Well here's something, Newsted couldn't play anything in the song Orion, his style he used limited him greatly, you see he used a pick and pieced together the things he was limited to, but that meant that complicated stuff requiring clear higher tones and finger plucking were difficult to play, he never failed to impress me with some of the things he did but Cliff takes the gold, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1Y04V9ZOhI Cliff actually did a waa waa like guitar solo before that song, he shredded too. Pretty nifty, Newsted had that cool deep tone sounds in his music but Rob uses a kind of funky beat in his music, I'm just explaining and showing my opinion here, don't get annoyed here, so tell me why you think Newsted was the best.