Aerosmith Why The Band Fired Megadeth From Tour & Hated Dave Mustaine

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Aerosmith took out a variety of bands on their Get a Grip tour including Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 4 non blondes, soul asylum, collective soul and therapy?. One of the strangest openers was Megadeth given the band’s different style of music. According to the book Rust in Peace: The Inside Story of the Megadeth Masterpiece Mustaine’ struggled with addiction and the only reason the band was on tour with Aerosmith is because the band’s handlers thought in order for mustaine to stay sober he should only be on sober tours. Because of Mustaine’s struggles with addiction the band missed out on some big opportunities including opening for Pantera the same year.
Bassist David Ellefson wrote in is autobiography My Life with Deth: Discovering Meaning in a Life of Rock & Roll things seemed to get off to a bit of a rocky start. Two shows into the tour Mustaine was unhappy with production issues. According to ellefson the band wasn’t getting a soundcheck or sufficient space on stage, meaning the stage had no special backdrop or feeling of being a megadeth show. Ellefson and Mustaine felt that they had already paid their dues and they weren’t some unknown band Aerosmith would typically take on the road. Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler talked to Ellefson and Mustaine directly to smooth things over. It would turn out that Tyler who had gone through his own addictions a decade prior had offered his help to Ellefson at one point prior to the tour who wasalso sturggling with addiction. Remembering that important moment in his life bassist thanked the singer for his help. Tyler was now offering Mustaine any help he needed to stay clean. Things seemed to turnr around at that point or so Megadeht thought. Mustaine would tell the houston chronicle that assurances made to the band about their sound check, playing time, signage, and stage space fell short of what he was promised. Mustaine’s frustrations only grew from there. The interviewer who was at a show in Houston where Megadeth opened for Aerosmith remembered the frontman’s combative and angry attitude in the comments he made to the audience.
7 dates into the tour the band was apparently fired by aoersmith.
Megadeth’s label Capitol Records issued a statement at the time claiming the band quit the tour over ''artistic restrictions” Aerosmith didn’t see it that way as Guitarist Joe Perrry would tell Entertainment Weekly and hint that the band were wimps claiming
”With Megadeth we thought we had a hard-rockin’ animal…that would lubricate the first 10 rows and get the audience ready for us.
Entertainment Weekly supposedly spoke to a person who worked with Aerosmith who claimed it was Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine who was the real reason they were dropped from the tour claiming Mustaine, was a giant pain in the butt saying”He would piss and moan and whine,” ”What he was really upset about was they (Aerosmith) weren’t hanging out with him.”.
Mustaine claimed for his part they walked away from teh tour saying “it’s hard to dunk on someone when they’re walking away.”
There were aparently several moments on tour that created bad blood with Aerosmith. According to spin magazine Mustaine allegedly blew his nose into an aerosmith t-shirt during the tour, something Mustaine didn’t fully deny, but maintained it wasn’t an Aerosmith shirt. Another sore point was a radio interview Mustaine’s gave in which.
He said “Yeah, we think we oughta be headlining, but we don't mind because everyone knows this is Aerosmith's last hurrah." Mustaine would tell Spin Magzine that by the time he made those comments on radio they already wanted off the tour. Steven Tyler replied, in the press saying"Dave, we'd like to help you out. Which way did you come in? Ouch
Ellefson would reveal in his book how the band learned about how they were fired. The band was in lubbock, texas ahead of a scheduled show and went to a local mexican restaurant where the waitress who waiting on their table informed them that she had heard that jackyl was opening for Aerosmith that night, not Megadeth. Ellefson felt deflated given that they had also lost the opportunity to tour with Pantera and White Zombie , and had to cancel Japan not once but twice.Ellefson would also claim in his book that it would soon spell the beginning of the end for guitarist Marty Freidman.
Mustaine reflected back on where the anger came from during an inteview with the houston press revealing