Chris Poland

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Chris Poland (born December 1, 1957) is an American guitarist, best known as the former guitarist of the thrash metal band Megadeth. Since 2002, Poland has been the guitarist of the instrumental rock/jazz rock bands OHM and OHMphrey, among others, and has appeared on several projects and albums from a variety of different genres.

Biography

Welkin

Poland joined Welkin as a replacement for their guitarist, Dick Maxfield.<ref name=crh>Template:Cite web</ref> Other members of the band included drummer Mike Meany and bassist MoonMcGeach. He reunited with both of them at a "clinic/performance" in April 2010 at House of Guitars in Rochester, New York.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

The New Yorkers

Poland moved to California and formed the band The New Yorkers with Gar and Stu Samuelson, as well as Robbie Pagliari and other musicians.<ref name=crh/>

Megadeth (1984–1987)

Poland joined Megadeth in 1984 after being introduced to Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson by Jay Jones, who was Megadeth's manager at the time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Poland left the band abruptly, and was replaced by guitarist Mike Albert before Megadeth embarked on their first tour.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Poland returned in October 1985<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and then remained in the band until he and Samuelson were fired in 1987, due to alleged substance abuse, which had led Poland to sell off Mustaine and Ellefson's guitar gear, along with his own.Template:Citation needed In response, Mustaine wrote the song "Liar" for their following album So Far, So Good... So What!, which was partly meant as a callout to Poland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Frontman Dave Mustaine retrospectively referred to Poland as "an amazing guitar player—he can play circles around me" in a Behind the Music episode that aired on VH1 in 2001.<ref name="VH1">VH1: Megadeth – Behind the Music DVD – October 2001 26 minutes, 27 seconds.</ref>

Circle Jerks

Poland played bass with Circle Jerks briefly in 1989, replacing Zander Schloss.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Rust in Peace demos

In 1990, Mustaine asked Poland to record solos for demos that would become songs for Rust In Peace. Poland agreed to play the solos, but did not rejoin the band, at the urging of his manager, Janie Hoffman.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> He played on demos of almost all of the songs that would end up on the studio album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Ultimately, Megadeth recruited Marty Friedman to play the solos for the album.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Poland's solos can be heard on the 2004 remastered version of Rust In Peace.<ref name=lwfeb26>Template:Cite web</ref>

Final return to Megadeth and lawsuit

He and Mustaine teamed up one final time in 2004 to record Megadeth's comeback album, The System Has Failed, though Poland opted not to rejoin the band full-time.

In 2004, after the reissue and re-release of Rust in Peace, a lawsuit was filed against Mustaine regarding the use of three Rust In Peace demos on the album's reissue without Poland's permission. Poland settled and "ended a professional relationship with Mustaine and Megadeth".<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Poland explained the circumstances in a 2018 interview with the As The Story Grows podcast, realizing that he would not be paid for the demos that were included on the reissue.<ref name=lwfeb26/>

2000s

In 2009, Poland formed OHMphrey, a side-project with Robby Pagliari of OHM, and Jake Cinninger, Kris Myers, and Joel Cummins of progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

In 2019, Poland appeared on the track "Hammer (Comes Down)", on Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's solo release Sleeping Giants, with Mark Tremonti, Thom Hazaert, Dave McClain and Joey Radziwill of Sacred Reich, and Flotsam and Jetsam vocalist Eric AK.<ref name="Sleeping Giants REVOLVEr">Template:Cite web</ref> It was later announced Poland had signed to Ellefson's revived Combat Records, who would release a 30th Anniversary Edition of his solo debut Return to Metalopolis in 2020. The expanded 2-CD/LP configuration, features a remastered version of the original LP, with four new tracks, and material from the independently released, out of print 2007 release Return to Metalopolis Live. It was later announced in 2020 that Poland would tour Australia and Japan, with Ellefson and Hazaert, supporting Ellefson's eponymous solo band.<ref name="RTM Blabbermouth">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="PolandEllefsonTour">Template:Cite web</ref>

In January 2020, Poland was inducted into the Metal Hall of Fame, alongside Geoff Tate, Don Dokken, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Prong, Graham Bonnet, and more. Poland was inducted by Hazaert and former Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel who joined Poland for a performance of "Peace Sells", with Butcher Babies bassist Ricky Bonazza, and Dead by Wednesday drummer Opus Lawrence and guitarist Dave Sharpe, who also tour with Ellefson and Hazaert in Ellefson's "Sleeping Giants" solo band. Poland also performed "Paranoid" at the induction, with Vai, Satriani, and Tate.<ref name="Poland Metal HOF">Template:Cite web</ref>

Discography

Solo albums

With Megadeth

With Damn the Machine

With Mumbo's Brain

  • 1995: Excerpts from the Book of Mumbo
  • 1999: Rare Trax

With Lamb of God

With OHM

  • 2003: OHM:
  • 2004: "Live" On KPFK 90.7 FM, Lion Music
  • 2005: Amino Acid Flashback
  • 2006: Live at the New Brookland Tavern (DVD)
  • 2008: Circus of Sound
  • 2012: Tsunami Jams

With OHMphrey

With Polcat

  • 2012: Polcat, Ashro Records

Other album appearances

  • 2001: Warmth in the Wilderness: A Tribute to Jason Becker, Lion Music
  • 2002: Squadrophenia, Cosmosquad, Marmaduke Records
  • 2004: Give Us Moore! – Gary Moore Tribute, Lion Music
  • 2006: The Longest Night, Pharaoh
  • 2006: Double Heart Project – Human Nature's Fight, Brennus
  • 2006: Jimi Hendrix Tribute – The Spirit Lives On Vol. 1 & 2, Lion Music
  • 2007: Long Live Me, THE SCREAMIN' LORDS, Brannick Records
  • 2008: Innervisions, Tadashi Goto, Progrock
  • 2009: Guitars That Ate My Brain
  • 2009: Misty Mountain Hop: A Millennium Tribute to Led Zeppelin
  • 2009: The Call of the Flames, Shredding the Envelope, Standstill And Scream Music
  • 2011: Metalusion, Glen Drover, Magna Carta
  • 2012: Plains of Oblivion – Jeff Loomis
  • 2012: Two Minutes to Midnight: A Millennium Tribute to Iron Maiden, Versailles Records
  • 2013: Intermezzo, Michael Angelo Batio
  • 2013: Virtue and Vices, Robot Lords of Tokyo, RLoT Records
  • 2013: Frequency Unknown Queensryche(guest appearance), Cleopatra
  • 2013: Belt Buckles and Brass Knuckles, Moccasin Creek, Moccasin Creek Music
  • 2014: Curve of the Earth – Lion Drome
  • 2014: Will to Power – Lord Volture, Mausoleum Records
  • 2014: Onward to Freedom – Tourniquet
  • 2016: The Art of Loss - Redemption
  • 2018: Gazing at Medusa – Tourniquet
  • 2018: Long Night's Journey into Day - Redemption
  • 2019: Sleeping Giants - David Ellefson
  • 2020: Alive In Color - Redemption
  • 2023: San Tropez with Graham Bonnet, Rick Wakeman, Joe Bouchard, and Dave Lombardo - Meddle Reimagined A Tribute to Pink Floyd

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