YMMV / Jason Newsted

• Archive Panic: He requires a very long page on Wikipedia to list how many songs he's been a part of.
• Epic Riff: King of the Underdogs, Soldierhead, Heroic Dose, Long Time Dead, ...As the Crow Flies, Nocturnus, Kindevillusion, The Differents, and the bass solo at the end of Ampossible. The whole of Heavy Metal Music is a very riff-oriented album. Jason also mentions that the riff to Futureality has stuck with him for years before he ever recorded or wrote it down.
• Mis-blamed:
  • Jason is frequently blamed for the Lighter and Softer nineties Metallica albums, with cries of "Cliff would have never allowed this to happen," being frequent among old-school fans. This is despite all evidence pointing to Jason being the most hardcore metalhead in the band and the fact that James, Lars, and Kirk all credit Cliff as the one who expanded their musical tastes beyond simplistic thrash metal. Not to mention the fact that Jason had one writing credit between the Load and Reload albums, and only one on the self-titled album.
    • This is all true about Jason, but Kirk did say something to the effect that St. Anger was in a sense Jason's vision for where the band would go, but he was the "sacrificial lamb" for that to happen. Presumably, though, he wanted it without the outlandishly terrible sound.
  • The lack of bass on ...And Justice for All is often accused of being an act of hazing towards Jason by James and Lars. Producer Flemming Rasmussen, who was not present for the mixing, indeed claims the first thing James and Lars demanded on hearing the initial mixes was that the bass be turned down. Ultimately, mixers Steven Thompson and Mike Barbiero "scooped" James' guitar tone (cut the middle tones out, leaving only highs and lows), Jason messed up on the bass lines (doubling the guitar parts, rather than following the kick drum as taught in Bass 101), and mixing the bass to normal levels (for Metallica; even before Jason they weren't a bass-heavy band, and switching from a finger bassist to a pick bassist made for louder bass at the same mixer levels) would have drowned out the low part of James's rhythm guitar. The result made Rasmussen joke that "Jason, Toby [Wright, engineer] and I are probably the only people who know what the bass parts actually sounded like on that album." Thankfully, a version that restores the bass can be found online, named And Justice for Jason, although it muddles up the low end, and Jason's pick slapping gets annoying enough after several tracks to think James and Lars may have had a point.
    • Newsted admitted his mistakes when he appeared on the first 2013 episode of That Metal Show and the issue was brought up. He said that he recorded his parts by himself with no input from anyone else, using the same equipment, bass, and engineers that he used in his former band Flotsam and Jetsam. Also, since he wrote the music in F&J and the guitarists took their cues from him, his bass parts on Justice were too much like a rhythm guitar, and ended up clashing both note-wise and sonically with Hetfield's actual rhythm guitar parts.
• Signature Song: Metallica's "Whiplash." Despite the fact that Jason did not play on the album on which it appeared, he made the song his own during his time in the band and still plays it in his own band.