DAVE MUSTAINE Says Relationship With KIRK HAMMETT Has "Improved A Little Bit"
September 13, 2011, 13 years ago
MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine spoke to Artisan News recently about his "frosty" relationship with METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, who replaced Mustaine in the band in 1983. The cold wars seems to have ended.
"When we played 'Helpless' (DIAMOND HEAD cover) one night, I walked over to say hello to Kirk on the stage and he said, 'Do you wanna take the solo?" I said, 'Yeah.' (Laughs) But we forgot to tell anybody on the stage or in the sound out front that I was gonna do the solo so… the song's playing along and Kirk's playing rhythm full blast, and I'm sitting there going… you can't hear what I'm doing. At least we knew what had happened. It was kind of a symbolic passing of the torch back to me and it was a nice gesture. I think that that helped Kirk and my relationship improve a little bit."Check out the interview below:
