{"id":132360,"date":"2025-11-13T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T04:30:11","slug":"megadeths-dave-mustaine-were-easily-talking-about-touring-for-another-three-to-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/132360\/","title":{"rendered":"Megadeth\u2019s Dave Mustaine: \u201cWe\u2019re easily talking about touring for another three to five years\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like Megadeth&#8217;s upcoming farewell tour will be lengthy one. During a recent chat with <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/megadeth-dave-mustaine-farewell-interview-thrash-metal-cover-story\">Kerrang!<\/a>, frontman Dave Mustaine revealed that the trek could last &#8220;for another three to five years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mustaine told the publication the following:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think when things happen like the throat cancer, or my neck being fused, or the saturnine palsy in my arm, most people would stop. Most people would be terrified, and I did step back and regroup. But this is what I love doing, and I know that at some point the time is going to come for our last show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re easily talking about touring for another three to five years. And if we&#8217;re going to be doing it for that long then, shit, I&#8217;ll be looking at the birthday I don&#8217;t even want to think about!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not caught up in longevity and stuff like that, and being one of those guys who can play until he&#8217;s in his 80s. I have to remember that people live and they die. And I need to take good care of myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It looks like Megadeth&#8217;s upcoming farewell tour will be lengthy one. During a recent chat with Kerrang!, frontman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[78427,156,4912,59845,78428,1614,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-132360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-dave-mustaine","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hardcore","11":"tag-lambgoat","12":"tag-megadeth","13":"tag-metal","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}