THE BEAST

It’s Cliff Burton’s solo at the beginning of this rendition of “For Whom the Bell Tolls” from Oakland’s A Day on the Green music festival that makes this version one of their best. If you were to close your eyes while the music was playing, you could almost swear he was shredding on a guitar, and not using his fingers with a bass. If not for his tragic death a year later, Burton would probably be known as one of the, if not the, greatest bassists of all time. - Nerdist