In a new video update, MEGADETH's David Ellefson and Chris Broderick check in from Rhein, Germany. Watch below:

Ellefson is featured in a new interview with Leslie Michele Derrough at GlideMagazine.com. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Do you remember the first band you were in?

Ellefson: "It was actually a drummer and a guitar player who were in my brother’s class, so two school years ahead of me, because I was a young kid. I was eleven when I got my bass and I was the youngest guy around and because I was so into playing the bass I got pretty good at it pretty quickly. My reputation spread around the area that I could play, which is good being the younger guy. I was really groomed and taught by guys who were sometimes two, three, four, five years older than me. And I could hold my own. It taught me how to hold my own against guys who could play really good. I learned a lot from them but it also taught me how to hold my cookies and not blow my lunch in front of people (laughs)."

"It was a great experience to be the young up and coming kid who could dazzle on the bass. Even in Megadeth, for many years I was always the youngest guy in the band but I was used to being like that. It taught me how to get along with people, it taught me to work within a group dynamic. My first band it was me, and the guitar player sang and played of course, and the drummer. We tried to come up with the most haunting evil name we could, so me being a twelve year old, our band was called Headstone (laughs), which is about as threatening that we could be at twelve and fourteen years old. I remember our first concert was, I think, for our parents out on the porch at the guitar player’s house. He had this tube amp that would stop working all the time so he’d have to turn around and actually bang on it with his fist to get it working again. Those are my early experiences in show business."

Q: What about the first concert you went to? I’m picturing you in this big rural area with lots of farmland around for miles on end.

Ellefson: "That is exactly what it looked like. Everything was square miles of farmland and for as far as the eye could see. And flat, just totally, totally flat. I remember I became a KISS fan by the time I was 12. That was the first band I was all in. I was just truly a fan. I remember when they came to Minneapolis, St Paul. It was 1977 on their Rock & Roll Over Tour and my mom took me and another guitar player buddy of mine. We had at this point gotten into a band together, a new band. So it was me and him and my brother’s friend, and my mom and her friend chaperoned us up there. It was KISS and URIAH HEEP at the Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. I remember tickets were $5 bucks in advance, $6 bucks day of show. I remember going and I’d never ever seen such a thing. It was just remarkable, so unbelievable. I couldn’t believe the sound, the lights, the PA; just the event of it all was just ginormous."

Q: Did that seal your fate?

Ellefson: "It totally did, absolutely. I went home to my basement with my little combo amp and went, 'I want to do that, how do I do that?' There is a saying, 'Begin with the end in mind' and I think seeing KISS and hearing these songs on the radio, I began with the end in mind. That was the goal, that was what I was aiming for. So it’s nice to have something to shoot toward rather than fumbling around in the dark."

Click here for the complete interview.