Dave Mustaine Says Metallica Tried to Hold Megadeth Back

[BlackSmith]

I like Dave Mustaine but unless what he's saying is an attempt at a publicity stunt he really needs to get over what happened with Metallica in 1983. He's got Megadeth which is one the biggest Metal bands out there alongside Metallica.

 

[AlSymerz]

I saw this article the other day. Dave really doesn't help himself any more.

There is no denying what he's done over his career. There's no denying the success of Megadeth. But every time he opens his mouth he's got to put his foot in it. Many of his stories these days even contradict himself.

I don't know why he's been so transfixed on Metallica stories over the past few years but he's never short of one. Most of the time it's the media asking the same questions over and over, but lately for Dave he's been instigating the Metallica talk.

He's like the anti-Scott Ian. Scott spends all his time kissing Metallica's arse and banging on about all their history. Dave spends his time complaining about Metallica and saying they owe him something

[SurgicalBrute]

I don't really pay close attention to anything Metallica or Megadeth do...just not my scene...but hasn't MegaDave been saying some variation of this same shit for the last 40 years?

[AlSymerz]

Yeah he has. The difference now is that he's adding extra details. Sometimes he's adding the details to make Lars and James look like evil bastards who crumpled everything. Other times he's adding the detail to make it look like he actually won by getting on the bus and heading home. He doesn't shit on Kirk that much, and he's mostly respectful to Cliff, but it's the new details, details which often contradict previous stuff he's said, that keep it entertaining.

[BlackSmith]

1 hour ago, AlSymerz said:

Yeah he has. The difference now is that he's adding extra details. Sometimes he's adding the details to make Lars and James look like evil bastards who crumpled everything. Other times he's adding the detail to make it look like he actually won by getting on the bus and heading home. He doesn't shit on Kirk that much, and he's mostly respectful to Cliff, but it's the new details, details which often contradict previous stuff he's said, that keep it entertaining.

Dave really needs to let the beef die for his, Megadeth, and Metallica's sake. That goes for the media as well.

[Hungarino]

D.M. is by far my favorite single metal artist.

At the same time I would imagine that he would be one of my least favorite people to have a conversation with or be around.

To quote Detective Crashmore, life's a funny fucking thing.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

42 minutes ago, BlackSmith said:

Dave really needs to let the beef die for his, Megadeth, and Metallica's sake. That goes for the media as well.

"The Media" thinks its job is to stir shit up and create controversy. They're not in the beef squashing business. Mainstreamers and their bullshit media will be talking about the Metallica/Megastaine beef and the Dead/Varg/Euronymous thing and the VH/DLR thing and any other beef between musicians they can disingenuously spin up into some sensationalized horseshit clickbait headline until long after the people involved are all long gone. That's why I don’t consume any mainstream metal media, I can just simply wait and hear the short paraphrased version of anything that might be relevant to me from forum guys who enjoy keeping tabs on this sort of shit.

[AlSymerz]

1 hour ago, BlackSmith said:

Dave really needs to let the beef die for his, Megadeth, and Metallica's sake. That goes for the media as well.

I don't think Mustaine's comment hurt Metallica. Lars might have lost a few friends with the whole credits fight on the re-release albums but Mustaine's comments do little to Metallica, they harm his brand more. And for a guy who wants people to think his brand is superior he sure is naive.

One of the problems with the media is the amount of it. Yeah free speech and all that shit, but when there is 500 different outlets it makes for story longevity, the 24 hour news cycle becomes 12 months. Some one asks Dave today if he's still bitter about Metallica and for the next 12 months people who haven't interviewed him since the last album/tour cycle decide they need to see what they can get out of him on the subject. By the time it's gone around any print media, the filth sites like Blabbermouth etc, guitar magz, and then the hundreds of pod casts that get hold of him it's been dragged up so many times he forgets what he said the first time.

Same goes for many musicians and people who are in high demand for media attention. There are so many pod casts these days that only a handful of them need to ask a musician what happened at their last controversial event and it's a 6 month story.

[Arioch]

I don't mind the gossip, as long as the music is good

 

[AlSymerz]

I don't mind the music as long as the gossip is good.

 

[Arioch]

😁

[JorKid]

I would assume that MegaDave knows how this works and just says stuff to the media to get the talk going again.  Cheap advertisement to help sales.  No such thing as bad publicity and all.

[AlSymerz]

To some degree that would probably be right, he knows how to manipulate the media. But at the same time there has been plenty of times he's had a slip of the tongue, or dropped the wrong thing at the wrong time. Happened as recently as 12 months ago when he went on his rant about Metallica not paying him, how wrong it was and how he'd never not pay what he owes some one. Then three months after the album is released it's revealed the artist is taking Megadeth Inc to court for not paying him for the new cover.

[Dead1]

On 3/27/2023 at 9:34 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

"The Media" thinks its job is to stir shit up and create controversy. They're not in the beef squashing business. Mainstreamers and their bullshit media will be talking about the Metallica/Megastaine beef and the Dead/Varg/Euronymous thing and the VH/DLR thing and any other beef between musicians they can disingenuously spin up into some sensationalized horseshit clickbait headline until long after the people involved are all long gone. 

 

This!

Same happens with Sepultura - Max left the band 27 years ago yet the media keeps raising the issue of Sepultura v Max, any potential reunions etc etc.  

 

I think a big problem is the mainstream scene is zombified - there's nothing new out there that's grabbing people's attention in a major way. Literally the only band to breakthrough in any kind of major way in the last decade is Ghost.   So it's all about yesteryear's heroes.

 

Indeed it's all so flaccid that Revolver and Metal Hammer are trying to resurrect Nu-metal because that was the last major commercial "heavy music" scene (melodic metalcore never took off as much).

 

 

[AlSymerz]

I thought the problem with Sepultura was that the entire world was against Max's wife!