Dave Mustaine: “I wrote a lot of successful metal music

The former guitarist of Metal and current leader of Megadeth Dave Mustainea guest at the Shawn Ryan Show, among other things, he also spoke of his old band by saying that the merit would be attributed to him for the first successes of the Californian group.

Mustaine first recalled how had entered the Metal Responding to an announcement published in a newspaper. “I bought a newspaper called The Recycler, and it is only a Los Angeles newspaper, in Orange County. He is a magazine of Economic Announcements of County. Who knows why. The greatest bands in the world put announcements in this newspaper. I looked at and was written: ‘Wanted solo guitarist’ and mentioned a couple of bands.”

The 63 -year -old Mustaine thus tells the first contact with the drummer of Metallica Lars Ulrich: “So I called and I heard Lars on the phone, I said to him: ‘Yes, well, I like the Motörhead and I like budgies’. He replied:’ Do you like budgies, fuck? ‘And I:’ Yes, yes’ ‘. That broke the ice, because budgies are a wellery band. Listening to them I proved to have credibility in the world of the new wave of British Heavy Metal, thanks to the bands I listened to “.

Speaking of one of the first songs of Metal He explained: “I went to his house and started talking to him. He played this song entitled ‘Hit the Lights’, written by a certain Lloyd Grant. They were not metallic to write that song. He wrote it Lloyd Grant, then he became a friend of Lars, then Lars introduced him to James and started playing ‘Hit the Lights'”.

Mustaine also recalled how it was a car accident that brought him to his dismissal: “James and Lars had decided to replace me because they had tried to make me fall on me that story of the guide like the drop that made the vase overflow. That thing pissed me off and it was an important part. At the time I was really angry and I didn’t want to forgive them for what I had done. Used.

A research by Riff Life highlighted the impact of
Dave Mustaine
on
Metal
His aggressive and technical way of playing the guitar and his complex riffs have shaped the band’s initial sound. The flu is particularly evident in the 1983 debut album
“Kill ’em All”
. Mustaine has co-scored several songs from the first album. He wrote
“The Four Horsemen”

(originally entitled
“The Mechanix”
) when he was with the
Panic
. He also wrote
“Jump in the Fire”
.

While the story behind his expulsion from the band in 1983 does not reduce to a car accident. Riff Life reports that there were multiple factors to bring to his dismissal. Among these, the abuse of substances, aggressive behavior and growing tensions within the band can be mentioned. To replace Mustaine was
Kirk Hammett
Which still today is the group’s solo guitar.