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Acoustic Rock
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30 июл 2026 :
15 июл 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE On Recording His Version Of METALLICA's 'Ride The Lightning': 'Some Of It Really Pushed My Vocal Ability'
13 июл 2026 :	JEFF YOUNG On Possibility Of Playing With MEGADETH Again During Band's 'Farewell' Tour: 'I Don't Even Know If I'd Wanna Do It If It Was Offered To Me'
7 июл 2026 :	MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Names His Favorite Guitar Players Of All Time
6 июл 2026 :	Watch: Frustrated MEGADETH Fans Throw Plastic Cups Toward Stage Following Band's Last-Minute Lisbon Concert Cancelation
4 июл 2026 :	MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE On TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI: 'He's Been The Missing Link That We've Been Looking For For Many, Many Years'
1 июл 2026 :	TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI: MEGADETH Fans 'Have Been Super Welcoming And Very Warm From The Very Beginning'
29 июн 2026 :	MEGADETH Shares Official 'Puppet Parade' Performance Video From Istanbul Concert
25 июн 2026 :	Watch: MEGADETH Performs 'Puppet Parade' Live For First Time
15 июн 2026 :	See MEGADETH Perform In Hannover, Germany As Support Act For IRON MAIDEN
12 июн 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE On His Upcoming 'In My Darkest Hour' Memoir: 'I Don't Know If People Are Gonna Get All Choked Up Over It'
26 май 2026 :	See Pro-Shot Video Of MEGADETH's April 2026 Concert In Argentina
17 май 2026 :	MEGADETH's DIRK VERBEUREN: 'To Me, DAVE MUSTAINE Is The Guy Who Invented Thrash Metal'
12 май 2026 :	MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE: 'I Don't Think People Should Listen To Celebrities About How They Should Vote'
8 май 2026 :	MEGADETH's TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI Believes GHOST-Style 'Phone Ban' At Concerts Is A 'Great Idea'
7 май 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE: JAMES HETFIELD And I 'Made A Really Good Team'
4 май 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE On His METALLICA 'Feud': 'I Put That To Sleep So Many Years Ago'
29 апр 2026 :	See Official Video Of MEGADETH's 'Ride The Lightning' Performance In Bogota
27 апр 2026 :	Watch: MEGADETH Performs Its Version Of METALLICA Classic 'Ride The Lightning' Live For First Time
21 апр 2026 :	MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Explains How His Guitar Playing Was 'Very Influential' With All The 'Big Four' Thrash Metal Bands
14 апр 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE's Advice To Young Musicians: 'If You Have A Band, You've Gotta Look At The Performers In The Band'
23 мар 2026 :	DAVE MUSTAINE's 'In My Darkest Hour' Memoir Gets Official Release Date; Book Cover Unveiled
21 мар 2026 :	DIRK VERBEUREN Is 'Pretty Sure' MEGADETH Will Document 'Farewell' Tour With New Live Album: 'I Think It Would Be Cool'
20 мар 2026 :	MEGADETH's DIRK VERBEUREN Says DAVE MUSTAINE Is 'A Total Badass' And 'A True Rock Star'
19 мар 2026 :	TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI Is 'Happy' MEGADETH Recorded Version Of METALLICA's 'Ride The Lightning': 'I Love How It Came Out'
10 мар 2026 :	GLEN DROVER Names Three Guitarists He 'Recommended' To Possibly Replace Him In MEGADETH

15 июл 2026

DAVE MUSTAINE On Recording His Version Of METALLICA's 'Ride The Lightning': 'Some Of It Really Pushed My Vocal Ability'

MEGADETH has released a new "Behind The Song" video in which Dave Mustaine once again speaks about his decision to include his version of "Ride The Lightning", the title track of METALLICA's 1984 album for which he got a co-writing credit following his 1983 departure from the band, on the final MEGADETH album, simply titled "Megadeth". Regarding why he chose this particular METALLICA song to record, Dave said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): " We chose to do a version of 'Ride The Lightning', partly because I wrote with the band on that song. So it just seemed like the natural thing to do — close the circle, pay my respects to the band that I got my break in, and let James [Hetfield, METALLICA guitarist/vocalist] and Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] know how I really feel about stuff. I believe that James is an excellent guitar player and that Lars is an amazing songwriter."

Reflecting on his early days in METALLICA, Mustaine continued: "We were playing one day. We had a guitar player. He says, 'I want to be called Damien Phillips when I get up on stage.' And I went, 'Uh, beat it, buddy.' So we ended up going to the venue, we're playing and I look over and he's got a feather earring in his ear. And I thought, 'Oh, this is gonna be so bad.' So, the next day I got to rehearsal, and he'd been fired, and James is playing guitar. And he's not playing guitar like somebody in this room would. He's playing guitar like me. And I thought, 'No fucking way. This guy is that good, and he doesn't wanna be known for his guitar playing?'"

Mustaine added: "So it was really fun for me to do 'Ride The Lightning' [with MEGADETH]. One of my chords that I invented, the spider chord, where you fret with these two fingers and you fret with these two fingers at the same time and you alternate, that's in 'Ride The Lightning'. It's in [the MEGADETH song] 'Wake Up Dead' also. It's in several songs that I've penned. And we figured if you're gonna do it, you gotta do it at least as good as the version that the original song is or better. So we sped it up a little bit, and at the very end, the drum fill at the very end, there's four drum fills at the end. The last two, I told Dirk [Verbeuren, current MEGADETH drummer], 'Do whatever you want.' And in the solo section, I talked to [current MEGADETH guitarist] Teemu [Mäntysaari], I said, 'Why don't we split it up? You take the first third, I'll take the middle, and you can take the last part.' And we did that, so it would have a little bit of our flair to it. It wouldn't sound too much like Kirk [Hammett, METALLICA guitarist] trying to copy me in the beginning. 'Cause I don't remember what I initially did on 'Ride The Lightning', and I can't find any recordings of me playing it. But I think that the version that we did was great. It honors James's playing and singing. He's a great singer, too. Fuck, I was trying to sing that song and some of it really pushed my vocal ability."

MEGADETH performed its version of "Ride The Lightning" live for the first time during its headlining concert on April 26 at Movistar Arena in Bogota, Colombia.

Mustaine previously discussed his decision to include his version of "Ride The Lightning" on the final MEGADETH album during a February 2026 appearance on SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". Regarding when he came up with the idea to record this particular METALLICA song, Dave said: "Well, we were past the halfway point in the album. 'Cause that song ended up being song number 13. And when the time came to do that, we were talking about — what we usually do is a rendition of somebody's song that we like or something like that, or a remake. And when I was talking with [my son] Justis [who is part of the MEGADETH management team], he had said, 'Why don't you do 'Ride The Lightning'?' And I kind of looked at him like, 'Hmm.' And then I thought about it. I said, 'That's probably a good idea.' And I said, 'Let's try it.' We tried it. It was cool. And I said to the band guys, 'Okay, if we're gonna do this, let's make sure that we do it as good as the original or better.' 'Cause we gotta do that. If we're gonna honor those guys by doing a new version of the song that I did with James, I think it's important to make it as good or better. And what we did was we sped it up a little bit, and the drum fills at the very end, I told Dirk, 'Have fun there. And you can beef it up if you want'. And I talked to Teemu and I said, 'The guitar solo that's in there, try and stay close to it, if you can.' 'Cause it really is Kirk doing an improvisation of what I was doing. 'So, let's have fun with it.' And the solo was a little different — close to the original that Kirk did, but it was a little different. And then there was the singing. James and I have instantly identifiable voices, but they're not at all alike. And I was listening to James sing, and it was fun for me to be able to listen to his vocal parts and break it down and hear how he sings, and then to go back and approach the song and try and sing in my style, which I do believe I put my DNA on that."

Mustaine continued: "It would've been different if I would've done a song by a band I was in that I didn't write. That's kind of like doing a weird nepotistic cover song. But this is one of my songs. So, yeah, I loved doing this. I loved writing it with James, and I loved playing it with MEGADETH."

Asked if he thought MEGADETH would include "Ride The Lightning" in the live set on the current tour, Mustaine said at the time: "Oh, shit, Eddie. You don't have to ask me that. [Laughs] Maybe. Maybe. We do play 'Mechanix'."

Mustaine co-wrote the song "Ride The Lightning" with Hetfield, Ulrich and then-METALLICA bassist Cliff Burton.

"Mechanix" was the original version of "The Four Horsemen", the METALLICA song that was co-written by Mustaine and included on METALLICA's debut album, 1983's "Kill 'Em All". METALLICA wrote new lyrics and renamed the song "The Four Horsemen" after Dave was kicked out of the band. The track "Mechanix" later appeared on MEGADETH's debut album, 1985's "Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good!".

In a separate interview with Spain's MariskalRockTV, Mustaine also spoke about his decision to include his version of "Ride The Lightning" on "Megadeth". Regarding why he chose to record "Ride The Lightning" at this point in his career, Dave said: "Probably 'cause it was the most emblematic of my guitar influence. The spider chord — you know how I do the spider chord. And then there's something called grunting, where I'll hit the chord a half a step below the note I want to go to. I'll fret it and I'll slide into it… It's way heavier. So, to me, I call that grunting. So spider chords and grunting are in 'Ride The Lightning'."

Mustaine continued: "Having written so much of the songs with [METALLICA] — people think I wrote a lot, but on that record ['Ride The Lightning'], it was 'The Call Of Ktulu', which used to be called 'When Hell Freezes Over', and [the title track] 'Ride The Lightning'. And the previous album [METALLICA's 1983 debut, 'Kill 'Em All'] had four songs on it [that I co-wrote]."

Asked if the guitar solo in MEGADETH's version of "Ride The Lightning" is "very close to the original song" because current METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett copied Mustaine's solo from Dave's original version of "Ride The Lightning" with METALLICA, or if Mustaine simply "wanted to respect" Hammett's work by reproducing Hammett's solo from the 1984 album, Dave said: "I think Kirk — if you listen to [METALLICA's 1982] 'No Life 'Til Leather' demo and then you listen to the 'Kill 'Em All' record, it's pretty clear that that Kirk had some instruction [about how to approach the guitar leads on that album]. Was it note for note? No. But it was pretty close. So, when the opportunity came to do 'Ride The Lightning' [with MEGADETH], I didn't really feel like I knew the song very well anymore, and I don't remember what I played on for that song, for 'Ride The Lightning'. I had a hard time finding anything that I played on either. So we just figured, 'Fuck it. [Current MEGADETH guitarist] Teemu [Mäntysaari] and I'll split the solo up, and half of it'll be for him and half of it'll be for me,' and it turned out so that [Teemu] did a little more than half."

In December 2025, Mustaine told Guitar World magazine about his decision to include his version of "Ride The Lightning" on "Megadeth": "The main reason I chose to do this was to close the circle and pay my respects to my partners. I thought this was a really great way to do that.

"Whenever we select any other band's music to go on our albums, sometimes there's a lot of thought behind it and sometimes there's not. This was one of the ones that we thought long and hard about, because all I wanted to do was play the song I wrote with the guys in METALLICA," Mustaine explained. "I wanted to pay my respects to James Hetfield, who I think is an amazing guitar player, and Lars Ulrich, who was an excellent songwriter. I remember when I was there and we were putting these songs together, Lars didn't just sit there; he was very instrumental in making these songs.

"Of course, when we got into making demos of these songs, it was fun to do the recordings, but we were never really able to do a full-on produced version of 'Ride The Lightning' [while I was in METALLICA], and I would have loved to have heard that.

"I gotta tell you — listening back to James's original vocal performance, it was really tremendous," Dave added.

"Anyway, there's no big strategy; I have respect for the guys, and I just wanted to show that. And it's a hell of a song."

Mustaine previously talked about his version of "Ride The Lightning" during an appearance on the December 5, 2025 episode of SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk". Dave said at the time: "We're managed by three men — Danny Nozell, Steve Ross and Justis Mustaine. And we were talking with management, and we were just kind of yacking about what the cover song was gonna be on the record, 'cause we always did cover songs on our records. But this wasn't a cover song, because I wrote it with James. And it just became clear that I should do this, because if I'm going to ride off into the sunset, I wanna pay tribute to the band that I started in, and I wanted to make mention about what I think about James."

Mustaine continued: "I think [James is] an exceptional guitar player. I remember the day that I saw him play guitar for the first time. We were playing at the Whisky [A Go Go in West Hollywood, California]. And we had a guitar player with us, and his name was Brad Parker. And the night of the show he changed it to Damian Phillips. And he showed up at the Whisky in mid-1980s Rudy Sarzo garb. And I thought, 'Wow, that's not gonna go down.' And I looked at him and he had a giant feather earring. And I thought to myself, 'This guy's not gonna be here very long.' So I go to rehearsal, after the show, the next rehearsal I go and there's no Brad, there's no Damian, nobody. It was just James playing guitar — like a motherfucker. And I thought, 'How did this happen? How did this guy go from singer to a great guitar player like this?' And I was excited for me. I was excited for the band. And we started playing then."

As for how "Ride The Lightning" was chosen as the song for MEGADETH to record this time around, Mustaine said: "With the track, choosing that, I figured it should be something that I had something to do with, but I didn't know it was going to turn out like that. Something off of 'Kill 'Em All' would've been obvious, and we already did that [with 'Mechanix']. And so I was thinking about 'Ride The Lightning', and there's only a couple songs on there that I wrote. And I didn't think that 'The Call Of Ktulu' would be the right move, 'cause that's not even how the song was when I was in the band; they changed it so much, so it's not the way that I remember it. So we started doing 'Ride', and it just felt so great, listening to the tracks, listening to James's singing, listening to how the song structure was. It was just great. I loved it. And I've always believed when you do a song from somebody, you've gotta do it as good or better — you've got to. So we sped it up a little bit and we beefed up a couple parts, just to make them a little bit more modern. And there you have it."

Mustaine also previously talked about MEGADETH's version of "Ride The Lightning" last October in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. He said at the time: "It wasn't really that I wanted to do my version. I think that we all wanted it to turn out a certain way, and for me, this was about something so much more than how a song turns out. It was about respect."

Speaking specifically about Hetfield, Mustaine added: "No one ever talks to me about that. One day he's a singer, the next day he's this fucking powerhouse and I've always respected him as a guitar player. So I wanted to do something to close the circle on my career right now, since it started off with [Mustaine's band before METALLICA] PANIC and several of the songs that ended up in the METALLICA repertoire, I wanted to do something that I felt would be a good song."

Elaborating on his reasons for recording "Ride The Lightning" for MEGADETH's final album, Mustaine said: "Our intentions were pure. I didn't have any reason I was going to say, 'Oh, hey man, this thing that we've had for 40 years where you guys will never tour with me, me doing the song is going to change things.' That wasn't it at all. It was more about: This is my life going forward. I want to do things that are respectable. And I think doing something where we can pay honor to the guy that … I mean, I hate to say this, because it's just so fucking arrogant, but the guitar playing in METALLICA changed the world."

In a separate video message, Mustaine said: "So on the new album we recorded 'Ride The Lightning', and the reason we did that was, obviously, it's a song that I had a lot to do with writing it. And James and I, when we were working on the song, it became clear to me, when James first started playing guitar, how good of a guitar player he was. And I thought it would be really cool to close the circle to show respect, to play the songs that I've written with METALLICA and to honor our friendship, even though it's been strained and ruined from emotions over the years when we were not necessarily friendly. But one thing I've always had is I've always had a tremendous respect for James's guitar playing andLars's [Ulrich] songwriting. So, it was cool to do this and add it to the record. We sped it up just a little teeny bit, and we kind of played around a little bit with the solo and Teemu and I both tossed it back and forth to each other. So, you might hear a little bit of some differences with the tempos and, of course, I sing different from James too. But once again, it was about completing the circle and just showing what James and I, as guitar players, did to change the world."

Mustaine was a member of METALLICA for less than two years, from 1981 to 1983, before being dismissed and replaced by Hammett.

Mustaine was not inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with METALLICA during the April 2009 ceremony at Cleveland, Ohio's Public Auditorium. Ulrich later explained to The Plain Dealer that Mustaine "never played on any METALLICA records. No disrespect to him. But there [were] half a dozen other people that were in the lineup in the early days. We thought... the fair thing to do would be to include anybody that played on a METALLICA record." He added: "Dave Mustaine was in the band for eleven months, predominantly in 1982... I'm not trying to play it down. I have nothing but respect and admiration for his accomplishments since."

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15 июл 2026

BasterBaster

"Lars — потрясающий автор песен" Это он так типа подколол)

15 июл 2026

Санчез

Ну хз, не назвал бы эту песню таким уж хитом

"Мы решили записать КАВЕР-ВЕРСИЮ "Ride The Lightning""

Ну наконец то блять, ДЛЯ ЕЩЕ СОМНЕВАЮЩИХСЯ

15 июл 2026

gravitgroove

"И мы сделали так, чтобы в ней прослеживался наш собственный стиль. Чтобы она не звучала так, будто Kirk пытался меня скопировать в самом начале" - можно смеяться над этим бесконечно, ведь к RTL Мастейн не написал ни единой соло-партии, да и на KAA Хэммет переписывал свои соляки по верх уже готовых гармоний, а не копировал нота в ноту.

15 июл 2026

Вашингтон Ирвинг

Странно, что Демьян не рассказал эту историю, как его Мастейн нахуй послал.

15 июл 2026

Вашингтон Ирвинг

На самом деле грустно читать. Замкнуть круг, отдать дань уважения, последний альбом... Устал Дэйв.

15 июл 2026

Санчез

Вашингтон Ирвинг, этО МиТаЛиКа ВиНоВаТа

15 июл 2026

father

«я сказал Dirk'у: "Делай что хочешь"» - и Дирк просто сыграл всю песню точно так же, как Ларс

15 июл 2026

Орион

father, вообще-то барабанную партию Ларсу тоже придумал Мастейн, а Дирк поклоняется Мастейну как божеству трэш-метала.

15 июл 2026

Орион

Судя по его рассказам, Мастейн за свою карьеру написал 2 вида песен:
1. RTL.
2. остальные

15 июл 2026

Rutger

>>>James — превосходный гитарист, а Lars — потрясающий автор песен

Мама русская, а папа юрист)

15 июл 2026

Altair21

Rutger, ну или ещё из подобного:
-Вы еврей по папе или по маме?
-По обстоятельствам

15 июл 2026

Rutger

Altair21, по зятю, как Трамп

15 июл 2026

Pennywise

Rutger, мама алкоголик, а папа датчанин теннесист

15 июл 2026

GlowoErzum

Если петуху отрубить голову, он ещё 10 минут будет говорить о том, что успех Металлики - целиком и полностью его заслуга.

16 июл 2026

overgrin

как с ним Теему мается не понятно...пел.точнее сипел в микрофон бы ,гитара реально лишняя
Столько лет человек играет и ...толку НИХУЯ -это талант :-)

16 июл 2026

Санчез

overgrin, тебе ли пиздеть за талант и умение?

16 июл 2026

resurgamresponses

цит
""""и на гитаре стал играть James. И он играл не так, как другие. Он играл так же, как я. """"
вот такой комплиментик, а ранее такого не было, наоборот """песня была прикольная но записана небрежно""""
в автобиографии мастейн пишет про то что пришел в группу кустарей, любителей, которые даже при прослушивании не стали с ним играть чтобы не показать свой посредственный уровень.

16 июл 2026

resurgamresponses

я думаю что мастейн щас напрашивается на "тур реюньон" с метлой. тон его высказываний сменился и олдовые воспоминания сменились - частично

17 июл 2026

mohnatiy

resurgamresponses, хуюион. Наркоман-инвалид, который уже не то что петь не может, а и играть нормально, будет послан нахуй. Зачем это метле, когда они и без этой обиженки набирают по 100к на стадионах?