…AND ANOTHER THING ABOUT DAVE MUSTAINE
While I’ve been defending Roadrunner Records against Dave Mustaine, there’s been drama brewing in the Megadeth camp.
It all started when Mustaine gave a video interview to a Norway’s Lydverket blog. The half-hour long conversation was edited down to about four and half minutes for its final presentation, and a portion of that was devoted to Mustaine talking, for the trillionth time just this year, about being fired from Metallica. (This time he blamed it on the fact that he apparently decked James Hetfield back in the day for kicking his dog, because, y’know, Hetfield is a puppy-hating asshole and Mustaine is a saint and nothing is ever his fault.) And for reasons not entirely clear to me, Mustaine was seriously offended by the final video, and threatened that “as soon as I see that interviewer again, I am going to put him in a hospital.” (The journalist in question was actually a woman, but, hey, it’s hard to remember the little details when you never think about anything but yourself.)
Well, a full, unedited version of the interview has been released now, and as it turns out… Mustaine is the one who brought up Metallica. Mr. “I Don’t Want to Talk About Metallica Anymore.” Yes, the interviewer asks him to elaborate on his point a little, but he basically just starts talking about them, and going on and on and on… and then he brings up the whole Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame thing, which he was never asked about… I mean… Kerry King was right: give this dude some rope and he will hang himself. I’d call the dude an asshole, but really, this is just sad. Because Dave Mustaine is that guy who never got over his girlfriend leaving him, even though it was a million years ago and he’s now married to someone else.
Go to roughly the fifteen minute mark to see Mustaine bring up Metallica.
Now, in all fairness, Mustaine kinda-sorta-apologized for his ranting and raving, but… I dunno. We all know that something else will piss him off again fifteen minutes from now, and that something else will piss him off fifteen minutes after that, and so on and so forth for ever and ever and ever until he dies. That’s just the way Mustaine is. If it wasn’t over this interview, it’d be over another interview.
In other news, Dave Mustaine now apparently loves Kerry King and hates Blessed by a Broken Heart. I guess I can get behind that.
-AR
