Brilliant video as always Rodney, I learned some new things too! Thanks for inviting me to take part!

He's not the first person to inspire me to play bass, but he was the one who inspired me to play different and well.

God damn old Metallica was just masterful.

I unironically want you to make a video on Jason.  No joke his isolated bass tracks from Justice are insanely good.  Also his playing on the Black album is rock solid.  His live solos were great too.

Finally, despite Cliff's and Metallica's immsense popilarity this is one of the FEW videos which actually delved beneath the surface into what made Cliff truly great.

Nuanced is EXACTLY how I viewed his playing and I 100% support everything stated in this video.

One of my inspirations to play Bass. Cliff, Geezer, Steve Harris & Frank Bello. My Big 4.

Cliff was the main reason why I pick up the bass. Please do a video on Greg Christian from Testament. He’s another influence on me and super underrated

Fantastic. What a force Cliff was! Would have loved to see more Metallica with him.

Love how you did this story. I remember having poster of Cliff right next to my bed as a high school kid as a sat with my Sears Harmony Bass and little amp that I blown up pretty quick. Then he was gone.. and I kept that poster on my wall forever.... I was gone 6 years to the Army and Mom kept that poster next to my bed just like the day when I left. Anyway... long ago for sure. Cliff will always live on!

Cliff was one of those rare guys, that made you as a bassist stop and reevaluate what you were doing.
(Entwistle, Claypool, Harris ect.)
I saw him in a weird, one off small club date while they were on the
Lightning tour, and me being a bassist seeing what he was doing close up and personal was mind blowing!
Best $13 I’ve ever spent!🤘🏻

I first listened to Metallica as a teen in 1990, and that cassette was RTL.

The album is a masterpiece.

It's a shame that we'll never see what might have been if Cliff was still alive.

A true innovator in every sense, I can’t help but feel he had so much more to say through his instrument. No doubt I’m not the only one who thinks this.

Given the more expansive format of the music industry nowadays and the musicians place in it (clinics, solo projects, guest appearances for other artists, social media exposure, YouTube playthrough’s etc.), there’s no doubt in my mind that Cliff would have continued to set trends and standards for others to follow both in playing and gear use.

Could you imagine with what tech is available now, what sounds it would produce in his hands?

He injected soul into the towering steel juggernaut that was a young and hungry Metallica.

Great work as always mate. Already looking forward to the next one 👍

love that "Salvador Dali of the bass" comment - absolutely perfect!

Damn. Dude was even more of a freaking legend then I already knew him to be. Praying for his soul to be with God. It's always the best ones that get ripped from us.

22:28 What a masterpice

The Morley peddle itself gives out a really cool tone without actually using the peddle, but leaving it on and positioning the peddle in certain areas but not wahhhing it, if you get what i mean

I remember the mid solo he does in Orion I had no idea it was him till I heard Dreamtheater cover that album I freaked out and went back to metallicas version I always thought it was just the guitar that part where he start on the high not with a bend that part is nuts!! Which bass is a great channel!! He’s the one who got me into the Ibanez ATK! I got one coming next week! Thanks Alphie!!

Cliff was the soul of Metallica's early albums.  I won't go further into that, but the world lost a treasure when he died.  I remember the first time I ever heard of him.  I was in high school and the closest I had gotten to metal was listening to Twisted Sister's Stay Hungry.  Seems everyone had that cassette in the mid-80s.  But then in 1990 I was a sophomore and was chatting with a classmate and she asked who I thought the best bassist was.  I said Michael Anthony, because Van Halen was favorite band and that was one of the few bassist names I knew.  The teacher got onto us for talking, so she then passed a note to me that I can still see in my head.  It just said "Cliff Burton".  I had no idea who that was, but a few years later when I got to college I found out and holy shit was she ever right on the money.  I think of Cliff as the Beethoven of metal.  The raw, melodic power of his music is mesmerizing.

My bass microscope. Late 80’s fender  jazz with factory pickups. Mid  90’s HARTKE 3500 with HARTKE 4x10 with a Carvin 15. With ProCo fat pedal mid 90’s set at distortion 3, filter at 4.

Great stuff, as always, Rodney. You cut off 'To Live is To Die' right where the guitars come in, which is a very powerful moment; it's almost like someone completely breaking down in sorrow, musically, after holding it in too long...gets me every time, especially when it's cranked to 11. Majestic stuff...sadly, that Metallica is gone. I don't wanna' start the hate train rollin', though...not the place for it. Keep on keepin' on, man. \m/