Megadeth’s farewell tour is set to run for the next three to five years, and when it finally wraps up, frontman Dave Mustaine hopes the band plays its final show in space.
In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Mustaine even suggested a moon landing followed by a moon concert, though he didn’t address the complication of performing with zero gravity.
“I hope we’ll be playing up in space,” Mustaine said. “I think that will be a really fitting climax. And I’m not talking about on the side of a vomit comet. A gig on the moon, a full moon landing, that would be cool.”
He added, referencing the sub-orbital flights conducted by Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, Elon Musk’s SpaceX, and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic: “I saw they sent up a bunch of celebrities into space and I thought ‘Well, if them, why not me?’, you know? I’m just watching how that all progresses. I know Elon Musk and Richard Branson were working on interstellar travel. I think people are going to be travelling to space a lot sooner than you think.”
The band that wrote “Hangar 18” playing in space would be cool. When asked if he was joking about the idea, Mustaine doubled down.
“People already travel over 40,000 feet altitude, and when you get to that kind of atmosphere you’re basically already in space,” he said. “So I do think it’s going to happen. The question is, are people going to be able to inhabit the moon?”
