For all the rocker parents out there who dropped their child's college fund on those Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets that they begged for, here's a little respite provided by her bass player, Amos Heller.
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When Taylor Swift's Eras Tour bassist Amos Heller (part of her touring band since 2007) isn't performing her massive hits for packed stadiums of fans who likely have never even see his face, you can find him making some of Metallica's songs sound even better.
In a recent video posted to his YouTube channel, the Virginia native takes on 'Tallica's ...And Justice For All album opener "Blackened," cranking it up to eleven and offering a much more audible version on the bass as opposed to the original recording by Jason Newsted -- which was infamously buried in the treble-heavy mix.
“I don’t think I would be a musician if it wasn’t for thrash metal, and I don’t think I would love thrash if I hadn’t listened to it every day of my freshman year riding to school in my brother’s car with …And Justice For All blazing out of the speakers,” Heller says in the clip's description. “This album is an oddity… a killer metal album with no bass on it. So I put some bass on it. The modern tone I went for might not be the most era-specific, but it felt like a good fit to me. This song was a real challenge, and I love playing it.”
Watch the full video above and check out his channel for even more interesting covers, demos, and playthroughs.
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