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Dave MustaineThere’s one rock bio I’ll be checking out in full, after getting a sneak peek: Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir ($17.15 at Amazon), detailing the life and times of one Dave Mustaine, lead guitarist of the two most successful heavy-metal bands of all time. Let me be perfectly clear: I really don’t give much of a crap for the music of either Metallica or Megadeth. I’m more of a Glee girl, myself. But call it a fascination or an unhealthy obsession: The long-haired, tortured rockers hold an unholy fascination for me. Maybe it has to do with the soul-searching documentary Metallica made a few years ago. Maybe it’s the way Mustaine quietly and calmly dominated his appearance on Rock ‘n Roll Jeopardy. To me, “more than meets the eye” is like catnip, and Mustaine has oodles of it. Here are some of the revelations in the new bio, which is pretty much the perfect beach read: The long and the short of it, if you’ve never heard of Mustaine, in the ’80s, he was a founding member of Meta
