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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Lars Ulrich On Dave Mustaine

Revolver Magazine "The Big Four Issue" is available on newsstands and online everywhere today. It contains features all-new, exclusive interviews with members from each group talking about how they’ve crossed paths in the past, the idea behind the Big Four tour, and what lies in the future. Check out an excerpt below.



Revolver: Lars, how much attention did you pay Megadeth early on?


Lars Ulrich: I don’t remember getting that into the first record, but when "Peace Sells" came out in ’86, it just blew me away. That was right up my alley. That literally became my favorite record for a long time. Dave would come up and play San Francisco a lot. And I would always go find him, and we would drink and do lots of drugs and sit around. For those years, ’84, ’85…me and him got over our issues really quickly at that time.

I remember at the "…And Justice for All" tour, we played near Los Angeles, and Dave came down and hung out at the last couple shows at the "Justice" tour. This may have been ’89, and we just hang out. I remember actually when we finished the "…And Justice for All" album in L.A., in the summer of ’88, I went to some apartment and played it for him at 5 in the morning. We were sitting there, playing “Blackened” and a bunch of other stuff while we were busy keeping ourselves awake. Me and Dave had kind of a friendship and a cool thing going at that time, up through most of the ’80s.

It wasn’t until both bands started getting bigger that this whole kind of thing started happening in the press, which was really kind of different than what we had going between us. There was almost like two relationships there. The press loved the whole Megadeth-Metallica (rivalry). And I sort of think it got a life of its own. And in some way, you could argue that the thing that the press was doing about setting our bands up, eventually started kind of transcending itself into our personal relationship and probably became a big part of the fact that over the ’90s it got a little frosty at times. You know what I mean?

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