Seen them live in 1997 on the Reload tour. IT WAS EPIC!!! Cliff Burton will always be Metallicas best bassplayer but I miss Jason and his vocals.

Yea cuz they haven't done shit worth listening to since he left. Fuckin Rob is a stand-in.

@@dirkdiggler7727 I absolutely love Rob, but Rob is a stand in you are correct

Meanwhile, Rob has been in the band longer than Jason ever was at this point.

@@mikeobie1 And hasn't done half as much.

This was also the day he told James and Lars he was leaving Metallica.

Same here.

It was Bob Rock who got him started with the SVT amps and Precision basses. That was his black album sound

@@jackwalsh7956 it was a Spector NS-2 played through an SVT.

@@jackjohnson2360 true. Seems like that was his main bass. But he also used a Stingray and a Precision bass on some stuff.

Yeah, his playing and tone made that album sound heavy as fuck.

You mean all those assholes that throw shit at him for years for not been Cliff and then realized what they´ve lost and now cry for his return? Yeah, i´d rather be alone too.

@Jay Brell what i hate is the hipocrisy people display, they loated him for years, now they loat Metallica for loating him, funny thing is his relation with the band was way better than his relation to hardcore fans, he was really close tp them, specially James

I was just getting into metal at the time, and a few of my high school buddies said they hate Jason, while I saw Jason as just another musician. Yes, knowing Jason was mistreated now, I agree people are assholes.

@@antoniocenteno1483 Thank you!! Goddamn metal fans piss me off. They act like they knew what the hell was really going on between Jason and the others, but really they're just looking for a reason to give them shit. When Jason was a part of the band ""fans"" were always trashing him because he wasn't the next Cliff.

His wife is pretty great. They just did an art exhibit thing a few days ago.

+Jim bob He decided to quit the band on this day. He had told kirk before they started shooting.

Heltflippad Ahh thanks for explaining I did not realise that now it makes sense. Cheers.

Jim bob Ironically Cliff and Jason left at the same date. 27th of september. Sad date in Metallicas history.

Heltflippad Wow you know your Metallica stuff bro and I thought I knew a thing or two.

+Heltflippad jason left in January 2001

What I find interesting is that it sounds similar to Anaesthesia, without sounding like a RIP off. Two of the greatest metal bass lines ever created.

By WHOM? Who exactly "under appreciates" this guy?

with all due respect this song isn't even remotely on the same level as Anesthesia

This was an intro to a song, Pulling Teeth was a one take bass solo Cliff wrote when he was 14.

Jason played two different parts to Misery. Cliff played a whole fucking orchestra on Anesthesia

This was the day he left the band.

@@danielpaez4210 It wasn't the day he left.. but it was the day he decided to leave

agree

Yeah. He looks so torn.

Lars and James were grieving over Cliff and took it out on Jason. They were all still young at the time, and used booze and hazing to hide grief; lacking maturity.

Chris Thayil bullshit excuse to bully someone. I think Jason is a bit of a goofy, eccentric guy who is willing to put up with alot of shit so they took advantage of that and that and didn’t have the balls to admit their behaviour so they came up with the “grieving” excuse.

@Anderson Cooper he was but ok,maybe not at the same level,but he did contribute to their sound

@Anderson Cooper Other than shredding on a bass like he was a lead guitarist, his most noteworthy bass line is the middle of Orion. I prefer the My Friend of Misery bass line myself. And while Cliff could shred on a bass, go listen to Doomsday for the Deceiver by Flotsam and Jetsam, an album that Jason wrote. There are amazing songs on there, with awesome bass lines and very progressive music. Jason was a machine on bass, plus had a great singing voice and stage presence. And go listen to his album Heavy Metal Music by his band Newsted. He could obviously write music, but Cliff got more writing credits because James and Lars actually let him contribute. Give me the choice of Cliff Burton or Jason Newsted in my band, I will take Jason ten times out of ten. He could write better songs, he could sing far better, he was a tighter player, his stage presence was better, and he played the bass like a bass instead of a lead guitar.

Almost unheard of bass change

didn’t expect to see you here brod, i like the tutorials man ♥️

Cliff was better though.

Chris Mckay Cliff was a good player, but Jason is just the essence of Metal, dude... Cliff was part hippie : )

Jason was with them the longest, but arguably, Cliff played on MOST of Kill 'Em All, Ride The Lightning, and Master Of Puppets, which most Metallica fans would agree that those were their best.

Dunno,AJFA is at least as good as those imo.

Dr. Jones It’s also important to note though that Cliff wrote a bunch of the songs on those albums (KeA, RtL, MoP), whereas Jason, by his own admission in this vid, only wrote fully 2 songs within 5 years. Not saying he’s bad or that he didn’t contribute, I’m sure many of the good songs he had in mind just never made it because the band was shitty to him. But Cliff played a larger role in what we now know as Metallica. Jason is still an AMAZING bassist, there’s no question about that, and while I can’t say I miss him (I wasn’t alive lol), I think he’s still better than Rob.

just normal people. it's easy to forget you are comparing to a bunch of narcissistic self-centered egomaniacs

When James and Lars were making fun of Layne Staleys heroin addiction, Jason and Kirk were the only ones who refused to partake in it.

Bob.

I have a lot of respect for the guy. As a person and as a musician.he was so energetic and had so much to give. To bad they caped his creativity

Agree

lol and Kirk is your favourite guitarist i guess XD

Yeah cliff was a god but Jason just had the energy and passion that just makes me happy 🤘

Peter Schwarze Kirk is millions of peoples favorite and has influenced millions of guitarist around the world. Be gone with your bitch assed comment.

but he uses a pick to play bass!!

seriously. What the hell are you on about?

@@monjagyl1100 what are you on about is the real question shit head

Jason's backing vocals were fucking amazing. I loved the Newsted years the most.

Indeed! I saw them during the black album tour. At the Spectrum in Philly, back in '92. Jason had an amazing stage presence and great backing vocals. Loved when he would do his bass solos on stage as well. He really connected with the crowd. As Hetfield said, he was the driving force every night on stage. The sad thing was, Hetfield look down on Jason. Never respected him. I think Hetfield was very jealous of him as well. Was so insecure. Jason said himself, after 15 years and everything we've been through together, you don't consider or treat me as an equal ? Really dude?.

Yeah it is. I didn't know Jason wanted an instrumental on Black. That would've been sweet.

indeed

@@loganstriker2973 isnt that something cliff would do tho? he was being like cliff just like lars and jason wanted but no

@@mrnohax5436 I mean he was a fan

I agree Cliff was fair about alot of things and he practiced 6 hours a day.

As someone who has Load as their favorite or second favorite album, I disagree if you're saying it and Reload are bad albums. But I do agree if you're saying they should've put out more albums in that time period and I definitely agree that Cliff would be pissed at that. He was always a cool guy, very fair, and cared about not only his craft, but how his bandmates felt.

@@volutedmetal8543 Load and Reload were extremely underrated albums Load probably being a little better than reload. But I've always like Jason Newsteds playing and style more than Robs even tho hes good I've always thot Newsted was better and Those two albums Load & Reload are way better than St. Anger IMO.

@@volutedmetal8543 load is good, nice hard rocky stuff. Reload is meh imo

I almoust can fell his sadness... he is a great bass player. I have a band mate that treat me bad too, so i leave the band, but they can´t use all stuff i recorded with them... Lars and James was assholes that time...

Bob Rock disagrees.

I sometimes forget this song has lyrics lol

I dont understand this comment. The songs still fantastic. It's a super solid tune all around.

Yes indeed

Hellyeah

yep just discovered that which is what led me to this !!

It's what he used to play during the And Justice Tour before Master of Puppets!!!

Jason played alot of stuff that he ended up using later on his projects. I remember on the Justice anniversary album there was a bass solo he did in 1989, and you can hear something he did there that ended up on his Newsted Album

same sigh

Plus, he was a beast at backing vocals. The only real Creeping Death live is with him.

+Simone Calloni creeping death sounds empty without the "motherfucker die" from Jason.

+Simone Calloni Whiplash backing vocals, Seattle show. From live shit b&p.

@kiki the gerbil Rob is obviously more technical than Jason but he hasn't got the vibe, the stage presence that Jason had/has, cudos to Rob for sticking around with them for this long and for contributing to a good number of Metallica songs but Metallica with Jason were at their peak imo no offense to Cliff tho, with Cliff, Metallica were the best at the time but imo w/Jason they tasted success with ajfa and black album. Too sad they didn't treat him the way he deserved to be. But as the old saying says, "never play with your heroes".

Nah bro he plays with his fingers too

Jason!!🤘😭🤘

That my friend is a Sadowsky Bass. hand built in California originally and they have expanded the company to NY.

+tony aldridge Sadowsky putting "Fender" on their headstocks now? :)

Not a Sadowsky. Look again. Vintage Fender P Bass.

@@shytownmofo i think its a real 58' p bass

@@furtivegold8727 Yep. Vintage, or real, from the 1950s.

Still remember Jason playing this as a solo at Milton Keynes Bowl in 93, building up to a beautifully aggressive Wah fueled masterpiece.

@@petethechef188 I was just watching that show earlier today!!

Yep. I thought he was gonna play something I'd never heard before!

All you Jason lovers why didn't you support him with his own music. now he's not making shit. He was losing more money than making on his tour. His so called fans suck

Rafael Alvarez Well said

Fucking gold

Exactly

They still do bass solos live? I thought that was a thing of the past... :)

@@hillie47 Before they started the Worldwired-Tour Rob played some little bass solos, like "Jungle essence" or the very groovy thing that ends with him lowering the e-string more and more. For the Worldwired-Tour he plays the beginning of Anesthesia or the middle part of Orion. And if you compare a) Misery to ManUNkind and b) the solos from "Live Shit: Binge & Purge" or "Cunning Stunts" to Robertos Solos you can see what I meant :)

Lets not forget his butchery of a Prince song in Minn, with Hammet as an accomplice.

Joshua Bacher that’s because Metallica use to just be a bunch of air headed bro’s that could actually play good music... They would be the worst company for a metal head.. You hear WAY more stories from the hay days of Pantera, and how cool and down to earth they were.. Hell, Dimebag inspired Dave Grohl to be the “happy guy”... And metal or not, Dave Grohl is one of the most known names in MUSIC.. Moral of the story: follow Pantera-like band members, not dicks.

Reason is cause of Cliffs death that the rest of the band had hard time to let it go especially James keeping all the emotions of angry onto Jason.

@@adihell-9535 Jason was basically their scapegoat for Cliff's death. Just a stress reliever for them

The Evil Incarnate nah dude. It’s the James and Lars show. They actually made it better by making it a song. One of my favorites matter of fact.

Should have*

Listen to Nocturnal Depression's "Nostalgia"

Hell no, it screams "Metallica"

Should HAVE or should've. Stop ruining the English language.

Cliff's sound was far from perfect. In fact it was barely audible. He contributed far more to their compositions and stage presence rather than any tonal characteristics (bar his solos). I do agree that Jason was just a solid and unbreakable floor for them to stand on, and in many ways he was much better for the Black Album's slower and heavier pace than Cliff would have been. They are two very different bassist though so it's unfair to compare them, but both feel like they were legitimately part of Metallica. Rob is a fantastic bassist, but even now he still feels like the new guy.

@@Syklonus He was barely audible because they lowered it during production. It was part of their "hazing"

@@yakuzashibe Everybody knows about the bass being turned down on AJFA as part of the hazing. But when he said he was barely audible he was saying it about Cliff not Jason.

@@PotawatomiThunderNew Hah, just noticed. I'd only just woke up and completely missed the first few words

Shane i wouldn’t even say that james or lars are douches, i think there was some alcohol and drugs that impacted them. Or maybe they just never got over cliff.

You're confusing the word irony with coincidence

Wow. I never realized that

Fawn Del Maibalz He probably do it on purpose.

@@prometheustv6558 no

No shit. I was born on 26 September 2000

They fucked up and lost another great musician

This guy brought us the Blackend riff!!

@@VarsityAthlete04 yes he was a real metalhead with so much potential and Jeimz and Lars treat him like shit because he is not Cliff. How stupid is that.

stargazer _099 No it was both Lars and James that never gave Jason the treatment of a bandmate. Jason was always treated as the outsider, in James‘s words “there were the three of us and Jason“. The only thing I’m disappointed about is James and Lars not getting a punch in the face from Jason. It’s no more than what they deserved.

Yeah he did lol. There was more conrodery and brotherhood than him getting fucked with. He's still rich today. He wasn't treated unfairly in terms of finances, at least.

He had just had his talk with them about echobrain and quit right before this interview.

@@MorganMcGinnis - I need to get through Echobrain again. I did ages ago, it didn't really move me. It might now, as I'm at different state of mind...

It tells you that some times you realize something or someone is important only after you lost it and it's already too late, or Kirk is just a hypocrite...

@@mariloumatusalem2287 I don't think he is. The problem with Kirk is that he didn't really intervened during the decision process, probably because that's his personality. Look at the documentaries, he's a calm dude, and you can see the differences with James and Lars. He actually said in a interview that they didn't treat Jason well. Even if in retrospect, I think Kirk missed Jason.

@@tatianawilliams I Think all three miss him.

I wish I could find the website I read it on. Kirk was crying his eyes out he was so upset that they drove him out of the band.

@@dougcameron6609 Right! He has the same treatment like Jason, but no balls to leave his comfort zone.

Being in a band is like being in a family and a business at the same time - and you shouldnt do business with family for a reason. Creative control over a body of work that ended up being worth billions is a crazy thing to think about hoiw to begin to share -- I feel like as soon as they started making big money, lars and james probably took over - or both tried to usurp each other more likely. Thats a danger that James didn't recognize til they shared a lot of music together most likely - that you cant have Two band leaders. TBH in most bands it wouldve gone down differently - but it was a unique sitatuation that I dont think any of them understood what exactly they were doing tbh - hence the sort of shock at Jason even feeling left out - also they had all been in this thing together since a vvery young age.... they really didn't truly even begin to be adults with perspective on the fame that was propelling them til at least their 2nd or 3rd album - it's like trying to control a chaotic thunderstorm - a ll teh while adding drugs, drink and sex to the party. Good decisions at that point get made by accident at best - they are lucky to be what they ended up being , alive.