By Natalie Zina WalschotsWhat traits do you most like and most dislike about yourself?
I love helping underprivileged kids. I really like going out of my way to help people who are down on their luck. I have met so many handicapped fans, or those that have diseases. Recently, I met a Kentucky fan with throat cancer, and that really shook me up, that he would still come and see me play like that. A couple years later on Mayhem fest, a soldier came up to me. He had pictures of him walking down a road, and then a cloud of smoke. He showed them to me and said: "This is the sequence of events that led to me getting my legs blown off." And I look down, I see he is wearing prosthetics, and I just started crying. I said, "I'm so sorry, thanks for fighting for my freedom." That really moved me, what people have to go through.
What's your idea of a perfect Sunday?
For me — and this not me pushing anything, this is just what I like — the perfect Sunday means having a nice breakfast, going to church and watching football for the rest of the day.
What advice should you have taken, but did not?
Not to do heroin. Heroin was destructive in my life; it hurt people, it hurt me, it really affected my career.
What would make you kick someone out of your band and/or bed, and have you?
Yeah, I've had to. The main thing is, if you don't have a common vision anymore. When you're in a band with someone, honestly that's the closest you'll ever be to anyone aside from sex or being romantically involved. Having experienced several line-up changes, it happens because our vision was not congruent — what we felt no longer matched. It's like having a car with three tires facing forward and one turned to the side. It will slow you down and cause problems.
What do you think of when you think of Canada?
I love Canada! Our drummer is Canadian, and at some points 50 percent of the band were Canadian, so it has always felt like another home. I also love hockey. Whenever I find out that an NHL player is a fan, I make a point to try and meet them and become friends. I've always really liked Canadian hockey players for their toughness.
What was the first LP/cassette/CD/eight track you ever bought with your own money?
David Bowie Changes. Before I bought that, though, I had the Kiss record, Hotter Than Hell. One day, I was ice skating, trying to get good enough to play hockey. I ended up playing only one game. I got checked really hard, told the coach to get stuffed and left. I was wearing this huge down jacket, and was in a bad mood. I went into the record store, and saw this record with a topless girl on the cover, and thought it was the coolest thing. So I stuck it up the back of my huge jacket, hid it there and walked out. That was the first record I had.
What was your most memorable day job?
I was on my own by the time I was 15. I worked as a foreign car mechanic as a kid, along with selling pot and working at a gas station. I liked working at the gas station the best; it was awesome. Pretty women would come in. It was a full service gas station, so I could fill up their cars, clean their windshields and check them out.
How do you spoil yourself?
I like red liquorice, and peanut M&Ms. There is a place here called Thrifty's, and they make a flavour of ice cream I really like. Otherwise, getting a massage is pretty nice, but hit and miss. It can be a bit embarrassing being a guy, if you're getting a massage you get a little stimulated.
If I wasn't playing music I would be…
A teacher. I taught martial arts in Arizona and really loved it. The best students were the kids. They weren't set in their ways the way some of the adults were. Adults don't like being corrected, but kids will try anything.
What do you fear most?
I fear broken glass; I fear intersections; I fear snakes. That's probably it. I didn't have a lot of phobias when I was younger, but I got scared as I grew up. I stepped on broken glass in a lake once, cut up my feet really badly, and so many of my friends have gotten T-boned at intersections. Once, when I lived in Arizona, I went to take the garbage out and there was a rattlesnake behind the garbage can. It scared me so badly that I came back a killed it with a rock and a hockey stick. Later, I felt terrible; it wasn't the snake's fault. Scorpions are scary, too. I once had a pet scorpion that I named Andre after an old tour manager of ours.
What has been your strangest celebrity encounter?
Oliver Stone. I met him at the Democratic National Convention when I was covering it for MTV. I asked him a question and it seemed like he was in a million other places. The most disappointing celebrity I ever met was John Kerry; he was really rude.
Who would be your ideal dinner guest, living or dead, and what would you serve them?
Lincoln. I have lots of respect for him, freeing the slaves and working for equality, although it seems even all these years later it hasn't sunk in. Hundreds of years later, and there's still a racial divide in this country. I also would like to meet Bruce Lee. I've done martial arts since I was 12, and it would be great just to meet him. I heard he was just a little guy.
What does your mom wish you were doing instead?
Nothing. My mom is gone now, and for years she didn't understand or approve of what I did, and that kept us apart. But she got to see me be successful and had embraced me again, became proud of me again near the end of her life. She loved to pay for everything with a cheque, so that people at the checkout would see the name Mustaine and she could tell them I was her son.
What song would you like to have played at your funeral?
[Johnny Winter's] "Still Alive and Well."
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Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-12-01 04:09:12Dave is the greatest!!
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-12-02 16:20:44Mustaine is a legend and the new Megadeth CD is excellent. They are the best thrash metal band of all time!
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2011-12-02 16:29:49I like the interview questions. not the normal crap. what a great, great guitarist and songwriter.
Posted by Nameless Poseur On 2012-01-03 01:42:11I hope as people read Dave's political views they remember he has not always had the best judgment when it comes to his own life. He also has gone from left to right, drugs to God and everything in between.
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