I actually was at this show, it was wild! I think it was billed as Dave's Birthday party. I still have the newspaper clipping put up. Drank too much Jaeger, and got thrown out into a back alley with a bunch of other people. I crouched behind a door and when they tossed the next guy, I ducked under them and ran back in. They chased me until I got back into the crowd. Made it back up front for one of the best shows ever, then afterwards passed out on someone's car until my friends found me. I still have the green guitar pick from that night. I've played guitar for like 27 years, but that is the only pick I've never used. Thanks for all the music guys, we jam all the time at my house! ;)

@ZacRayJCCI

9 жыл бұрын

Holy &$(*, I just found me, lol. At 46:40, a backstage camera zooms in on 2 girls in the front of the crowd. See the dude over their shoulder, wearing a Metallica T-shirt and waving his arm around like a fool? That is me, lol! Rocking my only-sat-in-California military haircut, my bangs were like 5 inches long. I was 19 at the time. Glad I found this, too freakin cool!! My 11 year old daughter is a huge Megafan and is also learning to play guitar. The curse lives on!! This made our day.

@BladeHudson

9 жыл бұрын

ZacRayJCCI major cool points lol

@SpokenBroke

8 жыл бұрын

+ZacRayJCCI Found it. After 25 years, I took it off the news paper clipping I had it taped to and looked at the back. It turns out bassist David Ellefson tossed it into the crowd that night. Here it is... facebook.com/zac.ray.9275/posts/401757903366272

@henriksotto8497

5 жыл бұрын

That's great🤣

@jadepayne5447

4 жыл бұрын

Liar

Dave looks so good, and his hair was so beautiful and healthy OMG

@josemiguelcastiblancogomez7723

Жыл бұрын

He was sober around this time

@gavinwurm3097

4 ай бұрын

@@josemiguelcastiblancogomez7723 Temporarily sober

I love it how the camera zooms in on "megadeath" like the guy's saying "you've gotta be fucking kidding me"

@jesussoto6855

2 жыл бұрын

minute?

Dave Mustaine: "We are going on at nine fifteen not nine, I wanna watch the premiere of the simpsons!".

people who attended these early megadeth concerts .. lived their best lives!! i wish i could’ve been born to see this live

THAT "Lucretia" solo!!!! Just THAT!!

@drums5050

Жыл бұрын

Favourite solo on par with vortex, and even more than Tornado dude, that solo is so sexy it’s obvious genius.

Man dave elefsons accuracy during rattlehead is scary good. Metal is lucky to have a musician like that

This is being on tour...25% jamming, 65% standing around waiting, 10% sleeping

"Gotta watch the Simpsons" priceless Mustaine!

@FreneticZetetic

5 жыл бұрын

This video captures so much of the essence of 1990, I love it.

@FunFactory00

3 жыл бұрын

Which time did he sayed that?

@roxannediltz

2 жыл бұрын

@@FunFactory00 11:44

00:00 Backstage 00:54 soundchek 34:35 Intro 35:28 Rattlehead 39:48 Hangar 18 45:11 In my darkest hour 51:55 Holy wars 58:13 Backstage 1:00:02 Good mourning black friday 1:06:10 Liar 1:10:25 Anarchy in Uk 1:15:00 Birthday

@brunodk11

5 жыл бұрын

up

@guitarforall262

3 жыл бұрын

good ol megadeth

@enderred7426

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

Nick Menza is such a dude. It’s so awesome to see him chatting and joking with the staff backstage. He’s always been one of my top favorite Megadeth drummers. Beast on the drum set and a sweet guy backstage

Rest In Peace Nick 😭

absolute perfection. pure thrash metal ... that bass, drums , tone, perfect.

Dave's little trick to stomp foot every time he sings so he doesn't mess the riff timing....

0:56 how easily they played lucretia be it the nick menza or marty or dave or elleffson ...... The ease they play with and sounds exactly like the records

@spencerparker4489

4 жыл бұрын

Guess it's pretty easy to play if you're the one who wrote it.

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

This lineup will always be the real Megadeth. It is tragic that Nick Menza had to leave the band in 1998 then Marty Friedman chose to leave two years later. Any hope for a reunion with this lineup died right along with Nick in 2016.

00:54 soundchek 34:35 Intro 35:28 Rattlehead 39:48 Hangar 18 45:11 In my darkest hour 51:55 Holy wars 58:13 Backstage 1:00:02 Good mourning black friday 1:06:10 Liar

IIRC...This show was from a short warm up tour of the west coast just prior to joining the Painkiller Tour (Judas Priest, Megadeth, Testament). The shows were unannounced and billed under "Vic & The Rattleheads" The band hadn't toured in over two years and just completed recording Rust in Peace (which had not yet been released). This was Nick and Marty's first set of live shows playing with Megadeth. Other dates on this tour (from memory) were The Phoenix Theater - Petaluma, The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, The Wilson Theater - Fresno, Riverside Theater - Riverside, and others.... This was a very exciting time for the band; they were sober, incredibly focused, and on top of their game.

I was at this show (20 years ago already, wow!?!). It's still the best metal show I've ever seen. The sound was just incredible. The loudest concert I've ever attended, but the sound was just perfect! The floor was moving under my feet.

@Ezekiel336

Жыл бұрын

31 years ago now lol

@TheGabrielSevero123

7 ай бұрын

Lucky you man, lucky you

When I see Dave Mustaine, I see someone who will never be forgotten even a thousand years from now,his music will live on,just like Achilles was a great warrior to ancient Greece,their legends will prosper till the end of time! The "Thrash" God's will welcome him into Metal Heaven!🤘💯

not even one fucking cell phone recording, thats heaven

@jakeh6980

Жыл бұрын

Smartphones and technology in general has ruined civilization. I wish we can just go back and just keep reliving the 80’s and 90’s

@dehypnotizerz

5 ай бұрын

​@@jakeh6980Amen to that. Then there were fucking social media, but you're right, without the damn smartphones we wouldn't have destroyed our civilization.

Good Mourning/Black Friday.. what a thrashterpiece!

I was at this show...such a trip to see the behind the scenes of this...I'm almost positive but this was a "Vic and the Rattlehead's" show that was coined as "comes celebrate Dave's Mustains birthday"...A band called Excel opened which I loved but was a dramatically different vibe...this was before Rust in Peace even came out so hearing Hanger 18 was a first...amazing footage that brings me way back....

22:45 "Hey where's my bullet belt?" "Right here -" "- No, that's Dave's" .\m/

@jeremyadriani539

7 жыл бұрын

nailspine hello

@livon7533

4 жыл бұрын

LOL

I can watch these videos a thousand times over. Somebody get them all on some sort of Blu-ray Megadeth release. 🤘🏼🤘🏼

i notice one thing in watching these vault videos. Mustaine was on a different level. he was always busier than the other guys. Marty, nick and Dave E. were usually goofing around and being silly or lighthearted, which is totally cool. I get it, Ive been in bands for most of my life and the guy with the most responsibility is always more serious and busy. I love these videos and I think this was always his best lineup. Ive always heard that Mustaine was really cool and also that he was a jerk but I understand that he is probably really cool in personal life but he's got a business that hes responsible for so he needs to have an edge.

1:09:30 - LMAO!!! Everyone is sweating their asses off, except Marty. He seems like he is just warming up...

You can tell by the way they other three play around back stage that the pressure is mostly on Dave during these gigs...

One of the best live versions of Hangar 18 I've ever heard. It was still new to Marty and the band so you can hear the excitement and attention to detail from every member at this concert. I believe it was one of the first if not the very first live concert for the Rust In Peace lineup together. You can definitely hear there excitement and get the feeling they had something to prove as a band that night. Wonderful energy for the whole concert

Back when we were kids and life was worth living.

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

Life is what we make it

@Nigel-Webb

Жыл бұрын

@@DrLuke49 Life is Deth! 🤘🤘

@DrLuke49

Жыл бұрын

@@Nigel-Webb I went to my very first Megadeth show for my 21st birthday. Life-changing does not even begun to describe what that was like. Hopefully Dave and Junior can somehow get past all of the sniping and get back to world domination through *DETH METAL ☠*

This show was apparently the live debut of Hangar 18 AND Holy Wars according to setlist f.m.

@Okkvltify

8 жыл бұрын

+superduperkoolman123 Don't know about Hangar 18, but Holy Wars was definitely played live before this show, in 1989, when Jeff Young was still in the band. Dave also says this in his autobiography.

@noahpolston

6 жыл бұрын

They played hangar 18 in Riverside if you watch from the vault part one

@Fackunator

2 жыл бұрын

@@Okkvltify they never giged in 1989

@Okkvltify

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fackunator then I got the years mixed up, must have been 1988 then. They performed Holy Wars in soundcheck in Ireland. Nick was filling in for Behler, who was too high to play.

@Fackunator

2 жыл бұрын

@@Okkvltify yeah, the day after the infamous incident. That was pretty much Nick's audition too

45 mins in one of the best live versions on Hangar 18 live ever. Song was still new so they all played the crap out of it. Especially Marty. Best performance of Hangar I've ever heard Marty play live. That alone makes watching the whole video worth it

Nick Menza is freaken beast man!

Best Megadeth lineup ever

How Marty can get all that speed using the pick circles technique is beyond me.

This is Smithsonian-level cataloging of what I'd consider the absolute PEAK of Megadeth. Fantastic content, OP. THANK YOU!

No puedo creer tantos años fan de Megadeth y recien veo estos videos !!!! Gran aporte!! saludos desde Peru!!

I like clicky bass with a pick for Thrash.

@SandalsSocks

10 жыл бұрын

you have officially commented on every video i watched.

@pelangatun199991

8 жыл бұрын

Also do amazing guitar tutorials

@JuaniMoyano

8 жыл бұрын

+m169marroquin i learned a lot from him

@DechantMusic

5 жыл бұрын

You can get the boom and thunder with the right pick and playing around with the tone controls. it is a challenge to not get that doodling bed springs sound. but some like the cut through. like D.D. from Overkill for example. Dave has pretty good tone considering. not everyone can be Cliff Burton and play lightening fast with their fingers! LOL.

@KickflipGnasty

4 жыл бұрын

@@DechantMusic David Ellefson is a better bassist than Cliff at any rate so it doesn't matter.lol

Menza is a beast and so is Ellefson

@userered

Жыл бұрын

How about Marty?

After watching these cool behind the scenes videos hundreds of time's ,I Just noticed David E came up with the Nirvana's come as you are Bass riff while playing the practice amp !

This was uploaded on Christmas? What a great Christmas gift .

I live in Ojai 20 min from Ventura went to tura that day met Dave talked to Dave told me he was sick and his birthday and just found this video 29 years later!! Went to concert that night 👍

MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SUBIR EL VIDEO AL QUE LO SUBIO.

The start the concert with Rattlehead! Unbelievable footage and line up!

I love this time period i was totally their, :) Dave forever, :)

and you can listen clearly to Junior's bass' as well, epic

Love this Thank You 🤘🏻MEGATHIZED 🤘🏻

This is so great,they keep getting better and better!!!!!!!! I kinda feel for Nick,he's running a marathon a day.Drummer is the most physical of the instruments.

@papa.silver7804

8 жыл бұрын

It actually is the most physical cause your using some much energy when playing but it's a feeling great work out

@justinthymes5680

8 жыл бұрын

RIP Nick.

$1.24 for gas, man I wish I was born in that time

@cacaking

4 жыл бұрын

49ers for life minimum wage was like 4 bucks during that time, so you do the math.

@deaconj3406

4 жыл бұрын

@@cacaking and now its twice that and gas is $1.49

51:21 .... little does he know he will be playing it for the rest of his days

Marty played the Good Mourning/Black Friday solo really well here. Full of crazy emotion in the amount Chris Poland did.

right now im feeling complete and utter hapyness!!

I heard Menza mention to the dude at around 30:00, something about Steven Adler's days being numbered... Wow... That F'n SUCKED for him. Dave should know what it's like to be "too GNR for GNR"... What a moment in history. and yes. I don't want to miss the chance to be the zillionth one to comment that they misspelled... Oooops! Missed it!

A melhor formação do Mega!!!!❤

The good old days with Friedman, the Jackson guitars, Menza (best and hardest hitting drummer Megadeth ever had)...and lastly, well, no religion-driven lifestyles like today (not that there's anything wrong with that - just not in music).

@highnoon2535

4 жыл бұрын

Its that "religion" that saved him.

@classicartfoundation639

4 жыл бұрын

@@highnoon2535 really? He started drinking again though....so not really

@highnoon2535

4 жыл бұрын

@@classicartfoundation639 I don't know about that, i thought he gave up the drink.

@Nghilifa

3 жыл бұрын

@@highnoon2535 Who? Ellefson or Mustaine? Mustaine never quit drinking though, his problem was drugs. Ellefson had a drinking/drug problem so he quit both in 89 I think.. Been clean ever since.

@highnoon2535

3 жыл бұрын

@@Nghilifa Don't worry, Dave still drinks just not to excess.

Megadeth brought a new meaning to the word AWESOME :)

nick was my drumming idol . rip

in that time, you were walking through the street and you found mustaine, menza, friedman and ellefson, so sick MEGADETH lml

@jesussoto6855

2 жыл бұрын

shitttt just in a dream jahahaj

I so miss this band

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

True there will never be another lineup like this one

Best Megadeth drummer.. by far.

Junior rocks! he really has the perfect attitude for a metal player.

@isabellaxd2053

2 жыл бұрын

This comment didn't age well

Marty's fingers are permanently locked in the "bird" position.

Tive o imenso prazer de assistir um show com essa formação com esse repertório aqui no meu país Brasil cidade a de Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais

It was a great time for megadeth the best line up

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

This lineup will ALWAYS be the real Megadeth. Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell almost left Pantera to join Megadeth except Dave only wanted Vinnie Paul since that was around the time that Marty Friedman had joined the band.

r.i.p. Nick Menza

the cameraman must be fed up with being insulted by Dave and the others all the time 😂😂😂

@lemir8577

4 жыл бұрын

he is our hero anyway

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

I imagine that the cameraman was very well compensated for his time and work with the band.

@Nghilifa

3 жыл бұрын

@@DrLuke49 It was a friend of Nick's.

La mejor formación de megadeth ,, sin duda alguna!!!

@jarojaro169

Жыл бұрын

no, gar and poland

Gosh! Dave and David were so hot back in a day! They were in their prime here. Very attractive guys.

at that time i was 7 years old and still they are famous''' megadeth '''''

1:16:09 Nick saying Blackened in front of Dave xD

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

To think that Vinnie Paul almost joined Megadeth except Dave only wanted him and not Dimebag Darrell to also join the band. Enter Nick Menza . . . .

@Lynchpin2010

4 жыл бұрын

@@DrLuke49 not quite; Dave wanted Dimebag to join Megadeth, however Dime wanted Vinnie to come along but Dave had already hired Nick. Enter Marty Friedman

@MetalMayhem1978

3 жыл бұрын

@@Lynchpin2010 you are correct sir

@jesussoto6855

2 жыл бұрын

shittt

ive walked those streets. i found out about these guys in the spring of '91 at age 13. changed my life.. ive seen so many shows at the shitty ventura theater. look at those biker shorts. didn't get to see megadeth live til 97 at the palladium in Hollywood.

My Favorite 4 killin it! Best lineup ever ❗🎸🥁🤘

Watching Menza from behind the kit.... Unreal the energy he had! Wish I could have sat side-stage. Would have been incredible.

This is fucking AWESOME!!!!

Nick the best and great! 🤘🤘🤘❤️❤️❤️

I got to see them on this tour and count down to extinction tour...not sure if i saw them again until the 20th anniversary of Rust in Peace and then got to see them on the Dystopia tour. Great shows. I got to witness one of Dave's rants where he stormed off stage and then came back out and ranted. It was awesome! lol. \m/

nick menza is insane,, so fast so accurate

Menza & those tiiigght bike shorts! L.A Glam permeated EVERYTHING!!! "Thermal count is rising In perpetual writhing The primordial ooze And the sanity they lose!"

“Marty is built like a bicycle rack” lmao

This line up was tight true master class musicians. I like to watch old videos with Menza going nutts on the kit!!

Great video! Megadeth is #1 with Marty & Menza. Kiana Shotgun =)

@aec300

10 жыл бұрын

the line up with Marty and Menza was the best line up Megadeth has ever had. "the dream team" as some say x3

@swat1710

9 ай бұрын

Megadeth is always is number 1 Even after 9 yrs of your comment 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Awesome

The best megadeth era

11:03 not to be a weird ass fangirl, but Dave looks so cute when that chick is playing with his hair

@ansjovisnl9059

4 жыл бұрын

Dave is married with her for almost 30 years now!. That's unique in the musicworld. They have 2 adult childs, as you might know!. Dave is very

@ansjovisnl9059

4 жыл бұрын

Dave is very faithful in love unlike other famous rockstars!.

@ichor2127

4 жыл бұрын

@Rita Lovett LOL I didn't recognize it was Pam

@absolutezero951

4 жыл бұрын

@@ansjovisnl9059 dave was absolutely not faithful to pam during this time. Theres footage of him talking to marty about what girls they wanted to bang

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

@@ansjovisnl9059 his daughter Electra also records and performs with Dave.

Hangar 18 was amazing

And this sweet treble on bass..

Holy Wars was really brutal in this show!

@DrLuke49

4 жыл бұрын

There is not one bad song in this show.

01:22 as good as listening to album !

i saw them on this tour and the one before and the ones after. lol

I was at this show!

melhor epoca do megadeth

Why is it ironic to people when someone in a Megadeth video or concert wears a Metallica or Slayer shirt? Just because the bands didn't get along? Their fan bases are the same, it makes perfect sense.

" Stop follow me, goddammit"!!

2:36 As a musician..I love that feeling waiting for the drummer to give the cue 💙💚💙🤘🏻🤘🏻

It's so 20 years ago. Everybody need to goof around when there's a videocamra in the room.

@connercwalkyo Jr was trying to stay sober at the time too. And Marty never really had a problem.

00:54 Dudes the band Megadeath is playing tonight....hope Megadeth will be there and see them playing

nice Christmas Present!

GOOO DAVE....

R.I.P. Nick 😞

I would give up all that I have in life right now to live back in the 80s and 90s I was born in 96 so I never got to experience all the good stuff