Jeff Young
| Jeff Young | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 31, 1962 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Genres | Thrash metal, heavy metal, speed metal, blues, classical |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Guitar |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Associated acts | Megadeth, Equilibrium, Broken Silence, Music Without Boundaries Radio Show |
| Website | www |
Jeffrey "Jeff" Young (born March 31, 1962) is an American guitarist. He graduated from Musicians Institute in 1985, and is best known for his time with the thrash metal band Megadeth, appearing on the 1988 album So Far, So Good... So What!. In addition to his subsequent music projects, he served as an author in Guitar for the Practicing Musician.
Young was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1980, he graduated from Fairmont High School in Kettering, Ohio, and moved to Hollywood to attend Musicians Institute/GIT in 1984. He graduated from the Institute in 1985 and began his career as a guitar teacher.
Newly hired Megadeth's guitarist Jay Reynolds (of Malice) had commissioned guitar teacher Young to play all of his solos on the new album, transcribe the previous Megadeth releases, and teach him everything in time for the pending tours. Reynolds was one of Youngs guitar students. However, after witnessing Young decipher previous guitarist Chris Poland's solos from Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? note-for-note in less than 30 minutes, frontman Dave Mustaine decided instead to hire Young. Young joined the band with only two weeks left in the recording schedule and contributed half of the guitar solos and multiple electric and acoustic rhythm parts to the album.
Jeff's career with Megadeth was spent recording and touring in support of their 1988 platinum selling album, So Far, So Good... So What! His first performance with the band appeared in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years as a member of Megadeth.
In 2009, Young issued an online reply to comments made by Dave Mustaine that he (Mustaine) "sang" Jeff's guitar solos to him. He called out, Mustaine as a blatant liar, confirming Mustaine never sang a solo to him nor was he even in the recording studio when Young wrote and/or improvised his leads parts during the recording process.
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