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GENERAL STATS

In Brief: Clifford Lee Burton
Born: February 10, 1962
Death: September 27, 1986
From: San Francisco, CA
Plays: Bass
Other Bands: Easy Street, Agents Of Misfortune, Trauma
Vitals: Green eyes, red hair

BIOGRAPHY

Clifford Lee Burton was born on February 10, 1962 in San Francisco, CA. His parents were two San Francisco hippies, Jan and Ray Burton. It was from them that Cliff got his image, his hippie ideals, but most of all, his attitude. He liked to chill and hang out. He was really laid back, relaxed and happy. Cliff liked his beer, his pot, etc. Cliff had his own style. He drove ...

SOME FACTS

Almost Fourteen years ago the heavy Metal world endured the loss of a truly gifted musician. On September 27th 1986, as many Metallica fans know, Cliff Burton was killed in a tour bus accident. He was 24. The band was enroute to Denmark for their next gig. It is true he was Metallica's bass player for almost 4 years, but little else is known about him. His personal life has remained somewhat of ...

A RARE INTERVIEW WITH CLIFF

The heavy metal world was shaken by the tragic loss of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton when their tour bus skidded on "black ice" while the band was on tour in Scandinavia, and Cliff was thrown out the window and the bus landed on him . He had been an important element in Metallica's success by ...

INTERVIEW: CLIFF'S PARENTS TALK ABOUT THEIR SON

Q: What was Cliff like as a kid?
JAN: He was a great kid, he was never a problem; he was really very quiet. He just led a really normal life except for one thing--he was always his own person, even when he was a little bitty kid. I used to say, "All the kids are playing outside, why aren't you out there playing with them?" And he said, "They're not playing, they're just sitting around talking. That's boring." Then he'd go in the house and read his books or put on his own music. Even when he was a tiny little kid he would listen to ...

QUOTES

Kirk, 1988
“To this day, I think about him every day.”

James
“We heard this wild solo going on and thought, ‘I don’t see any guitar player up there.’ It turned out it was the bass player, Cliff, with a wah wah pedal and this mop of hair. He didn’t care whether people were there. He was looking down at his bass playing.”

WHAT HAPPENED THAT TERRIBLE DAY?

Fresh from their triumphant UK tour, Metallica had headed once more for Scandinavia where they'd played three shows at the Olympen in Lund (September 24, 1986), the Skedsmohallen (September 25, 1986) in Oslo and at the Sonahallen in Stockholm (September 26, 1986). It was approaching dawn on Saturday, the 27th of September 1986, and Metallica's two tour buses were on their way to do a fourth show in Copenhagen. The were traveling along a god forsaken road between the Scandinavian cities of Stockholm and Copenhagen. Apart from these vehicles, the route was deserted, there was no one else traveling at that ...

CLIFF'S MEMORIAL GUESTBOOK

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