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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Picking it up... It happened at a really good time in my life where I was looking for something because I was playing Little League and I was really, really good at it. But I also knew the reality was that I was never going to be a professional baseball player because I'm not stupid. You know I'm not stupid, so I became a rock star instead. That's hilarious. It's not a dichotomy.
It's more along the lines of me knowing the odds for being able to become a professional baseball player. I was not huge in stature. I was not a big person. The position I played was a catcher, and most catchers in professional baseball are solid guys. They're much more... taller and heavier than I was.
So I was thinking, you know, part of the reason that I liked playing that position was because I got to almost sit down the whole game.
Well, see, that was, I made up my mind I was going to do that. That's different.
When I was a child? After I stopped playing Little League, I knew that I needed to make a decision in my life, obviously. I'm living on my own, I'm selling marijuana, and I'm not happy. I'm alone. I'm alone. And as bad as things were, this was worse. Being alone was worse. I knew that I needed to do something.
Playing guitar? I was 13. My mom had gotten me an acoustic guitar when I graduated from some grade. I don't know what it was. But she got me an acoustic guitar from Pier 1 Imports. And it was a piece of shit. But I started plunking around on it. My sister was playing piano. And my mom had got her a piano. and me a piece of shit acoustic guitar.
So again, here I am, the last kid, getting the tough kid's blue jeans that are somebody else's already for a few years. So I started playing guitar to play along with her, and then it became clear to me that she wasn't getting any better. So I stopped playing with her, and I started playing by myself. And once I met her boyfriend and her boyfriend's little brother,
That's when I started really focusing. And the thought of me not being that person, not being a rock star, just didn't cross my mind because I had nothing else to, you know, it's like an officer and a gentleman where the guy says, I don't have anywhere else to go. I didn't.
About when I was 18.
Little weird stuff. Like I went with a little three-piece group that I was in for like a day. It was for a dance. And they were having a battle of the bands. And we only knew one song. And they said we were too loud. So we missed out on that one. I started playing at my cousin's house down in Dana Point. And we did several concerts down there.
And that's basically where Megadeth was born, was out of my cousin John's front room in Dana Point. Wow.
You mean Panic? No, Megadeth was born there because the songs that are in Megadeth were being played in Panic at that time. So Megadeth was born at that time, although I didn't know it. I was in the guise of... panic, but really Megadeth had just broken surface as the terra firma. And now I'm gonna watch this whole thing unfold before my eyes. Am I gonna, am I gonna be able to handle the pressure?
I think so. I've had a lot of pressure in my life. Am I going to be able to stay relevant? I think so because I've had to almost teach myself because of dropping out of school and having to figure everything out for myself. Right now I'm writing a song on the art of war because I've got a song that just sounds like a fucking samurai song.
And I thought it'd be really great because I've read the art of war so many times to maybe put that book as a muse to help me write a story about something related with the samurai culture or the way of life. How did you get into the art of war? I've read a lot of really good books to help me.
Yeah, I started very early reading all the self-help books you could get, Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, all those books, How to Win Friends and Influence People. I read a bunch of C.S. Lewis books. read tons of books, and just stuff that gives you a different perspective on stuff.
It may not be real, it may not be appropriate, it may not fit, but it helps me to maybe understand somebody else a little bit more.
Panic? Man, I was a teenager. That was the best thing I could come up with. Pretty good name. Yeah, it was pretty good at the time, and... I remember there was another band that was called Panic at the Disco. And I always wondered who had it first, because I never really did the research and see when those guys actually started.
But I think there was another band that was called Panic, too, at some point.
Well, the first time that we played, we were in my cousin's apartment. And apartments, they're not generally gigantic places to live in. So I think the room probably was, his front room was probably about 2 3rds the size of this room. And we had our gear set up. And my cousin was very well known in Dana Point.
he had let all his friends know hey my cousin david's coming i hate when he calls me david my cousin david's coming down from huntington beach to do jam with his band people there it's a block party no shit yeah and uh so i'm hiding in the bathroom and uh getting ready to play and uh We go out and we start playing the songs that we'd learned. And we played a couple of originals I had.
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