Telewizja MTV zorganizowała w gronie redakcyjnym (nie tylko) głosowanie na najlepsze zespołu metalowe wszechczasów – Metallica znalazła się na miejscu trzecim.
1. Black Sabbath
2. Judas Priest
3. Metallica
4. Iron Maiden
5. Pantera
6. Slayer
7. AC/DC
8. Motorhead
9. Kiss
10. Motley Crue
co ciekawe zapytali o zdanie naszego rudego i
1. Led Zeppelin
2. AC/DC
3. Judas Priest
4. Iron Maiden
5. Black Sabbath
6. Metallica
7. Megadeth
8. Anthrax
9. Slayer
10. Pantera
oczywiście musiał podać swój zespół
dziwne że za Metką
EDIT:
krótki wywiad z Jimmy`m
Speaking of Dave Ellefson I got to ask something about Megadeth as well. In brief, how was your time with Megadeth?It was good. It was a good run. We had a really good time and we played lot of good shows and did couple of good records and some good live recordings as well. It was a good gig.
Before you actually joined Megadeth you first played with Dave in his MD.45 project. How did you first and Dave first learned to know each other?We met first because we knew each other from touring. We first learned to know each other when I was playing with Suicidal Tendencies. We used to open for Megadeth and that’s how knew Marty, David and Dave. A couple of years after that I was touring with Alice Cooper in South America and we did some dates with Megadeth and then I met the guys again. Then Dave said that he was going to do that solo project record and (MD.45) asked I wanted to play drums on it? I was interested and that’s how got started and we just did it. It took only something like two days to finish the drums and altogether it took like one month to finish that record. It was really fun record to do and it actually turned out to be really good one. There was Lea Ving singing and this guy Kelly Lemieux played bass we just went to studio and bashed out of some songs. Dave had a bunch of riffs and we just put them together. It was sort of like a punk rock, really refreshing material, you know?
It was very different compared to Megadeth at least?It was different. It wasn’t sort of like making any big arrangements there. We just did it kind of like “verse chorus verse chorus” and stuff like that. You know, it was his solo album.
Your first album with Megadeth was RISK. In a way, it’s a strange album that some fans hated but some others loved. How do you like that album by yourself?Yeah, it’s weird record. It’s a good record but it was a different record. Yeah, you pretty much nailed it. You know, some fans hated it, some fans liked it. The people who liked it in America, I found, were people who didn’t like Megadeth before since that was almost a pop-rock record. Some of the songs... they liked this whole sort of a melodic thing. They were people who would have never heard Megadeth before or people who would have never bought any earlier Megadeth albums would have bought this record. They bought the RISK record. But then again some of the old fans who wanted to hear “Holy Wars” in every record they didn’t like it. So, you know, you can’t please everybody. But it was something different. When I joined the band they wanted to try something completely different. That was their idea but I personally wanted to do a heavy record. That was kind of reason why I wanted to join the band but I wasn’t the one who’s going to tell those three guys... You know, it was really their band at that point. They wanted to try out different record and who am I to say anything different, you know what I mean?
I think I know what you mean here. What do you think about some old school fans who still keep on saying that it was partly your “fault” that band decided to change its direction so radically at that point?No believe, really it wasn’t me, it definitely was not me. It was couple of guys in the band. It wasn’t one person, it was management, it was everybody but not me. I wanted to do like a full on metal / thrash record and everybody knew it. I would say that still there are a couple of heavy songs on the record but they are just kind of slower. It’s also a dark record, it’s just not like all that fast speed metal kind of stuff but if you listen to it, some songs are actually quite heavy.
I agree with you. For example “Prince of Darkness” is definitely heavy song with really dark lyrics on it…Yes, exactly. “Prince of Darkness”, “The Doctor is Calling” and stuff like that. It’s not really hard thrash music but I think it’s a really good record. I thought everybody did a really good job on it and all the guys in the band played really well.
Marty Friedman decided to leave after that album. In your opinion, how important member Marty was for Megadeth at that point?Well, you know, Marty’s lead sound was real signature to the band without a doubt. Marty is incredible guitar player and I would have rather he had not left. I didn’t want him to leave and I told him I didn’t want him to leave. But he came to a point where he needed to change what he was doing and I have nothing but respect for him for that. Band is like a marriage, you know? Sometimes it just doesn’t stay together forever and some people have to be changed or they just leave or, issues within the band, something like that. It’s just the way it is. Marty is great and I did a tour with him couple of years ago. As a matter of fact I trade some e-mails with him because we are trying to get together and record some stuff together. He wanted to meet me in L.A. in the end of last October we were going to record in L.A but then he couldn’t get over from Japan and I had to leave again to come over to Europe so at some point, maybe in during next couple of months, we are going to do something. I don’t know exactly when but I’m looking forward to seeing him. I’ve always liked him. He is a really good guy.
When Marty was gone Al Pitrelli (Savatage, Alice Cooper) stepped in. That actually happened in the middle of RISK tour. You then recorded next Megadeth album A WORLD NEEDS A HERO. That album was a kind of back to the roots album, do you agree with that?When we did RISK, we did our pop record so ok, “Let’s go back and do a harder record”. We just literally went to the studio and wrote that record in couple of weeks and here again when Al comes in the band and he did a great job. He was really helpful and he had lot of guitar parts and stuff and he’s was influential. Al again is a great guitar player. He is just a different player than Marty. He comes from more bluesy background than Marty. Marty can play almost everything but he has got a different approach. It’s really hard to explain where he comes from because I’m not sure myself. Definitely Al is a different player but he did a great job. He came in literally in like three, four days and learned the entire live show and came in and started touring. We really threw lot at him fast. He was a great addition and I think he was probably the only guy who could have pulled that off in that amount of time because we were in the middle of the tour. We didn’t even take a break. He just came out and learned all these songs. I remember he was up all night in the bus, in the back, and just practiced. He didn’t sleep for few days because he was just training all the time “laughs”.
Megadeth then break up, was that in 2002? How that thing actually came about. Was it something was coming for or long time or was it more like surprising that it was suddenly over?We toured till the end of 2001 and we did the live DVD and then we took off and Dave went to go do whatever Dave does. I think he was having some personal problems, well, I know, but I’m not going to tell you. But anyway, I do remember when I was home one day and I hadn’t talked with him for few weeks and then he called saying that he was quitting the band.
That’s was it?Yeah, he said he’s quitting the band. He said he wanted to do music of a different genre…I really don’t want to divulge everything he said here but I was shocked. You know what, I said “Ok”, and I just moved on because at the time my wife was having a baby so I really was like: “Whatever, fine, I got to deal with this now”. I was more interested in dealing with my family life - the fact that my wife was having a baby any day. So he quit the band and that was it. That was the last time I really have heard of him.
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