In an admission that goes some way to explaining the seven-year gap since the last Metallica album, Kirk Hammett has revealed he lost around 250 song ideas – on his phone. Reporting on Hammett’s appearance on Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta’s podcast The Jasta Show, Blabbermouth picked out the following passage:
“I put riffs on my iPhone, but something very unfortunate happened to me about six months ago. I lost my iPhone [containing] two hundred and fifty musical ideas. And I was crushed. It didn’t get backed up. And when it happened, I was bummed out for about two or three days. I walked into the house. My wife saw me and she said, ‘Uh-oh, what’s wrong? Did you get a phone call from a relative?’ I said, ‘No.’ She said, ‘What’s going on?’ I told her, and she understood.
“I lost [the phone]. I just plain lost it. I can’t find it. I’m still looking for it to this day. I just set it somewhere and… It still might turn up. I’m hoping it will. To try to remember those riffs…? I can only remember, like, eight of ’em. So I just chalked it down to maybe it just wasn’t meant to be and I’ll just move forward with it”
You can listen to the entire podcast below, if you really want to.
