In a new social media post in honor of the two-year anniversary of Megadeth’s ‘The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!,’ Steve Di Giorgio shared his experience of working with Dave Mustaine. He clarified that Mustaine wasn’t difficult to work with at all.
“Dave was easy to work with and a hella awesome host,” Di Giorgio wrote in his lengthy statement. “And it was a great learning experience to use a pick more than I ever had before. I kept that little yellow plectrum in a case as a remembrance that being versatile goes a long way for opening doors to opportunities.”
The ‘difficult to work’ rumors gained popularity after Mustaine’s exit from Metallica in 1983. However, the rocker himself also denied earlier that he was hard to work with.
“Let’s not kid ourselves. Unfortunately, there’s a terrible lie out there about me and my reputation, how difficult I am to work with, and Chris will attest now, after working together, that it’s B.S.,” the Megadeth frontman said during an interview with Elliot In The Morning.
“I don’t care about it. I think it’s kind of a bummer, though, sometimes when people, for the first time, come up to you. It’s such a pregnant pause when people will meet you and go, ‘God, you know, I heard you were such an a-hole,’ and you just kind of look at them, like, ‘Uh-huh,’” he added.
Although Di Giorgio played bass on most of the 2022 album, James LoMenzo later took over as the new bassist.
When Mustaine confirmed in March 2022 that Di Giorgio had recorded the bass tracks for ‘The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!,’ he mentioned that it threw off their timing. The album was eventually released on September 2, 2022, and includes guest appearances from Sammy Hagar and Ice-T.