Unfairly Maligned for a Fucking Lifetime

I've been on a huge Megadeth kick lately, listening to a bunch of the older stuff (as well as some of the newer) and loving every second of it. And it's led up to a need to say yet again-is there anyone who has gotten more of a raw deal than Dave Mustaine? I love Dave-he's one of my true guitar idols and i feel that people don't give him the credit he deserves for really being a musical visionary. The man invented speed metal, for fuck's sake. You can't discredit that. We should bow before him. Slayer wouldn't be here if it weren't for Dave's incendiary guitar trailblazing. If you really wanted to get jiggy with it, you could trace everyone back to Judas Priest-and that would be okay too, but they weren't quite the extremists that Dave is. After his dismissal from Metallica (one of the biggest bitch moves in all of rock history) Dave vowed to be faster, more aggressive, more complex and better. And he succeeded. Every way. Every album. There is nothing in Metallica's catalogue that comes close to be being as fast or as intricate as Megadeth. You can reduce it to this, pretty much: "Battery" vs. "Holy wars", and i can tell you, "Holy Wars" is a hell of a lot harder to play (and i still haven't mastered either song!!) But despite all his successes Dave has been overshadowed by the goons in his former band and attacked for being egomaniacal and self-centered. He's had a shitty run! Cut him some slack-he's a recovering drug/alcohol addict, he beat a crippling hand injury in both arms that doctors were sure would never allow him to play guitar again, and he recently lost his family to divorce. He's been through a shitload of bandmates, some of whom have been amazingly talented (Chris Poland and Marty Friedman) but their comings and goings have never altered the Megadeth sound-and he even bared his soul in Metallica's shitty shitty film "Some Kind of Monster", laying himself completely on the line just to be shit on again by Lars and James. One of the worst, saddest things i have ever witnessed in my life was seeing that film in the theaters and watching the whole crowd erupt in booing when Dave came onscreen. Fucking morons, all of them. MORONS. Dave was the only one in the film who said anything real or of worth at all (except for Jason Newsted) and the idiots of the metal universe just shit on him again without really listening. The music speaks for it all, but everyone's ears seem to be closed. It just makes me really disheartened. So this is in tribute to Dave Mustaine-idol and true musical genius. May the rock always remain!!!