Dave Mustardstaine

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 12253 Location: PEORIA ILLINOIS

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=187137

this goes without saying. Broderick is nothing short of amazing.

Joined: 19 Mar 2012 Posts: 1581

I have always said Chris is Amazing! I love the way he plays Classical guitar too!

Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 1949 Location: NY

Agreed. 100%

Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 6:50 pm

Also agreed, Chris is Megadeth, Dave is just the nasally voice

Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 342

Northwinds wrote:

Also agreed, Chris is Megadeth, Dave is just the nasally voice

I think Chris is an amazing player, but he's hardly the heart and soul of the band, and IMO not the best to have been in the band. Marty Friedman wins that. I consider some of his solos to be of the "must learn" status for advancing guitarists. Chris hasn't left that kind of impression...yet. Maybe he will on the new album.

Joined: 15 Sep 2010 Posts: 976 Location: Rock Hill,SC

Opinions are like crazy ex gfs. Everyone has one. In this case mines with Chris. Never liked Friedman.

Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Posts: 546 Location: New York

if it were up to me, i'm goin chris poland 100% of the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv5Cvb8jGFI

Joined: 25 Jan 2013 Posts: 29

mncfh414 wrote:

if it were up to me, i'm goin chris poland 100% of the time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv5Cvb8jGFI

Poland is sick! The lineup with he and Samuelson was great but doomed from the start.

Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 10593 Location: Canada

Chris rocks.

Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Posts: 1050 Location: charlottle nc

Chris is amazing but megadeths hay-day guitar players will always be my favorite. Still waiting for chris to writing something that can live up to their previous work.

Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 4252 Location: Derry, N Ireland

Chris is fantastic, not quite sure he is right for Megadeth, to my ears he lacks something aggressive in his playing.... in saying there are alot of aspect's to his playing which are superb.

I'm hoping this next album will be better than Endgame and Thirteen which were good but not great. U.A was the most recent great Megadeth album.

Marty is the best in my eyes. But I am very excited about the promises of the current line-up. Either way I am buzzing about this next album Razz

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 14463

I can recognize two Pantera songs when I hear them.
That's one more than I can say for Megadeth.

Joined: 29 Nov 2003 Posts: 12253 Location: PEORIA ILLINOIS

Jim6 wrote:

I can recognize two Pantera songs when I hear them.
That's one more than I can say for Megadeth.

ouch. im no megadeth fan either but I dont hear pantera.

what is really odd to me that there are people who think poland and friedman are better guitar players than broderick. that is like comparing your 8th grade science teach to steven hawking.

Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 7:45 pm

BLOODROOT wrote:

what is really odd to me that there are people who think poland and friedman are better guitar players than broderick. that is like comparing your 8th grade science teach to steven hawking.

This is firmly my thought, hence my original post

Old Megadeth was great, Marty and Chris Poland were great, I just think Chris Broderick is better

I heard some of Marty's stuff with Skyharbor, it's pretty good and the original Dragon's Kiss is still one of my favorite shredder lps

Joined: 22 Mar 2011 Posts: 546 Location: New York

BLOODROOT wrote:

Jim6 wrote:

I can recognize two Pantera songs when I hear them.
That's one more than I can say for Megadeth.

ouch. im no megadeth fan either but I dont hear pantera.

what is really odd to me that there are people who think poland and friedman are better guitar players than broderick. that is like comparing your 8th grade science teach to steven hawking.

why, because he can sh!t out scales with 8 fingers? they're all great, no reason to knock the musicianship of poland and friendman.

Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 2182 Location: New York City

Every guitarist Megadeth has featured was great in one sense or another.

Broderick is an insane shredder, no one can take that away from him. But he has made two albums with Dave so far with a new one in the works and I can't say any solos he's written has stuck by me. They're great in terms of musical technicality, but lack any sort of memorable feel. Whereas Marty's work from Rust In Peace is arguably the best soloing I've ever heard and ever will probably. Tornado Of Souls = prime example of that, I splooge every time.

Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 342

BLOODROOT wrote:

Jim6 wrote:

I can recognize two Pantera songs when I hear them.
That's one more than I can say for Megadeth.

ouch. im no megadeth fan either but I dont hear pantera.

what is really odd to me that there are people who think poland and friedman are better guitar players than broderick. that is like comparing your 8th grade science teach to steven hawking.

Because the man practices his scales and arpeggios more? There is nothing he has accomplished that anyone can't do if they sit down with a metronome practicing exercises and scales for hours on end. In a word, technique. He's got it. Its strong and amazing. But he can't write a phrase as interesting as Marty Friedman can. If the competition is who can scale crawl and sweep pick faster and better, sure Chris crushes...most players. In a competition for winning a listener's attention with soulful, meaningful expression through the instrument, CHRIS BRODERICK WILL LOSE TO MARTY FRIEDMAN. And its not even close.

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:14 pm

Lets see same song Tornado of Souls

Broderick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lr7B-stF8

I see Broderick taking that solo to new heights, thats what I see and he makes it look pathetically easy

Marty soulful with the same solo? A few string bends do not make a solo soulful. He burns it up just like Chris. Again, no disrespect to Marty but when you do a side by side comparison of the song, Chris has my vote

Guitar players from 20 years ago are great then, problem is, there is always another great guitar player ready to step up and take their place. If someone cannot aspire to be "greater" then what is the point of bothering to even pick up the instrument?

Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 4252 Location: Derry, N Ireland

Northwinds wrote:

Lets see same song Tornado of Souls

Broderick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lr7B-stF8

I see Broderick taking that solo to new heights, thats what I see

There is no doubt that Chris is a solo crunching machine. I remember Dave saying that he asked Chris to learn a few solo's in a week, and a week later Chris had 20 down to a tee. I think the fan's are just waiting to Chris to write something that is truly memorable.

The excuse I am giving him is that Endgame was his first album and he needed a settling in period naturally. And that Thirteen was rushed to full fill a record contract, with a lot of tracks on the album haven been written ages ago.

As I have said before, Its just a matter of time before he finds the groove with Megadeth, I'm hoping it's going to be in this next album currently in production Razz

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 4:31 pm

Baz...

I honestly don't think Broderick belongs in Megadeth, he is a Power Metal player where you can exhibit his style of playing freely. He is too good of a guitarist to be limited by what Megadeth can offer

I think Gus G is in the same catagory, Ozzy is limiting something that was already tapped and heading in a certain direction

Music has changed a lot

I agree, Marty was the best "fit" for Megadeth a longtime ago, I am not sure who would or should be Megadeth's lead guitarist now

Joined: 13 Feb 2008 Posts: 121 Location: Chesterfield, IN

The biggest thing for me is, Marty had those soulful bends and wide, singing vibrato. Broderick doesn't really do that. Marty can do all the shreddy widdly diddly crap, but he can also pull you in with one note. Broderick's technique is incredible and he can do things that don't seem human. His playing just seems so robotic to me.

Joined: 11 Mar 2011 Posts: 342

First off, Chris can play most people's own solos with more ease and power, because he's technically stronger. But Marty Friedman improvised the solo on Tornado of Souls. His first outing with Megadeth, and in no time he's creating classic solos that the world takes notice.

Chris is on his 3rd album with Megadeth, hasn't made anything as memorable other than doing great renditions of other people's solos, and his fans are still saying "give him time man, he's still finding his groove and settling in...he's still better than Marty tho LOL!1"

Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:00 pm

Cool article, Chris is a class act also

Megadeth's guitarist Chris Broderick reveal some interesting fact about guitars and the guitar players that has influenced him over the years in a recent interview he did with Bay Area Metal Scene. On the interview, Chris revealed the names of guitar players that have been his influence until this date and they are Jason Becker, Dimebag Darrell and Marty Friedman.

Revealing on Jason and Dimebag's influence on him, Chris revealed that he recently did some stuff that was influenced by the two guitarists, which is doing some cool things with the tremolo bar. "The tremolo-bar work that I did was really more my own, although definitely influenced by Dimebag and Jason Becker and all of the old Shrapnel [records] shredders like that," Chris said.

Meanwhile, revealing about having Marty as one of his favorite and influential guitar players, Chris stated that it all happened after he heard Dragon's Kiss played by Marty and Jason. Stating his praise over the former Megadeth and Cacophony axeman, Chris said, "When you listen to Marty, he has such a unique sound. The generalized term for it is that Middle Eastern or Eastern sound, and as soon as you hear one of his solos you say, "Oh, that's Marty!" That's one of the best things that any player or soloist can have is their own sound and their own style, and that's one thing that really influenced me."

Aside from sharing things about his favorite players, Chris also give some good advices to young guitarist on how they should behave and what they should do to be a great player. "you should develop your own sound and style and develop as an individual. You're making a statement with your instrument. I think the best thing you can do is enjoy what you're doing because you'll learn better and you'll learn more and you'll be happy doing it," Chris said adding. "Just hearing more, to tell you the truth. When I listen to things I pick-up more detail now than I used to, and I think that'll be the same case in a few years from now."

Jason Becker is a killer player too, I have the Cacophany lps and they are a FUN listen