Friday, February 12, 2016

Dave Mustaine - Megadeth Interview 2016 - Dystopia, Gigantour & Not Re-Recording KIMBABIG

This is a cool interview with Dave Mustaine, talking about the nuts and bolts of touring, with an interviewer from Montreal. Here, Mustaine is measured, considers his words, and both men have fun with it.




I did a podcast interview with a former member of Megadeth, and I wish I had heard something like this first. The journalist is clearly not nervous—he's done this kind of thing before. Even with poor sound quality, a phone interview can go well. It's not great on the ears, but if it's short and ramble-free, it's worth a listen, and this one contains some good information, if you're a Megadeth fan.

"Dystopia," apparently, is doing as well as "Countdown to Extinction," did in the early Nineties, having hit #2 on the American charts, according to Mustaine in this interview. Whatever that means. Are people still buying albums? The VR thing they're doing with the deluxe "Dystopia" package looks fun, especially with its real-time-and-place sonic simulation, with the user able to move about in an environment containing the band playing.

Ooh, and re-recording a "Killing Is My Business...And Business is Good!" would be cool—too bad Dave doesn't want to do it. Which is funny, because I was thinking about that very thing yesterday, and how cool that would be. There I was, warming up on guitar before heading back into a long song I've got to finish writing, doing my usual warm up routine, shredding to some Megadeth.

Suddenly I had this thought—"Killing..." is the only album by Megadeth with songs I've never bothered to learn how to play; the one album that's sloppy and nigh-unintelligible, even post-remaster.

I'll bet the lyrics to some of those songs are things Dave wouldn't want to sing again. Like "The Conjuring" from the album "Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?," I'm assuming there are songs on "Killing..." that promote evil Eighties metal teenage practices like bloodletting and toe sucking—stuff that's too painful to bring up, ouch!

I think it'd be cool if Dave re-lived his old youthful days, ARTISTICALLY ONLY, and got evil and nasty again. But then people would take it the wrong way, yadda yadda yadda.... What a painful social mind-state in which we live, wherein re-living an old work of art would elicit painful reactions in the peanut gallery, causing more pain to the artist. Dreadful.

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