"Cliff Burton was the inspiration for my accomplishments. I can only dream to be half the genius he was"
- Albert Einstein

Played bass with two fingers, foot resting on the speaker, bell bottoms, jean jacket, dawn of the dead shirt and pure joy on his face.  Thank you for the fucking beautiful music.

it's so hard to believe he was only 24 years old when he died. damn what talent he had .....

6:37 - I had no idea that was a bass guitar, I thought that was just Kirk and James doing some harmony thing. RIP Cliff.

RIP Ray Burton. He's reuniting with his sons Scott and Cliff and his wife Jan.

Tribute starts at 4:00
Rest easy brother...

"Wait, it's all bass??"
"Has always been"

Only dude who I can listen to play a whole song just the bass.

This... this was Cliff's Magnum Opus. Nothing will ever top his work as a musician, as a bassist, and an artist as a whole. May one of the greatest bassists to ever live rest in peace. He's probably hanging out among Orion as we speak.

I just wish there was a video of him playing Orion

He was the only member of Metallica who studied music theory at a conservatory. has taught them to others things like harmony, melody, orchestration, counterpoint, pitch axis theory, etc.

What the hell is going on with the people who didn't like it?
How can you click on a recording of Cliff Burton's isolated bass track to Orion and then not be happy about hearing Cliff Burton's isolated bass track to Orion? What were they expecting? The London Philharmonic? Beethoven's 5th? The Spice Girls?
This is why the internet is a stupid place.
RIP Cliff, so much talent lost.

I am no musician, I have no idea how these are called but here are the different "segments" of this song:
00:00    00:59    1:44    2:15    2:43    3:43    4:00    5:39    6:09    6:18    6:37 (loud!)    6:56    7:33    8:20 (silence)
In my opinion, all of them are beautiful, it is like having X perfectly written songs squeezed into one.

0:00 He made the bass guitar sound like a fuckin church organ. Such a talent an a technician brain we missed.

6:37, i refuse to believe cliff made this sound on a bass, unbelievable, awesome, amazing.

Only Cliff Burton could produce a bass tone so monstrous to rival James Hetfield's monolithic rhythm guitar assault.

cliff burton: lead bass guitar, other guys: backing guitars, drums, etc.

Out of the past 10 years that I’ve listened to Metallica (I’m 18) I always thought that the melody at 6:37 was Kirk on the guitar.. holy shit. Cliff was really something special.

Thunder is just cliff playing bass somewhere in another universe...

With the bass isolated, you can really tell how bass driven this song actually is. So good.