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  • Terrible. Without Metallica Kirk Hammet would be just another 40-year old Guitar Center cashier. James Hetfield rox my sox tho

  • This is likely the song that defined Metallica's musical goals. It's not that Hammet couldn't do it like Uli. It's that Hammet cared enough to try. Metallica rules.

  • /watch?v=hBrxm5VITo8&feature=r­elated enjoy =D

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  • @gorgatch I wouldn't really call him a professional musician. I'M a professional musician, he's just a performer with some degree of skill but take him out of his genre and he's just another guitarist.

  • ...or better yet

    watch?v=3JXaz78hD6w&feature=re­lated

  • Epic fail...this is just part of the intro. And not very good either.

    watch?v=0jCd9vg3BDw

    The solo starts at 0:42.

    You're welcome.

  • i don't get what these toolbags are complaining about,kirk's interpretation didn't sound so bad.it's a jam,not a carbon copy of uli.

  • Not really accurate... and also that much gain simply does not fit this song.

  • @Medihvable I do think that much gain fits the song... Have you heard Testament's version? What I think does NOT fit the song is that guy with the red Flying V. He sucks big time!

  • ULI JON ROTH NEEDS TO PUT THIS CLOWN TO SCHOOL ON HOW TO PLAY.

  • @fullblownn

    Uli is one of Kirk's guitar heroes lol

  • i could play better with my fuckin ballsack

  • @skaterobban lol i like how the people who talk the most smack like they can actually play are the ones with no videos of them playing anything

  • he made mistakes in the intro c'mon.....en i saw played slowly i re

    but this solo if you want to lay really like uli,is fucking hard,its the only solo that wh.en i saw played slowly i realize it was harder than it looks played fst cause slow you see the micro bends,the .its plenty of litle not usual details.theres lots of guys playing this solo on youtube even myself played it...but i never saw anyone do it with this weird bends.see uli lesson of thissolo on youtube.hope it help

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  • fuck you kirk,never touch again Uli Jon Roth.You just CAN T.Just sit and play your own wah wah toy.

  • @tsaggarucci This video is total Disrespect to Uli... all i have to say.

  • This reminds me of Nigel Tufnel of Spinal Tap for some reason...

  • it's like he's grown tired of playing solos

  • JACK SPARROW!

  • cool but its too slowly its not like uli

  • Could any of you tell that KRK has hair plugs? Lol...

  • hahaha i bet you half of those people dont even know what song that is. because they were to busy looking at these SELLOUTS!! Fuck New Metallica! And Justice For All And Forward (Downhill)

  • so kak, Cliff Burton played better than that on bass...

  • Oh crap, this what passes for a solo nowadays ? =(

    too bad... Where is Uli when he's needed

  • 1:00 "Go fuck yourselves if u don't like my solo"

  • dat quality

  • 0:54 Wtf is doing jack sparrow there?

  • I like how Kirk listened to Scorpions and Uli and tried to recreate Sails of charon. Obviously Scorpions's version is way better, but this one's not bat either! I'm proud of Kirk for this :D. Long live Scorpions and Metallica!

  • He's kirk hammet, he can play whatever he wants, when you play your area tour you can play whatever you want.

  • K. That was the easiest guitar solo ive ever seen. CMON MAN

  • WOO I'm KIRK HAMMET!!!! SOLO TIME

    12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 I should probabally change stings.

    Fuck it

    12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16 12 13 16

  • @DuttonButton63 12-14-15...at least get the scale right

  • @bmbbmx It's clearly 12-13-16. Ha, have thou ears?

  • @Totofan09 on the e string its always 12-14-15- xD

  • @Totofan09 oo...i just see et now...touche ill sit down now xD

  • @bmbbmx LOL 

  • @DuttonButton63 AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH cheers man XD

  • @DuttonButton63 You had to rewind that video many times to figure it out, didn't you?

  • @DuttonButton63 Buy a guitar,try to play the master of puppets solo after the interlude,sold your guitar and suicide yourself !!

  • @OoMetallica33oO That solo isnt even hard. lets see you play tornado of souls hahah. you wouldnt learn it in a lifetime of practising.

  • @skaterobban I respect Mustaine don't worry. But It's not a reason to hate Kirk Hammet. I just can say than I love what he do When I hear his guitar riffs on fade to black,Welcome home (sanitarium),one and so many other songs. I don't know if his solos are impressive,but some riff he created are just beautiful and amazing.

  • @OoMetallica33oO I think its james who write all the riffs... hes the musician of the band afterall.

  • @skaterobban Yeah you are fucking right,James Hetfield is the best musician of the three. (kirk and dave).

    He maybe lost his voice but He was a fucking amazing singer, some of his lyrics are great,and it's the best acoustic guitarist of the world for me.

  • @OoMetallica33oO dave is not in metallica?

  • @DuttonButton63 fail and 21 other out of millions

  • the crowd seems to like it

    

  • SCORPIONS

  • Dude makes a Flying V look like a bass, what is he, 4'10"?

  • @forevertobeginning something like 5'7''

  • You know...I think I want to stop playing guitar now. Not because I'm envious, but I'm scared of sounding that SHIT when I'm that age!

  • congrats all you douche bags posting comments, you just made me hate you all just a little bit more.

  • Metallica should be renamed Fagtallica. Why didnt they just plane crashed in the late 90's? better die heroes than live like THIS.

  • @MKV1383 feeling sorry for u mate!

    u need a shrink. they are doing what they want to, they arent my favorite band but still i respect them for what they have done!

    just accept the fact that arent the most prized possession of metal anymore! PEACE \,,/

  • @shake18chd i know, ive accepted that long ago, still, some ranting for an old love lost. The lesson is always 'love art, not artists'.

  • :)

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  • For a good tribute to this song "Sails of Charon", check out Testament's and Yngwie Malmsteen's versions. They did the song proud.

  • Nigal Tufnel eat your heart out!

  • Michael didn't play on this song. It was Uli Jon Roth. 

  • CONGRATULATIONS KIRK HAMMETT YOU RUINED ONE OF THE MOST BEATIFUL SONGS EVER MADE.

  • Other than a flying v, I dont see how inspired by Michael Schenker Kirk is - nothing sounds like M.S.

  • he fucking sucks

  • i dont know whats so horrible?

  • @GuitarRazze the people that are commenting thats whats horrible.

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  • scorpions and metallica forever

  • Fucking horrible. And I say that with all love to Metallica. Stick to your own songs fellas.

  • Was that Captain Jack Sparrow playing guitar? LOL

  • uli the master

  • 104 likes. Fans win. Queers loose.

  • Consider that it was simply the respite and Hetfield has gone at this time to a toilet =)

  • I don't get where the hostility is coming from. He only did the opening riff to Sails of Charon (correctly btw), the soloing he did isn't supposed to be, from what I can tell, the solo to the song.

  • All and so know that is a song scorpions, he has simply paid a tribute has made small loss

  • Kirk the good fellow has simply decided to execute song which as well know in this country as well as to a metallica

  • haah it took him like 30 years to learn the intro rifff..but he still couldn't figure out the solo..!!

  • wtf is everyones problem it was very well played, just because it's easy dosen´t that sucked -.-

  • By....SCORPIONS !!!!!!!

  • apparently he took lessons from Joe Satriani... he must have been either a) drunk or b) asleep or c) both a and b, during his lessons.. because I don't know how else Steve Vai and Alex Skolnick (who also took lessons from Satch) turned out so well and Kirk turned out so shitty... and he hasn't gotten any better in almost 30 years... wtf?

  • @thecurse23 i dont think either a,b or c is correct...well he is in a thrash metal band.that u need to realize..a band that makes music which does not sound similar in every album with the same licks..no disrespect to steve vai.but guitar players like him are pretty boring..

  • @mulholland1985 And why you have solved that it solo he has simply decided to make lyrical digression, always wait for that that of the best and they too people well hasn't played and what now???

  • @Mr3214789 what the fuck are u trying to say??...u seem to have missed an important grammar lesson in skul...m done..dont reply..

  • Id like to see any of you dickless cuntholes play it better.

  • @1Sifting no he actually played it technically well enough, it just dosent sound very good. I get where your coming from though alot of the folks who comment on here about how trash Kirk is usually cant play at his caliber.

  • Must be a real ego trip to stand on stage, play some sub-par, generic, hackneyed bullshit - and have thousands of people roar in approval as you raise your fist in triumph.

    I would have been embarrassed to play that solo in public when I was 18, much less as a full grown man with decades of experience.

    Metallica may always stand as the epitome of selling out and turning to shit.

    Seriously - fuck these guys. Twenty years after the 'Black Album' and I'm still pissed.

    Fucking PATHETIC.

  • LOL, wow he really sucks. That was horrible.

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  • Simple and cool melody awfully played.

  • kirk what did you learn from satriani??

  • its not a solo its just a riff from the intro of the song

  • I liked Metallica for 20 some years until I saw this

  • As he fails miserably.

  • looser ... thank you for leaving exodus :) now stop covering the scorpions :)

  • haha that was shit.

  • he never will play a challenging solo will he...

  • don't disgrace uli like that

  • Make this a top comment if you think that kirk is the best musisian in metallica

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  • This is embarrassing :/. I would hate having to humiliate myself like this every night

  • I love how he just progressed to playing his own improve rather then Roth's solo

  • uli jon roth was the god of rock but kirk sucked

  • getting a big for yer own boots there Kirk! didn't think he'd make it past the intro

  • que capo aguante scorpions!

  • kirk sux

  • 1:26 he shows us all the middlefinger! :D

  • i thought I saw Uli cringing in the audience

  • Oh great piece of Uli, I'd love to hear the entire song!!

  • I switched from the Uli jon Roth lesson for this songs to this video, that was like day and night ...

  • @DerelictEarth me too! :)

  • great shit

    

  • I wonder how many motherfuckers thought "OH FTW COOL NEW SONG BY 'TALLICA" without knowing this was written by Scorpions and Uli Jon Roth.

  • @Luskan000  ..I think alot..

  • @Luskan000 No shit, right.

  • @Luskan000 Er, how many people know Kirk is playing the riff the wrong way?

  • @Luskan000 - you could say the same thing about Nightwish "Over the hills" or many other bands.

  • haha...it\s sails of metallica)

    and i\m sure that no one even do know thit song

  • @UkrVadja ya keyboards fucked bro

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  • Look at these ratings. Most people who listen to metallica call themselves fans when thier really posers.

  • when this guy got rich he lost his tone...nuff said

  • this sounds like a kid tryin out a guitar at guitar center.

  • Hmmmmmmm Nigel tufnel anyone????

    

  • whats with kirks tone ?!?!?

  • What was that?! Lmao

  • looks like kirk went a little heavy on the eyeliner

  • this is pretty sucky.

  • this is shit.Only Uli can play this song.

  • fuck the haters

  • give this guy his wah pedal back!

  • :O fucking great quality

  • What a waist!!! Big deal he played the easy part,,,and to top it off he played some cheesy scale to close it....ASS

  • @MrLongisland70 fuck you little Metallica hater, I think you're a Justin Bieber lover sissy boy

  • @Msan666 Im not a Metallica hater,In fact i Love Metallica Since i first saw them live at the L'Amours in Brooklyn back in the early 80's Probably way before you where even born..But come now,If you knew what kirk was trying to play you would say the same thing...And although Im NOT a fan of Justin Bieber music,He is rather a good musician for his age,Check out his Percussion talent on Youtube...And your sissy boy comment,LMFAO!!Good one,I'm surprised you didn't call me a Cocky Poo Poo head.

  • 1:27 "fuck you haters"

  • I thought this was gonna be the solo, this is just the intro.

  • NOT GOOD... Fail!

  • @JonMan7794 No problem! Just in need of a Colosseum full of fans now!!! :)

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  • kirk sucks

    

  • kirk hammet is a pussy.

  • AWESOME!!!!

  • Fucking atrocious. There's a seven year kid on youube who plays Sails of Charon better than this.

  • Uli Uli Uli...

  • hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Kirk's playing solo of shit song

  • Poor. As. Fuck.

  • worst version i ever heard

  • 1:25 Kirk is like... If you wanna see how im playing next time buy better tickets or fuck off lol.

  • sweet eyeliner...

    

  • whats the name of the song,riff, solo ^^

  • @MrSrbija97 sails of charon , scorpion

    grtzzz :)

  • @meshell57 thx

  • This sucked....

  • At 1:09 I was just waiting for him to vomit, or atleast sneeze.

  • haha kirk is flippin off the crowd

  • He played it wrong at 0:36 - Mustaine and Reb Beach are right.

  • That's not the solo - that's the intro.

  • mha

  • somehow it became popular to bash Kirk (and Lars too). Have you forgotten master of puppets, for example? Back in the 80's Metallica was the game changer, opposite to mainstream, no music videos. Remember how different metallica was compared to all the 80s shit? 

  • even still, metallica is great for catchy melodies and an image, but the hard work doesn't show. the riffs are very similar to each other, and Lars is a C grade drummer by metal standards. Why has Lars never done anything new?

  • kirk just stepped up in my book

  • I would have been so nervous if that was me,thats alot of people!

  • Very nice!

  • Dont play Uli Kirk

  • come on all you clever boys!who are you to judge kirk hammet?have you ever reached his career?have you ever served the music you like so much like him?everybody likes to criticized but when comes to him, he's nothing to say.everybody knows that uli is better guitarist than kirk, but that doesn't means that kirk is not awesome, try to play or create some solos with YOUR signature like him at unforgiven 1 and then you speak .-

  • Uli is the God of guitar, no one has or will play like he does. Pure awesomeness.

  • Is he trying to copy the Spinal Tap guitar solo?

  • Lol. He should play something easier. Like Metallica.

  • @korbendallas66

    or like you. LOL ¬¬