Originally posted by toejam
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If Megadeth had sold as many LPs as Metallica did when they turned into one of the biggest groups in the world with the black LP, then Dave Mustaine would have "sold out" too. The only reason he can keep his bar high (oo-er) is because he hasn't got quite as many employees, servants, brown-nosers, executives etc planning his life out for him down to the minute, making sure the business, rather than the band, keeps on producing (money). When a band gets as big as Metallica, they can't have as much freedom as Mustanus to slither off and pump themselves full of smack or lady-boy cum, whatever. They are not allowed to, the business, the brand, comes first.
When they do have a little spaz-out and do something different, like with St Dogpoo, everybody is frightened. You can bet they won't be experimenting like that again just for the hell of it, I bet there were some serious boardroom meetings to discuss that LP.
Personally, I don't think Megadeth could ever become as big as Metallica in terms of sales and outright popularity. Mustanus would crumble under the pressure and turn into a wobbling pile of drug-addled stoolage. Again.
("Ow, boo-hoo, I hurted my arm doing , erm, skydiving, yeah, that's it, skydiving. Not sticking needles in me, no no no ")
He's talented, no doubt, can play the shit out of a guitar, and once upon a time I really loved his work, but then I grew up. Kind of around the same time as Metallica grew up and released "Load". Natural progression, excellent. Dave just kept whining.
He's stuck in time, IMHO, luckily for him he still looks the same, if he was losing his hair because he had a big pair of steaming balls working overtime in his pants and churning out male eat/fuck/kill hormones, he'd look like a silly old slapheaded fool and have to change who and what he is. He'd be fucked then!
Still, everyone loves the under-dog, and the "I liked them before anyone else and now they are popular they are shit" syndrome will always play a part in Dave's popularity, as long as Metallica are there to take the shit for him.
Hey, look at this video of him with some kind of V thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6SwfidmOI4

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