In a brand new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo spoke about his participation in Geddy Lee‘s new four-part TV documentary collection “Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?” The Paramount+ collection will characteristic the RUSH legend digging into the lives of Trujillo, former NIRVANA bassist Krist Novoselic, PRIMUS bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, and former HOLE/SMASHING PUMPKINS bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur, making music, and collaborating in a spread of extracurricular actions, from buying and selling licks with Auf Der Maur, flying in an airplane with Claypool, canning tomatoes with Novoselic to browsing with Trujillo.

Robert mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It was a whole lot of enjoyable. I received to hold with Geddy for 2 days stable… I might met him earlier than, however we have been hanging out for 10 to 12 hours by means of the weekend. And we simply form of threw all of it into two days. We had two stunning days down in SoCal. And it is mainly a life-style hold. He desires to know, or needed to know, what’s it like on this planet, within the lifetime of Robert Trujillo exterior of bass? And he got here by the home. We went all the way down to Venice Seaside. We form of received a little bit of schooling on the historical past of my neighborhood and among the individuals I grew up with. It was actually, actually cool. And the celebrities form of aligned these two days. The waves weren’t enormous. They filmed me browsing, and I did one of the best I may with what we had. And yeah, it was simply a whole lot of enjoyable. It was simply a type of bizarre weekends the place every thing form of got here collectively. And my son was truly taking part in a gig too — I believe it was on the Saturday evening that [Geddy] was there — and [Lee] got here out and checked that out. I believe he was solely gonna keep for, like, two songs and he ended up staying for, like, 10 songs. So it was fairly cool. And the funniest factor was folks that have been there to see the present have been, like, ‘Wait a minute. Is that Geddy Lee?’ There was the triple take and the quadruple take, ‘trigger he had a whole lot of followers there. Nevertheless it was simply so surreal that he was hanging at a neighborhood [gathering] — that is local-style, neighborhood we’re speaking. We have been speaking neighborhood youngsters, neighborhood mother and father. I imply, it was all very, very localized. And he is coming on the market from Toronto.”

Trujillo went on to say that it was surreal for him to be spending time together with his musical idol whose taking part in had influenced him from his teenage years.

“I performed in yard social gathering bands at age 16 and we performed [RUSH‘s] ‘La Villa Strangiato’, we performed ‘YYZ’, we performed all these traditional songs,” Robert mentioned. “The tougher, the higher again then. And we in all probability butchered them, however we’d play these yard events and play RUSH songs in the identical manner that we additionally performed Ozzy [Osbourne] songs and we performed BLACK SABBATH songs and VAN HALEN and all these totally different bands. So you’ll be able to think about hanging out with certainly one of your heroes and simply attempting to remain grounded. On the finish of the day, all people’s a human being and also you all the time wanna deal with individuals with respect and, once more, keep grounded. However on the identical time, you are going, ‘Rattling, that is Geddy Lee.'”

Within the trailer for “Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?”, which was launched final month, Lee mentioned: “I am attempting to point out the world {that a} bass participant can do many issues. Be part of me as I journey to the houses of 4 bass legends and dive deep into their lives. And their inspirations. Plus some enjoyable making music, as I attempt to reply one actually necessary query: Are bass gamers human too?”

He added: “The thought for this present was born out of interviews I did for my first ebook ‘The Large, Lovely Ebook Of Bass’. I used to be struck that these achieved musicians additionally lived extremely fascinating, multifaceted lives offstage. Who knew bass gamers have been so effin’ human?”

“Geddy Lee Asks: Are Bass Gamers Human Too?” will premiere on Paramount+ on December 5 within the U.S. and Canada, and December 6 within the U.Okay., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.