JASON NEWSTED Thinks METALLICA Is The Reason NEWSTED Still Has An Audience

Jason Newsted and his former Metallica bandmates are on higher phrases nowadays following Newsted‘s departure from the band in 2001. Talking to the Solar Sentinel, he was requested if he believes Metallica or his band Newsted nonetheless have an viewers. He humbly and thoughtfully informed the interviewer that his time with Metallica is what permits there to be curiosity in Newsted at this time.

“There’ll all the time be an viewers for Metallica, a band that has defied all the foundations and nonetheless reigns on the prime,” Newsted informed the interviewer. “There hasn’t actually been an even bigger band — after all, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, they got here earlier than us, so if it wasn’t for them, there could not be us. However for this explicit technology, it is the most important band on the earth.

“That is why they’re nonetheless coming again. Now they’re going to come and see us at Revolution to take a look at what is going on on with this component of music. Take into consideration how many individuals have turned 12 or 14 years outdated this weekend, and so they received their first guitar and ‘(Enter) Sandman’ is the primary riff they realized.

“Like I realized ‘Smoke on the Water.’ That was the riff to be taught once I first began enjoying. That is actually what says all of it, I believe.”

Elsewhere within the interview, Newsted mentioned whether or not he left Metallica to pursue different initiatives, like was instructed just a few years again by drummer Lars Ulrich in an interview. Newsted replied that his targets have not modified in any respect; he simply desires to maintain the “hearth burning” and play with whoever he can.

“I am feeling extra fulfilled if I can do my factor with my boys over right here after which get again to the massive guys getting tremendous loud. That was cool for me. After I was not capable of finding the stability anymore, perhaps that is what he’s talking of.”