This was an opportunity I couldn’t turn down for obvious reasons.” “It almost stopped me, but with the support of my wife and family … I can focus on going forward because it was going to be hard. It was that fast.”ĭrover said it was a tough decision to make. The friend said he received the information from Mustaine’s media handler and joked about Drover joining the band. In addition to producing his own albums at his home studio in Kingsville, Drover also does guest solos for bands, session work, producing and mixing. In 2004, Drover got a call from a friend in the music business who told him Dave Mustaine, the founder of Megadeth, was putting his band back together for a farewell tour after a three-year split. He refocused on Eidolon, playing music festivals and making records for Metal Blade. I have a son on the way, I’m going to do something different.” I think I went as far as I can with that band at the time.

It came to the point it was kind of simple. In 2001, after three years with King Diamond, Drover decided it was time to part ways. During the time with King Diamond he married “the girl next door,” his Streetsville neighbour Tara. That was the day I joined a professional, touring band.”ĭrover did two American tours with the band, a tour of Europe and various European festivals. At the time, he was working in the storage department with Royal Airlines at Pearson Airport in Toronto. “He called one week later and said, ‘I got the tape and I love it.’ He said if something comes up, I’ll call you.”ĭrover kept in contact with King Diamond and in 1997, many years after the initial contact, he got the call. I’ve legitimately sent you a demo, I’ve seen all the changes in personnel with your guitar players.”Then he asked King to keep his name in mind if he needed a guitar player. I just want to let you know I’m not some great fan. She also gave Drover the telephone number for the leader of the band, Kim Bendix Petersen, better known as King Diamond. He sent the demo to Denmark, later spoke with the band’s booking agent, who said she would forward the tape to King Diamond. “He said why don’t you do a few songs on video … and send it to their booking agent or management.” So, he did. His brother Shawn also liked the band and he noticed there was a revolving door of guitarists on each King Diamond album. Without that I wouldn’t have gotten into King Diamond and without King Diamond I would never have gotten into Megadeth.”ĭrover was always a big fan of King Diamond, a Danish band with members in Scandinavia and the United States.

That was fun, but we were primarily a recording band … we never broke out,” Drover said. We did festivals, some good ones overseas. “It was a big thrill for us because it was on Capitol Records,” said Drover.īy 1993, RTR eventually morphed into Eidolon, a power metal band, which released seven studio albums with California-based Metal Blade Records.

They put together demos at a studio owned by the Canadian rock band Triumph and one of the songs, Conquer or be Conquered, appeared on Capitol Records’ Moose Molten Metal, a 1986 compilation of recordings by 10 heavy metal bands from across Canada. Drover, 51, grew up in a small town outside Montreal, honed his craft playing with garage bands and when the family moved to Mississauga, Glen and Shawn formed a three-piece band called RTR. It’s been a long and winding road for Drover, who now lives in Kingsville with his wife Tara, and son, Bladen. With a blown amp now on his resume, Drover, age 10, began his road to rock ’n’ roll success and a four-year stint as lead guitarist with U.S. I was the first time we played together.” “It was a small amp, only two watts, and I blew the fuse in the first days trying to keep up to my brother on drums. He hooked up the amp, started doing some heavy metal riffs with his brother, Shawn, who played drums, and soon blew a fuse. More progress, and the following Christmas his parents gave him a knockoff Les Paul electric guitar and an amplifier. His drive to play guitar was so strong he would strum on the strings of an old tennis racquet while watching his older brother Brian play.Įventually the kid brother was handed the guitar.ĭrover showed immediate talent and that Christmas, under the tree, was an acoustic guitar. KINGSVILLE - As a kid Glen Drover never asked his parents for toys, only music albums.

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