Metallica and Megadeth

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In 1982, when Metallica was just starting out as a Californian underground metal band, Dave Mustaine walked onto the band as their lead guitarist. A year and a half later, Dave Mustaine was fired from the band for bieng drunk and bieng disrespectful to friends and family. Dave formed Megadeth in 1984, hoping to out-metal Metallica. Metallica wasn't the least bit surprised or disturbed by this. On Medadeth's side: James had fired Dave in a very disrespectful way. He gave him a bus ticket and told him to be gone in fifteen minutes. James could have done that in a much nicer or at least respectful way. He could have told Dave why he needed to leave the band. On Metallica's side: Dave took this all to personally. First of all he should have seen it coming. He had kicked James' dog, cursed at James' family, and trashed every room he went into. He also acted very childish by starting a rivalry between His band and James'. He should have just gotten over it and continued with his music life. As a result of this feud, fans were split. Metallica and Megadeth fans would fight and argue about the whole thing. Both James and Dave acted childish by trying to "out-music" or "out-sale" each other. Finally the fued came to a hault ten years afterwards. Metallica found themselves touring with Megadeth and soon they were on stage together. The bands were able to set aside all of thier revenge driven anger and were able to tour together. In James' words "the ten years of bull... between Metallica and Megadeth is done". But even after that, Dave and Metallica were still very sour with each other. Neither band wanted to ever communicate with each other unless it was absolutely necessary. Dave, Lars, and James were all the best of friends at one point. Why did they have to break up thier friendship over the rivalry between two great metal bands? Why did they choose to throw away thier friendship just to see who could record a better album? Metallica should have given Dave a little more credit for his time and effort into the band. Dave needs to get over the fact that he was fired from the band and move on with his life because he still hasn't. Why can they not do this? So what u guys think about metallica and megadeth?