Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine recently had a conversation with Gibson magazine, where he talked the reason he was jealous of Metallica, as well mentioned his current relationship with the band.
Here’s what Mustaine said:
“Leaving Metallica, a lot of the things that they did, watching them have their success, it could have been anything – they could have quit metal and started making Twinkies and I would have been jealous.
“Because we were friends and then, all of a sudden, we’re not friends anymore. And all I know is that I wanna keep doing what we’re doing together because we make people happy and the four of us get to drive around like we’re something special.
“And I never felt special before in my life until now. But we have this guitar, we’ve got this band, and now I feel like I’m somebody.
“I’m glad to say that our friendship today is so much different from that moment, those moments, those days, those times, those people.
“We’re all different. We’re dads. We’re older now. And I think that probably was the most shocking and hardest thing to tolerate or to accept at the end, was that when the band stopped, I kind of felt like I stopped.
“I know that’s not true. But what’s a young kid at the time to think. I had no mentors, I had no one talking [to me through] my life and saying, ‘You’re gonna get through this, and you’re gonna be so much happier for it.'”