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Dave Mustaine's Firing From Metallica [Highlight From Episode 310] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booke Don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Author Greg Prado back with a brand new book, this
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  Speaker 1: one titled The World's State of the Art speed Metal
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  Speaker 1: Band The Mega Death Story nineteen eighty three to two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and two.
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  Speaker 2: He would think, maybe they shouldn't have made Dave Mustain
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  Speaker 2: come all the way out to the East Coaches to
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  Speaker 2: fire him. And if you're going to fire him, maybe
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  Speaker 2: try to scrape up enough money to at least fly
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  Speaker 2: him back. And I'd have to, you know, because if
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  Speaker 2: you think about that must be totally torturous to be
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  Speaker 2: in a bus for that long thinking about how you
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  Speaker 2: fucked up and everything like that. And you know, Dave
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  Speaker 2: Mustaine's famous quote, which I talk about in the book
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  Speaker 2: is when they told him he was fired, his first
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  Speaker 2: question was what no second chance? Which I think is
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  Speaker 2: a pretty valid question on his part.
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  Speaker 1: The way they fired him was described by Lars as
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  Speaker 1: almost being like execution style. Talk about the day they
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  Speaker 1: fired Dave, how they went about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, what it is behind Dave Mustaine's back. They already
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  Speaker 2: had the They already had it lined up that Kirk
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  Speaker 2: Hammett knew he was either trying at or maybe he
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  Speaker 2: already had the gig, like they were already scheming how
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  Speaker 2: he was going to come out and everything like that,
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  Speaker 2: because at the time, Kirk Hammett was in the band Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: which was obviously a very popular and also legendary thresh
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  Speaker 2: mental band from also the Bay Area in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, so they had when so Dave Mustaine wakes
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  Speaker 2: up one morning there the whole band is around him.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, look, you're fired, pack up all your shit.
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  Speaker 2: Your bus leaves in like an hour or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then Dave Mustains his first question was what no
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  Speaker 2: second chance, and they're like, no, you're out. So then
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  Speaker 2: they just drove him to the bus terminal. And while
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  Speaker 2: this is going on, I would imagine Kirk Hammet's in
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  Speaker 2: the air at that point, flying to New York. He lands,
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  Speaker 2: they get to their rehearsal space in Queens, New York,
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  Speaker 2: and he tries out and he gets the gig right away.