Marty Friedman is coming to Collingwood

[Pies4shaw]

No, this is not a post about some obscure pianist that I really like and you will all hate. This post is about a guy who has (well, should have - he has many but he should have others) more platinum-certified albums on his wall than you have had hot dinners.

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.

[stui magpie]

You don't write that, you abuse substances and play it and some one else writes it out after they get their bruised jaw treated.

the only guitar lessons i had was when i went on tour with my music teacher in year 9 and he got me to do that kind of stuff rather than play chords, but to be clear, I was operating on grade 2 -3 primary school, that is PhD.

I wonder if you can do that on a banjo?

[Pies4shaw]

Not sure, Stui - but banjo technique can be put to stunning effect on an electric guitar, in the right hands. Robert Fripp, who was and is the greatest of the progressive rock guitarists attributes his ridiculous style and talent to learning the banjo first.

Let me know if you wake up one morning playing “Starless”.

[watt price tully]

[Pies4shaw]

Here's a one-hour guitar lesson from Marty - because that'll help. I expect we'll all be playing like him by the end. It's great when he starts with making it "obvious" over the E, D and A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OmDoa2SkKY