![]() ![]() Video of Metallica - Kirk Hammett (2016 interview)Ĥ. "Cliff went back to the studio, and used that area to put his own solo on it - but he played, like, half of my licks that were in the original solo! It was the weirdest thing!" But the guitarist says there were no hard feelings: "It wasn't really much of an issue for me, because there were like four guitar solos in that song - it wasn't like he took the only one." "I remember recording it in the studio, and then I left to go back to the East Coast and meet a girl or something, I don't know," Hammett recalled in 2017. Hammett says that the second bass solo in Puppets' iconic instrumental track was originally a guitar solo before Burton unceremoniously claimed it. Cliff Burton "took" one of Hammett's solos in "Orion" We never saw daylight for the whole time, and my main recollection is just how dark it was!"Ģ. each day and work through the night til 4-6 a.m. "This was like September, October, November, December - so in Denmark, if you wake up at 4 in the afternoon, it's already dark. The band would usually get started around 7 p.m. "For three months I don't think we saw daylight," Ulrich told us of the Master of Puppets sessions. Metallica recorded Master of Puppets in the dark - sort of Below are 10 surprising facts, stories and trivia-ready tidbits about one of heavy music's most celebrated works.ġ. It was the beginning of Metallica, soon-to-be rock behemoth, and also the end of an era - the group's last recording before bassist Cliff Burton's untimely death. ![]() Recording in drummer Lars Ulrich's native Denmark with producer Flemming Rasmussen, the Bay Area band crafted a masterpiece, working through the night, pulling from a wide array of influences, pushing each other and pulling in every trick they could think of. The band were brash kids then, full of spit and fire, and they struck creative gold intuitively and magically, though not without a lot of hard work, too. ![]() Hammett is hardly the only person who would cite Puppets as their favorite Metallica record - the 1986 LP is hands down one of the Top 5 metal albums of all time, if not numero uno. And it just kind of all culminated on this album." We knew what we were striving for, we knew what we could do, we knew each other's playing well, we knew our strengths. Really! Everyone was kind of settled into their roles. Everyone was playing well. "We culminated as a band on Master of Puppets. " Master of Puppets is my favorite album," Kirk Hammett enthused when we talked with him in 2017 about the watershed Metallica LP and the massive reissue the band was putting out at the time. ![]()
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