Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

The only source on this is Hulk Hogan? I call Bravo Sierra

I will just leave this here Real 'Muricans Rock Like Hogan (new window)

Meanwhile: Slayer Goes to Church

Now I want to hear Metallica cover "I Am a Real American".

I don't trust a damn word Hogan says. Everytime he talks about Wrestlemania III, Andre the Giant gains 500 pounds and dies sooner.

"AT MANIA 3, BROTHER, I BODYSLAMMED THE 460,000 POUND GIANT, BROTHER, AND HE DIED FIVE SECONDS BEFORE HE LANDED, BROTHER! BROTHER BROTHER BROTHER JACK DUDE BROTHER!"

Now I want to see Hogan jump off a stage with a giant leg drop.

Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

"Played in a crappy Florida bar band" ≠ "session musician"

By the time Metallica got started in the early 80s, Hogan's wrestling career was already well established. Hell, he'd already been in Rocky III - I doubt he'd be willing to give that up to play with some obscure metal band.

Shut your head up submitter!

I heard they didn't hire him because whenever Metallica started playing the "Four Horsemen", Ric Flair, Ole and Arn Anderson, and Tully Blanchard would come out from beside the stage and beat down everyone in the band..

I've heard the Hulkster play bass and guitar. He's...good. Nothing special. No way he has/had the chops to play with Metallica, and I'm not really a Metallica fan.

/And Legdrops For All

Metallica has sucked since cliff got pancaked.

If Hulk Had joined Metallica then his own Hulk Hogan and and the Wrestling Boot Band would never had existed. I shudder to think of a world robbed of this tender ballad.....

Link (new window)

or this ground breaking hardcore gangsta rap...
Link (new window)

Hilarity_N_Sues: ♪♫ Steroids inhibiting me
All that I see
Absolute jobber
I cannot work
I will not sell
Jobbing for Sting
Putting over Bobby Roode ♪♫

Nice! Do you think there's a market for a CD of this? Is it bad that I would buy it in a heartbeat?

puckrock2000: By the time Metallica got started in the early 80s, Hogan's wrestling career was already well established. Hell, he'd already been in Rocky III - I doubt he'd be willing to give that up to play with some obscure metal band

You're just making up dates.. aren't you?
Lars started trying to get Metallica together in 1981..
Hogan didn't win the world title until 1984

Now, I'm not saying that he wasn't a big deal in 1980.. but he was a bad guy and not well loved. He disappeared from the WWF for 3 or 4 years at that point. The meeting COULD have happened.... it probably didn't... but it COULD have.

/Rocky 3 came out in 1982

Boondock3806: Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

yeah...you would know that empirically or in a purely anecdotal sense?

If this is true, I guarantee you that no club owner would have stiffed them.

IMHO Metallica went to hell when they used up this guy's riffs:



Cliff would have left anyway, after the crap started.

James Scameron: Boondock3806: Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

yeah...you would know that empirically or in a purely anecdotal sense?

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Adorable, but way too obvious

fark off, Hulk. Dont you have some midget wrestling to promote? I will admit that the X-Division is pretty entertaining though.

In 1981 he was selling out arenas for the AWA plus getting 10 grand a week in New Japan. He was gonna give that up for an upstart band making no money?

I'll let my man Gorilla Monsoon answer this one



"Highly Unlikely"

Les Claypool tried out for Metallica but they said he was too good at the bass and should do his own thing.

Damnation to vägverket

I will pay $100 to the first person that covers "Hulkster in Heaven" in a Metallica styling.

"I used to tear my shirt, but now you've torn my heart" is just screaming to be followed up with some scorching riffs.

Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

I like to think he would have left the band along the same lines as Jason did, or he would have eventually choked on his own vomit anyway

Boondock3806: His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

Remember this when people say the bass player doesn't matter.

ZMugg: IMHO Metallica went to hell when they used up this guy's riffs:

[metaldelirium.net image 300x375]


He co-wrote what, 6 or 7 songs? The guy was definitely better at writing riffs but songs, singing, lyrics: no.

Boondock3806: James Scameron: Boondock3806: Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

yeah...you would know that empirically or in a purely anecdotal sense?

0/10

Adorable, but way too obvious

Hi everyone..I'm BoondawgOld45...

i can see the future and the past as well as "what if" universes...
If Clint Burdong hadn't died, Metal-allica would be way better..mostly in the light show and dance routine department.
I know..it's a bold statement backed by nothing...but i know..
because I'm BoondawgOld45...

psychic farker
sarah jessica parker
all night toker.
take my reality on the ruuuuunnn.

oh no that was Steve Miller Beer...metal akaloid would have been waaaay better if he had um..joined then died then came back...

THE INTERNET IS MY CRYSTAL BALL!

/obligatory

delfinparis: /obligatory

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James Scameron: Boondock3806: James Scameron: Boondock3806: Ronnie_Zman: James Scameron: Imagine how good Cliff Burton would have been with a better bus driver!

Hmmm.... Let's see: die after recording the first 3 albums or live to play the current Metallicrap?

Nah, he definitely got the better deal.

His presence in the band would have altered the course of their music toward something other than crap.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHA

yeah...you would know that empirically or in a purely anecdotal sense?

0/10

Adorable, but way too obvious

Hi everyone..I'm BoondawgOld45...

i can see the future and the past as well as "what if" universes...
If Clint Burdong hadn't died, Metal-allica would be way better..mostly in the light show and dance routine department.
I know..it's a bold statement backed by nothing...but i know..
because I'm BoondawgOld45...

psychic farker
sarah jessica parker
all night toker.
take my reality on the ruuuuunnn.

oh no that was Steve Miller Beer...metal akaloid would have been waaaay better if he had um..joined then died then came back...

THE INTERNET IS MY CRYSTAL BALL!

I'm sorry I missed this. After 6 hours, I decided you'd let it go. It means a lot to me that you spent the time on this. Your score jumps to a 5. If you can talk a modmin into switching my handle to BoondawgOld45, you've got yourself a bona fide 10.