This doc introduced me to Megadeth

Hi name is Lee Waddell and did studio guitar work for Penelopi on the metal years and another movie called Dudes. I'm still playing guitar, I play guitar for NO EXCUSES up here in the Great Northwest. We have been playing the Portland area for the last four years now and we are in the process of producing our music videos and have three of them done so far, you can see them on You Tube, here are links to them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-BYLqhDbxM HURRICANE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0yDf5Unc7I HEAVEN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EHwNDtUI-o MONTERAY

Also there are some free MP3 downloads of our original music on mySpace,
http://www.myspace.com/noexcusestheband

We are easy to find on the net if you just Google it, type in noexcusestheband

like that with no spaces.

Dave was one of the first people I met when I got to Holloywood. I remember diving my ElCamino down Melrose and I saw a sign that said "Mars Recording Studio" and I was practically living in my car just going from jam to jam and auditions playing guitar everywhere I could The cab of my ElCamino was full of guitars and under the tonnue cover in the back it was loaded with guitar amps, so I had to sleep sitting up but I was ready to rock anyway so I walked in the front door of the studio and there was a kid there with a black BC Rich guitar playing it without an amp behind the reception desk, his name was Dave Muststain, he let me look at his guitar and on the back of the neck was painted "Megadeth". Having come from up north I had never heard of Megadeth but Dave proceeded to tell me that they had been playing in the Hollywood area and at that time I really had no idea what kind of a surprise I was in for. When I asked Dave if he knew of anyone who needed a guitarist he said come on back here and we went into one of the studios and introduced me to Bruce Elliot who's guitarist had been stolen by the Michale Jackson tour, they were all black so I was to be the only white guy in an all black band but I had always been alright with the blues and they were in-to the blues. We jammed all night long and it was a great jam and I couldn't belive it when I finally walked outside and saw that it was morning because it was in the afternoon when I arrived there. I hung out with these cats for awhile but I also hung out with Dave and Dave took me to a gig they had set up at Chucklanis's Country Club, but it wasn't country. Dave had guitar speaker cabinets stacked up to the cieling all set at an angle and shored up with angle cut blocks like he had been going this for awhile. That night when they played I will never forget it, it was a slam crowd and I was winessing my first mosh pit, I could not belive my eyes, I had never seen anything like this before and they looked like cockroaches on seed or something because they had a bright strobe light flashing on the crowd and it was wild.

Eventually Dave took me to a wharehouse that was several stories high where they practiced and we got in a frieght elevator and he showed me around a few floors and introduced me to some of his friends, my memory gets a little foggy after this point but remember the rooms were huge concreet spaces with high cielings with other bands set up in them where they had all thier equipment set up for rehearsing and there were some more black folks in one and they were showing me some of thier rap music, something I had never heard of yet. I also remember another very huge tall room where another band had set up and thier bass player had a huge bass rig that was stacked halfway to the cieling and loaded with eight inch speakers. I don't play that much bass but was amazed to see the power and the bass response that bass rig got and they had actually cracked the concreet floor in that room with that bass rig.

Later on I also recall Penelopie and myself at her house and she is playing a message for me on her answer machine where a very hung over Dave Mustain was apologizing for having made a jerk of himself. Today I find myself listing to an internet radio talk show host named Alex Jones and he plays some music on his show quite often and I recognize the voice of Dave Mustain right away.