{"id":380979,"date":"2025-11-15T15:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:23:13","slug":"i-didnt-know-who-kirk-hammett-was-emg-founder-on-how-partnering-with-metallica-changed-the-world-of-pickups-and-why-james-hetfield-was-the-toughest-to-make-pickups-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/380979\/","title":{"rendered":"'I Didn't Know Who Kirk Hammett Was': EMG Founder On How Partnering With Metallica Changed The World Of Pickups, And Why James Hetfield Was 'The Toughest' To Make Pickups For – Ultimate Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. ‘I Didn’t Know Who Kirk Hammett Was’: EMG Founder On How Partnering With Metallica Changed The World Of Pickups, And Why James Hetfield Was ‘The Toughest’ To Make Pickups For<\/a>  Ultimate Guitar<\/li>\n
  2. \u201cWe built 19 different models. He more or less changed what we were doing\u201d: EMG founder on why this Metallica guitarist\u2019s pickup set was the most challenging he\u2019s ever made<\/a>  Guitar World<\/li>\n
  3. \u201cThe heavy metal thing was not my first intention\u201d: The creator of EMG pickups never meant for them to become the choice of metal guitarists<\/a>  Guitar.com<\/li>\n
  4. EMG Founder Says Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett Made His Company “Metal”<\/a>  MetalSucks<\/li>\n
  5. EMG Founder Credits METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT For Making The Pickup Company “Metal”<\/a>  Metal Injection<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I Didn’t Know Who Kirk Hammett Was’: EMG Founder On How Partnering With Metallica Changed The World Of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":380980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[182521,171,100346,182523,57322,981,29034,975,182522,983,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-380979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-emg","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-guitar","11":"tag-guitar-gear","12":"tag-james-hetfield","13":"tag-metal","14":"tag-metallica","15":"tag-music","16":"tag-pickups","17":"tag-rock","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115554406131709675","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}