lmao ye

dude. I literally fucking laughed out loud at that there Truth.

Dope comment 😂😂

No wife, no kids...

​@@saelaird he has a wife

​@@redacted5035agree to disagree.

​@@redacted5035PAUL

​@@redacted5035Lemmy says no to that

So did Chris Squire from Yes

Phil Lynott

uh huh huh huhh huhh

I am the great cornholio, i need tp for my bunghole - beavis

omg , i see it now

Yup

Yeah huh huh huh

Rob is better, cliff was the best

Jason was and IS so much better as a man and as personaly than those three asholes!!(Rob is also ok, he would never be as 3 BIG a.h.to Jason!)

Jason is awesome, completely underrated and under-appreciated I honestly feel. JN my favourite Met bassist 💯

@@Haplessnote9418 he’s not saying he’s the best

JN was the best metal bassist/vocalist Metallica ever had….RT decent bassist…zero for vocals but 10/10 for walking like a crab and doing a ‘spinny’ thing on stage.

If Lars wasn’t such a fkn egomaniac you just might’ve heard some really superior bass playing on these albums…. Fkn Lars turns the bass down and his drums up in all the mixes, to a point you can hardly tell there’s a bass….. you HAD TO see them live to appreciate Jason’s abilities

@@Glostahdude It is Jason decision to leave the band, instead of focusing on the work. Don't need to blame Lars or James. Sure, Jason is a great bass-player, but ask - WHERE IS all Jason bands-projects he works after Metallica? Jason work on any of it for 2-3 year and then get bored and moves to next project. As a result - no success, but many short-lived nobody need projects. If you are part of Metallica, there is no place for things like this.

@@motorheadrocker6504 Did you even read what he wrote? AJFA Mixer Steve Thompson is on video saying Lars ruined the bass sound on the album. It was all Lars. AJFA came out Aug. 25 1988; Newsted leaving in 2001 has nothing to do with it.

@@motorheadrocker6504 The projection is wild bro

Metallica fans are some of the most insufferable on the planet. People who like listening to music who could never play a day in their life. Band straight up told Jason that he couldn't do side projects while in Metallica. He decided to leave.

Agreed, but don’t forget Ellefson

Nice

not thin lmao

Because Lemmy is a guitarist, not a bass player...he says it himself.

rickenbackers dont have a slim neck, the fuck u talkin about 🤨 lemmys just a big guy.

​@@dickblackmon9644have you ever played a Ric? Im a bass player, played 100s of bass guitars, own 7 basses, Rics have a thin neck. Especially compared to my Fender P basses

@@Headbanger9000 i’ve owned 3 rics, the biggest problem with 99% of bass players is they compare every bass to a p bass because it’s “standard”. play any kind of modern bass, schecter, spector, esp, jackson, even aria even tho they’re older, bc rich, yamaha, alembic, wal, etc etc. rics are much thicker. they feel like a guitar neck more than a bass neck

Agreed!!!! Jason is a beast

Mine too! The best bassist they ever had. Too bad they all treated him like shit. Rob is a great bassist, but they lost a lot of their sound when Jason left. Rob just doesn't have that beastly energy that Jason did.

Also the best vocals Metallica ever had.

@@lasselippert3892 I mean James's vocals are the best. But Jason's backing vocals were perfect

@@groovelife415 since Cliff

Rob gave us crabs.

Cliff was the Hendrix of bass players.

@@jackhaugh he's overrated as hell

​@@jackhaugh nah, jaco

What?! The nonsense thats spewed in comments is unbelievable

Blackened🔥🔥

And Lars attecked his instrument as well

​@@Craysonn I actually broke my E string while playing Shortest Straw. I was attacking it as hard as I could

Totally agree!🎸

If you forget about the existence of Justice I kind of disagree. His bass lines were a pretty big part of the songs on Black, Load and Reload

@Doves first one in, last one out at the studio, the concert, interacting with fans Always. If you are new to Metallica, read some history on the band. Lars, James and Kirk have all said as much.

he made Blackened and My friend of misery

@@johncorcoran5467 You are absolutely right, Metallica even said so themselves that he was the first one in and at the end they would all be driving off exhausted waving to him and flipping him off while he was still staying behind signing autographs with fans and obviously he was exhausted too after he ran that stage more than anyone else and banged that head more and harder than anyone else to the point he even sustained an injuries. Even in the backstage videos you see them walking to the stage and Jason was basically running, Lars described him as "an energy bomb of a kid". And James said he was a true performer "he was a great force, he would sweat , really sweat, he put a lot into the live shows we gained a lot of respect for him when we started touring with him" however I don't believe they actually respected him, I believe they liked what he was doing but took it all for granted. He even wore a metallica t shirt on stage 90% of the time and when asked about it he said it was basically for support and advertising, I forget his exact words but basically describes it like wearing a team uniform and usually the biggest selling shirts at the shows was the ones he was wearing (advertising). He literally did everything he could to do his part, I never seen Rob take over vocal duties like Jason would at times. I seen a show in the 90s where Jason did the entire song of seek and destroy at first I was like wtf is he doing?, get out of there and let Hetfield back in and by the end of it my friend looked at me and said "that was even heavier than James singing" and I couldn't disagree , Jason was on fire and he sounded like he was so pissed and ready to rip someone's head off.

@@alexbergmann2817 He actually had a whole albums worth of material but that was basically all James allowed him to use, he said James was so controlling of the writing. They probably would haved used a lot more of his music if they woke him up and fired him and put him on a greyhound bus.

​@@user-kh2dg7it2nnlook at begining of bass solo in irvine 1989, its on metallica channel and tell me what you hear... james once said that jason should have been given more credits for songs he wrote, but they didnt. they took his ideas and signed ulrich and hetfield

Newsted

Capital N

EXACTLY! That's what makes him hard to ignore. Onstage AND off. LOVE HIM!!!

I agree, he's a fantastic storyteller

Yup, they have very different styles and sounds, I personally feel the fingers can be far more articulate on the bass, and the opposite is true with the guitar. But 90% of the time I think a picked bass sounds better recorded if you actually want to hear rather then feel the instrument

The Victa always wins!! Love Great Bass players fingas or picks!! VC is THE Man!! Lemmy is a Legend! RIP

Idk why that's such a hard concept for finger purists to grasp

@@christianhowell3140 Well, I think playing with a pick gets a bad rep from people who are doing it badly. I'd always reccomend starting two finger alternate picking for beginners and even more so for people who switch to bass from guitar. Your picking hand can take over some of the muting responsibilities and you aren't tempted by muscle memory to play guitar licks - you have to fulfill a different role in the band and guitar licks generally don't make good bass lines. Then you can start to have the fretting hand do more of the muting and when you can do all the muting with the fretting hand you can grab a pick and learn to play bass with a pick as an advanced technique. But you have a lot of players that were the worst guitar player in the band get "demoted" to bass and when they play with a pick it means they haven't really learned a lot about bass playing and certainly not the techniques you need to play picked bass.

@@simongunkel7457 that's certainly involved, I'm in the metalcore scene and every bassist I've played with was originally a guitarist LOL but I'm more referring to boomers who see ANY bassists with a pick (even super accomplished ones) and say "WHY DONT YOU USE FINGERS??!?! CHEATING!". I once saw a vid saying PICKS FOR BASS HAS BEEN RUINED BY MARK HOPPUS CUZ HE SUCKS AT BASS (poor guy probably never heard the verse bassline to Feeling This)

And fans of bass players are even cooler! 🤛😎🤟

They tend to get the most girls.

HELL YEAH!!! \m/ 🤟 FURIOUS FINGERS!!!!!

And Paul McCartney too!

I think Chris Squire too

Sting. Phil Lynott.

Steve Swallow

Even Jaco Pastorius uses pick sometimes

The other guys treated Jason like shit! I saw Jason play with Metallica. A true beast on the bass!!👍🎸

He honestly is, there’s nothing like his tone, he is greatly missed

Cliff rolling his eye rn

Nah, cliff was a great musician that would acknowledge everything Jason did in Metallica. @@PaykoeTsunami93

Cliff didn’t need a pick. Alex Webster didn’t need a pick. Steve Harris didn’t need a pick. Nothing wrong with using a pick, but it isn’t “needed” to play heavy music.

@@eddierichard1104 fair enough. I'm reminded of Charlie Watts back in the day. He used to hate having to play to large venues because he'd have to try to hit the drums harder like Jon Bonham, but that simply wasn't his style. But at some time they finally improved the way they do the live audio mixing so he could go back to his usual softer style. That's what I'm referring to. I'm not referring to proficiency of the player, just that they need the right live mixing.

@@eddierichard1104 Flea doesn't need a pick.

​@@Paul-uo1vwFlea Doesn't Play For Metal, They More Funky So They No Need Pick, Just Like Trujillo With ST.

@@Paul-uo1vw he uses a pick in Parallel Universe

Jason reminded me of blues singer Howlin' Wolf. When he sang he put so much into it he'd scare the piss outa you but see the man smile and he looked like a cuddly teddy bear.

In reality, it has always been more than ok and it's just another way to play the instrument.

Thank you for the amazing comment!

The sad part is that he was never a recognized “member”by the band. He was always considered hired help. After he left Metallica eventually realized how they fcked up. Then when they hired rob they made him a legit member. Had Metallica treated him better he might have still been in the band now.

@@the-guy-on-your-moms-couch even if he had been treated better he would not - if you followed Jason you would know he injured himself rather badly and then had three surgeries and for a short while was hooked on pain killer - he recovered thankfully and is back to being the Jason everyone digs - but he has said numerous times that kind of punishment his body can no longer handle - unfortunately - but would like them to do some special appearances perhaps one day

@@moolmannkosi3985 had he been treated better maybe he wouldn’t have sustained injuries later on. See how that works. You don’t know

@@the-guy-on-your-moms-couch HAHAHAHA really we going to blame a self inflicted injury on how he was treated in Metallica - come now dude grow up a little there man

@@moolmannkosi3985 I didn’t blame anyone. You can’t read though. Get that checked out.

L M F A O

@@HoffaJedi care to clarify why that's so funny?

Well BOB.. No GOAT Bass player uses a pick. There's ZERO songs he played on Metallicas albums that go down as GOAT anything.. Cliff Burton maybe.. He did play really good bass lines but nothing worth of GOAT. Leland Sklar perhaps who has recorded on over 2400 albums, Victor Wooten, Davie504, Justin Chancellor from Tool, Ryan Martinie of Mudvane. There's a hundred better than him

@@timbob1145Jason is undeniably a GOAT bass player 🤘

Right on brother!

Motörhead birthed all thrash and speed metal bands

@@johnmartin60515 They also united the punk and metal movements.

@@bakerboat4572 yes they did. Motörhead and Ramones were the two purest rock and roll bands of my life time. AC/DC with Bon Scott was right in there as well.

Agreed, brother

The people who bitch about picks don't gig.

RIP to both of them

Wow, awesome!🔥🎸🔥

Totally agree with you! Thanks!!

@@barrymichael8713 🤣🤣🫶😎🎸

Eugene Kostyuk from Jinjer is a great example of that. He can do it all.