Clifford Lee Burton (born February 10, 1962 in Castro Valley, Alameda County; † September 27, 1986 near Ljungby in Sweden) played on the albums "Kill 'Em All" (1983), "Ride The Lightning" (1984) and "Master of Puppets "(1986). According to a story is the title of the first album by Burton himself, after a meeting with top bosses, which was originally called "Metal up your ass!" Did not like, he just said "Kill all the fucking record distributors. ! Just kill em all, man "(translated:" Kill all the damn plate distributor ... just kill them all, man ").
Cliff Burton was the first bass player, their experimental bass playing with distortion and wah-wah effects designed and is considered by many to be one of the most talented rock bassists of the 1980s.
The band now says Burton is the most musical member of the band was. His influences, which were classically oriented, inter alia, are clearly heard on the first three albums, he also worked with the songwriting.
examples of his distinctive style:
the 4-minute bass solo Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) from the debut album Kill 'Em All
the chromatic intro of For Whom The Bell Tolls (Ride the Lightning), which often
mistaken for a guitar riff is
the bass voice of the instrumental piece The Call of Ktulu (Ride the Lightning)
the bass part of the instrumental Orion (Master of Puppets), which contains one to be typical of Burton applicable interlude
conscious use of various distortion pedals, wah-wah pedals or other effects devices
solos that were written exclusively for live performances
The play To Live Is To Die (... And Justice for All), which has been published after his death, but contains many of Burton written riffs. The text consists solely of a poem Burton:
"When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths Which miscall men their lives. (Translated:. If a man lies, he murders a part of the world These are the pale deaths which men falsely call when her life.)
All this I can not bear to witness any longer. Can not the kingdom of salvation take me home? (Translated:.? I can no longer bear it all to look can not bring the Kingdom of Salvation me home) "
With the album" Master of Puppets "made Metallica the final breakthrough that provides them with the place as the opening act brought to Ozzy Osbourne's tour in the spring of 1986. In the summer / autumn of this year, the band went on tour in Europe.
On the way from a concert in Stockholm to Copenhagen, the Metallica tour bus ran into the early morning hours of 27 September 1986 out of control and crashed onto the page. Drummer Lars Ulrich broke a toe and tour manager Bobby Schneider is dislocated from the shoulder. At the time of the accident sleeping Cliff Burton was thrown through a bus window and was buried under the vehicle overturning.
said the driver of the coach at the scene that the bus had come through the ice on the road into a skid. Bandleader James Hetfield went back a short distance, but could find no ice. Hetfield said, among other things, the breath of the driver would have smelled of alcohol. The driver came to court, but was acquitted.
Cliff Burton died at the age of 24 years. In the California rock scene of his death was received with great dismay. The band Anthrax and the producers of the album "Kill 'Em All," John and Marsha Zazula, off double-sided death notices in the newspaper rock Kerrang!. Other magazines and musicians paid tribute to the late bassist. The head and former Megadeth guitarist Dave Mustaine Metallica Burton dedicated the track "In My Darkest Hour". In addition, it the Anthrax album Among The Living is dedicated.
Burton's body was cremated and his ashes at his favorite place, the Maxwell Ranch spread. When the ceremony was played mostly by Burton written instrumental "Orion" from the album "Master of Puppets".
collected after the death of her bass player of the rest of the band video recordings of her concerts, which they were made by fans from around the world. There were also television broadcasts and private recordings from the three and a half years with Cliff Burton on bass for Metallica. Since Metallica allowed at that time the fans still photographs and recordings of their concerts, so could a lot of material is collected, from which the 90-minute video compilation "Cliff 'em All!" arose. It was the first video that Metallica released.
was posthumously on the Metallica album ... And Justice for All, the instrumental "To Live is to Die" was published, which consists of song and poem fragments from Burton.
New Metallica bassist Cliff Burton's death was by Jason Newsted.
/ Lyrics "Nothing else matters":
So close, no matter how far Could not be much
more from the heart Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters Never opened myself
this way Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I do not just say and
nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
So close, no matter how far
Couldn't be much more from the heart
Forever trusting who we are
and nothing else matters
never cared for what they do
never cared for what they know
but I know
Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us, something new
Open mind for a different view and nothing else matters
never cared for what they say never cared for games
they play never cared for what they do never cared for what they
know and I know
So close, no
matter how far Could not be much more from the heart Forever trusting who we are
No, nothing else matters
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