There’s a protracted operating historical past of Dave Mustaine burning bridges with the previous bandmates he’d fireplace from Megadeth. Dude’s been identified to speak a lotta shit about a variety of issues, so in fact he would finally rub folks the mistaken manner or trigger folks to get the mistaken concept about an individual. And for former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland, that public animosity and vitriol instantly affected his skilled prospects.
Throughout a current episode of The David Ellefson Present, Poland talked with the eponymous ex-Megadeth bassist and co-host Joshua Toomey about his post-Megadeth life and the way having a falling out with Mustaine might need affected him as an expert.
“I’ve no regrets about every little thing that’s occurred — besides one. I remorse that Mustaine for years would go on stage and name me a liar. I by no means actually thought a lot about it, however then I did the maths and I spotted that’s why issues have been so laborious for me to attempt to get offers. I walked into Carvin [guitars] in the future and I assumed, ‘You already know what? These guitars aren’t unhealthy. I wanna discuss to their A&R man.’ So I spoke to the man and he goes, ‘Dude, we don’t use folks such as you on our roster.’ So, I used to be, like, ‘Oh, okay.’ So I’ve a sense that Dave’s anger with me about what it was actually was like dragging round a fucking 50-pound ball on a regular basis — again then…
“It’s not bitter grapes or something. It’s simply it lastly dawned on me simply how a lot harm that basically did.”
Poland was a member of Megadeth from 1984 to 1987 and was featured on the band’s debut album Killing Is My Enterprise… And Enterprise Is Good! and Peace Sells… However Who’s Shopping for? After he was fired from the band, Mustaine apparently wrote a tune about Poland on the band’s 1988 album So Far, So Good… So What? titled “Liar”, which is as scathing a diss observe as you would get in late 80s thrash metallic.
Throughout the podcast, Ellefson stated the identical could possibly be stated about one other ex-Megadeth guitarist and his present Kings of Thrash bandmate Jeff Younger, who was employed to exchange Poland in 1987 and was finally fired in 1989.
“Effectively, look, he did it to [another former Megadeth guitarist] Jeff Younger. There was some derogatory remark [Dave made] that stored [Jeff] from getting work for a very long time. I may say the identical was tried at me. Luckily, I simply stored shifting. I simply stored going and was, like, ‘All proper, I’m simply gonna ignore that remark and preserve shifting.’”
Given the revolving door that Megadeth’s been since its inception — particularly amongst its guitarists and drummers — I’m certain Poland’s expertise isn’t distinctive in any respect.
