RIP Cliff Burton

I have been listening to kill em all in my car a lot lately, since i borrowed the entire early discography of metallica at the beverly hills library, returning me to the onset of puberty and my guitar teacher steve, who didnt wear an acdc tshirt - he wore acdc shorts. these songs are fast! hetfield apes motorhead's lemmy kilmister's vocals with authority. the album's highlight is cliff burton's two minute bass solo, that even with it's stereotypically 80s tapping technique is so ahead of it's time, it sounds like a mature lightning bolt. it is also the most melodic and beautiful moment on the record (though hammets ascending solos on songs like whiplash are transcendent experiences). poor burton was killed when the tour bus flipped over, tossing him out the window, crushing him to death. his legacy remains!

cliff taking a nap (he slept like this)