Looks like pretty standard promotional interview stuff to me. Someone goes out to promote something, they want to discuss that thing. If someone antagonizes a celebrity in an interview or goes off topic, the interview is over.

In the case of Dave Mustaine, I'm sure he gets sick of being asked "Do you hold any ill-will towards Metallica?" and won't talk about it anymore.

He's just telling everyone up front that he isn't going to sit and let his buttons get pushed. He's sick of talking about Metallica, sick of talking about Ellefson/Friedman et al, he just wants to promote his new album and his current lineup. I walk away from stupid antagonistic questions all the time, more people should try it.

He needs to quit acting like a "pussy fag". Oh, wait - that's what he called one of his guitar players.

/once a douche, always a douche

TSE: He's just telling everyone up front that he isn't going to sit and let his buttons get pushed. He's sick of talking about Metallica, sick of talking about Ellefson/Friedman et al, he just wants to promote his new album and his current lineup. I walk away from stupid antagonistic questions all the time, more people should try it.

This is wonderful advice. I need to exercise this tactic. I'd save a lot of energy arguing with people (family) who just want to argue. ; )

I am accepting Mustaine's challenge and I urge other journalists to see who can get him to hang up or walk out first. Getting him to cry is a huge plus too. I kid, I really love Megadeth, solid albums except for Risk in my book, although Risk was enjoyable when they re-recorded for the reissue.

Mustaine rides the cockhorse. he's a megalomaniac constantly on the verge of shattering into a thousand psycho pieces.
/HANGAR 18!!!!11!1

He's probably sick of this kind of shiat..

"So Dave,
Tell us how you felt the day James and Lars woke you up and put you on that bus back to LA."

Nevermind the fact that it happened over 25 years ago when he was still practically a kid.

Hey Dave!
You don't care, we don't care.

Actually, we haven't cared in over 15 years, so STICK IT.
Jesus loves you, but we all think you're a pr!ck.

"I like your Christ. I don't like your Christians.
They are so unlike your Christ."
-- Gandhi

satanicsantoku: Mustaine rides the cockhorse. he's a megalomaniac constantly on the verge of shattering into a thousand psycho pieces.
/HANGAR 18!!!!11!1

ShaDoobie!

TSE: I walk away from stupid antagonistic questions all the time, more people should try it.

Try what, assface?

Montag19: satanicsantoku: Mustaine rides the cockhorse. he's a megalomaniac constantly on the verge of shattering into a thousand psycho pieces.
/HANGAR 18!!!!11!1

ShaDoobie!

keep Rolling...

TSE: He's just telling everyone up front that he isn't going to sit and let his buttons get pushed. He's sick of talking about Metallica, sick of talking about Ellefson/Friedman et al, he just wants to promote his new album and his current lineup. I walk away from stupid antagonistic questions all the time, more people should try it.

Farker Scott the Twat recently called you an 'assface', do you have any response to that? How does it make you feel? More importantly, why did he call you an 'assface', have you done something to deserve it?

You know I'm a huge megadeth fan from back in the day but, Dave Mustaine is a tool.

The only time Mustaine and Metallica need to be mentioned in the same breath is to say that Mustaine wrote Metallica's best songs.

That is all.

I can't say that I blame Dave; if obnoxious reporters had spent the last 25 years asking me what I thought about my former bandmates, I'd probably a little peeved about it too. The man just wants to promote his new album, he doesn't want to talk about Metallica.

He doesn't want to be Angry Again.

RagingLeonard: The only time Mustaine and Metallica need to be mentioned in the same breath is to say that Mustaine wrote Metallica's best songs.

That is all.

Came for this. Leaving satisfied.

WOW, slow news day when the chronic whining of an admittedly talented but way over-exposed choad kisser like Mustaine makes Fark. The best thing Mustaine has done in the last 3 years is an episode of Duck Dodgers :D.
"I walk away from stupid antagonistic questions all the time, more people should try it." - yeah but you are not calling a press conference, then kicking and screaming when they don't ask you the 'correct' questions.

Mustaine IS a tool, but DAY-um, can the man shred.

He's probably just mad because his perfect tea maker isn't selling well.

http://www.networthcoffeebrokers.com/davemustaine1.html

/Love Megadeth, still prefer a regular kettle.

Still way less of a douche than Lars, but Lars has set the bar pretty high.

Metallica could have never sold out and probably enjoyed the same level of success as Megadeth has, but instead they went the jock rock route.

darch: Mustaine IS a tool, but DAY-um, can the man shred.

Friedman makes soap out of Mustaine. Among too many to name.

oh, man... and i really wanted to read..., wait, who?

Megadeth became a better band than Metallica right as the 90s rolled in.

honestly, the guy can be an ahole.

/loves cryptic writings.

Patterson: darch: Mustaine IS a tool, but DAY-um, can the man shred.

Friedman makes soap out of Mustaine. Among too many to name.

Don't know what "makes soap out of" means, but I am going to assume that it is redneck for "is better than."

Guy hired to play lead guitar better at shredding than the guy who hired him? Thank you for the brilliant observation Captain Obvious.

RagingLeonard: The only time Mustaine and Metallica need to be mentioned in the same breath is to say that Mustaine wrote Metallica's best songs.

That is all.

Now how can that be true if Metallica died with Cliff?

/Metallica fan - never had much use for Megadeth
//Death Magnetic is awesome.

Anybody else notice that Metallica really did take a dive once Cliff was gone and the Dave effect wore off?

You can see where the real talent was in that band. Now, we have lovely tunes like St. Anger and albums like Load. **Shudder**

Veteran of the Cola Wars: Anybody else notice that Metallica really did take a dive once Cliff was gone and the Dave effect wore off?

You can see where the real talent was in that band. Now, we have lovely tunes like St. Anger and albums like Load. **Shudder**

even load was much bettter than re-load. as in re-load of crap.

And Metallica still owes me one powerbook speaker. When St. Anger came out, one of the sites I visited online loaded up and auto played the St. Anger video. Right in the beginning of the song where the horrible drumming starts, one of the speakers blew. Made a horrible crackly noise after that, speaker never sounded right ever again.

Still kinda St. Angry.

All he's saying is STFU about Metallica and Marty Friedman. I don't think that's too much to ask.

If I ever see Dave Mustaine, whatever the circumstances, I'm just gonna start yelling "METALLICA! METALLICA! METALLICA!"

Veteran of the Cola Wars: Anybody else notice that Metallica really did take a dive once Cliff was gone and the Dave effect wore off?

You can see where the real talent was in that band. Now, we have lovely tunes like St. Anger and albums like Load. **Shudder**

They've actually improved now that they've got a bassist who can...y'know...PLAY.

/Hated St. Anger
//Moved back to "eh...I might buy it" with Death Magnetic

One time that I saw him live, some dbag in the crowd was throwing shiat at him on stage, so he threatened to go to his dressing room for the rest of the show unless it stopped. I was hoping we could have at least got a 5 minutes alone kinda song out of it.

Would have made for better conversation had he written agnostic like I read the headline the first time.

Mustaine has multiple black-belts and has been a martial artist for years. He used to smack the shiat out of everyone back when we was a raging cokehead drunk. Now he wines and "walks out" of interviews.

/God how I miss those coked out days of his.

I always liked Megadeth better. I typically liked a few songs per Metallica record, but I always felt that Dave got more out of the albums as a whole.

Dave Mustaine is a raging asshole, but he's a talented raging asshole. The fact that Megadeth has had a revolving-door lineup other than him for over 20 years should be a good indication of what he's like to work with.

His last album was awesome musically, but I don't like how he went all right-wing psycho "Let's nuke the Middle East rarararararar!!111" This coming from the same guy who once wrote Rust in Peace and "Military intelligence, two words combined that can't make sense".

Lachwen:
(Metallica) actually improved now that they've got a bassist who can...y'know...PLAY.


For the question "Bass player for Metallica", there is no difference between Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo and Cliff Burton.

C'mon, show me the awesome bass lines in Metallica songs that show Trujillo's or Burton's superiority over Newsted.

I'll go even further, and say that Newsted has Burton and Trujillo beat in one category: AUDIBLE TONE AND VOLUME. After the crap in AJFA, he got righteous volume and delicious tone in the next three albums. Much better than anything before, and definitely better than StAnger (with Bob Rock on bass, w00t!) and Death Magnetic.

And no, Anesthesia is not a song, it's just a bass wank (that sounds more like a guitar wank, btw) and the bass accents in Call of Ktulu and the For Whom The Bell Tolls intro don't really qualify, anybody can play those. The slow part in Orion? Mention that and I will laugh. Any kid with 6 months' worth of bass playing experience can play it. And I don't care what Trujillo did with Infectious Grooves. They don't mean squat if all he plays for Metallica is Hetfield-approved^(tm)(c) stuff.

/all I'm saying is that they could bring Vic Wooten or Michael Manring or whatever and it still wouldn't matter.
//not with Hetfield perched on the bassist's shoulder
///Newsted doesn't get his due credit because of Burton fanboi adoration

sotua: Lachwen:
(Metallica) actually improved now that they've got a bassist who can...y'know...PLAY.


For the question "Bass player for Metallica", there is no difference between Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo and Cliff Burton.

C'mon, show me the awesome bass lines in Metallica songs that show Trujillo's or Burton's superiority over Newsted.

I'll go even further, and say that Newsted has Burton and Trujillo beat in one category: AUDIBLE TONE AND VOLUME. After the crap in AJFA, he got righteous volume and delicious tone in the next three albums. Much better than anything before, and definitely better than StAnger (with Bob Rock on bass, w00t!) and Death Magnetic.

And no, Anesthesia is not a song, it's just a bass wank (that sounds more like a guitar wank, btw) and the bass accents in Call of Ktulu and the For Whom The Bell Tolls intro don't really qualify, anybody can play those. The slow part in Orion? Mention that and I will laugh. Any kid with 6 months' worth of bass playing experience can play it. And I don't care what Trujillo did with Infectious Grooves. They don't mean squat if all he plays for Metallica is Hetfield-approved(tm)(c) stuff.

/all I'm saying is that they could bring Vic Wooten or Michael Manring or whatever and it still wouldn't matter.
//not with Hetfield perched on the bassist's shoulder
///Newsted doesn't get his due credit because of Burton fanboi adoration

I kinda agree... He's a great player. He just couldn't flex his muscles enough in Metallica and he had to live in Cliff's shadow. Rough spot to be.

sotua: Lachwen:
(Metallica) actually improved now that they've got a bassist who can...y'know...PLAY.


For the question "Bass player for Metallica", there is no difference between Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo and Cliff Burton.

C'mon, show me the awesome bass lines in Metallica songs that show Trujillo's or Burton's superiority over Newsted.

I'll go even further, and say that Newsted has Burton and Trujillo beat in one category: AUDIBLE TONE AND VOLUME. After the crap in AJFA, he got righteous volume and delicious tone in the next three albums. Much better than anything before, and definitely better than StAnger (with Bob Rock on bass, w00t!) and Death Magnetic.

And no, Anesthesia is not a song, it's just a bass wank (that sounds more like a guitar wank, btw) and the bass accents in Call of Ktulu and the For Whom The Bell Tolls intro don't really qualify, anybody can play those. The slow part in Orion? Mention that and I will laugh. Any kid with 6 months' worth of bass playing experience can play it. And I don't care what Trujillo did with Infectious Grooves. They don't mean squat if all he plays for Metallica is Hetfield-approved(tm)(c) stuff.

/all I'm saying is that they could bring Vic Wooten or Michael Manring or whatever and it still wouldn't matter.
//not with Hetfield perched on the bassist's shoulder
///Newsted doesn't get his due credit because of Burton fanboi adoration

I am so sick of hearing people say that just because something is easy it isn't good. I don't agree that someone with 6 months of bass playing could play that stuff, but even if it is true it doesn't really matter. There is more to bass playing than playing notes.

The best thing that can be said for Newsted is that on Metallica's last great album you couldn't hear him. While it is great that Newsted had great tone on Load and Reload, they were steaming piles of shiat. I don't really care for the black album either, but I guess reasonable minds can differ.

What I am trying to say is that there is more to playing an instrument than the ability to play the notes. I'm sure Newsted is a perfectly good serviceable player, but the fact is that his audible bass parts overlap with Metallica's period of complete dogshiat.

Cliff Burton wrote songs for Metallica and played on their albums that didn't suck. Some people think this is important. I know that these arguments about songwriting are going to fall on deaf ears because you listen to Load and Reload, but at some point you're going to have to learn that all the great tone in the world is not going to keep an album from sucking if there is no songwriting behind it.

if you think Rob can't play you're a farking retard. Infectious Grooves and Suicidal would like a word with you.

that's not to say he's any kind of aubidble or shining through any Metallica performances, but that's Metallica's fault.

sotua: Lachwen:
(Metallica) actually improved now that they've got a bassist who can...y'know...PLAY.


For the question "Bass player for Metallica", there is no difference between Jason Newsted, Robert Trujillo and Cliff Burton.

C'mon, show me the awesome bass lines in Metallica songs that show Trujillo's or Burton's superiority over Newsted.

I'll go even further, and say that Newsted has Burton and Trujillo beat in one category: AUDIBLE TONE AND VOLUME. After the crap in AJFA, he got righteous volume and delicious tone in the next three albums. Much better than anything before, and definitely better than StAnger (with Bob Rock on bass, w00t!) and Death Magnetic.

And no, Anesthesia is not a song, it's just a bass wank (that sounds more like a guitar wank, btw) and the bass accents in Call of Ktulu and the For Whom The Bell Tolls intro don't really qualify, anybody can play those. The slow part in Orion? Mention that and I will laugh. Any kid with 6 months' worth of bass playing experience can play it. And I don't care what Trujillo did with Infectious Grooves. They don't mean squat if all he plays for Metallica is Hetfield-approved(tm)(c) stuff.

/all I'm saying is that they could bring Vic Wooten or Michael Manring or whatever and it still wouldn't matter.
//not with Hetfield perched on the bassist's shoulder
///Newsted doesn't get his due credit because of Burton fanboi adoration



that being said, try picking up a bass and playing a song off of Rust in Peace. That is an album that will show you how good any musician is. Most hacks can play alot of Metallica songs....

Architecture of Agression: if you think Rob can't play you're a farking retard. Infectious Grooves and Suicidal would like a word with you.

that's not to say he's any kind of aubidble or shining through any Metallica performances, but that's Metallica's fault.

Reading comprehension, please! I never said Trujillo can't play. As I said, he could be better than Wooten, Manring and farking Marcus Miller and it wouldn't make a difference, because he's got Hetfield perched at his shoulder telling him what he should play.

BimmerMZ3: ithat being said, try picking up a bass and playing a song off of Rust in Peace. That is an album that will show you how good any musician is. Most hacks can play alot of Metallica songs....

I don't know if it's as much a measure as you state, but I sure do have a lot of respect of Dave Ellefson. He was surprisingly in front in the mixes and he often drove the song instead of just following along.

jhva3: Cliff Burton wrote songs for Metallica and played on their albums that didn't suck. Some people think this is important. I know that these arguments about songwriting are going to fall on deaf ears because you listen to Load and Reload, but at some point you're going to have to learn that all the great tone in the world is not going to keep an album from sucking if there is no songwriting behind it.


You're missing the point. I have tons of respect for Burton as a songwriter and musician (MoP was the first CD I bought when upgrading to digital), but strictly as a bass player, I'm not really impressed, and I simply don't get the whole "ZOMG BESTEST METAL BASSIST EVAH!1!1!!!11one" thing.

Hammett has the same number of writing credits as Burton in the Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets albums era, but you don't see a mob of fans declaring him the best metal guitarist ever. Why is that?

sotua: Why is that?

He didn't die, and so was able to have the opportunity to make crap albums.