Saw them live last night, love their music, big fan of Savatage, flashed the horns to Al during wizards of winter and he locked eyes with me and did it back. Not much crowd interactions with the horns. People seem to forget they're a heavy metal Christmas band. Anyway, I love that dude, great guitarist, so hey, it was a fun moment for me. Those don't happen often.
Megadeth had some of the most iconic guitar players from metal like Marty Friedman, Chris Poland, and their work for the band and their contribution to Thrash is fantastic, but there are others that are incredible as well. What do you think of them, are they good enough to be remembered as musicians that made a big contribution to Megadeth fans?
Him and Dave's synergy was insane. And I wanna know what happened
probably something already asked for ages... i tried googling this but haven't found a clear answer and I'd like to know this
Paul O’Neil: Over the years, the drinking and the weight, and I was just getting so scared he was going to die. Two years ago Al, Jon and I were doing a photo shoot and he was having trouble walking. So I called Jon, I said; “Jon, if I confirm Wacken 2015, will you promise me you’ll quit drinking and try to get in shape?”
He goes; “Paul, if you do that I promise I’ll stop drinking tomorrow.”
Chris Caffery: And he did it.
Paul O’Neil: When he did it, he weighed about 440 pounds. He lost over 140 pounds.
Every guy Mustaine hired was killer, so this was pretty difficult. I'm only ranking the guys that got to play on a studio album, so no Mike Albert or Kerry King.
7 - Al Pitrelli
6 - Jeff Young
5 - Glen Drover
4 - Chris Broderick
3 - Kiko Loureiro
2 - Chris Poland
1 - Marty Friedman
I would be hard to rank Mustaine himself. He's the brains of the band and writes all the riffs, but in terms of soloing ability, he's a few tiers below the top 4 . How does your ranking look like ?
Most of the Megadeth guitarists have been slim and fast like Marty, Jeff, Kiko, etc. Some of them were built a little bigger but were still reasonably slim and could shred like Al Pitrelli and both of the Chris’s, but not Glen. He was a chunky boy, wasn’t he? He wasn’t more “Melodic”, he just played slower because he was fat. Maybe he wouldn’t have kept fucking up the stretchy licks at the end of the Tornado Of Souls solo with his fat ass cocktail sausage fingers if he had just put down the donuts. He was Canadian, so I bet he loves those Justin Bieber timbit things.
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Here is my ranking of the lead guitarists that have been in Megadeth alongside MegaDave.
Marty Friedman -- As far as the second guitar role is concerned, Marty's leads are quite an influence. His opinions on leads are also quite inspiring to me, as he doesn't seem adherent to typical, stock licks and such. His comments with regards to sweep picking, in particular, are ones I share. The typical idea with sweeping tends to get get very boring quite quickly. While I do not play like Marty, I do try and add some interesting notes and phrases to my playing to make the more stock stuff sound a little more interesting.
Chris Poland -- Obviously, Chris' playing is very 'weird' in the history of not just Megadeth, but metal as a whole. I know Alex Skolnick also went a similar way after Testament, but he is not as left field as Chris sounds in my opinion. I love how Dave's playing is more of a hotrodded 70s hard rock sorta thing with a little of a punk attitude (at the time, I mean), while Chris has this strange fusion thing going. His phrasing is great.
Kiko Loureiro -- I've enjoyed what he does on Dystopia as well as the prior material in the live videos I've seen. I'm sure a lot of people love Broderick more because he was more "accurate" to the record, but I find Kiko more interesting to listen to. Also, if I wanted to listen to the record, I have them, so I can just spin those again if that was my interest.
Jeff Young -- While the production / mixing choices do kind of obscure his playing some (such as delay, which I think is too high in spots), I really enjoy SFSGSW. Young's participation seems promising, and an additional album would've been appreciated, though that would likely mean Rust in Peace without Marty.
Glen Drover/Al Pitrelli -- I think his playing on United Abominations is good. It would've been interesting to hear an additional album with him, but I like what he did on UA quite a bit. I rank Al Pitrelli between Jeff Young and Glen Drover. Sometimes he is tied with one, and sometimes the other. I think his work on TWNAH is great. To be fair, I think I'm really inclined to rank him higher based on his work with Alice Cooper and Savatage, as well as live with Megadeth, such as She-Wolf. Probably after Chris or after Kiko. However, that is based on his career, whereas how I have him ranked here is based on his work specifically with Megadeth.
Chris Broderick -- If you love his playing on the albums he was involved with, then awesome. I'm sure
... keep reading on reddit ➡Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
And boy are my arms legs.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
Pilot on me!!
The bartender says, "Sorry, no minors”
