Megadeth
Young is the lead guitarist on Megadeth's platinum selling, So Far, So Good... So What! (1988 Capitol Records).
Megadeth's transient guitarist, Jay Reynolds (of Malice), had commissioned Young to play all of his solos on the new album, transcribe the previous Megadeth releases and teach him everything in time for the pending tours. However, after witnessing Young decipher previous guitarist Chris Poland's solos from Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? note-for-note in less than 30 minutes, frontman Dave Mustaine decided to cut out the middleman and enlist Young into the fold. Young joined the band with only two weeks left in the recording schedule and contributed half of the guitar solos and multiple electric & acoustic rhythm parts to the album.
Jeff's career with Megadeth was spent recording and touring in support of their 1988 platinum selling album, So Far, So Good...So What! His first performance with the band appeared in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years as a member of Megadeth.
While Young had joined a popular thrash metal band with a rabid fanbase, his own musical tastes were more diverse than Megadeth's technical style.
In 2009, Young issued an online reply to false statements made by Dave Mustaine. He replied to Mustaine's claim that he (Mustaine) "sang" Jeff's guitar solos to him. Jeff accused Mustaine of lying about this, saying Mustaine never sang a solo to him nor was he even in the recording studio when Young wrote or recorded his parts.
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