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Dave Mustaine’s favorite Metallica song is…

… Who cares?

But if you do care, check this out:

“I had to do a lot of coming to terms with myself in order to listen to Metallica. Before, whenever I heard them, it triggered me in my mind to get up on my soapbox and spit out complaints of what had happened to me. And then once I finally realized, ‘Dave, you’re lucky, you’re blessed, you’re in a great band, you’re in another great band.’ I finally just said, ‘You’re missing it.’

And I remember hearing this song when I was talking to Lars once and telling him this is my favorite song off the ‘Black Record.’ And he goes, ‘Really? Fuck, man.’ It was ‘The Unforgiven’. I liked it because I thought this was really the first time I’ve ever really heard James sing. He had sung before, and he was a great singer. But that was the first time I ever heard him really, really sing.“

Read full article here.

Actually, Dave did talk about liking Unforgiven a lot, there’s an old interview of him where he’s imitating Lars and you can watch it right here.  Even though I also remembered the video, I have to credit Blabbermouth user IMNoMoreLies for also mentioning it and providing the link, that way I didn’t have to go look for it.

Dave Mustaine is a horseman

Ever wondered what the story behind Metallica‘s ‘The Four Horseman’ song is? Me neither, but Megadeth will release a new album soon, so expect a lot of Metallica/James/Lars name-dropping from Dave until the album is out. It always happens.

So, here is Dave’s novel story about the name ‘The Four Horsemen’:

“I had always called us, as a group, the ‘Four Horsemen.’ Before I was in Metallica, I really loved this band called Montrose, and their guitarist was Ronnie Montrose. He went on to form a band called Gamma. One of their records had a shark fin cutting through the grass, which I thought was so awesome. Anyway, he had a song on there called ‘Four Horsemen’ that I did with my band Panic, which I was with before Metallica. So when I joined Metallica, I had the song ‘Mechanix’, which I wrote, and ‘Four Horsemen’ was a suggestion of mine to do ’cause we were doing cover songs. So that had planted the seed with James. And one day when we were coming to rehearsal, Lars had just said something about slowing down my song, ‘Mechanix’. I had just gotten to the studio with Cliff, and we had been listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and I was being a jerk, so I played ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ instead of ‘Mechanix’, and that’s basically the middle part of what would become Metallica’s ‘The Four Horsemen’.“

Full article here.

Hey, we didn’t need your whole biography, Dave. A simple “We wanted to cover another song called ‘The Four Horsemen,’ but my own song ‘Mechanix’ got slowed down, renamed and had a Lynyrd Skynyrd-like interlude because I was messing around with ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ in rehearsal.” would have sufficed.

I hope no one asks him where the name ‘Mechanix’ comes from, cause we’ll get another book out of it.

Anyway, all of this is from the “Big Four” issue of Revolver. Check it out here.

Today’s Dose of Metal: Metallica with Dave

Since Dave wants a band with James and Lars so badly, thought I’d show you guys this clip from 1983.

Yes, that is Metallica with Mr. Mustaine performing ‘The Mechanix,’ the original version of ‘The Four Horsemen’ before Dave was kicked out. He would, of course, eventually release it as Megadeth with the original title.

By the way, make sure you watch it in full HD. <insert sarcastic emoticon here>

Dave Mustaine wants to form another Metallica

It’s been my a dream of mine to see Dave join Metallica on stage, and I kinda lived that dream when I attended the Big Four Sofia show and they all played ‘Am I Evil’ together for the first time. Dave seems to want to take that a notch further:

“I’ve talked to Lars and James about me and David [Ellefson] doing a supergroup record with Lars and James. Well, James never said ‘no,’ but it’s still kind of out there in the air. I’m gonna keep hammering on him. It’s on my bucket list.“

Really? That sounds to me like Metallica all over again. Now, a few thoughts on the matter:

1. Supergroups never work properly. The chemistry of the musicians is way more important than the individual talent or fame, so putting the best musicians in a room together will not guarantee success. The whole concept is flawed to begin with. The only thing separating this would-be supergroup from others is the fact that they did play together before, but it’s still a shot in the dark.

2. There’s a reason this didn’t work the first time. Three big egos clashing. They have quite the history, would they really be compatible now, with all the extra baggage?

3. Wouldn’t it be a bit hypocritical if James would start a side project after forcing Jason not to make one himself?

Don’t get me wrong, I’d pay good money to see this ‘group’ live, but something about the whole process seems like it will just fail, mostly on a personal level, but probably on a professional one as well. I’ll be the first to listen to their songs if they do pull it together though.

Listen to the full interview here.

Source: 97.1 The Eagle Rocks / Blabbermouth

Dave Mustaine believes in fairies

If you like it or not, sensationalism is a true artform. I’m pretty sure Dave Mustaine doesn’t actually believe in fairies but it’s just fair to assume that he does because of some of the stuff he believes in.

ABC (the television network, not the alphabet itself) recently interviewed Mustaine for its “Primetime Nightline: Beyond Belief” “Battle With The Devil” special, that apparently aired earlier today. In it, Megadave talked a bit about his past with witchcraft. So I’m just going to copy and paste from Blabbermouth (because that’s what metal blogs do):

On how he, as a teenager, cast two hexes, including one on a bully who suckerpunched him:

Mustaine: “From what I heard, he got in a car accident and something happened to a part of his body that I had targeted in a hex, and that showed me that it was real.”

On his second hex, which was on a girl he was in a class with:

Mustaine: “Everybody wanted her, including me, but she was so out of my batting average and just totally out of my league. And I did it, and the next day she was in my apartment.

“I was [convinced that these hexes, or spells, that I was casting worked]. And I do believe in the dark side. Most people think that black magic and witchcraft and stuff like that isn’t real or it doesn’t work. And I know that it works.”

More here.

This guy is 49 years old and honestly believes that? I’m 25 and I don’t. He’s a millionaire and I can hardly afford the keyboard I’m typing this on. Heh, I guess he won either way.