(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth

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(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth is the fifth track on Metallica's 1983 debut album Kill 'Em All. It is a bass solo by Cliff Burton, with some accompaniment on drums by Ulrich. The song features Burton's distinctive "lead-bass" style of playing, incorporating heavy distortion, use of the wah-wah pedal and tapping. At the beginning of the track, Burton says, "Bass solo, take one", likely to inform people that the song is played on bass guitar.

It was also the bass solo that Burton was playing when Hetfield and Ulrich first saw him at a gig. Hetfield stated, "We heard this wild solo going on and thought, 'I don't see any guitar player up there.' We were both counting the strings and I finally turned to Lars and said, 'Dude, that's a bass!' Cliff was up there on stage with his band Trauma with a wah-wah pedal and his huge mop of red hair. He didn't care whether people were there. He was looking down at his bass, playing."

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Written By: Burton
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