Metallica - Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) Live Chicago 1983

Cliff Burton - Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth) Bass Solo
Recorded at the Metro, Chicago, IL on August 12th, 1983

[ningen]

Cliff was the Eddie Van Halen of the bass. Absolute genius of sound.

[williamshafer]

People don't realize how lucky the world is to have that footage.

[D-Man_Jam]

James: _"Are you ready to get your teeth pulled?"_

The crowd: ᵂᵒᵒᵒ

[johnnymoon]

The reason they left the “bass solo take one” in on the final mix of kill em all is because they thought that people wouldn’t believe somebody could play this solo in one take.

[stedmangg]

>bass is getting shredded to pieces
>zooms in on guitars going 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0

[adrithgor]

I love Cliff's stage character
He was always chilled
His neck was not

[Guccimustard]

Cliff didn't die, god needed a new bass teacher.

[moonchaoxs]

He was only 21 years old at that time...that's insane. The amount of talent for a such young guy.

[MichaelD]

Fun fact: Cliff wrote Anesthesia when he was only 14.

[primalter]

2:34 Lars missing the transition again, love Cliff gesturing to him to start already

[kenmcnutt]

Probably the most talented member of Metallica in its history.  What a tragic loss.

[mmh]

lyrics:
Are you ready to get your teeth pulled? Are you ready to do it cliff? Mr Cliff Burton alright.

[scottyjohnny]

Hetfield: Are you ready to get your teeth pulled?
Audience: nervous laughter

[bowloflettuce]

James: Are you ready to do it cliff?

Cliff: *incomprehensible bass noises*

[gnrismyreligion]

3:42 I love how James and Kirk just pop out aggressively out of nowhere

[raffiwinters]

You can tell he was classically trained because the intro of the solo are alternating minor and major arpeggios. Pure genius

[siccbastard]

Nobody:
Lars' drums: *starts vaping*

[Meemaw]

Cliff didn't die.
God just wanted his teeth pulled.

[jerof]

0:00 imagine not knowing the song and then listening to james say that

[rick_myg]

Holy shit, Cliff makes that look easy, I can say he is the best in his genre.