This is more like Jason's Anesthesia, a composition for bass

100% agree. Jason wanted Misery to be the instrumental song on The Black Album. Bob Rock had other plans...

@@Breadfan89 Bob rock spoke to tempos, tones and layering for production but he actually had very little do do with arrangements. The band remained steadfast that their songs were their songs, so I wouldn't be so quick to blame him for this outcome.

@@ChristoPatro truth. Furthermore. This is in no way like Orion. This just keeps repeating itself. The song they got out of it was the right way to go for sure. Misery is one of most unique songs in music recording history.

This demo is dry and boring/ dumb. I am glad that they found such a great song inside of it.

Yeah but he was gonna sell Echobrain T shirts. James was totally right in telling him off and not an alcoholic control freak at all.

Lol

@@DeadHandBlues 😂

Still fucked up that Blackened was his contribution and they cut his work from it... pretty fucked imo.. Still love that hauntingly beautiful album though.

Agree 100%…he is not only an incredible musician but an incredible human! Miss his stage presence immensely

I like to imagine Jason with giant Eagle wings singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd

@@DeadHandBlues are you in the front row, hammered drunk?

@@DeadHandBlues quite the imagination you've got there!

@@wardkdouglas Where else would I be!

Sweet, innocent, baby Jason, sitting there in your manger, no care in the world

Totally agree. The lyrics and riffs from this song have spoken to me internally since I was 16 years old.

@@brandonblackwell3502 for real?! that’s fucking awesome, rock on. that’s how it is with nothing else matters.

@@brandonblackwell3502 Tbh, I don't like the lyrics This song was to be a instrumental. And for me, would be better. Would make Jason have his highlight on whole Metallica career, like Cliff with Ktulu and Orion, or Rob with S. And Redemption... and hearing this demo, would be so beatful.

@@addie3235 I've seen them live 5 times. Nothing beats Metallica live. Nobody. First show was in 97'. Metallica always brings their A game.

@@brandonblackwell3502 damn, never seen them. my father has tho, i’m only 14 bahaha buuuut i plan to go to a concert of theirs at least 1 time.

THIS IS what it would’ve and should’ve sounded like.

At the beginning you would hear "Bass solo. Take one" and Lars would come in halfway through and it would speed up a little bit lol.

@@dillinguuur79 Imagine if we got to hear the line "Bass solo take #2" since Cliff was take 1

@@dillinguuur79 no it would be "turn bass down on stereo." 😉🤣

I'd be happy with a 12 minute plus instrumental, would love some longer tracks.. what Iron Maiden Sign of the Cross was like 12 minutes long and kicked ass with all the changes and had vocals on top, that just being an instrumental would have been killer, well anything from Maiden would be. Back to subject, To Live Is To Die is around 9 minutes long, we only had the words written on Cliffs grave stone uttered which added even more to the haunting beauty of that album. Orion is under 9 minutes, back to And Justice For All, Blackened was done by Jason and they cut his work out on his own work... that was messed up imo, don't get me wrong I love the sound of the album, but should at least let him have his work on there... especially when keeping his work on the album.

He chose not to. It was always his own decision to stay with Metallica.

Yeah, but he got to roar

He has had plenty of chances before, during and since

But he got to "Die, motherfucker die!"

& Justice For Jason.

The thing that should've been

Comment of the year

Creeping bass line

wasnt you mean?

@@thedancingguy828 this was supposed to be metallicas instrumental of the album, as they had an instrumental prior to black album

@@brandonphan788 i know lol, but his second sentence made no sense

Jason's solo is from cliff burtons last song which is to live is to die

It was never supposed to be an instrumental. He wanted it to be the instrumental for the album, but that wasn't the plan by everyone else involved with the album. At least, that is the way Jason put it in a video I saw here on youtube.

I could not agree more , same sitch for me got me playing

I bought a bass guitar just to learn this song. 9 years later, the original strings are still on my bass lol!

Totally agree 🤘🏻😠

@@Chris-qi1uh I did the same thing, broke most of the bones in my right hand and had 2 fingers out of the cast. Bought a bass and learned this track, went back to guitar when I healed

so Jason composed both the bass and guitar riffs in this song.

I like that term. Template.

🤘🤘🤘🤘

Yeah yeah, he has released several masterpieces in the last 20 years.

Ah. Knew there would be an "underrated" comment within 6 posts.

@@DaveTaste ofc because it's true

@@DaveTaste All the Metallica hivemind ever talks about and worships is Burton. I hate the term "underrated" as anyone else should; it's a meaningless buzz term nowadays. However, I'd argue that Jason overall is probably their most underrated bassist

If we're thinking on the same guy, I hope he makes an analysis of it soon, frrrriend.

Hey frrriends!

@AndriyVasylenko

@@abrahamobregon7834 He has to. It'll be the perfect follow up to his analysis of Misery

hell yeah

​@@HankMardukas82 srry, sentimental is better for describe it, but the bass solo of the '97 wins it

StateOfMercury did a “what if MFOM was an instrumental” a few weeks ago and it is great

Love Where the Wild Things Are, such a great song.

@@timdahl same.

Great, great song! So late 90 vibes. Ah, perhaps my favorite. Dunno why..

JN was credited on MFOM, WTWTA & BLACKENED.

One of the most eerie and original Metallica songs. Lyrics included.

“Hello again, My Friend Of Misery” is what it should be called

That would be amazing.

Same here

Me too!

Hehe, I've only been waiting for a few months 🤪

I personally prefer Rob, but Jason left a great legacy to the band in the form of Blackened, this song, and Where the Wild Things Are plus Creeping Death backing vocals live.

Rob is more skilled, but Jason brought such an energy, add them together and they make cliff

I like them both and both are where they are supposed to be.

@@Tatorvision my only qualm is I wish they'd let Rob get funky, listen to some of the mid 90's Suicidal Tendencies stuff, or Infectious Grooves

@@dillonmacpherson3350. I totally agree with you. He is wasting a lot of his talent in Metallica 😊

I agree

It could have easily been this instrumental then into the album version. It would have been amazing.

This was Jason's Orion... Oh what could have been? Don't worry Jason. We learned the Cunning Stunts version...I'll be tackling this one now.

There there

Perhaps they could have released it as an instrumental B-Side, but the finished song is a masterpiece, and the best song on the album. I could not imagine a world without the album version. That song has helped me through so many tough times that I would not want to begin thinking back on those dark times of my life. I need that song's existence.

They're not doing it for Jason, they're doing it to promote and sell the jubilee box set. And Jason's getting his share.

"Guys could not accept him as replacement for Cliff"...Yet they likewise had no problem accepting rob as his replacement. Hypocritical and discriminatory. Jason is the best bassist metallica ever had, and one of the greatest in the indutry up there with the likes of Billy Sheehan, etc

@@laqueefasteinberg4981 they grew up a lot by the time rob came, you cant just jump to conclusions that they were being discriminatory. Also they gave Jason the unboxing video as an apology.

@@isaacmorrow7077 as an apology?? The guy played bass on the record and was part of an era in the band that catapulted them to unprecedented success. He deserves it and the band are showing their appreciation towards his contribution

@@laqueefasteinberg4981 I don’t disagree with you, but James Hetfield at the time was young, he didn’t allow Jason to continue with his own project band at the time, they wanted Jason to fall in with Metallica only, they wanted Jason to not only play by the lines written, but also wanted him to improvise on stage, I guess just a clash of styles, Jason perhaps felt like he had big shoes to fill so he wanted to play like Cliff did but He reached for Cliff and James and Kirk wanted something different, not to try and copy Cliff as Cliff was the original, the one and only. Who knows, with Rob now I guess Metallica grew and learned.

Yes

Mate I was just about to say the same thing😂😂

And James also hated Jason's original bass line for 'Enter Sandman' because it was too different from the riff. So which is it, Jaymz?

I keep thinking the same thing.

@sluana1 he changed it quite a decent amount.

Agree with james, a bass player always should be an innovator not a follower of the guitar.

Jason and Cliff were my Metallica

James and Lars made the right choice. As cool as this is and I do like it, It wouldn’t have fit well on the album as an instrumental. It’s also a lot of fans fav song on the album.

@@MeikelLohse How strange, imo that song is weak and should have stayed as an instrumental… the only good part in the song is Jason’s bass riff.

It be cool if Jason and Metallica got together for that project and record his instrumental🙌

Lol no def this is the closest we’ll get. They’re not releasing multiple versions of my friend of misery

He used to play this version as his bass solo at concerts.

What do you mean “probably” this IS his original version and recording of this song! It’s from his riff tape for cryin out loud

@@jd0879 they’re releasing work in progresses though so we can see what happened with those

I'm 🤗😍💕🇱🇷🙏🎶

Yeah well the song that this went on ended up being really good because of this part. Loved the whale sounds and guitar solo that went with it too.

@@JohnnyInJapan yeah I agree too it’s still one of my favourites

You have seen Cliff ‘‘em all right? Or listened to the first three albums bass lines?

@@The_Last_Ninja Jason got mix raped on justice, creatively raped on black, and well load and reload are not worse because of the bass player.

@@RedmistAU But Jason is no Cliff Burton. Just listen to how much bass in the mix of the first three albums, it’s loud for a reason. The Major Rager was a genius, he was and always will be, the best bassist Metallica will ever have. It’s a real tragedy for what happened to him.

@@The_Last_Ninja the bass is not loud in RTL and is barely louder in MOP

@@The_Last_Ninja ok,but Jason after Cliff death revived Metallica back to life

@sluana1 I didn't know Ampossible was made of riffs he wrote for Metallica. That's crazy

@sluana1 that’s awesome, Newsted Heavy Metal Music is amazing

@@danplaysguitar6706Plenty of Metallica songs were actually taken from the bandmates’ previous ones. Cliff’s classic bass solo on For Whom The Bell Tolls came from a piece he made for a high school talent show. I believe he took a few lines and riffs from when he was in Trauma as well. Kirk also took plenty of riffs and solos from his time in Exodus as well.

Thats a weird statement,..saying you liked a song, but not anymore because of a demo tape.... you either like a song or you don't... that's how it works .. My friend of misery was a perfect storm and the song was perfect for the black album as it was... Jason's instrumental idea was very good,but not executable on the album.

@@user-gu3ie yeah, you're right. No one should ever change their opinion on anything after being presented with more information. 🙄

@@m2pmd70 thats not what I'm saying,.. I'm saying it's strange how you can like a song,.. but not like a song anymore because of a non musical reasoning... let's not pretend this isn't about the Metallica vs Jason thing... if Jason still was in the band.. no one would be crying about these things... that's a weird motivation to call maybe the best song on the album,something that has been ruined...especially when you liked to song,.but not anymore because you learn politics behind the song...strange...

@@user-gu3ie - Metalman never said "I don't like it anymore". He said "I think that they’ve ruined it by not leaving it as an instrumental", which is not exactly the same.

@@MrKredski But he did say "I used to like". Doesn't that mean he doesn't anymore?

I wish they do it after all the comments here. They almost have no choices. The song is great. But just this alone is great. It needs the see the light of day. Plus Jason could still easily do it. It's not like it was fast and difficult. Just a beautiful piece on bass alone.

Jason played this version live at least once it’s on YT

It was ultimately the right decision for him. That's all there is to it.

@@BeardedDanishViking If you put it like that... You're right. :'(

Finally, this band has a big chance to have those three bass player

I’d rather have Cliff back. A metal genius

Y que hagan una versión de ésta canción INSTRUMENTAL.