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Dave Mustaine

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1233 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#203 Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Co-Founder & Frontman

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.