Dave Mustaine Video Interviews On Faceculture
April 5th, 2008 by BaconstripIf you haven’t seen these yet – here are some really good in depth interviews with Dave Mustaine conducted by Netherlands online multimedia magazine ‘Faceculture’. Dave discusses a myriad of topics from the Megadeth setlist, politics, and the music business to past and current bandmembers. Here is one segment:
For more: Megadeth Interviews on Faceculture.nl
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“Gimme ten bucks each….” from the upcoming “Live at the 4808″
Category: Writing and Poetry
February 1988
Megadeth had created quite a stir with their first album, “Peace sells but who’s buying”, and now they were touring with Ronnie James Dio to support their latest release, “So far, so good, so what.” I had arranged, through Capitol Records, an interview with Dave Mustaine, the legendary axeman, and founder of the group. After all, my college radio station was the only airplay Mustaine’s crew was getting in the area, so I drove 90 miles to my hometown, to get station ID’s from Megadeth.
I spoke to Mustaine right before set time. He did a couple of station identifications, that we played on the half hour and the hour.
“This is Dave Mustaine of Megadeth, and you’re tuned to WUSC-FM. So far. So good. So what.”
I asked if Dave had time for an interview. He went on to say,” We gotta go on, man. But we’ll be done with the set in about an hour. Why don’t you meet me in the hotel bar across the street, man. We’ll have a beer and talk. Is that cool, man?”
I didn’t have a problem. He was relatively pleasant. He had reddish-blonde hair, and freckles. The band went on stage wearing these really tight blue jeans, white leather hightops, and muscle tees. They had, what Nigel Tufnel once described as “armidillos” in their “trousers”. What was the most comical thing….they all thought that they looked normal.
I watched their set. It was turned up to opener volume. Headliners used to always scuttle their openers. After all, THEY were the openers.
I didn’t hang around for Dio, but I probably should have. I had seen him a number of times when he was with Sabbath. I was in my early teens. I was preoccupied with my forthcoming interview with Megadeth. I went over to the hotel, right before the end of their set, and grabbed a seat at the bar. Roughly an hour or so had passed and Mustaine had not shown. I was getting pissed, but I tried to make the best of it. I had the tape recorder over my shoulder, so I started interviewing fans.
I was talking to this guy earlier, and as the night progressed he became more beligerent, and finally he took a swing at me. Tape recorder still running, I was beating the shit of this guy, and caught him on audio saying, “You’re chokin’ me! You’re chokin’ me! You’re chokin’ me!” He sounded like Donald Duck who had just swallowed a pretzel, as he begged to be free of my death grip.
The bouncer threw this drunk asshole out of the place. One of Mustaine’s guests, this groupie named Barbie, who had been married to a wrestler named Magnum T.A., had witnessed the fight, and went up to Mustaine’s hotel room, to tell him about the brawl. She also informed him of how I’d been down there waiting for an hour.
From behind the bar, the phone rang. The bartender answered, and then motioned towards me.
“Are you Mike from the radio station?” asked the barkeep.
“Yeah. That’s me”, in a bit of puzzlement.
“It’s Dave Mustaine,” he replied.
“Hello?”
“Heard you got in a little scuffle down at the bar, man. I fuckin’ forgot about you. I heard you kicked that guys ass pretty good, man. Come up to our hotel room, and have a Heineken with me. We’re in 217.”
Cool. Bar fight. Now I’m gonna hang out and party with rock stars. But this hotel is like a motor lodge. It was nothing to write home about unless back home their into shitty decor, and polyester.
Mustaine answered the door with a grin and welcomed me with a beer. We spoke a little about when he played with Metallica, the new album, and a lot about their clothes on stage, which he didn’t seem to think were cheezy.
“See, man. When we go out on stage, we don’t wear fucking spandex. We wear our jeans and hightops when we rock. Fuck those posers and their spandex, man.”
Mustaine was a trip. Big ego, but in a McCauley Culkin kinda way, if he grew up fixing El Caminos and GTOs. But what happened next, I will never forget. There were a couple of crew guys, Dave Mustaine, Dave E., and two groupies. Mustaine had a question to ask the ladies.
“You girls wanna do some coke, man?”
The girls both nodded in the affirmative.
“All right. Gimme ten bucks each.”
I only have one thing to say, and this is to the misinformed individual thinking that “Peace Sells…” album was there first it was infact there second album there first was titled “Killing is my Business and Business is Good” which is the one when first released had a fucked cover art to go with the cd. It also had “These Boots” orgionaly performed by Nancy Sinatra and written by some whiney little comunist of whom I cant name. Very few copies were sold that had the song on there mainly because the comie had a problem with the “modified” lyrics Dave had written, you can now here the song on the re-release of the album with a few modifications done to the lyrics Dave wrote to the song.
That was awesome. Dave is such a straight shooter. I have always loved that about him.
Yeah, I agree on everthing that was said during this interview except the twirly hat. HA!
I didn’t know that such a big name metal musician
could be so conservative.
Dave’s a smart guy.
I’m going for McCain but Dave is making a very wise move about this coming election.
I’m not voting for Clinton or Obama because I don’t think they’re gonna be ready to take the big seat and deal with our countrys biggest issues. Honestly, Dave doesn’t really know how good of a thing he’s done by voting and it’s not because he voted for our current president, but
because he simply voted. And by doing that, he did
so many positive things I can’t even begin to tell
what they are.
hahah very glad i found this interview though, and the written story above!
If there was any metal stars oppinion on the new president that ive been dying to hear, its Mustaine!
awesome