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thegame said:
The weird part is he detailed a lot of this stuff 20 years ago for free on the old gearslutz forums. So unless he has volumes of newly discovered material regarding what he did 40 years ago at those sessions, I can't help but think he's just repackaging what he already put out for a hefty fee this time. I hate saying it too as I truly love the results he got and his hardnosed approach in the studio towards the musicians (Kirk Hammett is on record as saying it was much more stressful working under FR than Bob Rock).
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Hammett recorded his solos in sections on AJFA, MOP and RTL, while the Black album was usually whole takes. I think regardless of how stressful it was FR got the better performances out of him. I mean this was back when Hammett worked hard on mapping out his solos and treating them as a song within a song unlike his new approach... just improvise everything, which is lazy IMO.
 
anomaly said:
Hammett recorded his solos in sections on AJFA, MOP and RTL, while the Black album was usually whole takes. I think regardless of how stressful it was FR got the better performances out of him. I mean this was back when Hammett worked hard on mapping out his solos and treating them as a song within a song unlike his new approach... just improvise everything, which is lazy IMO.
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I know that many do not like his playing regardless of the era, but in my opinion there was a time when Hammett was approaching greatness. His leads on (recorded in parts - punches are audible) ANJFA in particular were an interesting combination of really frantic, modern sounding, unusual scales and wild bends...along with more traditional, gutsy bluesy runs....and even melodic, vocal sounding sections. More recently, he recaptured this feel on the solo for "Bleeding me", which may be his best work to date. Just some thoughts.
 
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angelspade said:
I know that many do not like his playing regardless of the era, but in my opinion there was a time when Hammett was approaching greatness. His leads on (recorded in parts - punches are audible) ANJFA in particular were an interesting combination of really frantic, modern sounding, unusual scales and wild bends...along with more traditional, gutsy bluesy runs....and even melodic, vocal sounding sections. More recently, he recaptured this feel on the solo for "Bleeding me", which may be his best work to date. Just some thoughts.
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"Bleeding Me"? Are you serious? Can't be. I dig the song a lot but the solo just sounds like another wah drenched improvised Hammett blues solo to me. Nothing like his 80's work.
 
anomaly said:
"Bleeding Me"? Are you serious? Can't be. I dig the song a lot but the solo just sounds like another wah drenched improvised Hammett blues solo to me. Nothing like his 80's work.
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I know what he means, there's something in that solo that I really feel when I listen to it that isn't there with most everything else from that era. Might very well be a broken clock is right twice a day situation but that is a perfect solo for the song and a pretty great guitar solo in general.

However I also agree with @angelspade in that the AJFA era showed a Hammett that was truly approaching being a genuinely great player and soloist in the late 80's / early 90's. Like he was never going to be a Dimebag or Petrucci but he had his own voice and was able to write some cool stuff that wouldn't have occurred to anybody else to write and he was able to play with a kind of raw ferocity that was its own special thing. Listen to the Dyers Eve solo and tell me it doesn't have the intensity of like a white hot nuclear laser beam or something. It rules. And then there's the Unforgiven solo. I don't think anybody would argue that it's not one of the greatest metal solos of all time. It's practically its own fully developed song within a song. I mean sure, Bob Rock practically had to beat it out of him, but it was in there. :D That came from the mind of Kirk Hammett.

Now he just mindlessly wanks off the cuff and it sucks, but there was defintiely something there for a while.
 
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TheGreatGreen said:
I know what he means, there's something in that solo that I really feel when I listen to it that isn't there with most everything else from that era. Might very well be a broken clock is right twice a day situation but that is a perfect solo for the song and a pretty great guitar solo in general.
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Yes...This is what a meant.
 
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