{"id":134872,"date":"2025-11-15T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/134872\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T14:41:08","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.newsbeep.com\/il\/134872\/","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":"

‘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\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\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.comEMG Founder Says Metallica Guitarist Kirk Hammett Made His Company “Metal”<\/a>  MetalSucksEMG Founder Credits METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT For Making The Pickup Company “Metal”<\/a>  Metal Injection<\/p>\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":2,"featured_media":134873,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[84080,146,84082,84083,85,46,39012,6158,17827,409,84081,1548],"class_list":{"0":"post-134872","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-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-james-hetfield","15":"tag-metal","16":"tag-metallica","17":"tag-music","18":"tag-pickups","19":"tag-rock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}