Dave Mustaine
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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 i was looking in the house and i opened up one of the closets and i saw a smoking device that was about as big as your oar over there made out of glass that i don't know i guess the guy puffs on it for a little while another guy comes along when it fills up it's the biggest bong i've ever seen in my life and um
Yeah, that's the way the things were going back then in Cali, because everybody was getting their medical cards, and as soon as that happened, everybody was smoking pot 24-7. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Do you like it here? I love it here. I think one of the things that happened when we first got here was... The culture shock. My blood pressure went down. I started to really enjoy driving in traffic.
And I realized that people don't stick their finger up in the air as much here. They don't honk. I can tell when people are here that aren't from Tennessee when they drive out into the middle of the intersection when they're going to turn. And I used to make that mistake all the time. I don't now.
I can tell sometimes when I'm just beyond the point of, of any, uh, coming back to earth, I'll honk, you know, of course I've said like eight cuss words while I'm honking, but, uh, Yeah, it's been really good for me. The cost of living, the people are wonderful. I love the fact that there's hardly any graffiti anywhere.
And our particular neighborhood where we're at has a very, very thorough police presence and sheriff presence. So we feel safe. You know, there were some people in the property behind us. It looked like there were about 12 people walking with backpacks. And I thought, well, that doesn't look right to me. If they were working over there, they'd probably have something resembling a tool.
something, but they're just a group of people walking one direction with backpacks on. So I called the sheriff and I asked, I said, are you guys aware of any migrant traffic up here? Because there's some people in my backyard. And they came out and they said, no, it was the guy behind you. He was doing something and he neglected to tell anybody. And you know what I did? Nothing.
If I was back in California, I would have made a way to let him know that I didn't appreciate him having people tromping through my backyard and make him very aware that I'm upset. Like what you were talking about with the tripping. It's just like taking off a tight pair of shoes. You just go... You know, life just kind of settles back.
And I remember one of the times when I was staying down at my mom's house, David Ellison and I had just gotten sober and we were... down in Elsinore trying to get away from Los Angeles. And I remember there was one day I woke up and I heard the birds chirping and I thought, I haven't heard the birds for so long, I just don't listen for them anymore.
And now every morning I hear the birds, I listen to nature, I listen, I can tell when there's aircraft in the area, I can tell when the wind's blowing, I can tell when the horses are out. I drove past our one pasture the day before, and I got a mare for my wife. We have three horses, actually. So I got her a mare because her gelding just passed away.
And she put her head up and just went, just did this huge whinny. And I thought, man, talk about the life these guys have made here in Tennessee. The weather's beautiful. The grass is probably so delicious to them. And our neighbor is growing alfalfa in his grass for his livestock. So we have that, too. And our field and our forest is full of lavender. Nice.
How could you complain about stuff like that?
There's a lot of stuff. We have a book coming out, In My Darkest Hour. It's a book about my cancer diagnosis. I went to go see a dentist. I was out on the road for the Jimi Hendrix experience. My mouth hurt, and I thought that the guy that had just done my work had maybe had a little debris in my mouth, some glue, maybe an instrument broke off, and it was hurting.
So I went there, and he goes, I can't see anything. You need to go see an oral surgeon. I go and see the oral surgeon. The guy looks at my mouth. He leaves for 45 minutes, and I'm thinking, I'm just thinking, man, what kind of a doctor are you? This is horrible bedside manner. And I should have been prepared from what he did. I walked into the reception area and I said, where's the doctor?
And the girl goes, he'll be right in. So I go in and he walks and he stands in front of me and he goes, you got the big C. And I looked at him and I went, And I asked him, what did you say? Because I went into shock immediately. You got the big C. And I don't remember anything after that leaving his office. I just know I got up and I walked out and I got in my car.
And then I called my wife and I said, honey, I have cancer. And I didn't notice it, but I'd been sitting in my car for a little while and I had tears coming down my eyes because I was in shock. I didn't know. I just didn't know. not for the absolute worse.
And that is the beginning of the book and how we made our best album to date, The Sick, the Dying, and the Dead, while I was going through cancer treatment. I think it was something like eight chemo treatments and 30 radiation, something, some ridiculous amount of treatments. Maybe it was 51, I don't know. Jeez. But it was a lot.
And they said they wanted to be really, really, really aggressive with it because I was a singer. And... I love my doctors. They did great work keeping me alive and keeping my voice. So, yeah, that's one thing we're doing. We also are resurrecting our big festival tour, Gigantor. We have a couple one-offs. We're playing Bonnaroo soon.
And we've got two big festivals over in Europe that we're going to be doing. We've got the record that's going to be coming out this year. We've been in the studio recording. I'm actually supposed to be there right now. And there's somebody we've been talking to about documenting the whole thing. So we've recorded the making of the record.
We've done this several times with several records we've made, but it never really gets out the door because as soon as we're done making the record, it's...
too much stuff to do and of course it's there you know we have the making of Dystopia we have the making of The Sick, The Dying and The Dead we have the making of this record already and at some point I'm sure they'll be worthy to put out but you know we're just we're staying busy busy busy I know that Pam and Electra are doing really great with the wine they just released a new wine I think it's called a Vernaccio which one that is
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