DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I'm Not The Mean, Bad Guy Everyone Thinks I Am'

September 13, 2006

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine recently spoke to Patrick Douglas of the Great Falls Tribune about the Gigantour 2006 traveling festival, which kicked off September 6 in Boise, Idaho.

"Gigantour's not so much a festival as it is a spirit," explained Mustaine. "It's a way of life and it's a way to capture what heavy metal stands for. I'm really proud to be in this genre."

"There's over 100 men and women that are out there every day that are under my wing," Mustaine said of the Gigantour staff.

"As a little guitar player at 13 years old, sitting in my bedroom, strumming along songs to a guitar tab book, I never thought that this would happen. Never thought in a million years."

"It's not a real dark, negative, dangerous festival. Full-on metal. Full-on good time. It's not like some of the festivals that are really scary and the girls come there looking like Morticia Addams. Who I thought was actually kind of sexy."

"The bottom line is that I just wanted to do something before the interest in Dave Mustaine ends and my career is over," he said. "I wanted to pass the torch to the next generation and I also wanted to give something back to the fans who have supported me over the years. That's why the talent is incredible."

On learning from last year's inaugural stint with the tour:

Mustaine: "With a woman who becomes pregnant, if she exercises and takes care of herself and uses Vitamin E cream and massages her skin, she won't get stretch marks. If she doesn't give a darn about what's going on and just lets it all hang out, doesn't exercise, she's gonna have stretch marks. Those stretch marks are forever. In business, stretch marks are bad for the infrastructure. So, you wanna grow at a slow pace and make sure everything's done properly."

On showing his new label, Roadrunner Records, that he isn't the bad guy people sometimes make him out to be;

"I'm really stoked because they didn't think that I was gonna be open to any suggestions about stuff," he explained. "I'm not the mean, bad guy everyone thinks I am (but) if you hurt me, I'm gonna hurt you back twice as bad. I'm not difficult. I'm demanding. I want the absolute best and that's why I want Gigantour to be so brilliant for the fans."

Read the entire interview at this location.

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