New:
23-02-2008:
Steve Lukather with Marty Friedman slug it out in the battle of the different solo types...
Steve Lukather with Marty Friedman GIG
Steve Lukather with Marty Friedman GIG 2
17-02-2008:
Marty Friedman's album Future Addict, is due to be released in Japan on March 12th
The album features reworked, reconstructed, completely remade versions of tracks from Marty's entire career.
Marty Friedman also appears in the movie Gugudatte Neko Dearu and has some more TV appearances:
February 25 - NHK Eigo De Shabera Night(with Jimmy Page)
March 3 - NHK Eigo De Shabera Night
March 7 - TV ASAHI Sora Mimi Awards 24:15-24:45
March 10 - Nippon Television Uta Sta!
March 14 - TV ASAHI Sora Mimi Awards Part 2 24:15-24:45
March 17 - Nippon Television Uta Sta!
Every Friday - WOWOW 5PM Ougon American Pops
Every Monday - NHK 1140PM Jukebox Eikaiwa
Check out Marty's web site for full details.
07-01-2008:
Blabbermouth post an update from Marty Friedman:
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! to everyone who made 2007 such a special year for me. It was without a doubt one of the most exciting years of my career, if not the most adventurous.
"Aside from my other TV and print media duties, I celebrated a year with the show 'Rock Fujiyama', I managed to produce and play three albums, several single cuts, write my first top 20 single, do my first solo live DVD, as well as do my first solo trek through Europe. I was fortunate enough to meet so many of my fans and friends at promo events during the year and also of course at Masa Ito`s annual bash that I`m always honoured to do. Aside from that I was given my first shot at acting in a motion picture and it was a total blast!
"On a more personal note, I was asked to judge next year's annual state-wide University Japanese Speech Competition of Arizona, the same competition that I entered as a contestant just six years ago. Hard work really does pay off.
"But the MAIN thing is that I am currently putting together my new solo album, and I can tell you that I am halfway through it now and I am absolutely thrilled with it so far. There are many huge and cool surprises…
"I appreciate all of your support more than you will ever know. An amazing 2008 to all of you — I hope 2008 will be everything you want it to be!"
13-11-2007:
Marty Friedman commences Pre-Production For Eighth Solo Album, he is currently in the studio beginning preproduction on his eighth solo album. More details to come.
03-11-2007:
An interview with Marty Friedman and his move to Japan.
If the shift seemed natural to Friedman, it jarred with much of his fan-base, many of whom felt J-Pop too synthetic to test the abilities of a true musician. "In Japanese music, pretty much anything goes," he argues. "You can have the most extreme metal to the most tender ballads, and that can all come from the same artist. I love that about Japanese music.
08-10-2007:
Marty Friedman Japanses TV news:
"Marty will appear on Beat Takeshi's hit prime time TV show Daredemo Picasso on Friday night October 19 at 10PM on TV Tokyo. This episode celebrates the 35 year career of Ishikawa Sayuri, and will have Marty on the panel of guests and also even feature Marty performing his own arrangement of one of her songs with the legendary Japanese singer in person. Marty was influenced by her music considerably, so if you are a fan of either, the show is not to be missed.
In other TV news, due to overwhelming demand, Marty's three month NHK TV series Jukebox Eikaiwa is being rebroadcast in reruns from the beginning of October through January every Monday night at 11:40 on NHK."
22-08-2007:
Marty Friedman - Live CD And DVD Available In Japan
The Marty Friedman Exhibit A: Live in Europe CD and Exhibit B: Live in Japan DVD will be released as of August 21st in Japan. The tracklisting is as follows:
CD - 'Theme From Namida (tears)', 'Elixir', 'Anvils (Celluloid Revenge Ending)', 'Gimme A Dose', 'Street Demon', 'It?s The Unreal Thing', 'Fuel Injection Stingray', 'Stigmata Addiction', 'Tibet', 'Angel', 'Paradise Express', 'Ripped', 'Cheer Girl Rampage', 'Thunder March', 'Ballad Of The Barbie Bandits' and 'Hound Dog'.
DVD - 'Strange Gods And Suspicious Angels (intro)', 'Theme From Namida (Tears)', 'Elixir', 'Anvils (celluloid revenge ending)', 'Gimme A Dose', 'Street Demon', 'It?s The Unreal Thing', 'Fuel Injection Stingray', 'Stigmata Addiction', 'Devil Take Tomorrow', 'Asche Zu Asche/My Oh My (Mutation Medley)', 'Paradise Express', 'Ripped', 'Salt In The Wound', 'Cheer Girl Rampage', 'Thunder March', 'Ballad Of The Barbie Bandits', 'Dragon Mistress / Io Che Non Vivo (Senza Te)/Be' and 'Hound Dog'.
Marty is now hosting a brand new weekly TV program, Ougon American Pops on Japan's WOWOW network. The first broadcast was on August 16th. This show is to run for 10 weeks.
10-07-2007:
Shockwaves/HardRadio Podcast #16 is now available for download(20 MB). Host Bob Nalbandian interviews Marty Friedman. Friedman and Nalbandian discuss the good old days hanging out in Hollywood, Marty's early years with Hawaii and Cacophony, Friedman's years in Megadeth, and Marty's current mega-success in Japan.
Marty's "Live in Tokyo" DVD and "Live in Europe" CD will be released simultaneously in Japan on August 22 by Avex. These feature different setlists, but with the same band members: Jeremy Colson , Ron Jarzombek and Chris Catero .
14-05-2007:
Marty Friedman - Arpeggio lessons
www.caustictruths.com interview Marty Friedman:
“For the record, I hate instrumental music,” he says, “especially guitar based instrumental music. I have always liked the sound of heavy metal music in the studio at the point just before the vocals are recorded. That sound feels great. So-the goal is to have that sound as the base, but make the actual content fun enough, interesting enough, powerful enough and cool enough to not make you miss the vocalist. That is my constant standard while writing and playing. And it is tough!”
28-04-2007:
Marty Friedman has contributed a guitar solo to a new song by Jason Becker, marking their first collaboration in 17 years. The solo is for a song called 'Believe' and was recorded in Tokyo just prior to Marty's European tour this March. From his web site:
We at the site, Marty himself and, of course, music fans around the world are hoping this is only the first of many future collaborations. Stay tuned for Marty's thoughts on this in a very special interview we have coming up at this site later this spring! For release info and more details, visit www.jasonbecker.com/."
09-04-2007:
New video interview with Marty Friedman from ynet.co.il
01-04-2007:
Blasting Zone pull off a Marty Friedma interview
Back in the mid to late ‘90’s, I really started to get into Japanese Rock and Pop music. Really heavily into it. And I thought if I’m going to play it, actually get into the scene for real, I’m going to have to be based in Japan, ya know? There’s only so much that you can do from L.A. or New York, so I decided to come to Tokyo about four years ago and it’s turned out to be the greatest decision of my career...
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05-03-2007:
Marty will be recording the shows on his upcoming European tour,starting March 31st 2007, for his new live album to be released later this year.
03-02-2007:
Marty Friedman embarks on a European solo tour in April. Joining Marty in his touring band will be guitarist Ron Jarzombek , drummer Jeremy Colson and bassist Chris Catero. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:
Apr. 01 - NL - Lantaarn, Hellendoorn
Apr. 02 - UK - Underworld, London
Apr. 03 - F - Trabendo, Paris
Apr. 04 - D - Colos-Saal, Aschaffenburg
Apr. 06 - NL - Boerderij, Zoetermeer
Apr. 08 - CZ - Rock Cafe, Prague
Apr. 10 - IT - Stazione Birra, Rome
Friedman will be touring in support of new solo album, "Loudspeaker", which entered the Japanese national chart at position No. 33. This marks the first Top 40 chart position for any of of Marty's solo albums. The special first edition of "Loudspeaker" contained one bonus track, a vocal version of "Static Rain", the ending theme of the Japanese TV show "Rock Fujiyama". This edition was limited to the first 10,000 copies, which sold out on the first day of release. After those went, the standard version of "Loudspeaker", which has an instrumental version of "Static Rain", was put on sale.
"Loudspeaker" features guest appearances by Steve Vai, John Petrucci and Billy Sheehan.
14-12-2006:
Blabbermouth:
A solo live concert tour of Europe is confirmed for April 2007. Venues, cities and other info will all be available here at this site. Touring in Marty's band will be guitarist Ron Jarzombek, drummer Jeremy Colson. Bassist [has not yet been announced] at this time. This will be Marty's first solo tour of Europe and fans can expect a wide variety of material from all of Marty's solo albums.
09-12-2006:
Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert (jams 2006)(full version)
10-10-2006:
According to Avex, in Japan cellphone downloads for songs from Marty`s "LOUDSPEAKER" album have topped 140,000 and show no signs of slowing down. The lead off track from Loudspeaker, "Elixir" is the new ending theme for the current season of "Rock Fujiyama". Other songs from the all instrumental album are receiving heavy TV airplay on several other shows, mainly sports related. So it is not suprising that there are lots of new video of Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert on YouTube from Suchar and GoodMorningVancuver
Too many to post on this blog, so here are just a couple of samples!!
Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert -Young Guitar 1
Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert -Young Guitar 2
13-08-2006:
An interview with Marty Friedman from Jem Fest
05-08-2006:
A new interview with Marty Friedman, the Loudspeaker Interview
Interviewer:
Since Feburary I have been running the myspace profile posing to be your official one? For awhile now I have been feeling rather guilty because I feel like I have been decieving over 4000 people, including Jason Becker, Jeff Loomis, Steve Vai, Billy Sheehan, Nick Menza, and many other people.. I truly feel terrible.
Because of these people asking this I would like to know if I could have your permission to actually keep it running as the true official Myspace for you. With you being able to check it and use it, of course... I would completely re-design it according to how you would like me to and everything. I just thought I could bring that as an offer to you, that's your choice man. If you don't want me to I completely understand.
I'd like to also sincerly apologize for what I have done. I do feel guilty because of it.. Sincerly, Benjamin speedingrockerxxx@gmail.com]
16-06-2006:
I finally got around to adding Marty Friedman...during a paticularly sterile world cup match between Mexico and Angola! Marty's Speed Metal Symphony was the first CD I bought! After deciding to exchange vinyl (500 + albums) for the laser played silver disk!
Ok enough of nostalgia. Marty`s new album, "Loudspeaker" is completed and will be released on the Japanese AVEX label on 28 June 2006. The Worldwide release will follow in the third quarter. This is set to be his most aggressive album yet and
It will also feature Steve Vai, John Petrucci and Billy Sheehan.
Ok onto the video, too many to list so these are the links:
melodic control
desert island and black cat
speed metal symphony
interview and performance
wake up dead megadeath audition
Paul Gilbert and Marty Friedman
Marty Friedman and Jason Becker,Carvin Guitar present part 1
Marty Friedman & Jason Becker,Carvin Guitar present part 2
Background:
Marty is from Washington D.C. originally. However he has lived in many places including Hawaii, Germany and California. He currently resides in Tokyo. Marty Friedman has sold over 10 million albums with the multi-platinum band Megadeth.
Before joining Megadeth in 1990, Marty was in a band called Cacophony with Jason Becker. They released 2 albums and toured the U.S. and Japan.
If you want to know more check out his very complete bio and try finding his
DVD: 99 secret lead guitar phrases
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