Anthraxin Scott Ian: ”Dave Mustaine on thrash metalin kummisetä”

Yhdysvaltalaisen thrash metal -yhtye Anthraxin kitaristi Scott Ian kirjoitti vuonna 2014 julkaisemassaan ”I’m The Man: The Story Of That Guy From Anthrax” -nimisessä kirjassa entisen Metallican sekä nykyisen Megadethin kitaristin Dave Mustainen olevan omasta mielestään ”thrash metalin kummisetä” jota ilman koko kyseistä genreä tuskin olisi syntynyt. Kyseistä väitettä on nyt kysytty Loudwiren toimesta myös herra Dave Mustainelta ja Mustainella oli asiasta seuraavanlaista sanottavaa:

”I think there’s a good chance it might not have… The guitar player that we hired in METALLICA before James [Hetfield] actually started playing [guitar] was… he wasn’t metal. And if he would have been the guy that we chose over me, who knows what would have happened? And I think that if you really look at the mathematics of METALLICA in the beginning, me being the only guitar player, if I wasn’t there, there probably wouldn’t have been a METALLICA. But let’s not kid ourselves: James is a great guitar player; he really is. And I’m sure that at some point they would have realized that he needed to play guitar and sing, and they would found a guitar player as good as I am. I just know that about those guys; they’re excellent musicians and they know what they want. Now, if James would have been playing guitar at the time when I joined? I don’t know… I don’t know that that would have held the same kind of merit. You know what I mean? But since I was the only guy there, I think it’s probably pretty accurate.”

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