“Lars and I saw him at the Whiskey. ‘Let’s get that guitar player… oh, he’s playing bass!’”: James Hetfield on Cliff Burton

James Hetfield will always remember the first time he saw Cliff Burton on stage. It was in 1982, and Burton was bassist for ...
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How James Hetfield Still Channels the Spirit of Cliff Burton

Though bassist Cliff Burton died in 1986, Metallica frontman James Hetfield reveals that the late bassist still impacts the band creatively to this day. As part of the recent Metallica Podcast, a ...
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“It’s about how grateful we were to have our time with Cliff”: Watch the only time Metallica have ever played emotional instrumental To Live Is To Die live

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metallica performing live in 2011. Singer/guitarist James Hetfield has called Justice’s penultimate song an “homage to Cliff ...
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How Metallica’s James Hetfield Still “Channels” The Spirit of Late Bandmate Cliff Burton

Metallica is still making new music more than 40 years after releasing their scorching debut Kill ‘Em All. And during the songwriting process, co-founder James Hetfield always asks the same question: ...
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Before Robert Trujillo and Jason Newsted, Cliff Burton set the musical bar for Metallica and established an indelible legacy

The metal world of the early '80s had not yet encountered a bass player with such formidable and dynamic musical abilities as the late Cliff Burton. At the time, only Iron Maiden's Steve Harris had ...
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Metallica Launch Digital Cliff Burton Exhibit in Online Museum

Metallica officially launched a highly-anticipated digital Cliff Burton exhibit in their Metallica Black Box online museum. Titled "Orion: A Tribute to Cliff Burton," the first part of the exhibit ...