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the jurogan experience i mean you were successful pretty early on in your life like how old were you when you were in your first band uh panic uh was the band before metallica and and that was only for a short period of time and i was 20 when i was in metallica so i probably started when i was around maybe 17 18. but just think of that just that statement i was 20 when i was in metallica i mean yeah [ __ ] you all that is crazy i was 20 when i was in metallica that is a crazy statement because if you just think about the average 20 year old's life and that and that this is look at look at you guys little babies yeah so cute that's amazing does that freak out when you look at that no it doesn't um it kind of brings me a little bit of some sadness because of the way it went down with you guys oh i don't care about that um because cliff oh yeah yeah when you um left metallica and then when did you go right into mega death or did you other what did you do right after metallica i i think in my mind i went right into the mega death but um at the time i i was still kind of trying to you know digest everything that took place well you were still only 20. yeah yeah the thing that bothered me the most was i had all my music and i left it behind and i said don't use my music and of course they did oh really yeah they used it on the first record on the second record there's parts of my music on a song on the third record all the solos on the first record are mine except that they're just performed by kirk and close but not the same you know he's not a bad guitar player did you get royalties for that uh well uh most of them yeah but kirk got my royalties for metal militia for many many years and you know he has to see the checks so i know somebody saw that i wasn't getting paid so there's a sadness and bitterness not
bitterness i'm over a little upset you know it's just money you know like you said you know at the end of the day you know my happiness and my family my wife and my children are more important to me than than anything in this world and um you know i i i love our fans i i have so many things in this life that i'm happy about but man it's it's it's my family and and obviously my relationship with god i i take that very very personal and you know i don't talk to people about it i i don't i don't push it on them at all it's my thing and and uh i just look at it like where i'm at right now um yeah 20 in metallica and now look at me i'm 60 and megahertz and and i'm a grammy winner i'm a new york times best-selling author all these things that if if you know i was signing autographs the other day joe and and i i had these boxes there was 3 000 jackets i had to sign and for a moment i flashed back to elementary school when i was in front of the chalkboard i sort of got and i had to write did you ever have to do that yeah sure god and i don't know what brought that up but i thought oh my god i can't even believe that and and thinking about you know where i'm at now today and and just how the slightest deviation from where i was going could have ended me up anywhere else in the world