-
Dave Mustaine And Metallica:
When young Dave Mustaine responded to an advertisement in a paper by some guy named Lars in 1982,
he had no idea that he and his would someday be a household name in any metal-loving family. At the
time, Dave was just one of many guitarists in San Francisco who all hope to make it big some day.
After meeting with Lars, Dave became one of the founding members of the band Metallica, which took
the San Francisco bay area by storm and soon had a great following there. So great was the following
that a record lable couldn't help but want to sign them. And So Metallica, after a few lineup changes
which made the lineup Lars, Dave, James and Cliff, went off to New York to record its first album. But
it wasn't that easy. First off, Dave was not completely content with his standings as the lead guitarist.
He found that he wanted the band to play a certain way while the rest wanted to play another which while
it was similar, was not the same enough for him. So a power struggle of sorts emerged. Additionally,
the other members of Metallica were not extremely fond of Dave's drug habits which had become a problem
for him recently. So they just needed a good reason to kick him out. And they got it soon enough.
One day in New York, Dave came to the studio with his two pit bulls, which he brought for some reason,
probably because he thought it was cool. When he arrived at the studio, James kicked one of the dogs.
So Dave punched James in the mouth. Then Cliff tried to hold Dave back so that he wouldn't be able to
do any more, and Dave flipped him over onto a TV. Lars just sat there and got angry, supposedly yelling
something like "fuck, man... I didn't want it to end like this!" But it did. Just a few days later, Dave
was on his way back to San Francisco on a bus thinking about his next band, which he knew must succeed
and be just as good as Metallica, if not better, in order to have his "revenge" upon the band that he
had helped to found but had turned against him.
NEXT
|
|
