MD.45 the band featuring Megadeth guitarist and vocalist Dave Mustaine, Fear guitarist and vocalist (and harmonica player) Lee Ving, Goldfinger bassist Kelly LeMieux, and ex-Megadeth drummer Jimmy DeGrasso. MD.45 released its only album The Craving in 1996, and then released a reworked and remastered version in 2004. The difference between the two being the latter's exclusion of Ving's vocals and harmonica tracks.
Mustaine said in his 2011 autobiography Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir that he removed Ving "to entice interest from Megadeth fans who might have overlooked the original," which is also interesting considering he replaced some of Ving's parts with guitar.
Now, Ving tells the The 80its podcast that his removal in 2004 came "without any notification or preparation, like notifying the guy who sang it first." He later adds that Mustaine never reached out to him afterward, but "if I knew how to call him, I would, just to get pressure off the matter. And we could be what friends we could be."
You can check out both versions of the song "The Creed" below. As for Megadeth, they're working on a new album that presumably has no harmonica.
[via Blabbermouth]
