It’s hard to imagine now that at
one time Megadeth was considered underground.
So Far so Good is speed metal at its best. Blazing guitar work, that went unnoticed by
my teachers that were all trying to teach me jazz. Speed metal/prog metal brought great music to
the underclass. However, to call
Megadeth elite at this time is a non-starter.
Their version of Anarchy in the UK rips to shards any document that
would have you think that they are playing music for the complexity of it. Really, this is just Dave Mustaine playing
another modern version of the blues. His
predecessors were folks like Charlie Parker, Buddy Guy, and John Coltrane.
In this way, I have heard blues
called, “The motherload of music.”
Almost everything, be it punk, which is ultra simple blues, to speed
metal, to John Coltrane, pretty much all Western music grows as a branch from
the blues tree.
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