Dave Mustaine Talks AC/DC
The mighty Megadeth frontman talks about his love for AC/DC and the difference between the live shows of ‘deth and DC!
“I love AC/DC and I’ve always been a fan of AC/DC,” says Mustaine. “Bon Scott was my frontman. I love and respect Brian, but it’s the same record. They’ve been making the same record for 20 years. I love ‘em, but it’s the same stuff, so you don’t need to buy the record, just go to the concert. With us, it’s kind of like the concert’s always the same but the records change! Because we go out live and what do people want us to do? They want to hear Holy Wars, they want to hear Rust In Peace, they want to hear stuff off of that record…guys, I’ve got 12 records and I can’t fit all of that stuff into one hour! There’s over 100 songs to play! “Hey, play this song!” Yeah, like I’m gonna just remember that song out of the blue! Do I look like a fuckin’ jukebox?”
“I remember we were in Germany one time and it was the anniversary of Bon Scott’s death and we said ‘Let’s do an AC/DC song tonight!’ and we did Problem Child,” explains Mustaine. “About halfway through that song I realised I’d forgotten how high his voice is when he’s singing. So when I was done with that song I went back and I told Shawn (Drover, Megadeth drummer) ‘Don’t ever let me do that again!’ Ha ha!”
Megadeth will release their brand new album, ‘Endgame’, on September 14th. Get our track-by-track preview here!
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Mustaine you are up there with Mr Rose for being one of the biggest knobs around!
He doesn’t come half as close to Axl for sheer knobbery!
But he is still rather ginger
mustaine the man i agree with what he said about ac/dc but still its a killer cd to add and hearing holy wars live always a plaesure
Dave’s a tremendous musician but he will always be outspoken!!
As for AC/DC? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!!
i agree i can’t listen to a whole ac/dc album one song after another
a knob he is indeed but no-one alive can out shred the fucker bring on endgame!
To be honest i dont think even Dave can come close to being as bigger knob as Axl Rose.
Plus i can totally agree with Moshtank in that i really find it hard to listen to song after song.
Dave may be a knob but Dave rules.
Your F’n kidding all megadeth songs are the same.Listen to them and tell me one song that doesnt end up with dave going into some weird voice.Listen to sweating bullets and then listen to others it has that bloody voice all the time
Hey from Australia XD
Well, convenient, I get to see both megadeth and acca dacca! Deth in october, Acca in Feb!
Hooray for Australia! And hooray for gingers (yes I’m one of them…we are slowly going to take over the world!!)
Nothing wrong with gingers at all, you either love em or hate em
The similarity between ‘Deth songs isn’t as obvious as it is between ‘DC songs, good as they both are though.
Corpsegrinder, you’re an idiot. How can you possibly say that Megadeth songs sound the same, when the band were so heavily criticised for sounding so different in the 90s? Some people truly never cease to amaze.
i was worried he was gonna say greg d’angelo told him they were gonna kick angus out before bon died ….
Fuck all you who say dave is a knob!!! Show some fucking respect you assholes!!! the guy wrote HOLY WARS for christ sake!! That alone should credit him as one of the greatest musicians ON THE FUCKING PLANET!!!! you all call yourselves metal fans, when you cant even respect a person whos dedicated his life to metal, who has physically suffered for it, who fronts one of the greatest metal bands on the planet, whos wrote such great songs as hangar 18, tornado of souls, a tout le monde, symphony of destruction, ashes in your mouth, peace sells, wake up dead etc, and who just kicksass in every possible way!!!
Fucking pussies, fuck off and listen to emo, its suits you more you GAY COCKSUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, someone on here said all Megadeth songs sound the same? Way to go Corpsegrinder you idiot.
Hey man its not his fault if his hearing is impaired……. I hope it was megadeth that fucked your ear pussy you cocksucker!!
Corpsegrinder, you’re a dumbass. Get your ears clean.
Daniel Mcdonald: You’re making a big fool out of ourself and the rest of the droogs.
In a centuries to come people will still be playing the music of Megadeth & Mustaine , As they do Mozart or Beethoven , Bach , the man is a musical fucking genius , he is to metal what the those dudes were to classical music !!!
Regardless of what you people think of his personality , of which I happen to love his passion ,…. his razor sharp cleaver wit ,he is highly intelligent and enlightened , he is often misunderstood & miss quoted , especially by the british music press who love to attack him quite often !!!
He can come across to some as quite arrogant in interviews to some ,…and why ??? usually because of some fucking arsehole wanker rock journolist has asked some really rude , antagonistic , intrusive questions ,….and why ??? to wind the man up of course , and make him out to be an arsehole !!!
When in actual fact he is a very polite humble ( yes thats rite humble !!! ) chap , I have met the man personally , I chatted to him on about 5 seperate occasions now , and every time he has been positvely charming and gracious & delightful !!!
Perhaps it has something to do with the fact I don’t ask him rude , obnoxious , antagonistic questions in order to get a rise out of him !!!
If you listen to any heavy metal music , from 81-83 onwards then it is he who has helped change & mould , shape , galvanize , create some of the best sounding heavy metal music that we know of today !!!
If it was not 4 Mustaine the sound of quite a large slice of the metal we hear today would not sound the the way it does !!!
Like him or not , he is to be honored & respected 4 his undeniable vast influence !!!
It’s like the same thing with Micheal Jackson
like him or not you have to respect him 4 his talent , & lets face it the guy was talented !!!
Same with Mustaine regardless of if you like him or not , the man could fart into a microphone and it would be a metal riff to die for !!!
mustaine=god
MEGADETH AND AC DC ARE METAL GODS. PLEASE RESPECT ALL OF THOSE GUYS. THEY RE KEEPING THE METAL FLAME FOR ALL OVER THE YEARS. BOTA PRA FUDER MUSTAINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mustaine eres un maestro….
corpsegrinder you fucking faggot come with me to megadeth and slayer il stick you in the pit and let your pussie ass get beat down megadeth the greatest fucking thrash band alive holy wars,hanger 18,mechanix,ashes in your mouth,a loute la mond,washington is next so many great songs dave mustaine a living metal god
he’s right about ac/dc, i respect them but there music is overplayed/boring, DAVE IS GODLY, megadeth=best metal band of all time
quote from Mr.Mustaine
“I didn’t say what I was trying to say, and what I said is rude and childish. Not my style (well, at least not my style for the last decade or so, thank God), and I am even offended at what I said. I have never in thirty plus years disrespected AC/DC one of my favorite bands in the whole world; I think I just got too comfortable and forgot that we were recording and I was being an ass.”
Also, I remember his top 10 metal bands list; AC/DC were number 2 behind Led Zeppelin so I’m sure it’s just bad wording.
mega-who………?
wats the point in this article. u pay £30 to go see megadeth and you have no right to hear your favourite song? ive seen local bands happily play songs out of the bloom.
He does come off as an ass sometimes but i kind of agree with him here, ACDC do get redundant after a while, I love megadeth tthough