’s Dave Mustaine once cancelled neck surgery at the last possible minute because ’s manager insulted him. The singer/guitarist relays what happened in a new appearance on the podcast, hosted by legend Steve-O. He alleges that – during the 2010–2011 Big Four tour featuring Metallica, Megadeth, and – Metallica’s manager called him a “pussy” for almost dropping out of a concert to go under the knife and fix a previous neck injury.
“I remember we were scheduled to play Yankee Stadium [in New York] with the Big Four concert the day that they found out I needed my neck to be fused together,” Mustaine says (via ). “And so I’m laying on the emergency table and my manager says, ‘Oh, Metallica’s manager called you a pussy because you’re going to get your neck fused together and you’re not going to come out here and play instead.’” The frontman deemed the comment “a gutless thing to say” and responded in the most dramatic terms.
While on the surgeon’s table before the procedure could get underway, Mustaine sat up, had the doctor ingest him with “steroids and shit”, went and played the show, then came back. “But it turned out great as far as healing is concerned,” he claims. Mustaine suffered from stenosis, which he’s stated in previous interviews was caused by decades of headbanging onstage.
During the conversation, he says his two affected vertebrae will eventually need “some kind of special care and attention”. “I don’t plan .
