Føljetongen Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) og Kristin Winsents (NRKs Lydverket)

Denne uken hadde NRKs Lydverket intervju med Dave Mustaine fra Megadeth. Etter instrukser fra managementet fikk Lydverkets Kristin Winsents streng beskjed om å ikke nevne Metallica. Det messet han imidlertid om selv hele intervjuet igjennom, og nå truer han Winsents med juling for å ha kringkastet det hele.

Megadeath, Dave Mustaine

Av Odd Inge Rand // 17.10.09

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Dave Mustaine (48) har ledet Megadeth i 26 år, men startet som gitarist i Metallica på begynnelsen av 80-tallet, etterfulgt av Kirk Hammett.

Siden 1985 har han imidlertid gitt ut plater under navnet Megadeth, og solgt astronomisk av plater som Peace Sells (1986), Countdown To Extinction (1992), Youthanasia (1994). Siste album kom i år, kalt Endgame og har fått gode kritikker.

Etter god research, dro Winsents til London tidligere denne måneden for å møte Mustaine, og førstnevnte er også fan av Endgame og hadde forberedt mange spørsmål om Megadeths ferskeste utgivelse.

I over 20 år er imidlertid alle klar over at Mustaine aldri har kommet over at han ble sparket fra Metallica i 1983, og klok av skade ba managementet altså Kristin Winsents om å ikke bringe dette opp. Uoppfordret snakket ikke Mustaine om annet, og etter at NRK kringkastet intervjuet onsdag denne uken sto dette å lese på Megadeth-forumet, postet av Mustaine selv:

"These people are scum. Don't listen to their interviews, don't buy their shit magazine, don't go to their pathetic garbage website. And stand by, because as soon as I see that interviewer again, I am going to put him in a hospital. That is a promise. I will find him too.

At han refererer til NRK sin intervjuer som mann også, beviser også hvor god hukommelse Mustaine har til det faktiske intervjuet i London.

I etterkant har NRKs Kristin Winsents kommentert hendelsen på denne måten:

"I did my best in following the restrictions put forth by the record label prior to the interview, which included not mentioning his Metallica past. However, he was the one who brought this up. Frankly, when you have been an artist for more than 30 years, you should know how an interview setting works. I'm a journalist, not a member of his fan club".

Dette satte temperaturen opp ytterligere, og Mustaine kunne på nytt tømme seg for argumenter på Megadeth-forumet:

"You have got to be kidding! As if there aren't enough stupid people in the world.

"Now I have some 'thing' reading my post in my forum from me — a guy who is notoriously a wise guy (since she doesn't seem very bright, I'll give you a clue — I mean me), AND I PURPOSELY SAID 'GUY' FOR A REASON, SO THIS SELF-CENTERED SCRIBE would say, 'Well he has got to be joking, because I am (maybe not) a girl.'

"Did you think I was going to like it? Deep down inside, are you that mean-spirited that you had to do this to me? DO we REALLY need one more person asking me about METALLICA, or do we really need one more person to jump on me?

"Oh yeah, we wouldn't have you in our fanclub: even MEGADETH has standards.

"Instead, you insult someone who is reasonably smart, and say I don't remember you were a girl. And people wonder why I want to have my interviews monitored; because of assholes who keep asking the METALLICA questions. You show the clip that says, 'I am tired of being second,' and then you cleverly cut to 'Crush 'Em' and play the line that says, 'You'll never be more than second best?'

"You disgust me!

"Besides not being very clever, being an instigator, and just plain not very smart, you can now add 'gullible' to the litany of tabloid rag journalism credits you've amassed over your illustrious career (NOT!). Oh, by the way, if those credits mattered before, they don't matter anymore now that you are just a trash novelist.

"When you have credits in the USA, then you will matter to me.

"And while you're at it, why don't you put the entire interview up, so that people can see that I said that I don't want to answer it; so that people will see just how you really are. Just disgraceful! I hope you don't have any children that will follow in your claw prints.

"That was a long interview and you cut it up for your own benefit. You didn't play one note of our new record. Nothing. Am I supposed to say, 'Wow, what a funny bitch?'

"We were promoting our new record 'Endgame', since you probably don't know the name of it (add to list of several billion things you don't know) and you didn't say shit about it. NOTHING.

"Did you think that I came all the way to Germany and the UK to sit down and have you try to humiliate me? What the fuck is wrong with you???

"Shame on you and shame on your shitty style — OR LACK THEREOF. More like shame on whoever gave you anything better than a dismissive wave and a parting gift.

"The problem, is, NOW I really am pissed, and YESTERDAY I was joking.

"And frankly, if you are a noteworthy journalist, host or presenter I feel sorry for the good people of Norway.

"In closing, I am not going to put you in the hospital, since you clearly don't know that it was a JOKE (and I do know you were/are a female). Frankly, I wouldn't even slap you, because shit splatters".

Etter i underkant av én time, fikk til og med Dave Mustaine litt kalde føtter, og la ut enda en melding:

"Now that I am awake, I have had a chance to think about what I have said and I have handled this wrong.

"I was deeply offended by what I saw in an interview yesterday, and I posted something. I made a mistake saying something.

"I read the journalist's reply, and I am glad she laughed it off, and I wanted to delete my previous post this morning, but not until I wrote this.

"Kristin, we will never be friends, but thank you for not taking this serious".

Lydverkets programleder Asbjørn Slettemark har gått ut og forsvart Winsents, og sistnevntes siste utspill til Mustaine ble postet på forumet til Blabbermouth i går:

"Dear Dave Mustaine,

"I am very sorry that I disgust you. I am a big fan of your new album, and I have great respect for you as the undisputed leader of one of the most successful metal bands of all time. However, I will not stand for threats, and I find it sad that a 48-year-old man with 30 years of media experience tries to put the blame for his own words on me.

"I did not force you to talk about Metallica.

"You want to see the whole interview? You are more than welcome. I am sorry to inform you, though, that it will blow your perception of me asking questions about Metallica. Because I did not".

Kilde: Blabbermouth.net

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