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Studio Work and Podcast Interview - California

July 28, 2008 - The Weekend at Dave's New Studio - by Shane McConnell [System Lord]

Hello fellow Droogies!

I have just returned home to Chicago after a weekend in the San Diego area. I stopped off at Dave Mustaine's for part of my trip and I helped him out with a few things around his new studio / warehouse.

After first getting to the warehouse, Dave had said that his tour staff had just completed loading in all of the Megadeth tour gear...and sure enough, it was all there! Wow, I have never seen so many flight cases, racks of audio gear and cool Megadeth paraphernalia in one place. I was going through a couple flight cases with Dave and we got into a case that contained a few stage backdrops. We pulled out this HUGE backdrop and Dave said that it was the backdrop from the Countdown to Extinction tour. I thought to myself, "ok this is crazy, I'm holding the backdrop from a concert that I had seen like 14 years ago as a star struck metal head and would have never thought that I would be here now holding it in my hands helping fold it up."

When we finished with the backdrops Dave asked if I would go through a guitar rack and make some labels for the cases. So I started into this rack of guitars and after going through a few Dean VMNT's and running into a ESP Axxion, I come to this case with "Jackson/Charvel" on the outside. Now for some of you super hardcore guitar guys, you may be thinking at this point just as I was-"Is the number one in here?" I flip the latches and pull out a silver Jackson KV1. I hold it up in the air towards Dave and I yell "Is this what I think it is?!" and he walks over and says "Yep, that's my number 1.."

I thought to myself, "Holy sh*t, I'm holding the ultimate piece of Megadeth history, right here." Pretending like I was now holding a nuclear weapon that was showing stress cracks, leaking plutonium and with the slightest bump or miscalculation, would ignite and destroy half of mankind- I very carefully placed it back into the case and slowly stepped away. It was a very cool moment.

After that I started setting up the new computer network and talked with James LoMenzo about a couple ideas for the computer set up that will be on the studio side of the space.

Stay tuned for upcoming audio/video podcasts at the MegaFanClub and iTunes!