Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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all over the place. My mom and dad got divorced when I was four, and I was born in La Mesa, and at that time all I really remember was about four years old when I was baptized as a Lutheran, and then my mom and dad got a divorce, and thus started the leapfrog game with my mom and the two youngest children that she had, myself and my sister Debbie.
And whenever we would move, my dad would find us and usually would show up drunk. And I loved him. I didn't understand alcoholism at the time. I was just a kid. And I certainly didn't understand why they didn't try to get him into... like a 12-step program because they weren't in existence at the time. So four years old until 13, I was with my mom.
We'd move from one sister to another sister, to my aunt on our own, back to another sister, back to the other sister. And it was always me and my sister Debbie who would be doing this leapfrogging because my two older sisters had both been married and had families, so they had some stability. I never knew that. My mom was a Jehovah's Witness, and when I was
I started playing guitar and at about 15 years old, she said she'd had enough and she moved out and left me alone in an apartment and no money to pay rent. So I did not know what to do. And I knew it was just a matter of time before I was going to lose the apartment. So I did what any kid would do. I became an entrepreneur. and I became a distributor of sorts.
And so I was able to sell some stuff and be able to pay my rent. And eventually I was making enough money where I had a car and I was able to get some musical equipment. But the meantime, we're still facing all the moves that had happened before then. And then as soon as... I hooked up with Metallica. The moving continued.
I moved from Huntington Beach up to San Francisco, out to New York, back to California to Costa Mesa, then up to Los Angeles where I finally started Megadeth. Whoa, let's rewind a little bit.
How many siblings do you have? I have three. Debbie is three years older than me. And the other two were 15 and 18 years older than me and are both deceased. Were you close with them? Uh, the oldest one? Yeah. But after a while, because they were, um, following the guidelines of their religion, And I was supposedly a worldly person and they did what their religion calls for.
I was disfellowshipped, not officially, but basically I was not allowed to be around anybody. I couldn't come to meetings. I couldn't go to witnesses' houses and stuff like that. And I didn't care because I hated that religion.
No, I didn't like it. I'm a kid. I want to watch fucking cartoons, man. I don't want to go to church. And when they would say, okay, not only are you going to go out to church, but on the other day on the weekend, you're going to go out and knock on strangers' doors and try and sell them shit that they don't want. Right?
I mean, there's people that the houses you knock on the doors probably have the same outlook I do. I don't want to be bothered on Sunday because I'm scratching my belly in my pajamas and I'm watching, you know, college sports. So, you know, that kind of a thing, to me, it just sucked. And then having the holidays taken away, not being able to hang out with friends.
You know, you make friends in school, right? And then they say, hey, you want to come over? Oh, I can't. Why? Because my mom's nuts. Jeez. What age did that start? What age did you start getting sucked into it? I think I was seven when she started. And it went on until she moved out because I was selling pot for a living. What else does a 15-year-old have to do? Sell his ass, sell pot.
I wasn't going to sell my ass, so I sold pot. And I would go to rehearsal and I would say to my mom before she had moved out, I had a beginning of a relationship with marijuana. Sometimes I would have some and I would leave it and I would say, hey, somebody's coming by. There's something by the door. Just tell them to leave the money. I think that happened maybe like two, three times.
And then that was it. She was gone. Wow. Older sisters, Michelle, the oldest one, she actually was not one of the witnesses for a very long time. She actually went into witchcraft. That's where I learned my witchcraft from was my oldest sister, Michelle. And then she somehow got, you know, re-recruited, and she ended up being a witness again at the end.
She would talk to me, but it was kind of like an aunt kind of thing. And then my sister that was younger than her, the one that was 15 years older than me, she didn't want to have anything to do with me. She just died. And even though she was awful to me, did the right thing and paid for her to go to hospice and paid for a nurse to be with them.
For me, I work really hard for my money and it was, for anybody else it would have been a difficult decision if I would have thought about this is the sister who's treated you like shit your entire life Why are you gonna do this? And it ain't about what she thinks, it's about what God thinks, you know? Am I doing the right thing with what I'm getting given? You know, my funds, my gifts?
You know, it can be used for very bad stuff.
To help my sister try to pass into the next world? You know, I thought she, being a Jehovah's Witness, would be so eager to get into heaven, you know? I mean, I don't understand the concept of heaven, so I would have thought she would have said, you know, chuck this... old body, man, I'm out of here. But she fought and fought and fought and fought and fought and fought and fought.
And finally, the government out in California put her into hospice. I'd been paying for a very long time for a nurse for her. When people wonder what I spend my money on, that was a lot of it, was paying for my sister's transition into death. And then the youngest one, who's a little bit older than me, she's got a little bit of a mental illness.
So I don't know what you would call it, if it's depression or if it's, you know, what? I don't know. But we still talk, but she kind of... talks like a baby when she talks to me. So that's a little weird. And every family has this stuff. We all do. It's either your immediate bloodline, your family of origin, maybe your family of choice, your best friend.
I mean, I know a lot of people who I've been close with that that aren't here anymore, and I'm thinking, for fuck's sake, man, I'm only 63. How is it that you've died already? I feel like I've still got a lot of life left in me.
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