After Chris Broderick joined Megadeth, I was curious who will be the new guitar player of Jag Panzer so today I went to their website and, even if a bit late(he joined Jag Panzer on 14), here’s the fact: the new guitar player of Jag Panzer, replacing Chris Broderick, is Chris Lasegue of Chain of Command.

As guitarist Mark Briody comments on Jag Panzer’s website, in the official press release:

“We had set the bar pretty high for lead guitar playing with our first full-length album. There was much concern among fans and critics as to whether or not we could maintain such a high level of musicianship in the lead guitar department. Christian quelled those concerns about two seconds into his first solo. A large part of the underground popularity of ‘Chain of Command’ is easily attributed to the electrifying guitar playing of Christian Lasegue. Christian was a great guitar player back then and his chops are light years beyond that today. I’m excited to be working with him again.”

I searched the internet for a Chain Of Command website and I have found this picture on a Chain of Command website. Boy, it’d better be a mistake somewhere otherwise Jag Panzer are doomed!!
( :-)  seems that there was this band in the 80’s with the same name with these 3 guys, had nothing to do with the current band but I couldn’t resist posting this picture!!!)

So, now the facts: the guy in the main picture with the red electric guitar is Chris Lasegue, I found his MySpace page and I have listen his songs, I quite like them. As an observation, he is not a shredder. He is softer with a more profound approach, IMO, his influences include Eric Johnson, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis…I guess this is one of the reasons his licks are more jazzy sometimes. The 3rd song is on acoustic guitar.

Judging by those songs that he has on his MySpace page, I would buy his CD to listen more.

How about you?

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Starting today, January 14th, Chris Broderick is the new guitar player of Megadeth. Started as a rumor a few days ago on the internet, it is now announced that Chris Broderick officially replaced Glen Drover, no more room for rumors. Glen Drover had problems balancing his family life with touring and band business so he left room for a new guitar player and the new guitar player is Broderick, formerly known as the guitar player of Jag Panzer and Nevermore. Now he is officially the new axe player of Megadeth.

Great news for him!

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Well, this post is about Chris Broderick of Nevermore. There is a rumor on the internet that he is going to join Megadeth, Glen Drover wishing to leave the band due to family reasons. At least this is what some say…

However, this is not the reason of this post. The reason is an other one. After reading this news and watching a short movie with Chris Broderick playing five-octave arpeggios, I wanted to watch more and I did on YouTube. Of course, he can play electric guitars like hell, this it is what he does. He is a rock guitar player, he knows to shred and play both hands arpeggios, right?

OK, fine!!But now comes the thing that made me write this post! Man, this guy really knows how to play the guitar, beyond rock boundaries! He plays classical guitar and I am not speaking about dark arpeggios or futuristic sounds like Satriani does on his acoustic guitar, no! I am speaking pure classical guitar! Bach!



What do you know?Also see some jazz slap but I can not tell if he is good or not since I am not into jazz, but if you are, let us know what you think!

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