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Whiplash!: Remembering Cliff Burton and the Handwritten Letter from his Mom

Features, Photos & MemoriesBy Metal Dave September 24, 2010 6 Comments

Remembering Cliff Burton, 1962-1986 R.I.P. By Metal Dave Twenty-four years ago this Monday, I was sitting at a four-way stop in the Briarwick neighborhood of San Antonio when news came over my VW Rabbit’s radio that Metallica bassist Cliff Burton had been killed in a freak tour bus accident on an icy road somewhere in…

Rewind: Metallica’s Memories Remain

Interviews & QuotesBy Metal Dave August 31, 2010 3 Comments

By Metal Dave Until I heard Metallica, I thought thrashing was something sharks did (how fitting that I also discovered Accept around this time). Meaner, faster and uglier than everything that came before, Metallica took the hierarchy of heaviness to impossible new extremes. I mean, the band debuted with an album/mission statement called “Kill ‘Em…