“I thought, ‘What did I do to you? Are you that f**king jealous?’”: Dave Mustaine on the “animosity” he received from fans after being fired from Metallica
Dave Mustaine has opened up on the negativity he felt from strangers after being fired from Metallica in 1983.
Mustaine was famously dropped by the band due to his struggles with alcoholism and aggression towards other members. Looking back on that time, Mustaine recalls how “weird” it felt being met by disdain from people he did not know.
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In an interview with Phoenix New Times, Mustaine begins by talking about being “misunderstood”: “People get their ya-yas when they see people struggling for some crazy reason. There’s the people out there who love you and want you to do good and the people out there, for whatever reason, who don’t want you to do good.
“You ask yourself, ‘What did I do to you? Are you that fucking jealous?’ There’s a lot of people like that. You just have to learn to avoid them.” He adds, “Once we broke up with James [Hetfield] and Lars [Ulrich] and we went our separate ways, it was really weird with all the animosity from people I didn’t even know.”
Of course there was a silver lining, as his firing from Metallica famously led him to form Megadeth. The band are still putting music out and playing stages across the globe. But in hindsight, Mustaine understands why there were times when people took “exception” with his behaviour.
“I do believe that people are entitled to their opinions. There have been numerous times where people had a right to take exception with something I’ve done because there have been some things that I did or said that I look back now and I think, ‘Wow, that was a little over the top, Dave,’ but sometimes things just need to be said.”
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