Metallica singer James Hetfield was 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 every of his prized guitars used to belong to John Frusciante of Pink Scorching Chili Peppers.
Talking concerning 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 awesome man who’s super-eccentric, identical to I’m. He’s an awesome participant too. I’d been taking a look at SGs for a very long time and it had been exhausting to seek out good ones. I managed to discover a handful of nice ones and I really like them.”
Hammet went on to confess it took him some time to get into taking part in 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 e-book [Gibson-issued ‘The Collection: Kirk Hammett’] is one thing else. It was Les Paul’s SG – he really 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 celeb devices over the past 10 or so years have gravitated in the direction of me. I’ve Michael Schenker’s important 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 ‘Pressure It’ album. I’d be pondering, ‘What a tremendous instrument!’ Properly, now I personal it. It’s within the e-book, painted like a V-2 rocket, so Michael in all probability wouldn’t acknowledge it.”
