


It's not exactly clear when the conversation about this project took place, but the "publishing discrepancy" Mustaine referred to was likely over the reissue of Metallica's 1982 demo No Life 'Til Leather, which was recorded when he was still the band's lead guitarist. “Something had come up about the publishing discrepancy that we have been arguing about for years and years and years, and I told James, ‘I’ll do it but we’ve got to get this stuff sorted out first.’ And he said, ‘Oh yeah, sure.'” "You know, oddly enough that was one of the last conversations I ever had with James Hetfield because we were talking about getting back together and doing a project.” There’s my side, there would be the other person’s side, and then there would be the truth, which is somewhere right in the middle," he said. “There’s three sides to every story, right.
