Winger Member Trashes Metallica's Guitarist (Top Story)

12/18/2010
. Winger Member Trashes Metallica's Guitarist was a top story in April - June. Here it is again as we recap 2010: It's hump day; why not start with this comical report from Rock Radio? Here you go: Reb Beach of Winger and Whitesnake fame says Metallica's Kirk Hammett is the "worst guitarist I've ever heard in my my life."

Talking to Classic Rock Revisited, Beach piles into the man who founded early thrash metal technicians Exodus before replacing Dave Mustaine in Metallica in 1983, going on to write the riff for Enter Sandman.

"I don't know the guy, but I think he's one of the worst guitarists I've ever heard in my life. I've never heard a solo from that guy that was any good," Beach says. "The guy's out of tune. His vibrato sounds like a beginner. Back in the 80s he was always voted best guitar player, and I'm like, 'What? That guy is terrible!' -

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