Watch: Former METALLICA Bassist JASON NEWSTED And THE CHOPHOUSE BAND Perform At Charity Event In Jupiter

THE CHOPHOUSE BAND, the band led by former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, carried out final evening (Saturday, April 23) on the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. It was a profit occasion for the Goldner Conservatory, knowledgeable conservatory that gives the best caliber of inventive schooling to college students of all ages.

Skilled violinist Carl Schmid, who’s a part of Jason‘s backing band, shared photographs and video of yesterday’s live performance and included the next message: “METALLICA was the second band I ever noticed after I was a kid-I went to Giants Stadium in New Jersey, the place I noticed them with GUNS N ROSES and FAITH NO MORE opening the present. My ears are nonetheless ringing from that show-it needed to be the loudest occasion I’ve ever been at. And it was my first style of Rock N Roll. Till then I used to be an ungainly 13 yr previous child enjoying Mozart and Bach. I got here house from that present and instructed my dad and mom I needed to be like these guys. They had been mortified. A pair years in the past, simply by a random (or not) coincidence, I received to satisfy Jason Newsted and he invited me as much as his place to play. We performed a pair exhibits collectively, after which Covid hit. He took a two yr hiatus, after which about 4 months in the past we received again collectively.

“Final evening was unimaginable – we performed for an oversold out Maltz Theater in Jupiter, and received to boost an entire bunch of cash for some deserving children to attend music faculty. It was just some years in the past that I got here crawling again into restoration with actually a bag of garments, and little or no need to stay, a lot much less play. The presents I’ve acquired, the wonderful Grace I have been proven and felt, is simply unimaginable. It has been a fairly difficult month for me, however final evening was simply one other reminder that something is feasible in restoration. Something.”

Earlier this week, Newsted spoke to the 98.7 The Gater radio station in regards to the Maltz Jupiter Theatre live performance, saying: “Throughout my COVID downtime, I used to be in upstate New York. I wrote about 35 new songs throughout that. I introduced it again to my boys. I used to be sending them the tapes, the demos, sending it as much as them to study them… And that is what we’ll do on the Maltz. We’re enjoying a few songs that persons are aware of, impressed by Johnny Money and stuff, however most of it’s all new unique music from THE CHOPHOUSE BAND. I am not enjoying any acoustic guitar anymore — it is simply Les Pauls and SGs and stuff now. A few of it is a little bit quieter however most of it isn’t.”

Elaborating on the musical path of the brand new THE CHOPHOUSE BAND materials, Jason stated: “THE CHOPHOUSE BAND began out as nearly a bluegrass-tinged factor, and now it will get to some locations which can be as heavy as the rest that I might been concerned with — VOIVOD, Ozzy [Osbourne], METALLICA, NEWSTED band; any of that stuff — it will get to these locations now.”

Including that he “loves” singing, Newsted stated: “Now for the reason that final time anyone noticed THE CHOPHOUSE BAND, we’ve a vocal group inside the band. Now there are 4 singers within the band. I’ve two singers from New York — a feminine and male singer — which can be coming down to hitch us. And so I am singing eight or 10 songs, and so they’re singing the remainder, however I do background vocals and stuff now. So I can truly actually think about enjoying the guitar after which singing that background stuff. And there is screaming and a few [growling] additionally. So I nonetheless have not misplaced that. And it lets folks know that there is nonetheless one foot in that place. You possibly can take the boy out of the metallic [but] you possibly can’t take the metallic out of the boy; it is simply the way in which it is at all times gonna be. So I am excited for folks to have the ability to witness what we’ve been working so onerous at. I put lots — lots — of vitality into these new songs.”

Newsted additionally revealed that THE CHOPHOUSE BAND will enter the studio on Might 5 to start recording its debut album. Requested if he’ll launch the LP himself, Jason replied “sure” earlier than clarifying, “Truly, it is attainable — very attainable — that I will be again into the Q Prime fold [METALLICA‘s longtime management company] with that form of backing, like a real-deal factor.”

Named after Jason‘s 4 recording studio amenities across the U.S. and that includes a fluid roster of gamers, THE CHOPHOUSE BAND started in 1992 when Newsted based The Chophouse Information Studio in San Francisco.

THE CHOPHOUSE BAND is led by Newsted, enjoying guitar and performing lead vocal, accompanied by 
shut buddies/musicians of all walks and kinds.

Jason beforehand instructed the Palm Seaside Florida Weekly about THE CHOPHOUSE BAND: “All of us get alongside nice as a result of there’s not cash concerned. They have their very own bands, their very own households, their very own gigs. We do profit gigs, six a yr, and that is it. I document and write and play songs the entire remainder of the time. They might all run circles round me musical theory-wise. They might inform you every thing they’re enjoying, and all of the relating chords. I encompass myself with the badasses, and so they make me look actually good. I am enjoying cowboy chords the entire time, and so they’re doing their fancy shit to make me look good. I simply think about singing, and getting throughout the issues I would like folks to listen to.”

Jason left METALLICA again in 2001, however was inducted into the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame, together with Lars Ulrich, James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett and the person who changed him, bassist Robert Trujillo, in 2009.

Eight years in the past, Jason shelved NEWSTED, the heavy metallic mission he operated between 2012 and 2014, saying that it price him “an terrible lot of cash — a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars}.” He added: “I could not proceed as a result of the enterprise is such a harsh factor now and so completely different than what I had identified.”