Robert Trujillo spent a while chatting about Metallica’s bassists with Eddie Trunk on his radio display, Trunk Country. The dialog highlights Trujillo’s ideas at the variations between the way in which Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted performed.
“They are very other gamers and I feel that is nice,” Trujillo informed Trunk.
“I like the truth that we are all other, all of us have our factor that we deliver to the band.”
“With Cliff, he was once such an improbable musician. I imply, he was once actually a composer when it got here to the tool, in the similar approach that form of a Jaco Pastorius or Stanley Clarke would’ve been a composer. They are interested by the tune, however they are additionally interested by the voice of the tool inside the tune and learn how to provide it.”
As for Newsted, Trujillo praised him for “maintaining it and conserving it down” when taking part in with Metallica.
“Much more easy [than Cliff], however in a great way. Certainly now not a pedestrian approach; I’d by no means say that. I feel it is simply actually forged.”
Newsted Stocks His Admire For Trujillo
When Hardwired…to Self-Destruct was once launched in 2017, Newsted talked to Final-Guitar about his ideas at the album — which additionally took place to incorporate his ideas on Trujillo.
“Robert’s an excellent fuckin’ bass participant and he is at all times been an excellent bass participant,” Newsted admitted. “I have identified him for 25 years no less than. He is at all times been excellent and I owned all of the Infectious [Grooves] information and I wore Infections T-shirts. I am down. That man has at all times were given my recognize.”
As for Hardwired, Newsted merely mentioned, “[It’s] somewhat other than the opposite effort that led as much as it.”
Lovers Debating Metallica’s Bassists + Newsted’s Ideas on Burton
In a 2023 Reddit thread at r/Metallica, fanatics debated who was once a greater bassist between Newsted and Trujillo. Even though the thread did not generate the type of interplay the unique poster most probably anticipated, the responses have been most often in Trujillo’s want.
On the other hand, one fan broke it down like this: “I have at all times stated that Rob is technically the simpler bassist however Jason had the simpler degree presence.”
Greater than two decades previous to that query being shared on Reddit, Newsted was once a part of an interview with Guitar Global‘s Bass Participant during which he shared his ideas on his taste in comparison to Burton.
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“He was once an ordinary participant,” Newsted stated concerning the overdue legend.
“He had this massive grumble factor occurring reside. Plus, he was once an improbable soloist — that was once his area of expertise. However without a disrespect to Cliff, I feel my selecting introduced Metallica round to a brand new tightness and unit power. Cliff’s sound wasn’t very outlined, particularly when he was once taking part in low at the neck.”
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