Megadeth's Dave Mustaine Reveals The First Album He Bought

(TeamRock) Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was asked by TeamRock to reveal the first album that he ever bought and his answer was KISS' sophomore effort "Hotter Than Hell." Here is an excerpt of what Dave had to say:

I was a little pothead so I did a lot of bartering and trading albums for pot, but the first rock record I had was Kiss' Hotter Than Hell, but I didn't really pay for it!

The album cover drew me to the record. Looking at the cover on the front I thought it was hideous artwork until I turned it over and saw Gene Simmons sitting in the throne holding a topless girl with a star over her nipple. I thought, 'This is gonna be great!'

Kiss' in your face attitude that Gene's always had really attracted metalheads. A lot of people misunderstand him, he's extremely extremely dry, and I think that just pushing things over the edge is very metal. One of the songs that I really dig is Parasite - just the riff! It's so down and dirty and at the time nobody was really doing that kind of stuff. You had Deep Purple, you had Zeppelin and stuff like that that, but in terms of big bands that people knew about there was nobody like Kiss. And Kiss were still quite underground at the time, but they had the formula that just sucked you in. You either loved them or you loved to hate them. Read more here.

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