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91.3 WYEP - The Daily Feedback: Cliff Burton was Metallica's founding bass player. He died tragically on this day in 1986 when the band's bus went off the road and crushed him.
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With no disrespect to Cliff Burton, I think my picking brought a new tightness to Metallica. Cliff's sound wasn't very defined": An interview with Jason Newsted on the release of The Black
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