Megadeth's David Ellefson - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?

hey everyone screw Hamid here from Loudwire and it's time for some Wikipedia fact or fiction to my left David Ellison Megadeth and the new project altitudes and attitude thank you so much for item today I want them to see you alright I am going to recite to you some stuff I found on Wikipedia today ok and you can just give me a factor of fiction and elaborate if you so I should know the answers I would hope ok alright alright let's start simple you were born in Jackson Minnesota fact facts perfect alright I'm doing well so far in Megadeth you were given the nicknames jr. and Dave jr. to differentiate yourself from Dave Mustaine that's partial fact and there's a little fictitious story that goes behind that which is also fact friction yeah it is uh basically where the guy that did the very first art work for us which was going to be the killing is my business cover which actually became the cover on the the reap issue of it as name is Payton Tuttle and we were in the grocery store one day and he the word jr. fell out of his mouth because I was I just moved to LA from the farm in Minnesota and I was kind of and he was making fun of me for being wet behind the ears I could just fell off the turnip truck from Minnesota right ok and so he goes he goes you're like a junior and Dave Mustaine heard that because we're shopping for groceries and he started laughs and he goes chuder that is awesome so that's that's the name that stuck for a long time right that never that never seemed like demoralizing in any way it was completely demoralizing they all loved it I hated it that's why I hated it but you know it's one of those names that now it's kind of just it's kind of stuck you know so fans lots of times you go judor you know it's like alright I get you it's bad still call you a junior yeah I'll even like Gary Holt you know from Exodus you call you junior you know so that's like 30 years 30 years yeah the name stuck you know so I don't professionally go by that name but no you're kind of if you're in the club you know what's the name yeah well uh after six months unsuccessfully searching for vocalists from Megadeth it was decided that Dave Mustaine would front how many years now after six months of you was it longer it wasn't no it was about it was actually six months exactly that is fact because we formed technically in June of 1983 and it was New Year's Eve of that same year that a singer we got one more singer flaked out on his audition and I think it was - it was - metal for him so he flaked out and finally Dave just stood up to the mic and started singing and yeah and after he sang and he almost passed out because he wasn't really a singer you know I mean when you'd sing songs like Megadeth and you don't breathe and all that kind of stuff it's like he almost passed out in his face turned red I said dude that was awesome you're the singer man you got to do this so he stepped up and tried it again and you know after after a couple of tries he was the man awesome alright uh you originally played bass with your fingers but due to the complexity of Megadeth's music going forward you started using a pick that is partially fact as well I did start I learned how to play with fingers on the guys that I like their tongue gene Simmons even some Tom Hamilton from Aerosmith Jimmy Bain a bunch of different players that I liked over the years all use picks and I like their tone a lot better so I played with a pick when I met Dave and we got started with Megadeth I was playing with fingers but once our tempos really jumped up I had to grab the pick because it allowed me just to rip the lines along with the guitars and also it just gave me a tone that cut through so no friction it's a friction fraction it's a fraction whatever now okay and this is a good one in 1985 you were given $8,000 by combat records to produce Megadeth's new album the debut album rather and you guys ended up spending half of it on drugs alcohol and food food really is not that big a deal I mean that kind of makes one each phone when you have drugs now go right okay and this caused you guys to fire the original producer and produce it yourselves again fraction frictions the 8,000 true the 4000 drugs and booze yes all true we mostly got through with carrot Fay the original co-producer of the record I mean technically I guess he finished it but at some point we just parted ways and and went on her own and finished the mixing so that is I'd say 98% fact lots of freak there's always exceeded there's always a gray area nice things especially kids it were 30 years ago right yeah that that's what Wikipedia got it right all right former guitarist Chris Poland was accused of selling the band's equipment to buy heroin ah that was the accusation is true no definite proof well you know here's the thing me and Chris are buddies and actually one day a base went missing out of my closet and I don't know where it went and it was a plexiglass dan Armstrong base and it's one day I happen to think it go wait a minute that base isn't around here anymore so Kristen I had a conversation about it and conversation a conversation yeah and everything's good between at least me and him everything is fine really yeah well here's the thing you got to realize when you're doing a lot of drugs things just MIT go in go missing right you know and it's usually never your wallet or things like that because those are obvious so things that are stashed in closets and deep down in the storage unit sometimes things go missing and you forget it like that I spaced that out or did someone take that oh so he was able to use that to his advantage possibly well friction let's go out friction um uh you are a practicing Christian and your religious beliefs strengthened after you kick drugs and alcohol in 1990 that is fact that yeah all right now that's fact there we go getting there all right Dimebag Darrell almost became of course Pantera fame almost became a member of Megadeth but he didn't want to join a band without his brother Vinnie Paul also being in the band and because you had already hired Nick Menza you were forced to turn dime down that is man that is so close to fact all of its true except at the time Chuck Behler was still our drummer so the Nick Menza part is not there yet Chuck would leave Nick would come in so you're spending the truth toward what would become fact but you had a drummer and therefore couldn't yes and that is true and and I'm he said if I would take the gig I'd have to come with my brother and we actually had a drummer yeah God now just imagine the how that would have changed is the history of music and yeah Pantera death or mega terror or something right she's see while supporting Aerosmith on their get to their get a grip tour mmm Megadeth was kicked out of the tour after six shows because of Dave Mustaine's behavior that is not fact we got kicked off after three shows three show yes yes it was Bishop my stuff is pretty Joe at who writes all this they seem to remember most of stuff better than us yeah we actually made the opening paragraph of a chapter in the Aerosmith book I was one day I was like living through it novices then we were on tour with Megadeth and that story oh god yeah it was that bad that it mission made a good book at the beginning of these books with people with their autobiographies it's always the worst possible scenario that they go to first to get off the book yeah well it wasn't like we were all good friends and we conquered the world together was then we got thrown off the tour right oh boy alright it's one way to make history alright because of a legal dispute over royalties and the rights to the Megadeth band name you at one point sued Dave Mustaine for eighteen point five million dollars partial fact those are actually not the reasons why the lawsuit happened but that part most of that is is true fortunately settled water under the bridge and you know obviously we play together so sometimes brothers fight you know but me and des ever like brothers and and we've moved on all's good yeah all's well so that's friction a book was the eighteen point five million is that correct that number seems right yeah see if right yeah all right attorneys come up with numbers you know yes do do to animosity towards Megadeth which was at one point you're a former band your career in Megadeth was not included in the biography of your personal website uh you know that probably was true I can't remember because my website's been redone by now so I can't even go back and archive it and look okay well the discography was on there I think the disguise on the discard discography was always on there yeah yeah but in the actual bio at that moment it may not have been on there so you didn't write the buy or did you write the bio I wrote some of the BIOS I don't know if I wrote the exact file see you again these people know everything cuz they watch it when you're living in these two shoes you know the wife moves forward in you for you do you around other things you know so I can't remember I know I know the discography for sure was on there always okay yeah yeah cool yeah uh you began to make amends with Dave Mustaine over dinner on Christmas 2005 uh partial facts yes over dinner I believe it was 2005 but it was not Christmas it was actually earlier in the month it was around probably early December late November actually okay correction all right last one for you 2010 you receive a text from Sean drummer right obviously saying if there was ever a time for you and Dave to talk now is it that text led to the return and you felt like you had never left once you were back that is absolute fact that that one is completely true right there nice awesome absolutely bad everything we didn't do too bad right we did about like I don't know four out of ten of them are right right it's not that bad compared to the other one you've done all right thank you so much you

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Published: Wed Apr 02 2014