hahaha I was at that tour, and yes....agreed.
I loved it when I was 15 and metal power ballads were my thing, but yeesh, hardly a "Fade to Black" it is...
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 01:54 (seven years ago) link
Christ - Nick Menza died: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/may/22/nick-menza-megadeth-drummer-dies-collapsing-stage-los-angeles
51 is no age.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Sunday, 22 May 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
Wow. That's pretty terrible.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:05 (seven years ago) link
damn, RIP. he was definitely my favorite & the most distinctive Megadeth drummer.
and wow, his dad (Don Menza, who i knew of from the Buddy Rich records that i was listening to in high school at the same time as Megadeth) is still around.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Sunday, 22 May 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
RIP :(
― Turrican, Monday, 23 May 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
Listening to Killing and Peace Sells this morning, what a weird fucking band, like how did they put this shit together, Mustaine's leads take shredding into avant garde territory
The remasters are maybe the worst remaster job in the history of music, thankfully the originals are up
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 3 August 2020 23:15 (three years ago) link
Killing is such a weird album because it's kind of sloppy and all over the place (though the latest remaster cleaned it up significantly). songs have less melodic sensibility, and Dave sings like he's in a cave. yeah, it fuckin rules. first three songs are a helluva 1-2-3.
Peace Sells is probably my second favorite, still love that the album opens up with an intense thrash song about not wanting his girlfriend to know someone else is balling him.
― XVI Pedicabo eam (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 August 2020 23:48 (three years ago) link
Different thread, but some of the same characters. Listening to Yngwie a bit of late (yeah, I know) and one thing I noticed listening to some of his tunes this time around was that he never really had a good rhythm section at least on the records. Part of that is I think like much 80s metal it was all tracked a piece at a time with the drums and bass put on afterwards instead of played together like a band. But one thought I had listening to them was, I wonder what it would have sounded like if Yngwie had a kickass rhythm section like David Ellefson and Mick Menza behind him. Yngwie's keyboard player or at least the dude that plays on that fun video from Russia in 91 is fun, so I would keep him and Joe Lynn Turner in the band with the Megadeth rhythm section.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 03:37 (three years ago) link
Mary Jane all day
― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 00:19 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EQbAs3Y5oQGreat rehearsal video with a surprise guest
― calstars, Saturday, 25 September 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link