KIKO LOUREIRO TALKS ABOUT CHRIS POLAND

In a interview around 2020 on Ola Englund channel, Kiko is asked about his favorite Megadeth guitarists.
Watch the full thing on Ola's channel
• COFFEE WITH OLA - Kiko...

[@simonpsychosis2812]

Chris Poland is criminally underrated.

[@abstractmodern4920]

Been seeing a lot more love for Poland lately. The bloke seriously deserves it, what an amazing player.

[@javiermedina6303]

Not underrated, he is almost unknown even for metal guitar players.....maybe if he weren´t so jazz fusion....

[@prs149]

Y E S!!!

[@TherealBrandon]

best megadeth guitarist ! hands down

[@dowens3781]

More like overrated - Marty Friedman is far better.

[@rockstarme1020]

Chris Poland is such a GOAT even Kiko can’t emulate him.

[@themechanix8804]

For me the only guy who could nail Chris's solos was Jeff Young, the rest sorry, just can't.

[@blppt]

Even the amazing Chris Broderick, who can play just about everything cleanly struggled with Chris Poland's crazy solos on Rattlehead---watch the one where Dave played it with guest Kerry King. THAT says something.

[@blppt]

@@themechanix8804 Poland's solos are notoriously tough to nail right because of his chronic tendon injury. It allows him to do all kinds of weird stretches that normal people have a really hard time duplicating. So you see impeccably clean guitarists like Broderick struggling mightily with Poland's stuff whilst breezing through Marty's. Marty's only really physically tough thing for advanced guitarists to emulate is the weird sound he gets out of his unorthodox picking position. And even then, its just a matter of training yourself to pick that way. Unless you have freakishly wide hands, though, or slash your own tendons, its impossible to perfectly emulate Poland.

[@luigisari677]

I totally agree. The way Chris Poland touch and mix the notes is absolutely amazing and really difficult to replicate. it's not only a matter of unique sound he use, the analisys Kiko did is almost perfect, you can try to play those solos but the result is always far than Chris so you can only try to add something your, or you gonna fail.

[@suvarnachauhan951]

You’re absolutely right.

[@amirtak9886]

The Chris Poland and Gar Samuelson days were the best IMO.

[@mandarbamane4268]

Agree... and Dave actually wrote better solos himself with them lol

[@amirtak9886]

@@mandarbamane4268 even in these days chris Poland is a sick player. RIP Gar

[@zDialecticChaos]

Agreed!

[@amirtak9886]

@A 911 GT3RS Marty and menza are amazing, but Gar and Chris are truly one of a kind

[@zDialecticChaos]

@@amirtak9886 yes!

[@tomtomthebear]

Chris’s legato is literally god tier business 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Gmanrushfan]

Chris Poland… playing Fusion influenced guitar in Metal wayyy before it became a common thing. He was really a ground breaker.

[@drunk247]

Kiko is a badass himself. I would love to see a roundtable discussion with him Chris and Marty. With guitars plugged in for those "let me show you what i mean" and "how are you doing this part" moments.

[@Parka_Niel]

Man that would be fucking awesome, god I just imagine that shit and probably could the most dope thing I've ever thought about

[@svsugvcarter]

Megadiscussion

[@jansandman6983]

i would love to see that too

[@zacinnc78]

@@svsugvcarter criminally underrated post

[@Sedativ]

Yeah please! We have to make that happen!

[@NinjaRunningWild]

He's my favorite Megadeth guitarist by far. The others are amazing, but Chris has that jeu ne se quoi; a certain brooding savagery to his playing that helped make those 1st 2 albums what they were. I love that Chris Poland came back for "The System Has Failed". Such great guitar solos on that album.

[@Grumplefut]

Hell yeah his solo in tears in a vial is one of my favorites, Poland is the real goat

[@shelbyavant5081]

@@Grumplefut Tears in a Vial is unreal. His bends are so fragile. Hell, I'm crying right now thinking about how much that song moves me. The chorus and solo are epic.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

@@FinalBossMusic I have. They're cool, but unpolished.

[@andym28]

Check out polands jazz cover fever in Les pauls club. The lady on double bass nearly creamed herself after he played.

[@thebubonicj]

Those isolated tracks are right here on KZbin and they will blow your mind. I love Chris Poland but I never really appreciated how clean and precise Chris’ playing was until I heard those tracks. It’s unbelievable

[@marcglenwright2185]

Yeah they're amazing 🤩

[@USAAMERICAFUCKYEAH77]

Not to mention hes been playing with 3 fingers his whole life that makes it more legendary

[@curtwehrmeyer124]

Good Mourning black Fridays intro will about make you ill. Polands playing is sensational. I must say Kiko is the best thing to happen to Megadeth, he is exactly what the band needed and he is phenomenal....................

[@martysherwood8853]

True! Also very smart and humble....

[@USAAMERICAFUCKYEAH77]

Die dead enough is cool as well hehehe.

[@Baraka_Obama_]

Even Poland's second solo on Black Friday had my brain going all over the place 😂 guy is untouchable on the 🎸

[@lanemeyer9350]

Chris Poland’s playing on Peace Sells is a clinic on amazing guitar solos

[@ronpaul1082]

Interested , what are your 3 favorite Megadeth era chris poland solos

[@Baraka_Obama_]

@@ronpaul1082 Black Friday, These Boots, Superstitious

[@ma5terwarfare]

I love hearing Kiko talking about music stuff, he seems wise and educated in classics

[@killbot_factory]

Poland's first solo album, Return to Metalopolis, kicks major ass, and in a lot of ways feels like a lost Megadeth instrumental album from the mid-80s. His playing is both so tasty and very kick ass, he's one of my favorite guitarists ever

[@Vladilitke]

Kiko is amazing guitarist! Saw Megadeth at Jones Beach in New York! That was a super show!!!

[@NinjaRunningWild]

That's a great venue.

[@Mike-xj6pi]

Hey bro seeing them for the first time I’m 44 what was the set list Dave throw any older stuff in there

[@wesgoodrich7983]

Chris Poland is my favorite guitar player

[@Vor_Tex_Sun]

Chris Poland is unique and top tier level

[@biorythmicshifter]

Chris is the best and most unique player Megadeth ever had. He has a very peculiar approach that is not easily replicated. Listen to Mahivishnu Orchestra, check out solos by Jan Hamer and it will amaze you how much Chris took from him. Much like Alan Holdsworth, Chris developed his approach by emulating another instrument besides guitar. His note patterns (note availability on stringed instruments is different from a piano or a wind instrument) are more akin to what a keyboard player would do than a guitarist. These type of patterns aren’t natural to how most guitar players approach the instrument which is why he has such a unique style.

[@dowens3781]

Too much legato doesn't sound metal. It's fine for smooth jazz (although even in that style I don't like guitarists who primarily use legato), but not for aggressive music.

[@andrebarbosa1510]

@@dowens3781 go to sleep old man, permanently please.

[@twiggsherman3641]

He was forced to play that way because he can't retract his index finger. So his entire style is to barre with his index, then legato around. His style is hard to emulate, because most players don't limit their index finger like he was forced to.

[@BarzOnTheWindow1]

Kiko, you are an interesting fellow.

[@srt8rocketship241]

Kiko is a good person.

[@Good-Enuff-Garage]

Kiko is the consummate professional, great musician, nice person, hard worker, you name it

[@chrisnizer5702]

Chris and Gar both had that whole fusion jazz background playing together in The New Yorker's. Both of those guys were just on a whole 'nother level.

[@zDialecticChaos]

YES!!

[@sanjivharikumar]

Chris P, Marty, Kiko, and, interestingly for me, Glen Drover. I remember United Abominations was what actually got me into Megadeth.

[@themechanix8804]

I love Glen's work on United Abominations, and I like some of his lives versions of Marty solos like Hangar 18 and A Tout Le Monde (His Tornado of Souls solo, damn... its so bad lol).

[@WelshBladerDad]

It's unbelievable how talented Chris is, when you watch some of the early gig footage and see him fighting the comedown or completely zoning out to somewhere far away, yet still managing to autopilot crazy solos and riffs while his fingers barely seem to be moving, the man is an outrageous musician 🤘

[@jacobgarcia2660]

I seen vids of chris having those moments then he comes to and starts headbanging like nothing happened. His level of playing is crazy

[@Baraka_Obama_]

Gar playing high was also unbelievable listen to Love you to Deth live in Cleveland Gar is a freaking machine

[@nebulousname3320]

Funny thing about that major thirds thing is that even Dave ended up using major third chords into his rhythm style, starting from The Conjuring to holy wars and so forth, its such a cool sound for metal

[@musiciansanonymous]

I used to think Mustaine popularised major thirds in thrash metal. Might have been Chris Poland!

[@johnsaenz9254]

I love all the guitarists that played in Megadeth. Each one of them are awesome and has their own special features and style and they all shredding bad ass.

[@thewolf7119]

Chris Poland is a finely tuned precision machine...

[@patrickshannon4516]

Nobody will ever beat Chris Poland's solo in the opening lead riff to "good morning Black Friday" that will never happen again but yeah Marty Friedman and Kiko got their stuff down pretty well but nobody will ever beat the album version of Chris Poland's opening on that track. It's like the tone or something that he got and I just don't think that can ever happen again to do it as good as Chris Poland did.

[@Aeronaut1975]

Chris has always been my Favourite. Friedman is a very close 2nd.

[@natas.cancioncitas]

the holy trinity of megadeth lead players is Kiko Loureiro, Chris Poland and Marty Friedman for sure

[@indicahunters9360]

Man that gig is like a right of passage for guitarists playing at a high level in metal. I bet learning the set at first is a daunting task not to mention having Dave there to let you know when your off just a lil lol 😆 imo All of them have killed it and done a great job.

[@Rextum]

Everyone likes Poland. That’s why the Nazis and Soviet Union wanted a slice of Poland as well.

[@davidannett3322]

such a good interview Ola

[@burnedoutgolfer]

Love Kiko and Marty but the way Chris Poland can phrase notes wow. They are all amazing! Chris Poland Ohm band check it out.

[@warrenstemphly5756]

One of the best things about CP is his tone, such a unique sound. It’s like he’s on the neck pickup with the tone rolled off, almost like Clapton and his “woman tone”.

[@TheEnderBand]

It’s like there’s a ghost octave above always tracking it, it’s so smooth and laser like. You can tell he loved synth players and their pitch bend wheel, I love how in tune his bends are

[@ethanstiffler4849]

Also, he picks with his pick slanted up, which gives a smoother tone

[@danielgonzaleztejedor9486]

He plays a single power chord and sounds like no one else, I don't know why.

[@timfleur3712]

Kiko is such a nice person ; ))

[@vvvv-lu8wh]

chris is a treasure,not uncovered complitely.

[@irmasil3]

Marty is my favourite guitarist of all times since I heard Dragons Kiss in 1989 and I was blown away....But Chris is such unique and amazing guitarist as well...And he has his own tone since the early 80s..you can tell its him form 2 notes only.

[@jannevaatainen]

Like Kiko says, when you hear the isolated tracks, you understand how amazing player Poland really is. Even Marty Friedman pales in comparison, when it comes to unsloppy and original solos, which really is unbelievable.

[@mandarbamane4268]

Chris just sounds unique. When I heard peace sells for first time, I thought solo style sounded very uncommon (in good way, clean, moving) & I had the thought of checking isolated tracks (I never heard isolated tracks back then before). I was impressed by Poland, then I heard other guitar's isolated tracks, they all were very sloppy & not clean compared to Chris lol. One can mix recordings of chris with potato & it'll still sound good.

[@romaneberle]

Rick Beato needs to interview Chris Poland. :)

[@sneepers1005]

The one thing a lot of people don't realize as far as the 1980s Chris Poland was one of the few virtuosos back then there was only a handful of them snd Chris Poland was definitely one of them

[@leonshreds]

Poland is 🐐

[@TheDelzShow]

amazing

[@johnsaenz9254]

Chris Poland,.Marty Friedman, and Kiko and everyone who played in Megadeth are bad ass. All the guitarists, all the bass players, drummers are all awesome and the very very very best Dave Mustaine which is my favorite guitarists. Dave Mustaine is the best because he writes the .using and composed the music , he sings while playing the rhythm and plays lead and can shredding. Dave is and probably the best in thrash metal history and to top it off every Megadeth album is super bad ass.

[@ryangagnon8244]

Chris is a unique one among the flock. Man has his own style and it fit into megadeth like a hot knife through butter

[@Diakonov29]

CP's album "Return to Metalopolis", bangers the whole way through.

[@43captrexkramer]

My favorite also, went to see them in '84 open for Dio. Just a thrashin' good time, still have the shirts for them and Dio.

[@Scotty_Russell_Music]

Megaderp lead gtr rankings imo Chris is my #1 then Dave himself then Marty then Kiko then Jeff then none of the other guys.

[@RisingDeecay]

everyone should check Chris Poland's fusion band, Ohm. The first two albums are amazing!

[@user-qp3ql8fs1h]

I agree mega underrated! Chris is amazing! Marty is too.. but Chris is just more.

[@DinsdalePiranha67]

I keep seeing "Best Guitarists of All Time" lists that include Dave Mustaine, but no other guitarist from Megadeth. Which baffles me; no disrespect to Dave but he himself has said that Chris Poland can play circles around him.

[@loombaron]

the even named a country because of him

[@DaveElectric]

Kiko is objectively the best Megadeth guitar player because he has to play everyone else's stuff.

[@edelcorrallira]

To be honest, Megadeth has (by virtue of Dave's tenacity and ear) always nested some grade A talent. Some of the best players have gone through its ranks, and even Darrel was about to be part of the roster at some time. And if that wasn't enough, Dave has held his own. Absolute respect to these great musicians. I wonder if Gar had been around longer,,just what his cymbals would have been up to. He really had a very unique expressiveness, so glad some of the recordings of Poland and Gar have surfaced... They are a feast for the ears

[@edaor3729]

Return to Metalopolis é violento. Está entre uns dos melhores discos instrumental de guitarra que já ouvi. É bruto e direto. O Chris tem uma característica muito marcante. Ele faz uns bens que nem parece que é uma guitarra. Parece o som de um sintetizador, teclado. Marty tem aquele às na manga... música oriental e também é distinto na maneira como toca.

[@aml1ma]

Vlw pela dica, não conhecia esse albúm

[@edaor3729]

@@aml1ma não há de q.. Esse disco é muito desconhecido por aqui.

[@YesYouAreAbsolutelyCorrect]

Poland is... how can I describe him. A godlike entity?

[@stickfigure9138]

So I can't pick a favorite.. The best songs were written in the Friedman Era yes.. But there are so many great solos and guitarists.. I think some of the most underrated solos were written by Glen on the United Abominations album.. He wasn't my favorite but damn those solos were tight.. But Broderick, Pitrelli, and the others... How can you pick? They are all accomplished amazing guitar players

[@sweptinblack]

Chris and Gar made megadeth unique back then. Chops so good it even checks the status quo at the time for guitar, Van Halen and Rhoads. This caliber of player in your underground thrash metal band lol. Chris Poland doesn’t get nearly enough respect, he’s one of the greats. Hopefully time will show that.

[@rohannidhitiwari9365]

Nobody i mean nobody has been able to sound like chris poland. I can hear many guitar players replicate marty’s solo but i have never heard anyone replicate Chris Poland.

[@plaisirdamourjobim4633]

Chris Poland is the best fast player if you're talking about shredding guitar. He's the best. He plays fast and clean. He plays like no one else, Yngwie, Paul Gilbert, Buckethead, even Steve Vai.

[@Eddie-In-Las-Vegas]

Poor Jeff Young, nobody ever picks him as a favorite and he was a shredders shredder guitar player. 😢

[@lemon_curry_]

The reason why I listen to So Far, So Good... so What! much much more than before is because of Jeff's solos Each guitarist of Megadeth, man... one of a kind

[@Baraka_Obama_]

Jeff Young is touring with Ellefson and Chris Poland should be interesting to see how they play together

[@TheBigMclargehuge]

Actually he forgot Poland

[@ericedmunds9488]

Jeff young did a good job on Chris Poland solos.

[@garlandvelazquez8986]

Nobody listened Friedman before Megadeath

[@baladewakakrasana8200]

Marty Friedman makes legendary notation like Slash (GnR) in other genres, stimulating budding guitarists to become shradders.and make other guitarists (rock) feel flattered by the audience when playing it in the 90s

[@ichsehsanders]

100% agree with the Poland choice but i wonder why he didnt meantioned hawaii from the band list of Friedman? They have some cool riffs and solos too....

[@harigurung1065]

Don’t know if Ola understood what Kiko was talking about

[@danielgonzaleztejedor9486]

Surely not. He is into chug.

[@anthonyhansen7857]

Poland!!!

[@anthonygrieco5790]

Dave has always hired the best musicians, period.

[@tiagoramalhais5493]

Funny thing Kiko talking about jazz theory but Poland actually doesn't know formal theory at all.

[@themechanix8804]

LOL

[@dowens3781]

Probably explains why he mainly plays weird chromatic runs. I'm not a fan of his style - Friedman's solos fit the music much better, and even Jeff Young's did.

[@skylarlunaaphroditeparadis4991]

@@dowens3781 bruh what

[@dowens3781]

@@skylarlunaaphroditeparadis4991 Learn some music theory and stop using stupid hip-hop culture terms like "bruh" and maybe you'll understand.

[@skylarlunaaphroditeparadis4991]

@@dowens3781 I'm a jazz bassist

[@jamesha175]

they turn up the bass on Ola's mic so that he sounds like Odin. nobody else will ever have a chance.

[@erenn6476]

Sounds like he was saying Mark Friedman

[@TheMetalWarrior1993]

He keeps calling Marty “Mark” lmao 😂😂😂 I guess it’s from his accent???

[@hmpz36911]

This dude just heard Megadeth like 3 months ago 😆

[@coolcool8651]

Chris poland is the best megadeth guitarist

[@andrewwebster2598]

Did he not cut his finger really badly before he was in Megadeth, but it was advantageous to them because it meant he could bend his figure in an unorthodox position to be able to reach notes in solos?

[@wawanadvtraveler2851]

MARTY FRIEDMAN LEGEND. & SOUL MEGADETH

[@themechanix8804]

Yeah, soul of Megadeth, he was there since their first album right?

[@rc-1983]

Grande Cris Polenta do Megamorte.

[@chrisCANguitar]

Why are you uploading Olas videos? Or did I miss something here?

[@themechanix8804]

Because he's talking about a interesting theme for some Megadeth fans. Many people don't have patience to watch the whole thing.

[@suvarnachauhan951]

Kiko never talks about Chris Broderick.

[@lemon_curry_]

I don't think he's played a song where Chris B actually solos in it

[@suvarnachauhan951]

@@lemon_curry_ he has played the song Kingmaker from album supercollider several times but improvised the solo didn’t play it accurate .

[@lemon_curry_]

@@suvarnachauhan951 Tbh Kingmaker is a good song but it's from Super Collider so I don't mind that much, I just want him to play songs like Sudden Death

[@suvarnachauhan951]

@@lemon_curry_ yeah songs likesudden death and dialectic chaos would be great to hear in live. Those songs got some monster solos in them.

[@Eddie-In-Las-Vegas]

Kiko only respects the older players because they were in the band when he was learning to play himself as a young boy, he's not gonna idolize dudes like Broderick and the later guys because those are dudes that were in his class and his peers.

[@stacyaikin6639]

agreed.. most underrated megadeth guitarist..who gives a fuck if dave doesn't like him much.

[@rickjason215]

It really isn’t fair to compare. I don’t think Marty Friedman palm mutes. How do you copy that?

[@princeworld4769]

Yeah Chris Polland is the best…

[@Msuhlcke]

He didn't actually answered the question

[@BlackSpineRecords]

What solos is there to learn from Poland, megadeth never plays anything off the records he was on, besides peace sells, otherwise the 1 or 2 other songs dave is the lead.

[@tbrennancreative4958]

whos Mark Freeman?

[@assiopio9025]

my uncle

[@tristanrl1940]

Mr. Mustaine was smart to recruit young, undiscovered talent who could play at a much higher level than he and keep it going with high-turnover, which cleverly would keep [his] profit margins up. The rationale makes him for a shrewd-ish businessman and tho that is why Megadeth and Metallica are two bands that are comparatively different. Megadeth personnel are cherry picked and are not guaranteed a permanent gig. Other bands keep who they’ve got - unforeseen departure, illness or death notwithstanding

[@d-ta]

キコが難しい言うなんてどんだけなんだよ

[@TarnTarn-zv6cp]

Kiko looks like Olas wife

[@robertspallinger3863]

Chris was an absolutely brilliant guitarist. His solos on the first 2 albums of Megadeth were absolutely amazing. My only question? Why was he overlooked by other bands? He would have been a master of guitar in some other band.

[@GorditoCrunch343]

He was a notorious heroin addict for a while. No one wanted anything to do with him after hearing his Megadeth stories. Also according to Chris, he also didn't want to be in a band setting for some time after getting kicked out of Megadeth because he was afraid he would relapse.

[@Colton-yb4sr]

OLA doesn't like megadeth. but interview kiko??? KOOL

[@duncandistortion]

Check Ben Higgins out he can emulate anyone.

[@magnusjmvc8895]

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Jeff Young? I thought not. It’s not a story that no Dave Mustaine employed guitarist will tell you. It’s a Megadeth legend. ☢️

[@archiestewartjr.3588]

Chris Poland rocks but he's no Friedman. They need to have a shred off. That'll settle this debate

[@jamesm6083]

As good as chris poland was and is, if al pitrelli wasnt fucked over by daves nerve injury and they kept going with twnah lineup i think everyone would have him higher up on the megadeth guitarist list

[@themechanix8804]

Al Pitrelli was great, but if you watch interviews with him along with Dave, you can cleary see that Dave didn't was a fan of him.

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

Not gonna Chris because he is obviously superior, cannot go for Marty because is too common let's go for the phrasing guy.

[@dowens3781]

I can't stand Poland's weird jazzy legato style. Can he even alternate pick?

[@skippertheeyechild6621]

He kept up with Mustaine's rhythm parts so yes.

[@dowens3781]

@@skippertheeyechild6621 True. But his alternate picking style is weird and he rarely uses the technique when playing solos.

[@skippertheeyechild6621]

@@dowens3781 That's his style. It's legato based.

[@dowens3781]

@@skippertheeyechild6621 I'm not a fan of guitarists who use primarily legato, especially in metal - it doesn't sound aggressive enough.

[@skippertheeyechild6621]

@@dowens3781 A lot of people love his style. Myself included. He can still alternate pick though.

[@TallicaMan1986]

I like marty friedman but he comes off as scalular sometimes. So does poland, but there is SO much tone in Polands fingers it isn't even funny.

[@shredblue8536]

Jeff young !

[@dehypnotizer]

Chris Poland is great but I still think Marty Friedman is absolutely the best player Megadeth ever had.

[@jasonstewart5649]

Poland is every bit as good (if not better) than Marty!

[@phabi0]

Marty will always be the greatest to me. That said, Poland is a weirdo, mostly because he developed his own technique, but he does sound really off sometimes. But I agree he's underrated. Chris Broderick has put some really sick stuff in his solos, I guess people care less about that because the songs he recorded where less relevant. I think he sounds better than Poland.

[@АлексейКозлов-р5ж]

Chris Poland, best of the best!