Classical Composer Reacts to For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica) - Cliff 'em All | Episode 374
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- Опубліковано 10 кві 2022
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In this episode of #TheDailyDoug, I'm listening to an early live performance from Metallica of their classic track For Whom the Bell Tolls. This footage is from the DVD Cliff 'em All, which focuses on the life and music of bassist Cliff Burton. I was astounded by Burton's introduction to this song so much that I listened to it twice. I hope you enjoy!
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"Anesthesia (pulling teeth)" is a better example of Cliff's ability.
True, yet I'm going to have to interject you with the "artistic" direction and the song as a whole - For Whom the Bell Tolls is in this case is indeed a superior composition.
I was going to recommend that, too! Epic.
@@Malapropify No question "Bells" is a better song but Anesthesia is four minute blistering Bass Solo showcasing Cliffs amazing skills. Apples and oranges.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 i agree with you both but i would like to see Dugs reaction to Anesthesia
Yes I'd like too....especially if he does the version on the same dvd taken by the concert in 1983 with Dave Mustaine !!! That is the best version
The loss of Cliff Burton is one of music's greatest tragedies. He was amazing.
Cliff Burton, Randy Rhoads, and Dimebag Darrel all died too young
Agree with you. Same as Lennon.
@@PWBS-yc6xi Lets go further back. Jimi Hendrix,Janis Joplin,Jim Morrison and I
will go way back and say Hank Williams Sr. just because he was a stud.
@@32a34a yes sir all legends
@@32a34a Not even 30 and all left something for the ages, says alot about the talent.
Cliff was the only classically trained musician in the band and the "adult" in the group. He effectively kept the rest of them grounded and they were massively diminished by his absence. RIP.
@Freddie Bloggs From what I've read, he was originally trained in piano from childhood and then switched to bass as a teenager before he joined Metallica, so had a proper background in music theory as well as being a virtuoso player.
Both James and Kirk have stated in interviews that Cliff used to show them how to construct chord progressions, use key signatures correctly, told them what would work musically and what wouldn't, etc. They were just trying to emulate their heroes and be rock stars, but he was actually teaching them the theory behind it all based on his classical training.
I like to think his spirit lives on even through their compositions afterwards. What they learned from him partially made them who they became in the following years and who they are today.
James absorbed a lot from Cliff. You can hear it in his more modern playing.
3:14 You are not alone...
“When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.”
- Jason Newsted
In the story of Les Claypool auditioning after Cliff's death, as I remember it they were set up to play For Whom the Bell Tolls ... and Les also didn't realize that the opening riff was on bass. They all stood there looking at each other waiting for Les start. If Les Claypool didn't know it's bass, you can feel OK that you didn't know that.
The power of a distortion/overdrive pedal
That also meant that he (Les Claypool) never saw the band live at the time.
moreso the fact that cliff replaced his pickups with guitar pickups
@Jake Brewer On his Rick maybe, on his Aria there were some changes to the pots but it was otherwise all stock. The rest is all fuzz/wah.
Cliff Burton was to the Bass what Randy Rhodes was to the Guitar. Tragic losses of a brilliant musicians who excelled on their respective instruments
I love that comparison...very apt.🤘
rhoads* but would agree. the 2 of the greatest musicians to grace the face of this planet. hope those 2 are jamming out in the afterlife
Fuckin busses, man
I wonder what Cliff thought of Randy, wish they were both still around
Amen to that brother
Nearly 40 years on & this is one of the reasons why Ride The Lightning is still Metallica's best album.
I was at this show!!! I couldn’t move my head for 3 days after that day. Metallica was the 3rd band that played.
You lucky bastard, no offence
yea you lucky bastard! all offence! \m/
Looks like he's going to do the live performance from Day On The Green 1985. I was there, down front, in that sea of headbanging! Great day🤘
so you're from the Bay Area too? i was too young and delicate to go to those, and damn was i pissed they stopped doing them!
Me too, good times
That’s awesome! Wish I could of been there
Lucky mf. They don’t make shows like those anymore.
If you were down that close then you may not have seen the other amazing thing that happened during that set: The guy who was being carried around the mosh pit upside-down with his legs flailing high above the rest of the spiral!
Cliff Burton and Dimebag. 2 terrible losses in the Metal world. Those 2 need to come back
And Randy Rhoads for sure, i mean, just listen to Ozzy’s tribute album
You forgot Jeff Hanneman
@@vitorrocha7312 great live album, love the Sabbath tunes with randy playing
@@jamespell1138 Children of the grave’s solo is just AMAZING
I wish we had more live stuff from Randy
We were all robbed of decades more of this. RIP Cliff
Metallicas music is timeless. This song is almost 40 years old and it still rips.
Legend says both Lars and James went to this concert by Cliff's band at the time (I think it was Trauma, maybe) and they listened some guitar riffs as well, only to find out a few seconds later it was the bass. No wonder they wanted him in the band.
"Strangers now, are his eyes to this mystery
Hears the silence so loud"
You didn't point this one out, but as someone with (not at all military related) PTSD this is the one that hits
I sometimes repeat this line when the silence is deafening...
RIP Cliff. Who knows how even greater the heights the band would have reached had he not passed away?
Not only a Metal masterpiece, but one of Metallicas best live performances.
It is stated from Cliff's dad Ray Burton (RIP) that Jan (Cliff's mom) was his number 1 fan, even after he passed. OMG!
His older sister said that Cliff has a guitar pick up in his bass. It would make sense when using the wah peddle back then, the sound he got out of it for whom the bell tolls.
if you dont know that intro is bass, well, the call of ktulu is bassically a bass solo accompanied by guitars and drums
and they buried the bass solo bruh-
Burton's death ranks right up there with Hendrix and Morrison-- it makes you weep to think what great works they might've made had they not died so [bleep]ing young.
They would have probably never had the load and reload period if cliff hadn't died.
@@ifeobasa5459 your opinion is shit. Watch the videos of cliff talking about music. He would have never been with load and reload.
And Dimebag too
"Stiffened wounds test their pride" is such an incredible line. You need to watch a full solo of his (Anesthesia {Pulling Teeth}) from the same DVD. His composition and use of artificial harmonics are amazing.
TIL it's not "stiffened wounds testify". I've been singing it wrong for 38 years. 🙃
Fade to black is a must
It’s a shame you can’t hear the bass too well after the bass solo ends, you’d be able to hear how Cliff plays the riff before the guitars come in playing it. Kinda like foreshadowing it
One of my favorite parts of the song to play on my bass!
The guitars do not play the intro riff at all.
@@theabbot88 he means the 0-3-2-1 part
I used to always get tricked by the bass while playing guitar and start the riff too early lol
@@Farewelltokingz gotcha I've seen too many covers of this song with the guitar doing the intro bass riff. Gotta defend the faith 🤣
It’s Cliff day! My Cliff Burton action figure came in the mail today, so this is a perfect Metal Monday. Thanks Doug! Check out some of the other live recordings from Cliff-Em-All. They are wild. Also, the Anesthesia-Pulling Teeth tribute from SM2 is amazing.
Cliff Burton was a force to be reckoned with on the Bass guitar. Also , he was the member with the highest level of formal music training. He was the guy James would default to when looking for a music theory reference.
Great track on Metallica's best album, Ride the Lightning. Looks like Doug is doing a live performance from Cliff Em All. For Whom the Bell Tolls. It Tolls for Thee
Ride the lightning is in my top 3 of all my favorites album consisting of a very broad spectre of genres. This song is also the first metallica song I ever learned on drums in 1998.
I’m not ever much of a metallica fan. But ride the lighting is a shit hot album.
It's hard to explain how special Cliff'em All was before the days of the internet. Veneration would not be too strong a word.
Exactly. I basically "ate," Cliff'em All after school when I was 14. How many metal bands let the Bassist have a four minute solo on their debut record? The guy was that special.
I wore out the VHS copy of this 3 times playing it so much back then
@@undinism69 right there with ya man....I miss Cliff every day, the guy was just incredible.
@@undinism69 same here ! ppl was given stuff more value back then .. now every one can see every thing whenever they want... its a bit sad
Cliff was heavily influenced by Baroque composers. You should really check out his bass solo Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)
The impetus for this song was John Donne poem of the same name. Cliff also read the Hemmingway and included the war aspect of death. At least that's what Cliff told me after Houston Show @ Cardi's on Ride the lightning tour w/Armored Saint.
I don't doubt it. Cliff had long hair, worn torn denim and leather and played in a metal band, so I'm sure many people would automatically assume he was nothing more than a dumb, beer drinking loser who just happened to be good at playing bass. Instead Cliff was well read and also interested in a wide variety of music, from classical to jazz, of which he incorporated elements into the metal music he wrote.
"...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. "
John Donne
Did he tell James?? He writes the lyrics
however yet it's said the whole theme of that was inspired by a medieval story
@@RudyBleeker Sounds like he's got some things in common with both Morrison and Randy.. That's the makings of an outstanding "Band In The Sky!" although, I'm not in any rush to see that gig...
One of the best bassists ever. Much music legacy lost along with him
I always wave and say, "Hi, Cliff!" When I watch this video. This is the video that made me want to play bass. I was incredibly taken in by Cliff here. I love it when he looks back and cues Lars in.
R.I.P. CLIFF💔🍻
I still miss you every damned day!!!!!
Thanks for all the great music.
🤘🎵🎶🎼
Doug,
Major props for remembering one of our hometown heros.
One of Cliff's friends was riding with him on the way to this show and told me this story: Cliff was running late and is stuck in the traffic leading up the Coliseum. His car gets rearended and tells the other driver "F*ck it, it was a piece of sh*t anyway!" Cliff then drives on the side of freeway, on a slight incline as he's plowing through the ice plant to get to the show!
Peter Gibbons: Let me ask you something. When you come in on Monday, and you're not feelin' real well, does anyone ever say to you, 'Sounds like someone has a case of the Mondays'?
Lawrence: No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
Epic
Cliff was one of the most charismatic metal players ever, and this is the best Metallica song.
It’s good to hear that someone else thought the intro was guitar as well. I thought the same, so many years ago, until I saw them play it live. It hadn’t dawned on me that one could get that sound out of a bass. I guess that says a great deal about Cliff. 🤘🤘
RIP
Metallica's origin as a thrash metal band made them inaccessible to a lot of music lovers, but they were (as many metal bands are/were) surprisingly complex and deep. RIP Cliff.
Your initial reaction from the get was priceless. I'm discovering it all over again though your eyes-ears... even though I know it by heart. Cheers man!
I've always loved the lady hopping down the stairs at the end, lol.
Deep Purple - April. That's one of the greatest Classical and Rock blends you could ever hear
No offense to Dream Theatre, but Metalica & Deep Purple are more fun 2 Me.
Deep Purple Mk I : Anthem and Shield, from the same era as April.
Looks like it's gonna be a video featuring my favourite Cliff Burton era live Metallica performance: 31 August 1985, at the old Oakland Coliseum for the Day On The Green festival.
Thank you for featuring one of my all-time favourite Metallica classics. Our eternal gratefulness to Cliff Burton.
This video put a huge smile on my face. Always nice to see people appreciating the genius of Cliff Burton. Liked and subscribed.
This is an awesome song. Once I was walking through our town, on the walking street, and somebody was playing this song from hir apartment above us. Everybody heard it, and everybody was walking in rhythm to it, old and young, like they felt cooler. Everybody was strutting to the riff, and it was awesome!
Ride the Lightning remains my favourite Metallica album. It's because of tracks like this and Creeping Death. Just pure and raw and such great songs to play, off a record, in a band or just along to.
I was at this show, it was incredibly epic.
Ya always gotta love that moment when you realize a bunch of the guitar solos on Metallicas first 3 albums are actually bass solos.
Was there at that show. They debuted Leper Messiah from Master of Puppets at this show.
I'll be 60 this year so I listened to a lot of Metallica in the '80s and '90s but back then I was just listening to the music. I really didn't understand how deep most of their songs are in the meanings behind most of them. as I've gotten older I've actually been able to understand all of their songs and it just it makes them so much better and you can appreciate them so much more as the great artists they were.
You should check out "Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)". It is Cliff's Bass Solo. BTW, he uses a Morley wah pedal in that solo to get those nasally sounds (On the anethesia solo).
“Nasal”?
@@negativeindustrial Yes...when he engages the wah on anestesia, it thins out the sound and gives it a nasally quality (not a bad thing). I guess maybe that is more of a vocal description than a guitar description. Either way, it is a classic wah sound....but if you aren't used to wah pedals in action and can't see his foot moving, you might think he is making that sound with his fingers.
@@derrickshultz6800
Oh, I know what you mean now. It just doesn’t sound nasally to me but I get you now.
Not a bass solo, it's a bass instrumental!
@@gast9374 if you listen to the album version you hear them say “Bass solo take one” :-).
I love this video as it reminds me of August 31, 1985, and how I experienced 3 firsts (and lasts) that day, which I've never forgotten in my 53 years. I was 16-year-old and bought my stepbrother's extra ticket to Day on the Green, before remembering it was my mom's birthday and the family was coming for a BBQ. (What a self-centered teen I was) Luckily, my mom knew I was gaga over "that band with that stupid name" so she allowed me to go as long as my 18-year-old stepbrother took me. So, I rode with my stepbrother and his 3 hoodlum loser friends from Modesto to Oakland and I saw Metallica for the first time. (My first, but last) - My 3 'firsts and lasts' on that day were: #1. I snorted cocaine. #2. I saw Cliff Burton play bass. #3. While I was EXACTLY front row center and gripping the plywood retaining wall, Hetfield looked right at me and flipped me off. - - I never did coke again, James never graced me with his finger again and I never saw Cliff again. He died 13 months later. Great day.
Cliff was really good at drawing from his formal training to drawn in things like Bach inversions and Beethoven. He made early Metallica what it was.
Really, he made all of Metallica what it is. He was the only one in the band with any traditional music education. Without his influence and him teaching James and Kirk, Metallica may not have been more than a blip on the radar and we wouldnt have gotten songs like Nothing Else Matters or One
@@fatpad00 very true. Pretty much every good Metallica song from kill em all to black has kirk written all over it.
If you haven't reacted to "Creeping Death" by Metallica, next week would be a great week to do so. It's one of the last songs that Cliff Burton co-wrote. Equally importantly, it's the best non-canonic song for Passover.
I like the way you break down this old classic power rock. It makes me listen and appreciate my old music better.
PLEASE DOUG!! a real challenge for you Megadeth - "Good Mourning/Black Friday" from Peace Sells is MUSCIALLY INSANEE !!
Its a bit unlikely, since he really didn't like Mustaines vocals. Honestly, Megadeth is one of my favorite bands (favorite of the big 4 and Thrash is one of my favorite genres) but... Dave is a make or break deal.
Personally, I would hope he would listen to Sweating Bullets or Train of Consequences so he could develop the taste buds (or taste Dougs) to enjoy Mustaine's vocal delivery. To me it was immediate... But often its an acquired taste
And yeah, I mean Peace Sells is a very interesting song, form, Polands fusion solos, and all those rythmic changes. Devils Island, The threat is real, 502, In my darkest hour, man the list of awesome Megadeth songs is huge. Heck even his flirting with the orchestra would be worth a comment, I think it was interesting and could have been developed further.
I have a huge respect for Dave, from his overcoming his humble roots and vices, to his martial arts endeavors, to keeping a huge band consistently (mostly) good through decades, overcoming cancer, spine surgery, relearning guitar, the insight in his songs, his development of restraint and character, his chops as a guitarist (some of Megas best solos are his and he has some of the worlds best guitarrist with him all the time), etc
But yeah, much as I love his vocals many prefer nails on a chalkboard and there is precious little to be done when,thats the case.
@@edelcorrallira amazing review, hope Doug read us!!
@@agustinbadino7084 me too... And yeah Good Mourning/Black Friday is really an awesome song. The only reason I didn't list it, was you already had and man ... There is so much gold in their catalog.
BTW highly recommend checking out Chirs Poland's band Ohm if you haven't already. At some point he was playing with Nick Mensa, a line up that could have only been rivaled by Samuelson and Friedman (too bad Gar is no longer around, one of my favorite drummers; his cymbals are otherworldly).
day on the green 1985 i was there,scorpion was the headline and you had YJM,ratt,y&t, and the opener was a band called victory. It was hotter than hell that day but it was a hell of a show.
Hey Doug! I just wanted to say your love for music and life comes through in everything you do, I really appreciate getting to experience a UA-cam channel like yours. You're a great person to have around these parts and I appreciate you!
I was at this show! One of my favorite concerts of all time! I was 13 and lived just 30 minutes away in Danville. I had a free range upbringing with super cool parents & an older brother that got me into metal. My first concert of all time was just a few months earlier at the indoor Oakland Coliseum (later known as Oracle Arena) was Dokken opening up for Dio - Last in Line Tour.
I saw Cliff play this song live
It blew my mind
I never heard of them until this concert
Been a fan ever since
My first contact with Metallica was, probably like many other, with the Black Album. Never really knew about Cliff Burton, but this video instantly makes me understand what huge part he played in Metallicas success. Close to as impressed as I was when I first heard Randy Rhoads. So tragic these unique talents leave us way too early.
Since I can remember seeing Cliff in concert and the very young looking Metallica, this video makes me feel absolutely ancient.
Thanks Doug, for giving me an insight to the music I love and to music in general. Keep it up, love it!!
Hi Doug, I watch a ton of these review channels but yours by far and then some many miles more is my favorite because of your intellectual attack and musicians perspective. I am a Christian but don't attend Church, I read and study on my own and reach out when I feel clarification is needed.....all this combined makes me love when you review Metal music while sitting behind the organ in the church where you work. The fact that you or your computer havnt spontaneously combusted let's me know there is always still hope for me...lol. I am a believer just tend to keep it to myself. A wise Chaplin once told me that my thoughts and prayers may be heard more prominently when in solitude. Bless you sir for your amazing open minded approach to music as a whole.
Huge congrats (if a wee bit late) on your 200 K. I find your channel to be a true gem, insightful and thoughtful. It’s been a delight to watch.
I LOVE this!!! Remember watching this on videocassette over and over and over as a kid. Cliff will always be my favorite metal bassist. Wish we didn't lose him. 🙁
You should react to “Anesthesia Pulling Teeth” live from 1983. It demonstrates Cliff’s ability to perform very well!
Thank you for another all time favourite. Metal Mondays are the best!
Great video Doug, I love seeing you going "hell yeah!" while listening Metallica 😂👋
I think you could really appreciate "my friend of misery" from the black album. It's a great song composed by the great Jason newsted, the one who took cliff's place 🙏
Cliffs mom said he would practice playing like he was playing guitar. I have always called him the Jimmy Hendrix of the Bass.. I was lucky enough to see him play opening for Ozzy. He was and always will be the best Bass player ever
Congrats on the 200K subs!
Love that you are saying "Hello" twice to Cliff, would love to say him "Hi" as well - what a legend on bass and in general!
When you were a Metallica fanatic as I was in the mid-80's, without the internet, the only way to see them was to watch Cliff 'Em All....over, and over, and over again. I had a little 13" black and white TV and a VCR and Cliff 'Em All - it was heaven.
I wore mine out. Had to get a second tape.
Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) live footage is hypnotic. It’s prime material for a Metal Monday! I recommend either the Chicago 1983 performance or the San Francisco 1983 performance to review; both exhibit his near supernatural ability when it came to improvising notes, rhythms, and tempos on bass during shows.
I only just found your channel. I truly appreciate your perspective on metal. I have of course subscribed and will continue my journey into your portfolio of videos 🙂
metal Monday rocks. love your channel Doug.
I've been listening to this performance since I was a kid, and I always felt like one of the guitars was out of tune.
That makes me love the rawness of it all even more
tuners are for pop! haha
This evening i was listening this track from the album…but what Cliff was playing on his bass,was epic!
Sup Doug! Awesome video, as always!
Been thinking it'd be nice to have a video of you talking about your general experience till today, since the beginning of the channel, what difference it made in you daily life.
E.g., tell us your prefered music progressions, a band that impressed you the most, how your opinion changed about metal bands (even if u had some prejudgement about it, being a classical composer), if your collegues accept what you're doing, etc..
Cliff was awesome basist, it was nice comparision to Hendrix there. I really recommend to listen his bass solo, called Anasthesia (Pulling teeth). It was on their first album, but best way to feel his greatness comes propably from some early live show recorded on Chicago 1983. The quality is bad, but it really shows how he could handle the bass in a totally new way as a lead instrument.
Also, if you going to listen that solo, for curiosity, they made quite recently concert together with San Francisco Symphony orchestra, where their principal double bass player performs his version of Cliff's solo. Might suit well for you to listen too. Really recommend.
^^^ I echo exactly what she said!!!
Great video Doug, it's such a shame that Cliff passed so early, I would have loved to hear what else he could have gone on to create. As many others have said, all I will say is Pulling Teeth.
When we talk about Cliff these feats must not surprise… he was talented, creative, but
also very musically prepared, So he had all the instruments to compose true masterpieces
which entered history of metal. thanks for know how to recognize the greatness of Cliff as a musician and for explaining it from a different point of view.
Okay the riff:
"DdadiDi DuDuddu DdiDuidi"
I was at this show. Saw many great bands at the various days on the green. What an amazing memory. Technically this is Oakland arena. Where the A’s and Raiders would play. The Oakland coliseum is the indoor ensue next door where the GS Warriors played for many years.
I still have my Cliff 'Em All on VHS.
I'd been playing this song for years on guitar before I realized that cliff was playing the into on the bass. I'm fortunate to have seen Cliff in concert with Metallica before he died.
Next, you gotta check out (Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth LIVE Chicago 1983!!! Most legendary Bass Solo in Rock and Metal!!!
Thank u for reacting to my all time fav!!! I have been asking for this reaction for ages now can u do the studio version though pls :)
I've never heard someone compare Cliff to Jimi, but it makes so much sense
You can think cliff for the hemmingway and love craft influences in metallica he was a huge fan
Thanks for choosing this version. Studio versions are almost always the best, but for Cliff’s sake, this is my favorite version of this song.
There’s so little footage of him, so it’s great you’re checking this out. 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Props to DJ DAN for this great recommendation, young Metallica is the best!
I have gone a few times to that place outside Ljungby Sweden where he died. Always while listening to some of Cliffs work.
I had just moved to Missouri in '86 and worked with this guy named Brad who turned me onto Metallica,both Ride the Lightning and Kill them All .Since then I have seen them 5 times including right after when he suffered the burn to his arm, I also have 7 of their CDs. Thanks Brad.
Even though his career was brief, Cliff is the absolute master of metal bass. I'm get sad when I think what he would have accomplished had he lived longer.
Check out cliff Burton and the agents of misfortune, which shows cliff playing an early version when he's about 18 as he wrote it in his teens
Rewinding is the biggest sign of respect. Rip Cliff
The Day on the Green concerts were epic-every single one.
It's amazing footage
I´m going to see Metallica this next week here in Santiago, Chile so I´m loving this video!!
Cheers Maestro!!
Nobody can resist Metallica. The sheer organic musicianship, skill, energy, and songwriting. They have everything. Whether you're a classic musician or a rapper, you have to appreciate something this honest and beautiful.
3:58 Same! For a long time I thought it was on a guitar.
They transitioned so beautifully into Four Horsemen at the end 🤘🏽🤘🏽