hey hey, indeed Nevermore without Jeff would not really be nevermore at all, since he writes a lot of the material himself.
All the times I've seen chris play live with them it turns out to be a bitchin performance.
They could always hire Curran Murphy full time as well, that guy fucking owns on guitar also. One time at the "graceland" (now El Corazon...previously the off ramp...) in Seattle they played a 2 hour + set and did most of Politics with Curran on second guitar, the dude nailed all of O'briens solos hands down! All while making funny fucking faces to the crowd.