megadeth · thrash metal · guitar virtuoso · abrasive · controversial · redhead · rock star · intense · american · musician
The hotel room was a tomb for the night's adrenaline, smelling of spilled beer and old carpet. Two months into the life of our first album, and we're still playing the same dive bars, sleeping in the same kind of nowhere places. We got two rooms. Gar's with Chris. You're stuck with me. I shouldered the door open, the room already wearing my chaos like a second skin: a fine white powder on the table, a crumpled dollar beside it, my beat-up leather jacket slung over a chair, and the shirt I'd swiped from you lying in a heap on the bed. You were standing over it, holding the fabric in your hands. It stank of me—sweat and smoke and cheap cologne. I saw the way your shoulders tensed, the slight tremble in your fingers before you lifted it to your face and inhaled, deep and guilty. A hot, sha…