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Cryptic Writings
After the extensive tours which followed up Youthanasia, the band took a while off. Dave got to spend a lot
of time with his son, Justis, and Jr went and had two kids of his own. Dave worked with a side project during
some of this time; first called Mastermind, then the Beverley Killbillies, and then MD:45 ( MD from [ Mustaine,
Dave ], and 45 as the roman numeral equivalent of [ Ving, Lee ], the vocalist ). Also in the band were Kelly
Lemieux for a bassist and Jimmy Degrasso on drums. Dave did very little vocal work on the album. Of the other
members of the band, the only other one with much to talk about is Ving, who used to be in the band Fear, and
played the part of a biker gang leader in the movie Dudes and Mr. Body in the movie Clue. Nick also started a
side project, Soma ( the origons of that name I don't know ), but they have not released anything yet. After
this, the band went to Nashville, Tennessee to start working on their next album. Why Nashville/why not Arizona?
Probably because the producer, Dann Huff, lived in the area. Why not Max Norman produce? The band wanted to get
a bit of variety in after using Max for production of two albums and mixing of another. The recording process
was much the same for the album as it had been for Youthanasia; no obscession with making everything perfect.
It was to be called 'Needles and Pins,' referring to voodoo ( voodoo dolls, to be exact ). It went as Needles
and Pins for about a month or so, until the band saw the cover art. It was supposed to be of a naked woman
( backlit to aviod being pornography ) holding a voodoo doll out towards the front of the picture. The voodoo
doll was to have rusty nails and pins in it; possibly some syringes and possibly Vic on the heads of some of
the nails. But it came out looking really dumb ( 'the voodoo doll looked like a chicken leg,' Dave says ) so
not only the cover idea but the whole album name was scrapped. A new title was thought of to replace it, and
this one stayed. Finally, a release date was set for the album which seemed a bit excessive ( four or so months
for mixing and editing??? ) but June 17th it was. The CyberArmy, Megadeth's on-line fan club, set up a promotional
trip to see the band preform the first show of the tours to support the album, which was to be on June 13th,
and was to be broadcasted by hundreds of radio stations around the world. On June 17th, the album will be out.
A single for Trust MAY be on the way, but for some reason, it might not happen.
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