Love to hear musicians give Warren DeMartini the praise he deserves. His guitar playing is stellar. His solos, even though they're technical, compliment the song as much as Eddie's did on the early VH albums. Just perfect, gorgeous solos man.

I enjoyed Jeff's playing on "So far, so good, so what". I was bummed that Chris Poland was out but it was a solid Megadeth album. 🤘🏻

I would always put up with Pearcy's voice on those Ratt albums just to hear Warren play. Akira Takasaki being the other one I'll go the extra mile to listen to as well.

Jeff did a great job in his most famous band endeavor, it's only mildly soured by his former bosses relentless saltyness about his former bandmate despite the former player being popular with fans and fellow musicians alike. We all know Jeff was 10/10 in that band and thats what counts.

“Cookie Monster” vocals. Wow, never thought of Mustaines vocals like that. Now I can’t NOT think about it.

I went to GIT in '86, took lessons from all the guys he mentioned, I also had lessons with Paul Gilbert, he had just been hired to teach there.

All legit guitarists know what’s up when it comes to Warren.

Awesome interview! So Far, So Good...So What! is my personal favorite Megadeth album. Jeff is is a cool guy. He talks to me on here sometimes.

Warren is in the conversation with Randy and EVH. He's a masterful player who is creative and not just technical

This was a really cool interview thanks man.

Phenomenal interview. Thank you for doing what you do

Fantastic interview Love your style

Great seeing the "Kings of Thrash" footage of the shows. Jeff's playing is phenomenal at those shows. Chris Poland isn't to shabby either!! 😄

Your channel is a goldmine. So many hidden things that we'd never hear otherwise on here.

Jeff's playing on So far, so good, so what! Is virtuosic. The interviews I have heard, he sounds like a down to earth guy, who doesn't do drugs, etc. That Jeff and Dave are playing Megadeth songs , with Chris Poland, that fukking rules!

Props on the honesty of how stuff goes down. 👍

Thanks so much for these. Not just entertainment, but also history.

I loved the Megadeth record he was on. Jeff young was great in that band

Cheers Brotha. Your content is so tremendous. Thx so much 🤘🏻🇺🇸

Poland is my fave megadeth guitarist but Jeff manned the helm on my favorite submission & I will be eternally grateful to him for that.

I have to say, Jordan Ziff was Great filling in as lead guitar in RATT.

I loved Warren and Robins synchronicities and licks of melodic melodies

Misinformation bothers me so i will clarify a few points here. 1. Jeff is a cool guy, and a great player, no issues there. 2. Jeff was not coming in to "replace Yngwie or Vai" as he states... he was asked to audition for the 2020 reunion of Alcatrazz (Graham was still the singer at this point and remained so for one studio album after we chose Joe Stump instead of Jeff, anyone below who thinks Jeff is talking about Doogie has their timeline confused)... also this was long after either of those guitarists Jeff mentions had been in the band. 3. He says he turned the offer to join Alcatrazz down, this is 100% NOT true (i was the one who offered him the audition in person in Las Vegas)... Jeff was actually quite disappointed he didn't get the gig, we choose Joe Stump as Joe was the perfect fit, Jeff was nearly there but it just didn't quite feel right personally or musically... it was our choice to make for our own reasons. 4. Jeff did not "work on the gig for 4 or 5 months", he came up 2 or 3 times to Los Angeles from Las Vegas, as we gave him a couple chances to earn the gig, this was over a 4 week period at the most as we didn't even have 4-5 months to find our guy and certainly wouldn't have strung someone along for that length of time. 5. The reasons Jeff gives here as to why he claims he turned the Alcatrazz job down i will not comment on...but Jeff did not turn the job down.

What I would do to go back to 1981-89.

Jeff is a great player, and very down to earth.

Cool honest interview 👍👍👍

My first concert was priest and great white in Washington d.c. i will never forget it. Defenders. Jeff young is always a legend. I saw megadeth and dio in los Angeles on peace sells. So i started playing guitar. Danny borderline delusion band ( metal)

I saw Graham Bonnet live with Michael Schenker just a couple years ago and his voice was outstanding and strong. IF it is true he ever lip synced in the past it must have been due to some vocal cord issues he was trying to recover from. It is BS to insinuate that GB always lip synced.

I remember jamming with Jeff at MI around 89. Cool dude.

Thank you

Jeff Young what a fantastic player I always liked his style . And I’m with you 100% about Stephen Pearcy as far as in the studio he’s one of my favorites his voice fit what RATT was doing and then I saw him live and was like dafuq is this he sounded horrible live . Beau Hill had a lot to do with him sounding great in the studio that guy was a great producer and even sang back up vocals with Juan Croucier on the albums. RATT is my favorite band from that whole LA metal scene I still listen to the studio albums often , the live stuff not so much .

I miss Jeff on Sea of Tranquility. Saw him a couple weeks ago with Kings of Thrash. Amazing player.

Tommy Tedesco was a MONSTER!!

Cool guy, lived in the same town together and was stoked seeing him with the band on So Far, So Good, So What when they filled in for GNR opening for Iron Maiden

I can't believe that my favorite singer Graham Bonnet is singing with a tape it just can't be true he's two great and powerful of a singer to be singing with a tape recorder I mean that voice is it's so powerful

Ratt will never be ratt without Robin Crosby invasion was my first metal album

Great guitarist, I love his work on SFSGSW!

How can there be Alcatrazz without Graham Bonnet?

What's up Jeff was a student at Mi used to watch you play I was just reaching out to say hello God bless love to see you again man it's been a long time

His live tone at the Whisky show last week was identical to the So Far So Good recorded tone.

As a professional guitarist I’m with him about being the best you can. Always learn more everyday. Randy was the best guitarist out there when he was still alive.

It’s a pity he could never get another album I think he was thrown in there and just playing solos which a bit like the drumming is sufficient and good but not that remarkable like Poland or Friedman. Maybe another album he would have got a chance to explore and really make a mark

So far so good so what is a great album!🤘🏼🔥☠️

Well it was awesome to hear a fellow musician of Rhoads publicly say that he wanted and was aspiring to be lake Randy and make trying to be the best possible student of his craft without the whole abundance of sex and drugs . In all honesty there were very few with that mindset back then . And to hear him basically saying thrash metal wasn't really his thing when actually being in a thrash or speed metal band was kinda kool for me to hear him say cause I just never could get into that genre . I meant.no disrespect to anyone out there whatsoever . It's just a thing about preference and I just never really got into that .

All the ex members of Megadeth (those living) should get together. Prob be an Amazing album!

Greatest time and Party ever LA in the 80's !

So far ,so good,so what is one of my favorites from the band.Liar is the first Metal that was a Rap

I was in LA in the mid 80's and Jeff Young was definitely on that scene - glad he is still out there and continues to do his thing. Great guy - Jeff seems to be a really down-to-earth guy and for real. Cool interview... You're right Jeff, "Bigfoot" is definitely a great song, and solo - and great job on your video of it, thanks... A lot of us were huge fans of Alcatrazz in the 80's - that's a goddamn shame about Gram Bonnet and the fake singing - so bogus man... I always wondered why he spells his name "Gram" like you would spell a "gram" of blow - wtf...

He's not wrong. Thrash metal at its best (early Metallica, Megadeth, Exodus, etc.) is absolutely great! But there are hundreds of thrash metal bands, and the quality varies greatly. Also, thrashers used to hold most radio-friendly glam metal bands in low regard, but in truth there were some glam metal bands that were really good. Ratt had some truly memorable songs. Sad to hear that Ratt does lip-syncing in concert, though.

Great interview. Jeff always seemed like a no nonsense kind of person to me. His descriptions of players and musical styles and preferences eg. "as soon as the Cookie Monster vocals come in, I'm out..." , mirror my very own. Apparently it's like blasphemy to say you don't really like thrash metal, if you've been in Megadeth. Marty got crucified for saying the same thing.

So Glad i was born 1970

Touche on the death metal vocals. They suck and have no emotional resonance or range beyond sounding "scary" and the novelty wears off quickly.

Warren DeMartini was the inventor of the concise solo. Pearcy uses the tilted larynx technique with what they call added sizzle/growl, it is basically a total wash live.

I totally respect him for not performing crap.

Graham Bonnet lip syncing? I'm calling bullshit, I've seen him live and there was no lip syncing whatsoever. And to say that Jeff is a professional musician and played alongside him, and didn't realise if he was singing live or not, and found out from someone else, I'm definitely calling bullshit.

Graham Bonnet wouldn't lip sync. This guy sounds full of it. Probably had a tape of Grahams voice at rehearsals so he could learn the set. Complete nonsense.

Ratt and Motley sounded great in the 80's. I saw them both at their peak and I don't remember them not sounding like the record. Then again , I saw GnR's last two show through Phoenix and Axl was great and then I see videos of him sounding like Mickey Mouse on the same tours.

Jeff, like every other session musician who worked for Mustaine, got a raw deal. I refer to theM as session musicians, because Mustaine is the only true member of MegaDave. He’s fired EVERYONE, with the exception of Friedman. Friedman got out before Mustaine got an urge to fire him.

I saw Poison open for Ratt. Poison hadn't taken off yet, but when they opened, they blew the crowd away. When Rattcame on Stephen Pearcy copped an attitude and they didn't do the obligatory oncore. They were terrible, I had seen them once before and it wasn't good, but I wanted to give them a shot because the albums were good.

I can dig it...I'm not down with the cookie monster vocals either. Anselmo and Chuck Billy is about the only growl I can stand

Jake Gyllenhaal should play Jeff in a film about his life. They look strikingly similar

i doubt Graham Bonnet is lip syncing, the man is too honest to do something like that.

Which Alcatraz singer is he talking about? Surely not Bonnet??

I can see why Graham Bonnet would have wanted to use recorded vocals, the way he yells them would be murder on his throat.

He's not been with Megadeth for 33 years..

Paul Baloff would label this guy a poser. He wasn't a thrash fan, joined one, never played it again & now is in a thrash cover band. Lol

Jeff Young😂😂

Should have asked him about the dream he had about Mustaine's girlfriend.

Battle of Best Hair in Metal

Is this SNL Dana Carvey voice with FX ?

Great analogy...Cookie Monster vocals🤣.. I'm not into them either.. vocals gotta match the lead guitar..

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Love so far, so good,,, so what!. I do love Stephen pearcy though. He is a character if you meet him, and a true rock n roller. And no lipsynking or bs. You get a live rock show. The original 🐀 bastard.

Cookie Monster!!! Roflmao

I’m assuming the singer he’s talking about is Graham Bonnet?

He should convey these kinds of attitudes publicly versus the weird "get mad at posts on facebook and blabbermouth and flip off the camera" for YT thumbnails.

I didn´t understood the part he talks about Ratt...he auditioned for them? when?

Has anyone spoke to the guys in Alcatrazz on this…😉

When was this interview?

Awesome guitar player #kenvorland

Is he saying Graham lipsync

He looks like Jake Gyllenhaal with long hair.

Remember this guy from SOT not a fan.

Why does this video label him as Megadeth's guitarist when it's been 38 years since he was in the band? It should read former guitarist.

Jeff seems a little jaded against Dave Mustaine. Even on Behind the Music it looked like he wanted to go off. I wasn't there so I don't know what really happened. He just needs to be thankful he's part of that history of Thrash. I need to check out his playing, only familiar with his playing in Megadeth.

So, Jeff thinks he's too good to play with Dave, Stephen or Graham.. M'Kay. Someone needs to give him a reality check.

Gotta agree with the "when it comes to the Cookie Monster voice, I'm out", I don't know how people think that's singing. No respect for any of that garbage myself.

Jeff Young has to be the single, most overrated guitarist ever.

Is it Graham Bonnet who lip syncs? So disappointed

That was a cool interview. I'd be pretty ticked off after being hired, wasted valuable time learning every Alcatrazz song. Then go on stage to unexpectedly find out the vocalist is "lip synching" to a tape during a live performance. Total musical lame joke. As well as ripping off the fans. You would expect that these days from a has been pop singer. Not a hard rock band.

Young is an ignoramus!

I never even heard of this dude and l grew up in L A . Look man the 70s and the 80s are over Rick and Roll is dead. Go get a real job .

Metal shredders....yawn

Was he saying that Graham Bonnet was lip syncing?