MEGADETH - Dave Mustaine's Assistant For Washington DC - Read His Story "Washington Is Now!"
October 15, 2007, 16 years ago
MegaFanClub member Marc Stone describes his day of being MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine's personal assistant while in Washington DC this past September 30th. Stone earned the spot by taking part in the backstage pass membership drive that the fanclub offered to its members throughout the US tour. The following is n excerpt of his journey:
"I met up with Jeff James, the tour’s production manager and lighting designer, to determine what my responsibilities would be for the day. Despite Jeff being incredibly busy trying to get the stage prepared for the 4:30 Megadeth sound check, Jeff stopped what he was doing and took time to make me feel like I was part of the team. As he needed get back to testing and adjusting the lights for tonight’s performance, I was ushered up to the dressing rooms and the adjacent production office to meet Tracey Wiedeman – Megadeth’s assistant tour manager. From the official backstage signage above her production desk, I quickly learn that she is known to the crew as 'MegaBlonde.' Her first order of business was to get me my official Megadeth tour pass that would allow me to have the necessary stage access to serve Mustaine’s needs. As she pulled out the passes, I noticed that she took out a sharpie and began crossing out several of the options on the pass, including 'VIP', 'GUEST', etc. What she did leave were the words 'Working Crew'. At first I figured… I guess that means I’ll have to stay out of the backstage area and as for the dressing rooms and access to the band… well I might as well forget it. Also included on the pass was the abbreviation 'DMPA'.Without reading too much into it, I quickly realized that meant 'Dave Mustaine’s Personal Assistant'. So here I am 30 minutes into my experience and I’m thinking I am not a VIP…hell I’m not even a Guest and it looks like I’ll probably just be fulfilling Dave’s personal needs through the tour manager. As you will soon see…. I couldn’t have been more wrong!"
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