Hetfield Jamming

James Hetfield at Guitar Center in San Francisco, but the music that he makes during this interview is what kept all the fans coming to see the video over and over so i uploaded the musical part first and then put together 2 similar riffs to end this edited version of the vid.

[ryanspencerlauderdale]

Imagine walking into a guitar store about 1981. You see some blonde long-haired quiet kid. He’s just playing away with some clean guitar that looks like it’s from the future. You think nothing of it, and go about your business. Then, about 10 or 11 years later, you see him again, this time on TV with three other guys that he’s in a band with. They just came back from playing a concert in Moscow that over 1.6 million people went to. They’ve also got an album coming out that will stand as one of the best-selling metal albums of all time. Talk about a memory you’ll never forget.

[michaelschafer]

I love Jame's riffing.... it's so serene and hard hitting I love it

[poophead]

There need to be an album that is just james playing guitar

[AliceInPantera]

1:30 is fucking beautiful. Hetfield is as much a riff machine as someone like Iommi. Not only does he have endless ideas, his diversity is unmatched

[Papabillias]

I'm so obsessed over that clean riff I can't stop playing it

[metalmaniac]

Just imagine some of the Hetfield riffs we've never heard before...

[jimmycheng]

This dude plays Metallica songs quite well.

[ruiplas]

Ya can never get bored with a great riff player, but 15 seconds shredding is already enough.

[hassanahchmi]

2:53 total relaxation.. i just love it when james riffs

[corkskrewsounds]

God, that clean riff at 2:53 sounds amazing. Hope James will see this and will use it for a ballad on the next album, or maybe a solo album

[loganpriest]

Love how James still smiles when he plays 'battery'. Beast of a track and it is satisfying to play, being the writer of it as well probably feels even more badass

[bobcaca]

Iommi, Mustaine, and Hetfield are the riff gods forsure

[yayisisi]

I decided to follow my dream to play guitar and I’m 38 years old...James is my motivation...maybe I’m fucking old for that but nothing is going to stop me now...

[gabeh]

He looks like a professional musician, some Band should hire him

[libofsharaku]

Oh dear Lord that playful riff needs to be in a song, that can't be a throwaway riff, what an embodiment of the hetfield sound, the clean one is simply mesmerising, this sound is the essence of metallica, this type of riff and i have seldom heard anything remotely like it since and justice for all

[clFer]

Imagine you enter in a store where someone is jamming like that.. You reach to see.. and it's James.

Man, the image made me emotional 😅 his music is a part of my life.

[JohnPaulHare]

1:28 is so breathtakingly beautiful. I would love to have an album of stuff like that from Papa Het, just to listen to on repeat when I need that sort of deeply emotional music.

[stevenadler]

0:22 till 0:41
Go on with it please, James! I can listen to it all day long! Simply glorious! What a video! Thanks for posting such awesome material.

[YouMustBurnnn]

I could seriously sit and watch James just jam and riff out all day long. dude is a riff master.

[mattstuart]

There’s no one better! That clean riff is just mesmerising!!!!