Why Metallica Couldn't Find A Better* Bassist

17 years it has been 17 years since Metallica began a new stage in its history, the band changed in many ways, but the fundamental change of this new era was, of course, a new

bassist

, Rob Trujillo or as true fans should call him , Roberto Miguel Santiago, someone. trujillo veracruz kazoo hello friends I'm andriy vasylenko and robert is my personal hero and some still refer to him as the new bases of Metallica even though this year has been Metallica longer than Jason and Cliff combined in just four years if nothing comes out bad half of Metallica's entire history will have been with Roberto, he was D1 who initially inspired me to play bass in 2009, so I consider Robert Trujillo as my first absentee base teacher thanks to YouTube and one video in particular of his base solo from Big Day Out 2004.

It simply blew my mind and that video, despite its terrible quality, was my point of no return in the rabbit room of the base and maybe even Metallica in general and then I saw a kind of monster, the film with the famous bass and robert edits sounded and looked two heads above its competitors and so it got on the Metallica train, which I was infinitely happy about and many fans did not, but time passed and Robert proved to be even

better

than Metallica could ever deserve, but there's one thing I've been wondering all these 12 years, yeah, why Rob, why the competition was so low, why all over America, with so many great bands and talented musicians, there weren't at least a hundred guys as good as Robert as a musician and fit for Metallica that audition should have been a bloody battle, it is Metallica after all, not a local garage band or maybe there is something that We don't know, maybe what we do know is just part of the story, a story so strategically crafted for Metallica's 2001 documentary.

They've been on hard mode for two decades, now they're about to hit 40th place and they can't complain about money, fame, legacy, everything in excess, everything they do runs out in a split second, but something wasn't right , something was kind of broken in the band, really boring and A lot of things inside and outside the band, the whole world and the music industry overlapped and led Metallica to break their ass. How difficult is it to be a Metallica

bassist

? Only five people have known that and each one could tell a different story. Each had its own secondary function. and it wasn't just treated as his predecessor or successors, well one thing's for sure, Metallica is a fucking freight train and grinding machine.

Being part of the most popular metal band means always being in the spotlight and under pressure from the outside world and not from themselves. to mention other challenges such as traveling, not being with families for weeks and even months in the past, extreme physical and mental exhaustion and I still work hard despite being in a well-off position and at the top of the industry despite or because they are at the top. I don't want to become, like James said, a legacy band that's still producing, still creating, still having something to say to the world. It is one of the criteria of legendary bands.

You just have to keep creating to prove what you did when you were 20 years old. The 30s were not a coincidence, even if your music is not as innovative as in the past and Metallica is that type of band, and now let's go back to the base auditions of 2003, imagine there, Metallica is on the verge of breaking up. James has been in rehab their bases, who has been with them for 15 years, he simply left because he no longer wanted to endure harsh treatment with creative limitations and other things that we may not know yet and he left despite the higher salaries and The recognition possible in Metal may seem like a dream job and in fact it was with Jason, but as the saying goes, with great power comes great responsibility and the greatest pressure, especially if you came to replace a figure like Cliff Burton and now you come to replace the guy. who replaced cliff burton and one could assume that the atmosphere inside Metallica is now hotter than ever.

Are you ready to bear such a weight? Are you ready to go through some tough times, possibly even tougher than what Jason went through? The third money and the recognition was that and the The guys who went to the audition thought it would have been amazing to be Metallica, but I'm relieved that it didn't happen because the money would be nice, but it's a little intense, you know? They were already part of the industry, they knew the rules and they knew what it was like to be a professional musician and now they multiply that by a Metallica magnitude, but it turned out that Metallica didn't let Robert go through the cycles of hell.

There are things that Jason had to do. deal with the beast, calm down and now what the new base had on their shoulders was just hard work, the tightest schedule and being voiced by the entire rock and roll world, no big deal, yeah, a little history of background that Metallica had to look for a new base. When they were basically finishing Centengear they didn't think about it because it wasn't necessary, but Brock was playing base on the album, they tried to postpone this decision because it was quite scary. I think a lot of people thought we were having problems.

To

find

one, we never started looking for a new bassist until two months ago, we worked on ourselves, so when someone else steps in, they don't step into our you know, and only when they were invited to Rock Icon, I think they were told they had . to have the full member package with the actual bassist and that was like a kick in the butt and they started looking for one and now let's look at the base edition video and see what we have there, it actually disappeared from youtube and I tried it. to upload it but it was blocked, but you can see it on other websites, search for it on Google or our Telegram community link in the description, actually the highest quality version you can

find

and this is what we got, they chose the most embarrassing shots for each of them except robert trujillo robert came last in line every time to see how much

better

he compared to the others, but even based on those clips, how could those guys make such a simple review where You really don't have much space to declutter? to improvising, like playing that damn riff in the damn key, following the band and that's it, it just feels like on stage and yeah, even though I sound like a smartass here, what do you know about this stage?

Last time I played less than 100 gigs in my life, like seven, eight years ago, and I'm no match for those guys in their defense. I especially remember having a bigger concert, my knees started shaking and my fingers went numb just from the Nerves even though I knew the songs, I was ready to have fun but it was something, imagine you have to stand on stage and just You go and you can't feel the frets well and now multiply that by the magnitude of Metallica, imagine how. They were nervous and that was also a test because even Rob Trujillo was crazy you can see how he moves his eyes his hands he was nervous uh whatever five strings you have but professionalism took over and as soon as he got his The base is not his baseball , that of the band.

He felt like a fish in water, but I still can't even imagine what was going on in his head, so yeah, maybe that's the biggest filter that could handle freaking out. Imagine better. you're setting up your base in gyms he comes into the room with his guitar and jogs lars asks about Metallica and rob says he could try it the battery life is like the drums you can play fast with your fingers it's funny that even at that moment it they surprised with a fast finger style bass player, you know, I know the drums aren't that difficult compared to some songs like even Blackhand and Master of Puppets and Lars saying that and scratching his head like, oh my god, that's a rarity, on It's actually quite confusing considering he's a professional.

The metal bassist has to handle it like a piece of cake and what steals it, nails it, kills it and maybe at that moment he knew that they had found the right bassist and when you watch the parts with other bassists you see the Kirk Reactions of the technician, a guy who was cringing and trying not to laugh, maybe it's just the perfect angles, but no one was cringing at Robert, no matter what angle I chose to film him, and another guy I mentioned last who

couldn

't get into the drums. appropriately, Jim says just follow his mouth and they know at that moment he doesn't fit in, they could see them like x-rays and you know it's not 1986, they

couldn

't just say next time, this time they had to be nicer to have a chance .

Playing with Metallica is a once in a lifetime opportunity and actually this time it was different than Jason's auditions, so it was like just coming and playing and this time it was by invitation only, they made personal calls to bases that they thought might be able to. fit, it was a big surprise. them and otherwise they wouldn't even think about trying to become Metallica bases, but it was an honor to be personally invited by Metallica. You know, that could have been another reason why it was so weird and unprepared and stuff, and with a lot of them.

They had a good relationship, they went out, they just had fun and in fact, if I remember correctly, Lars went out with Robert the night before his audition, they drank and Robert stayed the night at Lars's, so the next day, when he came to play, he fell asleep and hungover which could also have been a test for Lars like they did with Jason, but in a gentler way, a kind of endurance test and to see how compatible Rob is, especially with Lars , I had to know that she would get along with him, but what about it?

Good competitor Majelka says they have a couple of guys in mind and the other could be Pepper Kinan, his old friend, and you can see how excited Pepper is sitting on the couch listening to James and Lars say they need a new bassist from whom It's an honor to have. Being there and he's a part of it, it really was that, but there's a clip on YouTube where they have this personal hangout and he speaks his mind and says he doesn't really want to get into this, well, don't believe me, I'm not stupid. You know, I play music, if I'm leaving here tomorrow I'm still doing what I do, I'm not worried, he doesn't want to have any kind of preference, Peppers expresses some concern, he doesn't want to feel any favoritism.

Moving on, he meets all the criteria and they know each other, so character compatibility is not an issue. I think at some point or maybe Metallica considered him as their member, but he tried to dispel the disappointment before it was too late. Yes, you could hire. some cat who could sing and play a little bit, you could find someone who would do that, but you didn't want to, I know you don't want to, I know a lot about the underground and I've been like, well, who the hell? Can I say I came to you? You know three or four conclusions, two of which you had reached here.

Who could it be? First of all, Robert Trujillo was a different guy. Everyone seemed to be at the audition. Who could it be? Don't know. He maybe he considered himself. but and the other two guys could be rex brown and dave ellison, at that time megadeth was some kind of haytu dave arm break rehab whatever his name is, so dave ellison could become, but he decided not to show up because that didn't It wouldn't feel completely right even with the permission of Mustaine and another guy, Rex Brown, you know, Panther broke up at that time and it was before Dimebag's death, I don't want to gossip, can you imagine that Rex Brown still has braces?

Metallica, but otherwise, could I fit in an interview? Kirk said they were looking for someone who played with the fingers and one of the main reasons why most of them were immediately rejected because they played with the pick, but that's why they invited those guys in the first place, luckily there was one guy and you . Look how he has progressed, he contributed a lot to the music, especially in Death Magnet. Singing was his weak point, but well, lately he managed to pull off the spiradibone quite well. Could Bobrock become our stay as Metallica bassist? In several videos we can see that he feels honored when this topic. show up, look me in the eyes, you want to be Metallica, no, it's not a chance, come on, you forgot the chance, I'm as close to Metallica as I am, I really like what I do, but he can't say that, he can't say, Take me, he knew it.

Basically his duty as a producer was a mentor for a long time and he was a little older than him and lacked stage experience in that sense, he was no match for Jason and Cliff and just being able to play those bass notes is not enough to become Metallica. bassist even if you're bob rock again he could dream about it anyone could dream about that you can dream about that I can do that and maybe he could have done it anyway maybe if everything would have gone wrong if robert or pepper didn't show up or for some reason bob rock remained Metallica's bassist at least for a while, he was able to do the job and I just discovered something that I should have read before filming this video, but it actually confirms most of my theories, except one, I I refer to the book that the monster leaves behind. which is written by the creators of some kind ofmonster movie, they explain the inside of the base additions, including yes I was quite right except one thing, I assumed they deliberately made all the bases except Roberts who is shown in bad light for the purpose of making one more movie dramatic, well actually they said the opposite, it was kind of a coincidence, just so you know, actually the audition went on for several months, they didn't all show up in one day and only when they came up with this idea did they all play. we beltos let's cut him up and put him back to back and then it became clear and you actually know who lars' favorite was and robert was defended by kirk and lars changed his favorite to robert after his second time playing but before that he was really accept Twiggy, but that guy's owner saw that he wasn't defeated and told us man, I was a man who used to wear a dress, you think I'm from Metallica, Chris Wise, who actually looked pretty good, was a suggestion from Bob Rock and, in his words, one of the reasons he wasn't accepted, I'm kidding, but he looked a lot younger and they.

I said you look like Bob's son and just to honor all bases, they are really amazing on their own. I knew a couple of them before including Jordy. Just look for clips of them playing. They are incredible. They're just not right for Metallica, but still, how could you? hit the wrong key thanks for watching I'm andriy vasylenko and here next time friends