#513:Kirk Hammett/Metallica
Dean Delray's LET THERE BE TALK
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Ride the Lightning
"The songs just kind of just happened, bro. We just started playing and they just fucking happened," he says. "I remember walking into the room and there's Cliff playing over and over again the intro to the For Whom the Bell tolls." The first song on Ride the Lightning was a slow bouncy thing that got faster and faster until it went back to its original form. 'We need to like write one more fast song,' singer recalls saying after writing fades of black in New Jersey basement.
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