Another post about Megadeath's Dave Mustaine.
The Daily Beast:
Megadeth Frontman Dave Mustaine Supports Rick Santorumby David Sessions Feb 15, 2012 3:43 PM EST
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On Wednesday, Dave Mustaine, a former Metallica guitarist who founded the heavy-metal band Megadeth, seemed to join a side that has historically been a mortal foe of his kind: the Christian right. In an interview with Music Radar, Mustaine expressed support for the GOP’s resident religious ideologue, Rick Santorum, saying he was impressed that Santorum left the trail to be with his sick daughter and kept his distance from the Mitt-Newt character savagery.
Considering the kinds of things conservative Christians had to say about hard music in the 1980s and '90s, it might seem like Mustaine, 50, is trying to love his enemies. Religious antipathy toward rock music goes all the way back to the Beatles and beyond, but the attacks on Mustaine’s genre were particularly passionate. Conservative Christian books and magazines overflowed with warnings to parents about the dangerous influence of heavy metal, citing everything from satanic symbols on album covers to subliminal messages to the supposedly demonic effects of the “rock beat.” Metallica and Marilyn Manson were among the leading cultural villains, tempting the youth of America toward subversive movements like the game Magic: The Gathering and Wiccanism.
But if they’d listened a little more closely, they might have heard people like Mustaine articulating a message—though admittedly a version decked out in the F word, black leather, and faux-Satanism—not altogether unlike their own cultural alarmism. In a 1988 interview in the British music newspaper Sounds, Mustaine said, “It says in the Bible that men should not lay with men like they lay with women. I mean I don’t wanna f--k up and not go to heaven.” In the same interview, he added some thoughts on immigration that seem ripped from a 2012 GOP debate transcript. "If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.” He also dished to conspiracy theorist and radio personality Alex Jones about the “new world order,” a pervasive scare trope of '90s evangelical entertainment, including the Left Behind series.
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... torum.htmlI think Ricky should have him onstage with him.
