MEGADETH's MUSTAINE Talks About GIGANTOUR: Video Available

July 27, 2006

Ultimate-Guitar.com has uploaded a couple of short video clips of MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine discussing the Gigantour festival concept and the reason for the tour's creation, which he was responsible for.

The 2006 edition of Gigantour, which is set to kick off September 7 in San Diego, California, will feature MEGADETH alongside LAMB OF GOD, OPETH, ARCH ENEMY, OVERKILL, INTO ETERNITY, SANCTITY and THE SMASHUP, along with a few other acts that will be announced at a later date.

Mustaine on the Gigantour festival concept:

"Part of the reason why I wanted to do Gigantour was that I've been on a lot of festivals around the world, in Japan, Europe and most places people don't ever get to see let alone perform, and I noticed that one of the things in America is that festivals are really highly priced. On top of that a lot of the festivals here that are successful have the same types of bands on them. I wanted to do a festival that consisted of a lot of exciting bands that had really good players but weren't necessarily all the same genre of music. You've got some speed metal, you've got some thrash metal, you've got some prog metal, you've got hard rock/heavy metal, so on and so forth. There's some nu-metal, there's some industrial metal, I guess you would call it."

Mustaine on the point of Gigantour:

"What I wanted to do was dig into all these different areas, grab some great bands, and make it affordable for people so that they could come out and see the concert and walk away satisfied, not feeling like if you've gone to some concert, spent two or three hundred dollars for one nights performance if you take a guest or a date or something and get some souvenirs. Walk away satiated. For me, I feel music should be something that you should get a climax out of, not walk away feeling like you were the one that was used."

Last year's festival featured the likes of ANTHRAX, DREAM THEATER and FEAR FACTORY, and a "Gigantour" DVD is being released September 5 to coincide with the launch of the 2006 festival. The audio version of the compilation "Gigantour" album is set for release August 22.

Watch the video clips of Mustaine talking about Gigantour at Ultimate-Guitar.com.

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