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Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:17 pm**

Happened along this pic, very nice I think.

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:02 pm**

Thanks Scott. Very nice photo indeed.

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:19 pm**

Now if only he would have played that onstage with Metallica, Ric sales would have tripled!

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:53 am**

Funny that. Cliff Burton used to play a Ric live with Metallica a lot.

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 10:17 am**

yup, a jetglo.

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:26 pm**

actually....it was BurgundyGlo (or just Burgundy I forget the difference). I have some great front row pics of it from the "Ride the Lightning" Tour

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Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 12:33 pm**

ahh, so it is:

http://www.metallicaworld.co.uk/images/lightning/ride26.jpg

http://metalking.free.fr/pictures/photos/cliff/Cliff15.jpg

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 1:35 pm**

But he took out the RIC pickups!

Posted: **Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:42 pm**

Nothing wrong with that

! (I prefer Barts though)

Posted: **Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:07 am**

I read an article about this recently - When the band went into the studio to record Kill 'em All, they had little money and had been touring a lot leading up to it. Their gear was very worn and needed lots of work, and there was a local repair guy who was friends with John Zazula (president of Megaforce records) who liked the band, and repaired their stuff for free.

Cliff's 4001 was having some sort of RF interference problems at the time, so the repair guy swapped out all the electronics and put whatever he had at the time in the bass. Cliff liked it and kept the bass that way for the rest of his life. He gave the bag of old Rick parts to Kill 'em All producer Paul Curcio, who still has them today.

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