DAVE MUSTAINE Denies He Tried To Recruit SAVATAGE’s CRISS OLIVA To MEGADETH

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In a tweet Dave Mustaine denied he tried to recruit Savatage‘s Criss Oliva to Megadeth. In a post remembering Oliva’s death, user Mö wrote that Dave Mustaine tried to recruit him at some point to Megadeth.

On October 17, 1993, at around 3:30 a.m., Oliva and his wife Dawn were driving north on Highway 301 on their way to the Fourth Annual Livestock Festival held in Zephyrhills, Florida, just north of Tampa. An oncoming car operated by a drunk driver crossed the median and struck Oliva’s 1992 Mazda RX-7 head-on. Dawn survived the crash, but Oliva was killed instantly. The drunk driver, who had seven prior drunk driving (DUI) convictions, survived with minor injuries and was later found guilty of DUI manslaughter, DUI serious injury and vehicular homicide, and served 18 months in prison of a five-year sentence.

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