Torben: "Not only as a person but also as a musician and maybe that kind of rock musician, I think Cliff was extremely precious and very difficult to replace, or impossibly so. And I say this also because he seemed to have a side to him that still was not fully unfolded, and quite possibly could have taken the band in quite a different direction from the way it went with Jason [Newsted], which is not at all a critique of Jason and his large skills and ears. But more that there was something in Cliff's background and genes that seemed to suggest that something not so muscular could have come to the fore.[see full story for a lot more] - Click here for the Full Story

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