Originally Posted by: dakine80Just because you haven't heard anyone compare Dimebag to Hammet or vice-versa doesn't mean that anyone else has, and some of the posts in that thread do seem to think that Hammett was better. So I guess it is up for debate.

I don't know where you got the idea that Hammett didn't write his own solos.
I'll admit that once Metallica started using Bob Rock(or whatever the hell his name is) as a producer, his solos were kind of re-written for him. but that wasn't until the Black album.

Dude, some people percieve Hammett as better because music is SUBJECTIVE. We all have our own tastes. That's why no two players can be compared. Everybody likes somebody for some reason or another. That doesn't mean one is better than the other. It just means that they like them better. See my point?

And it's a wide known fact that Hettfield wrote almost all of the solos for Kirk.