Tur boyunca çaldığı için palm muted yaparken teller elinde yara yapıyormuş ve kanıyormuş bu yaraları kanatmadan tutabilmeyi bu şekilde çözdüğünü söylüyor. Ayrıca arada bariyer gibi işlevi var bu yüzden çalım hızını arttırdığını 'iddia' ediyor. Bence, yalan
Ayrıca siz de konserde, elinizi benim gibi bantlarsanız belki sahne arkası şirinleri bile görebilirsiniz diye şuraya da ufak bir espiri çizelim demiş.
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Moving Pieces: Kirk Hammett: Why the taped hand? geçmişte de forumda soran vardı yanlış hatırlamıyorsam, link patlarsa yazı olarak şu kalsın:
[Question] There have been many theories spread on the Internet about why you tape your hands. So once and for all, why do you do it? --Jerry Glass
If you look at the side of your hand, right below your pinkie, you'll see there are some wrinkle lines. At least there are on my hand... [laughs] Because of my playing style, I'm constantly hitting the strings and palm muting and, generally, beating up my right hand. Over the course of a tour, those wrinkles start busting open and bleeding. I put tape over the wrinkles so they don't break open and bleed all over my guitar, 'cause if a string gets in there once your hand is cut --wow!--that stings! Plus, it lets me play faster since it reduces drag between my hand and the strings.
Once, when we were on tour, I looked out into the audience and saw a kid with both his hands taped up like mine. I was cracking up so much I had to give him a backstage pass. --Kirk Hammett, Guitar World, January 2006, 112.