MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick is featured in a new interview with Chris Parker at Boise Weekly. An excerpt is available below:

When Megadeth guitarist Glen Drover left to focus on his family, Glen's brother and Megadeth drummer Shawn Drover suggested Broderick. He showed Mustaine a video of Broderick playing classical and electric guitar. Mustaine was impressed. In an interview a year later, the Megadeth frontman compared Broderick's arrival to OZZY OSBOURNE teaming with RANDY RHOADS.

Of course, Osbourne isn't a guitarist like Mustaine is, but the idea of a perfect foil is applicable. Not only have Megadeth's two studio albums featuring Broderick (2009's Endgame and 2011's TH1RT3EN) been as aggressive and tight as the best in the band's catalog, but the two guitarists have complementary styles. Broderick describes them as "street vs. school."

"Dave's always been self-taught and he always kind of gets what he wants out of his playing, but you can tell he fights for it all the way there. You can hear it in his playing and in the way he attacks the guitar," said Broderick.

"I came at it from a very different road, where I had a lot of different instructors and people showing me the path to get there. I've always been about trying to minimize effort to do what I'm trying to do--two different paths," he said. "I think it's so cool because (our styles) both translate into their own feel and their own kind of sound. When you put them together, they complement each other very well.

"He brings his own writing style into the mix, so when I look at that, I'm thinking, 'How do I write a counter melody or a counter harmony to that particular part?' It definitely makes it that much more interesting for me,"

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Remaining dates on Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction 20th Anniversary Tour are as follows:

December

4 - Reno, NV - Grand Sierra Theatre
6 - Las Vegas, NV - House Of Blues
7 - Pomona, CA - Fox Theatre
8 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre