Marty Friedman’s Childhood Failure to Make an Acoustic Sound Like Sabbath

I don’t know if you still remember when Metal Injection interviewed Marty Friedman and then we shot some sweet ass video of his live performance there? Maybe you got a tattoo to relive the moment whenever you flex your abs? Good times.

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Well we also briefly asked him to tell us about the first instrument he ever owned, and the response was pretty funny. Same thing happened to me, actually. I owned a bass amp, and had no idea what a distortion pedal or channel was. I thought I was just playing it wrong.

 

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Chris Alfano has written about music and toured in bands since print magazines and mp3.com were popular. Once in high-school he hacked a friend's QBasic stick figure fighting game to add a chiptune metal soundtrack. Random attractive people still give him high-fives about that.