Bassist talks about the album
In an interview with Rolling Stone Australia, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo spoke about the difficulty of playing the songs from the album “…And Justice For All”. Known for being an album where the bass is very quiet, Metallica's 1988 work was the biggest challenge for the bassist:
“Justice is the biggest challenge because it’s very complex in its arrangement. As a bassist, it’s kind of open territory; you hear the riff, but then you listen to the live recordings, you see what Jason was doing. Frayed Ends Of Sanity from “Justice” is a song I always wanted to play with the band, and for years I kept saying, ‘Let’s play this song!’ But I’ll tell you, I started working on this song almost from the first day I joined the band. I knew that one day we were going to play this song, and I know that if I didn’t do my homework, I would have difficulty learning it the day before. So I nurtured this song for years, and we played it for the first time last summer; it was a dream come true for me.”
Kirk Hammett mocks James and Lars' attitude towards Newsted
: “Actually, tablature helped me a lot when I joined the band. Anything would do. I didn't have the masters back then. It's different now, you can go online and get the masters of any band out there, but back then you didn't have that option. Kirk uses tablature sometimes: 'Let me get the tablature, I need to learn my Dyer's Eve solo again!'”
