani is holding?
Picked up guitar to Kill em All in 5 years??? Did I hear that right?
Larry lalonde was in the mix too
kirk is an awsome dude, james better b careful he dont quit, he takes alot of sh1t.... he wears my army boots we gave him in 92 too!
Then why is Hammett's and Vai's story compleatly different?
Satriani taught Vai in New York before he moved to California. Joe was younger then.
@@karsguitarchannel6088 I know he grew up in NY and knew Vai since then. Knew Hammett when He moved to Cali. BucketHead and Vai's statement just seem to jive better.
Don't get me wrong I love all of them. I am in my 50's and have heard a lot of these stories decades ago and I'm trying to put all of it into perspective.
You seem to have left out the Dave Mustaine part in the first album. I believe he created the solo's for the first album.
Get over it , 🙄 jealous lame megadeaf fan
Well Dave Mustaine is great but check out the Metallica live video with Dave Mustaine on solo guitar and his soloing mostly sound like a mess. Anyway looks like Kirk borrowed a few ideas from Dave but Kirk's solos are well constructed and sound really great!
Nice pic of Dave Mustaine 😂 BAZINGA! 😂😂😂
Howard Beach Queens, N.Y 1980's I got tired of the guitar player in my band never getting any better. I paid Joe Satriani for one lesson to teach my friend, he advanced one year in one lesson. Lesson 2 worry about myself.
Kirk is a metal guitar GOD.
I don’t get the guitar trashing part…so many people would love to have it. Why destroy it? It would be like race car drivers crashing their cars on purpose after the race
Lesson 1 - E Minor Pentatonic. Lesson 2 - Wah Wah
Kirk Hammett was a guitar God to me back when Kill em All was first released. I bought the album because I liked the name Metallica and the cool album cover. When I got it home and played it, I was blown away at how fast the solos were. I couldn't get enough of Kirk's leads. I didn't know how Kirk got.the wah sound. I found out what a wah pedal was and tried one out at this hole in the wall guitar shop in Chula Vista CA. I bought it and took it home to my fender amp with a distortion peda and my knock off Strat and fell in love. Kirk is one of my top 3 biggest guitar influences besides Ace Frehly and EVH.
When I was a kid, I loved Kirk's guitar solos and playing. It was fantastic!
And I still like his solos and playing. Of course Kirk's not perfect but anyway I believe he's a very good guitar player. He plays very well on the "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" 1997.
That sounds quite made up.
In the early 90s Kirk said that he looked for Joe after Kill 'em All because somebody told him that his playing was awful basic. And it's quite noticeable that his solos are better in Ride than in Kill (man, there's a little sweeping phrase in the Creeping Death solo) that that sounds true.
"It doesn't matter how fast you play" - Satriani.
One of the reassons why Malmsteen is criticizing both the master and the student.
Is that Kirk as a kid or Yoko Ono?
Sounds like he needed lessons to figure out how to play Dave Mustaine’s guitar work.
nice!!
It's a shame he didn't pursue staying as an amazing player. He just gave up in the 90's
Inb4 dave mustaine takes credit for all of Kirk's solos.
K.H. must have missed some of J.S. 's lessons. I dont know why his solos are rated that high...
Lots of jealous people commenting. Please list all your musical accomplishments after slamming the guy. He’s laughing all the way to the bank. Go flip some burgers.
😂
sorry to say but dave could not make the solos kirk did
I watched those early Metallica videos and looks like Kirk borrowed a few ideas from Dave but he did a really great job on that first Metallica album. Kirk's solos are brilliantly done!
Rumor has it Mustaine hates Greyhound tobthus day...
Kirk has mastered the style of playing for 50 years but sounding like you just picked up the instrument.
Cool story
At what point did Joe Satriani’s teacher think this kid should be teaching me?
More like, he needed Joe Satriani to show him how to play Dave’s solos!!!! 😆😆🤣😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
Probably man. I still loved them both back then. I feel blessed to have seen both Dave and Kirk when they were really firing on all cylinders.
Oh and I stood right in front of Satriani for Surfing With the Alien.
Great days I tell ya!
Mr.kirk lives in Hawaii,,,,,thrashing all around on a surf board
Berkeley U is cia. Yup. So is he. 5:39 his cseaeyeaye identalfication
Joe Satriani should have taught lars how to play drums
First of all. Gary Holt blows Kurt h away like no tomorrow. Lmao. It's not even a contest. 😅
Gary Holt could eat Kirk Hammett for breakfast when it comes to guitar playing ability.
People shit on Kirk and Slash all the time, yet they have more soulful and memorable riff and solos than most. And by a mile. Satriani was dead right about speed... the number of notes played don't equal what's being played. Most times less is better. Yngwie can razzle and dazzle until everything after 2 minutes seems like he's on a loop but he could never capture you the same as the guitar(s) of Master.
I see the lessons didn't take 😂
I don't see anything that could have came from a Satch lesson. Hammett has never been anything special especially when you look at other styles of playing. There's way more to guitar then power chords and easy scales. Paul Gilbert and so many others are so far beyond metallica riffs.
Geez, how do all these musicians look exactly like females? I'm not being funny either. Just always was very strange to me.
You're right, you're not being funny.
When I was about 14 years old, I thought it looked wild and beautiful (for example Whitesnake Still of the Night video). That was very cool! But sadly those days are over.
Back then glam rock was popular. Many rock stars put on make-up and had better hairdressers than women. I also don’t approve. Men should be men, women be women. Other bands like Metallica and GNR were the opposite of glam rockers.
@Chocolate Cookie but when they get older, their anatomy is right. I'm not talking Adam's Apple, or anything like that. It goes much much deeper. I'll just leave it at that.
@@riggedreality420 Yeah, I would leave it if I were you. We know what you're trying to insinuate but it's just total nonsense.
So everyone, except Kirk, that were trained by Satriani became amazing guitar players overnight. Kirk is still out there trying...
Kirk skipped a few lessons.
Sadly, Kirk remains a mediocre guitarist whose playing had never been innovative, musical nor technical. Pentatonics all day long. I’m sure Kirk’s a cool dude though. But still..
Give me Kirk and pre 1990 Metallica over any boring ass Polyphia, Robert Fripp, Yngwie wankery any day of the week.
Kirk's a very good guitar player. He played very well on "Day on the Green" in 1985 and "Cunning Stunts" in 1997. His solos are well constructed and lots of cool ideas in them.
Sorry I honestly don't think Joe is that entertaining, needless to say the same for kirk
KIRK HAMMET is a problemen in Metallica!
🤡
Why?
😂😂😂
Kirk rules honestly