KIRK HAMMETT
Instrument: Guitar
Birthday: November 18, 1962
From: San Francisco, California
Vitals: 5'8" & 134 lbs (1.7 meters &
60.78 kilos); brown hair & brown eyes
Marital status: Married wife Lani on January 31, 1998
at Kailua, Hawaii
Drives: Land Cruiser, mountain bike, '55
Dodge Coronet, '66 Mercedes Benz
Drinks: Martinis, Sky Vodka, green tea
Eats: Sushi, Mexican food, pasta, Indian
food
Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!")
Before Metallica: Played in Exodus, drank
a lot
Likes: Mountain biking, tattoos, piercing,
collecting old horror-movie stuff, cigars,
philosophy, H.P. Lovecraft
Listens to: Jimi Hendrix, UFO, Black
Sabbath, Deep Purple. Led Zeppelin, Kiss,
John Coltrane, Goul, Mule, Chet Baker, Prez
Prado, AIC, David Bowie, U2, King
Crimson, Robert Johnson
Heroes: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimi
Hendrix, Chet Baker, Diane Arbus, John
Coltrane, Charles Bukowski, Edward
Munch, Joel Peter Whitkin
First concert: Day on the Green with the
Eagles, Steve Miller, Heart, and Foreigner
Describes self as: Smelly, ugly, happy,
obsessive, progressive, curious