Marty Friedman
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Martin Adam Friedman |
| Born | December 8, 1962 |
| Origin | Laurel, Maryland, United States |
| Genres | Pop, gagaku, enka, instrumental rock, heavy metal, hard rock, thrash metal |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, shamisen |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Labels | Avex Trax/Gokukara, Shrapnel |
| Associated acts | Megadeth, Cacophony, Hawaii |
| Website | www.martyfriedman.com |
| Notable instruments | |
| Jackson Kelly Marty Friedman Signature Ibanez MFM1 |
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Martin Adam "Marty" Friedman, (born December 8, 1962) is a guitarist, well known for his tenure as the lead/rhythm guitarist for heavy metal band Megadeth, which lasted almost a decade. He has resided in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan since 2003, and has[1] hosted his own television programs, Rock Fujiyama and Jukebox English on Japanese television.
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Early career (1982–1989)
Friedman is a largely self-taught guitarist [2] known for his improvisation and for fusing Eastern musical with Western music and other styles, such as neo-classical, thrash metal and later progressive rock. When playing, Friedman often uses arpeggiated chords and various customized scales. He also occasionally uses sweep picking.
He has a very unorthodox right hand picking technique, namely the
angle in which his hand is clenched goes against the conventional palm mute.
He also frequently uses the upstroke as opposed to the down stroke,
especially on the high strings (strings B and E). These qualities make
Friedman's solos unique and hard to duplicate using an alternate picking approach.
During his early years as a musician, he formed and played lead guitar in several bands, including Deuce, Hawaii (which had previously been called Vixen), and notably Cacophony. Cacophony featured neoclassical metal elements and synchronized twin guitar harmonies and counterpoints shared with guitarist Jason Becker. He played guitar on the 1987 album "It Won't Be Long" by Christian rock band Shout.[3] In 1988, he recorded demos for Jet Red that eventually were released as bonus tracks on the 2009 Jet Red release "Flight Plan".
Megadeth (1990–2000)
When Cacophony broke up in 1989, Friedman auditioned for the thrash metal band Megadeth after a tip from fellow guitarist Jeff Loomis. Friedman was initially rejected by Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine for having multicolored hair. However, after undergoing what Mustaine called "Rock School 101", Friedman officially joined Megadeth in February 1990.[4] Friedman's audition can be seen as an Easter egg on the Megadeth DVD Arsenal of Megadeth. The first album he recorded with them was Rust in Peace which was released on 24 September 1990. [5] Rust in Peace was certified platinum by the RIAA in 1994 and was nominated for the Best Metal Performance Grammy at the 33rd Grammy Awards.[6][5]
He further developed his style of playing exotic scale solos from the
Cacophony era, and integrated it into the music of Megadeth. In July
1992, Megadeth released Countdown to Extinction, which was a more commercial album, aimed at a wider audience, and sold double platinum.[5] Friedman played on Megadeth's further releases Youthanasia (1994), Cryptic Writings (1997), and Risk (1999). After a total of five studio albums with Megadeth, in December 1999 Friedman announced his departure from Megadeth.[4]
His last show with them was on January 14, 2000. Later, he stated that
he got tired of playing metal music and felt that he could not evolve as
a musician. [7]
In an interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com in March 2007, he claimed that
he wanted Megadeth to move towards a more aggressive sound and that
he'd rather have been playing straight pop music than the pop-influenced
metal Megadeth was playing at the time.[8] During Friedman's time in the band, they sold over ten million albums worldwide.[9]
Solo career and collaborations (2001–present)
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Friedman appeared on the track "Born of Anger" on the album All That Remains by Fozzy. Friedman is a big fan of The Ramones (to whom he briefly paid tribute in the Arizona based cover band Rocket to Russia [10]), Black Sabbath, Kiss and Queen (during their early years). He also included the track 'Peace' from the fifth Weezer studio album Make Believe on a list of his 'most listened to' songs on his official website. He has also appeared on Where Moth and Rust Destroy, the latest album of the Christian thrash metal band Tourniquet where he performed all guitar solos except two (which were performed by Bruce Franklin). He has also appeared as a guest on the Firewind album Forged by Fire.
In 2004 Friedman joined psychedelic trance musician Takeomi Matsuura (known by the alias Zeta) as a guitarist. Their full-length debut album was released January 4, 2007, also titled Zeta, and included remixes by psychedelic trance musicians such as Astrix.
In 2005, Friedman appeared on the soundtrack of the video game Heavy Metal Thunder adapted from the Hebimeta-san TV show.
Friedman's album, Loudspeaker,
was released in Japan on June 26, 2006. It entered the Japanese
national chart at #33. This marks the first Top 40 chart position for
any of his solo albums.
Friedman's "Exhibit A-Live in Europe" CD and "Exhibit B-Live" in
Tokyo DVD were released simultaneously in Japan on 8/22 by Avex. The CD
and DVD feature different set lists, but with the same band members,
Jeremy Colson (Steve Vai, ex-Dali's Dilemma), Ron Jarzombek (Blotted Science, Watchtower, Spastic Ink)
and Chris Catero (Razer, ex-Wardog). The artwork was designed by
legendary graphic artist Noritaka Sakai, who is responsible for Queen's
most successful Japanese editions.
Friedman was interview in the 2008 documentary film Global Metal, in which he showed his perspectives on heavy metal in Japan.
Friedman has collaborated with Mutsuhiko Izumi, a video game composer known for his contributions to Konami's Guitar Freaks & DrumMania series to produce "Model DD8", and "Liverty", two songs featured on Izumi's album Heaven Inside. A shorter version of "Model DD8" has appeared as the "Premium Encore" stage of the latest installment of the Guitar Freaks & DrumMania series, Guitar Freaks V4 & DrumMania V4 Rock×Rock as of October 28, 2007 in the e-Amusement network.
Friedman also has contributed his voice to a character on the Cartoon Network Adult Swim show Metalocalypse.[11]
Friedman contributed to a tribute album to Luna Sea, entitled Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-, covering their song "Shine".
Friedman has composed the song "Kirei na Senritsu", for the anime Maria-sama ga Miteru, which was sung by Kotoko in 2007.
Also in 2007, Friedman appeared on the title track of Living A Sick Dream, the debut album from Age of Evil.
On March 12, 2008, his eighth solo album, Future Addict, was
released in Japan. The album features reworked, reconstructed, and
remade versions of some of Friedman's past songs from his career, as
well as three new songs.
Friedman has launched a new rock band entitled Lovefixer, with Shinichiro Suzuki on vocals. Lovefixer's first music video is for their song "Luminous" (夜光).
Friedman has worked with Nana Kitade on some of her recent releases. Kitade is pop punk "Gothic Lolita" artist, and he has worked with her on a cover of Daisy Chainsaw's
"Love Your Money", and he has reworked two of her songs with a heavier
sound: "Alice: Smashed Berry Ver." and "Indelible Sin: I Scream Tenpura
Ver." all of which come from her Berry Berry Singles release in November 2007. He has also worked on a Nana Kitade side project in April 2008: Ruby Gloom, and the first single's two tracks: "Siren" and "My Treasure".
Friedman has worked with Nami Tamaki, a technopop singer/dancer. He worked on track #5 "HitchHiker" from her most recent album Don't Stay, released in April 2008.
Friedman collaborated with Nanase Aikawa to perform as part of Crimson-Fang for the Kamen Rider Kiva: King of the Castle in the Demon World theme song "Circle of Life".
Friedman contributed to the 2009 video game Sonic and the Black Knight, playing lead guitar on the final boss theme, "With Me".
Friedman joined the band Sound Horizon for their new single "Ido e Itaru Mori e Itaru Ido" (イドへ至る森へ至るイド) released on June 16, 2010.
Friedman released his brand new solo album Bad D.N.A. in Japan on August 25, 2010.
The recording of Marty`s newest album, Tokyo Jukebox 2 is now complete and has been released on September 14, 2011.
In 2012 he contributed guitar work to Jeff Loomis' solo album "Plains
of Oblivion" on the track "Mercurial". He also provided guitar work for
the opening theme of the anime series Bodacious Space Pirates, which was performed by Momoiro Clover Z.
Contributed solos to Christian thrash metal band Tourniquet 2012 release, 'Antiseptic Bloodbath'.
Japanese life
Friedman currently lives in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.[12] He also appears on Japanese television and as a columnist for a major Japanese music magazine and a national daily newspaper.[13]
Friedman speaks Japanese fluently.[9] He became a regular member of the cast of TXN's musical TV program Hebimeta-san (ヘビメタさん) (anglicized as "Mr. Heavy-Metal") with Japanese idol Yoko Kumada before the show came to an end in 2005. He had his own heavy metal TV program called Rock Fujiyama alongside Shelly, Ken Ayugai (Kenny Guy), Yorimasa Hisatake (Rock Ninja Yorimasa) and ex-Scanch member Rolly Teranishi from April 2006 until March 2007. In November~December 2005 he toured with singer Ami Suzuki on her "Suzuki Ami Around the World" live house tour, which took place in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
He was featured on Jukebox, a television program in which
Marty and two Japanese people translate the lyrics of various English
songs into understandable Japanese. He has also made guest appearances
on the television programs Eigo de Shabera Night and Tamori Club.
Friedman is also a member of the Japanese musical group Sound Horizon which has contributed soundtracks to various anime and video games.
In 2008 Friedman played the role of Paul Weinberg, an English language teacher, in Isshin Inudou's Gou-Gou Datte Neko de Aru.[14]
In 2009, Friedman appeared on The Quiz Show, a Japanese TV drama starring Sho Sakurai as a guest professor.
In February 2010, he made a guest appearance on guitar for the Ramones' song "California Sun" when CJ Ramone toured Japan.
Shortly after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, Friedman began auctioning off a great variety of his musical equipment and paraphernalia that he used as a member of Megadeth. A message attached to each Ebay item stated that all proceeds would go to the GlobalGiving foundation, in an effort to help those whose livelihood had been wiped out by the disaster.
Equipment
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Friedman has played a variety of guitars throughout his career. In
his days with Cacophony, Friedman played Hurricane guitars, then Carvin guitars, primarily a V220M model. He also used Hurricane and Carvin on his first solo recording, Dragon's Kiss.
When Marty joined Megadeth in 1989, he switched over from Carvin to Jackson Guitars. Primarily, he was responsible for popularizing the now highly acclaimed Jackson Kelly
guitar, a sleeker and faster version of the Gibson Explorer Z style
shape. The first line of KE1s, which were his signature models, had
poplar bodies with maple neck through construction and a single Seymour
Duncan JB pickup as well as a Kahler Fine-tuning fixed bridge. Later
versions of the KE1 would have a Floyd Rose double locking tremolo in place of the Kahler. He also used other Jacksons, such as the Rhoads and the Roswell Rhoads. He has since sold all of his Megadeth-era Jackson guitars on eBay to raise funds after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
Marty used Gibson and Fender guitars on the Risk tours as well. He
used Jackson guitars up until 2000, when he started endorsing Ibanez guitars. He had produced a signature model with Ibanez (based on the Ibanez SZ
line of guitars) called the MFM, but this model was available in Japan
and not in the US. He has since left Ibanez and started using various
other guitar models, most notably PRS Guitars
which he is an endorser of, using their Singlecut and Tremonti
signature models. He can also be seen using various Gibson Les Pauls and
custom-built instruments.
It is hotly contested what amplifiers Marty first used with Megadeth
on their landmark album "Rust in Peace." He almost definitely used a
Bogner Triple Giant and a Tube Works solid-state preamp for solos, along
with a VHT 2150 power amp. Contrary to popular belief the Bogner Fish,
which is often cited as the preamp for the album, was first released one
year after the album debuted, therefore making it impossible to be the
preamp of use on this album, unless he received a pre-production model.
Marty and Dave Mustaine both used Custom Audio Electronics 3+ Preamps
and VHT 2150 power amps on the commercially successful "Countdown to
Extinction" and "Youthanasia" albums. When recording started on "Cryptic
Writings, Marty switched to Crate Amplifiers. He used these on all of
his recordings after Youthanasia, primarily using Crate's highly
successful Blue Voodoo tube amplifiers. As of 2007 however, Crate has
discontinued the Blue Voodoo and Marty now uses ENGL amplifiers. He uses
Special Edition heads and Vintage cabinets from ENGL.
Amps and preamps
- Fractal Audio Axe-FX II processor (current)
- Engl Special Edition (current)
- Engl Powerball (2011 tour)
- Custom Audio Electronics CAE 3+ preamp (former)
- Bogner/Halfer Triple Giant (former)
- Crate Blue Voodoo (as power amp, former)
- VHT 2150 power amp (former)
Effects
- Boss GS-10
- MAXON Auto Filter
- Tech 21 SansAmp GT-2
- Boss ST-2 Power Stack
- Boss AC-2 Acoustic Simulator
- Boss DD-5 Digital Delay
- Boss PS-6 Harmonist
- Boss NS-2 Noise Supressor
Discography
Hawaii
Main article: Hawaii (band)#Discography
Shout
Main article: Shout (band)#Discography
Cacophony
Main article: Cacophony (band)#Discography
Megadeth
| Date of release | Title | Label |
| September 24, 1990 | Rust in Peace | Capitol Records |
| July 14, 1992 | Countdown to Extinction | Capitol Records |
| October 31, 1994 | Youthanasia | Capitol Records |
| June 17, 1997 | Cryptic Writings | Capitol Records |
| August 31, 1999 | Risk | Capitol Records |
Solo
| Date of release | Title | Label |
| 1988 | Dragon's Kiss | Shrapnel Records |
| 1992 | Scenes | Shrapnel Records |
| 1994 | Introduction | Shrapnel Records |
| 1996 | True Obsessions | Shrapnel Records |
| 2002 | Music For Speeding | MF Music |
| 2006 | Loudspeaker | Avex Trax |
| 2008 | Future Addict | Avex Trax |
| 2009 | Tokyo Jukebox | Avex Trax |
| 2010 | Bad D.N.A. | Avex Trax |
| 2011 | Tokyo Jukebox 2 | Avex Trax |
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