do you dislike him as a person? I don’t really know his antics over the years that well but he seems pretty charming besides the whole still being bitter about kicked out

In about 1995 I was working as a courier. I had a job one day to pick up and deliver a box of seven live gerbils to Brixton Academy.
I arrived at the venue and was told the person who needed to sign for the package was in the main hall so I made my way there. Stage lights were on and Megadeth were doing a sound check. I heard Dave say "let's do dawn patrol and I'm gonna have some fun with it". They played it and, to my shock, Dave sang the song an octave lower than usual finishing with a booming note in the 1st octave that, when he stepped away from the mic, filled the whole hall. It was very impressive.
After that they turned on the house lights and Dave sees me.....
"Who the f*ck is that"?
I explained who I was and Dave said "listen you little sh*head, you tell anyone about this and it's not just you but your family too"
"Understood Dave" I said.
"YOU WILL CALL ME MR MUSTAINE!" he screamed
"Okay, okay" I said. Then the manager came over to me and signed for the gerbils and Dave got on the mic again, "Do not give a tip! You wanna tip? Here's a tip, shut your f*king mouth"
Must have caught him on a bad day. Great low range though.

>>126701371 (OP)
I used to think it was just a power struggle between him and James but when you read what others have to say about him then that paints a somewhat different picture.
>Kerry King: ""It's just his personality. I mean, look how many people have been in his band. Fifty? And that's not me down-talking Mustaine. I like hanging with him for 20 minutes, and then you go away and 'I'll see you in a year.'""

>>126701371 (OP)
Read his biography and can confirm he's a dickhead. Interesting for sure but his ego is oppressive. It's crazy to think that his whole career was fueled by spite.

He is a psychotic cunt. Ok guy otherwise.

He bullies fans who pay to see him. So no

>>126701371 (OP)
LOL from the thumbnail I thought this was yet another Sabrina Carpenter thread.

Also, Dave's a dick. That's no way to go through life.

>>126701371 (OP)
>do you dislike him as a person?
I don't know him as a person, so I have no opinion. From what I've heard he seems like he used to be a massive asshole back in the day, but supposedly he mellowed out. But again, that's just hearsay.

>>126701713
That's rich coming from KK

>>126701371 (OP)
He's a gear whore for sure. He's been playing Jacksons, Deans and now Gibson guitars. Each time he has changed the brand he's thrown away his old guitars. What a fag lmao

>>126701730
Spite is one of the greatest motivators alongside horniness.

Idk but he's a great songwriter and has chops. He's clearly a dickhead but that doesnt affect me in the least.

>>126701713
>>126701730
His current personality and ego came about only after being kicked out. Before that he never seemed to have an ego problem. If anything, it seems his kicking out was more from ego problems of James and Lars. Dave really carried the band in those early days and knowing what an egoistical cunt Lars is, I'm sure Dave being more important didn't sit right with him. That's even more apparent when they talked about Dave as if he was no one important in the band, just some guy along for the ride. And it worked, really, to this day most Metallica fanboys don't even know that Mechanix is entirely Dave's song for example.

>>126701371 (OP)
The fact that Ellefson has been going out of his way to grab every single music journo to bitch about him every single week after getting kicked out and allied himself with the most faggy ex-Megadeth members in the band's history to make a shitty cover band makes me like Dave no matter how much of an asshole he is.

>>126702549
Jackson literally just released his new signature electric bass guitar right as the jackoff story broke. He's gotta pay them back now that he's broken the "be of good standing" clause of his sponsorship contract.

>>126702843
It's still in Jackson's website tho.

>>126702936
Comes with a free copy of the audio of that fateful phonesex session, too, on Compact Disc.

>>126703069
We've all fapped in front of the computer

>>126703104
Not with Ellefson, you haven't.

>>126703133
Speak for yourself

>>126701956
You're forgetting ESP. They gave him guitars, then the guitars ended up for sale on eBay not long after. The kike tried selling the guitars from the endorsement.

>>126703192
Tbf I think both him and ESP were out of their mind at the time. They also around that time released that weird ass green sg clone Hetfield signature and the zora guitar.

>>126701371 (OP)
till his dying breath
despite his own success
he'll never get over it lmao

>>126703280
He won't get over it until James and Lars acknowledge him and his contributions to the band. It's sad but it's how it is, he was a kid with a shitty background and he got burned by his best buddies in the worst ways and only they can fix that. And really, is it that hard to give the man some proper credit?

>>126702549
Not just a shitty cover band, they make original songs now. And it's shitty too lmao

https://youtu.be/d9eqD1kMDqQ?si=ma_oz1A0OQeUKFHA

>>126703881
Gotta give it to them they didn't disable the comments because the roasting is quite hot.

>>126703881
Kings of Thrash is a deeply unserious name for a band

>>126703881
The lead singer looks like Eric Andre

>>126701879
just like me

>>126703230
Thats one ugly piece of shit. He should have never left Jackson. It was iconic.

>>126704370
I heard he wanted to buy the company but they got bought by Fender and so he became salty over it

>>126704392
There's no way he had the cash to do that?

>>126704505
They were a small company going under around that time so it's plausible

>>126704370
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI0GTapIyaI

he wrote Load

>>126701371 (OP)
He's the metal king

>>126707563

>>126707580
Rock producer, yes

>>126707563
True king of thrash. There wouldn't be Metallica as they are today without him.

He seems like a miserable, bitter person. Despite all the success he had over the year, the family he has that loves him..he is still miserable and can't seem to let go. He should learn to count his blessings and move on. If they did not kick them out when they did, he would have been kicked out later.

>>126701371 (OP)
I think he has some undiagnosed spergs. I mean he's intelligent and somewhat self-aware but at the same time treats his bandmates like shit while he of all people should know how deep effect it may have.

i don't know who he is

>>126708709
you could drop all the songs that he helped write on KEA and it still would be as legendary as it is today, only it's an EP

>>126709662
>becomes one of the most prominent figures in his field
>is quirky
You don't say?

>>126709782
>KEA without Horsemen or Phantom lord
>legendary
Lol

But more to the point, KEA would never happen without Dave. He was carrying Metallica so hard in the early days and was one of, if not the main reason they got a record deal that early. Without him, there's no Saxon gig, there's no Cliff, there's no NLTL (on which he wrote more than half of the songs) and due that, there's no KEA. He was vital for the band, everything that happened, happened that way because of him. And if Metallica never got that early boost and the first thrash album on the market, they'd never get to ride that momentum and become as big as they are today. That's a fact. This is real life, not some anime where James' and Lars' friendship conquers all. Yeah they're talented guys and they would have been known in the scene eventually but it was thanks to Dave that they got so big so quick.

Diaper Dave should honestly just croak

>>126711463
Metallica fanboys would wish. That way they can keep pretending Lars and James did it on their own.

should have hired a vocalist for the band

>>126714087
Pleb opinion. His snarl is iconic.

>>126701371 (OP)
i've always been a fan of dave and his music. megadeth was one of the defining bands of my youth
but dave himself is a hypocritical piece of shit and he's STILL not over metallica
in an interview he was being introduced and they said he sold 50 million records with megadeth and dave goes "i also sold 50 million with metallica!". it was so pathetic

>>126701713
kerry burger king is a notorious faggot too so that's funny hearing that from him

>>126701956
pretty much all guitarists with endorsements do this. they get all their gear for free and just sell and offload all their old gear
dave is hardly the first person to do something like that

>>126703881
>those comments
lmao dave won

>>126704505
Jackson was a small company, they weren't very valuable and Dave is absolutely loaded

>>126714279
You wouldn't be over it either if you were in his shoes.

>>126714435
You sometimes wish maybe he faded into obscurity so as to be less miserable. Like Ron McGovney. Must be tough living the shadow of Metallica, yet being successful enough that enough people know your name as "that guy that founded Metallica."

>>126714435
>>126714279
Just look up Kirk Hammet's net worth and Dave's net worth, and it all makes sense. Dave is a liberterian, he hates taxes and loves money. Yeah he did well for himself but Kirk is another echelon of wealth. Dave just wishes he could be sipping margaritas in his personal yacht rather than a country club.

>>126704032
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYjqm9HIGtQ

>>126714632
>>126714715
He'd be even more miserable if he faded into obscurity, I think. Ron didn't really do anything in Metallica, other than provide a ride and playing space, unlike Dave who practically helped build the band up.

And really, all it would take for him to move on from it is being acknowledged by James and Lars, his contribution and importance. They kicked him out and took his music but even worse, they then acted like he was no one important, just a passing guy in the band and that everything would work out the same way with anybody else in his place which is total bullshit. It's not about money, or even fame. Even if Megadeth was bigger than Metallica, Dave would still be butthurt about it. He got betrayed by the guys he was closest to back then, you don't get over that easy, especially if you've got a shitty life behind you as Dave had.