Guitarist Kirk Hammett recalled the time late bassist Cliff Burton was so nervous to see Rush’s Geddy Lee watching a Metallica show.
During a 90-minute Q&A conversation with ”So What!”, Hammett recalled:
“Geddy Lee showed up at one of our shows on the Ride The Lightning Tour. We played Toronto and all of a sudden we got a message backstage that Geddy Lee was in the audience. And Cliff Burton just freaked out. He started pacing, he started smoking pot, and he was, like, ‘Oh my God! Geddy! Geddy Lee!’
”He could not settle down; he was so nervous and just happy at the same time that Geddy Lee was there. Then Ross tells him that Geezer Butler is out there one night. The same thing, he starts pacing around, super nervous, grabs a beer.”