Dave Mustaine fra det etterhvert famøse intervjuet (Foto: Stephan Reis / NRK Lydverket)

I går truet Megadeth-sjefen Lydverkets reporter med bank. I natt gikk han enda lengre, for så å angre seg.

I et svar til Dave Mustaines trussel som ble publisert på Lydverkets nettside, og kjapt sitert i andre norske og internasjonale medier, sa reporter Kristin Winsents at hun ikke tok trusselen alvorlig. Hun presiserte også at hun prøvde å følge retningslinjene som ble satt for intervjuet, som blant annet var å unngå å prate om Metallica, men at det var Mustaine som dro opp tematikken.
- Når man har vært en av metalens superstjerner i snart tredve år bør man jo skjønne hva et intervju handler om. Jeg er journalist, ikke en del av fanklubben hans, sa Winsents i går.

Men Mustaine var ikke enig og i natt, norsk tid skrev han en ny tirade på Megadeths forum som Blabbermouth.net kjapt publiserte:

You have got to be kidding! As if there aren’t enough stupid people in the world. Now I have some ‘thing’ reading my post in my forum from me — a guy who is notoriously a wise guy (since she doesn’t seem very bright, I’ll give you a clue — I mean me), AND I PURPOSELY SAID ‘GUY’ FOR A REASON, SO THIS SELF-CENTERED SCRIBE would say, ‘Well he has got to be joking, because I am (maybe not) a girl.’

Did you think I was going to like it? Deep down inside, are you that mean-spirited that you had to do this to me? DO we REALLY need one more person asking me about [METALLICA], or do we really need one more person to jump on me?

Oh yeah, we wouldn’t have you in our fanclub: even MEGADETH has standards. Instead, you insult someone who is reasonably smart, and say I don’t remember you were a girl. And people wonder why I want to have my interviews monitored; because of assholes who keep asking the METALLICA questions. You show the clip that says, ‘I am tired of being second,’ and then you cleverly cut to «Crush ‘Em» and play the line that says, ‘You’ll never be more than second best?’

You disgust me!

Besides not being very clever, being an instigator, and just plain not very smart, you can now add ‘gullible’ to the litany of tabloid rag journalism credits you’ve amassed over your illustrious career (NOT!). Oh, by the way, if those credits mattered before, they don’t matter anymore now that you are just a trash novelist.

When you have credits in the USA, then you will matter to me.

And while you’re at it, why don’t you put the entire interview up, so that people can see that I said that I don’t want to answer it; so that people will see just how you really are. Just disgraceful! I hope you don’t have any children that will follow in your claw prints.

That was a long interview and you cut it up for your own benefit. You didn’t play one note of our new record. Nothing. Am I supposed to say, ‘Wow, what a funny bitch?’

We were promoting our new record Endgame, since you probably don’t know the name of it (add to list of several billion things you don’t know) and you didn’t say shit about it. NOTHING.

Did you think that I came all the way to Germany and the UK to sit down and have you try to humiliate me? What the fuck is wrong with you??? Shame on you and shame on your shitty style — OR LACK THEREOF. More like shame on whoever gave you anything better than a dismissive wave and a parting gift.

The problem, is, NOW I really am pissed, and YESTERDAY I was joking. And frankly, if you are a noteworthy journalist, host or presenter I feel sorry for the good people of Norway.

In closing, I am not going to put you in the hospital, since you clearly don’t know that it was a JOKE (and I do know you were/are a female). Frankly, I wouldn’t even slap you, because shit splatters.

En knapp time senere, fulgte Mustaine opp med en noe mildere kommentar på samme forum.

Now that I am awake, I have had a chance to think about what I have said and I have handled this wrong. I was deeply offended by what I saw in an interview yesterday, and I posted something. I made a mistake saying something.

I read the journalist’s reply, and I am glad she laughed it off, and I wanted to delete my previous post this morning, but not until I wrote this.

Kristin, we will never be friends, but thank you for not taking this serious.

Winsents har kommentert de seneste utspillene fra Mustaine til nrk.no.

Lydverket publiserer intervjuet med Dave Mustaine i sin helhet på mandag.

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