1. Martin Adam Friedman was born on December 8,1962 and is an American guitarist, best known for his tenure as the lead guitarist of thrash metal band Megadeth from 1990 to 2000.
36 Facts About Marty Friedman
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Marty Friedman is known for playing alongside Jason Becker in Cacophony from 1986 until 1989, as well as his 13 solo albums and tours.
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Marty Friedman has resided in Tokyo since 2003, where he has appeared on over 700 Japanese television programs such as Rock Fujiyama, Hebimeta-san, Kohaku Uta Gassen and Jukebox English.
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Marty Friedman has released albums with several record labels, including Avex Trax, Universal, EMI, Prosthetic, and Shrapnel Records.
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Marty Friedman took up the guitar at the age of 14 after attending a KISS concert, and is largely self-taught.
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Marty Friedman rushed to form a band and started playing original songs, the reason being that originals are easier to play than covers.
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Marty Friedman formed and played lead guitar in several other bands, including Deuce, Hawaii, and notably Cacophony.
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Marty Friedman played guitar on the 1989 album In Your Face by Christian rock band Shout.
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When Cacophony disbanded in 1989, Marty Friedman auditioned for the thrash metal band Megadeth after a tip from his friend Bob Nalbandian.
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Marty Friedman further developed his style of playing exotic scale solos from the Cacophony era, and integrated it into the music of Megadeth.
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Marty Friedman played on Megadeth's further releases Youthanasia, Cryptic Writings, and Risk.
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Marty Friedman later stated that he got tired of "holding the flag" for traditional metal and felt that he could not evolve as a musician.
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Marty Friedman appeared on the Tourniquet albums Where Moth and Rust Destroy and Antiseptic Bloodbath, and Tourniquet drummer Ted Kirkpatrick's solo album Onward to Freedom.
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In 2009, Marty Friedman collaborated with Emma Gelotte and Tinna Karlsdotter from "All Ends" as the lead guitarist for the song "With Me", which was featured in the game, Sonic and the Black Knight.
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In 2010, Marty Friedman launched a record label under Avex Group, called Gokukara Records.
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In 2011, Marty Friedman collaborated with Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z, providing guitar for their song "Moretsu Uchu Kokyokyoku Dai 7 Gakusho "Mugen no Ai"", which would become a hit in 2012.
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Marty Friedman stood for the "F" in FANTA, Ayanocozey stood for the first "A", and the other members of the group made up the other letters.
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Marty Friedman recorded with Daniel Tompkins of Tesseract in Tompkins' band Skyharbor's debut album, Blinding White Noise.
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In 2013, Marty Friedman released his first library of guitar loops on LoopArtists.
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Marty Friedman recorded collections of clean-tone, high gain lead and rhythm guitar loops that are intended for use in a production and remix environment.
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Marty Friedman has been doing concert tours for the Bravely Default original soundtrack in 2013 as well as the Budokan concert tours among others.
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In 2014, Marty Friedman collaborated again with Momoiro Clover Z, providing the guitar track for their single "Moon Pride".
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Marty Friedman appears on Japanese television and is a contributing columnist to Japanese music magazines and national newspapers.
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Marty Friedman had his own heavy metal TV program called Rock Fujiyama alongside Shelly, Ken Ayugai, Yorimasa Hisatake and ex-Scanch member Rolly Teranishi from April 2006 until March 2007.
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Marty Friedman was featured on Jukebox, a television program in which Marty Friedman and two Japanese people translate the lyrics of various English songs into understandable Japanese.
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Marty Friedman has made guest appearances on the television programs Eigo de Shabera Night and Tamori Club.
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In 2008, Marty Friedman played the role of Paul Weinberg, an English language teacher, in Isshin Inudou's Gou-Gou Datte Neko de Aru.
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Marty Friedman was a guest star in the Adult Swim original Metalocalypse by playing driving teacher Mr Gojira.
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Marty Friedman has appeared on Cool Japan several times as a music expert.
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In 2009, Marty Friedman appeared on The Quiz Show, a Japanese TV drama starring Sho Sakurai as a guest professor.
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In January 2014, Marty Friedman took part in New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Wrestle Kingdom 8 in Tokyo Dome event, playing Hiroshi Tanahashi to the arena.
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Shortly after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Marty Friedman began auctioning off a great variety of his musical equipment and paraphernalia that he used as a member of Megadeth and Cacophony, including some of the earliest productions of Jackson Kelly guitars and his signature Carvin V220.
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In December 2012, Marty Friedman married Japanese cellist Hiyori Okuda in Yokohama.
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In 2018, Marty Friedman confirmed that his hair is genuinely curly but hates it; he prefers to have it straight.
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Marty Friedman is known for his improvisation and for fusing Eastern music with Western music and other styles, such as neoclassical, thrash metal and later progressive rock.
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Marty Friedman frequently utilizes upstrokes as opposed to downstrokes, especially on the B and high E strings.