	46
	CRADLE OF FILTH Fires Guitarist ASHOK 'Effective Immedi... 37
	Former CRADLE OF FILTH Keyboardist ZOE MARIE FEDEROFF Addres... 31
	31
	Former CRADLE OF FILTH Keyboardist ZOE MARIE FEDEROFF Reveal... 30

все новости группы

David Ellefson

США

Hard 'n' Heavy

http://www.davidellefson.com/
Myspace: https://myspace.com/davidellefsonofficial
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/davidellefson/

3 сен 2025 :	Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON On Heavy Metal Community: 'We're A Tribe Of Quirky Misfits'
11 авг 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON On OZZY OSBOURNE's Death: 'There Hasn't Been A Significant Event Like This Since Passing Of QUEEN ELIZABETH'
3 авг 2025 :	Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON: 'OZZY OSBOURNE Was Our ELVIS PRESLEY'
24 июн 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says DAVE MUSTAINE 'Hated Playing Before SLAYER' During 2010 'Jägermeister Music Tour'
18 июн 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says He Worked On MEGADETH's 'Soldier On!' Song With DAVE MUSTAINE But Didn't Get Credit For It
17 июн 2025 :	Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON: 'I Miss' DAVE MUSTAINE
30 май 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Hasn't Spoken To DAVE MUSTAINE In Four Years: 'Not One Word. No Need To.'
25 май 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Doesn't Rule Out Full Album Of Original KINGS OF THRASH Material: 'I'm Certainly Not Gonna Say No To It'
17 май 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says How A Band Splits Its Money Is 'An Important Discussion' For Musicians To Have Early On
22 мар 2025 :	Watch: Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON Returns To Bochnia, Poland With His 'Bass Warrior Tour'
10 мар 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON On OZZY OSBOURNE: 'He's Just Such A Genuine Guy'
12 фев 2025 :	Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON: 'Not Every Band Works As A Democracy'
27 янв 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says Nobody Took It Personally That METALLICA Song Was Played During MEGADETH's GRAMMY AWARD Win
13 янв 2025 :	DAVID ELLEFSON On Lessons He Has Learned In Four Decades Of Being A Professional Musician: 'Try To Be Joyful In What You're Doing'
5 янв 2025 :	Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON: Heavy Metal Is 'Not Meant To Be Mainstream'
29 дек 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Releases Modern-Day Take On DONNIE IRIS Classic "Ah! Leah!" Feat. ENUFF Z’NUFF & KIK TRACEE Vocalists; Visualizer
15 дек 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON: How I Discovered RUSH's Music
7 дек 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says 'Rock Is Dead In America': 'I Know People Will Lambaste Me For Saying That, But It Is'
5 дек 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON: How I Re-Embraced My Faith At Age 25
1 ноя 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON And KEN MARY Team Up With CATHY RANKIN On New Single 'Now You've Gone'
16 сен 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says He Has Written 'Some Super-Cool' New Material With JEFF YOUNG
29 авг 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON: '20 Years From Now, Are Young People Gonna Even Care About Playing Guitar Anymore?'
20 авг 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON: 'LEMMY Played The Bass Like An Acoustic Guitar'
13 июл 2024 :	Does DAVID ELLEFSON Envision A Time When He And DAVE MUSTAINE Will Play Together Again? He Responds
23 июн 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON Says It Was 'Illegal' For Metal Fans To Admit To Liking NIRVANA In Early 1990s
16 июн 2024 :	DAVID ELLEFSON And JEFF YOUNG Get In The Kitchen With 'Metal Mastication'

3 сен 2025

Ex-MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON On Heavy Metal Community: 'We're A Tribe Of Quirky Misfits'

In a new interview with the That Metal Interview podcast, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson spoke about the changes in the music industry since he first started in the 1980s and 1990s. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I got in under the wire. I got in when there was still an opportunity to have a career, make a living, basically pay for your life so you can keep making more music. For me, that was the goal. It wasn't just to acquire a bunch of toys and then retire. It was, like, no, this is what you do. And so I've tried to be a good steward of the money I've made and the things so that I can pay the bills and not have to stress. 'Cause believe me, me and Dave [Mustaine, MEGADETH leader], we were homeless in those early years. Man, that was rough. And I never called home for money. I said, like, 'I've gotta make this on my own, man.' And by doing that, it makes me appreciate. It's the old saying, you know the price of everything but the value of nothing. And I think by going through what we went through, putting MEGADETH together and then starting all these new bands, 'cause you all start from the beginning, you start at the beginning, you appreciate the value of it. And that's why I think I appreciate the value of camaraderie, the value of when you have real musical companionship with people, and the value of when you put something out and it connects with people and you feel that it's connecting, that you really feel like we're building a community here with what we're doing. And I think the community, to me, at this point in my life is always more important. And we're a tribe. We're a tribe of kind of quirky misfits, and we do the best we can to integrate into normal life. But let's face it, we're the black T-shirt crowd. I was at a Comic-Con this weekend with [former MEGADETH guitarist] Chris Poland, and it's the gathering of misfits — the wanted and the unwanted. And that's who we are."

He continued: "I've gotten to make music for the masses who consumed music through radio and MTV and these things, and I've gotten to make music that's just kind of for the little clique of weirdos that we all are. I think, look, the music industry, it was all kind of born… [Late AC/DC singer] Bon Scott said it best, 'The guitar man got famous, the businessman got rich.' [Laughs] Look, there's two sides to it. There's the music industry, which is where you make music and you sell that music as a product. And it used to be done through record companies and now it's done through Spotify, YouTube, digital, more of the digital means… But then the other side of it is the entertainment industry. So when you go on stage, you're not really in the music industry anymore. Now you're in the entertainment industry. So when you get on stage, what makes you a compelling product? 'Cause that's what you are at that point. You're a product. And if you don't like that, then don't get in the business. Again, it's kind of the circus. That's why I think KISS learned how to breathe fire and put makeup on: 'Let's go to the circus.' And for those of us, it's so weird that my generation, we grew up as these big KISS fans with all this sort of fantasy thing, and then our generation was the opposite of that. We're, like, jeans and t-shirts, and our connection was that we were no different than the audience. And that was our connection. And generations kind of go through these cycles. And so for our generation, and AC/DC was like this, I would say, there was a connection of that the musicians were just like us. They were one of us. We were like them. They were like us. METALLICA were the kings of this, and they still are. Their whole show is very fan-driven — the snake pit, just everything about what they do. And they were the leaders of the thrash movements. And I'm lucky that I got to be part of that and help expand and develop and color that as well.

"When you're on that stage, you've gotta be doing something that is compelling, to make people watch you on the stage," Ellefson added. "So that, to me, is kind of the mindset of it. And, of course, for us musicians, we take our songs on the stage because that's the reason we're on the stage, quite honestly. But, again, it's not the music business; it's the entertainment business. Record companies, or in this case, Spotify, YouTube, whatever, they sell the music. When you get on a stage, there's a promoter. Their job is to sell the concert ticket. So that's really what it is, in my view."

Ellefson was originally in MEGADETH from the band's inception in 1983 to 2002, when the group briefly broke up because MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine suffered severe nerve damage that left him unable to play.

Mustaine reformed MEGADETH 21 years ago. Originally setting out to record a solo album, Mustaine enlisted studio musicians to play on what ultimately became MEGADETH's 2004 "The System Has Failed" comeback album, subsequently recruiting former ICED EARTH bassist James MacDonough to take Ellefson's place for the album's touring cycle.

Ellefson sued Mustaine in 2004 for $18.5 million, alleging that the MEGADETH guitarist/vocalist still owed him substantial merchandise and publishing royalties. In January 2005, the case was dismissed in court, and five years later, Ellefson rejoined MEGADETH.

In his first book, Ellefson admitted that he became a salaried employee upon his return to MEGADETH 15 years ago.

Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH more than four years ago after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on Twitter.
<

-0


	( 12 )

Комментарии могут добавлять только зарегистрированные пользователи.
Вы можете зарегистрироваться на сайте или залогиниться через социальные сети (иконки вверху сайта).

3 сен 2025

ElectricRetard

Эллефсон себя с Джи-Джи Алленом перепутал. Только тот и не пытался интегрироваться.

3 сен 2025

mohnatiy

Главное - вовремя спрятать хуй

3 сен 2025

klim

Полагаю, все, что он сделал в своих силах - потряс джонсоном

3 сен 2025

Gleb Monster

интегрировался на пять с плюсом

3 сен 2025

GlowoErzum

Найс он личные проблемы на всю металл-тусовку экстраполировал.

3 сен 2025

resurgamresponses

странно, страница текста а смысла ноль, ну ладно, "мы племя в черных футболках, и ничем не отличались от публики"

3 сен 2025

Вашингтон Ирвинг

>и мы делаем всё, что в наших силах
но не можем даже помыться

3 сен 2025

Орион

This behavior’s quite insane
But we do it for the feieieim.

А где кавер на The Killing Road?
Извините...собственное прочтение)))

3 сен 2025

Evil Dmitry

Эх, Дэвид! Тебя запомнят не по всему словоблудию, которое ты наговорил выше, а по твоему рукоблудию, которое ты, мудак, снимал на телефон.

3 сен 2025

Mike Barlow

Не берите в ум.
Не принимайте на свой счёт.
Вы не такие.

3 сен 2025

WahrandPhain

- Когда ты на сцене, ты должен делать что-то увлекательное...
- прекрати дрочить, еблан, ты на интервью!
- ... что ты действительно чувствуешь, что мы своими действиями объединяем сообщество....
- ААААА! СУКА!!!

4 сен 2025

rassol

"И поэтому я старался хорошо распоряжаться заработанными деньгами"

А кто жаловался, что после "каунтдауна" у них денег не было ни на что, так всё спускалось на наркоту?