{"id":805043,"date":"2020-03-09T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T20:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=964581"},"modified":"2020-03-09T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T20:40:14","slug":"see-kirk-hammetts-wah-off-with-beehived-guitarist-mrs-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/see-kirk-hammetts-wah-off-with-beehived-guitarist-mrs-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"See Kirk Hammett\u2019s \u2018Wah Off\u2019 With Beehived Guitarist Mrs. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett<\/a>\u2019s love of the wah-wah pedal is legendary. So it was no act of bravery for him to agree to a wah-wah duel with challenger Mrs. Smith, the beehived comic actress\/guitar slinger who called him out<\/a> on Instagram in January 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m the number-one wah-wah abuser,\u201d Smith said at the time. \u201cI abuse the wah more than Kirk Hammett and I\u2019ve challenged him multiple times to a wah-off. Why are you hiding behind your wah-wah pedal, Kirk Hammett?\u201d<\/p>\n

The Metallica guitarist replied, \u201cchallenge accepted\u201d shortly thereafter, but the competition didn\u2019t go down until Sunday night when the guitarists met onstage in Columbia, South Carolina.<\/p>\n

For decades, the guitar stomp box, which makes the instrument sound like its literally going \u201cwah wah wah,\u201d has been Hammett\u2019s not-so-secret weapon, the defining sound of some of his most defining solos.<\/p>\n

He also has a sense of humor about it: \u201cI am a totally dedicated wah-wah freak, and I think I\u2019ll die with one underneath my foot,\u201d he once told Guitar World<\/a><\/em>. \u201cI\u2019ll have one thrown in my coffin, and I\u2019ll have a wah-wah shaped coffin that will say [wah-wah brand] Crybaby on the side of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The musician has long made \u201cwah domination\u201d his quest. The first time he heard the guitar pedal used was on the Thin Lizzy song \u201cWarriors,\u201d and he\u2019s been enamored of it ever since. \u201cI remember that when that sound came out of the speakers, it startled me,\u201d he told Guitar Player<\/a><\/em>. \u201cThe one guy that I\u2019ve always thought did not get enough credit was [Thin Lizzy guitarist] Brian Robertson, and his style and feel is something that I aspire to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mrs. Smith, on the other hand, is the alter ego of actor and musician David Hanbury. He described the character, which he developed about a decade ago, in a Rolling Stone <\/em>interview<\/a> as \u201ca traumatized person.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was something I based the character in early on \u2014 she\u2019s in all these 18-step programs, and has all these therapists and has a staff of people to take care of her because she\u2019s very wealthy,\u201d he explained. In the interview, he joked that Mrs. Smith\u2019s ambition is \u201cworld domination.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the show, which also featured a performance by Hammett and Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo\u2019s covers group the Wedding Band, the Metallica guitarist showed off a giant Crybaby platform (which supported both him and a regular-sized Crybaby) and faced off against Mrs. Smith in a white suit as the band played Isaac Hayes\u2019 \u201cTheme From Shaft.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n

Mrs. Smith, looking her schoolmarm best, kicked things off, dancing on her pedals, and cowering as Hammett played wah licks on his pedestal. \u201cHe\u2019s more metal than I ever could have imagined,\u201d she told the crowd. \u201cThis will be harder than I thought.\u201d Nevertheless, she tried her best as they traded licks.<\/p>\n

But it all ended with a late-round forfeit, when Hammett realized Mrs. Smith had come to the fight with more firepower. At one point, she told the crowd she was playing four wah-wah pedals at once, which put a shocked look on Hammett\u2019s face. \u201cI can\u2019t compete with four wah-wah pedals at once,\u201d Hammett said. \u201cI forfeit.\u201d He put his guitar down, and bowed down to her as she was presented with a golden wah-wah pedal. She held the trophy up triumphantly.<\/p>\n

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Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett\u2019s love of the wah-wah pedal is legendary. So it was no act of bravery for him to agree to a wah-wah duel with challenger Mrs. Smith, the beehived comic actress\/guitar slinger who called him out on Instagram in January 2019. \u201cI\u2019m the number-one wah-wah abuser,\u201d Smith said at the time. \u201cI […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-19 16:20:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}