BW&BK; has received the following MEGADETH update:

"In a presidential race where all candidates are trying new (and old) shtick to grab the voters attention, Dave Mustaine offered his thoughts on January 18th to ABC News Good Morning America on politicians who are making music instead of facing it. Watch the video here ."

Mustaine issued the following message to the fans on January 17th:

"Droogies!

Ah, what a great day it is today! I can see Glen posted, and I am happy for him. Chris is doing just fine and we will keep you posted with some snippets at the Megadeth Fan Club and I will notify you through my TLL number (TheLiveLine) when the files are on the MFC site.

The shows are selling out overseas and we are pumped about the songs we are going to learn. I told Chris after we get the basic set caught up, that we could always improvise on certain songs like an extended shred, of which he has to play with one hand behind his back, or we just pull out the songs I have been trying to add for a while and that Shawn has been requesting.

Either way, it is really fun around the House of Mustaine. James and I are going over video of the making of the record and the dumbest stuff is on tape, like filming and then stopping and taking the tape out and losing the time code and putting it back in (and that is just to mention the simple things), but James is having fun with it.

He actually said what a mess it was with much more colorful words for the film and much less flattery for the camera mis-operators :-)

I hope to see many of your beautiful faces this weekend at the NAMM show and I hope you get a chance to see Chris at the ENGL booth and what not. I know that Shawn and James are going to be there, as well as many of the other old ex-Megadeth members that still go to NAMM.

Then Sunday we start rehearsal at my House Studio until Wednesday. We will be leaving on the 31st for Finland tentatively, and we start the European Tour in less than three weeks.

I am excited, are you?

So, be sure to come check me out if you are at the NAMM show at the DEAN booth and if you don't make it Friday, no sweat! I will be there on Saturday too! I am secretly pining to get up there on Thursday to see all of my other endorsers and thank them for the glorious support they provide for me and Megs, and what we plan on doing this year with Gigantour, and setting out for a new record with Chris someday, and on, and on, and on.