Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums about the upcoming Heaven and Hell, Megadeth and Down Canadian tour, which has now been officialy confirmed.

Clever Droogies!

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Droogies!

You keep getting clever and I have to keep coming up with ways to keep you guessing. Like with the H&H tour. I said before we could officially confirm the tour, “Any tour dates are either inaccurate or premature.” I wonder how many of you got the “premature” part and knew we were going to do this?

Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forum. At the beginning of the post, he is refering to something that happened on the Dean guitars live webcast.

Audio Failure

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Droogies!

In case you were wondering what was said when the audio went down before I left NAMM yesterday, it went like this:

She said, blah, blah blah NAMM?
I thought (what did she just say?) and said, “Yeah, I had a great day” or something.
She said, blah, blah, blah, DEAN are the best in the world!”
I said, “I completely agree, do you play guitar?” or something.

Dave Mustaine announced yesterday at the NAMM convention that he will now endorse Dean guitars.

A video of the unvailing can be seen at this location.

The following is a transcript of what was said at the unvailing and some more info about the guitar taken from Blabbermouth.net

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine and Dean Guitars have announced a new guitar line called the “Vehement: VMNT” (Photo#1, Photo#2), and unveiled the new instruments today (January 19) at the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) convention in Anaheim, CA. (A live video feed of Dave Mustaine taking part in a signing session at the Dean Guitars booth at NAMM is available at this location.) Mustaine and Dean Guitars joined forces late last year and are working closely on the specifications of the guitar line.

Glen Drover has posted the following reflection of the recording process for Megadeth’s upcoming “United Abominations” release on the official Megadeth forums.

United Abominations 100% Complete!

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Hello All!

Since I have returned from the UK trip with Dave to finish the album, I have been reflecting on what we have accomplished over the last year with this new recording..

The whole experience has been a lot of fun for me, as well as learning so much from Dave in the process. All of us have worked so well together on this record, which is what good chemistry is all about!

James Lomenzo will be signing autograps at the NAMM show (National Association of Music Merchants) in Anaheim, CA on Saturday, January 20 at 1:00 p.m. at the Rotosound booth #4905 and 2:30 p.m. at the Electro-Voice booth #6571.

Dave Mustaine is also scheduled to appear at the event. Details can be read here.

According to Blabbermouth.net, Dave Mustaine is expected to announce that his new signature guitars will be made by Dean Guitars.

Dave Mustaine has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums about his NAMM appearance

NAMM Invitation

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Droogies!

News Flash! I would like to update you on our next big event.

I have been busy getting to know my new guitar company and developing the new models that will be introduced next week at NAMM. I wish I could tell you what guitar company it is, but I am sworn to secrecy until the unveiling at NAMM.

Dave Mustaine has posted the following message about the recent MegaFanClub visit to the English Studio, that I was fortunate enough to attend!

Post MFC visit

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Droogies!

It won’t be long my lovelies, until you hear from our fellow Droogs of today’s visit.

Let me first say that I have had the most enjoyable experience with Andy Sneap here finishing the record; I can’t remember when I had such a pleasant time making a record. It is fast, heavy, melodic, and of course controversial, as well as hooky with some unexpected twists. Thanks to all of the engineers on this record; Lance, Jeff, Kieran, Ken, Chase, Andy, and whoever I may have forgotten. Thanks to the co-producers Jeff and Andy, and the studios Sarn Hook End, the Steak House, Big Fish, and Backstage Productions.

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

Update 1/8/2007

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Droogies!

Well, nearing the end of the work day, Andy and I had one of his mates, Kristian Havard from a well known English thrash band called Xentrix come round for a visit and do some filming. He was quite a guitarist too, Andy tells me. Anyway, he sent some great stills over for us to see what he did, and we forwarded them to the fan club along with some video snips from the penultimate San Diego sessions, where “***********” and “Never Walk Alone” were written.

Shawn Drover has posted the following message on the official Megadeth forums following speaking to his brother Glen and Dave Mustaine in the studio in England

Good conversations………
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I have been speaking to Glen almost on a daily basis since his arrival in England, along with having a few phone conversation’s with Dave in the past few days - The general tone has been very positive and just being plain excitement to getting this record completed so all of you can hear it I have heard some of the work they have done ( vocal performances and guitar solo’s ) and all I will say about what I heard is that it put a big smile on my face

Dave Mustaine has posted the following update from England on the Megadeth forums

Update 1/7/07

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Droogies!

Whilst being burried under the workload of this last session with Andy Sneap on the new album, I can’t help but enjoy the countryside out here in Derbyshire, England. I am working on finishing by Thursday (fingers crossed), and will return to the states to start unwinding, in order to just wind back up again for the US run which is going to be super selective cities, venues, and with the perfect support groups.