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 there was a singer we tried hiring named Lawrence, but he went by Lore. And he was the one that was talking to us. And he goes, you made us a great band name. Because I was thinking something like a foreign word, like fire, something bomb or something in a foreign language. But then you can't really say it when you go into the foreign language speaking territories. On stage, bomb!
Everybody runs for the doors, right? So yeah, we gave a lot of thought to Megadeth. And the funny thing is, as soon as I chose that name, this little douche from the Circle Jerks that was a drummer, his name was Keith somebody, went out and registered the name Megadeth. So I had to pay him off to get it. He knew because he was friends with Jay Jones, our manager at the time.
Jay told him, we're called Megadeth, and he ran right out. It cost me $10,000. Damn. Yeah. Damn. So this is the stuff I see that I don't like.
Well, I had been writing songs, and I had several songs that I had in Metallica, several songs that I had before Metallica. And I was just writing, writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. And I think the first time we went into the studio was in 83, and we started doing a demo. It was a three-song demo. I might be wrong on the date, but it was somewhere around there.
And that started to circulate. And people, I remember Scott Ian from Anthrax had been doing a show at the Reseda Country Club in Reseda, California. And I went to go see them because we were friends. And I said, I want you to hear this song. And I played him Love to Death. And he lost his mind. He'd never heard anything like that before. And that was the beginning of our friendship.
And it's lasted a long time. And when it came time for the album, we had gone down to a record company. It was called, what was it called? Prodigy or something like that. It was like a... like a, like a new wave, uh, alternative kind of, uh, uh, Enigma was the name. As much as I say Enigma, that's the name of the, uh, the record company.
So we went to Enigma and we talked to them and, uh, they were not interested because we weren't the kind of music that they know what to do with. So, um, I thought that was, uh, respectable because they, uh, didn't say, oh yeah, we want to sign you, but we don't know what to do with you. Yeah. You know? So then we went to Combat. Combat was owned by Important Records and, and, uh,
I went and talked to this guy named Cliff Coltrary. And Cliff was the vice president at the California side of important records. And we went in and we played the record for him. And he goes, OK, let me make a call. And so he calls up his boss out in New York. And meanwhile, we left.
We were walking to the car and we heard this coming down the road and this fat guy's running after us and all of a sudden we recognize this, the guy we just met. And he goes, wait, wait, wait, come back in, come back in. We wanna talk to you. So we signed our first record deal, The Combat, and that was my introduction to the music industry.
Back then or now? Back then. Well, it was just a constant party. I had a significant other at the time, so I wasn't really catting around. But there were loads of people partying all the time. And you know how that ends. Constant, constant partying. Money going out the window. People getting arrested or getting in accidents or stuff like that. Never ends well. Was it a good time?
For me, it was not really a good time. I got off on it, but it wasn't a good time. It was a bad time, but I enjoyed a bad time because I was dangerous, and people knew it. The headlines used to say we were the most dangerous band, and I saw that headline once before for Motley Crue, and I thought, what if? fucking mistake you made there. Those guys aren't dangerous.
Because you talk about the real deal. Did they practice what they preached? Are they willing to go live in a van to go get their music out to the masses? We traveled around the nation for years from a station wagon to a van to a camper. And we got a motor home. And we thought, shit, we've arrived. And then when we got our first bus, that was a big deal. That's a big deal.
It's kind of like the bus from Almost Famous. Yeah. It probably was a bus from Almost Famous. But now we travel well. We don't do a lot of the crazy stuff we used to do. We don't outlaw that. If people want to be around us and drink and celebrate. The only thing I'm not really cool about is illicit stuff like powders and stuff like that. That to me.
People that are in that circle, they're dangerous people to be around because if ever there was a momentary flip in their mentality, they could become very dangerous.
That was a long time coming because the scene was so small in the beginning. We were doing it when a big concert was sold out. Stone or sold out Mbuhe Gardens or stuff like that. That's what the scene was like. You could always have Fairweather fans. When Symphony came out and Countdown to Extinction album came out, that was a record that got huge commercial success because the time was right.
And there was a lot of Fairweather fans that bought the album just because Megadeth is the cool band right now. I don't know if that answered your question or not.
Yeah, don't.
Well, I got a rush when we were back down at Dana Point.
Yeah, sure. People listening to something, you know, you've been an outcast, you've been a child that you're, family has made to feel less than and everything he does and now all of a sudden you do one thing right maybe maybe maybe this is meant for me and and that was kind of my way out you know i didn't see that i i don't think i would have
ever done anything harmful to myself, but I just did not see any kind of an existence with the way I was going before I started playing music. It just, God, what would I have been? A cash register repair person like my dad?
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