I could seriously walk thru this entire place blindfolded listening to all the great shredders there and still pick this dude out from the rest! His sound/style is so unique from anyone else I've ever heard. It's also one of the big reasons I got in to Megadeth when they first came on the scene in the 80's. He and Dave made the perfect pair in my humble opinion
@aryinc5 жыл бұрын
i'm a friedman guy. but trying poland stuff is way harder for me personally. total respect for this man. such and insane player.
@brianmcgonigal2295 жыл бұрын
His 1/4 & 1/2 bends are the most recognized in all guitar players..
@MegaWumba3 жыл бұрын
@@aryinc literally nobody Megadeth had post Poland could even come close to his style
@aryinc3 жыл бұрын
@@MegaWumba noone can match his style. Marty friedman style same thing. they are both players very recognisable by their style. Both very dynamic. I prefer friedman but thats more personal and style, but chirs poland stuff is reall really hard. I there wasn't chris poland in megadeth we would really have missed out on one of the very best. At the time, if you compared poland to any guitarsits in thrashmetal he probably would own them all.
@Servantofthegenerous2 жыл бұрын
I thought the same thing. I would have parked right in front of him and could watch him play all day!
@xblackcatx13125 жыл бұрын
He’s really good, and he’s not boring to listen to. A lot of these virtuosos are boring and soulless. This is great.
@kornuithildr41294 жыл бұрын
What a great saxaphone player
@CaptainBlackBread5 жыл бұрын
I want to see Chris Poland and Marty Friedman play together. Sure, that'll probably never happen but entertain the thought real quick.
@whereisevan5 жыл бұрын
It did happen! Back in the early 2000's, they did a tour together with Alex Skolnick. They each had their own band but I'm sure they all jammed at some point during the tour. If you do a Google search, you can find pics of them together and stuff. They both have a ton of respect for each other.
@lonewolf6045 жыл бұрын
@@whereisevan Yep, in an interview Marty said Chris has an instantly recognizable style.
@anti-queproductionsurgenyo42125 жыл бұрын
It would be magical for sure
@AreEnTee4 жыл бұрын
@@irieeyes12 woah woah woah
@DaveOJ Жыл бұрын
Marty and Kiko will be playing together at the Budokan.
@Slicklickz6 жыл бұрын
Those bends are incredible.
@beebala36 жыл бұрын
Insanely unique phrasing
@luciobattisti61385 жыл бұрын
beebala3 magnetic
@perseapina5 жыл бұрын
@Dissonant Timbres his phrasing also reminds me of jeff beck
@RX120D3 жыл бұрын
@Dissonant Timbres This is the right answer. Chris is a huge Jan Hammer fan.
@drmmuzik5 жыл бұрын
Just one of those guitar players that makes you smile when you see him play. Clean, fast, effortless. I'm not even a big fan of Schecter Guitars, but I suppose Chris is just one of those guys that could play a broomstick and make it sound amazing.
@notsure11354 жыл бұрын
drmmuzik I like Schecter, will gladly buy another.
@H.E.M.4 жыл бұрын
I agree. Schecters sound muddy and just don’t sound as good as other brands.
@whereisevan5 жыл бұрын
Chris Poland is one of true all-time great guitarists in ANY genre, at least to my ears. I would literally put him up against anyone. Most shredders just make me nod respectfully. Chris' playing makes me laugh out loud with utter incredulity and joy. And the NAMM zombies just file past him like NBD lol.
@John_Doh4 жыл бұрын
I was bewildered at that throughout the video! How could these people just meander past THIS without even pausing to stop and take it in for a second? Astonishing. Poland is a god among men. Sounds like no one else, ever.
@Ayyem932 жыл бұрын
They operate solely off of name recognition, and because they haven't heard his surely he can't be good, gotta run to see Jared Dines or Rob Chapman That's where the *real* taste is
@whereisevan2 жыл бұрын
@@Ayyem93 I hear that. It’s a shame so many people operate that way.
@DROID10186 жыл бұрын
Mega respect for this man. Plays with so much style and so unique.
@elvissorna88615 жыл бұрын
Of all the greatest guitar players I've known Poland's style is by far the most prominent and inimitable. Even without the broken pinky I believe he would have developed a signature style one way or another. That's how much underrated, immensely gifted I think he is, easily in the same league as Hendrix, Uli Jon Roth, Eddie Van Halen and Marty Friedman.
@jimmyjohnson14265 жыл бұрын
It's not his pinky, it's his pointer finger. He can't fully straighten it out. My right hand ringer finger is like that after it was cut just above the last joint.
@whereisevan5 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It bums me out that he isn't mentioned in the same breath as those dudes.
@TheMarcelozanatta6 жыл бұрын
Nick Menza in the shirt !! congratulations Chris Mestre Poland! Megadeth.
@countrykeith65186 жыл бұрын
One of the best players on the planet
@Palestina.non.grata866 жыл бұрын
One of the most horribly underrated guitar legends. Chris is my favorite guitarist of all time, I'm amazed that people kept walking past. IT'S CHRIS FUCKING POLAND!
@haggismuncher5 жыл бұрын
One word....unique......this man has the fretboard nailed.....there is a 1000 shredders out there that are more technical...but you will never hear them make the guitar sing as good as Chris!
@StreetFighter20104 жыл бұрын
All those people walking around with no idea what legend that is right there sitting in their midst.
@justpassing53244 жыл бұрын
Hypnotizing playing as always. Love Chris..
@crusTodd6 жыл бұрын
CP is immediately recognizable by tone, phrazing, and melodies. Jeff Kollman is like that too. Killer fusion players
@andym286 жыл бұрын
crusTodd you would like Alan Murphy check him out.
@buggybunny57694 жыл бұрын
Yeah! Somebody mentioned Jeff Kollman .
@michaelschmidt97082 жыл бұрын
Love Jeff and Chris together on Cosmosquad's 'Jam for Jason'!
@jonesywilliams45954 жыл бұрын
Wow... That sound is so badass... Takes me back to peace sells..
@crusTodd6 жыл бұрын
It's incredible that like Django Rheinhardt, a physical injury resulted in one of the most unique styles out there. Chris has fantastic ears! Great intonation with the bar and bends! WOW!
@sevenman96723 жыл бұрын
Great guitarist with a signature style.
@Raw-guitar3 жыл бұрын
Underrated guitar master.
@RiffRock51 Жыл бұрын
I knew Poland could play, but damn....I'm speechless. Incredible guitar player.
@MikeysMorgue2 жыл бұрын
Best Megadeth guitarist in my opinion. With Chris' Jazz background and messed up index finger it gives him a unique sound.
@donnamarie12486 жыл бұрын
It was an honor to have Chris demo as our main advocate for Stone Tone ❤️ 🤘😎🤘
@leonshreds4 ай бұрын
this guy is truly special
@bingefeller4 жыл бұрын
His pick attack is light, there isn't much of a difference between picked notes and legato notes.
@shanardsmith1475 жыл бұрын
Dam....I dont know what's better ...the tone or the bends
@michaelschmidt97082 жыл бұрын
Chris is Holdsworth, Eric Johnson, and Robin Trower wrapped into one! Absolute guitar genius!
@Mechashiva765 жыл бұрын
devil's island lick at 0:33
@civilmetimbers56362 жыл бұрын
Return to metalopolis blew my friggn mind when i got the cassette back in the 80's and still does to this day.
@chrismontante75433 жыл бұрын
Those god damn articulate bends ❤️
@alwhitaker19253 жыл бұрын
It breaks my heart seeing him doing this magic with an injured finger that can not bend. Incredible
@dylano01265 ай бұрын
The way he holds the fretboard is quite counter-intuitive, but it works quite well for him. Such an interesting player and unlike anyone else! I love those Holdsworthian microtones he pulls off with the whammy bar
@gmaaa82146 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Pick hand looks effortless...
@PIPA13025 жыл бұрын
amazing guitar player, amazing phrasing.....a monster¡¡¡ most underrated
@512banana1 Жыл бұрын
thank you so much for recording this video, this is a gem
@Venomboy666 Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it. He’s such an amazing player.
@danielgonzaleztejedor948613 күн бұрын
As a fan since Peace Sells I was looking for some clean footage of this megaplayer. I have to join banana statement.
@squiddad15282 жыл бұрын
Poland's bends are like no other, and he changes strings like nothing, damn hes good.
@leonshreds4 ай бұрын
just saw OHM at the baked potato last night, it was incredible!!
@pupyrock286 жыл бұрын
The only one!!! Chris Poland!!!
@cameronskye943 жыл бұрын
Love the fusion he brings to his playing. He must have biceps on his fingers for those bends
@mikedervos59743 жыл бұрын
the guitar screams!!! what an amazing player!
@BoaRepublic3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this!!! Pure magic - sorcery - mind blowing.....
@stonerdemon4 жыл бұрын
At 60, one would think his left index finger would be totally battered by arthritis considering the extreme flexion he apllies on it all the time, but this is Chris Fucking Poland we're talking about. Brush strokes of Fripp, Zappa and Reinhardt on his playing. Love it.
@arvind0308925 жыл бұрын
Just discovered Chris Poland through this video. Mind blown! Thank you! AAAAND he's playing through a Boss Katana, which is my newest amp :D
@Baraka_Obama_5 жыл бұрын
Hear his Megadeth solos, AMAZING
@rattlehead95065 жыл бұрын
so clean , love it
@AndreaMaccianti5 жыл бұрын
I love Chris, the one and only!
@patrickmckay66214 жыл бұрын
He always wanna make me play
@danielsan36814 жыл бұрын
I like him. :)
@dimebag31 Жыл бұрын
so smooth
@gmaaa82146 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@timpitts92564 жыл бұрын
A few observations: He picks with the trailing side of the pick (George Benson style), never uses his pinky on his left hand. Check out the odd shape his index finger on the let hand gets into with the middle knuckle bending inward. Very cool style and phrasing. Thanks for posting.
@MrPantera1234562 жыл бұрын
He does use his pinky. Not a lot but he uses it. And he severed tendons in his hand as a kid apparently. He can’t bend his index and can’t feel his pinky. If so that’s even more impressive lol
@cristiancontrario6 жыл бұрын
Chris MegAlivE Poland! \m/
@pjs777s.8 Жыл бұрын
This guy is a goat for sure! He should be on tour for Satriani’s G3 thing with Vai. This dude would eat their lunch.
@jesterman13024 жыл бұрын
To shred like that with only 3 fingers 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Bravo
@alwilliams19976 жыл бұрын
Awesome video
@donsmith53856 жыл бұрын
Chris Poland was Mega Deth
@springbloom59402 жыл бұрын
This guy should be in a band
@Peterplayingguitar2 жыл бұрын
Stunning player. No one sounds anything like this. No one holds their pick like that either LOL
@anti-queproductionsurgenyo42125 жыл бұрын
Dave gotta do a reunion with chris Poland and Marty Friedman ......RIP Nick Menza...the best
@scottycunningham1413 Жыл бұрын
Amazing finger vibrato, bends are on point, and very tasteful usage of the trem bar. No disrespect to Kirk, Dave or any of the other thrashers. But this guy is in a league of his own. I suppose that's why I gravitated towards him. He's not a shredder. He's fusion guy like Holdsworth.
@rattlecage6665 жыл бұрын
I hear alot of alan holdsworth in his playing
@whereisevan5 жыл бұрын
I hear a lot of Alan Alda.
@PeterSmith1854 жыл бұрын
rattlecage666 Holdsworth is Chris’s favorite player.
@waitindelaney4 жыл бұрын
Yep, Holdsworth brought me here. I was listening to him and it immediately made me think of Chris Poland.
@haifischbecken22014 жыл бұрын
You are right! Legato technique.
@rattlecage6662 жыл бұрын
@Gideon October That might be because he is the guitarist on Peace sells?
@sermorel Жыл бұрын
He has such a unique picking technique… Very different…. Awesome player !
@danielgonzaleztejedor9486 Жыл бұрын
Yes I can't comprehend that motion.
@spacenoidjobless81356 жыл бұрын
age 60, really!? lol
@robertpurdy44524 жыл бұрын
I love my Schecter Solo-6 although I can't do anything like Chris can with his.
@fowlman3215 жыл бұрын
Would loved to have heard the follow up to Peace Sells. This dude has awesome technique.
@tonyflorez703 Жыл бұрын
Beast🤟😎
@anti-queproductionsurgenyo42125 жыл бұрын
Love the tone
@HarlanHarvey762 жыл бұрын
So sad.... That is the most beautiful Schecter model ever made... And for only one year.... 😢
@muriloninja5 жыл бұрын
Goddamn he is amazing! SO much more than your typical metal shredder and that is precisely why he was/is so goddamn unique! From a Megadeth perspective, I am a Friedman era guy but shit Poland was unreal! The absolute hands down two best lead guitarists to ever grace that band and that is saying alot obviously.
@deanwitt79032 жыл бұрын
That pinky finger hardly ever gets used but it sounds like he has 10 fingers on each hand . Just incredible .
@sinistadropbear52574 жыл бұрын
Amazing!!🤘🤘😎😎✌
@aschule5684 Жыл бұрын
He's got a "Holdsworth" kind of uniqueness about him ! Chris is a very "out worldly" guitar virtuoso. He seems to be very much beyond Megadeth and what they do I'm surprised he was ever with such a band. I'm not dissing Megadeth saying that either I'm a fan, he just seems to be somewhere else.
@johnm.46554 жыл бұрын
0:24 is just buttery smooth legato. Other fav parts: 0:43, 3:14, 3:36, 4:23. Does anyone know what is wrong with his left hand index finger? It looks bent down oddly, like from an accident or arthritis. Comments?
@mmpgssl23783 жыл бұрын
Sorry that this a late response, when he was young he punched through a window and the glass cut tendons in his index finger, he can’t bend it nor can he feel anything in his little finger apparently
@druidofthefang Жыл бұрын
4:18 crazy how people are just walking past him playing haha
@billydeewilliams9104 Жыл бұрын
Why is a crowd not gathered around him? What are those folks there for?
@RockingFretwerk32 жыл бұрын
Chris Poland is incredible, I could listen to him play all day. I really like the Poltergeist guitar he's using/endorsing. It looks like he's upgraded the bridge to a "Floyd Rose Original 1984"? The Pickups are not the ones that come standard, I wonder if anyone knows what they might be?
@cegentry3 жыл бұрын
Return to Metalopolis 😍
@aristeoamezola13203 жыл бұрын
También Chris Poland una tola, muchos dicen que Marty Friedman un chingón, pero los 2 son muy buenos, cada uno con su estilo.
@tomasagustinveravicentin77894 жыл бұрын
What a fucking tasty tone too
@GentalaMaya2 жыл бұрын
Menza!
@davidkolodziejczak67064 жыл бұрын
His fretting hand is so freaking strange. His thumb placement, the way he bends strings.. it's so odd.
@jacobgarcia26603 жыл бұрын
0:33 that Jan Hammer inspired lick
@WinterMadness056 жыл бұрын
The legato is great
@druidofthefang Жыл бұрын
Where can I get that Menza shirt?
@SpiritualOnslaught6 жыл бұрын
How is Chris not in Megadeth?
@whereisevan5 жыл бұрын
Number of reasons. But we should be glad that he got out when he did, because he probably would have died if he stayed much longer. Dave has approached him to rejoin on at least two occasions since he left, but I think Chris' self-preservation instincts probably kicked in.
@Agustin-uf5jv5 жыл бұрын
Kiko
@loui305 жыл бұрын
He was in Megadeth's The System has Failed album (2004) but that's it. He didn't tour with Megadeth.
@perrymason92795 жыл бұрын
how bout kimb and peace?
@ButtahDawgMcDouble5 жыл бұрын
@@perrymason9279 yeah, he was there in the good ol days
@curbhotmail6 жыл бұрын
Great
@leoguzman2104 Жыл бұрын
Damn , amazing player!! What model guitars is he playing?
@jamesha1752 жыл бұрын
never broke a sting during all those bends
@timothytaggart32895 жыл бұрын
Fuckin sweet.
@512banana1 Жыл бұрын
imagine playing w/ your index finger like that and sounds as sick as f as usual...
@Flatallica5 жыл бұрын
T-shirt
@loui305 жыл бұрын
MENZA
@timothyregan52605 жыл бұрын
Chris Poland still viable?!? Miss him
@arvind0308925 жыл бұрын
Can someone please tell me what sort of effect Chris kicks on at 1:30? Sounds like an octaver or a whammy, but not sure.
@happyads6 жыл бұрын
Peace sells
@santapa_ Жыл бұрын
what model is that guitar?
@puhigeoffreywaynefuimaonok8656 Жыл бұрын
faaarrr
@troypetrova48335 жыл бұрын
0:00 epona's song
@The1stMrJohn6 жыл бұрын
Great player. I've recently heard if a genetic disorder called 'Viking Finger', that looks very much like his hand. An in law of mine has it, and it gets more prominent with age ;●) England
@jimmyjohnson14265 жыл бұрын
It's not genetic, it's from a severed tendon.
@The1stMrJohn5 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Johnson Ouch !! Not stopped him becoming a magnificent player :◎)