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removed tounge kiss comment

Unless there is a real pressing reason to keep this comment in the article, there is no need for it. It certainly doesn't belong in the first paragraph.

Also, without an external link, it's going to be regarded as hearsay. Peyna 15:29:56, 2005-08-15 (UTC) I removed the Rolling Stone reference and the list is high disreputable and frankly stupid in every way.

Irregardless of POV the list ref is verifable text and requires concensus to be removed. Anger22 23:04, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maritial Status Error

It says at the begining of the article that Kirk is divorced but later on it says that hes 'happily married to Lani' Has he actually gotten divorced recently or is this a mistake? --Mike 14:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Plagiarism

A lot of this article's content was ripped directly from the band's official website. I kept all of the facts (and even added some), but reworded the entire body of the article so that it was not a complete rip-off. Raijinryu 21:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Nice job. Wikipediarul e s 2221 02:34, 9 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"11th greatest guitarist of all time"

I added a short note regarding his rank on the Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. Saibot 19:17, 27 January 2007 (UTC) Keep in mind this is the same list that put Kurt Cobain in the top 10. Nothing against Kurt, but it's pretty easy to think of 10 more skilled guitarist then him, so i think that diminishes the validity of the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.156.40.226 (talk) 21:27, 3 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It says GREATEST, not most technically skilled. Clearly they factored in the influence the guitar players had on the future as a defining factor. 3pointswish (talk) 03:14, 6 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comic Book Freak

No mention of his hobby as a collector of vintage comic books and horror memorabilia? I think it's quite encyclopedic and biographical.--Jeff79 00:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The horror thing reminds me of a deleted scene from the Some Kind of Monster DVD where he's having a photo-shoot sitting on his skull-throne and talking about where all the different skulls and bones came from. That's definitely notable. 67.142.130.28 11:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kirk discusses his hobby in detail in a year and a half in the life of Metalica.--Jeff79 08:00, 9 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

References

The first reference link points to a blank page and the second is an unresponsively server.

I forgot to sign my edit. Oops! Joetheodd 11:40, 1 July 2007 (UTC) (Stupid web accelerator keeps logging me out -.-)[reply]

I doubt his wife's name is 'Jack Mehoff'

Someone is vandalising this article, someone should make it protected or something like that... Or at least correct the vandalism... I'm not going to do it, I don't know his first wife's name...

Ok, found the ex wife's name, and found the asshole who changed it... Undo'ed but is there a way to report the guy? I'm not good at wikipedia...

Realturka.--Realturka 09:08, 15 July 2007 (UTC) His ex-wife's name is Rebecca, she was an actress94.248.113.54 (talk) 08:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Readded section

An editor, likely not a guitar player, deleted the instrument section. Just about every notable guitar player has a "gear list" section. The section could use some detailed references and some cleanup. But it doesn't warrant deletion as "unencyclopedic". It might seem that way to previous "deletion" editor because they know nothing about guitars. But to a player that type of "technical" info is all they like to read. It's informative and intersting... albeit... only to guitar players. But their interests need not be discriminated against as unencyclopedic simply because another editor unfamiliar witht he subject doesn't understand the lingo... or the significance. 156.34.208.175 (talk) 01:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

About the .10/.52 string gauge…

Obviously, Kirk Hammet DOES NOT use a .10/.52 string gauge on his guitars. Let me explain why. All guitarists (including me) know that Kirk has his guitars equipped with an OFR (Original Floyd Rose) tremolo unit. On guitars with such an unit, .10/.52 string gauge would cause severe bad neck curving, and it is not possible not correctly set up the whole instrument (tremolo parallelism, intonation, neck curving), especially the tremolo : OFR and similar floating tremolos need springs, on the back on the guitar, to achieve a compromise betweend string tension and spring tension so that the tremolo unit's plate has to be parallel to the body of the guitar to have an instrument correctly set up.

A .10/.52 string gauge delivers too much tension : event with all springs installed (which are 5 max.), the tremolo unit would be angled, making dives impossible, and the string action far too high.

Reliable sources show that he's using a .9/.46 or .10/.46 string gauge rather than a .10/.52 (.9/.46 and .10/.46, on 25.5-inch scale guitars, gives the same playing feeling that 24.75-inch [gibson] scale guitars with .10/.52 string gauge).

Nevertheless, I agree that he can be using .10/.52 on shorter scale guitars (such as his Gibsons, since Gibsons are 24.75-inch scale guitars) to keep the same feeling from a guitar to another.

surely...

"...due to constantly palm muting and fast picking, the back of his hand takes sizable abuse" should be heel of his palm. Jim62sch^dissera! 13:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC) Does anybody know his father's name?KirkHammettRules (talk) 12:24, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]