the only megadeth show i saw was in hawaii where they broke up that night
they were like 2 hours late and angry boy did that gig chew satchel
out of all the axemen musty hired i liked how poland turned out the best
marty tried to get all exotic euro uli with an asian twist--the koto scales and bends yet all i really remember of him was:
really dirty fingernails teaching at hot licks in waikiki and at my friends house 3 blocks from me.
barging in on his teenage students gig at a private party in hawaii when he was in his late 20's and try to steal the show,
playing with the band hawaii at the coconut teaser in waikiki and during his unaccompanied guitar solo, laying on the ground in the audience 3 feet away from me, spinning on his back and kicking his leg warmer covered getaway sticks, as he inadverently dislodged his 100 foot guitar cable from his 2 mxr distortion boxes in series feeding his dimed marshall stack rocketing full twitch-inducing white noise into the PA and knives into my earholes, as he scambled back to his feet stumbling to the stage in a panic, and tried to save the moment-GONG-
last seeing him with jason becker in fullerton at goodies for a clinic where jay jay unintentionally mopped the floor with the friedenator during a lick tradeoff. they had just received their ADA preamps that weekend and were excited about that. the cacophany concert that night was basically sheer sonic discomfort. unable to discern notes like marching around a public bathroom banging two trashcan lids together loud and colonic altering lows in way too small a room.
megadeths finest hour was hiring vinnie colautia to play srums on an album.