During a discussion with LifeMinute, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine was asked what he thinks music does for people.
“It depends. If you believe all of the colloquies about music, there’s all kinds of sayings and stuff. The one that comes to mind first with your question is music soothes the savage beast. And I don’t know who coined that phrase, but it’s pretty accurate, depending on the type of music,” he replied. “ Now, if you play modern metal with the guys that can’t sing and they do the screaming bit, that’s really understandable to me, ’cause they can’t sing and they’re making the best of what they can do.”
Mustaine continued about Limp Bizkit’s era: “There was a period in 2000 where we had these bands called — I think it was ‘nu metal’, and they didn’t do any solos. Well, why didn’t they do any solos? They couldn’t do solos. And thank God that genre went away. People started to learn how to do solos. I would say, if you’re in a ‘nu metal’ band, you probably would be challenged even playing ‘Johnny B. Goode’ [1958 rock and roll classic by Chuck Berry]. So I’m glad that went away.”
