For those of you that care about such matters, the extraordinary Marty Friedman is going to play at the Bendigo Hotel in Johnston St on 13 December 2019.
As fate would have it, I won't be going (I will be watching Opeth at the Palais the same night). You'd think they could organise these things better - surely they know that the same relatively confined target audience (career metalheads, would-be guitar virtuosos and indulgent dads wearing noise-protection
) would go to both events.Marty, of course, was the lead guitarist for Megadeth at its most spectacular. In my humble opinion, his solos are generally beyond playable by normal humans and his performance on Tornado of Souls is one of the landmarks of music in the 20th Century. If you don't know what the fuss is about, have a listen to it - if you don't want to listen to a piece of thrash metal, just click in at about 2 m 50 s and listen until 4 m 10 s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lcm9qqo_qB0
If you want to visualise the challenge, here's Megadeth's current guitarist (Kiko Loureiro, also an absolute gun) practising it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CYuJcUeF6k
Of course, Kiko only has to be able to play it - he didn't have to write it.
Marty joined Megadeth just in time to record "Rust In Peace". Wikipedia reports that "For the first time the band's members remained sober in the studio, alleviating many problems which plagued previous albums."
Gotta love it.
