As soon as I said that ‘three stories’ bit, it was over!” You know, I was trying to be really friendly with him he told me that the last three projects they did bombed, and they wanted to go back and use all the stuff that I was on, and I said sure. And that blew his mind, and we haven’t talked since. I’m not going to sign another deal that’s gonna confirm that because I never agreed to that’.Īnd James said, ‘Well, Lars has a different recollection of that,’ and I said that’s fine there’s his side of the story, my side and the truth is somewhere.

I don’t know why you gave him percentages but I’m not. Lars didn’t write on this song – you know that. So I said, ‘Now these two songs you and me split, 50/50. Something had come up about the publishing discrepancy that we have been arguing about for years and years and years, and I told James, ‘I’ll do it but we’ve got to get this stuff sorted out first’. You know, oddly enough that was one of the last conversations I ever had with James Hetfield because we were talking about getting back together and doing a project. There’s my side, there would be the other person’s side, and then there would be the truth which is somewhere right in the middle. “There’s three sides to every story, right. However, everything ended up falling apart due to the songwriting dispute that led to the shelving of their “No Life ‘Til Leather” reissue.

During a recent interview with, Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine revealed that there was a time when he almost reunited with his former Metallica bandmate, James Hetfield, for new project.

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