Feb 1, 2025 · At last month's NAMM's "Ultimate Jam Night", Lloyd Grant, the guitarist who played on the original recording of the METALLICA song "Hit The Lights" in early 1982, reflected on how he hooked up...

Feb 4, 2025 · Born in Jamaica, Lloyd Grant is the guitarist who contributed to the initial recording of Metallica's debut single, Hit The Lights, in early 1982. However, he was not a recognized member of the ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Lloyd Grant revealed how he came to join Metallica. Metallica first made waves with their debut song, Hit the Lights, which was released in 1982 as a part of the Metal Massacre I compilation album. The band was formed roughly a year before, shortly after Danish drummer Lars Ulrich placed an ad in a newspaper, which introduced him to the band ...

Feb 4, 2025 · Latest News LLOYD GRANT: "I Don't Think METALLICA Wants To Say I Am An Original Member Because The Band Weren't Really Formed Then" Grant played on the original version of "Hit The Lights".

Feb 3, 2025 · One of the musicians who played a pivotal role in the band’s infancy was guitarist Lloyd Grant, who recorded a solo for an early version of Hit the Lights, the track that introduced Metallica to the world on Metal Blade’s 1982 Metal Massacre compilation album.

Guitarist Lloyd Grant looked back on his time working with Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield in the earliest days of Metallica, eventually ending up on what was the band's earliest recording.

Feb 4, 2025 · Lloyd Grant, an early guitarist for Metallica, feels overlooked as an original member. He jammed with Lars Ulrich and recorded an early demo of "Hit the Lights" but was not part of the band when it officially formed. Grant explained that he answered an ad from Ulrich before the band had a name.

Lloyd Grant is a Jamaican guitarist who played the second lead on the "Hit the Lights" demo, but technically, he was not an official member of Metallica. In his own words, Lloyd Grant talks about Metallica: The interviewer asks him how he "got hooked up …

Apr 7, 2022 · Lloyd Grant, the guitarist who played lead guitar on Metallica’s first-ever recording, said he’d have approached it differently if he’d known what it was going to achieve.

Sep 20, 2022 · We caught up with Lloyd to talk the early 80s when Metallica were little more than a glint in a determined Dane's eye and just how he ended up playing guitar on the original version of Hit The Lights which closed 1982’s Metal Massacre compilation album – the very first song Metallica recorded.