Dave Mustaine's Post At Metallica.Com

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the Message Board at METALLICA’s official web site at www.metallica.com:

Here is the message:

“Metallibangers was what you were called back when I was in this band. I remember someone saying 'bang the head that doesn't bang' and this was our motto.

...

“Somehow we have all gotten away from this simple rebel cry.

...

“I am here now, not to try to dissuade you from being a METALLICA fan. To the contrary, I am here to say thank you for being a METALLICA fan.

...

“I am here to say that I don't condone people coming up to me and saying something negative about my former bandmates either. Sure there was a time when both camps were in a cold war, but those 'times' have been over for a long time. And even though the tension is still slight, I wish only the best for METALLICA.

...

“My heartfelt best wishes go out to James. I know what he is feeling right now, and I know what people are saying. The people said it about me.

...

“Friends, I would love to do this fantasy METALLICA/MEGADETH tour, but only after knowing that James is OK.

...

“I would love to play together with James and Lars again, and have said so in interviews. Me and David Ellefson, James and Lars, doing half MEGA/half META, James singing my songs and me singing his. That would be a riot. It could suck, it could be great, but I know that it would be fun for us all to get back to the day when metal was a 'way of life' and people looked to us all as their leaders.

...

“I won't take up anymore of your time here. In closing I assure that if we catch people over at megadeth.com slagging METALLICA, we try to stop it.

...

“But as you are aware, there are assholes everywhere on the Internet. I am sure there are people that come here that aren't even METALLICA fans, just to post shit about them.

...

“Not me.

...

“I am a fan. And although I was really hurt by getting fired, I have always been a fan. Dave Mustaine”

Source: Megadeth.Com