Former MEGADETH Guitarist Releases New Solo Track

February 26, 2008

Former MEGADETH guitarist Jeff Young has issued the following update:

"I've posted another new albeit still rough mix of one of the lucky 13 tracks from my pending debut solo album — several years in the un-making. Track 2 on this profile, entitled 'Infin8', is a songwriting collaboration between my dear friends Badi Assad, Gregg Analla and yours truly. On this newest, still rough mix, I still need to double the guitar in the chorus and add a guitar solo near the end (and before the 'distorted flute solo')... otherwise, it's getting close to 'satisfaction.' The rhythm that this song is based around is called 'Maracatu' which originated in the northeast of Brasil... Brazil, fer you Yankees. Everyone knows about the Samba and Bossa Nova but there are many other super-cool rhythms from Brasil and this song is is good example of one of them."

Jeff Young recently joined the Guitar Institute of Technology teaching staff at Hollywood, California's Musicians Institute.

Musicians Institute offers a comprehensive, hands-on education in contemporary music performance, recording, guitar making, music business and film.

Jeff's entire career with MEGADETH was spent recording and touring in support of the band's 1988 platinum-selling album "So Far, So Good...So What!"

Following his stint with MEGADETH, Jeff began contributing the "Fingerprints" column for Guitar magazine. For a portion of the 1990s, Jeff stepped away from his career to deal with the untimely deaths of first his father and later his mother while immersing himself in the further study of classical, flamenco, gypsy jazz and other world music varieties. In 1998, he resurfaced with new Brazilian musical partner, Badi Assad. Together, the duo crafted exotic soundscapes for their first collaboration entitled, BADI ASSAD - "Chameleon". The album, co-written, arranged, and produced by Jeff, introduced their acoustic-world-fusion sounds to diverse audiences worldwide. Opening concerts for renowned artists, including Joe Cocker and Cassandra Wilson, as well as performances on 1999's Lilith Fair and Farm Aid 2000, are testament to the considerable cross-over appeal of Badi and Jeff's "new world music" explorations. In 2003, the track "Waves" from "Chameleon" was featured in the Michael and Kirk Douglas film "It Runs in the Family", as well as on the movie's soundtrack.

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