Metallica News: Beez: Is Newsted Coming Back A Good Idea?

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With news breaking today that Jason Newsted may be playing in place of Robert Trujillo at Metallica’s Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame induction, Beez wonders if this is a good idea.

Let’s get this out of the way straight away, I’m a huge Jason Newsted fan. When I was a kid, it was he, Gene Simmons and Nikki Sixx that made me want to pick up a bass guitar, I still miss that mental screwed-up face that he pulls when he headbangs and the “Die! Die! Die! MUTHAFUCKA! DIE!” part of Creeping Death still doesn’t sound right without...