Mark asked if we would stay at the hotel to be with James and Kirk when they arrived. He had family in Denmark so I figured he was going to see them. Mark got a call that James and Kirk were on their way to the hotel. Somehow everyone knew where we were staying and eventually there was a big crowd in the street. Fans showed up at the hotel to show their support. People around us started talking about what had happened. I didn't know what to say, didn’t want to believe it. Something like this happening was out of the realm of possibility. When you’re in this tour bubble and things are going great, you feel invincible. I had never heard of anything like that before, I'd never ever heard of any band’s bus ever crashing let along killing a member. We’ll all laugh about it later.”Īnything seemed more plausible than the thought that their bus had crashed and Cliff was actually dead. I’m sure they just got too f-ked up to make bus call and they made up this crazy story. After what seemed like five minutes, but was probably only ten seconds, I shook my head and said, “Really? Really? You believe that?!?” I was in complete denial. I replayed the sentence, “Cliff was killed in the accident” over and over. My brain started spinning like a gyroscope. Lars had some minor injuries and was taken to a hospital.” “Metallica’s bus crashed on the way here.” Then he paused, and when he started to speak again he had to force the words out – almost cough them into existence. “The promoter for the show tonight says there’s been an accident,” he told me. He had no color in his cheeks, he looked scared. I saw our tour manager talking to some guy, so I waved and said, “Hey Mark, what’s up?" Then I saw a look of total shock on his face. When we went to check into our hotel we were pretty groggy as we walked into the lobby to the front desk. We had a hotel that night because we had the next day off.
We got into Copenhagen and stepped off the bus around 9:30 the next morning. We saw the guys after we finished our set and I said, “We’re going to take off.
We figured we had another month on the road to hang out with Metallica, so no big deal.
#CLIFF BURTON SKELETON SKETCH DRIVER#
There had been a storm and our driver wanted to head to Copenhagen as soon as possible to avoid the streets possibly freezing up. We were on a bus now, which made traveling easier, but that night we decided to leave early because the roads were icy. Normally, we'd stick around every night for Metallica’s show and then hang out and goof around when they finished, leave at the same time and head to the next city. It was at a big gymnasium-type place that held thousands of kids. Then we went back to Sweden to play Solna near Stockholm. The next day we played Lillestrom, Norway for about 4,000 people, which was also great. The first date was in Lund, Sweden on September 24, and that was a good gig because no one spit at us and everyone loved both bands. We had a day off and then we were scheduled to play 27 more shows in Europe with Metallica.
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