Finally back again with a new bootleg! This week’s Bi-Weekly Bootleg is a recording of an early Megadeth show in San Francisco, California that is thought to be the band’s third show ever. Here’s the setlist:

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Dave Mustaine. If you’re into hard rock and heavy metal (and I fucking hope you are if you’re at this site), you know who he is and have some kind of opinion. Love him or hate him, he is undoubtedly one of the most famous names in all of heavy metal and rock ‘n roll history. If you thought you knew everything about him, think again. You’ll learn a lot about his upbringing, his battles with religion, discovering the glory of rock ‘n roll, when he started playing music, his first bands, his first meeting with Lars Ulrich, life in Metallica and his dismissal, the formation of Megadeth, his rise to musical glory, and all the turmoil that surrounded every piece of it from his drug and alcohol addictions and all his former and current band members. You watch the man rise and fall so many times that you wonder if he really was born with a horseshoe up his ass like James Hetfield once put it.

This book is absolutely full of everything you thought it would include. Drugs? Check. Alcohol? Check. Sex? Check. Rock ‘n roll? Check. Violence? MULTIPLE trips to rehab? Turning to Jesus? Check! Check! Check! Now, a great deal of these stories I have already heard in some fashion, but some of these stories are just too hilarious not to mention. I’m not going to give it all away, but some scenes like the man feeding a deer in his underwear, the gay record company guy with ecstasy, and how he twelve-stepped David Ellefson inadvertently after paying him to attend Alcoholics Anonymous for him are just three of the classic moments that made me sit at my desk at work, shake my head, and just start laughing to myself. Of course, it’s not all funny, not by a long shot, but the humor that laces the entire book just makes it much more down to earth and endearing than watching a Behind the Music on VH1.

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