DAVE MUSTAINE AND KERRY KING HANG OUT AT T.G.I.FRIDAY’S. WAIT, WHAT?!?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 at 2:00pm by Axl Rosenberg
Dave Mustaine posts so many “updates” about what Megadeth is up to, upcoming announcements of major upcoming announcements, and the color of his stool that I feel like I know more about what’s going on in his life than I do about what’s going on in Vince’s life. But his latest, which I just read on Blabbermouth, is interesting for two reasons:
- It seems that he and Kerry King are trying to be pals again.
- These two metal legends chose to meet at the single blandest restaurant chain in America, if not the world.
Here’s the skinny from Mustaine:
“Last night after the Chargers loss, I drove home dejected and dropped off the guys that rode with us, picked up my car, and headed back to Temecula.
“It was about an hour later that I left my apartment and drove to TGIF in Temecula and met up with Kerry King, and hung out for about 45 minutes, had some drinks, he ate (I got sick from the Margaritas at the game), and we just talked about the past, about the future, and a lot about stuff that is just private talk between two old friends that are trying to get to know each other again.
“I really, really had a good time seeing KK last night, although not as much as the bartenders that were serving two of the Four Horsemen. I thought that the guy was going to start crying when we started talking and the guy realized who we were. I had a beanie and my hair tied up, and KK was in a hoodie with a beanie on top. So it wasn’t like we were trying to be noticed.
“We were pretty well disguised and we left, shook hands, did a bro hug, and I walked off to my car and he to his.”
Seriously? T.G.I.Friday’s? Why the fucking fuck would you meet there? Vince made me eat at an Applebee’s last year and I still haven’t forgiven him. If he and I had a falling out and several decades later decided to try and patch things up, and Vince told me to meet him at T.G.I.Friday’s, I’d tell him “Well, see ya in another twenty years!” Whose fucking idea was this place?
Unless they wanted to meet somewhere out of the way so they wouldn’t call attention to themselves. In which case:
- Mustaine shouldn’t be telling everyone that they met.
- They should be aware that beanies and hoodies have never seriously disguised a celebrity, ever. Trust me, I live in New York, I see shit heads trying to pull that shit every day. I see you, SJP, and one day, I am going to make you pay.
- They should be aware that someone at T.G.I.Friday’s was going to recognize them, because it’s a cheap piece of shit restaurant for suburban trash, a.k.a. thrash metal’s fan base.
But since we know that Mustaine and King, though a lot of things, are not morons, we can assume that they took all of these factors into consideration when selecting the venue for this historic occasion. Therefore, we can only come to one logical conclusion as to why King and Mustaine chose to hold their pow-wow over some plates of Slider Samplers and Pick Three For Alls:
DAVE MUSTAINE AND KERRY KING ACTUALLY ENJOY GOING TO T.G.I.FRIDAY’S
Think about that. The dudes who wrote “Tornado of Souls” and “Mandatory Suicide” actually enjoy going to a restaurant whose website duplicates the audio of gentle background chatter from other diners.
Ah, well, what can you do? There’s no accounting for taste. And if this somehow leads to on-stage jamming whenever the American Carnage tour finally goes down, well, Fajita Poppers are on me, fellas. As long as I don’t actually have to eat any with you. Or watch you eat them. ‘Cause that would be gross.
-AR
Out of all the commercial chain restaurants of that ilk (Applebee’s, Outback, Chili’s, Friday’s, etc.) T.G.I. Friday’s is the worst, in my opinion. Down with Friday’s.
having worked at chilis, i can definitely say that friday’s is not the worst.
applebees, at least the one in my area, is by far the worst out of all of those.
applebees is horrid.
Wow. That’s fantastic.
And, did Mustaine admit to drinking? Isn’t he “sober?” I mean, no one actually believes he’s clean, but doesn’t he try to hide it?
And….. he lives in an APARTMENT in TEMECULA????
also on that note, did he admit to driving drunk? he stated he got sick at the resturant from drinks at the game. strange. go jets.
maybe he had too much… VIRGIN margaritas?
background noise lol
Could you imagaine running into those two guys at a fucking Fridays??
Yeah, I see all sorts of low life washed up idiots at places like that when I’m forced to go there.
that was golden! bravo!
Dudes, what you don’t know is that both Dave Mustaine and Kerry King have huge hard-ons for haphazardly curated collections of americana.
That and FUCKIN’ HOT WINGS BRAAAAAAAAA
fuck friday’s. it’s all about red robin
“I really, really had a good time seeing KK last night, although not as much as the bartenders that were serving two of the Four Horsemen.” – jeezus fuckin’ christ! Mustaine just makes being a douchebag look so effortless it’s not even funny anymore. What a sad little cunt.
He should have “One of the Four Horsemen” written on his beanie, so that everyone would know.
He was probably wearing a shirt that read, “Ignore me, I’m famous.”
Dude you have no idea what it’s like to be someone like him. Someone recognizable I mean. Maybe he just shouldn’t go into too many details so people like you won’t criticize him for it. Maybe he just doesn’t give a fuck. You sound like a jealous prick.
From an interview with Tom Araya a couple of years ago:
BE: I’ve read a lot about how you guys are really into TGI Friday’s. What’s the story with TGI Friday’s?
TA: The story with TGI Friday’s is, that was a place that we would frequent at the bar, and it was a location that was convenient for everybody to drive home, and we became very good friends with one of the bartenders there. And actually we’ve known this guy for a long time. He’s a really good friend, and he became the main bartender at that place. And in getting to know him, we got to know everybody there, and that’s how the TGI Friday’s thing happened. And in fact, with the tour for Divine (Intervention, Slayer’s 1994 album), we frequented all TGI Friday’s that were open that we were able to get to after a show. And that was because our friend worked at TGI Friday’s. And that’s the connection. His name is Aaron Boner.
BE: Is that still something you do today when you tour?
TA: No, we don’t do that now. I don’t do that. I think Kerry will check out a Friday’s if it’s near the hotel, depending on where we’re at. But that usually happens in Europe, because in Europe the chances of having food that tastes like it’s been made in America, and not foreign, we’ll likely frequent those (laughs)
Now THIS is journalism.
Yes, I read that recently in the Revolver Slayer issue. They love Friday’s.
I read the Revolver Book of Slayer. True, they love it. It may have been Kerry’s idea to meet there.
AARON BONER
EXACTLY
For some reason this is one of the funniest things I’ve read in some time.
At least it wasn’t Macdonald’s.
Stay in school, kids. Stay in school.
Celebrities? King and Mustaine? please.
I’m just glad they’re sort of on good terms..
I’m good Jim, I just got back from Red Lobster…
haha! A classic!
I read the defense. I read the defense. I read the defense. I read the defense.
In all fairness, their vanilla bean cheesecake is awesome. I’d imagine that if there were a god, and he defecated into your mouth, it would kind of taste like that.
i wish there was a god who would defecate cheesecake into my mouth.
I can try. Can’t promise cheesecake though.
I could coil up a Gold Cobra for ya?!
This so much. That cheesecake is fucking amazing. Fuck you axl jewbag, fridays fucking rules.
their brownie sundae obsession rules as well
As well as their jack daniels steak with loaded mash potatoes…mmmmmm, and I’m only 20 but I got served beer by some retarded young bitch lol I should have gotten them shut down!
if there was said god, could you not choose what you want?, especially if there gonna shit in your mouth. i hate cheesecake
Well fuck, I live in Temecula, guess I am going to start hanging out at the Friday’s here.
hahahahaha
this was amazing.
I think Hell just froze over.
They should have met at Sonic. That would be way more lolz
“…because it’s a cheap piece of shit restaurant for suburban trash, a.k.a. thrash metal’s fan base…”
Too true. Thrash is mullet metal. Of course, so is any other form of metal, but there you are. Metal is music for poor, unintelligent (the two are the same, of course) “people”.
Have you ever seen the movie Three Kings? There’s a redneck guy in there, and it shows him (with mullet) shootin’ cans with his shotgun at home while blasting metal. Later on, he puts Judas Priest on in a car, and Ice Cube’s character switches to some old funk or soul (I can’t really recall). The implication is clear.
Your statement is so stupid it’s beyond belief. Why don’t you shut your cock washer instead of talking about music you don’t know, dumb ass.
Mustaine and King are “celebrities” like Perez Hilton is a celebrity, actually Perez Hilton is probably far more famous than both of them combined. Dave is taking this PR damage control to sickening levels. It’s like reading a facebook posting from a teenage girl giving a blow by blow of her big date the previous evening. Dave is probably pacing his apartment near the phone at this very moment saying “when is he going to call?! He said he was going to call me today!!!”.
So funny, it’s kind of sad.
That site is awesome!
I am totally going to leave that site mimimized in my office all day at work now.
Maybe they were there getting ideas for new song names- Dragonfire Chicken, Jack Daniels Flat Iron & Brownie Obsession sound pretty hardcore to me.
What, did you really think that Kerry King and Dave Mustaine would be some sort of closet epicures? Who are they, Metallica?
I figured they’d go to some sort of good restaurant or bar; something locally owned, a hole in the wall type joint. Really anything other than this.
You’d figure. I’d figure too.
so fucking what!
Look, there’s certain parts of this country where that is, more or less, the only shit there is to eat. And as metal as these guys were, at this point they are dudes with wives, kids and mortgages doing a job. Outside of being in the most celebrated thrash bands of all time their lives are probably helluv bland. So instead of going on Yelp wondering what’s “amazing” to eat in suburban San Diego (nothing) they go to fucking to TGI Friday’s which doesn’t let them down, or maybe just lets them down enough. Makes PERFECT sense to me.
I take it they met in an area they know. You go to Fridays when you’re on a road trip and you want to stop for a sit down dinner (if you’re forced to).
I enjoy eating at Friday’s. I guess Friday’s is not metal because the food is edible, and the surfaces are clean?!
are you eatting in your picture?
Yes indeed. Not something from Friday’s, though. However, I’d be okay with that.
Just means you have poor taste in food, apparently.
This seriously made my day. The story and the comments thereafter.
It makes me wonder that if you lined up 1000 random people to take a look at these two, just to see if King and Mustaine are as famous as they think they are. It’s not like they have a notedly famous face in the grand scheme of pop culture.
A Jack Daniels dogshit burger
Good Mourning / Black T.G.I Fridays
They can go wherever the FUCK they want, you METALSUCKS ASSHOLES. Get a real job and listen to the music of the titans you cocksomoker.
Axl, say what you will, but those flat irons with Jack Daniels sauce get my mouth watering every time.
What the fuck? This post is about why they would meet up at a Fridays? how about because they fucking felt like it. Holy shit. They met up and tried to catch up and patch things up. End of story.
Fridays might be too expensive for a jew :P
Yeah who gives a fuck where they go to eat, really?? And why the fuck would assume that thrash fans are suburban trash? What a fuckin joke.
Who cares if Diva Mustang and Kerry King ate at TGF, everyone has to eat. And I thought he was “sober”? Or so he said in everything that has been printed, twitted or whatever you call that stupid shit. In fact, in Revolver,Guitar World and Metal Hammer he said he is having a hardtime staying sober but was happier and in better shape then has ever been. I guess in trying to teach kids to be “rockstars” at Vicks Garage in San Diego he is showing them how to lie, get drunk, eat crappy food and take it all back a few days later. Only a matter of time till Dave see’s that he is a jackass.