protest
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Promoting a new product with a song called The Thing That Should Not Be...
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... is Kirk allowed to sign contracts without Lars and James' consent form?
He's gonns leave Metallica and form a guitar company called Echobrain Guitars
Only if it means more banana stickers.And a new band called Kirksom & Jaysom. Does this mean that everyone is going back to anger management therapy again?
Gibson already did a Kirk Hammett V in the past, and Kirk never dropped his ESP endorsement because of it.
https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HammettVAged--gibson-custom-kirk-hammett-flying-v-aged
Unless Kirk is *actually* dropping his ESP endorsement for this (high doubt), it's probably just another Kill 'Em All V reissue. ESP has been *extremely* lax with the Metallica guys using whatever they want, although Gibson pissed off Papa het enough for him to go back to being a (mostly) strictly ESP guy in 2009. Honestly I think the only Gibsons Hetfield plays now is his vintage late-'50s Gibsons.
To be fair, Metallica albums are more Gibson than ESP anyhow.
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Lets be honest here... James plays 90% of the album and Kirk comes in when they need a solo. Kirk's tone isn't 'desirable' by any stretch really. It works for him. But I don't know anyone that would volunteer to have his sound. That said...
Its an "Exclusive Partnership". That means Kirk gets a sig LP, and maybe another V. ESP doesn't give two shits, because his MII sigs are minting fresh currency for them every year. When you get to THAT level of notoriety, every company on the planet could make you a sig and no one is going to care because everyone wins. Especially Kirk.
That said, I'd buy an Eclipse every time over a Gibson. Lighter. Better made. No nitro. And better pickups.
With the companies being together now, I'm kinda surprised Mesa didn't poach him from... whatever's left of Randall. Like, are they even alive enough to contest it?
I guess it would collide with KEA-related marketing from Gibson, tho.
Lets be honest here... James plays 90% of the album and Kirk comes in when they need a solo. Kirk's tone isn't 'desirable' by any stretch really. It works for him. But I don't know anyone that would volunteer to have his sound. That said...
Its an "Exclusive Partnership". That means Kirk gets a sig LP, and maybe another V. ESP doesn't give two shits, because his MII sigs are minting fresh currency for them every year. When you get to THAT level of notoriety, every company on the planet could make you a sig and no one is going to care because everyone wins. Especially Kirk.
That said, I'd buy an Eclipse every time over a Gibson. Lighter. Better made. No nitro. And better pickups.