Dave Mustaine Comments On People Who Hate Him For Metallica Split

Metallica famously fired guitarist Dave Mustaine back in 1983. The split certainly was a point of contention for Megadeth’s founder at the time, and there has been instances more recently where Mustaine has thrown digs at his former band for various reasons.

In an interview with the Phoenix New Times , Mustaine talked about metal fans who hated him back then and others who still dislike him over the split.

“People get their ya-yas when they see people struggling for some crazy reason,” Mustaine said. “There’s the people out there who love you and want you to do good and the people out there, for whatever reason, who don’t want you to do good. You ask yourself, ‘What did I do to you? Are you that f*cking jealous?’ There’s a lot of people like that. You just have to learn to avoid them.”

He continued: “Once we broke up with James and Lars and we went our separate ways, it was really weird with all the animosity from people I didn’t even know.”

Mustaine also addressed sharing his opinion on the matter throughout the years. “ I do believe that people are entitled to their opinions,” he said. “There have been numerous times where people had a right to take exception with something I’ve done because there have been some things that I did or said that I look back now and I think, ‘Wow, that was a little over the top, Dave,’ but sometimes things just need to be said. There were no people that had the balls to say anything, but that ain’t me. If someone was trying to pull a scam with us, that’s not going to happen.”