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I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Kirk Hammett

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Kirk Hammett
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 18
Guitarist
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San Francisco County
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Kirk Lee Hammett
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