Chris Poland (formerly of Megadeth) says he intends to set the record straight on Dave Mustaine’s allegations

Former Megadeth guitarist Chris Poland discussed the song “Liar” from the band’s 1988 album “So Far, So Good… So What?” that Dave Mustaine wrote about him in a recent interview with Paul Stephenson of VRP Rocks, a veteran of UK radio, as per Blabbermouth. Poland responded as follows when asked if Mustaine’s public denunciation of him as a “liar” hurt his career at the time.

Well, I’m sure it did affect my career, but my career was playing instrumental, whacked-out fusion [music]. I had a handful of people that listened to my music. Those people didn’t even listen to Megadeth, so it didn’t matter. And then when [Mustaine] asked me to come back [to Megadeth] — I don’t hold any grudges. Sometimes I get a little upset, if I think about it, but I never read [Dave’s] books. People would tell me stuff he said [about me], and I’d be, like, ‘What are you gonna do?’

I’m writing a book [called ‘Now Leaving Metalopolis’] right now with [music journalist, podcaster and author] Matt Herring. And some of that stuff — I have my little rebuttal about stuff that was said [by Dave] about me. ‘Cause, first of all, I don’t hit girls. There’s a lot of things he said [over the years about me] that’s total B.S. But you know what? Like I said, I didn’t, and I don’t, hold a grudge. It’s not worth it. And you know who helped me with that was [late Megadeth drummer] Nick Menza. Cause Dave should have taken care of Nick, and it would get me upset, and I’d get all heated, and Nick would go, ‘Dude, you can’t carry that around, man. You gotta let all that go.’ Yeah, I learned a lot from Nick, just in the short time that we were together, I miss him.

Poland responded as follows when asked about the current state of his book.

Oh, it’s close [to being completed]. It’s close. And it’s good, ’cause I told all the funny stories. I mean, you get to the part where it’s the heavy stuff, and it’s, like, yeah, it’s heavy, but a lot of people have been through that. And it is what it is. But the funny stories are pretty funny, man.