The recording process for Megadeth's 12th studio album began on January 7, 2009, at the band's own Vic's Garage studio in San Marcos. Megadeth's DVD Blood in the Water: Live in San Diego, filmed in May 2008 at Cox Arena, premiered on HDNet television in early November '08. Justis plays guitar and has appeared in several local theatrical productions, including one in which he played Elvis Presley. Victor Gar was named after Megadeth mascot Vic Rattlehead and former band drummer Gar Samuelsson, who died in 1998.
The couple had a son in 1992 (Justis David), a daughter in 1998 (Electra Nicole), and another son in 2002 (Victor Gar). Mustaine filed a petition for divorce in San Diego Superior Court in 2006, seeking dissolution of his marriage to Pamela Anne Casselberry, whom he wed in April 1991 before the couple moved into their $1.2 million house in Fallbrook's Rolling Hills Estates. The tour was sponsored by Microsoft's game "Gears of War," the name of a song on Megadeth's subsequent album. Gigantour’s second edition launched in September 2006, with Megadeth, Lamb of God, Opeth, Arch Enemy, Overkill, and others sharing the bill. Billboard's attendance figures indicate that promoters sold 2228 seats of 4598 available for the 2005 tour's San Diego stop. Mustaine posted on his website, "We're working on the problems," but the snafu was never explained.īesides San Diego, fans in San Antonio, Cincinnati, and Boston missed out on a second stage. Several venues, including SDSU's Open Air Amphitheatre, couldn't accommodate the show's second stage, and promised bands (such as Symphony X, Dry Kill Logic) couldn't play. Mustaine's Gigantour - with Megadeth, Dream Theater, and others - experienced booking problems in 2005. "The ones that I did that I’m not doing anymore that to me are just wrong the Sex Pistols' 'Anarchy,' 'cause it says, 'I'm an anti-Christ.' I'm not really anti anybody, so I had to kind of take a look at that." Regarding his status as the only permanent player in the band he calls Megadeth, Mustaine said, "I think the people are aware when I left Metallica and came home on a bus, I did not stop off and pick up a bass player. In summer 2005, Mustaine told KNAC’s Philthy Phil that he won’t perform certain songs now that he’s embraced Christianity. Mustaine moved to Rolling Hills Estates in Fallbrook in late 2004, along with his wife Pamela, their kids, and their horses. In 1981, he quit his first band Panic to become Metallica’s original lead guitarist, before getting replaced by Kirk Hammett in 1983. His parents split when he was young, and his mom raised him as a Jehovah’s Witness. Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine was born September 13, 1961, at Grossmont Hospital in San Diego.