Well they've had lots of dates, the final date is still unknown. Yes, don't mention the backing vocals, but Rob puts more funk into his music then Jason, hell, newsted admitted he couldn't play Orion, maybes it was because of him using a pick, I liked Jason alot but Rob seriously put alot of soul into that performance. My dad has a few Megadeth albums in the loft, I've listened to RiP, TSHF, Youthanasia, Capital Punishment, Peace sells, So far so good so what and peace sells. Most of them I errr... Borrowed without asking from my friend. Rob does a better for whom the bell tolls and it's much clearer then what Newsted used to do. Rob is just under rated badly, we'll see what he can really do when the album comes out. Well if I could wait for Advent Children then the new Metallica album should be easy to wait for. Heh watch it get released in something like December 08 or something, hehehehehe. All the good stuff always gets pushed back.