Does DAVID ELLEFSON Envision A Time When He And DAVE MUSTAINE Will Play Together Again? He Responds
In a new interview with The Classic Rock Podcast, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was asked if he envisions a time where he and the Dave Mustaine can get back together and work on MEGADETH again. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, I suggested that in 2004, when he was coming back from his hand injury, talking about putting it back together again. I said, ‘Why don’t we do…?’ ‘Cause ASIA and YES had just done it. I thought it was so cool. They brought everybody back — Steve HoweandTrevor Rabin. And I’m a Trevor Rabin fan. I’m kind of more of a fan of that era. But there’s some that are the fan of the other guy. So, I thought, ‘What a cool thing [it would be] to bring [former MEGADETH guitarist] Marty [Friedman] and [former MEGADETH drummer] Nick [Menza].’ Nick was still with us. At that point, Gar [Samuelson, former MEGADETH drummer] was the only deceased member the legacy. And I just thought, ‘Man, how cool would it be to bring everybody back?’ Even if it was a tour, to just do something like that, because as the years go on, it’s harder and harder to do that. I guess now they save that shit for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction. Then they get everybody there.”
Ellefson continued: “Look, the truth of it is we’ve all had a great journey. We’ve had our own personal journeys, our journeys together. Look, Dave‘s doing his thing. He seems happy where he’s at doing that. Jeff [Young, former MEGADETH guitarist] and I are happy over here doing our thing [with KINGS OF THRASH and other projects]. And when you spend some years and some miles together in the yellow submarine, the tin can of a tour bus and hotels and planes, look, it’s easy to get on each other’s nerves. You just need some space. And especially, I think, as we get older and we’ve done it a lot more. As I told the guys [in KINGS OF THRASH] last week — we were on the bus — I was, like, ‘Guys, I’ve been bouncing around in these tin cans for 40-plus years.’ And it’s fun… But for people that haven’t done it as much, it’s thrilling. And it’s still fun for me, man. Get on a bus, lay in your bunk, lay in your coffin and go, ‘All right. I guess if I die here, I’m just driving 70 miles an hour down the road tonight.’ That’s the journey. That’s where the journey ends. That’s the life of a troubadour, the life of a musician. So, I think for us to just be out doing what we love to do, and the fact that people still actually wanna pay us to do it, and still ask us to go to the stage, I mean, that is a real gift. It’s a real treat that they still wanna hear that from us. So we’re lucky that we all got to be in one of the cool bands, that people still wanna see and hear us do this.”
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