10 Mistakes That Made It Onto Famous Rock Songs
7. Dammit, Hammett! - Metallica's Seek & Destroy
The phrase "guitar god" gets bandied around a lot, but one man who is truly worthy of that title is Metallica's head of shred, Kirk Hammett.
Originally brought in to replace Dave Mustaine right at the start of the group's recording career, Hammett quickly established himself as one of the best players in the game, creating almost all of Metallica's legendary riffs and solos.
But even gods are fallible sometimes.
The penultimate song on Metallica's very first studio album, Kill 'Em All, is called Seek & Destroy, and it is a banger-and-a-half. What begins as a fairly regimented song devolves into all-out chaos about halfway through, led into the madness by an epic Hammett solo.
During said solo, around the 3:47 mark, Hammett plays a note that sounds a little off compared to the rest of the sequence. Was he experimenting with some new scale that us mere mortals wouldn't understand?
Nope.
In the man's own words, this was him playing a "bum note". Hammett has apologised for this error time and time again, but when you've played as many perfect notes as the H-man has over the years, you're allowed one wrong one.