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Robert Trujillo

 

 

 

Robert Trujillo is a Hispanic American bassist who is currently in Metallica, but has also played with bands like Suicidal Tendencies

 

Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne's band. He was born on October 23, 1964.(age 44)

 

Trujillo grew up in Culver City, California. and his mother was from Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Robert Trujillo became

 

Metallica's bassist on February 24, 2003 after auditioning for the band, after he got really close with current band members

 

James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammet, Replacing Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted. Trujillo is primarily, but not

 

exclusively, a fingerstyle player. In order to achieve the attack and speed of pickstyle playing with his fingers, he developed

 

a fingerstyle technique which involves using both plucking fingers in a down-and-up motion, or sometimes using 3 fingers to

 

attack the strings instead of the more usual two. Trujillo is also a very skilled slap bass player.     

 

 

Awards

  • Best Rock Instrumental Performance-"The Call of Ktulu"

  • Best Metal Performance- "St. Anger"

  • Best Metal Performance-"My Apocalypse"

  • Best Recording Package-Death Magnetic

  • Best Metal Video

  • Best Metal Video

  • Billboard Rock and Roll Artist of the Year.

  • 2003: Rock and Roll, Hall of Fame

 

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trujillo

http://www.allmetallica.com/info/biography/rob.php

 

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