Cliff Burton was born in San Francisco California in 1962, in the midst of the Hippie movement. His parents were part of that commune, and both he and his two elder siblings grew up in a country. From a young age music began to attract his attention, At the age of six he attended piano lessons. At 13 Cliff suffered the first setback of his life, his older brother David Scott Burton died of a brain aneurysm. A fact that marked him greatly, he always said that he wanted to be the best at what he did and dedicate it to his brother. He left the piano and began to play bass, At first he was not good at it. During this period he started playing with bands like AD 2 Million and Agents of Misfortune, along with Jim Martin who later became a member of Faith No More the turns that life gives. After a year of taking classes his teacher told him that he was much better than him and that he had nothing more to teach him. But he believed that he still had more to learn, so he went to Steve Doherty, a jazz bassist who was very important in his life and who helped him define his playing style definitively. Doherty taught him to play other styles like jazz among many others. He did not neglect his studies and graduated in 1980 from Castro Valley High School. Since bassist Ron McGovney had just left Metallica, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich decided that Cliff Burton was the right man they needed to replace him. However Burton only agreed to join Metallica if the group left the city of Los Angeles and established their operations base in San Francisco, which Hetfield and Ulrich agreed to. Cliff Burton's debut with Metallica would occur on March 1983, while his second concert was on March 19 of the same year. Immediately Cliff Burton's entrance to Metallica was revealed as a success, as he was a gifted musician and composer. He was the only member of the group who could create a melody in his head and write it without having played it before, and the only one with deep notions of music theory. Additionally he applied the distortion technique to reinforce the presence of his instrument, differentiating himself from the rest of the thrash metal bassists, where the bass was usually buried under the distortion of the guitars. His appearance was also quite distinguishable because, unlike other metal musicians, Burton did not wear flashy leather jackets or tight black Lycra pants, but rather simple T-shirts and denim jackets and his unmistakable bell bottom jeans.
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6 авг 2024
