Would You Be Interested in Seeing Megadeth Perform All of Youthanasia?
Megadeth have already done tours where they’ve played their classic albums Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction in their entirety — and now it looks like Youthanasia, metal’s foremost concept album about the teenagers of the world’s largest continent, is next on the list. From a new interview with Examiner.com:
Examiner: Youthanasia was my very first Megadeth record ever, so I’ll always have a soft spot for it. Any chance you’ll go out and tour the whole album like you did with Countdown and Rust In Peace?
Dave: Very big chance. In fact funny that you mention that, we were just talking about the part where David Ellefson used to play the extra floor tom during “Reckoning Day,” because the video we did for that song was filmed in Finland and Finland is right next to Russia, so the taxi cab I was in was an old cab from the Russian days back during the cold war. And a lot of the footage from that video, it’s a really, really old video, was from all those concerts back in the day when metal was just huge and before the whole alternative new metal things confused things and fucked up our business.
What interests me about this is that I’m not sure doing a tour based around Youthanasia is the slam-dunk concept that the tours based around Rust and Countdown were. I don’t think Youthanasia is a bad album at all, but other than one song, “A Tout Le Monde,” it doesn’t seem to have a very strong legacy amongst Megadeth’s fanbase — I can’t really remember the last time someone just, like, brought it up in conversation. I know it sold a lot of copies back in 1994, but a) that was twenty years ago and b) two of the four members of the band who appear on the album, Marty Friedman and Nick Menza, aren’t even in Megadeth anymore. That obviously didn’t stop ‘Deth from doing those Rust and Countdown treks, but, again… Youthanasia ain’t no Rust in Peace or Countdown to Extinction.
What chu think? Is this something you’d be interested in seeing, or is it a total waste of time? Weigh in with your thoughts in the comments section below.
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