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.

2020年6月12日 · 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.

2022年9月20日 · 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.

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

2021年9月27日 · 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...

2019年4月7日 · Clifford Lee Burton or simply Cliff Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist for Metallica from December 1982 until his death in September 1986.

2020年9月27日 · 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 .

Clifford Lee Burton (February 10, 1962 – September 27, 1986) was an American musician. He is best known for playing the bass guitar in the thrash metal band Metallica from 1982 until his death in 1986.

2024年1月6日 · Biography of legendary heavy metal bassist Cliff Burton, his instruments, impact on rock music and tragic death of iconic musician in a road accident.

I read someone's opinion that Cliff Burton (rest in peace) is no where as good as people make him out to be, and that he is drastically overrated.