Talking in a latest interview on the “Toby Morse One Life One Probability” podcast, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo admitted that he was initially “consumed” by the “workload” when he joined the band in 2003.
“I used to be simply fascinated with the workload. I couldn’t take into consideration the cash or something. I used to be like, ‘I’ve gotta study to sing extra, I’ve acquired much more duty, I’ve a catalog of fabric that goes [back] 20 years. After which, there was this new album, ‘St. Anger’, which they’d already recorded, they usually by no means even performed these songs [live] collectively, actually. Bob [Rock, producer] performed bass on that. I needed to study these songs on high of the catalog,” he stated.
“I used to be additionally confused as a result of I didn’t know what songs had been going to be within the set within the close to future, as a result of I used to be by no means advised. So I might ask, Lars… after which I might ask Kirk, and I’d ask James. And the set lists had been all totally different, as a result of nobody knew precisely what they had been going to play. After which, at the moment, they wished to get into the older materials, which was factor… However with that, there’s extra songs to study.”
“Like, Lars would say, ‘I feel I need to play ‘Phantom Lord’ tonight, and it’s, like, two o’clock. So, I had quite a lot of charts, I had quite a lot of what I name cheat sheets. And I needed to survive by these. Nowadays, I don’t actually like that. I need to really feel the track, so I at all times attempt to put together approach upfront.”