RockMyMonkey.com has issued an interview with MEGADETH bassist James Lomenzo, conducted by Mark Carras. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: Now, what was the reason for Megadeth playing such small clubs when the demand was enough to sell out venues at least twice the size?

A: "That’s a really good question, and one that I can’t answer completely, but I can tell you this. For the most part Megadeth is a band of the people. I know this sounds like I’m going to sit on my pedestal here, but the truth of the matter is we really had to fill so many of these secondary markets that we could not hit during Gigantour. So around this time a year we’re coming out of the season, it comes down to making everyone happy. Promoters, etcetera, etcetera, and booking agents and all that. So we put this together with getting to the fans in mind, as close and personal as we possibly can. It makes all the other people who set these things up feel relatively comfortable if you know what I mean. So it was kind of a win/win for us. Maybe not a win/win for all of our fans, because we would have liked to squeeze some more in, or played a bigger place. But the master plan is to come around with a fantastic Gigantour concert. This was kind of a good way to kind of warm ourselves and everybody else up and get that flavor, you know, that really classic flavor of 80’s metal face to face, right in the grind of the pit. So it’s been really, really, really beneficial and encouraging to the band members and the audience has been completely off the hook. That’s the short answer." (laughs)

Read or listen to the complete interview at this location.