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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Well, I'll tell you what you're asking, and I'll save you the incremental questions. The one concert that really blew me away was in 1988 at Castle Downington when we played with Iron Maiden and Kiss and David Lee Roth and Guns N' Roses. Guns N' Roses played before us at that time. Two people died there, but excluding the unfortunate deaths, that concert was 140,000 people. Holy shit.
And the Guinness Book of World Records has the sound system used for that concert as the biggest, most powerful public address system ever assembled for a concert. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. And then of course we did Rock in Rio, which had, you know, it was another concert over 100,000. And then we started doing the Sonospheres. You know, one of those got up, I think it was around 200,000.
But for me, those really, really, really big concerts, they don't feel, they don't feel like I'm making a connection with people in the back. You know, the people have fun. I can see them. I can see them cheering. I can see their signs, their shirts, you know, who they're with, how they're acting, their moshing, if they're just throwing their hands up in the air, if they're singing, you know.
Those are some of the greatest shots we've ever gotten is the fans when they're just loving the music because you look at the cross-section of our audience, there are a lot of different types of people, not just all middle-aged white males or young white males. It's... It's people of color, it's people that are young, there are people that are old, they tend to stay in the back.
And there's a lot of girls there. And you just don't see that with metal. Very few metal bands. Why were you called the most dangerous band? Because we were. What does that mean? Well, we went to our release party for P-Cells, but who's buying? We took two limousines there. And we were inside the bar getting drunk.
And they called it the Firefly Bar because they would pour alcohol down the bar and light it on fire every set amount of minutes. I guess maybe it was hourly or something. And I was getting entertained in there. And of course it came time to go get more drugs. And we went outside and one of the limousines were gone and I was pissed. And I said, where's the limo?
And Chris tells me that his girlfriend and the rest of the girls got in the car and took off. And we got into the limousine and Chris started saying stuff to me. So I started beating him up in the limo and then, um, I can't remember if Gar was sitting next to me and then Chris came toward me and I kicked him in the face. Yeah, that's what happened.
So, I mean, you know, people know that kind of stuff and it gets around. People were talking. We were... You know, there was a set of...
acts that each label had that were their dangerous people you know Capitol had Megadeth they had Poison who uh was a different walk of life than we were but to some people they were dangerous just as well you know but uh for us I think it had to do with um how we were living how we were you know um flopping at people's houses we uh squatted on a couple people um
I remember we went to one kid's house named Billy Cordero, who was a really great guy. And he let us spend the night there for, I think it was six months. It was supposed to just spend one night. Yeah. Thank you, Billy.
Countdown. Countdown went double platinum and then Peace and then Euthanasia was certified platinum when it came out because it had sold a million records before we even saw the record company, that campaign. And yeah, Countdown was, I think, the first one. Yeah, I mean...
I wasn't doing very good with it. Um, the, I was 30 when countdown came out. Okay. Yeah. And, uh, you know, fortunately for me, I'd already, um, I'd already met Pam and, uh, We'd gotten married and Justice was born. So let me get my dates right. This countdown came out in, I think, 92. And we got married in 91. March 3rd, 91, Justice was born. February 11th, 92.
Trying to think, I can't remember the date, but it was pretty, Euthanasia got certified way faster than Countdown did, and retroactively a lot of the albums prior to Countdown has been certified gold and or platinum. How did you meet Pam? That was funny. This guy that was a personal assistant for Stephen Adler from Guns N' Roses, his name was Ronnie Schneider.
And Ronnie was helping Stephen and ended up getting addicted to heroin while in that circle. And he went to treatment, and he got out, and he called me and he said, I have to go do a show tonight. Please come with me and help me stay sober. And I said, okay. I'm your man. I got your back. You were sober at the time. Yeah. Yeah.
So I went with him, and I'm in this club, and I'm there with Nick, and this friend of Nick named Juan – Juan's really dark complected, and he's got these gigantic white teeth. And Ronnie. So Ronnie goes and does this thing, and I'm sitting in here bored. There's not a lot of fun things to do in a bar if you're not drinking. I don't know if you've ever sat in a bar and you're not drinking.
Oh, yeah, I have. It's a shitty place to be in. So I'm looking around, and I see this woman, She was very young at the time, and I just thought, wow, she's really pretty. And I'm looking, and I'm thinking, and I'm looking, and I finally say, hey, Juan, go over and tell that girl I want to meet her. Because that's how I roll, right? And... Rolled.
And so he goes over there, and it's kind of dark, and I see his face, and then all of a sudden... These giant white teeth are flashing. I'm thinking, what's so funny? So he comes back and I said, what's so funny? He goes, she said, are you on a meter? You need to go over there yourself. And I went, spice, I like that. So I walked over to her and I said, hi, I'm Dave. She goes, I know who you are.
I thought, well, this is going to be great. So I said, listen, I just am here helping my friend stay sober, and I'm sober myself, and I want to get out of here. I'd like to see you again. Can I take you out to lunch? And she didn't know what was going on, so I got her number, and I left. And... That was it.
And then a couple days later, maybe, I don't even think it was that long, I called her back and we went out for a little while and I was falling for her and I knew that I was falling for her so I broke up with her. I needed to make sure. So I broke up with her. It was really painful. I went to Hawaii with my bodyguard and he was talking to me while I was out there.
philosophical kind of stuff, not Aristotle or anything like that, but just life. And I said, Tony, I think I love this chick. I think I want to marry her. So we had a concert in Hawaii, and I had invited her to come out, and her mom, and her stepfather, who I didn't like, and her grandma, who I loved, and her brother.
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