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Jason Newsted

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'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.


— Jason Newsted


#grow up #i #kid #live #living

Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008, that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums.


— Jason Newsted


#back #bands #going #i #listen

The past is where its supposed to be.


— Jason Newsted


#supposed #where

To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.


— Jason Newsted


#first #insight #kind #look #looking

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.


— Jason Newsted


#bass #burton #came #cliff #could

After playing with Rob Zombie, I was ready to go, 'OK, this is as far as I'm taking this bass-playing thing. This is the end of the road.' I was ready to kind of hang it up.


— Jason Newsted


#as far as #end #far #go #hang

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.


— Jason Newsted


#i #i want you #man #rock #want

I don't play video games.


— Jason Newsted


#i #play #video #video games

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.


— Jason Newsted


#bass #because #best #ended #gene

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.


— Jason Newsted


#else #i #instruments #my time #play






About Jason Newsted






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And Justice for All)
"My Friend of Misery" (Metallica)
"Where the Wild Things Are" (ReLoad)


Departure from Metallica
During a meeting between the members of Metallica in January 2001 Newsted who was unhappy with the direction Metallica was taking[citation needed] proposed that the band should take a year-long hiatus and he would use that time to focus on his side-project Echobrain. During an MTV interview both Osbourne and Newsted showed extreme enthusiasm in writing a new album together with Osbourne comparing Newsted to "a young Geezer Butler. Robert Trujillo became the band's new bassist in 2003.

Jason Curtis Newsted (born March 4 1963 in Battle Creek Michigan) is an American metal bassist known for his work with Metallica Voivod and Flotsam and Jetsam. He is also the founder of the Chophouse Records studio and label based in California. After he left Metallica he continued with his project Echobrain played with Ozzy Osbourne and joined heavy metal band Voivod.

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