With the lineup finalised and all the new material in place, work on Rust In Peace began in earnest late in 1989. Rust In Peace… Polaris was a song I’d written and it was called Child Saint, and I’d actually played it when I was in Panic. In fact, some of those songs had been written a long time before. We’d already written all of Rust In Peace. I put the demo tracks on the Rust In Peace re-masters because I wanted people to see that Marty, as great as he is, was actually inspired by what Chris did on the demos. “We went into the EMI Studio and did a demo of the album and we asked Chris Poland to play on it. With reservations, Dave called upon an old colleague to perform lead guitar on the rough recordings. Prior to Marty’s arrival, Megadeth had already begun work on pre-production demos, at which point the dazzling technical precision and ferociously forward-thinking songwriting that would eventually turn Rust In Peace into such an undeniable metal landmark began to take shape. Megadeth in 1990: (l-r) Nick Menza, David Ellefson, Marty Frieman, Dave Mustaine (Image credit: Krasner/Trebitz /Redferns) I just thought, ‘Oh my God, this guy is good and I’m so terrible!’” When I first saw him play for real, I self- destructed. So I heard it and thought, ‘Wow, he wants to play with us?’ From that point, Marty was going to be the guitarist in Megadeth. A couple of months would go by and I’d look at it and throw it down again, but eventually I listened to it because my manager was relentless about this guy. I’d looked at it and he had this crazy coloured hair and I just thought, ‘What a clown!’ and threw the tape down. Thank God we weren’t there that day! So we finally go to visit our management company, and there’s a tape of Marty Friedman there. This one guy came in and goes, ‘Alright, I’m ready! Just show me the songs!’ and I just thought, ‘Get the fuck out of here!’ Two days after we’d finished doing the auditions we heard that the manager of the studio was found with his head chopped off, dead in a dumpster. “We were auditioning guitarists and all these guys would come in and start playing and it was terrible. That was the beginning of the end for Jeff and Chuck.” Unfortunately this time the transfer didn’t happen as gracefully as we might have hoped we had to abandon the rest of the tour and go home. We’d gone there before and when we ran out of drugs, we’d swap to booze. “We did seven shows with Iron Maiden and the Monsters Of Rock festival – we’d died and gone to heaven. “When we went overseas the drug thing was over the top,” Dave recalls. The story behind every song on Metallica’s Kill ’Em All – in their own words.
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