\u201cI put him in the chair, had a good look and just took care of what needed to be done, nothing too major,\u201d Bharuchi said.<\/p>\n
The team at Green Bay Dental were stoked to have metal legend Dave Mustaine in. Photo \/ Green Bay Dental<\/p>\n
True to form, Mustaine showcased his \u201cgreat sense of humour\u201d and was more than happy to take a photo with the staff.<\/p>\n
He even gave the team a bunch of free tickets to the shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just a cool guy, you know. He came with a beanie, so you didn\u2019t see all that luscious hair that he\u2019s got in there. He took it off for the photo and it all just sort of streamed out, which was pretty cool,\u201d Bharuchi said.<\/p>\n
Green Bay Dental has become one of the most trusted places for international stars to get a check-up while touring here.<\/p>\n
Pop star Ed Sheeran also left the premises with a glowing smile in 2023, much to the delight of starstruck fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cool thing is that the other patients in the waiting room get to see these guys, too. They come in, sit down, fill out a form and go through just like anyone else, but it really blows the other patients away,\u201d Bharuchi said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was the same when Ed Sheeran came in. It was so nice and it became a highlight for a lot of people as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ironically, one of Megadeth\u2019s hit songs is titled Skin O\u2019 My Teeth, although it strays far from the topic of dentistry, instead focusing on the idiom of narrowly escaping death.<\/p>\n
On the other side of town, drummer Dirk Verbeuren and guitarist Teemu M\u00e4ntysaari took a trip to the Auckland Zoo.<\/p>\n
The pair were pictured feeding giraffes and holding barn owls.<\/p>\n
\u201cHad an amazing time at Auckland Zoo learning about orangutans, tigers, kiwi, barn owls, tuataras, w\u0113tapunga, but the highlight was getting to hand-feed the giraffes,\u201d the pair posted on Megadeth\u2019s official Instagram.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you to the Auckland Zoo for organising a tour for us and for all the important conservation work you do!\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s rather fitting that the pair headed to the zoo \u2013 Megadeth are known to be advocates for conservation work.<\/p>\n
Their 1992 song and album, Countdown to Extinction, took inspiration from a magazine article about canned hunts \u2013 a process where wealthy hunters paid to shoot exotic animals trapped in fenced-in areas.<\/p>\n
The song criticises trophy hunting and human-caused species extinction and won the Humane Society\u2019s Genesis Award for raising awareness.<\/p>\n
Megadeth are currently touring Australia and New Zealand with fellow metal legends Iron Maiden, which are set to be their final shows before Mustaine\u2019s musical retirement in the coming years.<\/p>\n
They performed two sold-out shows at Auckland\u2019s Spark Arena over the weekend, with one attendee telling the Herald they were \u201cexceptional\u201d, with Mustaine in fine voice.<\/p>\n
Mustaine, who suffers from a hand condition called Dupuytren\u2019s contracture, which in his case is painful and causes problems playing his guitar, told the Herald earlier this year he hoped to keep playing until he no longer could.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t want to. It wasn\u2019t in my plans to stop,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Dave Mustaine says he’s grateful for the time and memories Megadeth have provided him with. Photo \/ Ross Halfin<\/p>\n
He has been to New Zealand \u201cplenty of times\u201d but admitted he rarely had time to take it all in.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love going to New Zealand because of the majesty and beauty of the island. I would love to spend some time down by the sea, but our schedules never permit that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI put him in the chair, had a good look and just took care of what needed to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[427,19176,9111,287429,70632,133763,287430,93,17224,98477,61,5493,60,287432,81835,342,99808,61911,637,278,17490,13686,3212,78656,43960,26448,287431,5906],"class_list":["post-679106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-and","tag-animal","tag-auckland","tag-checkups","tag-dental","tag-dentist","tag-encounters","tag-entertainment","tag-get","tag-giraffes","tag-ie","tag-in","tag-ireland","tag-itinerary","tag-kiwi","tag-local","tag-lunch","tag-megadeth","tag-metal","tag-music","tag-over","tag-quick","tag-stars","tag-visit","tag-weekend","tag-were","tag-whirlwind","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}