Melanie "Sass" Falina recently spoke to MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo for UnratedMagazine.com. An excerpt from the story appears below:

Having jumped around from project to project over the years, one wonders if that was intentional, or simply how life worked itself out for Lomenzo, musically.

"Except for perhaps White Lion, I would have preferred that it would have been like it is right now forever and ever - in other words, I'm perfectly happy in the Megadeth band. Everyone has the ability to contribute and be a part of it. In other bands throughout most of this it's been that way too, but it's so funny because -- I think it was John Kalodner who told me, 'You know all these bands that I've worked with? They're all just a series of dysfunctional families.' So you're always just waiting for Grandma to say the wrong thing on Sunday afternoon," Lomenzo laughs, "And then the whole thing blows up, and that's usually what happens eventually."
"So yeah, I would have preferred to have stayed in any one of those bands for its eternity. And then one particular one, when Zakk [Wylde] and I started up the Pride & Glory band, which probably no one's heard of, that was a really special band to us because it was the first band that we put together to break away from our 'corporate gigs' -- White Lion and Ozzy Obsourne. When we started that band we had all high hopes and in some regards that band was just about kind of dictating the way we'd make our music with extended jams and basically about playing music for the moment. And all kinds of things happened there, and some of them I won't share with the audience and some of them I will. The record company changed hands at the wrong time, et cetera, et cetera. So before you know it, you're off to the next adventure."

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