Very Old Barton

I'll cut this right to the chase:  Very Old Barton 100 proof bottled in bond bourbon.  I paid 15 dollars and change for a fifth - including taxes.  How does it taste?  Good.  Closest analogue?  Old Fitzgerald.  No strong rye kick like Old Grand-Dad, and an almost almondy nutty undertone.  Definitely a buy.

Unrelated tangent:  This song was in my head all week.



boy is that a terrible video!

Also this would be a good song if Dave didn't put so much crap production into the song.  I now understand the pain of Android users with their "bloatwear". I hate to sound like grandpa creapo always drinking whiskey and yellin' "stripped down and raw" because that might give you nightmares about what I do to your grandma but holy hell Dave Mustaine is like some guy that buys those goddamn Thomas Kinkade plates.




Dave Mustaine's musical tastes in the form of a plate.

Wait what was I talking about?  Oh yeah, simpler isn't always better but when it comes to producing Megadeth then yes.

Full disclosure, I actually bought a copy of The System Has Failed, the first Megadeth album I bought since Hidden Treasures.  Man wasn't Go to Hell an awesome song?

The Beavis and Butthead prophecies

Once upon a time Beavis and Butthead opined that Jeff Walker from Carcass sounded like Dave Mustaine.  I thought that was crazy at the time, they hardly sounded alike at all.



Low and behold Jeff Walker puts out Welcome to Carcass Cuntry and guess what?  He sounds just like Dave Mustaine.



If I hadn't told you, might you have thought it was some shitty Megadeth B side from Risk?

What other observations did Beavis and Butthead make that will come true?  We must work together to decipher the Beavis and Butthead prophecies.

Megadeth = Dad rock

I'm going to come out and say what everyone is thinking.  Megadeth at some point became a dadrock band.  Just check out this video for Motocyco:



Totally dadrock.  Yeah you're tough riding your Harley on weekends when your ex has the kids.  Motocyco, that's you when the insurance office closes for a 3 day weekend.  It's going to be crazy man.  A six pack of Heineken, some baby back ribs, and The Lethal Weapon on DVD.  Anything can happen!



Yeah crush 'em! That's what you do on summer evenings on your 40 and over softball league.  You'll show 'em.

And you know you're a badass when you crank Walk Alone in the church parking lot at the bake sale.  All those old church ladies get grumpy, but like you explained to Pastor Jones, it is a Christian song about walking with the Lord.  Deal with it.

So what do you think?  I think Megadeth became Dadrock with Cryptic Writings (or as I call it Craptic Writings).  My wife thought Dave sounded tired on The System has Failed, like he would rather be doing something else than making heavy metal.  And I agree.  I almost feel sorry for Dave.  What if your career was doing something that you eventually grew tired of doing?  I can see getting tired of doing something after 30 years.  It is easy for me to get into dirty old school thrash metal because I hate my life.  But what if you had a mansion with horses and a wife and kids that made every day awesome?  How hard would it be to channel that angst you felt when you worked at a gas station making minimum wage and drank bottom shelf whiskey and spent most nights with Miss Michigan?

Casual Friday

It's casual Friday, and you know what that means. That means we all get to wear jeans. Even Dave Mustaine. Fuck yeah.

You didn't get the memo? Well jeez I'm sorry. Dave got the memo.



Here he is on the Arsenio Hall show wearing jeans, because it's casual Friday. His sleeves are rolled up because Friday is still a work day and there's so many files to work doggone-it.

Foreclosure: oh snap!

Remember when I was thinking of a good Great Recession song? Of course! Foreclosure of a Dream!



Back when Megadeth was cool. Fuck yes. And man is it eerie how appropriate this is considering it is from 1992. I wish I had been pimping this song 2 years ago!