KIRK HAMMETT

Instrument: Guitar

Specialty: Kick-ass, full-blown lead guitar vocals

Birthday: November 18, 1962

From: San Francisco, California

Vitals: 5'7" & 134 lbs (1.7 meters & 60.78 kilos); brown hair & brown eyes

Marital status: Divorced

Drives: Porsche, Land Cruiser, mountain bike

Sports teams: None ("I hate sports!")

Before Metallica: Played in Exodus

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, Joe Satriani

Heroes: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Jimi Hendrix

First concert: Day on the Green with the Eagles, Steve Miller,

Heart, and Foreigner

Describes self as: Smelly, ugly, happy