![]() Mustaine told Loudwire that he was put off by Friedman's financial demands when the topic of a "Rust In Peace" reunion was broached. If I'm going to do that, I'm certainly not going to lose money to do that I was doing great on my own in Japan." I felt like I would be going out there and tour and it was going to be Mustaine's big success. I didn't feel that kind of camaraderie, the four-man diamond, THE BEATLES, KISS, METALLICA. ![]() "But, at the end of the day, MEGADETH is so much Mustaine because that's the way he engineered it. "Had it been more of a band situation and not such a one-man, Dave Mustaine-main-man party, I might have considered doing it for a little less," Marty said. I had reached the point where people stopped immediately connecting me to MEGADETH and were talking about the things that I had done in Japan."Īccording to Friedman, part of the reason he turned down the MEGADETH reunion is the fact that the group is largely seen as Mustaine's solo project, with members coming and going every couple of albums. It wasn't like MEGADETH was on the tip of people's tongues, at least not in Japan. I didn't know about how relevant they continued to be in the music business. A couple of members of the band had recently quit, and musically I hadn't heard anything that they've done in a long time. "But I was certainly not going to take a loss to join a band that, frankly, at that point, didn't seem like they had too much to offer musically. "Everything was sound and solid professionally, and when the offer came up to all of a sudden join MEGADETH again, as long as I would not be making less money, I was ready to go," he said. My manager has been with me fifteen years. I was making money not only for myself but also for my management and staff. ![]() "I'd been in Japan for more than ten years cultivating a career with solid rewards. "My main thing was I'd be happy to do it, but I'm not going to take less money than I'm already making to do it," Marty said in part. The opportunity for MEGADETH's most celebrated lineup to regroup arose following the departures of guitarist Chris Broderick and drummer Shawn Drover in 2014.įriedman had met with mainman Dave Mustaine and bassist David Ellefson at the 2015 NAMM show in Anaheim, California to discuss a reunion of the "Rust In Peace" lineup, which would have seen him and drummer Nick Menza back in the mix.įriedman, who moved from America to Japan in 2003, opened up about about his reasons for turning down the MEGADETH reunion in Mustaine's new book, "Rust In Peace: The Inside Story Of The Megadeth Masterpiece", which details the making of the iconic record "Rust In Peace". Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman has admitted that money was a major motivator for him when he was approached about taking part in a reunion of the band's "Rust In Peace" lineup more than five years ago.
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