Metallica's Trujillo Discusses Jaco Inspiration
. Trujillo last month launched a crowdfunding campaign for Jaco: The Movie, a film he's producing which tells the story of the late bass enigma from the point of view of family, friends and fellow musicians including Flea, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Geddy Lee, Bootsy Collins and Carlos Santana. He tells ForBassPlayersOnly: "When I was a teenager, I had the good fortune of seeing Jaco play at least four times. And it was just an eye-opening experience. In a lot of ways it changed my life, because that's where I saw that bass as an instrument could propel itself into the forefront and not just be the guy in the back holding it down on the sly, but actually could be up in the front and in control. "Jaco, he set the bar. The bar was just so high that it was almost unattainable to a certain degree, but the great thing about it is it inspired you to take the instrument into other directions. "I was writing, creating music with him in mind. So a band like Infectious Grooves was inspired by Jaco Pastorius, but it was also inspired by bands like Metallica or Slayer or the Sex Pistols. But bass, as a bassist, probably the main inspiration would have been Jaco." Trujillo adds that he hopes the movie raises awareness of bipolar disorder, which Pastorius was diagnosed with in 1982. Read more and stream the full video interview here. Classic Rock Magazine is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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