This is the footage that we always hear about from the Whiskey. James and Lars always talk about it. It has the solo that they saw that made them pursue Cliff!

Don Wrege, director of "Trauma Live" "In the summer of 1982 I was working in Los Angeles and was contacted by a British fellow calling himself Tony. He asked me if I would be interested in directing a long-form music video for a heavy metal band he was managing out of San Francisco called Trauma.

What I encountered was loud, and I was immediately struck with how good the bass player (Cliff Burton) was. Their show included such interesting attractions as a scantily-clad woman in a leather S&M outfit chained to a huge cross; another girl in virginal white who was sacrificed on an alter during the song "I Am the Warlock;" (Tony had flown in two Mustang Ranch girls from Nevada for these parts.) and the drummer's solo during which he sets his kit on fire, nearly blinding himself in the process.
More info on Don Wreges website

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