Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums.

10.30.06 update
Droogies!

Well, now that Gigantour NA and OZ is over, looking back this year was just as much fun for me as last year, and the bands were hot this year, even if they had been out before on other tours recently. Remember this tour is about a sense of community between the bands and that spills over to all of the fans. Of course there will always be someone who doesn’t quite grasp the mindset of Gigantour and I will just have to pay special attention to them, to remind them what it is that the “bands and fans” are doing here.

Megadeth’s assistant tour manager, Tracey Wiedeman has posted a journal entry at the Gigantour website. You can read it at this location, or below.

Here we sit on a flight from Sydney, Australia to Melbourne…our last show! We have completed 25 shows in the US, 4 shows in Japan and off to our 3rd show in Australia.

Our Webmaster kindly asked me to complete a new journal entry for G2 a few weeks into the US tour but things had been so hectic, it’s only now I have a moment to sit down and put words into writing.

The following has been posted on Blabbermouth.net

MEGADETH performed on Sunday (October 22) at Hordern Pavilion in Sydney, Australia as part of the Gigantour 2006 concert. Watch fan-filmed highlight clips from YouTube. Check out pictures from Getty Images.

Also, ESP Guitars recently interviewed Glen Drover for their website, you can see the interview here.

In other news, Dan Spitz of Anthrax had some very kind words to say about Dave Mustaine recently, the following is what he had to say.

“So I’m back from the Japanese shows with MEGADETH, SLAYER, DIO and a host of others…

The following is an interview that was posted on Blabbermouth.net and taken from this location.

You can read the interview below or by clicking here.

Local Gigantism

MEGADETH by Rod Yates

When Dave Mustaine makes a joke at your expense, it’s difficult to know whether it’s a case of his infamously biting tongue lashing out indiscriminately, or simply just a cutting form of endearment. Given that he’s cracking funnies literally a few seconds after the first “Hello”, the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

Megadeth are set to play a “Gears of War - Match Made In Hell” event on Halloween, an event which will celebrate the much anticipated X-Box 360 game. “Gears of War” and X-Box were both sponsors of the Gigantour this year, and Megadeth have written a song entitled “Gears of War”, which is set to appear on “United Abominations” in March next year.

The following are the details for the event taken from this webpage.

The Sydney Morning Herald recently interviewed Dave Mustaine. You can read the interview here, or below.

In a country where a former actor can become president, perhaps a heavy metal guitarist isn’t a bad choice for commander-in-chief. Dave Mustaine, frontman and only constant member of thrash-metal veterans Megadeth, wouldn’t be stuck for ideas if the role were thrust upon him.

“I’d be a really cool president, I guarantee you, man,” he says. “We’d have a party for a few days and then American sentiment in the world would go up.

Dave Mustaine was recently interviewed by Andrew Haug of Triple J’s Full Metal Racket concerning the Australian Gigantour, United Abominations, Dave’s influences, the upcoming “Out on the Tiles” Led Zeppelin cover (set to appear on United Abominations), the Montreal shootings and more.

You can listen to the interview by choosing an option below (the interview appears at 1 hour, 58 minutes and 20 seconds into the show)
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At Megadeth’s show in Nagoya, Japan the band debuted yet another new song from “United Abominations”, the song “Gears of War”. This is the second new song to appear on the current Megadeth setlist, the first being “Washington Is Next” (see it here). Megadeth’s full set list in Nagoya was:

Blackmail The Universe
Set The World Afire
Wake Up Dead
Skin O’ My Teeth
Tornado Of Souls
Liar
In My Darkest Hour
Take No Prisoners
Devil’s Island
Symphony Of Destruction
She Wolf
Trust
Kick The Chair
Hangar 18
Washington’s Next
Peace Sells
Gears Of War

Mechanix
Holy Wars

Photos of Megadeth headlining at the Loudpark festival in Tokyo, Japan yesterday are online now at this location.

The set list for the show was as follows

Blackmail The Universe
Set The World Afire
Wake Up Dead
Skin O’ My Teeth
Tornado Of Souls
She Wolf
Take No Prisoners
Devil’s Island
Symphony Of Destruction
Hangar 18
Kick The Chair
Washington’s Next
Peace Sells

Holy Wars

Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums in his “Dave Speaks” section, in which he mentions that this year’s Arsenal of Megadeth 2DVD set has gone platinum in Canada and Gold in the US.

Rising Sun
Droogies!

Well, we made it in one piece to Japan and after seeing dozens of musician friends and numerous crew friends from those bands that I have met, I realized that this is going to be one of the coolest shows ever in Japan.