Dave Mustaine a démarré grace à Metallica...il est beau et bon (pas autant que mon mari...)
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Megadeth got off to a slower start than the other three bands, due mainly to Mustaine's now infamous firing from Metallica. As the story goes, right before they were about to start recording Kill 'Em All in New York, Mustaine was woken up by the other three members, and told he was fired. When he asked when his plane left, the band handed him a bus ticket to the West Coast. As Mustaine writes in the album's excellent new liner notes, "When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remembered is that I wanted blood. Theirs." Spurred on by visions of revenge that would eventually dominate his early years in Megadeth, Mustaine spent 1984 developing his new band, featuring teenaged Minnesotan Dave Ellefson on bass, jazz guitarist Chris Poland, and jazz-influenced drummer Gar Samuelson.
"Rattlehead" was to Megadeth as "Whiplash" was to Metallica, the typical "bang yer head" song that we kids loved way back when. Of course, the most intriguing song on the album has always been "Mechanix", Mustaine's angry response to Metallica using his song on Kill 'Em All, only to rename it "The Four Horsemen". Metallica's version went on to become legendary, but Mustaine's "Mechanix" holds its own. Although Mustaine's idiotic lyrics about sex in a garage pale in comparison to Metallica's apocalyptic vision, Megadeth's version is much tighter and much faster, brilliantly played by all four members.
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