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22 апр 2025

Would GARY HOLT Have Joined METALLICA If He Had Gotten The Call Instead Of KIRK HAMMETT? 'Probably Not', He Says

In a new interview with "The David Ellefson Show", co-hosted by former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, EXODUS guitarist Gary Holt reflected on how he first reacted when his former bandmate, original EXODUS guitarist Kirk Hammett, was asked to join METALLICA 42 years ago. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Yeah, it's a whole incestuous relationship, for sure. Kirk's in EXODUS, Kirk joins METALLICA. I'm friends with both, and there's a lot of sniping and stuff, and a lot of bad blood. But I stayed out of that. But, yeah, it kind of put me in the driver's seat [when it came to EXODUS]. I was starting to write a lot of riffs. When I joined [EXODUS], Kirk wrote everything. And at the time when he left, I was happy for him."

Asked by co-host Joshua Toomey if he would have joined METALLICA had he gotten the call instead of Kirk, Gary said: "Probably not. 'Cause at that time in my life, change was scary to me. I was always happy where I was comfortable. I would've probably said no. At the time, [before they recorded] 'Kill 'Em All'… If you joined, you were joining a great band, but you were joining a band that [was about to] put out an independent album and were playing clubs. You didn't know they were gonna be [what they eventually became]. If I had been asked and knew now in the future of what they'd become, I would've traveled back in time and kicked my own ass to take that job."

Asked if there was any thought of asking ex-METALLICA guitarist Dave Mustaine to join EXODUS after Kirk's exit from the latter group, Gary said: "No, no. It was, like, 'Congratulations, Kirk. I love you, bro. And thanks for getting me started on this journey and teaching me my first licks and chords. And now it's my band. Let's go.'"

Three years ago, Holt was asked by RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program "Wired In The Empire", how he first met Hammett. He said: "The first time I met Kirk was in my high school music room, Richmond High, and EXODUS came and played. [Original EXODUS drummer] Tom Hunting grew up, like, 50 yards from my house, across from a park, but he went to a different school — he went to De Anza High, where Kirk did. I knew Tom, I'd see him around, but I didn't know him that well. But I was really good friends with the other guitar player in EXODUS, Tim Agnello, who I did know. And they came in and played in the music room, and it was awesome. Even though Kirk sang [SCORPIONS'] 'Another Piece Of Meat', and it was just really awful, as you can imagine — Kirk Hammett trying to sing Klaus Meine at his greatest; it was bad. But there was something about… Even though I'd been to many concerts, being in a room and hearing an electric guitar that up close and personal, it was kind of like a special moment for me, 'cause I'd never experienced it. I'd only seen guys onstage; I'd never stood five feet away. And it was killer. I totally [knew] that's what I wanted to do. And then we went to see Ted Nugent and the SCORPONS together, and we became best of friends from that first time we hung out. And then he said, 'You wanna learn to play guitar?' And I said, 'Yeah.' And he taught me the basics and some chords. I think the first thing he ever taught me was some ROLLING STONES song and a couple of licks and all that, and six months later I was in the band."

Asked if he had a favorite METALLICA song, Gary said: "I'd have to go… I've got a lot of favorites — that's one of those tough questions — but one that's always near and dear to my heart is 'Damage, Inc.'"

Three months earlier, Holt was asked during an appearance on "Put Up Your Dukes", the podcast hosted by EXODUS singer Rob Dukes, if Hammett was involved in the songwriting for any of the material that ended up on EXODUS's classic debut album, 1985's "Bonded By Blood". "There were riffs that I had written while Kirk was still in the band, and he tried to adapt them, tried to change 'em a little bit — the old, 'I changed it a little bit. I'm a co-writer on this riff,'" Holt recalled. "And that was, like, two riffs, I think. And the rest of 'em were written after he left. We never used a Kirk Hammett riff, ever, until [2004's] 'Tempo Of The Damned' [album] when we recorded [the early EXODUS song] 'Impaler'."

Explaining that "the first two [EXODUS] songs finished post-Kirk Hammett were 'Strike Of The Beast' and 'No Love'," Holt continued: "The biggest talent I have, if you wanna call it a talent, is my fucking memory. I can remember fucking everything. I remember showing him… I can picture it as a film, showing Kirk the riff to 'Strike Of The Beast', and I can picture it as if I'm watching it on a film — in the jam room, me in my spot where I played him [the riff] and him wanting to change the higher note to a lower note; I remember it all as if I'm watching a movie of it. I remember all of it — every last minute of it. I remember details from fucking most meaningless shit."

The original lineup of EXODUS consisted of guitarists Hammett and Agnello, Hunting and vocalist Keith Stewart. Holt joined the band in 1981, while Kirk left two years before "Bonded By Blood" saw the light of day.

Although EXODUS rarely gets mentioned alongside the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — METALLICA, MEGADETH, SLAYER and ANTHRAX — "Bonded By Blood" inspired the likes of TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL, VIO-LENCE and many others to launch their careers and is considered one of the most influential thrash metal albums of all time.

Back in 2018, Kirk spoke about the fact that riffs from songs by EXODUS, "Die By His Hand" and "Impaler", found their way into "Creeping Death" and "Trapped Under Ice", from METALLICA's "Ride The Lightning" album. "What I think happened was when Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] and James [Hetfield, METALLICA frontman] were thinking about getting rid of Dave [Mustaine], our sound guy, Mark Whitaker — who was EXODUS' manager — gave them EXODUS' demos," Kirk said. "I think 'Die By His Hand' might have caught their ears. So when they were writing 'Creeping Death', they went, 'Great. 'Die By His Hand'. Put it right there.' It was definitely not me going, 'I have a riff here in this EXODUS song, and it needs to be here in this METALLICA song.' By the way, I wrote that 'Die By His Hand' riff when I was, like, 16 years old."

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22 апр 2025

gravitgroove

неправильно поставлен вопрос, нужно было спрашивать, если бы предложили сейчас, или между 1989 и 1992, когда были выпущены самые лучшие альбомы и прошел год после выпуска каждого с показателями продаж. Побежал бы как пенсионер к сберкассе в день выплат.

22 апр 2025

Petrovich Sexyy

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