DAVE MUSTAINE Is Weirded Out By People Who Still Hate Him Over His METALLICA Split

Metallica parted methods with now-Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine in 1983 and individuals are nonetheless bizarre about it. Mustaine addressed the weirdness in an interview with Tom Reardon of the Phoenix New Times, chalking up some individuals’s animosity to jealousy. As a result of actually people, it has been 41 years because the cut up.

“Folks get their ya-yas once they see individuals struggling for some loopy cause,” mentioned Mustaine. “There’s the individuals on the market who love you and need you to do good and the individuals on the market, for no matter cause, who don’t need you to do good. You ask your self, ‘What did I do to you? Are you that fucking jealous?’ There’s lots of people like that. You simply need to study to keep away from them.”

Mustaine later famous: “As soon as we broke up with James and Lars and we went our separate methods, it was actually bizarre with all of the animosity from individuals I did not even know.”

Mustaine additionally addresses his personal penchant for saying inflammatory issues over time, noting that everybody is certainly entitled to their opinion.

“I do imagine that individuals are entitled to their opinions. There have been quite a few occasions the place individuals had a proper to take exception with one thing I’ve completed as a result of there have been some issues that I did or mentioned that I look again now and I believe, ‘Wow, that was a little bit excessive, Dave,’ however typically issues simply must be mentioned. There have been no people who had the balls to say something, however that ain’t me. If somebody was making an attempt to tug a rip-off with us, that is not going to occur.”

And on the finish of the day, it isn’t like Mustaine‘s identify has been erased from the halls of thrash. Dude has loads of absolute classics with Megadeth and even has a handful of writing credit on Metallica‘s first two albums. So unsung hero, Mustaine isn’t.