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In a latest Cameo video message requested by Jonathan Montenegro of Sobre La Dosis, former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson was requested to call his hobbies and pursuits outdoors of music. He responded (as transcribed by Phoosi.com): “It is humorous. I reside right here in Arizona, which, as you’ll be able to see, may be very sunny and good out. So I play golf, on and off. And I do some capturing on occasion; I am going to the gun membership right here. I am not large on looking myself, however I do like capturing, which is form of cool. And, in fact, Netflix binge watching, which I began in the course of the pandemic.”
Final November, Ellefson, who was fired from MEGADETH almost a 12 months in the past following a intercourse video scandal, returned to Cameo, the net platform that enables followers to purchase customized video messages from celebrities. The 57-year-old bassist is charging purchasers $30 per video and he’s providing a “24-hour supply.”
Ellefson was born and raised in within the small Minnesota city of Jackson, situated close to the Iowa border, slightly below three hours southwest of St. Paul. After leaving Jackson within the early ’80s to maneuver to Los Angeles, he met former METALLICA guitarist Dave Mustaine, and the pair co-founded multi-platinum, Grammy-winning exhausting rock act MEGADETH, happening to turn into one of many “Huge 4” of thrash steel. Ellefson‘s smalltown Jackson roots have been immortalized in MEGADETH lore as the topic of basic songs together with the smash hit “Foreclosures Of A Dream” and the underground basic “Mary Jane”.
Ellefson, who has lived in Scottsdale, Arizona since 1994, was dismissed from MEGADETH final Might, simply days after sexually tinged messages and express video footage involving the bassist have been posted on Twitter.
David, a Christian who launched the Mega Life Ministries worship group in 2007, studied for a 12 months at Concordia Lutheran Seminary in St. Louis a decade in the past.
Final October, Ellefson informed SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that there’s a notion that individuals of religion should set the next normal of how they reside with and deal with others. “It is nearly such as you’re this entity that is floating up towards the heavens: ‘Oh, he is such an exquisite man. He is a person of religion. He is received his household. After which this occurs.’ It is, like, ‘What the hell is that this?'” he mentioned.
“I imply, look, admittedly I’ve type of skilled the general public to suppose that I am one of many extra well-behaved rock stars on the market, and for probably the most half I’ve been,” he continued. “However on the similar time, and this is not to assert something different than simply, oops, shit occurs. That’s what it’s.”
Ellefson was in MEGADETH from the band’s inception in 1983 to 2002, and once more from 2010 till his newest exit.
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