anomaly
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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.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).