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We all know Jason Newsted as a proficient bass player, but he also plays keyboards,guitar, saxaphone, and drums! He is also known for his deep and throaty singing style that he has jokingly referred to as Cookie Monster vocals. * Flotsam and Jetsam * Metallica * Sepultura * UNKLE (guest) * Voivod * Echobrain * Papa Wheelie * IR8/Sexoturica* Moss Brothers* Rock Star Supernova * Gov't Mule * Heard Of Elements (2005)*****************************************************
Newsted favors playing pickstyle instead of his fingers. In Metallica's documentary A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica he explained that while learning to play his first bass he had no amp. To make the sound audible, he played with a pick and used a very heavy downstroke that physically starts from his shoulder[1] and not his wrist (as do most other pickstyle players), which led to not only his unique tone and sound but a strength and consistency in his right-hand picking technique which leads to Jason hitting the strings at the exact same area on every single stroke.[2]However, Newsted does use his fingers on occasion. The videos for One, King Nothing and Nothing Else Matters show Jason using his fingers, and he also plays with his fingers on the fretless acoustic bass used for Nothing Else Matters.In addition to this, the video for the song The Memory Remains shows Jason playing fingerstyle and occasionally slapping his bass. Also, on the live DVD S&M, Jason can be seen playing fingerstyle on the song - (Minus) Human, which was written a few years before the DVD was out on the street but previously unreleased (as well as No Leaf Clover). More recently he played fingerstyle while performing some of the Supernova original songs while on Rock Star Supernova.
"It’s another reason why I can stand very proudly behind it because it’s some of my words. It’s a great feeling to be able to have your stuff expressed." "Voivod lives man. That is the word, right there." -JN
"All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man." -JN
"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." -JN
"Perseverance is the key. But be straight with yourself. People are always saying they're working on the band when they're not. If you want your band members to be straight with you, you have to be straight with yourself. Don't be scared to get old-school and get your hands dirty and pass out your music."
Quote from…DIY Life After Metallica - Interview with Jason Newsted
"I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands." -JN