During Metallica’s October 6 performance at the Austin City Limits festival in Austin, TX, bassist Rob Trujillo played a two-minute snippet of late Cliff Burton’s trademark track “(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth.”
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Frontman James Hetfield told the crowd:
“Mr. Robert Tujillo! And the spirit of Mr. Clifford Lee Burton…”
“(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth” is the bass solo Cliff was playing when James and Lars first saw him live in concert with his old band Trauma. James said about that occasion:
“We heard this wild solo going on and thought, ‘I don’t see any guitar player up there.’ We were both counting the strings and I finally turned to Lars and said, ‘Dude, that’s a bass!’
“Cliff was up there on stage with his band Trauma with a wah-wah pedal and his huge mop of red hair. He didn’t care whether people were there. He was looking down at his bass, playing.”
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