Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: One of the biggest pieces of news recently has been the addition of guitarist Chris Broderick. What has Chris brought to the band?

Dave: "He obviously brings a sense of great caliber of guitar playing. He had come recommended by Shawn (Drover), and Glen (Drover) had parted because he had needed to spend time with his 3 year old. I absolutely understood why Glen would want to leave. I did it a few years earlier. When Glen knew that Chris was coming in, he gave a glowing endorsement. All he does is work out and play guitar, and that’s great! I went to YouTube and I looked at a couple of the clips that he had. I thought this guy was a remarkable player.

He was supposed to audition and I was putting together a gymnasium at my house. James (Lomenzo) laughs about this because he said that Chris thought it was some kind of initiation thing! 'Dave, I know you and I know you just needed your gym built!' So he’s thinking, 'Yeah, I passed with flying colors. My hazing was to be lifting weights.'

He’s a great guy and we get along great. He’s got a great look, very healthy. He plays great, sings great, and he’s got a great personality. He’s teachable, which is good in this business. Guys that are as good as someone like Chris usually are really arrogant and hard to deal with."

Q: Have you written any material with Chris yet?

Dave: "No, not really. I’ve heard him do some stuff and I thought, 'It would be great to do a riff under one of those things that you’re playing.' I may very well have heard what he’s doing and heard a necessity for a rhythm part underneath so that it could be song-worthy. There are plenty of guitar players that sit in a room with a guitar on their lap and sound like they’re playing something great. But if you put a metronome next to them, you realize that they’re pretty shitty. As far as being able to play a song from beginning to end, most guitar players can’t do that. There are a lot of guitar players, if they make a mistake, they’ll stop. They won’t know how to keep the flow of the song running along.

It’s kind of like if you’re on a motorcycle and you’re running down the freeway, and you crash. You don’t get back on the motorcycle at the same exact spot where you crashed at because there’s a long skid mark of your ass on the road. You’ve got to kind of get back on wherever you end up stopping at."

Go to this location for the complete interview.