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MEGADETH Drummer: Last Night's 'Big Four' Jam Is 'Something That I Will Cherish Forever'

June 23, 2010

Members of SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX joined METALLICA on stage earlier tonight (Tuesday, June 22) in Sofia, Bulgaria to perform the DIAMOND HEAD classic "Am I Evil?"METALLICA's James Hetfield, MEGADETH's Dave Mustaine and ANTHRAX's Joey Belladonna all took turns singing, with various other bandmembers playing guitar, bass and pounding on snare drums.

Commented MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover in an online posting: "What happened last night on that stage in Sofia, Bulgaria is something that I will cherish forever.

"I gotta tell ya, from where I was standing (between snare drum hits),I have never seen so many people on stage with a smile that big on all of our faces. Better yet for me was to have my kids go to the movie theater back home and watch it all a few hours later and tell me how much they loved it. That meant a lot to me.

"Damn, I would have liked to go watch this in a movie theater myself.

"Anyway, just checking in to let you know we are really having a great time out here. I hope all of you who saw the show live or in the movies did as well."

Last night's "Big Four" show, as part of the Sonisphere festival, was beamed to more than 450 movie theatres in more than 140 markets in the U.S., along with cities in Europe, Canada and Latin America. In addition, it was recorded for a forthcoming "Big Four" DVD.

The concert were broadcast to theatres in high definition. Delayed screenings are planned for Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

METALLICA, SLAYER, MEGADETH and ANTHRAX — the so-called "Big Four" of 1980s thrash metal — played together for the first time in history on June 16 in front of 81,000 fans at the Sonisphere festival at Bemowo Airport in Warsaw, Poland.

Photo below courtesy of MetOnTour.com

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