Jason Newsted talks about Lemmy playing with a pick
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2022
- Jason Newsted from Metallica talks about Lemmy from Motorhead inspiring him to use a pick while playing bass guitar.
Jason Newsted is an American musician who was the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He first performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam from 1981 to 1986 before joining Metallica
Lemmy, was an English musician. He was the founder, lead singer, bassist and primary songwriter of the rock band Motörhead, of which he was the only continuous member, and a member of Hawkwind from 1971 to 1975. - Розваги
He looks 18 and 55 at the same time
lmao ye
dude. I literally fucking laughed out loud at that there Truth.
Dope comment 😂😂
No wife, no kids...
@@saelaird he has a wife
"Lemmy made it okay to play with a pick"
Indeed he did, bro
@@redacted5035agree to disagree.
@@redacted5035PAUL
@@redacted5035Lemmy says no to that
So did Chris Squire from Yes
Phil Lynott
" He's Lemmy, he can do whatever hell he wants "- butthead
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
He will ALWAYS be my favorite bassist for Metallica. I wish he was still there for sure.
Agreed!!!! Jason is a beast
Jason was just such a monster live
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.
Lemmy strumed the slim necked rickenbacker bass like a rhythm guitar.
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
Cliff gave us melody and virtuosity, while Jason gave us pure SOUL.
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
God, do I MISS him... to this day... he is just so, so great as a musician, singer and person!!!
Thank you!🤘🤛
I love jason. He was a great Metallica bassist
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.
And in my generation we say “Jason made it okay to play with a pick” 🤘🏽
If Lemmy says its ok, then it's ok!!!
Jason f*cking rules. Hardest working guy in Metallica during the 90s.
@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-kh2dg7it2nlook 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
He certainly did attack the instrument.
Excellent musician.
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
Jason newsted is one of the most underrated bassist, what a awesome artist
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Jason is a combination of tough and intelligent at the same time. He's very well spoken
EXACTLY! That's what makes him hard to ignore. Onstage AND off. LOVE HIM!!!
I agree, he's a fantastic storyteller
Jason was a criminally underrated and underutilized bassist. I miss Jason 😔
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
Jason’s the man. Good dude too.
I appreciate him so much. Jason inspired me to become a musician 😊.
jason is such a genuine fella
A real Monster on stage
Bassists are always the coolest members in a band \m/
And fans of bass players are even cooler! 🤛😎🤟
They tend to get the most girls.
HELL YEAH!!! \m/ 🤟 FURIOUS FINGERS!!!!!
Jason's talent on bass is drastically overlooked. He has recorded some badass solos.
I personally asked Victor Wooten if he ever uses a pick. He said "sure, when the song requires it".
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)
John Paul Jones played with a pick too. Thats two titans of bass playing right there.
And Paul McCartney too!
I think Chris Squire too
Sting. Phil Lynott.
Steve Swallow
Even Jaco Pastorius uses pick sometimes
i hope jason can rest his head at night knowing he was such an integral part of metallica in that era. i swear some of his live performances are unrivaled.
Jason made it ok for me to play with a pick. He’s the whole reason I ever picked up a bass, and it changed my life. I’d pay good money to be able to tell him but the best way to honour him is to keep being metal AF 🤘🏻🤘🏻 Long live King Jason, long may he play!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Jason is the reason why I play bass with a pick.
He's a phenomenal bassist!
Right on brother!
Jason's bass lines in Metallica are my favorite. The bass lines on ..and justice for all (when you finally get to hear them) are incredible. Also the black album has great bass lines.
Jason newstead is a legend
Love Jason! He rocks so hard!!!❤
great to see jason, great bass musician
The best Metallica bassist for me. Dangerously underrated player.
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
Best bassist metallica had EVER
I Love Lemmy & I Love Jason
Jason is a savage still the coolest Rockstar in my opinion
Jason will always be Metallica to me . He had the energy
Jason another real gentleman 👍
Jason is amazing
one word; the attack..
hell yeah, man!
🤘
Jason Newstead attacks the bass...UNDERSTATEMENT
🤘🤘🙏
Jason is awesome
I love Jason Newsted.
This dude has been so gracious.
He wasn't playing soft jazz in some bohemian nightclub, he was playing thrash metal to stadiums with one of the loudest bands ever. Of course he needed a pick.
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
One of my all-time favorite bassists, Mr. Newsted.
As a kid I was so scared of Newstead, he looked the most badass member of the band, someone who was better not to mess with. Seeing him like that after many years it's like looking a whole different person.
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.
Miss him with Metallica… too sorely missed. 😞
Love you Jason. Your a BEAST.
For people wondering, the music you can hear hear in the background is a bass solo from San Diego '92
My favorite musician to c play live dude is a beast miss u metallica
Jason the metallica G.O.A.T!
Lemmy was THE BASS PLAYER!🤘🖤
Best member of Metallica ever
Agreed, brother
Jason is the absolute goat imo. The man was/is truly a monster of rock.
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@@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 🤘
You were the last true metallica member man. That seek and destroy rendition! The bomb! Love you
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.
Lemmy made it okay for Jason to play bass w a pick and Jason made it okay for me to play bass w a pick, the circle of metal🤘🤘⚡️
In reality, it has always been more than ok and it's just another way to play the instrument.
Such a great bass player 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Metallica really loved Motorhead
I love this guy
Jason, you are on of the greats! Your audition with Metallica is legendary as well as your abilities with the bass. 🤘🤘
Thank you for the amazing comment!
guitar player here - played bass for 3 years in a band - wanted to play with my hands - needed to do the same as Jason
Jason is a monster bassist. Justin chancellor also plays w a pick and he is probably my favorite bassist ever.
Jason .We love you .
Jason is a beast of a player. Thanks for your contribution to music sir
Jason gracias por tu humildad hermano 🦾🇦🇷
Love Jason newsted
God Bless Lemmy, God Bless Motörhead
Bro that cut with him playing after he speaks 🔥🔥
God I miss him in Metallica
Jason was the backbone live to Metallica..his demonic backing growls and vocals where on another level live..
Miss you Jason metallica aint metallica with out you or cliff!
RIP to both of them
Just like Paul in The Beatles did. Always with a pick....love it
Newsted just seems like he would be a cool person to hang out with.
I never understood the hate from the bass community towards picks...
I play both ways, each certainly has its pros and cons, and you can get any kind of articulation if you got the right type and material of pick - wood, metal, even felt, it all adds to creating basslines that'll make people *move* 🤘
The people who bitch about picks don't gig.
my favorite METALLICA bassist always played 1,000,000%
Jason rules. Great player, wonderful guy.
I miss this guy
Motorhead had a lot of influence on Metallica. There's plenty of stuff with them talking Motorhead.
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.
Best bassist for Metallica
I love that man. His heart has carried me through every adversity
Wow! Nice!! Thank you🤘🎸
Jason made it ok for me to play bass with a pick. He was the first bass player I saw playing like that, and since then Jason was and still is my main influence. God bless this man.
Lemmy was more authentic than the word itself.
Gotta love Jason
I love how moving forward we can always feel good about Jason being real and sticking to what he believed in. That’s what metal is really about. Believing in something and not having others opinions affect that
We love jason! We want more jason content
Máster of bass Jason forever
If you want the clear and metallic sound of the string for rock/fast songs, the pick is the way to go.
Great Jason🤟💪
Lemmy did it, passed his skill to a living legend 🤘
Legend has it that Jason still despises catered sandwiches
Jason is a hero of mine.
Thanks brother! 🤘🤛🎸
@@VirtualLiveShow ur not him are you?
@@deadbrother5355 I shot the video at his house in his art studio and know him personally super great guy as you said! Also, I am the creator of EMGtv🤘
He went into a record store back when he was young, went into the import section and they had Motorhead, and that's where he saw that Lemmy used a pick.
It was one of those record stores that actually showed customers whether or not the bass players on their records used picks to play.
**Chris Squire entered the chat**
The real lick is being good at both while also having some funky slap bass chops
Eugene Kostyuk from Jinjer is a great example of that. He can do it all.
As a guitarist told me, "There is alway more than one way to do something (on guitar)." That's true!
Jason bass is true metal, male, with definition, without compromise, solid, in function of song, without fancy,
he is one of the last metal bass warriors...
Jason will always b my favorite besides Cliff Burton... His technique is phenomenal!!!🤘🤘🤘
I use a pick when necessary for a song, never limit yourself finding the tone. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
God I miss jason in metallica! He was such a pivotal role in that band. ❤