Message #4884

[Hammy]

With the release of his upcoming biography Hello Me ... Meet The Real Me, MEGADETH frontman DAVE MUSTAINE hopes readers will gain a better understanding of his turbulent past. Mustaine worked on his book for much of the last year with co-writer Joe Layden, who also wrote The Last Great Fight, about the legendary 1990 boxing match between James 'Buster' Douglas and Mike Tyson, in which Douglas scored a tenth-round knockout. The book is tentatively scheduled for release in late 2010. Like many musician autobiographies, Hello Me ... Meet the Real Me provides an honest, confessional perspective on life on the road and in the spotlight. But unlike some, it's not simply a tell-all story of decadence and debauchery. "That stuff is mundane," Mustaine says. "We come to expect that from rock stars, so why would I talk about it? Everybody knows it happened. I want to talk about things that are way more important. There's stuff in there about how the band was formed, why I chose to sing, how the different band members came and went, how different songs were written, stuff that happened through the addictions and rehabs. And when I got done reading it for the first time, when I closed the last page I actually had tears in my eyes because somebody had finally gotten who I am as a person in print."