Perplexed, Mustaine scrambled to pack a travel bag and then Hetfield drove him from the Music Building in Queens to 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Manhattan.Īt the time, Mustaine was understandably furious.
Worse still, the bus was scheduled to depart from New York’s Port Authority Bus Terminal one hour after he was fired. When Mustaine asked what time his flight back to California was, he was told he wasn’t flying. “The thing that really upset me was that they never gave me a warning and I never got a second chance,” Mustaine says. At around 9AM that morning, Hetfield, Ulrich and Burton woke up Mustaine, who was suffering from an ugly hangover, and told him he was out of the band. Metallica had already hired Kirk Hammett as their new lead guitarist. The end came on April 11, 1983, and for Mustaine it came without warning. I lost all inhibitions when I was drinking, and that didn’t go over to well in the end.” I’d be aggressive and confrontational because I was a violent drunk. “I would drink and have fun until someone would refute something I had said. McGovney asked Mustaine to leave his house and left the band afterward, according to Groovy History.“When you’re around a lot of people that like to drink and get silly, they just want to have fun,” Mustaine explains. He also poured the drink on the bass, which resulted in collateral damage and almost injured McGovney. In a separate incident, Mustaine got so drunk and decided to pour his beer down McGovney’s neck. He got fired after the incident but begged for his job back. After Hetfield yelled at the dog to get off Ron McGovney’s car, Mustaine got upset and physically and verbally attacked the two bandmates. His first exit from the band was when he brought his dog on the set, and the dog started damaging the band’s bassist car. Mustaine’s exit from the group began in a series of events. Although the rest of the crew drank as well, they wouldn’t get as destructive as Dave. His bandmates tried putting up with it and eventually got tired. Whenever he would get intoxicated, he would turn volatile and would destroy everything on his path. Although he was talented, the star battled his addiction to drugs and alcohol. Although Metallica’s first album did well, Mustaine would end up not staying with the band for long. This was how Mustaine found his way to Metallica. In 1981, Mustaine responded to an ad in a local newspaper about a band looking for a lead guitarist.
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