
Jason Newsted
Acting
Biography
Jason Newsted is a musician. He is best known as the former bassist for the American band Metallica. He joined Metallica in the year 1986 and quit the band in 2001.
Known For

An annual award ceremony presented by MTV to honor the best in the music video medium.
MTV Video Music Awards

A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.
Classic Albums

Follow Jason Momoa as he travels the country chasing art, adventure, and friendship through the lens of craftsmanship.
On the Roam

Rock Star is a television series produced by Mark Burnett, David Geffen, Lisa Hennessy, and Al Berman in which aspiring singers from around the world competed to become the lead singer of a featured group.[1] It debuted on CBS on July 11, 2005, to mediocre ratings. The show was hosted by television personality and commercial spokeswoman Brooke Burke and Jane's Addiction lead guitarist Dave Navarro. In season one Australian rock band INXS chose J.D. Fortune as their new lead singer. For season two, the newly formed supergroup hard rock band, Rock Star Supernova chose Lukas Rossi as the lead singer.
Rockstar

The 30-minute documentaries feature a series of interviews, archive footage, and music of the most influential rock bands and artists of the century.
MTV Rockumentary

Over four decades, Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister has registered an immeasurable impact on music history. Nearly 65, he remains the living embodiment of the rock and roll lifestyle, and this feature-length documentary tells his story, one of a hard-living rock icon who continues to enjoy the life of a man half his age.
Lemmy

A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica is a two-part documentary about the process of making the Metallica album (or "The Black Album"), and the following tour. It was produced by Juliana Roberts and directed by Adam Dubin. The second part runs approximately two-and-a-half hours and follows Metallica at the start of their Wherever We May Roam Tour in Europe through to the Guns N' Roses/Metallica Stadium Tour of 1992.
Metallica: A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica

What do you give the youth of Moscow for standing down the coup and ending the reign of Communism in Russia? 700,000 Watts of Head-banging Power. With Exclusive live performances and behind-the-scenes footage, FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK captures five heavy metal bands and 500,000 fans in historic celebration of freedom at the concert that almost didn't happen.
For Those About to Rock - Monsters In Moscow

After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band in 2001, heavy metal superstars Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, filmmakers follow the three rock stars as they hire a group therapist and grapple with 20 years of repressed anger and aggression. Between searching for a replacement bass player, creating a new album and confronting their personal demons, the band learns to open up in ways they never thought possible.
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Michael Kamen conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra in support of metal rockers Metallica in this 1999 concert performance.
Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M

The astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one day and began a musical odyssey that helped shape the musical landscape across N.Y.C. and around the world. Directed by Drew Stone and produced by Michael Alex the film tells the incredible story of a cherished New York City icon. From rubbing elbows with N. Y. scene makers as an teenager at Max's Kansas City and CBGB, to being the architect of a rock 'n' roll renaissance as the 19 year-old talent booker at the legendary Ritz, to making history as a 24 year-old A&R exec, signing the biggest metal band in a generation in Metallica, Michael Alago was on fire.
Who the Fuck Is That Guy?: The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago

The story of the making of this remarkable album is told here via exclusive interviews with band members James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Jason Newsted, archive footage and performance, and contributions from producer Bob Rock. We revisit the original multi-tracks of the album, as well as listen to previously unheard demo recordings. Featuring the five singles from the album, Enter Sandman, Sad But True, "The Unforgiven", "Wherever I May Roam" and "Nothing Else Matters", this is the compelling story of one of the biggest selling albums of all time, a true Classic Album.
Classic Albums: Metallica - Metallica

From the Damage, Inc. world tour. Filmed on November 17th, 1986. Setlist : Battery Master of Puppets For Whom The Bell Tolls Welcome Home (Sanitarium) Ride the Lightning Bass Solo Whiplash The Thing That Should Not Be Fade to Black Seek & Destroy Creeping Death The Four Horsemen Guitar Solo Am I Evil? Damage, Inc. Fight Fire With Fire
Metallica: Nagoya, Japan

This is a collection of Metallica's videos ending with those shot for St. Anger.
Metallica: The Videos 1989-2004

Recorded live at the Berkeley Community Theater in Berkeley
Metallica With Michael Kamen Conducting The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra – S&M

Cunning Stunts is a concert video by heavy metal band Metallica, recorded live in Fort Worth, Texas, on 9-10 May 1997. It was released in DVD and VHS formats. The DVD features concert footage, band interviews, a documentary, behind the scenes footage and a photo gallery consisting of approximately 1,000 photos. Three of the performances feature multiple angles. During the performance of the song 'Enter Sandman', the entire stage is set to appear to collapse and explode, with pyrotechnics and a technician (referred to in the extras as the 'Burning Dude') who runs across the stage while on fire, as another technician swings overhead. This is also one of the only Metallica concerts that didn't feature 'Ecstasy of Gold' as an intro.
Metallica: Cunning Stunts

In 2003, after recording The Deep End, Volume 1 (2001) and Volume 2 (2002), Gov't Mule gathered several musicians that had worked on the Deep End sessions as well as a few other friends for a live concert. This was intended as the culmination of the Deep End project, which was a tribute to their late bassist Allen Woody, who died in 2000. Two CD plus DVD set recorded live at the historic Deepest End Concert in New Orleans, LA on May 3rd, 2003. DVD includes 15 minutes of behind the scenes footage plus a photo gallery. Starring Gov't Mule (Warren Haynes, Matt Abts, and Danny Louis). Featuring appearances by bass players Les Claypool, Mike Gordon, Jason Newsted, Victor Wooten, George Porter, Jr, Dave Schools, Greg Rzab, Rob Wasserman, and more. Also featuring appearances by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Fred Wesley, Karl Denson, Bernie Worrell, Bela Fleck, and many others.
Gov't Mule: The Deepest End
Metallica celebrated its 30th anniversary as a band, performing four shows at the Fillmore Theatre in San Francisco, CA, exclusively for members of their fan club, the Metallica Club.
Metallica: The 30th Anniversary Event

September 28, 1991, at Tushino Airfield in Moscow, was described as "the first free outdoor Western rock concert in Soviet history" and had a crowd estimated between 150,000 and 500,000 people, with some unofficial estimates as high as 1,600,000.
Metallica: Live Moscow - Monsters of Rock

Live in New York, NY Roseland Ballroom (11/24/1998). This was the final (of five) small club shows that Metallica played in November 1998 to promote the 2-disc covers album, 'Garage, Inc'. It was broadcast live by MTV. 01 - Creeping Death Jam 02 - Die Die My Darling 03 - Blitzkrieg 04 - Small Hours 05 - The Prince 06 - Sabbra Cadabra 07 - Whiskey In The Jar 08 - Stone Cold Crazy 09 - Mercyful Fate 10 - Turn The Page 11 - Am I Evil? 12 - So What!! 13 - ....And Justice For All Jam 14 - Killing Time 15 - The Wait 16 - Last Caress/Green Hell 17 - Breadfan 18 - Overkill