
I like Lars and I like James and, contrary to what people say, I do think Kirk is a good guitar player. “There are people that have picked up that feud, and they don’t even know why they’re choosing sides. “I think a lot of it goes back to the breakup from Metallica,” he says. Mustaine has a theory about why he is so roundly hated. When we caught up with him prior to his date in Denver, part of the tour for the new Dystopia album, he was in great form, talking freely in his typical fashion. The Megadeth main man with the loose lips hasn’t been short of opinions in the past, and he’s caught a fair amount of stick for it on a handful of websites, he is openly despised. Or maybe these charismatic rock stars struggle with personal demons like addiction or volatile artistic temperaments. Maybe they deliberately pull an Axl Rose and delay going on stage for two hours, leaving fans waiting around like cattle. Rock and roll has never experienced a shortage of polarizing characters, those individuals whose music we might adore but who, when you hear them talk, just sound like assholes.
