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06-18-2006, 01:54 PM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | Whats the deal with Cliff Burton?
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06-18-2006, 01:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Hick Town, Saskatchewan | | | When Cliff was younger, he severed some kind of tendon in his pinky, and after that it woudn't bend. |
06-18-2006, 02:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | Looks like that didn't stop him from rockin' 'tallica. |
06-18-2006, 03:06 PM
| | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | very true 
thanks for the info |
06-18-2006, 03:23 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | He's perpetually flashing the horns! Well, not anymore, but he was! |
06-18-2006, 03:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | Yeah, i first noticed it on Cliff 'Em All. Thanks for posting it  . Saved time for me lol. Thanks for the replies, now i dont have to google it anymore (there was nothing on google that i could find within 20 minutes).
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06-19-2006, 07:53 AM
| | | | thank god it was his pinky, not index or middle loL |
06-19-2006, 12:45 PM
| | | | That's kind of cool I never noticed that about Burton! I have almost the exact same thing wrong with my right (picking) hand too. I broke it a few years back & after it healed incorrectly it always sticks out when I play fingerstyle which I almost always do. Whenever I see myself play on video or in pictures, it somehow always made me kind of think of the goofy etiquette thing of how "proper" people are supposed stick their little finger out while sipping their tea. |
06-19-2006, 01:11 PM
| | | | Wow I thought it was just a habit. My pinky always sticks way out like that.
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06-19-2006, 07:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Towson, MD/Seattle, WA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BassGod Wow I thought it was just a habit. My pinky always sticks way out like that.
Graeme | Me too! Hah, I catch myself doing it more and more after seeing "Cliff'em All." |
06-19-2006, 08:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Boston, MA | | | I thought that was just part of Cliff's technique. Cool fact
~RIP Cliff~ |
06-20-2006, 04:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: DuPont, Washington | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Chris2112 He's perpetually flashing the horns! Well, not anymore, but he was! | You have to believe that, wherever he is, he's still flashin' 'em.
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06-20-2006, 05:26 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Glendale & La Jolla, CA | | | lol rockin' the horns all the time.
What a badass. RIP. |
06-20-2006, 06:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Charleston, SC | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BrandonBass thank god it was his pinky, not index or middle loL | second that... suprised it didnt hinder his playing, must have been lucky |
06-21-2006, 03:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: newcastle upon tyne (UK) | | | yeah my little un does that too, gets annoying after awhile esp when doing the john entwistle 'typewriter' tap stuff.
but i just cant stop it happening......its the only bit of ettiquete i have hehehe |
06-24-2006, 02:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Wales, UK | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BassGod Wow I thought it was just a habit. My pinky always sticks way out like that.
Graeme |
Ditto.. and the faster/harder I play the more it sticks out. Pretty ironic if you have a dirty mind, eh?
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06-26-2006, 01:25 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Norway | | | Is that so weird? I have My pinky out all the time to, i didnt notice that my self before the guitarists started laughing and "winking" their little fingers at me...
and one thing about Burtons Right hand, i looked at some videos at YouTube, and his right hand looked like that of people who have never played bass before...(guitarist in my band when he tries to play for instance...) |
06-26-2006, 03:36 PM
|  | A Hard Rockin Lover of GREENBURST Moderator | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Where I lay my head is home | | | He really developed his own technique and style so thats what must have felt comfortable with him. RIP Cliff.
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06-26-2006, 04:31 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by BrandonBass thank god it was his pinky, not index or middle loL | Robbie Merrill (Godsmack) doesn't have use of his middle finger for the same reason.
He plays with his first and third fingers instead.
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