Was he the right pick?

Was he the right pick?

He's not even a real member, he's a hired gun
Jason was the right pick but Fagtallica blew it

he's unironically too good for today's Metallica and now he's not being used at his full potential
a more obvious example is when Les Claypool auditioned to take Cliff's place

playing bass for Metallica

That's like being the chief mechanic of a box car racing team

Wouldn't it be funny if they let Dave back in, made James the bassist, and made the most acclaimed metal record of all time instead of St. Anger?

Eternal new member.
I really wanted to see how bad metallica would've sounded playing funk metal

The ad was for a guy who can play the electric bass at his ankles.

He is the longest tenured bassist in the history of Metallica, so he is literally the definitive Metallica bassist

Turok?

How come 20+ years later he's still just "the new guy"? He has never felt like an actual member of the band at any point

always that insecure huh?
not a good look, friendo

I liked him in Suicidal Tendencies. How come they never kept the same lineup from album to album?

Kek how did this ever progress beyond the “just throwing that out there” stage?

Let me explain because you obviously didn't understand: Bass in Metallica is completely irrelevant. It can be played by Robert, Cliff, Jason, Les or my neighbor for all that matters. It's completely submitted both rhythmically and harmonically to the guitar and the drums, having a bassist makes no sense whatsoever in that band (and many other metal bands). It's a low-end filler. They could just overdub a transposed guitar track one or two octaves lower and the results would be exactly the same.

he hasn't played in their peak nor on any popular albums of theirs. Doesn't help that he doesn't really do anything other than play.

lmao, this bitch is 100% projecting

Chris Wyse was the right choice since he could sing backing vocals

It could have been Mike Watt

No band in history has ever made or broken by the bassist. Any idiot can play bass.

he makes his money and he hasn't made anyone in the band mad
he prolly doesn't mind he can no longer play his favorite genre

metallica is the "metal" band for people who don't like metal

iron maiden

rhcp

I read an article somewhere that said his whole goal in life was to be a session musician. Seems to enjoy not taking center stage

yes but all the members in Metallica are famous in their own right, whereas Rob is just kind of there, so it looks odd from a band personality perspective.

Primus

Hired bass guy. This is a band that strangely despises bass players. Theres tons of vids on YT where James or Lars insult or are angry with Rob just for seemingly existing.
youtube.com/watch?v=-taxDls_yIQ
James steps in to crack a joke to ease the tension, Rob is reduced to a child standing there. People might say "its just jokes" but passive agressiveness masked as humor really arent jokes. When its not Lars, its James making Rob bauble.
Rob will stay on board and put up with it because its a cash cow.

tl;dr this band hates the bass and hates bassists.

Ron McGovney could've angled hard for his old job back as compo for being a footnote and the butt of jokes in their overhyped history. As a bonus, that would've pissed Dave off no end too.

Morphine

Probably not, but probably yes. I don't think he or any other bassist would've made a difference to their direction for these past 20 years. He's basically just a placeholder during their most creative bankrupt period, but none of that is his fault.

Type O Negative