Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: “People don’t know me at all… they think they do, but they don’t”

Dave Mustaine could well be the most misunderstood rock star of them all. He’s often portrayed as the bitter ex-Metallica guitarist who has rarely been seen without the quivering lip of a petulant child in the decades since his dismissal in 1983. But once you meet the real MegaDave you soon learn that he couldn’t be much more different. Disarmingly patient, judiciously curious and brilliantly sarcastic, the man speaking with Kerrang! today is one who cut his losses and came to terms with the past many, many moons ago. The music that poured out of him in the aftermath of his life-changing exit from Metallica was the sound of bitter rage plotting the ultimate revenge. While he never quite surpassed the commercial zenith of his former bandmates, he did however manage to race beyond ...

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