Kirk Hammett

• “To this day, I think of him every day. It's really strange. It's something that pops into my head every day and I'm constantly reminded of it because he played such a large part in out lives.” -- 1988

• “He was always against looking too posey, he was always into just looking natural.”

• “I had seen Cliff in this band called Easy Street when I was like 16 years old at a club called International Cafe in San Francisco… It always stuck in my mind. This guy with wild, wild red hair flying all over the place and a Rickenbacker and a real distinct bass style and I thought to myself, ‘This guy is fuckin’ wild!’”

• “The only person who was able to figure out a time and write it on a piece of paper was Cliff. He had an immense knowledge of timing, musical harmonies and music theory in general.”

• “If we had hung it up, Cliff would've been so pissed off.”

• “In Denmark while recording Master Of Puppets, we hung out a lot. We’d go out and play poker for 8 hours straight after being up for 24 hours. We’d find a seafood restaurant that was open, eat raw oysters and drink beer, scream at the natives while we were drunk… that’s some of my best memories of him.”