Metallica singer James Hetfield was just lately photographed at a market.
Whereas speaking about his guitar assortment in a current interview with Guitar World, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett revealed that one in all his prized guitars used to belong to John Frusciante of Purple Scorching Chili Peppers.
Talking in regards to the 1961 Gibson SG that Frusciante as soon as owned, Hammet mentioned:
“I’m honored to have a guitar that John owned. I like John; he’s an amazing man who’s super-eccentric, similar to I’m. He’s an amazing participant too. I’d been taking a look at SGs for a very long time and it had been exhausting to search out good ones. I managed to discover a handful of nice ones and I like them.”
Hammet went on to confess it took him some time to get into enjoying SGs, saying that he solely actually started having fun with them after he performed one owned by Les Paul himself.
“I solely began utilizing SGs across the ‘Load’ period. That white two-pickup SG within the ebook [Gibson-issued ‘The Collection: Kirk Hammett’] is one thing else. It was Les Paul’s SG – he truly performed it on an album. That was loopy, as a result of after I first bought that guitar I didn’t know who’d owned it,” Hammet mentioned.
Itemizing different guitars in his possession that used to belong to different rock stars, Hammett continued:
“It’s bizarre how movie star devices over the past 10 or so years have gravitated in direction of me. I’ve Michael Schenker’s predominant Flying V that he performed on his first 4 albums.”
“I used to stare at it after I was 15 years previous, on the again of UFO’s ‘Power It’ album. I’d be considering, ‘What an incredible instrument!’ Nicely, now I personal it. It’s within the ebook, painted like a V-2 rocket, so Michael most likely wouldn’t acknowledge it.”
