MEGADETH's DAVE MUSTAINE Rehearsing With SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY: Photos Posted Online

April 12, 2014

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine will be a featured soloist with the San Diego Symphony tonight (Saturday, April 12). The classical special concert, billed as "Symphony Interrupted", will take place at the 2,200-capacity Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, California. The event will see Mustaine perform Richard Wagner's "Ride Of The Valkyries" with the orchestra, as well as solos of Vivaldi's concertos from "The Four Seasons", plus Bach's classic "Air".

Photos of Mustaine rehearsing with the San Diego Symphony can be found at The San Diego Union-Tribune.

"There's such a difference in the [classical music and metal] societies," Mustaine told The Daily Aztec. "That's the thing that I'm looking forward to, seeing how these two worlds are going to collide."

He continued: "In my mind, I'm getting ready to go walk out to the stage, come in with a little tuxedo on, I'm going to get down there and they're going to go, 'Fuck yeah, Dave!' and all the classical guys are going to go, 'Oh my God, he said the F-word!'"

Mustaine also talked about the influence classical music has had on MEGADETH since the band's inception three decades ago.

"On the very first song on our very first record, I actually played piano," he said. "Funny thing was, it was a very, very, hacked up version of Beethoven's 'Fugue In D Minor' and going back and listening to the actual performance of Beethoven, it's kind of like, 'Nice try, Dave,' because it was close to it, but I mean, I was a gutter kid that grew up on the street and was playing from memory. I was surprised I could even play the piano."

Tickets to the show are sold out online, but a limited amount of tickets are on sale the day of the performance.

"These are the times I wish my mom was still alive to be able to see this stuff, because I remember when I first started playing guitar, she would say like, 'Turn it down you're going to kill somebody!,'" Mustaine told The Daily Aztec. "Guess what, mom? I'm playing with the symphony now."

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