MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson's new autobiography, My Life With Deth, is now available through Howard Books/Simon & Schuster. In the new footage below, Ellefson discusses the book:

LAWeekly.com recently posted an excerpt from My Life With Deth. The excerpt talks about Ellefson's first encounters meeting band leader Dave Mustaine in 1983 and the early process of getting the band together:

"We moved into our apartment around June 1, 1983. We wanted to start meeting some people, and one day Brad said, "I saw this guy walking around. He had long blond hair and he was barefoot, and he looked like a rock 'n' roll guy!" We decided to try and meet this dude: maybe he could become a buddy. A couple of days later, Greg and I woke up in our little studio apartment and started jamming some tunes. I was playing the introduction to 'Running With The Devil' by VAN HALEN at about nine or ten o'clock in the morning, when all of a sudden we heard this loud 'Shut up!' Something came crashing down on our window air conditioner.

We looked out and saw a ceramic flowerpot. We stopped playing. My first thought was, 'People in Hollywood aren't very friendly, are they?' Where we grew up on the farm, we left our keys in the car and our houses unlocked, and people would drop by whenever they wanted. Everybody knew each other, and it was very "come as you are". Now I'm in Hollywood - and this is my first introduction to my neighbors.

Within a day or so, Brad confirmed that the blond-haired, barefoot guy he had seen was the dude who lived upstairs from us. So one night, a day or two later, we went upstairs and knocked on the door. We heard some music playing through the door and thought, 'That's got to be him'."

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In the clip below, Ellefson opens the first box of My Life With Deth:

Ellefson has announced the following in-store autograph signing sessions for My Life With Deth.

November 9th – Bass Player Live - 10 AM – 12 PM

1507 Gordon St

Los Angeles, CA

November 19th - National Press Club 36th Annual Book Fair - 5:30 - 8:30 PM

529 14th St. NW

Washington, D.C.

Ellefson's memoir chronicles the story of his fall into addiction during Megadeth's early years, followed by his subsequent recovery and the return to faith which championed the band's rise to fame over the past several decades. The book was written with Joel McIver, the bestselling author of 21 books on rock music, and features a foreword by shock rock legend ALICE COOPER.