Dave needed to get over his demons, he got booted for going too hard, even though they all abused their vices pretty good, he went over the top
he has lived over 20 years being told he is always number 2 after being kicked from number 1 (metallica) and has never been able to get closure by making up for his mistakes when with metallica, one way would be to either rejoin metallica or beat them at their own game
it's something he holds dear, he loves them guys, he loves cliff, he loves metallica as a group, a gang, all that it is, it is a difficult thing for him to completely let go, but you're right, he needs to not let the jealousy get the better of him, but I think it may stay with him for some time yet, he lost what he loved so much
but he hasn't been out there publicly ripping into them like he did so much years ago, which is a good thing for him
i might pull together a post praising Dave in this thread sometime, he wrote alot of stuff on Kill Em All and wrote plenty on Lightning too
LOVE Ktulu
funnily enough, i'm up to Orion now, cranked