CLIFF BURTON WOULD HAVE BEEN FIFTY TODAY

Forget Axl Rose — the great Cliff Burton would have turned fifty today. We have no idea what he would have accomplished had he lived past the age of twenty-four… if he would have been able to stop the debacle that Metallica became or if he would have been a willing participant in the shenanigans… but we know we would have liked to find out.

Here’s an old interview with Burton that we dug up from YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-HsPgwIQ4

Happy birthday, Cliff. We’ll always miss ya, dude.

-Axl, Vince, and Everyone at MetalSucks

Thanks to Kyle for the reminder.