The bassist was not willing to move to Los Angeles, where METALLICA was based, so they decided to move to the San Francisco area so that he would join.īurton played on METALLICA's first three studio albums - "Kill 'Em All", "Ride The Lightning" and "Master Of Puppets" - and co-wrote classic songs like "Ride The Lightning", "For Whom The Bell Tolls", "Fade To Black", "Creeping Death" and "Master Of Puppets".īurton's initial replacement in the group was Jason Newsted, who stayed in the lineup until 2001. Cliff and his bandmates were in Sweden at the time, as part of the European leg of their "Damage, Inc." tour.Ĭliff was asked to join METALLICA in 1982 after the band saw him perform with his group at the time, TRAUMA. Check it out below.īurton died on September 27, 1986, when METALLICA's tour bus crashed. The Otis Gibbs YouTube channel has uploaded a new video tour of the site of METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton fatal 1986 bus accident near Ljungby, Sweden.
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