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“I remember we were just sitting around one day, and the singer of Exodus, a guy named Paul Baloff, who was an absolute maniac, he walked into the rehearsal and said, ‘Metallica. So heavy. They’re so heavy’,” Hammett remembered.
“And I was, like, ‘Metallica.’ And I thought, ‘What a great name. It’s like the best name in the world.’ [Baloff] said, ‘Yeah, they’re playing The Stone tonight. We’ve gotta go check ’em out.’ And so we went down there. And literally, there was, like, 15 people there. And I remember being at the front of the stage going, ‘Wow, these guys are pretty goddamn good. ”
Hammett made the revelation in a clip, released by Gibson TV ahead of his upcoming
Icons interview, the full version of which will premiere at 1 p.m. Eastern Time today (Tuesday, December 22).
The guitarist begins by recalling his then-
Paul Baloff, coming into rehearsal raving about Metallica circa 1982. At Baloff s urging, Hammett (and about 15 others, by his estimate) went to see Metallica that night at a club in San Francisco.
A few months later, Exodus and Metallica were billed together for a Monday evening gig at San Francisco s Old Waldorf. Metallica had the middle slot and Hammett recalls the venue filling up with people for Metallica and then emptying minutes after their set ended.
James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich don t remember meeting Kirk Hammett
Publish Date Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 10:41AM
Kirk Hammett s longtime Metallica bandmates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich have no recollection of meeting him.
Hammett made the revelation in a clip, released by Gibson TV ahead of his upcoming Icons interview, the full version of which will premiere at 1 p.m. Eastern Time today (Tuesday, December 22).
The guitarist begins by recalling his then-Exodus bandmate, singer Paul Baloff, coming into rehearsal raving about Metallica circa 1982. At Baloff s urging, Hammett (and about 15 others, by his estimate) went to see Metallica that night at a club in San Francisco.
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