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Hiyoro Okuda is a Japanese cellist widely known as the wife of American guitarist Marty Friedman. A cellist is someone who plays a musical instrument called the cello . Hiyoro’s husband, Marty Friedman, who has been living in Japan since 2003, despite being an American, is widely known for having thirteen solo albums and solo tours.
- Kiss – Alive!
- Raven – Wiped Out
- Black Sabbath – Sabotage
- Aya Matsuura – T.W.O.
- Ramones – Leave Home
- Garbage – Garbage
- Elvis Presley – Elvis ’56
- Misora Hibari – Kanashii Sake
- Mahogany Rush – Live
- Beach Boys – Endless Summer
“It pretty much changed everything for me. Up until the time I heard this record, I wanted to play sports, which was a little unrealistic. Kiss Alive!fixed that fast – I knew that I had to play the guitar. “How could anybody listen to this record and not want to play aggressive, loud rock music? The whole thing was so fun and exciting. I annoyed my...
“This came out at a time when heavy metal wasn’t in vogue. I was playing a harder version of Kiss and the Ramones at the time, and when I heard Raven I thought it was a whole new thing. It seemed to point a way to a new direction. “Heavy metal was already becoming a caricature of itself. Even some of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands that I...
“Right when I was listening to Kiss a lot, I heard Black Sabbath and I thought, ‘Wow, now that’s heavy!’ Who knew that a guitar could sound so thick and menacing as that? Nothing up to that point sounded quite so dangerous. It was pretty eye-opening for me. “Like it was with Kiss Alive!, I played this record constantly and tried to cop all of Tony ...
“When you’re an established musician, chances are your influences are pretty much set in stone. The artists who first inspired you made their way into your music, and you just branch off from there. But I got the same feeling from hearing Aya Matsurra as I did when listening to Kiss as a kid. It was like a new beginning for me. “She has a lot of re...
The Ramones are probably my biggest musical influence. I love so many of their records, but Leave Homeis the first one I bought. It knocked me right out. I’m a huge fan of anything from the ‘50s, and the Ramones took that sensibility and set it to big, loud distorted guitars. What a brilliant move. “I learned every Ramones song, which turned out to...
“Here’s something else that inspired me later on in my career. All of Garbage’s albums are fantastic, but their debut had the first and maybe biggest impact on me. As a guitar player, my own style has been pretty well cooked for a while, so it was pretty cool to hear this record and to start re-thinking what I was doing on the instrument. “The whol...
“The King. Elvis is my favourite artist of all time, but he’s not really an artist – he’s more like a god figure. You can’t even compare other people to Elvis. He’s almost like the only thing that even matters in music. That’s not too bold a claim, is it? “I’m a fan of all his work, but I especially love the early stuff, right around when he got si...
“Another hugely influential artist. Misora Hibari is probably the most famous singer in the history of Japan. Her voice is one of the things that I try mimic when I play guitar. If there’s a God, Misora’s voice passes through Him and the heavens and reaches us through her. “The second you hear her, it hits you in such a profound way. You just sit t...
“Let’s go back into guitar mode. When I was a kid, I liked rock‘n’roll like Kiss. A lot of the other guitarists were into the blues, but I just couldn’t go there. The bluesy thing didn’t find a place in my experience. Maybe I was too young. “But then I heard Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, and I got it. I realized that blues playing could be just a...
“If you learn all the Beach Boys songs, you’ll get everything you need to know about chord structure and harmony. The most genius thing is write something very complex that sounds totally simple and easy to listen to. Brian Wilson was the king of that. The music sounds effortless, but you know that creating it was anything but painless. “If you thi...
- Alive! – KISS. This was the album that forced me to be a musician and the type of musician who, when performing, somehow finds this bottomless well of energy.
- Leave Home – The Ramones. I bought this just because four guys in leather jackets looked cool, and I was a kid who loved ’50s stuff. These guys looked like dime store hoodlums, so I was curious about what kind of music they made.
- American Graffiti Soundtrack. My favorite movie of all time and my favorite soundtrack of all time. I still believe this music is the only music that ever mattered, and everything that happened after the Beatles came along was okay but comparatively unimportant.
- Garbage – Garbage. This was the first album I heard in which amazing, clever, and interesting guitar parts were constantly used in the framework of great songs as opposed to being the main riff or the guitar solo of the song.
Oct 22, 2018 · On October 15, guitarist Marty Friedman (MEGADETH, CACOPHONY) — who moved from America to Tokyo in 2003 — participated in a public question-and-answer session, "Ask Marty: An Insider's View Of ...
Jan 31, 2024 · The solo needs to change for good, and the former Megadeth virtuoso has pinpointed exactly what guitarists need to be doing in order to ensure that happens. (Image credit: Jun Sato/WireImage/Getty Images) UPDATE (03.07): Marty Friedman has claimed his comments on guitar solos were misconstrued. So we asked him to set the record straight.
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