Working with Lou Reed helped Kirk Hammett trust his instincts as an artist.
Kirk Hammettguitarist of metallicarevealed what was the greatest learning he had when working with Lou Reed. In the book The Art of the Straight Line: My Tai Chi – posthumous work by reed which has testimonials from other personalities – the musician from the metal band highlighted the importance of working with the founder of The Velvet Underground.
“lou taught me to be in the moment and trust my instincts as an artist,” Hammett stated, as published by the Metal Injection (via Whiplash). “We weren’t used to working that way in the metallica.”
reed was a Chen Tai Chi practitioner since the 1980s. Hammett, as a practitioner of Yoga, identified with the energy of the musician, which extended to his art. This is present in Lulu (2011), collaborative album between metallica It is lou.
“lou taught me how to do this. In Lulu, I would say 90% of my guitar lines were done that way. In the past, I would have worked on something for three months before going into the studio. It changed my approach,” she explained.
kirk even recalled a peculiar story during the recordings: “lou he used to leave the studio in the middle of the period we were recording. I went out one day to get some air and meditate, and I found lou outside doing Tai Chi moves with a sword. he was not a Fred Astaire or something like that, but it was very graceful.”
Source: Rollingstone
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