I almost made it all the way to the console, but didn't make it. I thought, Fortunately for me and fucked for you, this Flying V is just like a dart, and I threw it across the stage. 'So, this guy did this, and I grabbed my V. So they fit snuggly on me, and if I have something like that happen, I'm pissed. They have to match up, and sometimes it takes corkscrewing them into your ears. You have to put them in your ears because they go into your ear canal, and your ear canals are not just straight holes. I have to claw at my face and try and get that thing out of my ear, and it's like a corkscrew. 'We don't have wedges on the ground, so if it goes squeeeeee onto the speakers, I can't walk away from the speakers because it's in my ears. I have in-ear speakers, so in my in-ears, that's what I hear. I can't remember exactly when it was, but some guy went over to our monitor console and started messing with it. I did throw a guitar recently, in probably the last decade or so. I don't do that very much anymore - somebody's really got to get me mad for me to want to clock them with my guitar. 'I know that's a terrible mentality to have, but that's how I rolled when I was younger. I was always thinking, 'Stand back motherfucker! You're going to eat this guitar!' It was stuff I never intended doing on a guitar in the beginning, laying back and holding chords and stuff. Therefore, the tempos went down and a lot of the right-hand action became subdued.

'But when that record came out after Cryptic Writings, we were still continuing to make concessions to Marty's desire to be more melodic and more alternative sounding. And that's not a dig on those guys at all, because I liked their song they used to play on the radio all the time. I liked one of their songs too, but I wasn't willing to become an alternative-sounding band. We just can't.' Because he really liked Dishwalla.

I kept trying to say, 'But we can't go from writing 'Black Friday' to playing songs like Dishwalla. But Marty wanted us to be more alternative sounding.

'Back when that came out it was 1999, and we had a lot of really great songs on that album. It just came out at a time when the music populous were liking a different kind of music. 'I always thought 'Wanderlust' was one of the best songs that we had recorded, with the lyrics, the singing, the climax to the song. 'I think one of the best songs I've ever written - as far as drama is concerned, like a picture within a song - is 'Wanderlust', says Dave. In the following excerpt, Mustaine talks about what he believes to be the hidden gem in the Megadeth catalog? In a new interview with Greg Prato for Songfacts, Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine discusses trying to reunite the Big 4, the most misunderstood Megadeth song, the last time he threw his guitar at someone, and more.

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