Dave Mustaine
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411 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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We played what ended up being Hangar 18 there, because it was called N2RHQ at the time. It was a tail number on a plane that I had seen one time. And I thought, what does that say? And I wrote down N2RHQ. It's probably not what the fin had on it anyways, or the tail had on it.
And I thought about what it would be like to have a place in outer space that was a new existence, like, for example, Skylab. And so that was how that song started. And it morphed as it went into Megadeth. We changed the name and changed the lyrics just a little bit.
Well, it was... It felt wonderful, obviously, but it was... It was very foreign. So I never experienced anything like that. I mean, the games at the Little League Park, that was great. You hit a home run. I was tied for first place for our home runs that were hit. One of the last seasons I played down there, and I wasn't by any means a ringer, but it was two kids.
He hit four, I hit four, but kids weren't hitting home runs. And that was cool. I don't know why I keep going off on this baseball stuff, but the people that were in the bleachers cheering and stuff like that, that felt good. That felt good. But it wasn't a routine occurrence. How routine did it become? It was a weekend thing with Little League.
Sometimes you would have an after-school game, but usually it was weekends, and not always did we win or not always did I have a VIP performance. I mean the concerts. The concerts. Okay, so that would happen about maybe once every— Once a month, maybe. Once a month? It only happened, I think, four or five times down there.
And then we did a couple parties up in Huntington Beach, George County area. And then I left because it was just getting the drugs that were going around. And there was a whole other scene that I never knew about until we started playing. As soon as we started playing, we were at a friend's house.
There was a party, and some people from another neighborhood came to this party, and they dumped a bunch of things that were called reds. I think it's barbiturates. And they dumped that into the... fruit punch that they made. So they had fruit punch and vodka and somebody came there and dumped a bunch of these other drugs in there.
And everybody was falling out in the place and they ended up getting robbed. And it was just a bad scene. So that, and everybody seemed to start showing up with somebody who did or somebody who knew somebody who did or had cocaine. And it was just, that was the time of the, in my life where cocaine was prevalent everywhere. It was in the eighties and yeah, yeah. How old were you at this point?
Well, it depends what part of the agnus I'm talking about. If it was when Megadeth started, that started later. Panic didn't go from being functional to being Megadeth overnight. Yeah. When I was in panic, obviously, I went to Metallica and then got back in Megadeth. And the stuff that I learned in panic, it took with me to Metallica, and I think that's part of the reason why Lars was letting me
help settle shows and being the spokesperson for the band until we got management.
Like I said, I was probably around 18, maybe. Wow. Yeah, I think so. Maybe about 18. Wow.
Yeah, yeah. Well, a lot of people died. And it just kind of seemed like there was bad stuff that was supposed to happen to just test me. What did happen? Oh, well, that first band, Panic, there's a lot of death. The guitar player, myself, the drummer, the bass player, and the singer were down in Dana Point. And it was our first show. And it was time for everybody to go to bed. Right.
So my cousin says, you can sack out here, you can sack out here, you can do this. And the drummer and the sound guy, guy's name was Joe, and the drummer's name was Mike. They say, no, we want to drive home. And I said, it's Dana Point, it's nighttime, you guys are buzzed, and you're going to drive all the way back up to Huntington Beach? Bad idea. Don't do it.
And they did it, and the driver, Joe, fell asleep while he was driving on Pacific Coast Highway right south of the Huntington Beach Pier. He hit a control box for the traffic signals, and the car flipped on its side and burst into flames. The driver, Joe, was impaled by the steering column, and he broke his neck, and he died immediately. at the scene and Mike never woke up in the back seat.
He was burnt to death. And then shortly after that, Tom, the guitar player, had driven off of the freeway where there was a huge embankment like roads up here, you know, when they had those things that are down the side and you can look down and there's a parking lot down there. Well, he went off the freeway
And he hit the parking lot and his Jeep somehow pinned him underneath it and slid for a long distance and just ground him into nothingness. So that was really sad. And I know that our singer had some issues, but he's doing great now from what I hear. It was just the whole scene, the drug scene. We did a concert out in the woods for the... for these bikers one time. It was down in Fallbrook area.
And we specifically learned songs like Bad Motor Scooter by Montrose. And we were out there and we play our set and we're done. We're getting ready to go. And the guys come up and they go, you're not done. You're going to play again. And I said, no, we already played our set. You ain't leaving until you play another set. And I thought, this is bad.
We're out here with a bunch of bikers and they're pissed and drunk right now. So one of the guys that was with us two of the guys that were with us decided it was an awful idea to go try and steal a keg from the bikers. They had taken it and rolled it up a hill and lost grip on it, and it rolled down the hill and went, bung, bung, bung, bung, squish, into the water.
So you know the sound a keg makes. It was like the ringing of bells in Notre Dame, and all of a sudden these guys are... wanted men, and the bikers were on the hunt. So I hear one of the guys, he's up in a tree like a moron going, cool, cool, trying to talk to us. And I thought, this is not going to end well. So they said, you can play again.
We'll pay you to play again, and we'll give you this big giant bag of magic mushrooms. So everybody passed him out, everybody ate him. And then the singer, I remember him walking around with a trash bag full of beer with a hole punched in the bottom and he was just drinking like a giant boda bag. It had gotten so out of control.
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