MOURN THE END OF SUMMER WITH ANOTHER ROUND OF KING VS. MUSTAINE
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009 at 10:00am by Axl Rosenberg
So maybe the Megadeth/Slayer tour won’t be coming to the States after all.
After successfully completing a very short Canadian run together, it looked like the two thrash giants had finally kissed and made-up. (The long-standing King/Mustaine feud is infamous.) Then Mustaine had to go and be a dick.
Well, now it seems that Kerry King has responded, albeit indirectly. Blabbermouth, transcribing from a video from a site called Metal Sickness, reports that King said the following at a press conference in Paris on Monday:
“We only did four [shows with MEGADETH so far on the current touring cycle]. I think it’s cool for the fans [to have SLAYER and MEGADETH touring together], you know. Everybody’s all worried about the beef with me and Dave; we don’t really get along. But I don’t really have anything against him. I think he’s a great guitar player. When we had that Canada thing pop up, I just said, ‘I’m gonna go, and if I see Dave, I’ll be cordial. I’ll say, ‘Hey, Dave. What’s up?!’ But if he’s a dick to me, I’m gonna be a bigger dick to him. And that’s how [the upcoming SLAYER/MEGADETH tour of] Australia is gonna be, and that’s how the next Canadian tour [with MEGADETH] is gonna be. I think maybe he’s grown up a bit because I think he’s a little pompous and I think he’s a big hypocrite — that’s my problem with him, personally — but I could never take anything away from his guitar playing; I think he’s great.”
Now if I were going to make an anti-King argument, I’d say that while maybe what Mustaine said wasn’t cool, it wasn’t outright dickish, and it’s possible he didn’t realize how obnoxious it sounded, and now King is just being a big baby by saying he’s going to out-dick the Megadick.
But I’d be wrong. ‘Cause King is pretty much completely right.
Mustaine is an awesome guitar player, and he’s about to release a really excellent album that we can all be proud bears the Megadeth franchise’s name. But it is possible to like the music but not the man, and Mustaine is also, as we’ve already pointed out, a dick. And what he said was either a) passive aggressive or b) demonstrative of a lack of awareness so uproarious that Mustaine must secretly be in politics. (Actually, sometimes I think Mustaine wishes he were in politics. So I may not be too far off there.) And since Mustaine has said that he agreed to the initial Slegadeth tour specifically in order to squash the feud, his comments seem twice as uncool.
So this Australian/New Zealand leg of the tour is happening. And unless I’m completely misreading what King just said, it seems that the whole tour is going back to Canada at some point. If that’s the case, I’d just like to say again that I’d really, really, really like if they’d swing down south a little. Just as far as New York or some place within reasonable driving distance of New York. But I don’t think that’ll happen if these dudes don’t cut it out.
Then again, all this controversy is probably good for ticket sales.
-AR
Thanks for the tip, Kidd.
I don’t really care about the actual band members in the band. I just listen to the music. If some of these members want to have a soap opera, let them have it. I won’t be paying attention.
King is about as much of a dick as Mustaine is. And Mustaine is a better guitar player.
king and mustaine are both awful. Megadeth’s records have been carried by the lead guitarist for years, and I’m baffled as to how Slayer did anything right… But hey, they did. King/Mustaine are like the guitar players that came to fame on accident… Neither of them really know music theory or scales, but theyre both huge.
You nailed it bro.
You’re actually going to bring up their musical education? WOW………
I can’t believe you just said that ! You’re just showing how little you know about Megadeth and I’d say about music in general.
Mustaine and King may not have your knowledge of music theory and scales but they have something school can’t teach and that’s talent. I agree King is not the best guitar player ever, but he’s got a sound of his own and has defined a style not only for Slayer but for lots of bands out there that consider Slayer a big influence.
Mustaine writes all of Megadeth’s songs and the lead guys only play along to what they’re told to do. That’s why Friedman left and that’s why all of the others have left.
dude you couldn’t be further from the truth. the majority of the best musicians in the world were self taught everyone knows that. dave mustaine is an enormously talented guitarist and song writer.
Any reason the title for all entries have to be in all CAPS? Very annoying.
it always is, always been, and always will be…
Both of them act like children with their comments in the press. However, Axl’s interpretation of King’s words seems to ignore the word ‘if’. Nowhere does he actually say that Mustaine has been a dick on this tour. I think you should change the text beneath the logo to say ’shit stirrers’.
Dave Mustaine plays a better man-child than Will Ferrell
Kerry King sucks at guitar and also at life
But mostly at guitar…
+1000000000000000 for best username ever!!!!!!!!!! BWAHAHAHA
Maybe this time they will come to eastern Canada. Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal areas. I’ve seen Slayer once, and Megadeth once. But Megadeth was all acoustic. On the day they released World Needs a Hero.
That sounds almost as bad as The World Needs A Hero
Coming back to Canada, that would be amazing, if they have a map with the East Coast on it that is.
“But I don’t really have anything against him.”
but then
“that’s my problem with him, personally”
Hypocrite yourself much? Both of them are fucking douchebags.
Mustaine > King
Mustaine has to know something about scales and theory or he couldn’t pull off all the harmonies he’s written for guitar parts. You don’t need Berkley school of Music to know that shit.
KIng’s solos are simple, hack, slash and shred, with no tonal quality whatsoever.
I do hope they come back to NA, hopefully to Chicago, that’d be amazing to see them both on the same stage.
If Dave starts shit with Kerry and squashes the chances for the greatest fucking potential Gigantour lineup, I’ll be so incredibly pissed.
On a somewhat related note, the new Megadeth album is fucking fantastic.
So one guy is a prick and the other guy, who is a prick, says is if the other guy is a prick then he’s gonna be a prick too. You have two a-holes who don’t like each other and who go out of their way to out a-hole the other just so the other can be an a-hole back and we can all type furiously on our little keyboards like prick a-holes to argue over who is the bigger a-hole prick.
Can’t wait for the inevitable diss tracks.
How about they both just shut the fuck up and come to Europe ?
Fuck yes – Slayer & Megadeth conquer Australia. I hope they fucking punch cunt out each other on stage….but after the show, of course.
FUCK YEAH! A NEW CANADIAN TOUR! this time, look at the big wolf head on the map, that’s where i am, and that’s where i’m telling you to go (cause you know, you have to tell these two everything, or they won’t do it…)
Two things..
1) I’d rather hang out with Mustaine then King any fucking day of the week based solely on the face that Mustaine doesn’t wear his sunglasses in doors.
2) At least Mustaine can write a solo that doesn’t sound like a cat being drowned.
lol @ King writing a solo
He doesn’t really write solos… he just kinda hits notes.
I dont know enough about Megadeth to say anything bad about them….except that Mustaine is the worst vocalist in the history of metal but…..I think this feud is good for the tour and who gives a fuck. You go to the show for the music. Excited to hear what Slayer has to offer on the new record though,
Mustaine is nowhere near the worst vocalist ever. For epic fail, check out:
Silencer–Death – Pierce Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qjx-BAs6bU
Actually, Mustaine is the worst vocalist EVER. You know nothing kid. Go get a korn cd from the mall and shoot yourself.
i love both bands,but both these dudes gotta shut the fuck up!!!
HOLY SHIT! Who knew that two old rich metal old guys with a long history would be dicks. They’re probably bored and don’t care what they say, it’s free headlines. What’s that white stuff on the floor? THAT’S JUST MY ASS!