Former Megadeth guitarist Jeff Young recently addressed allegations made by Dave Mustaine in an interview on Full in Bloom. Young directly contested Mustaine’s claims regarding his departure from the band and the early cancellation of an Australian tour.
Jeff Young talks about Dave Mustaine
When asked about Mustaine’s assertion that Young was responsible for leaving Australia early due to heroin use, Young responded with sharp criticism.
“Yeah, that’s calling the kettle black if I ever heard,” Young said. “Blame-shifting. Is that what we call that? Cowardly lying. Buck passing. What do we call that? I think we all know who ran out of heroin. I think we all know Jeff Young didn’t have the power to cancel that tour.”
Young highlighted that he maintained a straight edge lifestyle during his time with Megadeth. He suggested this contributed to the brevity of his tenure in the band.
“I was a straight edge when I met those guys,” Young explained. “So you can imagine it wasn’t a great deal of fun for me. That probably speaks to why my tenure in the band was so short because I didn’t want to be around the junk.”
Young also noted a broader pattern of criticism from Mustaine toward former band members. “He said negative things about Chris, Marty, me, Nick,” Young stated. “It’s a tradition, you know, and all of the ex-Megadeth members, we’re all friends and we have a commiseration society. Everyone’s cool but one person.”
Young previously called out Mustaine as a “pathological liar” as well, over the narrative surrounding the ‘So Far, So Good… So What!’ tour cancellation.
