Metallica - Cliff Burton and James Hetfield final uncut interview - 1986

"$10 bucks to see Metallica" Those were the days and I wasn't even alive yet.

Gave me chills when he said “Europe in a few months’

Cliff looks like he was such a lovely guy. You can see when James looks at him how much he loves him. Such a tragic loss.

Cliff was so young. What a loss. He seems like such a great guy and he was such a great musician.

People were saying Metallica sold out back in Puppets' days? hilarious. The haters never cease to surprise me.

1986: Do you think Metallica sold out? 1988: Do you think Metallica sold out? 1990: Do you think Metallica sold out? 1995: Do you think Metallica sold out? 2000: Do you think Metallica sold out? 2010: Do you think Metallica sold out? 2020: Do you think Metallica sold out?

10:01 James: "I think we're gonna be hanging out for quite awile". 40 years and counting is indeed quite awile.

Cliff was the essence of Metallica. He even went to music school to learn how to read and play music. James and Kirk have said that he taught them so much. He was a harmonies expert. One if the best musicians of all time. RIP Cliff,you were the best!

It's impossible to watch this without imagining Cliff being alive today. He was such a solid source of Metallica's message and attitude. As a bass player, he was as much a focal point as James. Similar to Duff in GnR.

It’s so spine chilling to hear Cliff talking about ‘’going to europe’’ and ‘’then Japan at the end of the year’’ and ‘’next year’’

Cliff was robbed of a great life ahead of him. Credit to the rest of the band for still taking this band to such heights in his memory. His essence rubbed off on them all, especially James.

6:08 I feel so bad for James when he gets asked what his parents think about their band. Dude had such a difficult childhood and you can see it in his face

The chemistry between cliff and James damn near brings a tear to my eye. Both have the same mindset...beautiful

Did make me sad how James responded to "what do your parents think about all this?" and he says Cliffs, Kirks and Lars's parents are real into it and he said "my dad yanno, whatever" then laughs, then frowns and reaches for his beer.

James’ response at 6:15 literally made me feel so bad. Poor dude.

I have a feeling these Metallica guys are gonna be really big one day.

I'm currently 50. I was 16 when Cliff died. I could vividly remember when I heard on the radio that Cliff died. Fuck... Cliff, man. He was the real deal. 😢

You can just tell from this interview how much of an influence Cliff had in the band, and how fondly James thinks of him without actually saying it, but behaves around Cliff. James and Ray Burton has said in interviews that Cliff absolutely did not care in the slightest about what people thought of his style, his clothes, his persona, you name it. He knew who he was, and was comfortable with himself, and anybody who had shit to say about that could fuck right off. An insecure kid like James must have been in awe of that, and looked up to Cliff. I mean, James has said that he thought of Cliff as a brother. I think Cliff's death affected James in heavier ways than most of us can imagine.

Cliff was definitely the soul of metallica. Real cool and collected, clearly a very educated and well spoken young man.

At minute 7.51 Cliff rolls his eyes maybe because the interviewer asks him and James to talk about other bands. Here they demonstrate to be true professionals who don’t waste their time to talk about other people on silly topics like clothes. There’s no one like them. They were so young but so determined at the same time. They are a great source of inspiration for me. Love you forever Cliff