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Heavy Metal Music
Attention all old school metal fans! Last month Chris and Aaron devoted an episode to thrash metal posing the question who would be a part of the “Big 5” if there were such a thing. This prompted me to re-visit some of my musical collection and directed me to Metallica’s former bass player Jason Newsted and his latest effort released in early August. I already had the album in my collection, but somehow it became rather overlooked until this prompted my re-visit. Since then Newsted’s Heavy Metal Music has been in regular rotation on my mp3 player.
Becoming interested in music in his youth at around the age of fourteen, Jason Newsted soon discovered Metallica who quickly rose through the ranks and became one of his favourite bands. Four years later saw theBattle Creek , Michigan born bassist strike out from then home town of Kalamazoo , Michigan bound for California , loaded with dreams of starting a band. Landing in Phoenix , Arizona he formed Flotsam & Jetsam, taking on the creative role of songwriter for the début album, Doomsday for the Deceiver, as well as the bass guitar. With the tragedy of Cliff Burton’s death creating a vacant spot in Metallica in 1986, Newsted left the promising Flotsam & Jetsam behind to join his music heroes. Jason went on to spend some fifteen years with the “Big 4” band, appearing on some of the best selling albums of their career, before departing in 2001.
lude the aforementioned “Heroic Dose”, “…As The Crow Flies” (probably my favourite on the CD), “Above All”and “Kindevillusion”, but there’s not a bad track found here. Jason Newsted and company are a band to watch out for in the future.
The ‘Ole Meister even had the chance to catch Newsted live back in June. I was fortunate enough to be able to trek from the Great White North of TorontoCanada and head out to Sweden to take part in the Sweden Rock Festival in June featuring 83 bands. Yep, that’s what I said…..83 bands! At the time I had only spun Metalonce or twice, acquiring it only a few days before my departure to Scandinavia, so I was not overly familiar with the Newsted tunes, but I assumed that there would be some Metallica in the mix and planned to catch their set on Friday June 7th. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it I suppose) I was absolutely smacked-in-the-face overloaded with rock at June’s Sweden Rock Festival and let’s face it, rather well lubricated with beverages. As a result I only caught a short portion of the Newsted set taking in the two songs “Long Time Dead” and “King of the Underdogs”. I now wish I’d paid more attention to Newsted’s show, especially after hearing the new full length album, Heavy Metal Music and will make it a point to take in their live show at my earliest opportunity.
Cheers,
The Meister
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