Megadeth Mainman Talks Australia

Rod Hunt at Australia-based TimeOff.com has filed the following report:

GIGANTOUR, the mini-festival masterminded by MEGADETH vocalist and guitarist Dave Mustaine, delivered a loudly welcomed dose of metal to Australia last October. This month it returns, with a line up boasting - along with the ’Deth - DEVILDRIVER, STATIC X, LACUNA COIL and BRING ME THE HORIZON.

The four-piece have become regular visitors to this country in recent years. But it wasn’t always like that. “There was a long drought in-between [tours],” Mustaine acknowledges. Now, with Gigantour, there’s a good chance we’ll see Megadeth dropping by annually.

“We want to make Australia one of our regular territories,” he explains. “It’s not about the money for us. There are a lot of territories where it actually costs you to go and play, but in some circumstances, it’s not about the cost, it’s about the relationship you build, by starting to go down there and playing more often.”

Mustaine is so intent on furthering the connection with his fans that he’s posted a mobile phone number (619-717-2000, in case you feel like giving him a call) on Megadeth’s MySpace page, which you can send a text to, or call and leave a voicemail message. He must receive some ‘interesting’ calls?

“You get some good ones and there’s some that are not so good,” he considers. “We have people to filter them out, so I don’t hear them. So people who go to all this effort to make [abusive] calls, I don’t even hear them. They may as well just talk to their hand. But their other hand is probably already busy doing other things,” he smirks.

Source: BW&BK