Former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has added extra exhibits to his inaugural “Bass Warrior Tour”, gracing choose European cities with a fascinating night of cherished classics, deep cuts, and insightful storytelling from his illustrious profession. This journey will embody his function as a co-founding member of MEGADETH, his ELLEFSON solo materials, and extra.
Ellefson, with enthusiasm, expressed: “I’ve approached my profession as that of a musical warrior, all the time accompanied by my bass guitar. I eagerly anticipate bringing these songs again to the stage, whereas sharing introspective and entertaining anecdotes about their creation. It has been a wild experience of low notes and excessive stakes!”
Accompanying him on this tour is Italian guitarist and musical director Andy Martongelli, a longtime pal and collaborator who has been by Ellefson‘s facet throughout his solo ventures, “Basstory”, ELLEFSON-SOTO and ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE excursions throughout Europe. On drums can be Roberto Pirami (Michael Angelo Batio, Rowan Robertson, Gus G.),on vocals Titta Tani (EHFAR, ex-drummer of Claudio Simonetti‘s GOBLIN),and on rhythm guitar Walter Cianciusi (Geoff Tate band).
Tour dates:
Feb. 22 – Il Peocio – Trofarello (Italy)
Feb. 23 – Borderline Membership – Pisa (Italy)
Feb. 29 – Kill Pleasure – Roma (Italy)
Mar. 01 – Il Druso – Bergamoo (Italy)
Mar. 02 – Il Giardino – Lugagnano (Italy)
Mar. 03 – Fabrik – Cagliari (Italy)
Mar. 05 – Analog Dwell corridor – Budapest (Hungary)
Mar. 07 – Reigen Dwell – Vienna (Austria)
Mar. 08 – Eden Klub Underground – Broumov (Czech Rep)
Mar. 09 – L.A. Dwell Fashion Membership – Cham (Germany)
Mar. 10 – The Pitcher – Dusseldorf (Germany)
Mar. 12 – MDN – Kolin (Czech Rep)
Mar. 13 – Bounty Rock Cafe’ – Olomouc (Czech Rep)
Mar. 14 – Kino Regis – Bochnia (Poland)
Mar. 15 – Rc Mlyn – Vrutky (Slovakia)
Mar. 16 – Kollosseum – Kosice (Slovakia)
Mar. 17 – Randal – Bratislava (Slovakia)
Mar. 20 – Membership Helitehas – Tallinn (Estonia)
Mar. 21 – Membership Melnā Piektdiena – Riga (Latvia)
Mar. 22 – Membership Vakaris – Vilnius (Lithuania)
Mar. 23 – Bergkeller – Reichenbach (Germany)
Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH practically three years in the past, simply days after sexually tinged messages and express video footage involving the bassist have been posted on Twitter.
Shortly earlier than Ellefson was dismissed from MEGADETH, he launched an announcement on Instagram denying all social media chatter that he “groomed” an underage fan. He additionally filed a report with the police division in Scottsdale, Arizona alleging illegal distribution of sexually express pictures of him by unknown offenders.
Dave Mustaine — who fashioned MEGADETH with Ellefson in 1983 — launched an announcement on Might 24, 2021 saying the bassist’s departure from the band. Within the assertion, Dave mentioned: “We don’t take this resolution flippantly. Whereas we have no idea each element of what occurred, with an already strained relationship, what has already been revealed now is sufficient to make working collectively inconceivable transferring ahead.”
Final June, Ellefson instructed Andrew McKaysmith of the “Scars And Guitars” podcast that he was ready for his newest exit from MEGADETH.
“When my departure from MEGADETH occurred, lots of people have been hitting me [up and saying], ‘Oh my God. It is so horrible. It is so horrible,'” he recalled. “[And I said], ‘Yeah, imagine me, it isn’t.’ [Laughs] It actually is not. I used to be prepared for it. I did not suppose it was gonna go down that method; I did not see that coming. However the truth that it occurred, I used to be not unhappy about it. I used to be okay with it. As a result of I knew there’s one other journey forward, and that journey wasn’t gonna begin till I used to be out of the outdated one.
“While you’re in a gaggle, you are in a setting, you’ve got gotta play firm man and also you sort of go together with the narrative that is been set forth.
“There was loads of issues, loads of the narrative in that band that I by no means agreed with,” Ellefson admitted. “A number of that band was began on a grudge and a hardship of the firing [of MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine] from METALLICA. That was by no means my story. I used to be all the time a METALLICA fan and I grew to become mates with these guys. I’ve nothing however gratitude for that group and people gents for what they’ve finished for all of us, and I feel they deserve the largest applause. So it was exhausting to be in a band that all the time had this saltiness round that complete narrative, as a result of it was by no means my narrative. So I went alongside to get alongside, however now I haven’t got to try this. And now I will be by myself path. These are my phrases; it is my story now. And perhaps the occasions that occurred a few years in the past, I wanted to have my very own story to inform. ‘Trigger once you stop a band, everybody’s pissed at you; they hate you: ‘Oh, fuck you. You stop. You stop my favourite band.’ However once you get tossed out… And I am not searching for the sympathy card. You do not have to really feel sorry for me; you do not have to do any of that. But it surely’s attention-grabbing that, I suppose the way in which it occurred… it went down in a method that it was definitely seen sufficient and on a degree that… It was type of, like, okay, properly, what’s gonna occur subsequent? And I simply tried to be trustworthy to simply following my coronary heart, following the trail.”
In 2004, Ellefson filed an $18.5-million lawsuit in opposition to Mustaine, alleging the frontman shortchanged him on earnings and backed out of a deal to show Megadeth Inc. over to him when the band broke up in 2002. The lawsuit was finally dismissed and Ellefson rejoined MEGADETH in 2010.
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