How often is the bass *technically* by itself in metallica songs? (Part 1)

How often is does metallica let their bassists shine their light?

[@Necro-s]

0.54 No, thank you very much, i don't want to skip this amazing intro

[@vikthorbrock]

Cliff's basslines are AWESOME! I wish he was still alive... RIP 😪🤘🤘

[@AndDeathForAll82]

My World, Until It Sleeps, King Nothing, Devil’s Dance, Cyanide, Suicide & Redemption, Rebel of Babylon, Spit Out the Bone, Sleepwalk My Life Away, Inamorata. Some of those have drums, but so do some of the ones in this video.

[@v3lz0]

@@AndDeathForAll82 coming in part 2

[@YEAH340]

Holier Than Thou and also Shoot Me Again

[@AndDeathForAll82]

@@YEAH340 Thanks! I forgot about those

[@sheeppf5265]

To Live is To Die has an audible bass part in the interlude

[@hellcrafter5965]

The end of My World also has a bass only part

[@chafdawg2000]

Great memory! Killer song

[@hellcrafter5965]

Also, the beginning of the middle section of Spit Out the Bone and the intro to Suicide and Redemption

[@mattheww7185]

And that's Bob playing it...

[@jamiereekie9342]

Man.. metallica really lost a lot when Cliff died..

[@romanlindeman570]

Jason was also too good, but they treated him like shit.

[@nirvanaduhg]

metallica lost their soul when jason left

[@big_ol_ball838]

When Jason left they became a Metallica cover band

[@_PuppetMaster86]

@@nirvanaduhgBullshit.

[@DeceasedUser]

We lost a lot when Cliff died…

[@1976oswald]

yeah friend of misery is an awesome intro too !!!

[@mickeyrube6623]

Why did you go out of your way to say *technically* if technically half of these aren't technically the bass by itself???

[@Puff_123]

Cliff... what a legend he was.

[@Foxttellio]

Unpopular opinion here but i really think Jason had a much better grasp at making the bass work with the other instruments than cliff did

[@fclefjefff4041]

It isn't a competition, clown.

[@lowfrequencywizard]

That’s a fair point imo. Cliff was very strong when it came to composing and arranging (since he also had a lasting influence on James in that regard), but Jason’s aggressive tone and style served the music way better in a functional way. Cliff was very fast for a fingerstyle player, but Jason could really lock in with the guitar riffs in a really tight and effortless way that made everything just sound massive.

[@aRroz_qw]

Where is the bass solo from Orion?

[@DankoHidalgo]

After the bridge to the bass solo

[@vienesaconketchup2364]

Its not in the video because its an only bass moments in metallica songs, in the bass solo there are other instruments playing along

[@doopo_]

​@@vienesaconketchup2364 yeah i thought it was a little weird that for whom the bell tolls was included

[@mickeyrube6623]

​@@vienesaconketchup2364I know, but there are drums in half of these

[@deadlocked56]

technically leper messiah has a little bass thingy in the intro just really quiet, the rough mix has it louder

[@Andres33AU]

Great list! There's also just the drums and bass shortly after the solo in Holier Than Thou, which sounds sick!

[@irushforth]

What about Leper Messiah, near the start?

[@v3lz0]

@@irushforth I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING

[@irushforth]

​​​@@v3lz0Technically, the drums are playing too. (But that's also the case with some of your other examples.) There's also a big bass slide up at the end of Am I Evil? And, believe it or not, a few bass notes on the... And Justice For All album (Jason playing with Lars only).

[@v3lz0]

@@irushforth jeez i must be slow, i’ll remember to add them in part 2 though

[@irushforth]

@@v3lz0 You're forgiven for not hearing Jason's bass on the Justice album!

[@irushforth]

@@v3lz0 You're forgiven for not hearing Jason's bass on the Justice album!

[@Targoon_Music]

0:17 orion intro is NOT BASS! it's an electric organ (most likely hammond) with distortion, other bands such as Eloy did the same thing way before Metallica

[@Hubertoryx99]

It was in the ROUGH MIX, in the final version it's bass.

[@PreciselyTuned]

I'm pretty sure it's both, just layered

[@Targoon_Music]

@@PreciselyTuned i will do a video on this i already uploaded one recreating it in garage band but i have access to better gear now and will do a through explanation on it

[@flcrqll6415]

its a harmony with a synthesizer pedal on its organ mode

[@Jr7_Nano]

Wait what about king nothing? Yk the intro

[@v3lz0]

@@Jr7_Nano i’ll do it in part 2, it took me all week to make this for some reason 😭

[@Jr7_Nano]

@@v3lz0 damn aight

[@hellcrafter5965]

There's guitar bends over top of the bass

[@First.Take.Jake.]

@@hellcrafter5965 yeah but he also did the interlude rather than the intro of my friend of misery

[@russfoulkes5490]

The intro to Orion is a Hammond organ.

[@punch845]

No Justice

[@mountkarate-nunchucka]

Bob rock is still metallicas best bass player

[@strangepassenger4428]

Сliff em all!!!

[@marcozeni6243]

Never enough but when it is it is there for a reason. Anyway you missed a few spots post Black Album

[@LeonLundqvist]

Orion intro isn’t bass!

[@jomano9651]

It is

[@LeonLundqvist]

@@jomano9651 no, it’s played through a Roland jx-08 into a leslie and then distortion

[@jomano9651]

@@LeonLundqvist nah cliffs attack on it just makes it sound like something else

[@LeonLundqvist]

@@jomano9651 I literally asked Flemming about the intro when I was in sweet silence so the information I stated should be correct