Robert Trujillo expended some time chatting about Metallica’s bassists with Eddie Trunk on his radio exhibit, Trunk Nation. The discussion highlights Trujillo’s thoughts on the dissimilarities in between the way Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted performed.

“They are pretty distinct gamers and I really feel that is fantastic,” Trujillo told Trunk.

“I appreciate the actuality that we are all diverse, we all have our matter that we provide to the band.”

“With Cliff, he was this sort of an extraordinary musician. I imply, he was unquestionably a composer when it arrived to the instrument, in the precise very same way that sort of a Jaco Pastorius or Stanley Clarke would’ve been a composer. They are considering about the song, but they are also imagining about the voice of the instrument in just the song and how to current it.”

As for Newsted, Trujillo praised him for “maintaining it and maintaining it down” when participating in with Metallica.

“A substantial quantity much more extremely uncomplicated [than Cliff], but in a very good way. Absolutely not a pedestrian way I would hardly ever say that. I consider it is just in fact sound.”

Newsted Shares His Respect For Trujillo

When Hardwired…to Self-Destruct was released in 2017, Newsted talked to Supreme-Guitar about his feelings on the album — which also took location to include things like his concepts on Trujillo.

“Robert’s a great fuckin’ bass player and he’s constantly been a fantastic bass participant,” Newsted admitted. “I’ve identified him for 25 decades at minimum. He’s continually been extremely very good and I owned all the Infectious [Grooves] information and I wore Infections T-shirts. I am down. That man has typically purchased my regard.”

As for Hardwired, Newsted generally described, “[It’s] a tiny bit distinctive than the other power that led up to it.”

Fans Debating Metallica’s Bassists + Newsted’s Thoughts on Burton

In a 2023 Reddit thread at r/Metallica, lovers debated who was a far better bassist amongst Newsted and Trujillo. Although the thread failed to produce the sort of conversation the initial poster probable envisioned, the responses have been commonly in Trujillo’s favor.

Getting stated that, one particular unique fan broke it down like this: “I’ve commonly described that Rob is technically the superior bassist but Jason had the enhanced stage existence.”

A lot more than 20 decades prior to that problem presently getting shared on Reddit, Newsted was element of an interview with Guitar Globe‘s Bass Player in which he shared his thoughts on his style compared to Burton.

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“He was an remarkable player,” Newsted stated about the late legend.

“He had this massive grumble matter most likely on remain. Additionally, he was an remarkable soloist — that was his forte. But with no disrespect to Cliff, I really feel my choosing introduced Metallica close to to a new tightness and device strength. Cliff’s sound wasn’t extremely outlined, specially when he was taking element in smaller on the neck.”

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