{"id":23249,"date":"2011-09-27T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T14:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=23249"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T15:03:10","slug":"25-years-gone-the-king-of-metal-bass-cliff-burton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=23249","title":{"rendered":"25 YEARS GONE&#8230; The King Of Metal Bass: CLIFF BURTON!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFGODmetallicaLEGEND.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFGODmetallicaLEGEND-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CLIFFGODmetallicaLEGEND\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFGODmetallicaLEGEND-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFGODmetallicaLEGEND.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTwenty five years ago today, the metal world suffered one of its greatest tragedies when on September 27, 1986, METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton, was killed when the band&#8217;s tour bus had an accident and over-turned in rural southern Sweden. <em>He was crushed to death at only 24 years old.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFandTHEDEN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFandTHEDEN-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CLIFFandTHEDEN\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFandTHEDEN-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFandTHEDEN.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i3.photobucket.com\/albums\/y55\/RSCODY\/TMDbanny.gif\" alt=\"RIP Cliff Burton!\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Cliff was so completely honest to himself and the people<br \/>\naround him. He hated all this being-put-on-a-pedestal bullshit.&#8221;<br \/>\n &#8211; Lars Ulrich on Cliff Burton<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTMD salutes the greatest metal bassist of them all. He may have only played on three Metallica albums (<em>Kill &#8216;Em All<\/em>, <em>Ride The Lightning<\/em>, and <em>Master of Puppets<\/em>) but his style and innovation on the four strings has influenced countless players since his untimely passing&#8230; and will continue to for many generations to come.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/Storm-08-june.gif\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFEMALLYEAH.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFEMALLYEAH-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CLIFFEMALLYEAH\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-23261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFEMALLYEAH-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/themetalden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/CLIFFEMALLYEAH.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i66.photobucket.com\/albums\/h259\/rsid999\/tmdcom.jpg\" alt=\"TMD\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;He is the Hendrix of bass for his ground breaking style.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00b7 Jason Newsted on Cliff Burton<\/strong><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metallica.com\/\">http:\/\/www.metallica.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty five years ago today, the metal world suffered one of its greatest tragedies when&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}