The setting is Lollapalooza 2015 on a comfortable hot summer day in Grant Park. Shaded by the Chicago skyscrapers, radio personality Tim Virgin from 97.9 the Loop sat down with Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett for an exclusive Chicago radio interview. Among many topics covered, like what happened to all the song ideas on your lost iPhone, or keeping up the inspiration after all these years, we learned that if Metallica ever decides to hang up their metal shoes, Hammett has a bright future jamming; and by jamming, we mean making jam.
When Virgin asked Hammett to tell us something about himself that Metallica fan’s would be shocked to know, Kirk didn’t hesitate in telling Tim that he cans his own fruit and makes jam with his fruit trees at his home in California. “I can peaches, I can figs, I can cherries, I’ve made apple jelly, pomegranate jelly, I give them away to people for Christmas.” His secret weapon recipe is ginger-peach.
Receiving a homemade jar of jelly from Kirk Hammett for Christmas? Now THAT’S metal.
Stay tuned, another portion of the interview will be released soon.