Most Metallica fans say MOP is their favorite album, mine is AJFA. I love the riffs, the drumming, the arrangements and just the entire vibe of the album. It's ironic because I play bass and well... you know.
@shizackel2 ай бұрын
Well at least you can play along with it without having to futz around with stem separation software that never completely removes pick sound.
@sstaners12342 ай бұрын
Ride the Lightning is my favorite. And I’m a huge fan of Metallica.
@roan99142 ай бұрын
AJFA has my favorite songs that Metallica has written, easily their most complex, but I can’t call it my favorite album because of how ass the album sounds, no bass, shitty dry drums, fairly dry vocals and guitars, I hope the original stems are still around somewhere so the thing could be properly remixed someday
@stephanea5364Ай бұрын
AJFA is easily Metallica's most interesting record, perfect balance between being technical and full of melodies
@gabrielstern4992Ай бұрын
You can remove those sounds and with stem separation software if you listen to cliffs bass isolated on mop you can hear some picking in spots but noise also of fretting the strings on the fretboard it's common for recordings but you need to know how to move arrange everything in the correct spot but for you cliff button fans who are into what ifs with cliff and and justice for all you could take samples of cliffs bass adjust them to replace Jason's bass tone but I can tell you right now you could fix Jason's bass without replacing it but you nerd a good ear. But I prefer cliffs counterpoint to James guitar period.
@drumtum81Ай бұрын
You have someone who crushes it on the bass guitar, willing to do or play anything you tell him to (at that point), and instead of utilizing that Lars decides to delete him out of the mix completely? I'll never understand that. And yet, Jason has the composure to never even talk shit about it. Guy was a class act and they were lucky to have him
@krisski28232 ай бұрын
I feel that album should be remixed and sold today just like you would do any remaster or live album or whatever else you do besides the original works. But Jason should get all the money from the sales. Look, we as fans will always love Jason. A lot of us didn’t even get the chance to see Cliff perform. Love his work but he died and the band played on. With Jason. 😉😘😘🤘🤘💯🔥
@RaceDayReplay2 ай бұрын
remastering and remixing are two different things. And Jason has plenty of money in the bank
@waynegore1762 ай бұрын
Agreed
@sharp9music982 ай бұрын
The multitrack tape is likely too fragile for remixing.
@RaceDayReplay2 ай бұрын
@@sharp9music98 waaaay too fragile. Justice was recorded almost bar by bar so there are dozens of splices per song
@krisski28232 ай бұрын
@@sharp9music98 🤣that’s funny but not true. 😉😘😘🤘🤘
@villevanttinen9082 ай бұрын
Wests greatest achievement today: Jason Newsteds lost bass tracks.
@metalzonemt-22 ай бұрын
That's Indiana Jones 6.
@creamwobbly2 ай бұрын
and if you hear them your hair turns long & curly & ginger?
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
@@creamwobbly Your face melts.
@Zeus-the-mightyАй бұрын
F that. Turn it up!
@DuarkiАй бұрын
Made his mark in the band? Have u seen him live? James is threatened by him, otherwise he’d have a mic for every song. Metallica knew how good he was, hence them having a nervous breakdown after he left, and never releasing another good album
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
Yeah. Ok. Cool story bro.
@nyewesata9430Ай бұрын
Jason was the best thing that happend to Metallica
@sstaners12342 ай бұрын
I would love to see this (and if Cliff had any) come to light.
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
Wow. Wouldn't that be nuts if there was a lost tape that Cliff made that somehow got found? Dude!
@gram440aАй бұрын
Bass or no bass, still one of the worst sounding Metallica records.
@Sawdust6666Ай бұрын
It was pure ego driven bullshit you can't hear the bass.
@meursault-ey7wqАй бұрын
3:04 Hetfield with muttonchops was Sabretooth.
@johngraves2185Ай бұрын
They should remix that album. They can actually mix the bass in and maybe, just maybe beef up the drums so they’re not that ticky thin crap. I hated the drum sound on that album.
@creamwobbly2 ай бұрын
1:32 His answer is really insightful. I can see that being the case. But also, they were in a bad place with grief and if Jason has risen to the bullying, maybe he would've been let go or worse. He definitely made his mark on _Smell the Glove_
@itsgmaniАй бұрын
Imagine he stayed. James might have even let him sing some new and old songs these days.
@michaelwynne622Ай бұрын
If he came back after hardwired was recorded, like, say Rob was just like . .my wife misses me with this touring schedule or something . .all would be about right with the world . .
@DasCollective2.0Ай бұрын
Ajfa is the greatest album of all time
@DuarkiАй бұрын
People who say ‘u can’t hear the bass on ajfa’ load it into software then actually turn the bass to zero, then you’ll hear what it sounds like with no bass. Trust me, u can hear the bass.
@Sawdust6666Ай бұрын
No i don't trust you.
@Christopher-md7tfАй бұрын
These AI tools aren't perfect my dude. If you load a song with no bass guitar into it and tell it to get rid of the bass, it's going to remove SOMETHING (probably mostly low end from the guitars) and the result will sound different, sure, but that doesn't mean that the bass guitar was audible in the mix to begin with.
@DuarkiАй бұрын
@@Christopher-md7tf AI? no, it’s not AI. it’s a basic htz metre, low end of a guitar can not possibly make the htz a bass does, it hears it, and can then distinguish the individual instrument stims. not AI. freaking gen z.
@Christopher-md7tfАй бұрын
@@Duarki "basic htz metre" lmao these tools work with deep learning and they're anything but "basic", otherwise they would've been around a lot longer than they have (also it's hz, with no t) . A bass guitar's frequency range is from about 40 to 400hz and the one of an electric guitar from about 80 to 5k, so there is A LOT of overlap there.
@DuarkiАй бұрын
@@Christopher-md7tf wtf r u talking about u knob, I’m not talking about AI. I’m talking about the frequencies that are on the album, that a 1960’s engineers board can pick up. u can literally KZbin clips of the ajfa producer sitting at his mixing desk isolating the bass track from the released mix. but you’re still talking about AI. a basic channel on a mixing desk can tell the difference between the bass guitar and the guitar. especially when they r playing virtually the same riff, but the notes r coming through at greatly different hertz. u speak like AI is needed to hear the difference between an open E on a bass oppose to a guitar, when the human ear can pick it, but have doubts if the basic computers they were using in the 1980’s could do it. and then double down on that insanity by saying someone can hear it themselves.
@EivindFalken2 ай бұрын
Where is the tracks ?
@PufeduАй бұрын
Most of them already exist, they were ripped from the Guitar Hero game way back in like 2007 or 2008. There are some songs missing though, like Eye Of The Beholder and Frayed Ends Of Sanity.
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
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@Espiritas2 ай бұрын
Wow, Lars really doesn’t have a good ear for mixing 😂
@creamwobbly2 ай бұрын
He's just as bad with his drinks
@muriloninjaАй бұрын
Metallica have shit for brains in the studio and have proven it time and time again.
@user-yk4gd1fl4zАй бұрын
Coke
@overkill7990Ай бұрын
Who cares if it's not the released version the bass tracks are still part of the original recording. Any official rerelease will probably just get ruined with brickwalling anyway though :(
@nigelsmith721Ай бұрын
This is ancient history. Why are people still talking about this now?
@KungFuCartoonsАй бұрын
New to the internet I see
@fromalongtimeagoАй бұрын
AJFA...Some great songs. Crap sound. Metallica has been lost after re-load. Maybe bring Fleming back, and see if the fire, the want, would come back to James.
@ImYourOverlord2 ай бұрын
Ultimately, the oroducer should have said no, that you can't just do that. I don't care who you are. It's substandard product, and no one with decency and respect would have allowed it.
@musik7466Ай бұрын
The producer is paid by the band (sort of, through the label) so, no. Lars and James called the shots.
@ImYourOverlordАй бұрын
@@musik7466 Not dictating, mind you, but a good producer makes informed suggestions based on experience. My impression of Rasmussen is that he was more standoffish, and that's how some producers roll. Imagine, though, if Bob Rock had been producing ...AJFA. No way would he have sat silently while Lars did Lars.
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
It's their music, how the hell is anybody else going to dictate to them how it should sound? Explain to me how a 'substandard product' went platinum in 9 weeks after it hit stores (it's now 8x platinum). It has sold well over 9 million albums and peaked at number 6 on The Billboard 200. It's widely considered by many musicians and fans alike to be one of *_the best metal albums of all time_* . Did they drop you on your head as a child?
@c_huntermcАй бұрын
@@Wanderer_Rogue St. Anger has sold over 6 million copies worldwide. That doesn't mean it doesn't sound like trash.
@hypnovertigo7200Ай бұрын
Jason was the best bass player Metallica had and one of the greatest out there. One of my heroes
@JoeBlow-bd1egАй бұрын
That's absurd
@hanhi2 ай бұрын
It was that rockstar wannabe drummer boy.
@chrishorton8213Ай бұрын
It’s the late 80s. James and Lars are in their late 20s, full Alpha Males, dealing with the dichotomy of the rising star of the Metallica brand while also dealing with the loss of a brother. Dealing with the loss with no effective coping mechanisms at the time. Fans don’t know or understand what it’s like to be in the business of music either. Sometimes a whirlwind of circumstances create odd outcomes. The lack of bass on AJFA will never be solved because the answer is convoluted. And an official remix/remaster is just never going to happen.
@michaelwynne622Ай бұрын
Plus cocaine .
@DoomzdayxxАй бұрын
I mean there's nothing wrong with the bass tracks, but it honestly distracts a bit from the legendary riffs on that album. I'm glad we got the mix we did.
@jackb348Ай бұрын
The mix sucks. It always has. The album would’ve sounded better with Jason’s bass in the mix.
@DoomzdayxxАй бұрын
@@jackb348 nah the mix is awesome. The album is their 2nd best selling ever for a good reason . Jason's lazy bass playing ruins the masterpiece. It's fine just as it is. Would have been interesting to hear Cliff play on it.
@georgelanders4271Ай бұрын
Imagine how good the black album could have been if they didn't hire Bob cock rock to produce it
@Alpiste_1846_officialАй бұрын
Without Bob Rock there wouldn't be Black Album. A complete different story could be written.
@nickstalker3254Ай бұрын
This is a brain dead take. The black album is the best produced metal album of all time. A sonic masterpiece.
@user-yk4gd1fl4zАй бұрын
Imagine if ya sister didn’t tie ya shoes in the morning bro
@georgelanders4271Ай бұрын
@@user-yk4gd1fl4z image if you didn't have a micro penis bro🤣🤣🤣
@AndrewGrey222 ай бұрын
And the snare sounded like shit on that album too.
@toddlawrance40452 ай бұрын
Very dry sounding snare, the snare sound on the concert tours for the album was a lot better (even on the bootlegs). The toms sounded great, I was never mad on the clicky bass drum sound which kind of became standard for Metal kick sounds after AJFA. I remember playing an Anthrax song on my own set with my tuning and the bass drum sounded weird, nothing like the album sound (my kick's more tuned to Rock, a big sound over a tight click). I call it the typewriter bass drum sound.
@agentsmith38252 ай бұрын
@@toddlawrance4045tldr
@petsetsenko91712 ай бұрын
not for me...sry
@shallex5744Ай бұрын
it did? i never would have known if you didn't tell me
@MikeNevill32 ай бұрын
Yup.. I think it's karma .. in a way. Ha ha ..
@FourMypersonaluse2 ай бұрын
Say Godards ,,and train tracks real loud 👶👑🙏🎤🥖👶👑🙏🎤🥖📍🗺️
@sarkissamuelАй бұрын
Doesn't anyone know their history of the band? One of, or maybe their first mix tape, was labelled with low or no bass. It was a sound they were looking to do for years, like a garage rock type of sound. It wasn't anything against Jason at all. This speculation of hazing is incorrect. God I hate this constant narrative that Lars was this...horrible ego driven drummer who tried to destroy Jason. Research the history of the band. Fuck.
@fromalongtimeagoАй бұрын
Didn't it say to lower the bass because it was louder in the mix. No life til leather
@Wanderer_RogueАй бұрын
The online hate is a trend people follow. I can understand if somebody doesn't like a song, that's normal that not everyone has the same taste, but it goes well beyond that. But I'm talking about how people just repeat the same 5 weird things over and over and claim to know all these 'facts' about the band as if they were there and witnessed all these things. The hate on Lars technical ability as a drummer is one example. Mostly it's this boring rant about who the 'best' drummer is, or that he is a horrible drummer altogether, but when you listen to people who know what the hell they're talking about, like producers, sound engineers, other musicians, etc., they all talk about how great of a drummer he is. I think it's because Lars has this kind of strange personality and way of speaking that comes off as narcisistic or whatever, which I get, but 95% of the time it's just this boring, regurgitated echo chamber for no good reason. The list goes on and on. Mustaine wrote the 1st 4 albums, Kirk and his Wah pedal, James... 🤔ok everybody loves James. 😁
@UltraMegaSeaMonkeyАй бұрын
Lol the cope, theres no bass in AJFA, why have your bassist record tracks so that they are muted in the end. Makes no sense.
@mmfs1919Ай бұрын
This is all just flogging a dead horse. Get over it already
@robmurrah3224Ай бұрын
All the whining about AJFA's lack of bass is far more annoying than the actual mix itself.
@DuarkiАй бұрын
People who say ‘u can’t hear the bass on ajfa’ load it into software then actually turn the bass to zero, then you’ll hear what it sounds like with no bass. Trust me, u can hear the bass.
@heryouhatebuttowhoyoumaste1991Ай бұрын
When you turn the bass down on an equalizer you turn down the bass in everything, guitar, drums, vocals … everything! Not just the bass
@BrainWasherAttendentАй бұрын
lol no you can’t. Your Trust me bro is BS bro.
@DuarkiАй бұрын
@@BrainWasherAttendent I’m not ur ‘bro’ and u can hear the bass on justice, like I said, load it into some software, and ACTUALLY turn the bass off if u think u can’t hear it on the album, then hear what it actually sounds like.
@UltraMegaSeaMonkeyАй бұрын
It probably cuts out whatever low end the guutar has but that album has no actual bass playing