Even Days Off On Tour Are Expensive

Touring is pricey as hell today, and that features days the place nothing is occurring. In an interview with The Jeremy White Present, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine mentioned it prices the band someplace between $45,000 and $52,000 to sit down round on days off. So possibly these expensive shirts on tours make slightly extra sense to followers now.

“Oh, it is fairly costly,” mentioned Mustaine. “I feel it is about 45 thousand {dollars} a day for us simply to sit down nonetheless. I feel — it is likely to be 52. However that is simply sitting nonetheless; that is not doing a present. Present days are dearer… [That’s] salaries, lodge rooms, insurance coverage — all the pieces. The buses, the bus drivers, the vehicles, the truck drivers. Yeah, loads of stuff.”

Mustaine additionally touched on Avenged Sevenfold spending $2 million on busses for their upcoming tour, saying it is not precisely what Megadeth does.

“I feel that is likely to be ‘trigger his band takes out extra buses. For instance, we take two. I am certain that they in all probability take greater than that. And I feel as a result of they’re so profitable that there could possibly be — I am not saying this — however there could possibly be sure folks that might be extra prepared to offer them an incentive to make use of their firm due to what nice promotion it could be to have these guys utilizing a bus firm.

“If I had a model new bus and I wished to get standard, bands like [Avenged Sevenfold] could be a fantastic band for selling your organization. So you’d suppose charging these guys two million bucks, man, they’d both must have loads of buses or he is speaking about a very long time. Buses are typically between 5 to 10 thousand {dollars} every week. ‘Trigger that features gas and the motive force and his lodge. Typically you need to do double drives in Europe; you need to try this.”