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Kirk's bands before Metallica were:
- Mesh
- The garage band called 'Mesh' was his first band
ever.
- Exodus
- The first band, that won a great reputation in the San Franscisco 'Bay
Area' - metalscene. While he was playing in this band, he was getting so
much of wicked technique, that Metallica asked him to join the band.
- Kirk's projects beside Metallica were:
- Spastik Children
- San Francisco, CA 1986-1990
- The lineup:
- Fred Cotton - vocals
- James Hetfield - drums & vocals
- Cliff Burton - bass & vocals
- Jim Martin - bass & vocals
- James "Flunky" McDaniel - guitar & vocals
- After Cliff's death Kirk and Jason took over his bass duties
- Voodoo Children
- Manhatten, NY - 1993
- Jason Newsted - bass/vocals
- Kirk Hammett - guitar
- Tony Prinzivalli - guitar/vocals
- Whitey Chrobak - keyboards
- Tim Lau - drums
- Les Claypool & Kirk Hammett
- He recorded one track with Les Claypool from Primus.
- Bands Kirk has played live with:
- Primus - "Tommy The Cat" & "Master of Puppets"
- Portland, OR - December 11, 1990
- Kirk played "Tommy the Cat" and "Master of Puppets" together
with Primus.
- Linda Perry & Kirk Hammett - "Whole Lotta Love"
- San Fransisco, CA - XXX, 1997 (?)
- Kirk played Led Zeppellins "Whole Lotta Love" together with Linda
Perry from the band 4 Non-Blondes at the 'Bay Area Music Awards'. Kirk's
guitar sounded a bit more crunchy than the guitar does in the original
version of that song. Linda did the vocals and at the end of the song
right after she said something like: "Here's Kirk Hammett. Maybe you
heard of him. He's in this band called Metallica?", Kirk played a few
notes of the "Enter Sandman" riff. It was aired on the local Bay Area
alternative radio station Live 105.
- Swarm & Kirk Hammett
- San Fransisco, CA - March 20, 1999
- He played with his friend's band Swarm on March 20 in 1999 in San
Fransisco. There have been even made a video of this show.
- Kid Rock, Lars Ulrich & Kirk Hammett
- Burbanks, CA - XX xx, 2000
- Kirk and Lars played "American Badass" with Kid Rock on Jay Lenos'
"The Tonight Show". There were 3 guitarists on stage so Kirk just played
"co-rythm" and Lars played drums. During the song's bells part, Kid Rock
said "This is the twisted brown trucker band with the pioneers of this
music: Metallica.". After the song Lars got up, gave Leno a hand shake
and hugged kid rock after the commercial break during the 10 second
interview lars was on Kid Rock's lap.
- Bands Kirk has recorded with:
- Septic Death & Kirk Hammett
- He played solos for Pushead's band Septic Death.
- Pansy Devision - "Headbanger"
- Kirk Hammett took part in Pansy Devision's song "Headbanger".
- Orbital & Kirk Hammett
- Kirk recorded with Orbital a song called "Satan" on the "Spawn"
- soundtrack.
- Primus - "bonus track"
- Kirk played together with Mark Osegueda of Death Angel and
Primus on an extra secret track on Primus' album "Anti-Pop".
- Santana - "All That I Am"
- Recorded guitar for the song "Trinity" on that album.
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