Robert Trujillo Reveals His Favorite Bass Players
Robert Trujillo - Metallica’s bass player - revealed the three bassists that he considers to be his biggest inspirations. Rob Trujillo mentioned his heroes in an interview to Nate Goyer of The Vinyl Guide.
Trujillo mentions jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius, Black Sabbath’s Geezer Butler, and The O’Jays’ Anthony Jackson as his biggest inspirations and he explains the reasons behind his choices.
“For me, he was one of the biggest influences. I’d have to say – Jaco, Geezer Butler from Black Sabbath, and Anthony Jackson who played bass on [The O’Jays’] ‘For the Love of Money.’
And I ended up meeting him around the time that we were filming for the interviews [for the ‘Jaco’ documentary], and he ended up being really cool, and we stayed in contact, and I always sort of channeled their energy into what I would write for Infectious Grooves.”
Rob added:
“There’s a lot of specific moments where I’m actually pulling directly from the people that I grew up listening to, and Jaco is definitely a huge inspiration for Infectious, absolutely.
A song like ‘Violent & Funky,’ you know, it’s not a fretless bass, but that is absolutely kind of inspiration from him. And the same thing with the song ‘Therapy,’ which featured Ozzy, so it’s all there.”
When asked to talk in more detail about Jaco Pastorius, he had this to say:
“There’s a lot of specific moments where I’m actually pulling directly from the people that I grew up listening to, and Jaco is definitely a huge inspiration for Infectious, absolutely.
A song like ‘Violent & Funky,’ you know, it’s not a fretless bass, but that is absolutely kind of inspiration from him. And the same thing with the song ‘Therapy,’ which featured Ozzy, so it’s all there.”
Check the full interview on The Vinyl Guide - https://vinylguide.libsyn.com/ep230-robert-trujillo-of-metallica
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