Jason Newsted explains ''Why He Left Metallica''

do. So here we are, a year and a half later, after that world tour, the LP that Dodo came out, this is like one of the most exciting parts. The whole thing. I came back as if AP was exactly what I expected from a Newsted album. It's all the power of the riff, all this is all riff. The question is what are we going to expect from a complete Newsted album. I think the EP is a good indicator of when the EP finally crashed. the EP was invented back in the day to be the basis or sampler for the future LP, yeah that's a fair assessment of what's going on now, so you sold your head and the king of the underdogs will reappear on the LP, okay, oh god, meandering.

Skyscraper will be instant classics based on the EP alone. I think the EP is representative of what's going to happen and live, you know, playing a lot of new songs and passing the response on to the people. It has been very good, we are asking a lot. Many in the crowd responded to songs they had never heard before, yes, a couple of songs, Private Ritter's Weather, it may be heard a couple of times, but for the most part it is brand new music, so considering that, I think we're really doing it. Well, it's a lot of new challenges for me, I was singing, being the leader, my name is in my songs, my voice, my words, I mean, we tried to put it in a bad light, yeah, you know, I never intended to do this, really, really, really.

I really, really wasn't planning on coming back into the world with music or anything like that. Never in disagreement disappeared from the radar line. Mouse Post. Voivod, as you caught it, was like well, Jason, they said yes, but you know all the things I did. I never stopped playing music. I recorded and played more Metallica music than I played in Metallica, but the ignorant, what did it do? Do you know what the things were inside that back voice? As soon as I could also think about the laptop when I joined well and right after that first Ozzy solo in Avadh in September 2000 200 voivod just when I was finishing echo brain I ended up making three albums with Voivod from 2003 to 2008 , so that was in the pieces and then I did, yeah, a bunch of stuff like, you know, recording with a government mule, recording with DJ Shadow, recording with Tina Turner, yeah, they must be mandalas, oh, all about you know a lot. that a lot of his people called me, I said yes to some, I said no, write big, you know, but I keep getting offers all the time for different interesting things, yes, but that only exists if it's above the board , as an international release and the spotlight, I think it was a couple, another Tina Turner single was number one in Europe and a few different places they played on the single with the Italian vocalist called Elise and I know it was number one in Italy, so you know the different flavors. of music they're talking about if I have to go to MSO I really kept that up from December Oh until mid Oh eight I had three different surgeries on my shoulders so I had one here, one here and then back here, yeah, and sort of It weakened me from being the monster for four years and hitting me again now, yes, so I am, but I'm 95%, it's all I could be now, yes, because of the damage it's done to flesh and blood and It's right where my vertebrae are. they've been

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out of this, you have, I watch this video and there are no mysteries, yeah, you know, it's like always remember the fact that your justice for all action figure was half the bones of the head, which in It sort of sums up what we're saying. kind of proportion, yes, so that those years were taken away from you in terms of trying to play something serious.

He could do some study things, let us do things. I just mentioned that yes, I was in those times, so it's a long time, a long time. we had this, you know, I had it, my arm was fixed like this, oops, they fixed me like this and I could fit a Parker Fly guitar that weighs two pounds, you know, that's what it's about, that's why I was able to finish putting it between my stomach and my sling. here I play like that Wow, you know, so I did it as much as I could, yeah, but to the extent of any complete guy, yeah, so I started painting and then I learned to use both hands the same way because I had to, so I felt that. one that without that and then without another one, so now I use both the same, which is better for my game and all the paintings are done with both hands and well, so it is this type of everything for a reason, give me some lemons, that evil lemonade so that the The Saudi epiphany occurred on the 30th anniversary.

What was in part was that, like the reaction of the people who made you go, was it people that you still knew or me almost completely, yes, all the people put in the candle, the catalyst was the energy of the people I was so happy after all the years the state kept it for a decade to show it to me and you know, about two weeks before Lars called me saying they were going to do this. He was out with Pappa Wheelie, you know, doing my thing. and we waited with free animal and Caius and sword and we did all these cool Stoney metal shows and stuff in the Bay Area and I loved it, yeah, because no one really knew who we were and I could slap it, we know where the song starts, but where it ends no one knows, you know, it's like it was early, yeah, just the noise is shit, so I was feeling it again.

I got a little bit going and Lars called me, I was like hmmm, right, and then I just needed that little extra push, so when people finally gave me that, I would say 98% of it was people yelling at me to do it again and it's because That's what I'm doing now. I'll let you know that on these shows he's 60 or 70 years old and we're in the middle of this moment is really in Europe in the sauna and download spheres and everything I want, Gigantor with Megadeth, you know, there's no profit in This to me, there are zero wins or in fact less than zero wins in any of these 70 programs.

I'm doing it because I want to do it. I was in a band once. I was part of a band that did pretty well. Yes, they are fine and I and I are not. I didn't shove those profits up my nose. You know, I drank some of them, yes, but I didn't put them on my face, yes, and I invested and did all that, so the Black Album did very well and we worked so hard that it makes it possible for my band to come. and play for the people I bring among the people because I feel like there is no money for me right now.

I only do it because I want to do it. I wanted to show them that you know there are a lot of interesting things that happened with the meetings. I'm proud that some people go back and do them, but a lot of them end up being what I don't know, it might tarnish the legend that you had already created or something. and that's a dangerous thing, okay, fans expect to see a certain thing from the band that they loved at a certain time when they come back and it doesn't surpass what they expect or it doesn't exist anymore, it's kind of a disappointment, you know?

If you come and see five times the band saw something like that before, yeah, yeah, it was the same way, it's Anna, kind of disappointing, you know, so I have the same fighting weight that I had in the blackout, yeah, do you? do you know it's the same? I'm the same guy who happened on the calendar, but I'm the same person personally. We started talking about the beginning of this. I'm the metal guy that Motorhead stole my favorite from and what you know, I'm saying. I'm still that guy. I was just lucky in that sense and wasn't forced to grow up.

I can make adult decisions for a lot of money. Yes, I don't have to grow up because I can still make noise. My job is to play and all that. that kind of thing and I want to keep that mentality for as long as possible, you know, it's a 38, a great time to be Jason, they said it's the rule, thank you very much, survived a thank you, I barely tried it, they said you.