“from making crazy and colorful music to making crazy and colorful paintings.”
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Jason Newsted
Jason Curtis Newsted is an American musician, best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Metallica from 1986 to 2001. He performed with thrash metal band Flotsam and Jetsam for the first five years of his career before joining Metallica in October 1986 to succeed Cliff Burton, who died the month prior. Newsted performed on the albums ...And Justice for All (1988), Metallica (1991), Load (1996),…
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entertainment · American bassist (born 1963) · bassist · singer · composer · also Jason Newsted, Jason Curtis Newsted, Newsted
Born 4 March 1963 · Q221546
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2026· 6 entries
“s parents in the decision to choose Newsted. After the band broke the news to Newsted, Burton”
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loudwire: Jason Newsted Recalls the Time Metallica Stopped a Show After Darts Were Thrown Onstage
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loudwire: Jason Newsted Playing Music at Animal Sanctuary Will Make Your Day
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Yahoo: Jason Newsted Reveals He Left Metallica to Overcome Addiction and Save His Own Life
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MetalSucks: Jason Newsted to Take The Chophouse Band Out for First Headlining North American Tour
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2025· 3 entries
American Songwriter: Jason Newsted Reveals Why Metallica Is the “Number One Live Act from America”
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MetalSucks: Jason Newsted on Metallica’s Live Shows: “They Bring It All Every Time”
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American Songwriter: “They Showed Me What I Don’t Ever Want to Become”: Jason Newsted Reflects on Metallica’s Co-Headlining Tour with Guns N’ Roses
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2024· 3 entries
brooklynvegan: Jason Newsted selling gear from his Metallica days
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Rolling Stone: Jason Newsted to Sell Bass From Metallica’s ‘Black Album’ Tour: ‘A Piece of Metal Lore’
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Yahoo: Jason Newsted is selling the 10-string Alembic bass used on Metallica’s Black Album tour
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2015· 1 entry
“s plan to open for Ozzy Osbourne”
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2013· 2 entries
Newsted expanded upon previous statements regarding his departure from Metallica and cited that his project with Echobrain was being discouraged by James Hetfield because Metallica's management at Q Prime wanted to go ah
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Newsted was heavily rumored by fans to join the band as a possible replacement for recently-dismissed bassist David Ellefson in May 2021, though the rumors would later be denied by both Newsted and his wife Nicole
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2011· 1 entry
Which included two cover songs by Motörhead and Van Halen
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2009· 2 entries
Newsted was present with his former Metallica bandmates James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett, as well as Ray Burton, the father of late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton
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Newsted joined Metallica for its induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio
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2006· 2 entries
Newsted was injured while attempting to catch a falling bass amp head (the bass amp head which was used for recording Metallica, Load and Reload)
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Newsted found solace through painting
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2003· 1 entry
“I tell you very honestly, one billion percent, I have never regretted leaving Metallica. It was the right thing for everyone. It was the right thing to do for the camp. That”
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2002· 1 entry
Papa Wheelie recorded "Live Lycanthropy" at The Plant in Sausalito, California
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2001· 2 entries
As plans were being made for the band to enter the recording studio to record their eighth studio album, Newsted made his departure public, citing "private and personal reasons and the physical damage I have done to myse
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The band consisted of Joe "Joefus" Ledesma and Steven Wiig and recorded the album "Unipsycho" in Walnut Creek, CA
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1997· 1 entry
Newsted formed Papa Wheelie at his home studio The Chophouse
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1989· 1 entry
Would often sing parts of "Creeping Death", "Whiplash" and "Seek & Destroy", and he performed lead in most songs for three shows at the Summer Sanitarium Tour where Hetfield was recovering from injury
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1988· 1 entry
To Judy Talbert but the couple divorced in 1991 during the recordings of the Black Album
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1987· 1 entry
In which he was credited as 'Master J Newkid' in the liner notes
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1986· 1 entry
During the European leg of the Damage, Inc
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-03-04.
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