1/17/2024 0 Comments Megadeth rust in peace review![]() Fortunately for Megadeth, they finished almost all of the tracking on the record before Clink left and he did a great job producing the band. ![]() Clink made sure everyone in Megadeth knew he would bolt as soon as he got that call from Axl Rose, which didn’t exactly boost anyone’s morale. Original producer Dave Jurdin didn’t last and he was replaced by Mike Clink, who was preparing to enter the studio with Guns N’ Roses as soon as the band was ready to record Use Your Illusion. Megadeth recorded at a studio owned by Captain and Tennille called Rumbo Recorders and right away there were personal and professional problems. Since Mustaine was striving to write more multifaceted songs that featured multiple rhythm and tempo shifts, and Friedman was more than capable of the task, Rust in Peace should have been an easy album to create, but it wasn’t. Mustaine referred to the experience in “Holy Wars… The Punishment Due” with the line, “ Fools like me who cross the sea and come to foreign lands ask the sheep for their beliefs / Do you kill on God’s command?” The show ended immediately and we were quickly escorted out of the area in a bulletproof bus.” Megadeth, "Holy Wars. What they had in common was drunkenness and a willingness to fight at the slightest provocation. “My words created a parting of the Red Sea in front of the stage: Catholic kids on one side, Protestant kids on the other. “I introduced the last song of the night, ‘Anarchy in the UK,’ with the following proclamation: ‘Give Ireland back to the Irish!,'" Mustaine wrote in his memoir Mustaine. Then there was “ Holy Wars… The Punishment Due,” which was about religion, but which also took a self-deprecating stab at a gaffe Mustaine made at a show in Northern Ireland. It read, “May all your nuclear weapons rust in peace.” With a mildly political theme to work from, Mustaine wrote songs about global warming and the environment (“ Dawn Patrol”), prisoners of war (“ Take No Prisoners”) and he penned the music for the monster single “ Hangar 18” (the lyrics about UFO conspiracies were written by Menza). ![]() The concept for the album came from a bumper sticker Mustaine saw on a car one day while driving down the freeway. With a revamped lineup in place, Mustaine wrote Rust in Peace. So Mustaine asked Friedman to audition and the guitarist destroyed. The cover art was silly, but the playing was impressive. Then he was in his manager Ron Lafitte’s office one day and saw a record by a shredder named Marty Friedman, Dragon’s Kiss. Instead, Mustaine tried out numerous players, none of whom fit the band. Okay, well nice talking to you.’ And later I was thinking, ‘Man, if I would have just hired both of them I would have had the greatest band in the world!’” And he goes, ‘No, he’s my drummer.' And I went, ‘Oh shit, I just hired Nick Menza.’ And he said, ‘Well then I can’t come.’ And I went, ‘Ah fuck. What’s your brother do?’ I didn’t know who Vince was and I thought he was Dime’s guitar tech. Love to come play with you, but I gotta bring my brother.” And I went, ‘Uhh, okay. “I called up Darrell and asked him if he wanted to play with us,” Mustaine told me in 2010.
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