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Lena Horne 1917 -2010

Seven days, two legends.

I know this because Dave Mustaine keeps telling me that he’s a mother effing legend.  No, seriously, I just read an interview with Pete Townsend (PETE EFFING TOWNSEND) where he doesn’t once mention that he’s a legend.  But the below interview is the second interview with Dave in roughly as many months that I’ve been exposed to where he points out that he’s a legend and you don’t get more legendary than a legend, which means that Dave Mustaine is on the same level as Tony Iomi or Elvis.

I’d also like to point out to Chris Broderick that after you get fired (and I know you’ll get fired.  How do I know this? Because you’re in Megadeth.) Dave will spend a few minutes in every interview talking about how you sucked and weren’t a right fit for the band.  Hell, if the split is particularly heinous, he’ll even write a song about you.

Anyway, back to Dave who doesn’t get that if you’re actually a legend, you don’t have to tell people that you are, they know.  And while I’ll admit that in the realm of speed/thrash metal Dave is a big, assed legend and in the world of heavy metal in general he’s a minor legend.  In the world of music in general Dave’s a footnote.  But Dave tends to be oblivious things like that.  Lets just take a look at Dave’s guitar endorsement history.

Skipping B.C. Rich, where he gots nothing.  Dave took Danny Spitz’s advice and chucked all of his other guitars to play Jacksons until he got not just an endorsement deal (right around the time that Jackson went from endorsing six people in the world to endorsing anyone with long hair) but a signature guitar.  Dave’s signature guitar:

The King V was originally called the “Double Rhoads” because both of its points were the size of the upper point of the Jackson Rhoads guitar.  When Dave stopped using Jackson he said that one of the reasons was because they took his name off of his signature guitar, the King V, when he started using the Y2KV and “you don’t take someone’s name off of their signature guitar.” Which, to be fair, Jackson didn’t.

King

Ratt guitarist Robbin “King” Crosby was like 6’5″ and wanted a slightly oversized guitar, he got the Double Rhoads and it became the “King V.”

If only it had stopped there.

Dave hooked up with ESP guitars and upon finding that no one was using their V shaped guitars he “designed” the DV8 series. Of course, the reason no one was using ESP’s V shaped guitars is because their original endorser, guy who hates Dave Mustaine with a burning red hot satanic fury Dave’s close personal friend Kerry F. King had began using BC Rich guitars again.  Leaving Dave playing a modified version of a guy who has expressed his hatred for Dave in every interview, ever.

Dave then designed the ESP Axxion.  The less said about that the better.  Sweet dancing baby mama of metal was that thing ugly.  The two Xs in the name signified Dave’s 20 years in the music industry, or what was on the jug he drank out of before designing it.  Still, it was his own, original guitar.

That didn’t last.

Leaving ESP, he then had Dean design him, well, another fucking King V, that’s what they did.  But not being content with that, he decided he needed a new, better signature guitar. I present to you the Zero:

Now, if you listen to the interview that Dave gave about his kickass new signature guitar he goes into how he had to make sure that nobody else was using this model first, because that’s really important to him. Still, for some reason this really looks familiar.

I’ve got it, how about here.  I can’t embed this video, because the charred corpse of Megaforce records doesn’t understand how the internet works, but I still have the feeling that Bobby Gustafson wasn’t who I was thinking about.

Oh yeah:

Oh, That Guy Who Kicked Dave Out of a Band...

DAVE MUSTAINE’S NEW SIGNATURE GUITAR IS A WHITE EXPLORER, ZOMGWTFLOL!!!10001110101

No, seriously, Dave decided that his new signature guitar should be a guitar so thoroughly linked with his biggest musical rival that an argument can be made that it is the source of all Metallica’s power.  Don’t believe me<

• …And Justice for All – white Explorer.
• Metallica – black Explorer.
• Load/Reload/ Garage Inc/St. Anger – no Explorer.
• Death Magnetic* – white Explorer.

So, you get what I’m saying, Mustaine is oblivious and Metallica has sucked for a very, very long time.

Maybe in the future Dave can be legendary enough to get his own guitar.  I’m not counting on it, but it could happen.  He is, after all, a legend.

*This should be in no way taken as me saying that Death Magnetic was good, it still kinda blew.  Just less.