Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote, [on 9/29/2008 5:58 PM]: >> _And Justice For All_ sounds quite nice, I thought. > > But note how it also has almost no bass guitar. It was the first Metallica > album after Cliff Burton was replaced by Jason Newsted, and Newsted > contended that they mixed out his bass parts as some sort of bizarre > hazing ritual. Newsted is of course long gone from the band, but I guess > they really liked that aesthetic and stuck to it.
It may not be an accident that Lars Ulrich started getting this thick, fat drum tone (i.e, bass becomes almost irrelevant) round about the _And Justice For All_ days. The Black album has truly awesome drum tone. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
