Clifford Burton

Instrument: Bass

Birth Date: February 10, 1962

Place Of Birth: San Francisco

When Lars and James was thinking of replacing the bass-guitarist, Ron McGovney, back in 1982 they saw a band called Trauma play at
The Whiskey A Go-Go. Cliff Burton played the bass in Trauma at that time and impressed James and Lars. They wanted him to join
Metallica but he said that he will only join Metallica if they moved to San Francisco where Cliff lived. He played with Metallica for
approximately four years after that. Cliff sadly past away in a bus accident in Sweden 1986 and was replaced by Jason Newsted.