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YouTube Find: Cliff Burton's Solo Bass Track from Metallica's "Orion"

Posted 09/18/2012 at 12:37pm | by Josh Hart

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YouTube is a never-ending source of historic archive footage, rare audio and, well, lots of videos of cats.

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Photographer Harald Oimoen on Cliff Burton: "He Was the Most Level-Headed Guy in Metallica"

Posted 10/20/2011 at 4:03pm | by Josh Hart

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December of this year will see the release of Murder In The Front Row: Shots from the Bay Area Thrash Metal Epicenter, a retrospective which includes 400 photos chronicling the rise of San Francisco's thrash scene in the mid '80s.

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Cliff Burton's Father Remembers His Son on the 25th Anniversary of His Death

Posted 09/30/2011 at 2:58pm | by Josh Hart

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Earlier this week was the 25th anniversary of the day the world lost one of heavy metals true legends and a monster of the bass guitar, late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.

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Lars Ulrich Remembers Late Metallica Bassist Cliff Burton

Posted 09/27/2011 at 12:08pm | by Josh Hart

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As we mentioned earlier, today marks the 25th anniversary of the passing of legendary Metallica bassist Cliff Burton.

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Last Gigs: Cliff Burton

Posted 01/12/2009 at 2:25pm | by Joe Bosso

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September 26, 1986 - Stockholm, Sweden

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