“I told them when I left, ‘Do not use my music.’ And of course they used it”: Dave Mustaine says he wrote a lot of Metallica’s music that “made them”
Tumultuous is probably the word that comes to mind when describing the relationship between Dave Mustaine and his former band Metallica.
During his recent appearance on the The Shawn Ryan Show, the guitarist reflects on the circumstances surrounding his exit in 1983, arguing that not only was he unfairly ousted, but that the band also went on to use a trove of his material despite his explicit demands that they leave it behind.
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Addressing claims that his excessive drinking had led to his dismissal, Mustaine doesn’t deny the booze was flowing, but says it wasn’t just him [via Blabbermouth]: “We all drank. That’s why they called it Alcoholica. I mean, they didn’t call it Dave-Alcoholica. We all drank. And they continued to drink like that even after I was gone. But that was, I think, the beginning of the end.”
He says he brought with him a reel of tape packed with “two days worth of guitar riffs on it” when the band headed to New York, where he received the news.
“Just me playing and playing and playing… We took that tape player and the reel of tape with us out to New York,” Mustaine recalls. “We did two shows out there, and after those two shows, they woke me up one morning and said, ‘Look, you’re out of the band.’”
“And I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘You’re out of the band.’ I said, ‘No warning? No second chance? You’re not gonna give me a warning? You’re just gonna kick me out?’ And I thought that was unfair. And it showed a grotesque lack of character. And so that pissed me off and was a huge part of the fuel.”
“But at the time, I was really mad and I didn’t wanna forgive them for what they did,” says the guitarist. “And I told them when I left, ‘Do not use my music. And of course they used it.”
Among the songs Mustaine says feature his work include Ride The Lightning, The Call Of Ktulu, Phantom Lord, Metal Militia, Jump In The Fire, and The Four Horsemen.
“And I wrote a bunch of Leper Messiah [on Metallica’s third album, Master Of Puppets] too. They didn’t give me credit on that,” he adds. “You listen to the riffs, you know they’re my riffs. It’s, like, you think I’m gonna all of a sudden hear my riff and say, ‘That’s not me.’ So, yeah, I wrote a lot of their music that made them, and all the solos on that first record were mine – the best Kirk [Hammett, Mustaine’s replacement] could try and copy them.”
In other news, Metallica recently announced that they will be bringing their M72 World Tour to Europe and the UK next year.
Tickets will go on sale on 30 May at 10 AM local time via Live Nation.
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