It seems the old man of MEGADETH has blown another fuse again – by way of the band’s forum, in concern with the dismal label support that he claims to have gotten from Roadrunner Records. Dave’s currently on a headlining tour, MEGADETH’s first in support of their latest album, Endgame (which has literally tanked at this point), with MACHINE HEAD, SUICIDE SILENCE, and ARCANIUM along in support. The next show is November 17th at Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Will someone please show up and buy some of this man’s records!!
“Since we have tried and tried to find out why our records are not being stocked in so many places that our other labelmates are being stocked at, and ALL of our peers are being sold in too, and since we keep getting excuses from either the stores, the distributors, or the other people involved with getting the record in stores and out to you, I have decided that depending on how tired I am each night, I am willing to do their jobs too, and I will be waiting for you each night after we play and we (me) will be autographing records for you at our merchandise booth to support Megadeth somehow at these shows.
Please remember that I am going to be doing my best to do this for us all, although I should NOT have to do this in order to sell my new record. Talk about feeling like a beginner band, and having no real understanding of why you are being treated like you don’t deserve to be treated better, but fuck it and fuck them.”
http://www.megadeth.com
While it’s true that roadrunner has done a bad job of promoting Megadeth’s latest, they are still a very good record company.
BS.. Roadrunner are notorious for signing quality acts then screwing them out of typical label services and opportunites. This isnt the first premier band RR have toyed with like this and it wont be thelast. Ive chatted with numerous RR band members over the years that say ‘DO NOT SIGN WITH RR’ ! They dont care about anyone but Nickleback and TOAD!