We should start a new topic for this one........but most of the Black album bandwagon probably didnt know that Cliff wasnt the original bassist in the band......if they ever even heard of him to begin with lol. He (Cliff) replaced Ron McGovney who played in the original line up. Hes gotta be kickin himself for whatever he did to get himself ousted. Or even worse if he decided to LEAVE the band on his own. Yikes , talk about bad decisions. Oh yeah, and Lars Ulrich was an aspiring tennis star, and pretty serious about it, back in his home town of Copenhagen in his younger days. Until his dad took him to see Deep Purple and he dropped the racket for a set of drumsticks.