ENCARTE: MEGADETH
Excertos de longo release de Dave Mustaine na versão remasterizada (2004) de “So Far, So Good… So What!” (1988):
“Because of the success of PEACE SELLS I decided to use Paul Lani again to do this record with me, but we had a falling out while I was in Woodstock, NY, with him mixing the record. Paul was having a hard time working with the antiquated gear and I caught him outside feeding peeled and cored apples to the deer in his bun-huggers, and that was if for me. I came back home to L.A. and Michael Wagener was called in to rescue the project. The production was horrible, mostly due to substances and the priorities we had or didn’t have at the time; and by this time Capitol was aware that we were the ‘real deal’ when it came to being bad boys, and they just wanted us to finish the record, get it to them, and move the project along so that we wouldn’t be any more of a risk for them in a studio. We were less of a danger in your hometown than theirs. So we were sent off on tour.
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The songs that make up this record included a couple of firsts. Set the World Afire was the first lyric that I had written when I left Metallica, except it was called Megadeth at the time, and was also the first music piece that I had written as well once I left. However, I never released anything until I felt it was time or it was ready to be experimented with. There was also another first with In My Darkest Hour, which was the first song I’d ever written in one sitting, from beginning to end, and this was done when I had heard that my friend and former partner Cliff Burton had been killed in a bus accident in Europe. That was the day that my understanding of ‘being there for you’ was born.
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And I would like to respectfully thank Paul Lani and Michael Wagener for trying their best to make this record sound good with what they were given; yes, we were wild men, and that came across on the takes. But that ‘wildness’ also made their jobs very difficult. Gentlemen, you did a great job with whom – or should I say ‘what’ – you had to work.
LOVE AND BRUISES, DAVE MUSTAINE“