This time I learned about playing bass with Metallica. But whenever I played with Metallica, it was always fast stuff. But sometimes I'll get together with friends to pIay blues, and I'll do the round-and-round, 15-minute, blues-bass thing. In Metallica, I've been a pretty aggressive bassist. But most of the album is mid-tempo songs, a little like Harvester of Sorrow l except that I really play bass, and the guitar does the guitar part and so on. You'll be able to tell it's Metallica within the first tenth of a second. On this record, I’ve concentrated on getting a big bass and the fullness of a real musical band – the 3-D sound. We chose him because the projects he'd done before, like Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, are really great and have big bottom end. The producer, Bob Rock, made a big difference. On this record, we're actually a band, and you can hear bass. That's how it had always been in Metallica: most of the time I'd be doing the same picking with the same power as the guitars, so the sound was almost one-dimensional. There was hardly any bass I was mostly just doubling the guitars, so there didn't need to be much. We wanted it to sound good for everyone whether they had a cheap car stereo or a $3,000 system-but we went too far. How is the album different from previous Metallica records? Here is the interview, first published in Bass Player, Sept-Oct issue, 1991. On the new album, he plays really well, and his tone is great.'" He's gotten rid of the idea that he needs to trick out all the bass players of the world with fancy lines. "Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett puts it this way: 'Jason is getting more to the core of a traditional bass playing role: holding down the rhythm with the drums and adding a good foundation for the guitars. Ask any Metallica member what the biggest factor is, and he'll tell you it's bassist Jason Newsted's new approach to his instrument. Back in 1991, ahead of its release, Bass Player’s interviewer Karl Coryat commented that the album was "radically different from its predecessors. The album, called Metallica, but known everywhere as ‘The Black Album’, fulfilled the brief: to date, it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. You have to remember that there had been some mega albums around that time – Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Bruce Springsteen – eight million, nine million copies sold. If you believe that any review contained on our site infringes upon your copyright, please email us.“When it came to the next album, we didn’t want to go down the same progressive, demanding route,” said Hammett.
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