Ride the Lightning except its just cliff
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2024
- Best performance cliff has ever done imo
0:00 - Fight Fire with Fire
4:49 - Ride the Lightning
11:28 - For Whom the Bell Tolls
16:40 - Fade to Black
23:44 - Trapped Under Ice
27:54 - Escape
32:17 - Creeping Death
39:00 - The Call of Ktulu
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Bass Composed by Cliff Burton
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Ride the lightning but only Cliff showed up to the studio on time.
On time 🤣
Cmon, don’t throw him under the bus
@@timeadam827 man :(
Then why is his playing out of time
@@raregrimebeats1352
I think thats the joke. I could be wrong, but Im choosing to believe its leet humor.
1. Fight Cliff with Cliff
2. Cliff the Lightning
3. For Whom Cliff Tolls
4. Fade to Cliff
5. Cliff Under Ice
6. CLIFF!
7. Creeping Cliff
8. The Call of Cliff
Cliff yea!
Dig it
Mary-Mother of Cliff!
Fuckin' right ON
Metallicliff
If you're a Cliff Burton fan, you will enjoy this mix. No question whatsoever.
If Burton was with us today……I wonder how much the Metallica sound & music would have changed???????
Yes.
who isn't a cliff fan? I was at my buddies house in 81' listening to MUYA and on the 2nd listen, I stopped on Aesthesia pulling teeth and asked my Friend why they said "bass solo take 1" when it's a guitar solo and he said it's a bass and I must have listened to that song 50 times saying, this can't be a bass as basses don't sound like that. There will never be another.
Metallica will still suck ass sorry buddy
I mean everyone knows cliff was the best musician in Metallica anyway.... right????
Lars’ playing has never sounded better. 🤌🏻
LOL :)
Lars Is MEGA D METALLICAT 2 DUDE CAN STIX FX CLIFF 'EM ALL DONT SELLA SOULA !
THe fuck was all that? @@weeklyleaksx1111
Motherfucker, you're implying that RTL had bad drums, is that so?
It sounds like shit
It's not sloppiness you're hearing, but cliff bending time and space itself which gets translates in the mix
There is a lot of sloppiness but it's ok. Many great musicians sound sloppy on isolated tracks when they were starting and back when recording was analog.
This happens to some degree with most isolated tracks using live instruments and copy/pasting is not involved.
@@Rondo2ooostfu. Cliff was the only bass player that could create interesting parts
If you're a Cliff Burton fan, you´ll know that theres a BASS in the INTRO of Fight Fire With Fire.
His tone on The Call of Ktulu is just BRUTAL - what a legend
The mix of chords and finger picking is amazing. You can hear shades of Anasthesia in Call of Ktulu
I always assumed it was the guitar doing the flanger thing. It wasn't. Sometimes guitar and bass are hard to tell appart when they blend perfectly
Came to see if this comment was already here 👍
Agree
@@ET_BrewI came here to confirm that I saw your comment
In terms of creativity, playfulness and tonal signature, Cliff was one of a kind! He was just 24 at his untimely passing, and I still haven't got him figured out. One of the true greats! His legacy lives on.
If you look at it in a certain way, he must've been so great he beat the 27 club.
This, is a wet dream for me to have access to such a thing at 14 years old in 1999.
Cherish this young aspiring bassists 🙏
The true punk in metallica
Classical Punk
funny enough... cliff was a jazz guy. lol. like, that's no joke... he was far more into the jazz and funk bass at the time, and even considered doing a jazz project on his time off with metallica. granted, he still had that punk aesthetic, but yeah. was still a lover of the more complex parts of music.
@@joeyclemenza7339I mean his favorite band was the Misfits he definitely was a punk. But he loved Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath and Thin Lizzy too.
@@joeyclemenza7339 i love how punk is jazz and jazz is punk. Seeing musicians in the late 30s and 40s with mohawks. Playing in clubs hidden/shunned from society. It's amazing how wired we are, generations down the line
That's why they planned his death in that" bus crash" he didn't fit in.bell bottoms ,hippie, pot smoker, rebel ,jean jacket instead of leather
Killer! The stem of Call of Ktulu is the best version I've heard yet!
there's one great cover video on yt you should check it out, pretty sure it's the first one that comes up
Call of Cliff
@@arlesluna5001 Hello ?
It sounds like a cover playing along to an isolated track
I wish the bass lead were more clear, but I still enjoyed it.
listening to this album with isolated bass is like being in bass heaven
I wish i had these available to me 25 years ago when i started playing.
@@wnrbassmanYou and me both brother.😀
He sounds like a mix of Lemmy and Steve Harris. And I love it
exactly
That's spot on.
That is an amazingly accurate description
And Jerry Only too
No..sound like CLIFF.He is unique❤
I spent 47 mins just listening to a bass guitar
And I loved it 👌
Thanks for this.
lol.... same here...!!!!
48*
@@ROD-wubbalubbadubdubdrum-is7yfthanks for informing us your IQ but figured as much.
Wait until you here some isolated Chris Squire.
Zero regrets
He was playing his OWN parts & not JUST following James & Kirk. I never really noticed most of these parts hes playing. so very very interesting
Same Here. They fucking buried his talent in the Mix. He is playing Like Steve di Giorgio
He was so clean and he fretted so accurately. And his fingers were friggin machines! I miss Cliff so much to this day.
Well, you can certainly find a lot of positive thing to tell on Cliff's playing, but it's not "studio" clean. Playing like that on any styudio gig I would be fired on the spot. But since it's Ride the Lightning, it was perfect like that.
Clean? Are you high? Sloppppppy
Clean ? This is sloppy asf
It's crazy how he could play these crazy and fast basslines with his fingers
An absolute master of his craft
I can do it too along with million other people so it's not crazy.
You just need to have it and to practice it, that's it.
@@ladinark1672 pls dont ruin my fangirl moment :c
As opposed to his toes?
@ good observation. As a finger style bass player I can say this type of playing isn't as easy as some might make out
impressive in part due to his nerve damage in his hand. this was harder for him than most people and he still killed i.
Listening to Fight Fire with Fire. This man was so far ahead of his time. Few people in the world can compose bass parts like this.
I’m 50 years old now/ absolutely love cliffs way to play. You made my day / thank you so much 🙏
I love people from 1973.
I am 49 and this made my day too! LOL
I am 52 and approve this message
x2
50, your a youngn
Man, in todays overprocessed, quantized world this playing is just so refreshing. Sounds like there is a human involved 😂❤
Legit. I honestly think I’ve seen bands where the bassist is just pretending to play live (fall out boy, Motley Crue)
AMEN!!
I regret more than ever that there is no "love" reaction on YT
Lol. Trust me, if he would of worked on a less distorted/compressed sound on Ric, it would sound a lot better. And maybe Lars would of aloud a little more volume too!! If this came out now, most would saybits a processed mess.
@@Brian-qg8dgdistortion isn't the processing theyre talking about
I saw this freaking talented man at Concert Hall in Toronto Canada. I will never forget that show.
I was 18 and Metallica played the Middletown Fairgrounds in upstate NY. We made eye contact and I gave Cliff the Peace sign and returned it! 2mos later I heard he was killed in some bus crash and couldn't believe it!
@@jaminova_1969that’s sick, man
I saw this man and Metallica OPENING for armored saint on this tour..slamming face melting bass playing.. none like Cliff!
@@jaminova_1969 wow.. talk about something no one can take away from you! Thanks for sharing.
Damn, how cool is that chorus on Fight Fire ?? None of that was ever audible on the album.
But you sure could hear it and feel it live.
Mr Newsted would like to have a word
Sloppy af but thats kinda how cliff was. Really unusual style of playing. He was trying to mimic his bass hero geddy lee from rush but he died young and never had the chance to reach geddys level.
@@trenken
The term “sloppy” in musical terms refers to a musician who plays on the backbeat, which is a deliberate action that relays back to the music that carries on throughout a band’s music history long after the musician(s) have passed on.
Having it any other way would have made their early recordings not as attractive to the fans and future audiences in the long run.
This too is true about Lars’ own performances both on record and live.
Metallica was never a perfectly oiled machine in all their glory throughout its career. And when they are (like at times today it seems) it’s something that is lacking of the spirit of what it once was, unfortunately.
@@timothya.olmeda7299 i know. Im not saying cliff had to be perfect. Lord knows lars sure isnt. But when you hear it like this, he does sound like a young unrefined bassist. That’s exactly what he was. He didnt get the chance to keep on developing the way the guys he looked up to did. He had only been playing bass for what, 7 or so years here?
One thing that I've noticed is that his fuzz parameters are set different for every single song giving them all a slightly different feel side by side
@@colinwilson6942 I do believe he used a gain stompbox too.
I never understood why bands (included my own) never changed sound to fit the song.
It's very likely Cliff/the producer (Rassmusen on this record if I'm not mistaken?) altered the setting according to what the song needed. After all that's what producing is about, even if probably the recording process wasn't as methodic like they did on later records like the black album where you can see the band and bob rock arguing over every minute detail. My guess is that cliff recorded with the same settings mostly (with the exception of lead and ambient segments like For Whom the Bell tolls or Kthulu) and during the mixing process they were tweaked accordingly for each track
@@javierganzarain4559 Makes sense in the grand scheme of things. I mean...usually you will play a few guitars to make an album depending on which fits. Hell...that is even done live with bigger bands.
You have two weeks (or whatever) to record an album, but it lasts forever. May as well tweek it here and there according to the song.
And I will be honest, I think Mr. Burton likely had a bigger say in the mixing than most bass players did. Haha. He was their heart and soul.
Metallica: records ballad
This guy: his fuzz pedal must be at 10!
40:34 the growl of that Bass sends shivers down my back.
I swear 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🔥
It gave me goosebumps
That's Dave Mustaine's icy fingers clawing your back.
Its an effect from a petal called WOW
This is Amazing! Front row 1984 Albuquerque NM, Cliff looked down at me asking if I had a joint, right before "bass solo take 1" what a night in that little hole in the wall club!!!
WELL , DID YOU HAVE ONE ? DID YOU HOOK HIM UP ?
@@michaeldamulis9942 unfortunately no, had just smoked it before Armor Saint came on before them.
Crazy to hear this solo, if was so comfy, expressive and in the pocket Cliff was, shows a lot what an amazing musician he was.
You can actually hear his love of HP Lovecraft and horror sci-fi in the solo. Fucking paralyzing.
The "sloppiness" also allowed the harmonics and strings to ring in person especially with the overdrive. I could only imagine what it sounded like in person, hi fi. We'll never really know because of the audio quality and mix. Just like Lemmy. Just like John Entwistle, who in my opinion is the root of this type of playing. Bass Guitarist, not bassist.
“Bass Guitarist” I like that. Never heard that like that. Love it. I’m using that now.
@@dakotawinston7677 check out this short vid on John Entwistle: ua-cam.com/video/ASJxApEz_YA/v-deo.htmlsi=BMoz77ARRRwkPvFL
Nicely put pal.
@@dakotawinston7677same here
Very entwhistle tone and attack but John was much tighter and frankly just hard way more chops than this, cliff was great its too bad he went so soon, lars would have been kicked out if he hadn't died and maybe they would have been a better band with a skilled drummer and bassist. They instead became the most overrated bloated ego maniacal joke of a pop band that can't play live to save their life..
I have listened to this band from the early 80s The bass was mixed so low that I could jam along and Make up my own bass line. Thank you geddy Lee. Rip cliff.
Thank you my friend. I’m glad people haven’t forgotten Cliff
They never will.
I love his sloppiness
Modern metal is too polished. Metal just sounds so sterile when it doesn't have that grit. It needs to be a little dirty, a little off the rails.
@@Xylus. Right? Talking about plugging guitars directly the interface to record , so dead
LOVE IT! There are at least three things in each song that surprised me because I never heard them before...even on "Escape" (HAH!). Favorite thing: the "wildcat" wah bursts during "The Call Of Ktulu".
I have even more love now for Cliff than before. Thanks for posting this.
Escape is awesome imo.
Metallica did all their bass players dirty. They cry about Jason's nonexistent bass in th AJFA mix, but where is Cliff on the majority of ride and masters?
He is still there on RTL and MOP, just not as audible as KEA.@@heresyisprogress
@@heresyisprogressI think you need your hearing checked, I can hear it perfectly fine on rtl and mop
@AlfieForrester in my opinion, Cliff is super low in the mix on Ride and Master, compared to Kill Em All. Yeah, you can hear him on those albums, but you lose all of the little details in his playing that you can hear on his isolated stems.
13:27 it’s so raw and real that you can’t just help envision him either sitting in the recording studio, or on stage, it’s incredible. He definitely was one of the greatest bassists of all time no doubt.
RTl is Cliff's Album in a way, the most songs he helped co-write on an album
Me: "Let me just listen this video for a minute."
Me 48 Minutes later: "Holy f*ck! That was awesome!!" 🤩🤘
I finally get to hear Ktulu clearly. Its only taken me 22 or so years.
Thank you so much 🫡
Sounds like cover mixed with original track tho…I wish there was actual isolated track
You have to know that the "Famous" Call of Cthulhu is a song that Metallica hated, because they have to reccord a last song for a 8 track album, 7 wasn't enough commercial.... So they written fast this song to have 8 tracks.... They really hated this song, ashamed... Now because a big revival of Lovecraft everybody enjoy it, so they have to play it hahahaha
@@bba3773 man...the song they hated was 'escape' and that was an album filler...not Ktulu lol...Ktulu is one of their greatest instrumental works ever...you messed it up pretty bad here haha
@@bba3773 literally noone...and i mean NOONE can make a song like call of ktulu 'fast' by any means...its one of the greatest works of mr Burton who brought the whole lovecraftian theme to Metallica...Escape was a quick repetitive song intended to try and push them over to be broadcasted by commercial radio stations...
@@bba3773 it was written by mustaine so it definitely wasn't a last minute addition
Cliff comes right out the gate with such fury on Fight Fire with Fire!
For Whom the Bell Tolls with some of the most iconic bass action of all time.
Call of Ktulu, an absolute masterjam with cool wah effects.
Awesome galloping & little fill-solos throughout the album.
Awesome to hear Cliff with such clarity after all these years!
We need master of puppets next
I could never quite put my finger on why every album after Puppets never hit as hard. Absolutely criminal that they buried this man's genius in their mixes.
Listen to Call of Ktulu w/ and w/o the bass added to the mix. The bass more or less IS the sound of that song.
General rule: if you can't quite put your finger on what makes a song or album special - there's a good chance it's the bass :)
@@higgledypiggledycubledy8899ehh no😂
@@higgledypiggledycubledy8899QFT
Yall realize he died after master of puppets right?
God, Cliff Burton truly was just another breed of musician
Love that double picking, and harmonic techniques that most bassist weren't even exploring 😳
He played with his fingers exclusively
@@garbeedge listen to "escape", mr. exclusive
@@MaskedJackal87you’re right, that’s definitely a pick…of all the videos I’ve seen of him playing he’s always used his fingers. My mistake Mr. Smartguy
OH muchas gracias!! Siempre es bueno escuchar a Cliff
I love his playing style and I love how hard he hits the strings. You can feel the heart and passion. Man.. so good. Thanks for this!
It's great to be able to hear only the bass, it allows us to appreciate Cliff even more, I hope you upload other albums in this mode
Yo man I am sitting here playing guitar along with Cliff and it's effing sick. Thanks this is a better version than a bootleg I found floating around. Thanks my dude
Me too 🤘
HAVE HELLA FUN!!!
One of the Greatest Bassist in the History of Music 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙌🏽🔥❤️
He was a Rare Talent indeed!!!
You could take the bass lines into a battle because it would scare the enemy away 😂
Weird when you here it isolated, it’s not super tight, but then in the mix it sounds great.
It doesn't need to be tight and exactly to the "grid" as everyone does today. The best music ever made is the best because it's not perfect, it's HUMAN!!
Sounds sloppy and farty. People only like him bc he died.
@@EliseoCaporale yep! If it works, it works.
That doesn't make sense, when you add the other instruments they're playing on his level so therefore it IS tight.... Come latelys always have something to say 😂
He's like the Sinatra of bass players
A BASS PLAYER LIKE CLIFF IS WHAT OUR BAND WOULD NEED AND WANT
A bass player like Cliff is what JUST ABOUT ANY BAND would need and want.
@@indivisibleman AGREED 1000% HE WAS A UNIQUE PLAYER
Just get another guitarist than
I AGREE, SORRY ABOUT YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON, HOPE YOU FIND IT
It’s weird when tracks are isolated that they sound like total garbage and all over the place, but once put back into the song again, they sound killer!
The mix/master magic dude!
Best Metallica album ever.
that sellective gallopes are the secret of the punchyness of the early metallica sound
That is the definition of thrash metal bass. What a tone!
just finished listening to the whole thing, good job dude!
Goober 🦍🍌🦧👴🫔🦀🍗
The bass on ktulu is great its like hes making monster noises
He _is_ making monster noises.
@@MKDumas1981 the Kathulu monster itself
I’ll always love Call of Ktulu. Probably my all-time fave of Cliff’s sound. I dig how each round is tweaked on pedal settings. Takes me on a ride. So killer.
I don't know how but i can hear all the rest of the instruments and James's voice
Sometimes the tracks on the original analog tapes overlap slightly. Could be that.
@@thiswillprobhrtnope, the separation was made artificially, using izotope rx.
Makes sense, I don’t think all the stems were available from GH and it does sound kinda weird in spots.
Hallucinations probably or some kind of pareidolia
That's just James's ego butting in... tell it to F**K OFF!
I remember many years ago listening to Ktulu late at night with headphones on and hearing stuff that I hadn't heard in many prior listening. I realized where all those sounds and the feeling of the song came from - Thanks Cliff!
Next video. And Justice... just bass. Over an hour of silence.
Thats been done already
@@anthonyhavemann2237...And Justice For Jason
I am sooooo glad I found this !! Thank you a million times over for posting. 🤘🏻🤘🏻💚💚
Bro Ive been searching for the call of ktulu isolated Bass track for years, thank you so much
Love the mix, great balance, now i can hear the bass
It’s amazing how he did all of this without a pick.
He's using a pick on Ride the Lightning and The call of Ktulu.
@@spajdude
Well I’ll be damned. I didn’t know that! That’s a really cool tidbit of information!
@@spajdudehe never used a pick in studio or live. As a matter of fact he played everything with two fingers instead of 3.
@@spajdude He did not use a pick.
@@sorin_ea6 You could be right, but it sounded like he was using a pick.
THIS IS A FVCKING AWESOME BASS TONE COMBINED WITH SUCH TECHNIQUE THAT BRINGS A GEEZER'S FIRST SABBATH ALBUM SOUL... Cliff is the thrashest bass player ever!
Fascinating! This is great, Cliff was awesome!
Listened to the entire thing and didn’t get bored.
Rest in Power!!
Wow! Thank you very much for the mix, it sounds a lot better than the other bass only Cliff stuff on YT. Incredibly inspirational and awesome to hear. I come from the nearest town to where Cliff died. There is a memory stone placed close to the spot. We go there sometimes to drink beer, smoke weed and listen to Cliff. Good times.
This is incredibly helpful for amateurs to see what kind of effect this type of riffing and fingering has on music. It sounds so complicated when it's all mixed but really easy to follow when it's isolated and pretty soon it starts to become in the realm of possibilities to recreate with a ton of practice and patience
THANK YOU FOR THE UPLOAD! LONG LIVE CLIFF!!!! 🤘
I wish i couldve heard this when i started almost 30 years ago, he was just so low in the mix except when he kicked on the wah, that and the old tab books were wrong, having him double 100% of the fast 16th's, where he was taking a more simplified approach, i gotta revisit this all. Also, to those who complain about it lacking tighness, Lars wasnt tight either, and they didnt play to a click on most of the early stuff, so it all worked in the mix and the vibe was there.
Relaxing as hell tbh
Yup. When lightning strikes… ty Cliff and Aud.
this is really great. Whoever did it... thank you!
Obrigada UA-cam por ter me recomendado este vídeo só com o baixo do finado Cliff Burton.
Amazing listening to this, It is almost impossible to replicate Cliff's method to metal bass!
Thank you very much, this shows his magnificence as a writer/musician that no one will ever be able to replicate
This is the best that happened this year yet
Disappointed by all the comments nitpicking his technique. Is it perfect? No. Is his playing a million times more interesting with tonnes more attitude than over processed music like Polyphia? Hell yes. People are circle jerking themselves about technique in metal these days.
The come latelys only criticizes
I always see a comment like this yet never see the comments nitpicking his technique.
Couldn't agree more...
I agree. ❤
@@minners71 Assuming your comments are sorted by "top comments," which I think it is by default, you'll need to scroll way down to find them. There's quite a few, and they range from seemingly genuine criticism to mindless hate.
Whoa, you can actually hear Cliff's bass.
This page is magnificent👌🏾🤝🏾🤘🏾
Thanks for uploading.
I bought this album the day it was released and this is the first time I’ve been able to hear Cliff.
Ktulu is so sick. Just wouldnt be the same song without Cliff.
yeah one of my favourites i think is kinda underrated compared to some other songs in rtl
Very cool. Great to study. Hearing all the changes and various sounds. Wow.
this is awesome great post , when i first heard this album back in the 80's i was blown away
Great listen. thank you. R.I.P. Cliff
Funny how people who die young are remembered fondly and lauded. If Lars died instead of Cliff, would people pine over him like this?
"We were about to fire Lars after this tour but then he went and died and made that whole thing a lot easier for us"
"We were about to fire Lars after this tour but then he went and died and made that whole thing a lot easier for us"
Exactly. This loser is as good at bass as lars aka they both suck
11:37 That fragment always so addictive! I remember playing this one thousand times 22, 23 years ago but I never got it 100%.
Brutal display of bass tecnique. Cliff is amazing.❤🤘🤘
This is awesome man ....Thanks for posting !!!!!!
Listening to just the bass line of Fade To Black really shows, in my opinion, the Black Sabbath influence. Just great stuff. I graduated in 1984 but did not start listening to them until Master of Puppets. Saw them live in summer of 1988.. sadly BEFORE And Justice came out. I was just amazed at the band and crowds energy, never saw anything like that before.
I graduated from high school in 1986, and bought Ride The Lightning on cassette when it was released (I had been listening to Kill ‘Em All for a while).
When Master of Puppets came out I lost all interest in the band, and never liked anything outside the first two albums.
Ride the Bass
Fight bass with bass
Ride the bass
For whom the bass tools and so on😂
As a solo artist currently trying to add bass to my songs, this is extremely helpful to hear. Sometimes a tone that sounds great in isolation is not the best tone for the mix, and vice versa.
this is pretty epic. i've been waiting to hear these basslines since the record came out. i was 13 and this record absolutely rocked my world. still does 40 years later.
I can't wait for you to make one of And Justice For All :)))
I see what you did there. 😜
Eww
Next up: AJFA bass only.. 75 minutes of silence
You are a legend for this.
Noone gonna mention "Escape"? That's a plec for sure!
Perfect
As a bassist, this is great
Just amazing. What a player
I really appreciate this.