Music Maniac: Japan

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Marty Friedman Releases Tokyo Jukebox

As previously mentioned, Marty Friedman who has finished his ninth album "Tokyo Jukebox" will release the album today, May 20 2009. Tokyo Jukebox will be released via AVEX. To support the album release, this amazing former guitarist of Cacophony and Megadeth held a "secret live event" atop Tokyo Tower on May 19. All who attended were treated to Marty Friedman's first time performing these new songs in public. More upcoming events will be held inside and outside Japan.

Exciting news also arrives from his official website, an additional live concert date is now confirmed for just after the Gods of Metal festival in Italy. Also on June 29 Marty and his band ( Drummer Jeremy Colson, Guitarist - Takayoshi Ohmura, Bassist - Ryota) will make their first trip to Russia. It is a dream of Marty's to finally play for his Russian fans. More confirmed tour dates will be post here soon, stay tuned for more updates.

Back to Tokyo Jukebox, the track lists are:
1. Tsume Tsume Tsume
2. Gift
3. Amagigoe
4. Story
5. Polyrhythm
6. Kaeritakunattayo
7. TSUNAMI
8. Yuki no Hana
9. Eki
10. Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana
11. Romance no Kamisama
12. Asu e no Sanka

The audio samples are available at:

this location.

Marty Friedman

Marty Friedman was born in December 8, 1962 (age 47 years old). His early career as a guitarist is known by his project band called Cacophony, where he team up with Jason Becker. Cacophony is often recognized for its technically challenging, neo-classical metal and speed metal elements.Both of them always been compared with each other.They broke up in 1989, with Friedman joining the successful thrash metal band Megadeth and Becker joining David Lee Roth's solo band. The fans famous questions are who is better, who has better shredding techniques, an so on. But for me the comparison made is totally not fair because both of them are guitar god, every one of them has their own skills. Jason Becker is known because sweep picking technique he had developed at such young age (see serrana video by Jason Becker in Youtube if you are not believe me). Marty Friedman is surely seem weird when he is holding the pick, but that's his style, people can do whatever they feel confortable right? Also, his is an exellent composer.He and Paul Gilbert had jammed together for the Young Guitar Magazine, I think the video is the best instructional video that ever been recorded. You can see the video here, they consist of 5 parts.
Part 1
Part2
Part3
Part4
Part5

He is currently live in Japan and speaks Japanese fluently. I'm sure he can easily gets Japanese girls as many as he wants to. Haha! Urrrgh, definitely gonna visit Japan someday...hehehe. Owh, why am I smiling like a freakin' idiot? Lol!

Marty Friedman