How Did Megadeth Survive Grunge? - David Ellefson
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- In this clip, David Ellefson discusses how metal bands like Megadeth survived the '90s grunge explosion. Hear about the rise of Nirvana and Pearl Jam, the fall of '80s hair bands, and the role of MTV in this seismic shift. Get an insider's view on how metal adapted to and thrived amidst the changing music landscape.
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The reason these metal bands survived was also due to PANTERA's rise to prominence. Grunge didn't really kill good metal, it wiped out the worst of glam and the older L.A. acts.
Let's not forget that Far Beyond Driven was a #1 album in 94, it wasn't as if Seattle killed metal, that's revisionist history.
Seattle didn't kill metal, David Geffen did.
@@MetalPersonJ To an extent, yes....but MTV had more power than he did to shape the tastes and create popularity.
MTV had become the most powerful music promotional tool in the music industry, without MTV support a band/album would go nowhere, even if they were Nirvana or Soundgarden.
Ill take "glam and the older L.A. acts" over grunge any day.
Pantera has no significance.
@@captainjefferies9047 eh....they had some significance
He's always been my favorite person from Megadeth... just a cool ass guy
Dave Mustaine new exactly how to survive grunge, he wore flannel shirts during that time, seriously though I love Megadeth
I was going to reply with that. It is funny when you think of it....Sept 1990 Rust In Peace comes out and they are dressed in bullet belts, tight jeans....very 80s. Nevermind is released exactly 12 months later Sept 1991. We will never see an culture shift like that in style/music again that fast. With that said Megadeth thrived in 92 but as you said they did smartly adjust just a tiny bit of the image but not enough to alienate fans. They still had the long hair and playing aggressive looking Jacksons.
He did what he always did, copied whatever Metallica did on their last album.
What a great interview and what a cool guy.
Megadeth never made it .sounds like Dave’s playing through a walkie talkie. Garbage
Alice In Chains always forgotten. Rip Layne & Mike
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Great Band
I know! Makes me sad TBH. Soundgarden is awesome, but Chains takes the top.
Ur seriously In need of ur meds 😂
I was 12 when NEVERMIND was released and into MTV hair culture from age 9 or 10. I attended Ozzfest 1998. I think Dave has an excellent view of the 90’s here.
That was a depressing time for me as far as music goes.
It's like music got worse and didn't progress but regressed.
If The Aristocrats came out in the 90's and set the stage that would've worked out for me! (;
i guess depends on what you listened to. there was a lot of great albums in the 90s
id say 2010s music completely nosed dived if into rock/metal
Super cool take on it. He’s not just saying Nirvana either. I mean he mentioned Temple of the Dog. Well said. I live all guitar rock!!
All the thrash metal bands survived grunge. Because it was still heavier than grunge. 90's metal thanks for keeping it alive in tough times.
No many of them vanished but many death metal bands survived then came the second wave of black metal then newer forms of power metal.
@@DaveBoswell-lz3kc I was in a Death Metal band in 1996-1999. Today I kinda group all heavy forms of music as metal.
And the grunge scene burnt out in a few short years and 80s rock and metal endured.
Yep. But death metal and the second wave of black metal saved everything
Metallica, Megadeth and Pantera had their biggest selling albums during grunge. And it was because of their harder edge which served them well commercially during grunge as it was seen as more authentic than Motley crue and Poison.
Plus Mettalica and Megadeth, and Slayer, had heavy punk influences just like grunge.
they did and in the case of metallica and megadeth they would have done better if they didn't adopt softer music/image in the mid to late 90s like metallica cutting their hair and softer music or like megadeth going more radio friendly and ending with risk which was a disaster
this is where pantera did the smartest thing and went harder and harder as the 90s went on leading them to keep more and more of their fan base though to be fair metallica was so big it didnt matter what they did
Dude most of the thrash bands like Exodus, Death Angel, Forbidden, Vio-lence, Dark Angel vanished along with glam acts it was just simply the record labels that wanted to try to kill off metal using grunge as the tool.
Exploded but wasn't around very long. Kinda like punk
They trimmed their hair and wore flannel. Dave M. said the record label made them wear flannel in the photo shoots, he said looks angry in those photos because he was. He hated wearing flannel. Man in the Box was an okay song, but Alice in Chains did nothing for me, still don't.
They wore flannel before they cut their hair though… There are a lot of photos from the ‘Symphony of Destruction’ era. The label ‘forced’ them on every picture? 🤔 I don’t think you could force Mustaine to do that.
@@johnnyriffs Dave Mustaine's own words. Whether you think anyone could force him to or not is irrelevant, because that's what happened.
Metal being on the outs in the 90’s wasn’t really the result of grunge taking over, it was the reaction of mainstream metal artists second guessing their audience by attempting to go alternative.
David got caught playing pocket pool 🎱
That's easy! Megadeth was a Hella lot better than grunge band. That's how they survived, it's called talent. 😃
The 90s was a great time, so much diversity.
real
Watch him become a GAaAaAaAad!!
Only song you know from Megadeth?
If you were underground metal grunge didn’t matter 😊
Dave forgot pantera was AWSOME in the 90 far beyond driven was nr 1on the billbord list i think the heaviest band metal band of all time rip dimebag and vinne
I just aggressively scratched my fart hole.
Great music always survives especially with a band like Megadeth🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
I never understood why grunge got popular. There was no more solo's.. I thought man these bands just don't have the skill to play solo's I guess? But no lose they came and are gone. I don't care if i get hate.
It got popular by over exploitation by the music industry and labels. But didn't last very long.
Toilet grunge,,,,,,,,,, I'm sorry sinK stankE grunge is still alive and well. That's why you see more clicks on the intro to Lay it down by Ratt vs toilet grunge popularity. Depression at its BEST. Alice In Chains and Sound Garden are *not* toilet grunge they're rock n heavy roll.
Nope grunge is completely dead and gone along with nu-metal😂😂😂😂 and Pearl Jam can't even make an album to save what's left of them pure toilet bowl grunge.
@@DaveBoswell-lz3kc Agree, I was just being a Smart A$$ : D peace