MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has checked in from the final date on the Priest Feast tour in Amsterdam:

"So the last day of the Priest Feast tour is upon us, and last night was the first night that I actually got a chance to talk to Rob Halford, and beside a few 'Hey, how are yas' to Ian and K.K., and the occasional chit-chat with Scott, the person I talked to the most on the tour was Glenn. And rightly so, because he was one of my heroes growing up.

I am going to sit in the audience tonight and watch the whole show because I always do that at the end of a tour; try to go out and see the headliner. I have seen enough times in my life when a band is on tour with another band and they start to copy each other.

I think that is lame. Be yourself and let the chips fall where they may for shit’s sake! I have seen a lot of stuff from the side of the stage and I really respect Judas Priest for reforming with Rob and putting their differences aside. I think that is what the fans ultimately want with bands that the voice has left, for whatever the reasons.

Like I said, today is the last day of the tour and tomorrow we will all be headed back to the states and I saw a USA Today in the restaurant when I was having my meal and it said that Ken Griffey Jr. was back with the Seattle Mariners, and I smiled a very subtle smile. I don’t know why, probably because he has never been associated to steroids as far as I know, but I always admired Ken Griffey Jr. Most people don’t know this, but I played a softball game with Ken and another of my great baseball picks when I was a fan of the Braves, David Justice.

[We enter a smoky bar. There is piano playing in the background]

Narrator:

You see, we were playing the Rock and Jock Softball Game.

Little League Hall of Fame phenom Davey “Dead eye – Dead arm” Mustaine:

Well, me and the boys were playing some ball in the outfield. Hehehe! Sorry.

Just toying with our secret weapons.

I was just playing for a second there. Ok, so we were assigned to play the outfield, they, because they were naturals at it and that was the position they played professionally; me because they knew Ken and David had twice the stride length as me and could outrun me for any ball hit within the same zip code, and they had seen Charlie Brown’s baseball skill’s camp VHS version featuring Jose Canseco.

I am looking forward to melting into my couch at home tomorrow night and watching some movies with my kids and snuggling with all of the living, loving creatures at my home. I have to, and I want to say thank you.

Thank you my wife, family, friends, representatives, and crew for making this one of the most rewarding, and most intense tours I have ever done. We played better on this tour with this line-up than we have ever played before at any period in Megadeth’s history.

I want to say thank you to all of our promoters around the world who believed in us and gave us this support slot with the mighty JUDAS PRIEST, and thank you to the J.P. crew. And an enormously delicious, lip licking thank you to the catering crew from Eat To The Beat!

Thank you to all of Judas Priest’s fans who sat through our concert and we hope that you are now fans of ours too. Thank you to all of the foreign crews, the stagehands, backstage help, security, medical staff (especially these guys for when you as fans get hurt – I love how well they always treat you . . . such mercy in their touch).

And lastly, I thank God for all of this. I wouldn’t have you to sing to, or my family to shower my love and affection on, or a band to stand on top of the world with, or a crew of loyal men and women then would bleed for me (maybe not bleed a lot – but still bleed )

Yesterday I showed Andy Sneap the lyrics I wrote to a song called, '- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' and I am thinking about having a few more song puzzles with the letters and whatnot like we always do. Whaddya think my lovelies?

Well, that is it for today. I will no doubt take a rest when I get home for a little home. I will stay in touch through TheLiveLine. And it brings me great pleasure to say that we have just signed Chris Broderick to do this, and the opportunites are mindblowing with CB. We also are talking to thrash legend Chuck Billy about coming to TheLiveLine, with not only TESTAMENT but his side projects too.

There is going to be a lot of new stuff up here this next week."