Jason Newsted is promoting a set of over 60 guitars and basses on Reverb — together with bass guitars he performed whereas he was in Metallica.
The Official Jason Newsted Reverb Store is about to launch subsequent Wednesday (July twenty fourth) and can see the longtime steel bassist parting with some selection axes from his huge assortment.
“I’m teaming up with Reverb to promote some items from my assortment for the very first time,” mentioned Newsted in a press announcement. “The final 30 or 40 years as I’ve traveled round taking part in music for individuals, I’ve gathered some cool shit. I traveled the world to gather these items and plenty of of those items have traveled the world with me. I’d wish to get them into the arms of different gamers as a result of I can solely play so many directly, and great guitars corresponding to these shouldn’t stay in instances eternally…they should be loved!”
The crown jewel for Metallica followers will little question be the 1992 Alembic Europa Customized 10-string bass that Newsted used on the tour to help “The Black Album.”
“It is a very particular piece of steel historical past and it’s certainly one of one,” remarked Newsted. “This factor is a beast…you need to be a straight badass to hold it, not to mention play it.”
One other Alembic, certainly one of Newsted’s first — a 1989 twentieth anniversary mannequin with the serial quantity six of 200 (as seen within the A Yr and a Half within the Lifetime of Metallica)— will even be up on the market, in addition to a uncommon cherry sunburst-finished PRS bass that was used on the …And Justice for All tour and a 5-string fretless Zon bass (used to document “Till It Sleeps”).
“It is a piece of steel lore proper right here,” mentioned Newsted of the fretless Zon. “You’ve got the tune in your assortment [and] that’s the bass that performed it.”
Different highlights from the gathering embody a late Nineteen Sixties Barney Kessel Customized, a 1966 Firebird III; an authentic Ampeg AUB-1 Scroll Bass in wonderful situation; a customized 3-string Music Man bass impressed by Tony Levin’s design; a uncommon Mosrite 5-string electrical mandolin guitar with a sunburst end; a 1980 Rickenbacker 4080 double-neck in blue; a 1937 Nationwide Dobro “Exploding Palm Tree” Tri-Cone Resonator; and an analogous 1928 Nationwide Dobro Mandolin Model 2.
You’ll be able to try a preview of the gathering by way of Reverb and see a video of Newsted discussing the gear, in addition to some shut up pictures, under.
