Dude is preaching like he is a professor at a college teach a Metallica history course. All his vocal inflections letting you know the important points. Pretty cool. Really shows his pride of ownership in all that.

Jason was and is the humblest member of Metallica. The dude is so cool, and you can see the he is ok with the other members

greatest interview ever .... jason ist the king of the underdogs to this day

All Jason's segments could each be a TED talk

I was on a road trip to visit family 16 hours away at age 13 in the mid 90s. My sister handed me her black album cd and told me I might like it. I listened to it on repeat the entire trip. I asked if we could go to the Walmart and if I could get a couple cds. I grabbed the 2 with the coolest looking art. Master of puppets and ride the lightning. I became a metal head because of the black album.

Love this whole talk with Jason. He seems like a great dude.

Thanks for never forgetting your midwest attitude and roots. Ever humble, ever honest, thank you for being the hope the rest of us look to Jason.

Jason is the real deal. Just a straight shooter, no BS. Lotta respect for him

I am one of those kids that picked up a guitar because of the Black Album, I remember listening to the guitar solo on The Unforgiven and I saying to myself: "I wanna learn how to do that!"...

Really good interview Joshua. Fantastic content from Jason but just a great interview from you…. Giving time and not interrupting his fantastic stories 👍

If not for Enter Sandman, I never would’ve gotten into heavy music. Such an influence on me. I picked up a guitar because of it. Jason is awesome, and is greatly missed.

I like the credit he chooses to give AC/DC and Iron Maiden. Edit: And every f*cking thing else you two shared. Again - great chat, and thanks for this!

Absolutely Awesome! Josh & Jason 🤟 How Can You Not Love Jason Newsted? Thank You ! Josh & Jason For This Wonderfully Awesome Podcast! Cheers!

"seems like everybody still likes me" - understatement of the decade!!!

What a guy. So humble

So great to hear from Jason! I wish he would play some metal again as well as the other stuff he's doing these days.

Whilst watching this my Black Album Deluxe box set just got delivered..........it's gonna be a good weekend 🤟🏻

Thanks for having Jason with these in depth talks. As a Metallica fan and a bass player it was super interesting and informative to listen to. Besides that I really like the way Jason talks, it really keeps you hooked and in the conversation. One of the only few people that I know that speak this well.

I enjoyed all 4 episodes. Great to see Jason giving lots of great insight of his time with the band 🤘

Raising my hand as one of the kids that picked up a guitar because of that record (and lightning). Many thanks Jason.

Great interview and god bless you Jason ... my bass hero when I started getting into metal in the late 80s .. what a great few days celebrating the black album !!

I would love to hear a Jason solo album. TCB is cool, but man I miss him on bass

Im fuckin pissed Jason playing with mere mortals in a field days in Upstate New York only about 25 minutes away from me . I really wanted to meet him real god damn bad . He holds that flag for metal and would have been awesome to talk Metallica and his career and maybe get some autographs from him too. Fuck.....

Just like the dude interviewing Jason said at the end I can relate to where he’s coming from. No I’m not interviewing musicians today but if it wasn’t for Metallica’s black album I probably never would’ve gotten into metal and hard rock. I grew up on metal and rock and hip-hop but it probably would’ve just been hip-hop if it wasn’t for Metallica’s Black album. At the same time that album came out is when my parents finally could afford to get cable and I remember seeing the music video for Enter Sandman and I just remember stopping everything I was doing because it was a cool ass video and I just love the sound I was hearing. Within the next few weeks I had a VHS tape of music videos that included all of the singles from The black album plus “One” because in the early 90s they would still show older videos as long as that artist was still in heavy rotation. My dad took me to the record store and the first cassette tape that I ever bought with my allowance from helping him deliver newspapers and mowing lawns was Ride The Lightning. By the beginning of 1994 I had all five of their first five albums but funny enough the black album was the last one I got it lol But that’s the thing so many of Metallica‘s haters don’t get it and some of them even fall in this category. Millions of people got into metal music because of that black album. Go look at the album sales of Pantera, Slayer, Sepultura, And Megadeth Before that album came out. And then go look at the album sales of their albums after the blackout came out. Millions of kids overnight that had never even thought about metal music or now not only Metallica fans but they were fans of heavy metal in general. Metallica got me into all those bands. And don’t let these older metal heads for you because here’s the funny thing there weren’t even 1 million Metallica fans in America in the 80s. They weren’t even selling 500,000 copies of any album until 1987. So this whole thing of “I used to like them and tell the black album” I hear so many people say that and some of them are my age which means they were 11 or 12 or 13 when the black album came out. Even the 80s albums were barely selling 500,000 copies but when the black album came out all of those people that got into Metallica because of the black album went back and started buying the other albums: Kill Em All went from around 100,000 copies sold two 3 million copies sold Ride the lightning went from about 300 copies sold two 6 million copies sold Master of puppets and injustice for all had both sold over 500,000 copies but master of puppets after the black album went on to sell 6 million copies and justice for all went on to sell 1 million copies. The black album gave heavy metal another 20 years of life. Look at all the bands that made it big in the 90s like Pantera and Machine Head and all the other bands that were coming up in the 90s. They all created Metallica as a huge influence. Then when the Nu Metal scene hit you go talk to all the musicians in those bands and they all say they were influenced by Metallica. We are just now getting to the point where it looks like metal is dying off because all the big headliners are you not around anymore or coming close to retirement. Ozzy Osbourne is too old to tour so he’s not going to be introducing people to new bands with Ozzfest, Slayer are retired, Pantera is in the band anymore, iron maiden will probably be hanging it up soon and Metallica and Megadeth are both probably going to be retiring in the next 10 years. So a bunch of metal bands that all sound exactly the same that are all a mix between death metal and hard-core that can’t even sell 20,000 copies of an album are going to keep the scene alive playing in front of 200 people? And this would’ve happened 30 years ago if it wasn’t for the Black album. People can hate Metallica in that album all they want but the truth can’t be denied that there are a lot of other bands that old Metallica a lot of thanks because if not for them there’s a whole lot of great metal bands that probably would still be around but they wouldn’t have sold half the number of albums they did in the 90s without Metallica bringing in 10 million more people to be fans of that type of music.

God bless you Jason 🤘 metallica needs you back your stage presence is bar none. You were the second front man.

Thank you Jason!

I came a little later to the Metallica party as I was 12 in 1996, right on time for their image shift with Load and Reload. But discovering those brilliant albums took me on a deep dive through their back catalogue and their rich history. Amazing.

Great interview- Love Jason. Watched all of them!

Love Jason. Great interview.

SO awesome to watch a full Newsted interview. Love that guy! What I would give to sit down with him and have a few drinks. \m/

Superb... Very informative and a good interview...Jason is phenomenal, he really gives the full picture... Should he watched by everyone

Wow I love this interview so much cause if not for the black album I also would not have ever learned how to play and make music too! 🤘🤘

Very nice to see Jason doing these talks...Trujillo looks more than a session bass player, but Jason was a monster on stage.

I am in for support the return of Flotsam and Jetsam . Old fan here 👊

I love Jason.

'The softest song broke down the tallest/strongest barriers' - Whoah. Dude.

I love Jason. Dude is so awesome

11:25 More than snap Newsted...those guys had already been phoning it in for years by 2001 but yes once you left = game over! Lars doesn't respect his craft at all, Kirk "slaps on anything", James holds everything together and Rob is there to support the effort.

Jason is amazing :)

Could listen to him regale forever

Honestly the Metallica guys, Jason included are the ONLY people I would be super excited to meet if I had a chance in the “celebrity” world.

Dude is a world wide celebrity but still has the view of a garage musician. Jason is the best!

Jason is a true basshero,

Forever the best broke my heart the day he left Metallica, and he was definitely right enter sandman was the 1st song I learned to play on guitar. The black album will always hold a huge part in my soul

❤The Black album💯

Going to the part where J said about Iron Maiden and ACDC paving the way for Metallica to play those other countries and that without them, they never would have had that opportunity... I strongly believe that if Maiden and DC had not played in those places, Metallica would have been the ones to pave the way for the rest of the metal world. Jason is incredibly humble, he knows what Metallica achieved back then for themselves and also everyone else involved, they literally changed the face of metal music ❤ Metallica will always be my all time favourite metal band from that era!

Hahaha, "No Sandman"! Denied! :D I really think Jason would be the coolest member of Metallica to just hang out with and listen to him talk.

Jason u r a fucking Legend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Jason, if you're reading this, you and Devin Townsend are both huge fans of Massive Attack, and apart from playing bass on UNKLE's Psyence Fiction, you've never done your own trip hop project. Just putting a collaboration idea out there, one which might draw some interest from Massive Attack themselves.

I dont think the new metallica contents is nothing from the past. Kudos for giving it their all, but they were more inspired back then, now they are changed men

KING OF THE UNDERDOGS!!!

JASON 'EM ALL !

He's exactly right about the snap he brought and took away.

He’s right about the snap. I’ve said that about Metallica since Jason left. Only I called it the punch. The sonic punch/snap is not there anymore.

👏👏

To be honest Metallica's Metallica is still their biggest selling metal album of all time by entering at #1 on the billboard charts and selling over 18 million copies in 1991 which made Metallica the biggest metal band in the world.

That opening line is so true about there not being another Metallica and how when new bands come out half the people hate them and half the people love them. The fans have become so sensitive and have built so many rules about what they consider to be true metal that they have really ruined it. We will never have bands that reach the heights of Slayer or Pantera let alone Metallica. With Ozzy Osbourne getting ready to probably retire and Metallica probably only being able to tour another decade I think we are looking at the end of big metal shows. Bottom line it doesn’t matter how good any new bands are going to be they’re never going to bring in more metal fans because we might have more bands than ever but these bands have fewer fans than ever. I mean if back in the 90s Peter Steele had to work a factory job when he wasn’t touring and I just listened to an interview with the guitarist from Soulfly that just had to quit the band because he couldn’t afford to be in the band anymore and he has been working construction, that tells me that metal music is dying off. Soulfly sells more albums than the other thousands of metal bands that die hard metal fans love so the days of being in a band for a living are coming to an end. The metal community never understood that we need big acts like Metallica or Ozzy Osbourne or Korn or Pantera. If everyone’s doing Death Metal or hardcore or one of the other sub genres where it’s all Cookie Monster lyrics then yeah metals days are coming to an end. There could be a band that comes out tomorrow and they are album could sound like something that would be the sixth Pantera album and the metal fans today with crap all over it and call it corporate hard rock. The The fans have made it damn near impossible for new bands to make a living at this. They’ve also made it completely impossible for the fan base to grow. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with grindcore or death core or death metal or any of the 5000 sub genres of those genres but when one of the rules is if you can understand the lyrics then it’s not metal it’s just getting stupid. The original metal bands and some of the original metal bands aren’t even considered metal anymore, that’s the other thing back in the day AC/DC was considered heavy metal. Everyone loves and respects Black Sabbath but if the band came out that sounded like Black Sabbath it wouldn’t be called metal. And I know people reading this and thinking “F you! Will be Just happy in our small club shows!” Yeah but it helped those club bands out if they could open up for someone like slayer or Soulfly or fear factory in a bigger place. These bands aren’t going to have the money to even do a small club tour. You can put out the best album in the world but at the fan base is so small that only 5000 people like the band and half of those people stole the music off the Internet they’re not gonna be able to do any shows outside of the city that they live in.

For all the love and nostalgia for the Black Album, Metallica cracked the door with And Justice For All. I was a fan from the early days and having to step into Cliffs shadow had to be the most difficult bass gig a man have ever had to step into and Justice slayed….(could have used a bit more bottom end on the record) but he stepped up and they proved they belonged there. Got to see them on that tour, and they killed for a backwater gig in Spokane. Love what Jason gave to the band. Would love a remix of that record with his parts….heard that it exists but I haven’t come across it. I think Justice was a better record. Time and place and a moment.

Props to this knot fest dude letting Jason speak

King Underdog

Love Jason to death, funny how he always talks about his time in Metallica " as a job" how "they worked really hard" Ohhh I wish my job working really hard was playing worldwide gigs and recording albums... and becoming hugely rich during it all.... just sayin! I love Jason.

7 Metallica t-shirts for 7 days. 👍👍👍💪💪💪❤️

Still wish Jason was in Metallica. No disrespect to Rob he is a great bass player, I just think Jason fitted them better and great backing vocals

It even influenced non Rock and Metal fans to pick up an instrument and play something from the Black album!

I cannot understand the small number of viewers of this video.

Wish the volume was more balanced. You're WAY louder than your guest.

Most would only put the black album 4th on their Metallica list. So it's a middle of the pack album. Yes they snuck a couple of tracks in to the charts which is more about timing and what they had produced before. But to go on like it's the greatest thing ever is a bit of a stretch.

I once had to trade my sister to this guy for his bass pick.

To everyone that likes to say Metallica screwed Jason and they’re scumbags for how they “treated” him look at him guys. There isn’t an ounce of bitterness in that man’s body. So if he can get over it and be proud of what he and his band mates accomplished I think y’all can definitely get over it. Also the guy is a millionaire because of Metallica so I don’t wanna hear that they treated him like shit. If that’s treating someone like shit well sign me the hell up cause

They sure like to pat themselves on the back - here's the real truth - it was the record where they sold out and slowed down, became radio posers and did everything lame they swore they'd never do up until that point. I have a distinct memory of all my burnout friends who had loved them from the start getting the record at a midnight sale event and all of them being so disappointed and thinking it was the lamest thing since Turbo. One of them even cried. Never been worth a shit since. Newsted's album with Flotsam and Jetsam absolutely nukes Black.

Yes you did something very special. Sold TF out and went to sh1! since then

Loves the weed now does Jason

i like sandwiches too.

THE BLACK ALBUM IS ALREADY A PIECE OF MUSIC HISTORY. NOBODY IN THE WORLD WHO GREW UP IN THAT GENERATION DOESN'T KNOW THE BLACK ALBUM. IT'S LIKE THE NATIONAL ANTHEM FOR HEAVY METAL. IF METALLICA WOULD RELEASE A BEST OF OR GREATEST HITS ALBUM. MOST OF THE SONGS IN THAT COMPILATION WILL BE TAKEN FROM THE BLACK ALBUM.

Very confused Jason did quote, I can't play like that anymore now he's Just contradicted himself ! He can but not for hour's at a time ,why didn't he Just say that in the First place!

He opens up by saying,"There's never gonna be another Metallica and there's never gonna be another"Black" album." This is very telling because the "Black" album was by far their best selling album and it was the album that made them real true superstars and the best rock band at that time. However,after the "Black" album they changed their look and softened their sound as well. So what the interviewer is saying is, there will never be another Metallica that did the "Black" album. Cuz he knows as we do that the "Black album was the last great Metallica album. Idk how many albums they've put out since. They have even come close to black. He's right,and nope! Metallica will never be the band they were from "Killem All" to "Black Album". And they haven't been that band since 1992? Right? So over 20 years now.#WELLDONE

This video has 666 likes and it feels wrong for me to change that.

EDIT: THANKFULLY there's never going to be another Mc'Tallica, because after the gargantuan sellout event that happened with the black album, we can rest assured that a soulless sellout cash grab of such epic proportions will never happen again. The best player for the black album CD is the trash bin. ALL FALSE METAL THERE.

Jason, you’re too fucking metal man… too metal for you’re own good 😊

Jason was on 4 albums that sum up Metallica's music Justice: heaviest thrash Black: good hard rock/metal Load: ok hard rock Re-load: poop

By 1991 they were fully scripted and said the same jokes in the same spot in the show, night after night, city after city. It lead to Brittany Spears mime show. The jokes were fully scripted. Bands like Show -Ya were prevented from global sales so scripted Bands like metallica could exist. Had we known about Show -Ya, ugly kid joe wouldn't have existed. Australia has discovered the secret Bands like show -Ya all thanks to smart technology and all sales of American product are taking a dive as a result. Music is dead and buried anyway but as a consoleation prize we get brand new Show -Ya who are still leading metallica after 35 years! I'm glad it's 5 Japanese girls kicking your butt , Jason. Women can get the job done better than men AND they're still friends.

What he did, what's very special, is Doomsday for the deceiver!

Interviewer is sorta boring. Has a blank stare alot

The enormous over the top studio production and mastering was what made that album. Live, the songs sounded crap

Ghost are kinda like the new Metallica. Their cover of "Enter Sandman" shreds.