Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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1 series
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 those are all the things that we stood against. And... I don't know where I'm going with that. You moved up to Hollywood to get back in the saddle. I'm trying to figure out what I was going to say about that because when I first came up there, I had been friends with a bunch of people that were in pen pal kind of a position.
This guy named Brian Liu was a guy who had a metal magazine called Metal Militia. Or no, what was it called? Was it Metal Militia? I think that might have been the name of his magazine. But anyways, Brian Liu is still a friend of mine to this day. And...
I told him that I was planning on getting together, and I had met this guy, and this other guy, and I was thinking about the name Fallen Angels, blah, blah, blah, okay, okay, okay, bye. Next thing I know, it's a story, that I have a band with three people, and it's called Fallen Angels, and there never was that band, there never was, but the guitar player that I met, Robbie,
McKinney was the guy I first played with when I came to Los Angeles. And he actually introduced me to the people I ended up playing with. Because when we started trying to get people, one of the first drummers we had was this kid named Lee Roush. And we'd done a couple of shows up in Palo Alto with Kerry King sitting in on guitar for us.
Um, that was, uh, really neat, but it ended in a very weird way because, uh, we had, we'd been playing together, uh, backtrack to David Ellison being in the band, but we were playing together with this guy named Lee Roush and, and this first show up in Palo Alto. Um, it was New Year's Eve and we were at the rehearsal place we were at and
Something happened, so we were all running out of the building as fast as we can. The power went off or something weird. So we're running down the stairs. He falls, breaks his leg, and we've got a show in a couple days. And I said, Lee, you're an idiot. What did you do? And he goes, man, I'll just break the cast off.
And he gets a pair of pliers, gets the cast wet, rips the cast off, and does the concert. His foot is black and green. Looks like he's got gangrene on it, and it should have been cut off. But he played. On the way back to Los Angeles, he goes, man, I'm going to go take some acid and find myself. And I never saw him again. No shit. Yeah.
The next drummer we got after that was somebody who was introduced to us by a manager named Jay Jones. But I've skipped the part about David Ellison. So do you want me to talk about that? Yes. When we first got the drummer, We were going through, before that happened, when I moved to the apartment I was living in in Hollywood, right underneath me there was two kids from Minnesota.
They were living in Jackson, Minnesota, which is a podum town out in the middle of nowhere. And their parents both saved up and sent them out to California to make it big. They would go to Guitar Institute of Technology and then they'd be discovered and Everybody lived happily ever after. Well, I was there in my apartment. They were there in their apartment underneath me.
Playing Running with the Devil. Right? Real difficult bass riff. Gene Simmons actually played that. Did you know that? No. Yeah. And so I'm hearing this, and I'm mildly hungover. Nah, I was really hungover. So I open up the window, and I said, shut the fuck up. Slam the window. It seemed to have worked. I go lay back down.
And I open up the window and I grabbed this potted plant that was on the windowsill and I went, and I threw it down and it burst on his air conditioner and I'm waiting. So I open up the door. They're both stunned. You know, they've got these long fucking ridiculous looking leather jackets on that have a belt around. It's like a smoking jacket. And they had canvas high tops and bell bottoms on.
Like they were really styling. And I look at him and I look at him and they go, do you know where to get some cigarettes? And I thought, oh my God. And I said, at the corner. Wham, and I shut the door. WHAT? ! Can you buy beer? And I went, now we're talking. So we became friends. I found out Dave was the bass player. Greg Handovid was the guitar player of this twosome that came out.
They were both in the band for a little while. Greg married a bong, and we fired him. And it was just me and Junior for a little while. And then I found this drummer that was brought to us by a manager we had named Jay Jones. Jay Jones is dead. His brother knifed him with a butter knife over a bologna sandwich. So it shows you the kind of people we had managing us, too. Holy shit. Yeah.
Right. His dad was in the war, and he got hit with some shrapnel, so he'd sit out in the front yard each night and stare at the moon like a dog, right? And his brother got in a fight with him. They both lived at home still, and they were both way old adults. And the guy stabbed him.
So Ellefson came into the band. Hand of it exited. We got a meeting with this guy named Clark Samuelson. Me and Ellefson are working at the studio at the time. And, um, Jay brings this guy, Gar, his name's Gary.
So Gar sits down and he's smoking a cigarette and he nods because he's a heroin addict and he had just gotten well before he came to see us because Jay was his dealer who became our dealer. So Gar's sitting there on the couch with a cigarette and it goes, right through his fingers, and I thought, fuck, this guy's a masochist, man. This is going to be great.
So we go in there, and we go to audition him, and he was amazing, just amazing. So we created Megadeth. It was a metal jazz band that had classical and punk influences, and we were a three-piece for a little while, and then we met Chris Poland.
It was on a handbill from Senator Alan Cranston on the way back from New York to California. There was a handbill on the bottom of the floorboard of the Greyhound I was writing in, and I picked it up because I needed something to write on. I figured I was going to start writing lyrics. The first lyric I wrote was on the back of a
hostess snow cones, you know those cups with the pink chopped up mutant stuff, whatever it is. Yeah. So I had written on the back of that and I needed more paper and there was this thing on the floor, the seat in front of me, so I kind of reached my foot and grabbed it and I flipped it over. I read it. And it said, the arsenal of Megadeth can't be read. This is Senator Alan Cranston saying this.
And there was much more stuff there about why he should be retained as a senator. And I thought, Megadeth, that's a great song title. So I wrote it down as a song title. And I wasn't thinking of a band name yet. But we got to LA. We got a band together. We played. We were driving around in the van. And by now, we had hired Jay, I mean, Carr, David Ellison, myself. Greg Handovid was still with us.
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