Former Megadeth guitarist, Chris Poland recently talked to Disturbing the Priest Podcast and stated it was ”a relief” when Dave Mustaine fired him from Megadeth, and during that period (1987), Mustaine only paid members 200 dollars a week.
Here’s what Chris Poland:
“It was kind of a relief. And I brought that on myself I was late for a band meeting where Dave was giving everybody their $200 weekly salary for being in Megadeth. And I couldn’t get there. I didn’t have a car.
”And I get there and they’re gone. And so I called Dave up, and I said, ‘Dave, I need my per diem,’ and he’s like, ‘Well, you should have been there.’ And I said, ‘Dave, I couldn’t be there. I couldn’t get a car, I couldn’t get a ride. And then of course he’s just telling me to f*ck off, and so then we just got into it. I dared him to fire me, and he did.”