Metallica: Cliff Burton Museum opens in Sweden next month
A Cliff Burton Museum launched next month in Ljungby municipality in Sweden. The METALLICA The bassist’s life was tragically interrupted in a bus crash on September 27, 1986 120 km north of Ljungby. He was only 24.
In September 2006, a memorial stone dedicated Burton at the restaurant / bar Gyllene Rasten in Dörarp (outside Ljungby) was unveiled. That was 20 years earlier Cut died just across the road where the Golden Rest is located.
According to The guitar worldthe museum will include photos, albums, posters and tickets, along with interviews and photos from the first photographer at the scene of the accident, Lennart Wennberg of the Swedish newspaper Expressen. There will also be a film with memories of rescue workers at the crash site as well as a scene that recreates METALLICAs last performance with Burton in Stockholm, with copies of the bass and drum set he and the drummer Lars Ulrich used, plus a poster with Burtonlast autograph.
The organizers tell The guitar world: “We want to honor in the first place Cliff Burton, who died so tragically in the middle of his career, and talk about who he was as a person and musician. Our second main purpose is to create a meeting place for everyone who is looking for the memorial site in the small community Dörarp. We want to continue the great work that the fans started when they started raising money to do Cuts memorial stone. “
Ljungby historian Krister Ljungbergwho is involved in opening the museum, said SVT 2021 from which he received a letter of support METALLICA fans from all over the world. Among them was a video from fans in Mexico asking how they could help build the museum.
“I’m not a big fan of METALLICAbut I usually say I’m the biggest fan of METALLICA fans, ” Ljungberg sa. “I really love these people, they are absolutely amazing.”
A newly started association, Bergabygden’s culture and tourism, was awarded SEK 300,000 from the National Heritage Board, a state authority responsible for world heritage and other national monuments and historical environments, to help start the museum.
The museum’s launch event takes place on Saturday 14 May.
Cut was asked to join METALLICA 1982 after the band saw him perform with his then group, TRAUMA.
The bassist was not willing to move to Los Angeles, there METALLICA was based, so they decided to move to the San Francisco area so he could join.
Burton played on METALLICAs first three studio albums – “Kill them all”, “Ride the lightning” and “Puppet Master” – and was involved in writing classic songs such as “Ride the lightning”, “The Clock Squeaks”, “Fade to Black”, “Creeping Death” and “Puppet Master”.
Burtons first replacement in the group was Jason Newstedwhich remained in the lineup until 2001. Robert Trujillo joined in 2003 and is still in the band today.
February 10, 2018 was declared “Cliff Burton Day” by Alameda County regulators. The late METALLICA the bassist would have turned 56 that day if he had lived.
Back 2016, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich talked to Seattles KISW 99.9 radio station about Burtons tragic loss when METALLICAs tour bus skidded on ice while the group was touring in Scandinavia and Cut was thrown out the window and crushed. Lars said: “We were so shocked and shocked that we did not know what was happening to us. And like most, I guess, children in their early 20s who get assaulted with that kind of thing, we jumped into a bottle , in this case, vodka, for me, and stayed there for quite some time.We were not mature enough or experienced in life to know how to handle this other than just, in principle, almost hiding behind the alcohol and divided into so the next few months were very difficult, and it was crazy, but we just put the blinders on and started rehearsing bassists. And we knew in our hearts that Cut would be the first to kick us in the ass and tell us to keep going, if he could see us mop. And then there was no moping; we just kept going as best we could. “
METALLICA frontman James Hetfield was asked in an interview with TeamRock what he thinks Burton may have thought of the drastic changes in its appearance and sound as METALLICA made through the 1990s and early 2000s with albums like “Load”, “Reload” and “St. Anger”. Hetfield replied: “Well, I really would have thought there would have been some resistance. I think” Black Album “was a great album and I appreciate the fact that we had the balls to do it … I would really think that the ‘Load’ and ‘Reload’ [era]I would have had an ally who was very much against it all – reinvention or that U2 version of METALLICA. “
Asked about Hetfield was personally comfortable with the more “alternative” image and music METALLICA made on those albums, the singer / guitarist replied: “No, no, not at all. There are some fantastic, fantastic songs there but my opinion is that all the pictures and stuff there were not necessary. And the amount of songs written was … it diluted the strength of the poison METALLICA. And I think Cut would have agreed. “
Burton‘s enormous talent and achievements were chronicled in book form with the 2009 global publication of “To Live Is To Die: The Life And Death Of Metallicas Cliff Burton”written by a British author Joel McIver and published by Jawbone press. The preface was left by METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett.
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