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“He just showed up and didn’t sit with us or anything”: The inside story of Jason Newsted’s final Metallica show
Bassist Jason Newsted left Metallica on January 17, 2001. Six weeks earlier, he’d played his last show with the thrash metal titans, where he very literally waved goodbye.