Dave Mustaine loves to grandstand for what he believes in, but this time, it was concert security and not aliens or government conspiracies that had him up in arms. Mustaine stopped Megadeth‘s concert last week when he saw multiple security personnel jumping on one person.
The show was stopped in the middle of “Symphony Of Destruction” on September 27 at Grossinger Motors Arena in Bloomington, IL. In the video, Mustaine stops and walks over to talk to security and he does so over the mike:
“I’m not gonna play anymore until those guys are escorted out of the building, so just hang on a second. That was so fuckin’ unnecessary,” he says. “That was so fuckin’ unnecessary, you guys.
“You’re supposed to make… What’s on the back of your shirt? Safety? It should say, ‘No Fuckin Safety’ because you guys are punks, and you shouldn’t have fuckin’ hit that guy. Four of you on one guy. What a bunch of pussies… Get ’em out of here, or I’m leaving. I don’t wanna fucking hear that they’re in the back. I want them out of here.”
After the security guards were escorted out, he adds:
“These motherfuckers wrecked my song. Sorry, that stuff just makes me so mad. I hate bullies. I fucking hate bullies.”
While we can’t say we’re here for every hot take of Mustaine’s, we appreciate him standing up for a fan who got jumped by security. Of course, this video also does not show exactly what the fans did to warrant that retaliation, or how they were behaving prior to the video.