have performed 1988 song live for the first time in 18 years. The American thrash metal force played the track at their concert at the Youtube Theater in Los Angeles on Friday (August 9). It was last performed during the band’s tour of Asia and Australia in October 2006.
Watch the footage of the song’s comeback below. Megadeth singer/guitarist wrote ’s lyrics as an attack on the band’s former guitarist Chris Poland. Along with drummer Gar Samuelson, Poland was fired from Megadeth following the tour for 1986 album for disruptive behaviour stemming from heroin abuse.
Poland was also accused of selling the band’s musical equipment to fund his addiction. Poland confirmed that was written about him in a 2022 interview with . “Oh, yeah.
Obviously, Dave was very upset with me when I left the band – when he fired me, basically,” the guitarist said (via ). When asked if the lyrical scathing made him angry, Poland said no and hinted towards Mustaine’s own heavy drug use at the time: “It’s like the pot calling the kettle black, man. When you point your finger, man, there’s three pointing back at you.
I just rolled my eyes and was like, ‘Really?’” Mustaine and Poland seemingly mended fences by 2004, as the guitarist played on the Megadeth album . However, their relationship soon soured again, when Poland sued Mustaine over the inclusion of three demos on a 2004 re-release of 1990 album . Megadeth – now rounded out by guitarist Teemu Mäntysaari, bassist J.