Dave Mustaine's Autobiography had the fun sucked out of it by Lawyers

Mon, 06 Sep 2010

Last month Dave Mustaine released his autobiography, but the UK edition more scrutinised by Lawyers than he'd have liked.

In a recent interview he said; "We spent hundreds of thousands of dollars going over this book, over and over, with all the legal stuff that was involved.

"The UK book is more vetted because of the legal process. I guess in England there are lawyers who survive just on book releases. They go through it and look for somebody saying something about somebody, and they contact them and say, ‘Let’s sue’.

"That’s kinda sucked the fun out of the book being released in the UK."  The self-titled Autobiography sees the Megadeth frontman open up about the ups and downs of his marriage and family life, issues with line up changes, but says there's a few people he one or two people that he'd like to "barbecue because of the way I feel about them" before explaining that, "It would have been easy to tell stories that would have destroyed them because of who they are and how they’ve got the public fooled."
One of his hopes for the book is that people will see that he wasn't always the bad guy, 
"All kinds of crazy stuff happened over the course of our career. I was like the big brother who’d say, ‘What are you thinking?’ all the time."For all the juicey details grab the book, its out now!


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