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.: Robert Trujillo :.
Early life (1962-1980)
Robert
Trujillo is the firfth person to play bass for Metallica. After Jason
leaves Metallica in Januari 2001, Robert joins Metallica in Februari 2003.
Although he sometimes uses a pick, Robert is best known as a bad motherplucker,
a finger-playing bass monster.
Trujillo, grew up listening to his mother's Motown music and his father's roots rock.
That explains why he became a natural at funk-rock bass. He heard
everything from Led Zeppelin to Motown with a chunk of funk in between.
Trujillo
develloped a rythm and a vibe that saw him play with a variety of local
bands through his early twentys until he met Mike Muir from Suicidal Tendencies
via his high school buddy, Suicidal guitarist Rocky George. The two got
on infamously wel, and thus began a rich and fruitfull relationship which
saw Robert establish himself as one of the most exiting bass talents in
the rock world.
In the early 90s he and Muir formed the experimental funk-rockers Infectious
Grooves, and then in the mid 90s Trujillo joined Ozzy Osbourne.
Rob's name first floated by the Metallicamp during Suicidal's supporting role
on the Summer Shed tour of '94, when all the band noted his enthusiastic
style and performances. Thus when it was time to consider who could step
up and take the bass full time in Metallica, Rob's name was an obvious choice.
By all accounts, Rob's audition
dared the band NOT to give him the job, and even producer Bob Rock was heard
saying how complete and unequivocally whole the band sounded with Rob playing.
Early life
Trujillo was born on October 23, 1964 and grew up in Culver City, California. His mother is from León, Guanajuato, México. Trujillo attended Culver City High School.
Career
He played in a few local bands before joining Suicidal Tendencies (in 1989) and fellow Culver City native, Rocky George, the guitarist for the band at the time. Trujillo replaced the band's second bassist Bob Heathcote. He is responsible for adding in funk influences to the band seen prominently on albums Lights...Camera...Revolution! and especially on The Art of Rebellion. He eventually turned bandmate Mike Muir on to funk music, and the two formed Infectious Grooves to play more funk-oriented music.
He was a member of Ozzy Osbourne's band for a number of years starting in the late 90s. Trujillo was the subject of controversy for re-recording Bob Daisley's bass tracks for reissued versions of Osbourne's albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman due to Daisley's claim of not receiving proper royalties. (Similarly, Osbourne's drummer Mike Bordin re-recorded drum parts originally done by Lee Kerslake, who was also involved in the royalty dispute.) This achieved additional notoriety for giving no notice to the buying public on the outside of the CD that they were not purchasing an original recording.
Robert Trujillo became Metallica's bassist on February 24, 2003 after auditioning for the band and fitting in with fellow band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett. Trujillo received one million dollars from the band as an advance on the percentage he would earn by being in Metallica. His audition and hiring appear in the documentary film Some Kind of Monster. His debut studio album with Metallica, Death Magnetic, was released on September 12, 2008.
Also in 2003, Trujillo was seen playing an upright bass in the Nickel Creek music video, "Smoothie" Song. However, he did not play bass for the band during the song's recording.
Personal life
Robert is married and has two children.[2]. Chloe did a pyrography (woodburning) design of the Aztec Calendar for him on his bass[3][4][5]. Years later when Rob heard Chloe had moved to Los Angeles, he called her from a pay phone while on a surfing trip in Tahiti in a determined effort to reconnect[6]. They have been together for the past seven years and are now married. His wife has her own site called "Chloe in art"[7].
Technique
Trujillo is primarily, but not exclusively, a fingerstyle player. He has been known to play with a pick for some of his work, primarily recordings and live playing with Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society. In order to achieve the attack and speed of pickstyle playing with his fingers, he has developed a fingerstyle technique which involves using both plucking fingers in a down-and-up motion, or sometimes using three fingers to attack the strings instead of the more usual two. It should be noted that Trujillo's predecessor in Metallica, Jason Newsted, was almost exclusively a pickstyle player (he used his fingers for a part of "One" and on softer songs or ones that required a fretless bass, such as Nothing Else Matters), while Cliff Burton, Newsted's predecessor and bassist on Metallica's first three albums, played fingerstyle exclusively.
Trujillo is also a very skilled slap bass player, as demonstrated in his work for Suicidal Tendencies and Infectious Grooves, where he used the technique extensively. At many of the shows during Metallica's 2004 Madly in Anger with the World Tour, Trujillo would often play an extended bass solo (dubbed "Jungle essence") in which he utilized many of his different playing techniques and various effects.
In a Mission: Metallica video, it is shown that Trujillo has experience in Flamenco guitar playing. [8]
Equipment
With Metallica, he is most often seen playing Fernandes Guitars Gravity 5-string basses, particularly a model with a silver finish, blue flame decals, and EMG pickups. He also has a signature bass model, the Sonus RT, manufactured by Zon Guitars. Prior to Metallica, he was most often seen playing Tobias, ESP and Musicman basses (all 5-strings), as well as a Fender Precision Bass with Black Label Society and Ozzy Osbourne. Trujillo has also recently been seen in concert playing a Yamaha TRB5-P2 5-string bass, a customized green Rickenbacker 4001/4003 4-string bass fitted with EMG pickups, and a classic Fender Precision Bass as well as a Black Warwick Streamer Bass, most probably customized. For amplification, he uses Ampeg amplifiers and cabinets. Also, Trujillo recently collaborated with Jim Dunlop to create his new Icon signature bass strings - these strings are taper-core stainless steel, in gauges 45-130 (5-string). Trujillo uses a Morley Mark Tremonti Wah pedal on songs such as "For Whom the Bell Tolls".
According to an article published recently[9] Trujillo's pedal board consists of an Electro Harmonix Q-Tron, SansAmp Bass Driver DI, Sansamp XXL, Boss OC-2 Octave Pedal, all powered by the Voodoo Lab Pedal Power.
Discography
Black Label Society
1919 Eternal - 2002
Boozed, Broozed, and Broken-Boned (Live DVD) - 2002
Jerry Cantrell
Degradation Trip - 2002
Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2 - 2002
Infectious Grooves
The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move...It's the Infectious Grooves - 1991
Sarsippius' Ark - 1993
Groove Family Cyco - 1994
Mas Borracho - 2000
Suicidal Tendencies
Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu - 1989 (credited as "Stymee")
Lights...Camera...Revolution! - 1990
The Art of Rebellion - 1992
Still Cyco After All These Years -1993
Suicidal for Life - 1994
Prime Cuts - 1997
Glenn Tipton
Baptizm of Fire - 1997
Mass Mental
How to Write Love Songs - 1999
Live in Tokyo - 2001
Ozzy Osbourne
Down to Earth - 2001
Blizzard of Ozz reissue - 2002
Diary of a Madman reissue - 2002
Live at Budokan - 2002
Metallica
Death Magnetic - 2008
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