Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
1 recordings
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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Yeah, you're destroying their innocence. Yeah, and they're going to think about that moment for the rest of their life. Something's wrong with me.
I don't know. Um, let's, let's go down the chain. Michelle, she passed away recently from leukemia and a bunch of blood diseases. And I think that could be because of what she did. I talked to my uncle, her husband, Stan, every once in a while because he's still kind of like my childhood hero. My next sister, Suzanne, she passed away from Parkinson's disease just this year.
And her husband died a long time ago, and he was the police chief. And I made amends with him before he passed away, which was good. And the amends with him was really weird because I told him, I said, I needed to make amends for you, and I'll never get over my drinking unless I... clean up the wreckage of my past and I've seen I've done the following harm to you.
I made you have to discipline me and I know you didn't want to do that. And I need to say that I need to know what I can do to make it right. Not sorry, because I said sorry so much it became a fucking character reference. But when I would say I need to make amends to you and I see I've done the following harms... you know, and what can I do to make this right?
Some people would say, I don't ever want to see you again. Some people will say, you know what, I'm looking forward to see you in heaven, but not down on earth. And other people would say, you know what, just stay sober. Or one guy said, I want a guitar. And I went, Inside, I was rolling my eyes, but on the outside, I went, okay, that's what you want, and that's what I'll do.
That's the price, the dummy tax that I spent. Right on, right on.
Well, that was, again, not having a social network of people that were my age that I hung out with. I had to hang out with my sister's boyfriend's little brother. So my sister got married when she was 17. Oh, wow. Yeah. To this guy, who they're divorced now. Yeah. He's not anybody I ever want to see again in this world. And he had a guitar, but his little brother had a bass.
And I remember going to... the little brother, his name was Mark, to his house, and he was listening to some records with his friends, and we just smoked a joint, and we thought that we were the coolest kids in the world. And there were some girls that were in the neighborhood.
Mark had a girlfriend, and her girlfriend had a friend, so I hooked up with her, and we had everything to be in a rock band except talent and instruments. So my brother-in-law, Mike, the older one, had this guitar. It was a piece of junk called a Supra. And he was playing guitar. He was playing some Deep Purple at the time, which is not a band that I'm really fond of.
I respect the players tremendously, but it's not really my type of music. But I did understand the playing was very cyclical. It was something that did not...
reminisce in any way American music because American music was a lot of rock and roll stuff so there was a chord followed by another chord followed by another chord which would go verse, chorus, verse, chorus little bit of a middle eight section like a refrain, and then a chorus, and the song's over, maybe two minutes, three minutes. Then it started getting a little longer.
So I had my first introduction to playing the guitar through Mark and Mike Bally. The first time I ever actually played the guitar was my cousin John Odell, and he had Gibson Les Paul back then. God, what I would give to have that guitar from him. But he showed me how to do a bar chord, and I knew how to do that.
And one of the first songs I ever learned was a song called Panicking Detroit that was done by David Bowie. And the next one was All the Young Dudes by Mata Hoople. And I can't remember which one was first. It was one or the other of those two, but those were... basically the two songs I started playing.
And then I heard Led Zeppelin, and I thought, god, this is just amazing, but it's so difficult. And I started to learn how to play and started to get drawn more to the guitar. Right after Led Zeppelin, it was Ted Nugent and Kiss. Those were really influential bands. And so now I'm starting to see the visual. I'm starting to hear the mystical with Led Zeppelin.
And I'm hearing the blue collar stuff with Deep Purple and so on. Ted Nugent being, back in the day, the Motor City Madman, he had some really amazing songs for the time. I still think he's an amazing guitar player. I know that a lot of people don't like Ted, but I think that my guitar playing has a lot of influence from Ted Nugent.
as well as once I started to get into the new wave of British heavy metal, because the first time I got involved in music was the British invasion. So for my songwriting, learning how to song write, it was primarily bands like The Stones, The Who, The Beatles, so on and so forth.
And then when I started to pick up guitar, I started to learn the new wave of British heavy metal, which was bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Diamond Head, Motorhead, so on and so forth. And there was a total difference, because how I write a song is not based off of what I can play on guitar.
Because I can play guitar to the level that I can, I can write songs that are a little bit more explorative.
Well, no, that's not exactly right. What I learned about songwriting was from the British Invasion. So from listening to the Beatles. Also, my sisters were very much into Motown. So Megadeth has its swing and its groove from the Motown influence that I had. Sam and Dave, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Sly and the Family Stone. Chaka Khan.
There's so many bands from back then that R&B stuff would be played at my house. Plus, it was sometimes the only thing you could hear on the radio. There's a radio station in Los Angeles called K-Earth, K-Earth 101. And it plays oldies. And I love the oldies.
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