It's Chris Broderick...

[toejam]

Jeff Young was a shredder ,too,mostly.

The funny thing about Jeff, he wasn't supposed to be the guitar player at the time. Read his bio with Megadeth...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Young#Equilibrium

[MartinBarre]

TSHF is way better than Risk, and I don't really even care for TSHF that much either. UA is a bit better, but it still seems to me that something is lacking, and it's not Glen Drover.

Yeah, it's lacking Dave Ellefson!

[toejam]

I believe Al Pitrelli is back in Savatage, or at least in Trans Siberian Orchestra.

[toejam]

And TSHF? I listened to that again today to see why so many people go on about Chris Polands leads on it. The album is a complete load of commercial shit, it's about as heavy as Risk most of it, and Poland's soloing is nowhere near as good as his previous work in the band, OR his work on his solo stuff. In fact, I'd go as far as to say the solos on TSHF are fucking horrible.

Taste eh? It's mad!

TSHF is way better than Risk, and I don't really even care for TSHF that much either. UA is a bit better, but it still seems to me that something is lacking, and it's not Glen Drover.

[MartinBarre]

Yeah, exactly! In that quote I asked a question! I never said "It never helped Al's career". I said "DID IT help Al's career?" I genuinely don't know.

WHat the hell IS Al doing now anyway? He lacked a bit of charisma and movement on stage, but I always wonder if that was down to Dave telling him not to upstage him.
I find it easy to blame Dave for all the ills of the world.

[Endrik]

I think it would help Chris' reputation.. kinda.. but Al is totally different type of musician

[Endrik]

Is it really such a big thing for this guys career? Did it do anything for Al Pitrelli?

[MartinBarre]

Megadeth not helping Pitrelli's career...well hello, Pitrelli is a session player, he has worked with bigger acts than Megadeth, session musicians have chosed to do sessions not be poster boys for pissed off teenagers. That's his career.

How many of you know Michael Landau... I bet a lot of you don't... I guess he has a shitty career too lol

Of course I know Martin Landau, I couldn't name any of the films he's in though.

Who said Megadeth never helped Pitrelli's career? I asked a question. I have no idea what he's doing now. You've read something into my post that wasn't there, and had a go at everyone else in the process for some reason.

[Endrik]

Megadeth not helping Pitrelli's career...well hello, Pitrelli is a session player, he has worked with bigger acts than Megadeth, session musicians have chosed to do sessions not be poster boys for pissed off teenagers. That's his career.

How many of you know Michael Landau... I bet a lot of you don't... I guess he has a shitty career too lol

[javert]

I thought Pitrelli did a pretty good job of that, and seemingly effortlessly too.
That guy had a lot to offer I thought.

Agreed!

[NextInLine]

Ok this is a link that gives you the search result for "Jag Panzer" in youtube sorted according to the view count.

His "betcha can't play this" video has 406,344 hits
His "solo duel with Loomis" video has 341,533 hits
and an actual video of Jag Panzer has only 25,816 hits

We'll see in a couple weeks. His solo on that video is worse than most of the Glen solos btw

Edit: forgot the link DUHHH

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=jag%20panzer&search_sort=video_view_count&search_category=0&search=Search&v=&uploaded=&filter=1

[Norton]

Al Pitrelli was and is a great player.I think , Chris Poland's work on TSHF was very regular stuff. Nothing special. And Glen's just a shredder. Jeff Young was a shredder ,too,mostly. When I talk about Megadeth, Marty's a natural winner for me. I can't even think otherwise. But Al's the second after him, cause he's a solo player, not a shredder.


I think , Chris Broderick will put some interesting stuff in the music,with a different point of view.And I think he's gonna play the solos very close to the originals, cause he's also a classical guitar player, which means he's very used to playing "note to note" stuff.

[Sinistas]

Pitrelli was decent but always flubbed Tornado. Glen was better, but not a whole lot. Eesh.

[MartinBarre]

But there's a point you're missing. I'm assuming he writes some good stuff.

I personally think Drover sucked bad, I don't like Poland either and TSHF was a way better album than UA imo. Most people like UA more because it was heavier but still TSHF is a heavy sounding album..

As far as Al Pitrelli goes and how much joining Megadeth will help Brodericks's career, think about Glen and you'll see for yourself. How many of the people that know him now used to listen to his stuff before Megadeth?

Now Broderick's old stuff is going to be listened maybe 10 times more. I'm sure there are hundreds of Megafans who haven't listened Jag Panzer yet and they will be listening to it a lot in the following few days Broderick's work is going to surface in a way..

What I expect from Chris is in fact bringing a bit of modern sound to Megadeth, a little more guitar oriented music with heavier & more modern riffs even maybe some 7 string stuff. I'm one of those men who thinks even Risk was a great album when considered on its own. The point is whatever he does he can nail it so some more modern stuff wouldn't be bad either!

Hmm, well, we'll see. I wouldn't be surprised if Dave gets rid of him before the next album is even recorded. ANd if he doesn't Dave will probably not allow much input from anyone else anyway!
Time will tell.

[NextInLine]

I thought Pitrelli did a pretty good job of that, and seemingly effortlessly too.
That guy had a lot to offer I thought.

Pitrelli was the best after Marty imo And I don't think Chris can do as good as him and to be clear I'm not speaking about playing

And as a side note, I already started to prepare myself for the "Marty vs. Chris" discussions