I adore both Chris Poland and Marty Friedman. They are both guitar gods. They are equally talented, yet so drastically different in styles. Marty DID later admit he had some difficulty playing Chris’ solos from the first two albums. I mean, he did a good enough job playing them live, but he didn’t QUITE replicate what Chris had done on the albums. This was most apparent when Marty had to play the first solo of “Good Mourning/Black Friday”; he just didn’t quite accomplish the same feel. It was like Marty was trying to rush through the solo and just get it over with. In an interview with a guitar magazine in 1991, Marty said his favorite Megadeth songs from the first three albums to play live were ones where he didn’t have to play any other guys’ solos, citing “The Conjuring”, “Mechanix”, and “The Skull Beneath The Skin”.

nick menso gar awesome

I wish I didn't see this video

Chris and Gar made megadeth unique back then. Chops so good it even checks the status quo at the time for guitar, Van Halen and Rhoads. This caliber of player in your underground thrash metal band lol. Chris Poland doesn’t get nearly enough respect, he’s one of the greats. Hopefully time will show that.

Besides that Tornado of Sould solo what else did this mf do? Poland always was on another league

Chris Poland = Best Megadeth Guitarist (And I love the “Rust” era lineup) But, early days with Gar & Chris = 🔥

I like marty friedman but he comes off as scalular sometimes. So does poland, but there is SO much tone in Polands fingers it isn't even funny.

Didn't think I'd ever see Friedman saying this about Poland. Plus Young's leads were very different to Mustaine's. I still prefer Friedman to both of them though, by a long way. I guess he was just young and trying to make his mark.

chris is a treasure,not uncovered complitely.

Same video without compresion: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eaiDo5dpyrTKcYk.htmlsi=n1k53EB0e-haXeB7

Nobody i mean nobody has been able to sound like chris poland. I can hear many guitar players replicate marty’s solo but i have never heard anyone replicate Chris Poland.

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Awesome. Not first time since 2008 though, I saw them in 2012 and they played this song.

this song was given to fans befor the album came out first song after Dave Mustaine was back after the injury i remember as i got the song back then

Happy to see the song back in the setlist. I just wish I could hear Dave's voice. You could barely hear him.

Cris Poland worked on this song?

No fucking way

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Thanks for recording!! And people said megadeth never changes setlists... safe to assume with more time they will play more older songs, would love to see washington is next!

i bet you recorded this video with vacuum cleaner fuck my eyes are bleeding

theres no better quality video for this one? update: yes, there is :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZqeg7ub0-C-nmg.htmlsi=3RMclRQha-VA88XW

My fav song!

YAY! So happy to see they’re diving back into that forgotten era. Dave will get better at this one as the tour goes

Do beaters make that much of a difference, most of these metal beats using triggers and tiny little drum beaters from what I hear. So if your learning double bass pedal, you might hear a less accurate or the same punch as you hear in recordings.

Calling Poland average is ridiculous.

This is how you know that Menza's camp and management recently were completly and uterly full of shit when they were pissed at how the Rust In Peace biography depicted Nick as someone who didn't blast Chuck on his back. This is just a bit of the interview, but the whole video of this vault is out there and there is a part where Nick says, in this same fucking sitting, that he almost blew his chances of joining the band because of how annoyingly persistent he was with Dave about "firing this fatass" and to let him in.

Gar all day everyday man. Not even close

Just watched a podcast where Jeff said he joined the band 2 weeks before this show. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o62De6uFy5i6hXk.html

Come on, Marty. Chris Poland’s solos were as good and as melodic as your solos

Marty has an ego he pretends he doesn't. Poland is a monster.

Poland's first solo album, Return to Metalopolis, kicks major ass, and in a lot of ways feels like a lost Megadeth instrumental album from the mid-80s. His playing is both so tasty and very kick ass, he's one of my favorite guitarists ever

I love Marty, but to call Chris Poland and average guitar player is insane!

Chris Poland is better than marty

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I love Marty, but to call Chris Poland "AVERAGE' is just utterly absurd.

MARTY FRIEDMAN LEGEND. & SOUL MEGADETH

Never seen Nick as a double bass guy.

Gar is forever my fave MegaDrummer. Nick is my second.

Rick Beato needs to interview Chris Poland. :)

Mr. Mustaine was smart to recruit young, undiscovered talent who could play at a much higher level than he and keep it going with high-turnover, which cleverly would keep [his] profit margins up. The rationale makes him for a shrewd-ish businessman and tho that is why Megadeth and Metallica are two bands that are comparatively different. Megadeth personnel are cherry picked and are not guaranteed a permanent gig. Other bands keep who they’ve got - unforeseen departure, illness or death notwithstanding

Nick: Rock Solid and powerful Gar: Wild, frantic and creative I think both were the perfect fit for their respective eras. Gar fit the wild early years, Nick fit the more Controlled Songs better. I preger Gar, but what we can all agree in is that These two we're never surpassed by anyone WHO came later on

Is that why marty had a hard time with poland solos????

Mhhhm, i remember after quitting Megadeth, Marty said that Dave's solos were all the same and it didn't sound like he praised Mustaine's soloing that he had a style or so.

Jeff Young's work in Megadeth was outstanding.

If Chris Poland only had a 'Tornado of Souls' moment. Most of his solos are short. I first discovered Marty Friedman, and I was so amazed by his playing. But when I listened to the earlier Megadeth stuff, PSBWB in particular, I was blown away by Chris Poland's playing. He has a very distinctive tone, he plays so fast, and one thing that stands to me the most was he was playing so fast without being sloppy. He plays it so clean. I love Marty Friedman, but I love Chris Poland better.

No, I agree that Friedman was and still is Megadeth best guitar player, but Poland,and Jeff, I thought we were very awesome too

I rate Chris Poland even higher than Marty.

nobody is gonna say it but Marty Friedman plays like shit good mourning black friday so i dont think poland is 'average'

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Jeff Young? I thought not. It’s not a story that no Dave Mustaine employed guitarist will tell you. It’s a Megadeth legend. ☢️