This is not an old Megadeth tee by any means (as 10incher says, it’s from 2005), but the design, which is also the cover to the Greatest Hits collection they put out that year, is legendary. For being on a different band’s record cover:
This is old news, obviously. And really, I’m just posting it as an excuse to post this story JJ told in my man Dolloff’s old zine Sit Home And Rot:
(Dolloff: You gotta tell me this Megadeth story.)
This was the show: Bad Brains, Slayer and Megadeth at the Ritz in I think it was like 85 or 86. So here’s how the story goes… Dave Mustaine, ya know, I guess he was doing drugs at the time and he was hanging out in the Bad Brains dressing room. He’s like “Motherfucker, asshole, etc etc”, ya know just swearing his ass off for no reason. Meanwhile the Bad Brains are there with their wives and their kids and shit so HR goes “Yo can you not talk like that in our dressing room?” Now he’s still in the Bad Brains dressing room, talking like that, like a jerk off. So, then he made some face and I was like, “Yo just go in the other dressing room dude”. Then he like talked some shit but whatever.
So then they go up and they play and they come off stage stinkin’ and all sweaty. So he walked into the Bad Brains room and this shit’s still goin’ on and he’s just being an asshole. So we had it up to here with him. I was helping the Bad Brains out and he didn’t know I was in the Cro-mags at the time… so he walks into the Bad Brains dressing room as he comes off stage and you know how they got the ice buckets where they put the beers and the waters and shit? He picks it up in the air and the ice water goes all over every body in the room. That’s when I was like “BOOM!” I grabbed him by his hair, slammed him off the fuckin’ wall and then he goes “Hey, who the fuck are you?” So Jah comes up and Jah goes, “I’ll show you violence like you’ve never seen, so don’t come back in this dressing room!” So I’m like, dragging him out and he’s goin’ “You’re just a fuckin’ roadie! That’s all you’ll ever be is a fuckin’ roadie you asshole!”
So here we go, 1987 comes around, and guess who is going on tour with Motorhead and Megadeth, and guess who the opening band is?
(Dolloff: CRO-MAGS!)
Thank you very much. So I come in and Megadeth are like “Yo, you guys wanna smoke some chronic?” At the time I smoked so I was like, “Sure man!” Meanwhile playing it off and not telling him like, “Yo, I’m the dude”, ya know? At the time he was heavily on drugs and lemme tell you, this guy is one of the coolest dudes when he is sober and he is now so… I’m like the type of dude, I like to get a good laugh out of a situation and that’s why I played it off like this. So Dave’s goin’, “You look so fuckin’ familiar man. Do I know you from some where?” And I’m like “Shhh!” And we’re going back and forth like this for awhile. So then he’s like, “Bro, I know your from somewhere I just can’t fuckin’ place it. My memory, ya know… I’m sober now and I was fucked up for awhile but I just don’t know where the fuck I know you from!”
Finally I go, alright it’s time to let the cat outta the bag. Mustaine goes again, “C’mon man tell me where I know you from!” I go, “I’ll give you a hint dude, and if you don’t get it I’m not gonna say nothing.” So I’m like “Ready?” He’s like “Yeah”…
“YOU’RE JUST A FUCKIN’ ROADIE! ALL YOU’RE EVER GONNA BE IS A FUCKING ROADIE!”
(Dolloff loses his mind.)
He goes “SHIT! Dude I’m so sorry!” And he apologized for awhile… he turned out to be the coolest guy man, but he was on drugs at the time.
And with that, I welcome you to Metal Monday.
