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Speaker 1: Missed Opportunity. I love sharing conversations. Hosting them requires a

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lot of show prep. My podcast platform features thousands of

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different guests. What you don't have access to are my

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missed opportunities. The show prep was one hundred percent completed.

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The conversation didn't happen. I keep all of my notes,

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and the reason why is because I believe that paths

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will one day cross again. Let me explain missed opportunity.

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It's my questions and statements without their answers. I'm leaving

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open enough space at the end of each question hoping

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they'll download the talk and insert their answers. Missed opportunity

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is a lost piece of history, like that of a

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message in a bottle. It's been tossed out to see

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I hope to locate a destination. This week, we're putting

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focus on my missed Opportunity with singer songwriter Dave Mustaine

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from Megadeath. Okay, Dave Mustaine from Megadeath not just a

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legendary rocker, but a graphic novelist. Dave's goal was to

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promote the thirty fifth anniversary of the album and with

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it would be a novel as well. It was dubbed

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the anniversary collection Warheads and Foreheads. The rocker had teamed

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up with some of the biggest names in comic book

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publishing heavy Metal to create the ultimate fan experience with

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a three hundred and fifty page anthology of comic stories

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inspired by the songs of this one particular album. The

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project was carefully curated by Dave and Heavy Metal. Dave

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was extremely excited about electrifying fans around the entire planet.

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The CEO of Heavy Metal was totally charged up about

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this collaboration with Dave, saying Megadeath has always been one

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of his all time favorite bands. The box set in

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twenty nineteen was leather bound with clear vinyl albums. The

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invitation to spend time with Dave Mustaine was received in

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March of twenty nineteen. I was scheduled for a conversation.

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How we got to be a six minute window seemed

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to be way too good to be true. All of

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the paperwork was in and the phone not zoom because

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zoom conversations weren't happening in twenty nineteen. Remember we didn't

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start doing that until the COVID lockdown. The phone was

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ready to go. The twenty seventh arrived and there was

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no Dave Mustaine. It was a missed opportunity coming up next.

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I still have my notes and questions from March twenty seventh,

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two thousand nineteen. Hey, thanks for coming back to Missed

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Opportunity this week. It's my missed opportunity with Dave Mustaine

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from Megadeath Death by Design. You've collaborated with brilliant creative

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minds on this project, the writers invited to bring these

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stories to life. What was it like to sit down

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with them and have this graphic novel all of a

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sudden become an actuality rather than something that sits inside

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the theater of your mind? In creating the book, where

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did your imagination and heart go? Did it inspire a

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soundtrack all its own? People are going to want this art.

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Is it going to be in a gallery? Can we

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purchase it somewhere in a gallery? They're going to want

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this art. The thirty fifth anniversary of Megadeth. There's never

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been a celebration like this. The anthology has three hundred

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and fifty pages of comic stories. There has to be

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a way to turn this into animation, something that is

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going to move with those pictures do you still ask

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what's next? Or does everything just naturally fall into place?

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The attitude of your music has always been fast punk

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as well as well focused. The first demo three songs.

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In today's digital world, would you utilize the availability? Final question?

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The creation of Megadeath gave birth to a new genre.

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What does it like to know it's still alive in

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this moment of now missed opportunity? It is a lost

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piece of history. You now know my questions, so let's

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locate the reactions. The door is always going to be open.

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If you are or no Dave Mustaine of Megadeath, please

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reach out to me at arroc at gmail dot com.

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That's Erroc at gmail dot com, a R. R. O E.

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C at gmail dot com. As always, be brilliant