James Hetfield's B-bender riff 'The Unforgiven II' (Metallica)

I used to bend my strings to sound accurate for the clean guitar parts🤦🏻‍♂️ had no clue about the B-bender guitar setup. To my knowledge, James is the first one to use B-bender in Metal (correct me if I'm wrong) love this riff ✌🏻

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[patrickpilkington]

James is a Simple kind of man, he's something you'll love and understand.

[Александр-фрг]

How can he sing and play this at the same time? It's insane!

[superdude]

I fucking love the 3 unforgivens so much, and thus riff is so close to my heart, gives me goosebumps. I love James for writing this amazing music and for being such a sensitive, creative beautiful artist

[marshallrogers]

James looks like a natural fit w/The Telecaster!!

[theriffguy]

Such an under rated guitarist, but then he sings too! Mans a Metal War Lord

[easternag]

James with a Telecaster feels like a crime

[justinmiller]

One of my favorite riffs of all time man… wow 🤩

[zachlewis]

Only song I know with a b bender, and man I love that riff.

[groovewizard]

I love the country twang on those bands

[MetaITurtle]

I don't know about you guys but James's clean tone got better and better over the years. My favorite used to be from Justice but I fell in love with the Death Magnetic clean tone

[T_Customs]

Bro nobody talkin abt how clean that transition was

[electricsuitbatman]

Wish they had the balls to continue doing more country bluesy stuff like that

[DeanOMiite]

It looks so weird to see James with a tele but that bend is SO smooth

[trembling]

Sounds like it could've been an old school country song with the clean sound

[peteg]

I didn't know what a B-bender was until I seen Jack White explain it. Now I hear it in so many songs.

[thesausage]

Damn. First time I’ve seen Papa Het play a Telesp

[ArdaJaa]

The best guitar bent ever. not up for discussion. No doubt

[Trancision]

One of the best there ever will be 🫡🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

[AlexBloodline]

He has a special guitar. At the moment of lifting, you can see him pulling the guitar belt.

[zuckleyplays]

And now you have a third one from 2 nights ago :)

I know James didn’t use it but Avi did I think it’d be a cool comparison to do when the video comes out on the 19th!