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Marty Friedman
American-Japanese guitarist
This article is about the guitarist. For the basketball player, see Martin Friedman (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Martin Adam Friedman (Japanese: マーティン・アダム・フリードマン, Hepburn: Mātin Adamu Furīdoman) (born December 8, 1962)[2] is an American guitarist, best known for his tenure as the lead guitarist of thrash metal band Megadeth from 1990 to 2000. He is also known for playing alongside Jason Becker in Cacophony from 1986 until 1989, as well as his 13 solo albums and tours. Friedman has resided in Tokyo since 2003, where he has appeared on over 700 Japanese television programs such as Rock Fujiyama, Hebimeta-san, Kōhaku Uta Gassen[3] and Jukebox English.[4] He has released albums with several record labels, including Avex Trax, Universal, EMI, Prosthetic, and Shrapnel Records.
Early career (1982–1989)
[edit]Friedman took up the guitar at the age of 14 after attending a KISS concert, and is largely self-taught.[5] He rushed to form a band and started playing original songs, the reason being that originals are easier to play than covers. "Because", he says, "even if you screw up, you just claim that the song is written like that and no one can challenge you."[6& • Thrash/shred guitar virtuoso/J-Pop idol/TV presenter, MartyFriedman’s new memoir, Dreaming Japanese (co-written with Jon Wiederhorn) is set for release on December 3 via Permuted Press. It’s a nearly 400-page tome that covers the incredible arc of his unusual professional career, as well as plenty of personal anecdotes. Friedman is obviously primarily known to the metal world for his years in Megadeth, arguably some of that band’s finest, but as Dreaming Japanese exposes, that wasn’t really the nadir of the talented guitarist/songwriter’s career. This was perhaps the most eye-opening element of this book for me. Well, that and the fact that Friedman is not afraid to put in a lot of hard work to achieve his goals, however outlandish/unlikely/insane they happen to be. No surprise, he didn’t become the guitar virtuoso he is today by accident. As we learn here, he was putting in the hours playing and learning both his instrument and what it takes to write a good song from his early days as a stoned teenager in Maryland, with his band Deuce. This was all news to me, as I first encountered his playing when he was living in Hawaii and playing in Vixen/Aloha/Hawaii. My pal K.J. Doughton put “The Pit and the Pendulum” on a mixed tape for me and I was convince