ESSENTIAL ALBUMS
01.
The Hunger
Soundtrack
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e all remember our favorite teacher – someone who
believed in us, gave us support, and encouraged
us to take up wings and fly. For a 21-year-old Kirk
Hammett it was his guitar teacher, Joe Satriani, who provided
the foundation to start his career as a hard rock guitar hero.
“A lesson with Joe was not just guitar,” Hammett remembers.
“We’d touch on other subjects, too. We’d speak a lot about
Eastern philosophies. I started taking lessons from Joe in 1982
right before Kill Em’ All. I had taken maybe 10 lessons from him.
I had learned about modes and chord theory and scale theory
and a lot of licks here and there. We would play together and he
would play a lick and I would totally cop it. I wouldn’t tell him.
I’d just go home and the second I got home I’d break out my
guitar and work out this lick that I had seen him play. I would
sit down and map out what keys and what scales could be used
over what chord. ”As the student became the teacher, we asked
Kirk to select some essential albums:
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DIGITAL EDITION
02.
Strangers in the Night
UFO
JUNE/JULY