UPDATED WITH VIDEO! MUSTAINE ANNOUNCES BIG FOUR U.S. TOUR?

Longtime reader Ryan Wineman sent be the below e-mail in the wee hours of this morning. Ryan has been pretty dependable in the past, so I’m inclined to believe that if he says this happened, it happened. That being said, YOU SHOULD OBVIOUSLY TREAT THIS AS RUMOR UNTIL THE BANDS SAY SOMETHING OFFICIAL, because while it’s very exciting news, Dave Mustaine shouting it out on-stage does not mean it’s a sure thing.

Here’s Ryan’s e-mail:

So, I just returned from an excellent show at the Cow Palace today.  At one point during Megadeth’s set, Mustaine said something along the lines of…

“We’re going to do something we don’t do very often…”

“Who wants to see the Big Four in the United States?”

“We were asked to do this song….in celebration of the big four coming to the United States.”