MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine On Proper Big Four Tour - "If The Opportunity Came Up Again We Would All Go For It"
August 11, 2010, 14 years ago
In a new interview with Chris Harris from Rolling Stone, MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine says SLAYER, Megadeth and ANTHRAX haven't ruled out the possibility of a proper Big Four tour with METALLICA. "If the opportunity came up again, we would all go for it," says Mustaine. (The one-time Metallica guitarist finally reconciled his fractious relationships with his former bandmates last year.) "I think it would even be cool if it was just us and Metallica. It was fun for us, great for our career, and great for all the fans because at the end of that night, when I went up and hugged James, and I heard how loud that cheer was versus any other time we were playing - that was the [moment] you dream about when you’re a kid. The big show - the biggest show you’ll ever do."
Mustaine caught up with BraveWords.com recently to discuss his newly released autobiography out now on Harper Collins.
“This being my first book, I didn’t really know what I was doing," says the singer/guitarist. "This was a whole new area for me, so I read a couple other people’s bios. Like I read Manson’s bio, I read several political figures that I respected, I read Slash’s book, AC/DC’s book. Other stuff that happened to me was better left out of the story. There was stuff that I did which was better left out, and there is stuff that needs to be told, but because of the way human nature is and how litigious everybody is now, it could never be told. But having said that, I wanted it to be as much as I could about who I am, and not about, ‘Buy Megadeth records’ for Pete’s sakes, because they already sell. So this is more about like, okay, so now that this whole Big Four thing has now proven to the world that there aren’t any feuds anymore, what’s next? More Big Four concerts, hopefully, and a new record for us. But in the meantime it was me being able to say, OK now, if you want to know who this guy is who has been the villain for so many years, well, here I am. This is who I am and this is what makes me how I am. It’s not so much, like I said, selling Megadeth - it’s about explaining Dave Mustaine.”Read the entire interview here.
