Mustaine: “I Know A Different James Hetfield To You”

terrybezer / News, Top Posts / 08/09/2009 10:34am

mustaine_90Dave Mustaine reveals that he knows “the real James Hetfield”. Come on in for the full story!

Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was recently asked one of the weirdest questions of all time by Germany’s Autona magazine. See below for the full, slightly mental, question and Dave Mustaine’s response.

Autona: If you were on an uninhabited island — just you, James Hetfield and possibly Carmen Electra… What would happen if you had to stay there for 30 days?

Mustaine: “I don’t know…. I think we would probably… (Interviewer suggests, “Play cards.”) Not play cards. I guess James would probably watch me and Carmen swim away and leave him on the island. I don’t know… That’s a weird question; I don’t know why you ask that. You could have used a hundred people but James. I don’t have a problem with James; James doesn’t bother me. He doesn’t intimidate me. I know a different James Hetfield than you do, but that’s because I know who he really is. Everybody else is, “James, the big guitar player, the tattooed guy with the big arms,” and stuff like that. We were kids when we met; I know who he is. Being around Carmen Electra? I would have to say she’s a very, very beautiful girl — short — but, you know, she was [married to] Dave Navarro and Dennis Rodman. Why would I wanna touch her after that? (Makes puking noise)”

Is anyone else thinking of ‘The Real Slim Shady’ after reading that? “I’m James Hetfeld, yes I’m the real Hetfield…”

In this month’s revealing Metal Hammer cover story, Dave Mustaine explained to Metal Hammer the reasons behind his decision to not be present for Metallica’s induction into the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame, Megadeth’s standing in the pantheon of metal, the story behind their awesome new opus ‘Endgame’ and the future of the band.

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Want to find out just how good the new Megadeth album is? Check out our track-by-track guide to ‘Endgame’ here!

Source: Blabbermouth

41 Comments


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Leechmaster_666

I mean seriously, does this guy talk about anything else other than Metallica? Fair enough the interviewer has goaded him a wee bit but CHRIST ALMIGHTY GET OVER IT!!!!!! What a twat

Eddie Maiden

Leechmaster_666:
Sadly dude, he DOES talk about Metallica a lot, and that’s because with Metallica’s recent return to success every second question to Mustaine seems to be about them now! If he didn’t reply you’d probably call him a dick for ignoring a ‘fair question’.
I personally think it was a fair enough answer, seeing as he has known hetfield more personally than most people outside Metallica, and it seems like she wanted him to say ‘i hate him’! Why can’t people just ask questions about Megadeth?

im sure james hetfield has changed in the last twenty years so maybe mustaine doesnt know him at all anymore. shut up mustaine. jesus.

shagrath

@Eddie Maiden, u mean Metallica’s return to success, open ur sicked ears well, probably u dun understand the word ‘thrash’ anymore..

theoutlawtorn

You’re certainly right STEVEN. James is finally at peace with himself and judging from these recent outbursts Dave clearly is n’t.

The last time that Dave spoke to him was the day that he was kicked out of Metallica most probably anyway.

Please just stick to the music Dave!!

Helldude

Leechmaster_666

The interviewer goded him ”’just a little”’ by asking him a question directly about hetfield. So mustaine responded with an answe about hetfield.. who would have thought eh?

shagrath

Mustaine rulzz

reakhavoc

mustaine should just poke it where the sun dont shine!

mustaine = stuck up his own arse
metallica = stuck up their own arse
slayer = gonna kick youe fukin’ arse and then jump on your face

What a C U Next Tuesday!!

shagrath

C all next tuesday….

The reason he talks about metallica so much is because thats all faggot interviewers keep asking him about. Its not Dave bringing it up and slagging Metallica off for no reason. Anyways Dave deserves success with Megadeth way more than Metallica do. Tbh he didnt even slag james off. He just said he knows him better than most people which is probably true. He is stating a fact.

This isn’t news, its just reporters trying to provoke people into slagging off other bands

fuck you mustaine, if you’re gonna slag off a band, dont do it to one thats better than yours

He didn’t slag him off. Hetfield is probably the one living member of metallica from dave’s days that he has no quarrel with at all.

wow joe you are really pathetic

antallica666

He should just let it go the big self obsessed prick.
Mustaine is a prick!

joe you’re a cunt. Nico is right, albeit dave’s tirelessly bitter though

Interviewers need to stop asking Dave and James about each other. In a recent Guitar World interview James gave the same kind of answer Dave did. Stop ripping the scabs off of old wounds. If interviewers and other people never get over the rivalry then James and Dave won’t either. When Metallica was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Dave wasn’t there because he was on tour at the time but sent them congratulations. I think if you had been kicked out of Metallica you’d be bitter too.

averoc2012

hahaha.. only you pop listening girls could say something like that… Metallica`s return to success???… c`mon don`t make me laugh… are you really suggesting that “red carpet Metallica” with their attempt of metal music deserves not to be insulted by Mr. Mustaine???…. Please, the ones that should get over it is you people.. Metallica was great and awesome… it is not anymore.. deal with it.. Megadeth as well as Destruction, Slayer, etc… those are real metal bands. And don`t forget how these metallica fuckers let their fans down and didn`t give a shit about them!!

do you guys not even read metal hammer?! like when united abominations came out hammer asked mustaine if him and hetfield were speaking now and he said they were now stuff

@ everyone slagging off dave: what the fuck did he do wrong? he was just answering the very weird question posed by the interviewer. and all he said that the hetfield he knows and we know are two very different people thats all…to be honest that was a lot maturer answer than i’ve heard him say about lots of things and have a look at the articles and stuff he’s being asked about metallica, he’s not going out of his way anymore to slag them off so get off his back
endgame>death magnetic
from a metallica fan

this is annoying….

Phantasmagasm

I completely agree with Sam, and joe’s a cunt.

metallica is better anyway! the comment about carmen is fukin so true!YUCK!!! wit a 10 foot pole!

The interviewer is just trying to fuel the fire in order to sell magazines, if he hadn’t asked about hetfield then mustaine wouldn’t have answered.

Hey don’t hate on Dave he just answered a question. Dave and James are both getting mugged off here by all these arseholes keep asking them the same old questions related to either and then the fans reply back with “omg Dave get over it! lololol”. Makes you wonder years on and they still haven’t made up and properly never will because all shit they both got to put up with.

Eddie Maiden

@Shagrath ‘u mean Metallica’s return to success, open ur sicked ears well, probably u dun understand the word ‘thrash’ anymore..’

Well, apparently Metallica don’t understand the meaning of thrash anymore, and what does ’sicked ears’ mean? Your trying to insult me but you make no sense!

why are twats like joe ( plus the others ) slaggin’ off Dave for simply answering a question…..99% of the time the news you read about this is because he is asked a question on the subject of Metallica.

I love both bands, and anyone that is in to metal should do the same.

Yeh, of course Dave know heaps about James, I mena seriously, who else really knows him? They grew up together!

it was a question about metallica mustaine answered the question about metallica why on earth are people blocking this forum/post up saying that mustaine is a cunt just because he was answering a question that some numb nuts asked its all you ignorant arseholes who are sitting there saying “mustaine’s a retard he needs to get over it” that makes this whole megadeath vs metallica bullshit ridiculous

If anything you haters need to get over the fact that mustaine is just being honest about it!

I’m Metallica to the core, but do love Megadeth too.

Right, with that out of the way, I don’t hate Dave for stuff like this, because, as people have said, he’s only answering what he was asked. However, Dave is a big boy now and he could tell the interviewer that he doesn’t want to answer that question because it’s totally irrelevant due to being about a band he was in more than 25 years ago. We alll know he’s an outspoken kinda guy, but he doesn’t HAVE to answer every question, surely?

Fucking journalist, not happy unless they’re shit-stirring.

Death Magnetic was awesome, BTW :p

And didn’t Dave Mustaine go into even poppier territory once?

Chris – totally agree with that. Do you mean MD.45?

Enough already of Davey Cumstainey!!!!!

Talking about Risk, but I’ve heard he’s done worse. :o

*I’m not trying to slag off Dave Mustaine, but he’s done things that show he’s a pillock.

arishem

Wow!!
I always read articles on blabbermouth and theres no one who understands that the interviewers make the stupid questions.

Here is a totally differnt stuff.

Mustaine has more talent than all the members of metallica combined

She-Wolf

@ Todd – “Mustaine has more talent than all the members of metallica combined”- COULDN’T HAVE SAID THIS ANY BETTER!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really think that both Dave and James have already overcome such quarrel, but, unfortunately, this is never gonna have an end properly, ‘cos most of journalists will never let it happen, by insisting to ask about this to them… Such a shame… As someone has said here before, if they refused to answer questions related to such subject, many people would call them rude… But, surely, ‘refusing to talk about this’ would be the best thing they could do…

Dave’s a queer.

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