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I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. Today I have a really fun and revelatory

interview with Kirk Hammett, who is, of course,

the legendary lead guitarist of Metallica. He has a new book out called The Collection,

Kirk Hammett, with a ton of gorgeous photos of his mind-boggling collection of vintage

guitarists and some backstory on them, including Greenie, which is a priceless 1959 Les Paul Standard that was

owned by original Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green.

We talk a little bit about guitars in the book and then go deep about Metallica and his

career and a whole lot more.

Here's my conversation with Kirk Hammond. Thank you so much for taking time to do this. Kirkham.

Thank you so much for taking time to do this.

No, thank you.

What a beautiful book.

You reminded me how much I like looking at pictures of guitars.

Me too.

I've always been a collector.

I've been collecting things ever since I was like five or six years old, starting with comic books and monster magazines. And so I developed a strategy for collecting early, early, early in life when I was still a kid. And that was to always go after the most rarest, most unique, hard, difficult to obtain things.

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