During a recent appearance on the “Lipps Service With Scott Lipps” podcast, Slayer guitarist Kerry King talked about seeing Metallica for the first time in 1982. Metallica’s early lineup consisted of James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Ron McGovney and Dave Mustaine.
“I saw ’em with Mustaine,” King recalled. “And we opened for them. I think Mustaine was still in the band, at the place we used to frequent called the Woodstock.”
King continued: “When I first saw ’em with Mustaine, I was sitting kind of between Hetfield and McGovney in where the audience is, and I was just blown away watching Mustaine just ripping on guitar and not even looking at his fingers. I’m, like, ‘I can’t do that.’ And to this day, he’s a badass guitar player. But that’s what I walked away from Metallica thinking. And he wrote tons of the riffs in the early days. So, when he branched off into Megadeth, a lot of the riffs went with him.”
King also touched on his current relationship with Mustaine. “Mustaine’s cool, but Mustaine’s one of those guys that he can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth,” King said. “So, I’ll take my 20 minutes and I’ll bolt just before anything gets uncomfortable.”
King previously told Metal Hammer about how he almost joined Megadeth permanently after a brief run with the band. “I was almost in Megadeth,” he said. “I think if myself and Dave Mustaine could have co-existed for four years, it would have been a very different band. I’m not saying I’d have made them better — I’d have made them different.”
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