METALLICA FROM THE GARAGE AND BACK AGAIN
“It’s really been heavy. We’ve had equipment stolen, arms broken—but, of course, nothing as devastating as what happened to Cliff last year. That was the absolute worst.”
"Well, a lot of bad luck has struck us over the years,” Metallica’s thrash renaissance guitarist James Hetfield understates. “It’s really been heavy. We’ve had equipment stolen, arms broken—but, of course, nothing as devastating as what happened to Cliff last year. That was the absolute worst.”
Hetfield refers, of course, to the tragic and untimely death of bassist Cliff Burton, who was crushed to death when Metallica’s tour bus took a treacherous tumble down a Scandinavian hill, throwing the unlucky Burton out an open window. Hetfield, along with founder Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and newcomer Jason Newsted, are only beginning to recover from the grotesque calamity.
