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“I remember this guy lit my couch on fire a couple of times.”--James
“Cliff was so completely honest to himself and the people around him. He hated all this being-put-on-a-pedestal bull****.”--Lars, 1986
“I could just see them go, ‘oh my God! Look at that guy!’ The thing that struck them most was that while you see lead guitar-playing, here you had a guy playing lead bass! They thought that was great.”--Metallica drum tech, Marrs, on the first time James and Lars saw Cliff play
“To this day, I think about him every day.”--Kirk, 1988
“We heard this wild solo going on and thought, ‘I don’t see any guitar player up there.’ It turned out it was the bass player, Cliff, with a wah wah pedal and this mop of hair. He didn’t care whether people were there. He was looking down at his bass playing.”--James
“We always miss Cliff, but he is kind of on the record (…And Justice For All). The song “To Live Is To Die” is really based on a number of riffs that Cliff wrote a couple of years ago. It’s kind of cool to have something written by Cliff on the new album.”--Lars
“He was a great and very special talent… Cliff’s solos were absolutely brilliant.”--Jason, 1988
“Knowing Cliff’s attitude, he’d kick our butts if we quit.”--James (on continuing after Cliff’s death)
“I know Cliff, more than anyone else in the band, would have been the first guy to give us a kick in the ass, and wouldn’t want us to sit around. It’s what he would have wanted us to do.”--Lars
“I saw the bus lying right on him. I saw his legs sticking out. I freaked. The bus driver, I recall, was trying to yank the blanket out from under him to use for other people. I just went, ‘Don’t $#%&ing do that!’ I already wanted to kill the guy. I don’t know if he was drunk or if he hit some ice. All I knew was, he was driving and Cliff wasn’t alive anymore.”--James, 1993
“He was always against looking too posey, he was always into just looking natural.”--Kirk
“He was a wild, hippie-ish, acid-taking, bell-bottom-wearing guy. He meant business, and you couldn’t $#%& around with him. I wanted to get that respect that he had. We gave him **** about his bell-bottoms everyday. He didn’t care. “This is what I wear. $#%& you.” He loved music. He was really intellectual but very to the point. He taught me a lot about attitude.”--James, 1993
“…we came up here and played with Cliff, who just blew the doors off of anyone we’ve ever played with. He’s the new Steve Harris of metal.”--Dave Mustaine
“I had seen Cliff in this band called Easy Street when I was like 16 years old at a club called International Cafe in San Francisco… It always stuck in my mind. This guy with wild, wild red hair flying all over the place and a Rickenbacker and a real distinct bass style and I thought to myself, ‘This guy is $#%&in’ wild!’”--Kirk
“There was a huge shadow there. I’d always looked up to him so much.”--Jason (upon replacing Cliff)
“I wasn’t too angry in the beginning. I was obviously grieving, but the anger started setting in when I realized that it’s not new that people in rock-n-roll die, but usually it’s self-inflicted in terms of excessive drink or drug abuse. He had nothing to do with it. It’s so useless. Completely useless.”--Lars, January 1987
“The only person who was able to figure out a time and write it on a piece of paper was Cliff. He had an immense knowledge of timing, musical harmonies and music theory in general.”--Kirk, 1987
“People probably thought, ‘Oh, they're not going to do the heavy lyrics now because of what happened.’ Man, those lyrics mean a lot more to me now.”--James
“If we had hung it up, Cliff would've been so pissed off.”--Kirk
“Cliff’s taken classes in school on music theory, things like mixing harmonies together. I think he took a junior colleg |
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