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Rob Trujilo - His playing style?

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In my opinion, Rob Trujilo's playing style is pretty funkay and slap happy,,, but it seems to have lost his style the minute he got into Ozzy's band... maybe his not showing it on purpose. But a lot of the attention he gets are from his appearance and showmanship rather than from his playing
 
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Rat said:
maybe because with Ozzy and Metallica he is a hired gun and is being paid to play the songs they way they are written..

I doubt Metallica will let him be his funky Mofo self...which is unfortunate...
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i 100% agree. But i really hope he does at least a little bit of his funkiness on metallica's new album.

because, even though metallica is my favourite band, i dont think they will be able to pull off another "classic" album.
 
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i get tired just seeing him crouch down and play...i wonder why he strap his bass so low... and i don't think metallica will EVER pull off another classic album... their last best was probably Master of Puppets...Thats it...Frm Then on its all boring...Its probably because Cliff wasn't there anymore... Mainstream and MTV killed them and turned them to pop hippies...
 
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Rat said:
maybe because with Ozzy and Metallica he is a hired gun and is being paid to play the songs they way they are written..

I doubt Metallica will let him be his funky Mofo self...which is unfortunate...
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He wasn't playing bass on Metallica's recording. I understand though that he'll have more imput on the next recording. He cuts loose as his usual self in live performances though. I'd like to hear what Rob's style would do to the direction of Matellica's music.
 
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Scott Zoltok said:
check out my original post.

And I was more looking for, you know, patterns in his playing. What gives him his distinction?
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do you have Metallica's "some kind of monster" DVD... You can see him in action at his tryout for Metallica and it shows how he joined them and stuff like that.

Also, get St. Anger the CD/DVD version. The CD is okay but i actually prefer the DVD. It is of them playing the entire record song after song and you can see some of his style.

Recommended if you are a fan and it will give you an ideas and show you first hand how he rolls. May be video.google.com may have some Infectious Grooves or Suicidal Tendencies music videos which you can watch him play.
 
#14
Rob quoted in in the So What?!? book that he mostly plays with his fingers but has used a pick when neccessary. He really doesn't have a unique style (other than the high stepping/crawling he does on stage) but he prefers P or J style pickups and rests his thumb on the pickup. This next Metallica album will include Rob and we will probably hear a lot of stuff like Suicidal.
 
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dumbassist said:
i get tired just seeing him crouch down and play...i wonder why he strap his bass so low... and i don't think metallica will EVER pull off another classic album... their last best was probably Master of Puppets...Thats it...Frm Then on its all boring...Its probably because Cliff wasn't there anymore... Mainstream and MTV killed them and turned them to pop hippies...
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Dude, WT$? I agree that Cliff was pretty good, but he was only good when it comes to tecnique... Jason was the best player they've ever had.... He rocked on stage, had a fantastic, songsupporting playing style, and his backing vocals just rocked everyone elses....
 
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Deletion said:
Dude, WT$? I agree that Cliff was pretty good, but he was only good when it comes to tecnique... Jason was the best player they've ever had.... He rocked on stage, had a fantastic, songsupporting playing style, and his backing vocals just rocked everyone elses....
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After i heard cliff, the rest was like cliff's replacement... Didn't bother checking the other albums after master... Newsteads gd huh?? Well I must check em' out...:hyper:

My bad, didnt mean to offend everyone...but dont u agree that they turned popish???
 
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dumbassist said:
After i heard cliff, the rest was like cliff's replacement... Didn't bother checking the other albums after master... Newsteads gd huh?? Well I must check em' out...:hyper:

My bad, didnt mean to offend everyone...but dont u agree that they turned popish???
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Newsted is quite good, but very different. Definetely worth checking out. I like them both, although Orion makes me like cliff a little more.
 

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