“I was outside shoveling some moldy hay into a wheelbarrow, and my wife comes out holding the phone. She thought it was a prank call”: Scott Reeder on the time he auditioned for Metallica – after Lars Ulrich cold-called him

Scott Reeder plays his left-handed bass (with right-handed strings) and wears a purple shirt. Lars Ulrich (right) points and holds two drums sticks in his hand.

Newsflash: Scott Reeder never got the gig as Metallica’s full-time bass guitar player. Robert Trujillo got the role.

The whole saga of Jason Newsted’s exit, the acrimony and fracture as St. Anger came together as Metallica were imploding, and their torturous hunt for a bassist, was all captured for posterity in one of the most notorious music documentaries of all time, Some Kind of Monster. We have all watched it.