Pot meet kettle. That’s the very first thing that got here to thoughts after I learn Slayer guitarist and solo profession haver Kerry King touch upon Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine‘s penchant for saying some silly shit. Is he fallacious? Not within the slightest — have you ever heard Mustaine’s political takes or his emotions on Metallica or another commentary the dude’s made through the years? However let’s be actual; relating to saying issues that may trigger issues down the highway, Kerry King’s fairly rattling good at that too.
Throughout an look on the Lipps Service With Scott Lipps podcast (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), King regarded again on seeing Metallica for the primary time again in 1982 when Mustaine was nonetheless a member of the band.
“After I first noticed ’em with Mustaine, I used to be sitting sort of between [Metallica frontman] James [Hetfield] And [then-Metallica bassist Ron] Mcgovney in the place the viewers is, and I used to be simply blown away watching Mustaine simply ripping on guitar and never even taking a look at his fingers. I’m, like, ‘I can’t try this.’ And to today, he’s a badass guitar participant. However that’s what I walked away from Metallica [thinking]. And he wrote tons of the riffs within the early days. So, when he branched off into Megadeth, a number of the riffs went with him.”
That’s some fairly complimentary commentary on Mustaine as a participant, however then he commented on how he can solely take the Megadeth frontman briefly bursts.
“Mustaine’s cool, however Mustaine’s a type of guys that he can’t assist however stick his foot in his mouth. So, I’ll take my 20 minutes and I’ll bolt simply earlier than something will get uncomfortable.”
That’s coming from the man that’s mentioned some ‘foot in mouth’ worthy stuff through the years too. I imply, he swore that Slayer would by no means play once more. He’s additionally the man that mentioned Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson ought to play him in a movie as a result of their physiques match in some way. And the way simply previous to the Slayer reunion announcement, Dave Lombardo was “useless” to him and he revealed to the world that hadn’t spoken to Tom Araya since 2019.
Regardless, each dudes have shared the stage lately, so perhaps all that’s only a case of figuring out find out how to work together with somebody after a long time of operating in the identical circles.