If you guys think this sounds sloppy, has crappy tone, etc. Then go and listen to Cliff's recordings, lets see how butt hurt some of you get. All 3 of them are/were great bassists and do/did their part exceptionally well. Stop the hate already, Jason joined the band nearly 30 years ago and its been more than a decade since Rob joined. Metallica isn't slowing down..
Yeah the only time I liked his tone was in pulling teeth, whom the Bell tolls, call of ktulu, and Orion. When he was following James rhythm it sounded like shit
Honestly if you own a half ass decent stereo you can hear the bass just fine. Sure it should have been a little louder but invest in a decent stereo and thank me later!
Honestly think the tone is too Farty and mid rangey to sit in the mix and sound good. It sounds like shit blended with the guitar. I think that’s why they turned it off. If it had a brighter treble and less mids it would have been epic. Like Rex Brown’s tone.
I'm a bass player but when I play guitar I play through my bass rig and bass is always higher than when I'm playing bass. God like chug chug that blasts through your chest. Lol fun times
Honestly I don't know if this is audible enough on the official mix for the similarity to be intentional. Maybe if Jason's bass tone carried through similarly during a live show, did the big four see each others' concerts regularly?.. hmm
Well, Ellefson started using Jackson basses with the bright tone we all know after Peace Sells which was out in 1986 and he didn't use distortion and both are pick players which results with more snappy tone.
most technical bass track of all Metallica tracks. Fast and very on point. Very hard to pull off. Say what they want but Jason is very very underrated!
That is one of the most satisfying sounding bass I've ever heard. Am I the only one who prefers the sound of bass with a pick rather than with fingers?
This picture is hilarious with Jason. These tracks can be helpful to learning Metallica songs on bass. I do think that the bass is an under appreciated instrument. A bass can take a forefront part in music. Solos can be done with the Bass as Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted prove. I am inspired by them both, and I have my own bass instrumentals that I have put on youtube. Here are some of the names of some of them, Horrid Hop, Serpent Sacrament, and Juggernaught Groove. Click on my face to get to those videos. Thank for watching my bass instrumental videos.
Is this you playing the bass or the original bass track? Sounds really good. Wish the bass wasn't so buried on this album. You can barely hear it. Metallica really fucked Jason on this album.
Manuel Martinez No you must ask the person at metfan41 channel about this bass only track. The above post I was trying to promote my own creations on my youtube, but Cliff Burton is one of my main inspirations for doing bass instrumentals.
in the photo is he counting on his fingers how much money he has saving up, till he can quit the band.... by the way dude Manuel maybe YOU can barley hear it. but to my ears its just right in the mix...
@@nicholascabral But thanks to the band giving guitar hero a good chunk of their songs in stem form, and people ripping the CD and converting the stems back into pure audio, we have And Justice for Jason!
Antonio V Not exactly true. Lars wanted a very particular sound on his drums. Once the producer mixed the bass in Lars yelled at him and told him to change it back, sacrificing the bass.
+mkfanforever58 i heard Lars and James talking about the guitar Drum battle as usual volume pumped up so it drowned the bass in the progress a shame though
Steve Thompson, who was the guy who mixed ajfa, said lars wanted to turn to the bass to where it was barely audible because he didn't like the way it made his drums sound
None of Metallica's bassists have had a good voice on any of there albums, i wish the bass was as clear through the mix like Megadeth :( cause all of metallica's bassists are fucken awesome!
@@johnp82 I don’t think it’s that audible (cliff wise) on some songs and others he’s a giant part. Weird but just my opinion. Black has all the bass you need
Wait...this album contained basslines? Some friends and I have made the word "newsteading" into a verb. Murderface might say, "hey, you guys totally Newsteaded my bass tracks!"
Keep in mind that Jason essentially went from a glorified garage band in Flotsam and Jetsam to one of the biggest underground (at the time) metal bands. If you've never recorded an instrument you can't truly appreciate how difficult it is...especially when your going from your whole band jamming in one room together to going into a sound booth with an engineer and a metronome. That's why it sounds a little rough around the edges.
Don't make excuses for him. It wasn't great playing. Period. Anyone who can play can record. I get it, sometimes when record gets pressed everything gets fukt up. It happens. But you get past it. Just be honest about it. This recording sucks.
I didn't know the bassline was this neat! I like how sometimes when he's playing it plays like a power chord in some parts. I love that tone too. Just enough grit
I love the aggression with which he plays! What Jason lacks in technicality he always made up for in heart, and in spades!! (And, to be fair, this stuff can get quite technical, but we're comparing him to Cliff and Rob)
I don't see why people hate on Jason, he's a great musician, he just wanted to use his talent for what he wanted to use it for. You can't really fault him for that.
I like how he utilized an awesome Cliff Burton technique called the “Octave Roll” during the main riff and the Solo. An Octave Roll is where you finger an open string and the octave above it very rapidly, but it also seems to work with a pick as well. Cliff used this technique a lot in Kill Em All. Just listen to the short bass break in Metal Militia and you will here it. Come to think about it, maybe they should have wrote a bass break for just about any ...And Justice song. That way, Lars would have to reconsider forcing Flemming to turn down the bass for the album.
A burton technique? Really? Like it hasn't been around since the dawn of stringed instruments. Can't stand when people say crap like this. And they don't with Dave mustaine too and that so called spider chord.
Great opinion! I guess that I will add mine! On charisma and overall influence it's 1. Cliff, 2. Jason, 3. Rob On vocals/bass execution it's 1. Jason, 2. Cliff, 3. Rob On bass playing itself it's 1. Rob, 2. Cliff, 3. Jason (Rob wins here obviously on diversity-and it's apparent that he makes the other guys step up their game! Even though they are in declining years, I shudder to think of how they'd be if he WASN'T with them.
@@ballsrgrossnugly Steve Thompson(the mixer) was exaggerating, much like most people who listen to AJFA. The bass is there, fairly easy to hear it too. You just don't hear Jason hitting the strings, so only the resulting (wub wub wub) of the bass is there. This is the result of cranking the high frequencies and normalizing the volume. It basically cuts out a ton of the midrange. James explains what happened here: www.kerrang.com/the-news/james-hetfield-explains-why-metallicas-and-justice-for-all-has-no-bass/
In that pic, Jason is like ''oooh are you saying that i can plat with this? without pick? SHIT THIS SUCKS'' -if you know you laugh , if you do not understand you laugh the same
@Sokmerius This is him. They used the master tracks for Guitar Hero, which is how we got these isolated tracks. Notice how only the Metallica songs on a GH or RB game are the ones that people have isolated vids for.
Except the bass in puppets isn't jason newsted, it's cliff burton. The bass in that album is the normal volume of how a bass should be in a metal mix. Listen to orion, master of puppets, and battery for some good bass tracks on that album
+megadethmofo Or the intro, or the whole BASS SOLO in the second movement. With the rest, you might not be able to extinguish the bass, but you'd hear if it wasn't there.
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The Good Guy Haha, I must've been tired. What's the word I was looking for? To be honest, I still don't know.
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First 35 seconds: total silence
Me: Yep, sounds like Metallica bass line.
I thought it was a joke. Lol.
Haha :) Good one!
It would be really funny if this was just 7 minutes of silence
What i thought originally
+AfterFX | Minecraft Listen to the video with volume this time.
***** I did, so I thought I would joke back
#blackhumor
+Reid Merrill LOL legit what I thought of as well.
James:Holy shit we gonna use dat
Jason:🙂
Lars:But without bass
Jason:😟😢
Andriy Vasylenko LoL
Fuck Lars I’m still pissed
Hi frrrrrriends
Hi friiiends
Hi frrrrrrrrrrrriends
Jason's picking sounds almost like he's hitting those strings with a hammer. Impressive speed and accuracy for such strong picking \m/
That's a technique an avant garde band should try out.
Ever seen him play live? he downpicks EVERYTHING
@@acerhythm7026 for me it sounds really shitty if don't downpick main riff and don't mute the low E
@@krzysztofburek9038 is there anyone who doesn't palm mute the E on the main riff anyway?
@@tibetsonmez6664 i hope not
2:42 normal bass player
2:45 jason newsted
+GuitarRazze I love you man! Why don't you collaborate with someone? Your work is incredible.
GuitarRazze I
GuitarRazze
GuitarRazze yo dude. You're awesome.
Jason Newsted is a normal bass player!
The only song jason was credited for on the album.
Such badass fucking bass sound
not a huge fan of the bass sound but what a monster riff :P didn't realise he wrote it..
@@jibicusmaximus4827how not a fan of the bass
@@PopTartMan-dk2qqit's fucking coool
I wish could reach that tone.
one of the most underrated bassist ever
Debatable. Proceed.
Underrated? Hardly.
james and lars LITERALLY STOLE THIS MANS PRIME FROM HIM thats why hes underrated
he played in the most famous and successful metal band of all time, how is jason "underrated"?
@@umi6817 this is such a dumb question lmao
If you guys think this sounds sloppy, has crappy tone, etc. Then go and listen to Cliff's recordings, lets see how butt hurt some of you get. All 3 of them are/were great bassists and do/did their part exceptionally well. Stop the hate already, Jason joined the band nearly 30 years ago and its been more than a decade since Rob joined. Metallica isn't slowing down..
***** GAY TROLL IS GAY!!!!!!
Yeah the only time I liked his tone was in pulling teeth, whom the Bell tolls, call of ktulu, and Orion. When he was following James rhythm it sounded like shit
Sloppy? What morons would say such a thing? This is like one of the cleanest metal bass riffs ever
Charlie Digital fight fire with fire bass is pretty sloppy though
It's far from "clean", clean tone maybe, but it's very "rattely", are you deaf?
why does jason look like he's trying to figure out the math for how many times his bass was turned off in this picture?
gold
Unrelated, but nice profile pic my friend. Let’s go Devils!
That's simple. 8
Nice profile pic
Lmfao....you nailed it bro!
Such a brutal tone!
CoTeCiOtm All for nothing, unfortunately. I’d be pissed
@@swehog i think black album jason´s tone is better
Honestly if you own a half ass decent stereo you can hear the bass just fine. Sure it should have been a little louder but invest in a decent stereo and thank me later!
Honestly think the tone is too Farty and mid rangey to sit in the mix and sound good. It sounds like shit blended with the guitar. I think that’s why they turned it off. If it had a brighter treble and less mids it would have been epic. Like Rex Brown’s tone.
His tone on black doesn't have this damn brutal tone and speed.
i like these bass only tracks. There are soo many great bass licks you can never hear, unless u know they are there.
Shame it was turned down in AJFA, this tone is so sick.
I would honestly buy an entire set of albums worth of only Jason’s bass tracks
I swear, in some of these metal bands, the guitar player turns up the bass knob on their amp higher than the bass player in the studio.
A good example of that would be the album Victims of Deception by Heathen.
I play with mine super low and my mids cranked way up, add some distortion and you’re good to go
I'm a bass player but when I play guitar I play through my bass rig and bass is always higher than when I'm playing bass. God like chug chug that blasts through your chest. Lol fun times
4:31 sounds like that riff from whom the bell tolls.
Yeah cuz it’s on the e string and using frets 2 and 3 and bell tolls are frets 1 2 and 3
Still can’t believe they muted these beautiful bass tracks. Jason killed it.
It reminds me of Ellefson's tone and style of playing on Holy Wars. And duly noting AJFA's release of 1988 and Rust in Peace in 1990.
punishmentforall I'm going to search Holy Wars enhanced bass right now!!
Honestly I don't know if this is audible enough on the official mix for the similarity to be intentional. Maybe if Jason's bass tone carried through similarly during a live show, did the big four see each others' concerts regularly?.. hmm
@@rellik187redrum if u see the clip version u can hear the bass clean and high.
Well, Ellefson started using Jackson basses with the bright tone we all know after Peace Sells which was out in 1986 and he didn't use distortion and both are pick players which results with more snappy tone.
@@Cake_Doge Thanks.
can someone mix this with the cd track?
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@@nekoshka7985 oh what an F
woah, xisumavoid! I didn't know you liked Metallica. :D
Was not expecting you here lol
Woah, didn’t expect to find you here
Holy shit Jason's picking has so much attack it sounds very tight.
most technical bass track of all Metallica tracks. Fast and very on point. Very hard to pull off. Say what they want but Jason is very very underrated!
There is nothing technical about it, and it isn't hard to play.
I just leaned he wrote this song
@@MrParkerman6 play with pick then.
@Shallex You think it is not hard as well?
@Shallex Hardest downstroke song of metallica
i love AJFA but i´d love for them to remaster/Remix the album so the bass actually can be heard
+pkj77 "Jason's bass and my guitar shared the same frequency so we turned him down." Fucking bullshit.
suuuure
I love AJFA so I don't want that. I didn't like it's sound at first but now I can't see this album any other way.
Search for "And justice for Jason" here on RUclips. :)
alright thanks :)
skip to 0:55
how the song intro should sound
0:36
0:00 sounds more like the original bass line.
I love it. Almost sounds like a shark attack movie.
Hammerhead, BABY! (Flotsam and jetsam go check them out)
I love the variation of the main riff at 5:02 and 5:22 more than the main riff.
its so evil and dope
It’s the Rythym under the solo
Damn that is a tough Bass line! Jason did a great job!
He came up with the entire main riff
That is one of the most satisfying sounding bass I've ever heard. Am I the only one who prefers the sound of bass with a pick rather than with fingers?
Damm you're not the only one, i rather play bass with pick than with my fingers.
@@nosenseguy148 Pick is for babies ;-)
Or guitarists, which is the same.
Dave Ellefson challenges anyone who disagrees to play any of his picking songs with fingers. Pickers aren’t babies.
I like both finger and pick. That's how I play bass.
He will always be my favorite Metallica bassist. Dude has passion and a great voice.
I was expecting to hear nothing at all for 6 minutes
LMAO!!!!!
u must be deaf lol
lol same
😅😅😅
Coltallic same here😂😂👌
5:12 what a strong hit
Tone is fire. His picking accuracy is pretty good for such a strong picking. One thing's for sure: I DO NOT want to be punched by Jason lol
Lars: Jason that’s a badass riff you made there
Also Lars: Yes, but no bass
So underrated.. Very good sound, picking, style. All package musician Jason was.
I love what jason said about cliff where he sometimes hated how his success was found because of cliffs death and he hated that often
What a fucking intro
And he wrote this
Bravo jason beautiful
he didnt
only the main riff
This picture is hilarious with Jason. These tracks can be helpful to learning Metallica songs on bass. I do think that the bass is an under appreciated instrument. A bass can take a forefront part in music. Solos can be done with the Bass as Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted prove. I am inspired by them both, and I have my own bass instrumentals that I have put on youtube. Here are some of the names of some of them, Horrid Hop, Serpent Sacrament, and Juggernaught Groove. Click on my face to get to those videos. Thank for watching my bass instrumental videos.
Is this you playing the bass or the original bass track? Sounds really good. Wish the bass wasn't so buried on this album. You can barely hear it. Metallica really fucked Jason on this album.
Manuel Martinez No you must ask the person at metfan41 channel about this bass only track. The above post I was trying to promote my own creations on my youtube, but Cliff Burton is one of my main inspirations for doing bass instrumentals.
in the photo is he counting on his fingers how much money he has saving up, till he can quit the band....
by the way dude Manuel maybe YOU can barley hear it. but to my ears its just right in the mix...
The best bassist on Metallica , Jason ♥ , total attitude
0:26 that silent note is amazing!
clever
Fuck off
he’s counting the number on his volume dial
Ajfa is my favorite Metallica album, but they should have a remastered version where the bass can actually be jeard
*heard
+Nicholas Cabral
Is remixing where you edit each indivdual track?
I hope they officially release it with bass one day.
@@nicholascabral But thanks to the band giving guitar hero a good chunk of their songs in stem form, and people ripping the CD and converting the stems back into pure audio, we have And Justice for Jason!
Shallex oh crap
My ears tremble with Jason's playing style... I love a man
As an "aspiring" guitarist, i recently purchased a bass because of this guy right here. Sold my Snakebyte and bought an '85 ibanez 5 string bass
Bass on AJFA? HOLY SHIT
Corey Jason producer forgot to add bas in that album
Antonio V Not exactly true. Lars wanted a very particular sound on his drums. Once the producer mixed the bass in Lars yelled at him and told him to change it back, sacrificing the bass.
+mkfanforever58 i heard Lars and James talking about the guitar Drum battle as usual volume pumped up so it drowned the bass in the progress a shame though
That's incorrect there's actually bass in the original recording...but you will need an eq to actually listen the bass
Steve Thompson, who was the guy who mixed ajfa, said lars wanted to turn to the bass to where it was barely audible because he didn't like the way it made his drums sound
My favorite Metallica bass line for sure
I don’t even need to listen to the actual song this is song enough to me
None of Metallica's bassists have had a good voice on any of there albums, i wish the bass was as clear through the mix like Megadeth :( cause all of metallica's bassists are fucken awesome!
I agree. Cliff’s parts were often buried as well, like in Call of Ktulu. Love how you can always hear Ellefsons bass!
@@mpoulosjr one of the biggest things megadeth have over metallica...ellefson kicks absolute ass and you can actually HEAR him !
@@skinkroot the bass is very prominent in all Cliff's albums and the Black Album.
@@johnp82 I don’t think it’s that audible (cliff wise) on some songs and others he’s a giant part. Weird but just my opinion. Black has all the bass you need
@@dolantho if you took the bass out you would notice the bass missing.
Wait...this album contained basslines? Some friends and I have made the word "newsteading" into a verb. Murderface might say, "hey, you guys totally Newsteaded my bass tracks!"
sorry bro but I'll lowkey steal your verb
@@HerobrineGbriel it's perfect for when you disappear in the mix too. it will also reveal if your sound guy knows his shit.
The most amazing thing to me is how legitimately great this and other ...And Justice bass tracks sound
Who doesn’t love jasons bass? it sounds so delightful.
The whole Riff is sick but 5:20 is amazing, shame you can’t hear it in the mix :(
Keep in mind that Jason essentially went from a glorified garage band in Flotsam and Jetsam to one of the biggest underground (at the time) metal bands. If you've never recorded an instrument you can't truly appreciate how difficult it is...especially when your going from your whole band jamming in one room together to going into a sound booth with an engineer and a metronome. That's why it sounds a little rough around the edges.
They weren't underground after MoP
1. When Jason joined metallica was far from been underground
2. He recorded an album prior to Mwetallica and another one with them
Don't make excuses for him. It wasn't great playing. Period. Anyone who can play can record. I get it, sometimes when record gets pressed everything gets fukt up. It happens. But you get past it. Just be honest about it. This recording sucks.
@@goodcitizen3780 ok papa het
EPIC TONE!
I didn't know the bassline was this neat! I like how sometimes when he's playing it plays like a power chord in some parts. I love that tone too. Just enough grit
Man, I really wish you could hear this better on the recording. It's so good!
he wrote this song hismelf
Jason just wrote the really fast main riff, the part where all the instruments kick in.
+James Bayly he also wrote that part in the middle after the 2nd chorus when James sings "opposition contradiction"
If that is true, then my already high respect for Jason has increased.
It was also his idea to reverse the intro
IMS Productions was it really? Not doubting you but do you have a source ?
His playing is so tight
Dat bass tone tho! Wal basses are just pure 🔥 🔥🔥
Jason I admire you so much
Didn't Jason write the guitar riff to blackened?
yep
So in a way, we can hear Jason's work.
Great pic of Jason.
This is still the best metal bass tone ever made for any song ever.
this sounds so good
I WANT MY ACTION LOWER DAMNIT!
God, I love his tone.
1mm off the frets. ha
BADASS
I fuckin' love his way of playing, I think the pick give a fantastic strength to the bass line...ROCK ON Jason!
Incredible
Aguante Newsted! X,D
To be honest the main riff sounds cooler played on bass than guitar
Try it in standard D bro, it sounds damn evil hahahah
agreed
It was written on a bass so makes sense
amazing bass.... wow ..!!
I love the aggression with which he plays! What Jason lacks in technicality he always made up for in heart, and in spades!!
(And, to be fair, this stuff can get quite technical, but we're comparing him to Cliff and Rob)
I HEAR ONLY BASS ON ALBUM "AND JUSTICE FOR ALL", LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!
the bassline is very hard to play 😢
Yeah, my picking hand gets tired after a short while, specially when trying to play it as hard as Jason did. He is a lot better than people think!
It is easier with fingers...trust me!
It’s also hard to hear
@@Luc_Crane1967 So was ya mum XD
Well it follows the guitars so the guitar is even harder
JASON NEWSTEAD!! ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL PICKING-THRASH BASSISTS :D noe of my faves
I don't see why people hate on Jason, he's a great musician, he just wanted to use his talent for what he wanted to use it for. You can't really fault him for that.
I like how he utilized an awesome Cliff Burton technique called the “Octave Roll” during the main riff and the Solo. An Octave Roll is where you finger an open string and the octave above it very rapidly, but it also seems to work with a pick as well. Cliff used this technique a lot in Kill Em All. Just listen to the short bass break in Metal Militia and you will here it.
Come to think about it, maybe they should have wrote a bass break for just about any ...And Justice song. That way, Lars would have to reconsider forcing Flemming to turn down the bass for the album.
A burton technique? Really? Like it hasn't been around since the dawn of stringed instruments. Can't stand when people say crap like this. And they don't with Dave mustaine too and that so called spider chord.
Great opinion! I guess that I will add mine!
On charisma and overall influence it's 1. Cliff, 2. Jason, 3. Rob
On vocals/bass execution it's 1. Jason, 2. Cliff, 3. Rob
On bass playing itself it's 1. Rob, 2. Cliff, 3. Jason (Rob wins here obviously on diversity-and it's apparent that he makes the other guys step up their game! Even though they are in declining years, I shudder to think of how they'd be if he WASN'T with them.
OMG, I have synced them at the same time, sounds killer, super heavy!
god what awesome tone he had on this album.
Now that we get to hear it that is.
For 34 seconds I thought this vid was a troll
I clicked this video and kept on skipping to places because I couldn't hear anything
Only to find out my audio was off
Lars must've turned it off
@@larsswig912 He literally said "Turn it down to the point you can barely hear it, and then turn it down another 6dB" XD
@@ballsrgrossnugly Steve Thompson(the mixer) was exaggerating, much like most people who listen to AJFA. The bass is there, fairly easy to hear it too. You just don't hear Jason hitting the strings, so only the resulting (wub wub wub) of the bass is there. This is the result of cranking the high frequencies and normalizing the volume. It basically cuts out a ton of the midrange. James explains what happened here: www.kerrang.com/the-news/james-hetfield-explains-why-metallicas-and-justice-for-all-has-no-bass/
No you didn't.
That tone🤤
Just the best bass sound and playing
The bass lines are sold separately from the album
It sounds like Rex Brown's awesome tone
Hi Braden. Got in one man, pick and pure feel.
Jason kick ass!!!!!
This would’ve sounded sick as hell on the original record ngl
Oh my god it actually exists
Perfect pick for this song! All the crazy time signatres.
awesome !!
The first 56 seconds of the video sounds like the bass on "and Justice for all".
Palm muting the hell out of the low E. up picking the D, not as easy as one would think. great riff without the shit drums
James is the leader, but Jason is the perfect frontman
Dat tone 👌🤟
Best part 0:56
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE UPLOAD THE SOLO BASS TRACK FOR "The Frayed Ends of Sanity"?
Thank you!
In that pic, Jason is like ''oooh are you saying that i can plat with this? without pick? SHIT THIS SUCKS''
-if you know you laugh , if you do not understand you laugh the same
@Sokmerius
This is him. They used the master tracks for Guitar Hero, which is how we got these isolated tracks. Notice how only the Metallica songs on a GH or RB game are the ones that people have isolated vids for.
Bass was pretty inaudible on Puppets too.
Except the bass in puppets isn't jason newsted, it's cliff burton. The bass in that album is the normal volume of how a bass should be in a metal mix. Listen to orion, master of puppets, and battery for some good bass tracks on that album
+megadethmofo I can hear the bass in puppets easy!
In the 15 second break in Orion?
+megadethmofo Or the intro, or the whole BASS SOLO in the second movement. With the rest, you might not be able to extinguish the bass, but you'd hear if it wasn't there.
The Good Guy Haha, I must've been tired. What's the word I was looking for? To be honest, I still don't know.
That riff at 5:23 is fucking insane!
The riff that changed my life.
They recorded bass for this song?