Originally Posted by: Pantallica1Dude, 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.

To be honest, the main reason I started the thread is because I think Hammett is so overated, and when people put up posts praising him, I try to shed light on why he wasn't that great by comparing him to someone that was.