Elephant Man

M: DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I Really Am Enjoying Who I'm Discovering Myself To Be' -
i bet he only invited elephant man back so he'd get more interviews (after the new album ones dropped off) so he could continue to go on and on and on and on and on about himself

J: True, though he could at least say he's happy for dave jr to be back -but he's not mentioned it, i think BM had three articles yesterday about dave jr saying how happy he was. it kinda seems like two people have got back together, but one one of them is happy and the other don't give a shit.
like you said last night, it's not as though MD are gonna release some amazing record now - the next one won't be for another two years give or take.

M: and it's not going to be amazing! people are creaming themselves over this like elephant's gonna return megadeth to their youth...he's a MUSICIAN, not a MAGICIAN.

J: sadistic magician :D
and he's only a bass player at that ;)

M: hahah :) i know! as if megadeth rely on bass? i know he's a key member to some of the classic albums but he'll only be able to make a difference if dave lets him....which is exactly how it always was anyways. megadeth not sounding like megadeth is down to dave mustaine and that's a fact.

J: > i know! as if megadeth rely on bass?
that XD
as if any band rely on bass, rly.
dave jr was an original member from the start and stuck with megaman along way, i think that's why ppl are getting excited, but megaman calls all the stuff in megadeth, it's not like you go into MD as a band member, it's not your band, never will be, and there's no chance of you feeling at home there.

M: exactly. tbh, i don't feel like this is a big deal at all, i think it's kinda sad. sad for elephant man because he seems real happy but i don't think it'll do his career any favours (i mean, he'll get more famous, but he ain't gonna be on an awesome album again any time soon) and i think dave is just doing this for the publicity/for business.

J: > kinda sad. sad for elephant man because he seems real happy but i don't think it'll do his career any favours
this. he might be getting more money than he's on, or feel that he's in a "safer" place than he was before (ie doing youtube tutorial videos on how to record) - though it's the same with rob trujillo - he's on more dosh than he was now, but it's not the best place to be.
> dave is just doing this for the publicity/for business.
because dave is, was and always will be a selfish arrogant cunt :/

The Legacy

J: MUSTAINE: Seems Like BLABBERMOUTH & ROADRUNNER Are Only People Who Don't Like Me Or MEGADETH - shut up, dave!

M: srsly. he's embarassing himself and everyone else, he's only going to isolate himself from the bbmouth/roadrunner people - who like i said last night, are the only people that care in this much detail about him...soon enough there'll only be people who've never heard of this debacle, or the people who have, who hate him :/

J: yeah, srsly, he really is making himself look like a chump. blabbermouth is the most read metal news on the net, though people make rude comments on their all the time, it's the whole internet tough guy thing, because they have a screen to hide behind, it's not like they'd say that to dave's face! it's just their outlet to say that dave's acting like a twat about the whole thing - every one can see that - apart from him

M: and instead of realising these are the only people that care about metal enough to read about it all the time, and thus the people he should go some way to ingratiating himself towards - he makes them hate him more and more!

>internet tough guy

maybe someone should tell him about this - they don't mean it, its just internet speak for them being unhappy about it, you're right

J: dave should just stfu and enjoy his holiday coffee :)

M:
LOL :D

J: i wonder if his daughter'll be as annoying as him...

M: i imagine so, i bet she's one of them pushy celebrity kids - she's already done tv and stuff. and she's called electra :/ (dunno if dave knows it, but in psychology terms, electra is the female version of oedipus...)

J: she's gonna be the 14 year old attention whore that dave already is, except she's female, which makes it over 9000 times worse!

M: LOL i bet you, when she's a bit older, she's gonna get interviews about how her dad used to be in metallica - we have another 80 years of this shit, it's just gonna continue through the generations XO

J: yeah, true that, she might take over his legacy of moaning about it.... oh god ;O

M: srsly, i reckon that's so gonna happen - first time she gets interviewed by anyone who has a clue about metal - she's gonna get asked about it. if she's sensible, she'll tell them to fuck off - but i bet it'll start a whole new legacy of whining, her and the hetfield kids together (or not, as the case may be)

J: you never hear about the hetfield kids :)

M: there's a couple youtube clips where he gets his girl up on stage - they sing her happy birthday one time....but apart from that, no. i don't think they're now minor celebrities in their own right like dave's kid - they're growing up in secrecy behind that giant wall he built (james, not dave) :)

J: yah, that fucking wall :)
whereas dave's kid is a child presenter for some kids tv network :D

M: exactly XO

J: aren't james' kids called something weird, like hercules, or is that
his middle name :?

M: it's cicero or something roman ish.

> Cali (June 13, 1998), Castor (May 18, 2000), and Marcella (January 17, 2002).

wiki solves it all :) castor is def roman*. well, his name is, not the kid haha.

J: Castor, that was the one....
Virgil is his dad, that i think is who i was thinking of :) i knew it was the name of one of the Thunderbird characters :)

M: yeah, that's the one :) james' middle name is ALAN :D

*Continuing my rants about all things Roman - all the Hetfield children have Roman names, probably because of James Hetfield's father's name - Virgil. The name Marcella means 'dedicated to the god Mars'. The name Cali is from the name Calista, which was common amongst Greeks and Romans. Castor was another common name - one of the Gemini, Castor and Pollux, Castor was also the god of the Praetorian Guard. The son of Tiberius was nicknamed Castor for this reason.

Old news - Splitting hairs

(From 22nd September 2008)

J: for your iRod :D
(He sent me the actual song, but here's the link to a shitty live youtube version, just for you!)

M: this is from one of the cds you were showing me last night isn't it? can't remember which though...although i suppose i could google it

J: it's stevie sex summer's band :D

M: those pretty boy floyd people? i always imagined them being a kind of grungy band whenever i heard anyone mention them, i was actually quite surprised when i saw the cd cover!!

J: nope - they're a third rate glam band that came about a bit late, but the Leather Boyz album is like Tuff's CD I have, and underated classic :)
rumour has it that he wears a wig, which is great :)

M: probably does wear a wig - i bet its pretty tough having to keep up hair that big - even dave muff stain who still has very good hair - even his isn't as big like on the back of peace sells :)

J: i love old bands that go bald :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQBCAjxjseM
listen to the dude heckling - kinda lame, but funny. trixter are on that booze crooze thing with scab row and firestorm :P

M: so they're not just scab bands, but old, bald scab bands? ;D

J: at least stevie rachelle admited he had a hair transplant done with the money he earnt from being on a major label for tuff's first album before they were dropped! the other's just wear silly wigs like don dokken and bret michaels


M: i think its usually pretty obvious when people start losing their hair - if they're at least honest about it, it takes away most of the ground for people making fun of them - bret michaels is just a complete joke now! :D

J: one word: Dio!
i personally don't think axl is losing his hair, the corn rows aint helping, but his hair looked ok the year before it was done.
don dokken on the other hand has been noticed with a variety of wigs
haha: bretswig.com

M: hahaha thats the best pic ever it looks like he's in a caveman movie or something.....and yeah, has miraculously reversed the aging process on his hair! how does he think that will pass as his own? i think people need to take action pretty fucking early (i.e. before they start losing it haha!) before they start making out like they have thick flowing locks :D worst thing is - it doesn't make him look any better, he looks like some weird wiggy poser!

J: bret did admit he had extensions but not a wig, but i think he's lying :)

M: totally! extensions make your hair thicker or longer, they don't give you a whole new hairline!

J: and you have women competing for this man's love!

M: yeah but look at those women! they look and sound like old transvestites, i personally wouldn't want them anywhere near me, let alone go on endless dates with those horrible creatures!*

*I meant "horrible creatures" in the best kind of way; I HEART Rock of Love

Endgame

Okay I promise to ease up on the Dave Mustaine related posts. It is hard to keep away though - he's an easy target for jokes plus he has been in serious promoslag mode in the lead up to the release of the new album...

Speaking of which, Endgame leaked August 31st. These are our initial reactions:

M: Woah the first song is soooooo good!

J: yeah, music seems cool, only on track two atm :) vocals don't seem as punchy as UA, but hey, it's more fucking metal then Death Fagnetic!

M: completely and utterly :)

J: the solos are amazing!
megadeth should just make instrumental albums - dave's voice is sounding a bit rough round the edges... still, it's a musical delight

M: track 8 is a bit silly at the start. dave's voice is def getting a bit old.....nothing compared to james' blown out vocal straining tho. but ahhhh the guitars are so good

J: i'm up to 4 atm - i don't like 3, it sucks.
i love 4 and 1 :)

M: i thought 3 was okay. i'm up to track ten. 8 kinda goes weirdly STRAIGHT INTO 9 but once you get over it, it's a welcome change of pace. i think some of the songs could have been faster

J: 5's got some wicked music, but the vocals let it down. when it goes into the pre-chorus dave could have used vocals, but never, if he did, he could have sounded darker, but doesn't.
6 is a bit blah :/

M: 10 was a bit blah too, the last track (11) has a great solo tho. the solos on this album are wicked, really really good

The next day, J sent me his track-by-track opinions. It's shorter than many you'll read, but it's all you need to know.

J: 1 - awesome
2 - cool solo, vocals a bit shit
3 - sucks, dave mentions "pocket knife", you get more points for switchblade knife, huh :)
4 - cool - nice vocals
5 - cool music, vocals/structure could be a lot better
6 - sucks
7 - cool - sounds like it should have been on UA
8 - gets better from the intro, but doesn't really go anywhere
9 - cool, sounds like it should have been on RIP
10 - sounds like it should have been on Cryptic Writings. Shit, though works good as a penultimate track if it was better structured and a minute shorter. kill the second of classical guitar.
11 - cool final track , intro could have been better structured. sounds like the last track on UA i think, or thereabouts.

M: agreed, altho i think i like 8 and 3 more than you do :) i like the guitars at the start of 8 - not the stupid bit, i mean when the electric guitars come in, i think the rhythm and pitch is really cool. but yeah, it kinda trails off at the end which is a bit disappointing.
see what i mean about how nothing stands out from the others tho? when headcrusher comes in it's a bit woah like, but apart from that it's all kinda so so.....apart from the solos which rule. and the first track, which is a totally awesome start to an album, really fucking good. really really good, actually, i love that start. i listened to it at least 3 times on the train in today :D

J: some parts do stand out, mainly the solos, but i get really annoyed that dave has some cool vocal potential - i think it's track 5 - the guitars sound great, the lyrics not so, but when it enters the pre-chorus it had potential to sound wicked if dave used it as an opportunity to use vocals there.
There's too many bits that sound like they're gonna be wicked like how the Gears of War solo starts off to be, then you get heavily let down when it doesn't follow thru with some cool sounding shit.
i've always found it really hard to get into megadeth when i got into metal, never really liked their shit much, but it grew on me. i still say that UA is the best album they've done since RIP, this being the second, but it's spoiled by dave's vocals heavily. UA had a much better vocal structure than this one.

And that's all we have time for kids! I'll try and avoid megadave and his antics for the next few days...or not, fuck you, I'll post what I want to :)

Really Really Old News: Megadeth

(Metal Hammer; Feb 12th - Feb 25th 1990)

Sadler's Wells

J: DAVE MUSTAINE: LARS ULRICH 'Can't Keep Me Out' Of The ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME - there's about a million articles on blabbermouth with dave in them :O

M: i know, he's really pushing the publicity circuit. must have got in touch with scott ian's PR dude for this level of coverage ;D

J: that aside, i thought all the metallica shit was put to bed, but yet he's still fucking going on about it.
He's like steve adler sometimes

M: he is a bit. altho a lot more successful than sadler. i think sometimes its hard because people always bring it up for him, but he should learn just not to mention it. if he'd never bothered going on and on about it, it wouldn't be such a big deal now and he could talk about it when he wants to, but now it's a big thing every time it comes up

J: yeah, like dave grohl, he should have just said I'm not talking about nirvana (or rather megadeth) in interviews, but it's one of them things he's now stuck in

M: yeah, see and now dave grohl hardly ever gets asked about nirvana! a lot of people that like him now don't even know about that. with megadave, it's always this big deal

J: i don't even consider dave to have ever been in nirvana on the basis of how big he is and the fact he don't talk about them. anyone else, like krist the bassist, yeah, he was in nirvana :)
at least megaman ain't in bands that cover the shit from metallica, like steven adler :)

M: that'd be hard tho, dave wasn't in the band for all the most famous songs. he took mechanix and stuff, but it's not like he can play enter sandman - he was long gone by the time they did that. hahaha unlike yeah, sadler or joey belladonna, who's just playing indians for the rest of time

J: it's true :)

M: i know :D still, i'd go see him. maybe not for indians, but joey belladonna is the voice of anthrax, as far as i'm concerned.

J: i'd see him, i wouldn't see sadler tho :)
seeing sadler is like feeding his habit, not drugs as such, but he's only doing adler's appetite and playing in gnr cover bands because it's all he knows :(

M: its like he's actually mental. this weird, deluded ex rock person who still thinks like he's gonna be back in the band one day. it's really sad

J: he should take a leaf out of tommy lee's book and start a rap band :D

M: or go back to college ;D maybe he should apply to mtv for his own reality show

J: he's been on them type of shows before - mainly the ones dealing in celeb rehab :D

M: oh yeah :D he should have made more of a thing of it at the time :D

J: jani lane was on celeb fit club :D

MEGADETH: New Song '1,320'' Available For Streaming

M: MEGADETH: New Song '1,320'' Available For Streaming - here it is!!

J: it's got some nice vocal parts in it, typical megadeth soloing, a cool main solo (that has potential to be jolly, but doesn't).... but i've heard better

M: i'm in work!!! i want to listen to it now waaaaah

J: the intro is totally the same as Hit the Lights :)

M: LOL :D that is a really good intro tho :)

J: i agree with the comments - two songs released from endgame, and it's
already better than death magnetic :)

M: :D hooray!!! hooray!!! in your face metallica :D :D :D

J: yeah, and while we're at it, we'll steal your intro :)

M: hahah :D

J: although i will say, 4 horsemen over mechanix anyway :)

M: hahaha and metallica's lyrics over dave's on jump in the fire :D i hate his pants songs :))

J: dave's sex pants :)

M: yeah :/ although, mechanix is the worst of them, its the most cringey song ever! with all four on the floor, I feel what's in store!!! the whole thing's like the script from a carry on movie

J: carry on cliff :)

M: :O

J: you heard it yet?

M: oh yeah! haha was just being shocked at your cliff remark, forgot what we were emailing about in the first place :O :O :D off i go

J: :D :D :D
carry on taking off your pants :)

M: hahahaha :)
okay, the song is good! kinda see what everyone means about the chorus, but the ending is ace

J: yeah, the ending rules :) there's a song on UA that ends like that, with a solo. very nice :)

M: yeah, soooooo much better than anything metallica could pull together :D hahaha hooray for megadave :D

J: looking forward to the new album :D

M: yeah i am too, haha so's JA ;)

J: everyone's looking forward to it :)

M: hooray! but with justification, unlike the metallica album :) i'm so pleased for megadave :)))

J: no doubt when it comes out, lars or james will say that they like it

M: like they know shit about metal anymore - their opinion is meaningless seeing as nearly everything they've put out recently has been fucking garbage

J: haha, i'm starting hate them so much that i want to fight people over
it :D :D :D

ANTHRAX Drummer On Working With JOHN BUSH: 'When You Have A Chemistry, You Should Keep It'

M: ANTHRAX Drummer On Working With JOHN BUSH: 'When You Have A Chemistry, You Should Keep It' - which is why you guys parted ways in the first place?? that makes no fucking sense!

J: don't be so harsh, charlie and scott invented john bush you understand ;)

M: that's true, if it wasn't for them, we'd not have music at all. someone should put up statues for them

J: these two clowns just annoy me so much - everytime i hear charlie
banana's name i see jamie jester from get thrashed telling us how
charlie invented the blast beat and i just want to kill myself!

M: charlie banana :) haha charlie always makes me think of legends cup coffee, the benate blend ;D

J: i managed to forget about that... until now.

don't forget megadave's got his fingers in that pie as well :/

speaking of which, that trend of having coffee appears to have faded
away. and it's a good thing too! though i'm sure dave's working on a
hot sauce to put on the market; "rattleheads rasta-style jamacian hot
sauce"... maybe?

M: haha, doesn't dave's wife run it?

omg i can so see him doing that hot sauce thing. they can use it in david silveria's steak houses ;D

J: > omg i can so see him doing that hot sauce thing. they can use it in david silveria's steak houses

that's a match made in heaven right there :D :D

> haha, doesn't dave's wife run it?

yeah, or ex wife :)

M: didn't someone else release a sauce recently?

J: yeah, but i can't think who ;(

i know joe perry from aerosmith has done. vince neil needs to do it :D

M: vince neil definitely need to do some kind of feelgood steak sauce :D

didn't pig destroyer or someone do one? or cattle decapitation? i get them confused as essentially its the same band name. and i think someone else did one too? and ALSO, remember that bar where all the burgers were named after metal bands? :) i just googled it and the article about the bar is on metal sucks, however it's blocked by the stupid wanky work filter ;( *

J: WILDSAUCE!

no wildside :)

it was cattle decapitation and their veggie burgers :)

*I am now not at work. It's a bar in Chicago called Kuma's Corner. The burgers are indeed named after metal bands, from YOB to Darkthrone, Clutch to Judas Priest. Although I'm thinking that asking for a 'Goblin Cock' is akin to requesting a Sex on the Beach in Brannigans. Tee hee.