MEGADETH's ELLEFSON: MUSTAINE's Outspokenness Is 'One Of The Things We All Love About Him'

Metal Injection conducted a short interview with MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson and guitarist Chris Broderick at the fourth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards, which was held on April 11 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California. You can now watch the chat below.

When asked if they ever feel like asking MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine to tone down his often-controversial comments in interviews, Broderick said, "No way. The fact that he makes comments like that is the reason why you're asking us this question in the first place."

Added Ellefson: "Look, Dave has always been very outspoken, which is one of the things we all love about him. He's very genuine; what he thinks, he says, and what he says he means. So you know what you're getting when Dave speaks."

Mustaine recently made headlines when he told Canadian television and radio personality George Stroumboulopoulos that he is certain that President Obama "was born somewhere else than America."

"I have a lot of questions about [Obama], but certainly not where he was born," Mustaine said. "I know he was born somewhere else than America."

When Stroumboulopoulos pointed out that this school of thought made the musician part of the so-called "birther" movement, Mustaine countered, "I'm not calling a question to it, I just, you know, it's a point. How come he was invisible until he became whatever he was in Illinois?"

Stroumboulopoulos tried to further challenge Mustaine on his claims, causing the MEGADETH frontman to attempt to change the subject.

"I don't want to talk about my president," Mustaine said, before going on to admit that he was going to "have to do some more homework on where Obama came from."