Cliff Burton played a Rickenbacker 4001 bass before joining Metallica. He removed the original pickups from the instrument, replacing the neck pickup with a Gibson "Mudbucker" and the bridge with a Seymour Duncan Classic Stack Jazz Bass pickup, among other modifications.

Jun 12, 2020 · For a band as longstanding and storied as Metallica, they have not been without ups and downs. No event had such a dramatic impact on Metallica's history, though, as the death of the bassist Cliff Burton.

On the night of September 27, 1986, a tragic accident took the life of much-loved Metallica bassist Cliff Burton

Sep 20, 2022 · Amid billowing dry ice can be seen the incongruous figure of 19-year-old Cliff Burton, unself-consciously headbanging, his playing full of impressively odd jazz timings and psychedelic overtones. When he decided to quit college to pursue music full-time, his parents were concerned.

Sep 27, 2023 · Burton died on September 27, 1986. The band was on a tour bus in Sweden when the driver lost control, flew down an embankment, and caused Burton to fly out the window.

Sep 27, 2021 · James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich first laid eyes on Cliff Burton in November 1982 at the Whisky A Go Go club on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where the bassist was playing with his band Trauma...

Sep 27, 2020 · The ill-fated but immortal bassist Cliff Burton was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside his fellow Metallica team on April 4, 2009. Two years later, in 2011, an online poll organized by Rolling Stone magazine positioned him as the ninth-best bassist of all time .

September 27 remains a painful day etched in the hearts of many, marking the tragic loss of the late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton in 1986. Thirty-seven years later, Metallica honors his enduring legacy by including songs like “Orion” in their live performances as a …

Sep 9, 2024 · Metallica bassist Cliff Burton is regarded as one of the greatest thrash metal bass players of all-time, and September marks the anniversary of his tragic death. Burton served as Metallica’s bassist from 1982 until 1986. He played bass and did back vocals on three albums: Kill ‘Em All, Ride the Lightning, and Master of Puppets.

Sep 12, 2022 · How Cliff Burton shaped Metallica's expansive thrash assault – and changed the sound of metal bass guitar forever