By his own admission, in the early '80s, when he was Metallica's guitarist, Dave Mustaine was an angry young man, and wasn't afraid to deal out a little 'attitude adjustment' to those who crossed him or his friends.
"I would be destructive," Megadeth's frontman admits in a new interview with British newspaper The Telegraph. "If there’s somebody getting in your face, you know, pulling something, trying to take advantage of you, I’m the guy you want there with you."
In his 2010 autobiography, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, the 64-year-old Californian musician admitted that his personality, particularly when amplified by considerable alcohol intake, wasn't always aligned with those of his bandmates James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich.
"The more they drank, the goofier they became," he wrote. "With me it was a different story. The more I drank, the more I sought an outlet for my rage and frustration. I wanted to get out and do some cruising and bruising."
