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Narrative Type
Nonfiction
Original Language
English
ISBN
9781911036128
Book Title
To Live Is to Die : the Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
Item Length
8.5in
Publisher
Outline Press, The Limited
Publication Year
2016
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Joel Mciver
Features
Revised
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Metallica - the seventh-biggest recording act in American history - are consummate musicians, but it wasn't always that way. Their early career is marked by a gradual evolution from garage-level thrash to sophisticated, progressive heights - an evolution driven by their bass player, Cliff Burton. Burton pushed the band to new heights with his musical training, songwriting ability, and phenomenal bass skills across three albums: Kill 'Em All (1983), Ride The Lightning (1985) and Metallica's undisputed masterpiece, Master Of Puppets (1986). He was the first heavy metal bassist since Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler to regard the bass as a lead instrument, delivering intricate live solos based on classical fugues and even laying down a solo track on Metallica's debut album. Cliff's life was short but influential; his death was sudden and shocking. At the age of just 24, he was killed when Metallica's tour bus overturned on a remote Swedish mountain road in the early hours of September 27 1986, crushed to death after being thrown from his bunk through a window. The driver, who has never been identified, told the rest of the band that the bus had hit black ice, leading to the accident; singer James Hetfield refused to believe him and has often spoken publicly about his doubts. With Cliff's death, Metallica's most critically acclaimed period of activity ended. They went on to record huge-selling albums, but by their own admission never pushed the creative envelope as radically as they had done in the first four years of their career. In 2006, a group of dedicated Metallica fans unveiled a memorial to Cliff at the site of his death; the cult of Burton grows year on year, with bassists of many musical styles (even outside heavy metal) acknowledging his influence. This revised and updated edition, published to mark the 30th anniversary of Burton's sad passing, adds a new appreciation of Cliff's influence on a new generation of rock and metal bass players, with commentary from the cream of the modern bass scene, plus a look at his signature bass gear and Metallica's current activities, which reference the Burton era more profoundly than ever before.

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Publisher
Outline Press, The Limited
ISBN-10
1911036122
ISBN-13
9781911036128
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219669144

Product Key Features

Book Title
To Live Is to Die : the Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton
Author
Joel Mciver
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
History & Criticism, Genres & Styles / Heavy Metal, Composers & Musicians, Individual Composer & Musician
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Music
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
25.3 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ml419
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Copyright Date
2016
Dewey Decimal
782.42166092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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