MEGADETH Frontman Completes 'Peace Sells' Song For 'Rock School' Soundtrack

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following message in the "Forums" section of the group's official web site:

"Well, [Wednesday, Jan. 12] was very interesting indeed. I was approached to sing over a cover version of 'Peace Sells' for a movie/soundtrack. This version was done by young kids from the 'real' 'School of Rock', the story that Jack Black based his hilarious comedy film on.

"Things got interesting when I got to the studio and Lance said that the producers never sent the drives with all of the tracks on it. Uh, whoops?!?

"So, hours are grumbling by, and we finally get the track downloaded off of the Internet, but naturally it is not in the correct format. Now, a great deal of time later we finally start working and things are clicking. I only had to make a slight adjustment to the arrangement, but excluding that, these kids were terrific!

"Thank God for that, because from the moment I walked back into Phase Four, I absolutely hated it. It seems that the owner has built a patio over the parking lot, got a liquor license, and now runs a very public bar over what SHOULD be a very private studio.

"I asked him (the owner) about having the place locked out (which means I am the only one there — that's how I like to work) because I heard a lot of people talking and he said, 'I specifically said there was a bar now, and no one was to come down these steps, blah, blah, blah, biddy-boop a lop, an a jizz jazz a razz.' I guess you can see I turned off my ears while he was playing hot shot telling me about his 'bar' meanwhile a wanker bartender comes down the steps right after his sermon.

"I had hoped to have time to go see Mike Learn, Mike Ferguson — the fabricator making the new drum rack (so we can get rid of the one Nick played),and get my ears lowered, but the day was completely shot. I did however see Ralph Patlan and we talked about a lot of cool stuff coming up. I wish you all could meet this dude; he is awesome!

"Anyway, 'Peace Sells' has now been officially sung by me with the 'School of Rock' kids and will be hopefully in yer sweaty mitts sometime soon. If not for the (hopefully) awesome version that these kids did, then just for the fact that they are little guys playing MEGADETH.

"Thanks to my dear friend Bob Chiappardi [president of Concrete Marketing] for the tremendous opportunity to get outside of the box and do something that I would not normally do. And thanks to the kids and the 'School of Rock' for even thinking about me. I look forward to meeting you all personally someday soon."