Jason Newsted terug bij Metallica

… voor één keer dan toch. Voor hun intrede in de Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doet Jason nog één keer mee.

Kirk Hammett: Jason Newsted will be there, and he will be playing with us at one point. We went as a band when Black Sabbath was being inducted, and at that time Blondie was also being inducted that night. And there was so many politics and so much drama that, you know, we collectively said to each other. We don’t want any of that, because it kind of, it puts a really bad, sour note on the whole celebration itself.

Jason Newsted terug bij Metallica ?

Een paar maanden geleden was het groot nieuws dat Jason Newsted was
vertrokken bij Metallica. Onduidelijk was alleen wat reden was.
Maar volgens een interview met MTV nieuws heeft het jaren toeren en
headbangen blijkbaar zijn tol gekost.

In het zelfde interview met MTV news zegt Jason dat als de tijd ervoor
rijp is dat hij eventueel wel weer terug wil keren naar Metallica.
Hij houdt de deur dus voorlopig nog wagenwijd open.

Zie hier wat Blabbermouth er van te melden heeft:

Former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted has sensationally announced that he would happily work with METALLICA again in the future, despite walking out on the group earlier this year. Newsted cited “private and personal reasons, and the physical damage I have done to myself over the years while playing the music that I love” as the major reasons for his departure from the group, and has been keeping busy performing and recording with several acts in the months following the split. However, in a brand new interview with MTV News, the 38-year-old bassist said that if the remaining members of METALLICA approached him and the time was right, he would consider rejoining the band, at least on a temporary basis. “Never say never,” Newsted is quoted as saying. “I would record and play with those guys whenever the time came if that’s what they felt like doing. It has to come from them. They’d have to say, ‘Jay, are you still into it?’ And I would be. I’d be there 110 percent for them again.”

In the same article, Newsted delved further into his reasons for the departure: “It wasn’t easy to walk away from them. It was like having two of my children taken away from me. The first couple of months were real f.cked, and then I slowly came out of my depression and got back on the horse.

“Watch a couple videos from 1990 and it’s not hard to figure out how I damaged myself. I mean, 200 days a year I would give myself full-on whiplash. In 1990, the doctor told me to stop doing that. Well, I did 10 more years of it after that and now I’m kind of in this spot. I can’t perform as the performer people know me as, like a complete psycho. Doing that kind of touring is not in the cards for me right now.”

“I had a hollow feeling early on when I realized those guys would go on playing without me,” he admitted before waxing rhapsodic about his still-favorite band. “I truly believe everything happens for a reason. People had to be forced to take a few steps back and take an objective view. Like, ‘Holy sh–, look how we’ve messed it up and how we need to get our focus back.’ We spent more time in f—in’ court last year than we did playing our instruments. It’s just a matter of them pulling it back together, and I’m behind them a million percent.”

Newsted also revealed that, in addition to his ongoing production duties with Texas aggro-rockers SPEEDEALER, he will be producing an album from New York “noise-metal” sextet DRAGPIPE for the Geffen label early next year before entering the studio with Montreal’s VOIVOD to play bass on and produce the band’s allegedly “final” album.

“I’ve been friends with those guys for many years,” Jason said of VOIVOD. “We wrote ‘M-Body’ together on [1997’s] Phobos and I’ve worshipped those guys since 1984. When I was in FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, we were peers and competitors. It’s good to be on the same team finally.”