Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Dave Mustaine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the next morning we woke up and it was time for us to get out of there. You can imagine what else could go wrong. The car that we drove down then in there burns out its clutch. So now we have to hitchhike from the woods out in the forest of Fallbrook back up to the freeway and try and hitchhike home to Huntington Beach. It was probably one of the worst days of my life playing music. Shit.
How did you, I mean, were you guys close within the band? in panic, we were kind of, Pat the singer was much older than we were, so he kind of had a fatherly, I'm not gonna say condescension, but just a little bit of a, he just seemed like he was older than us, and it just felt like that was being made clear. He's the guy that's responsible. He's the guy with the wife. He's the guy with the kid.
He's the guy with the house. We're all derelicts that do drugs and live in apartments.
All three of them? Well, Mike's was really hard to deal with because he was the drummer in the band that I was in. Tom hadn't passed away yet. And Joe, I barely knew. So Mike was hard for me to lose. And he was a good guy. He was a left-handed drummer, too, which is very rare. Yeah, that was hard to get over. Starting the process of looking for a drummer again seemed very artificial.
Because deep down inside, I didn't want another drummer. I wanted Mike to be alive.
How did that come about? I was done with Panic, and I said, I'm going to find something else to do. So I got a newspaper called The Recycler, and it's just a rag from Los Angeles, Orange County. It's like a county classified ad magazine.
i'm looking in the classified ad magazine go figure the biggest band in the world would advertise in this newspaper so i look at it and it says wanted lead guitar player and um mentioned a couple bands so i called up and i got lars on the phone and i said yeah, well, I like Motörhead and I like Budgie. And he goes, you like fucking Budgie, man? And I went, yeah, I do.
And that was the icebreaker because Budgie is a Welsh band. It's a three-piece. It's very obscure. And by me listening to them showed that I had credibility in the new wave of British heavy metal world because of The bands I was listening to, they were not a band like a white metal band or a progressive metal band. They were a three-piece from Wales that kicked ass.
They didn't have to have all those silly names in front of it. And how did that develop? What part? Joining Metallica. Joining Metallica. Yeah, so we were on the phone, and he made that comment that I know them, and I said, yeah. So we talked about meeting face-to-face, and I drove down from Huntington Beach to Newport Beach, where he lived, in a place called, I think it was called Park Newport.
And the funny thing was, my mom was a maid, and she had actually worked event for catering in his town.
complex he was in and I'm thinking go figure my mom was a maid here and your mom has a place here what what a story that is the two sides of a different coin you know or two different sides of the same coin and um so I went into his his place and started talking to him and uh he played this song called hit the lights that was written by a guy named uh Lloyd Grant so um
Metallica didn't write that song. Lloyd Grant wrote it, and then he was friends with Lars, and then Lars introduced him to James, and then they started playing Hit the Lights. That's the song that I heard from them first, and I said, wow, this song needs way more lead solos in it. It was just me being cocky, being me. It needs more lead solos in it.
And he was trying to figure out if I was for real. And so we went to rehearsal. He said, we're going to try you out. So, okay. So, I mean, I knew how good I played. I have been gifted and I know it's not by my own doing, so I don't try to take any credit for it. So I don't care how good I am or.
or not or what people say or anything like that so I just knew what I knew what I knew and I went to Ron McGovern's parents fourplex they had this place that James was living with Ron and I went up there with Lars and I set up my amps and I plugged my guitar in and I just started warming up as it And they were impressed. They wouldn't come in. What do you mean they wouldn't come in?
They wouldn't come into the rehearsal room. So I put my guitar down and I thought, this is really strange. And I walked out and I said, guys, are we going to do the audition? They said, you got the gig.
Yeah.
Good, good. I knew I was going to get it. You knew it. Yeah, because I could play that stuff. I mean, there weren't very many guitar players like me around at the time. You know, who were they? Randy Rhoads, there were people like that. Guy from Rat with Warren Demartini was really great, you know. But Real Shredders, there wasn't a lot of us around at the time. Damn, damn.
Well, again, it's kind of like I said, it seemed like this was what my destiny was, and when it came time for us to do our first concert. We played at a high school, or maybe it was a junior high school. Lars might have gone to. I know he went to it, but I can't remember if it was elementary or junior or high school, whatever.
And from that point on, it was just clear that whenever there was any kind of altercation that was going down, I would be the one that would take care of it. James was very peaceful and Lars, he was a little bit of a devil. He liked to have fun. But yeah, if there was ever any stuff going down, I had to take care of it.
When we went up to San Francisco and did our first couple shows up there at a place called The Stone, I was the one who had to go and collect the money. And there's a million ways to embezzle or to be corrupt when it comes down to running a club or a bar. When it involves a band getting paid, they can say all kinds of stuff. And if you don't know, you don't know.
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