Ex-MEGADETH Guitarist MARTY FRIEDMAN To Perform At Tokyo's Budokan

December 22, 2010

Former MEGADETH guitarist Marty Friedman will perform live at Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on December 27 as part of a special Visual Kei live event featuring an all-star lineup of Alice Nine, Mucc, Sid and much more. This will be Marty's third appearance at Budokan since his move to Japan.

In other news, Friedman's first solo album, "Dragon's Kiss" (1988),has been remastered and re-released in a paper sleeve series, along with both CACOPHONY albums (1987's "Speed Metal Symphony" and 1988's "Go Off!"),which also featured Jason Becker, on King Records in Japan.

As previously reported, Friedman will appear on the first episode of the brand new Japanese national TV program "Guitar Stories". The show has Friedman performing the title track to his new album, "Bad D.N.A.", and talking music, and arranging a segment of "Forbidden City" for 10 Japanese guitarists (chosen by lottery to attend the taping) to play. The unique show will feature a different artist each week.

"Guitar Stories" will air on January 15 at 6 p.m. on Channel 12 (BS).

In radio news, NHK's Kurofune will feature Friedman on December 27 at 8:15 p.m. He will talk about current events in Japan, play music from "Bad D.N.A.", reveals his favorite song of the year (as introduced in his current Nikkei Entertainment feature) and much more.
This week Marty will film the second stage of live auditions for the first debut release on his label, Gokukara Records. 20 entrants were selected from hundreds of videos submitted. NicoNico Douga will broadcast a portion of this week's filming.

Friedman's tenth solo album, "Bad D.N.A.", was released in Japan via Avex. The CD was produced by Marty and engineered by Steve Hardy and Shinnosuke Miyazawa (LADY GAGA, GUNS N' ROSES) this April/May at The Village in Los Angeles, California.

According to a posting on Friedman's web site, "Bad D.N.A." is "a natural progression, picking up where 'Loudspeaker' and 'Tokyo Jukebox' left off and adding its own twists and turns."

Friedman's new video, "Bad D.N.A.", can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Visual Trap, which has helmed all of the videos for DIR EN GREY.

Friedman's ninth solo album, "Tokyo Jukebox", was released in Europe on February 22, 2010 via Mascot Records. The CD features extensive liner notes (written by Friedman in the "story behind the song" format) which are exclusive to the European release.

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