While Marty frequently rotates members of his backing band, he is always backed up by world-class musicians. He also picks out an audience member who gets to come up on stage and play a song with Marty and his terrific band. Throughout the show Marty is using hilarious self-deprecating comments between the songs – all of it delivered in Japanese. He also gets closer to his metal roots with some serious heaviness on the exquisite “Whiteworm” from his 2017 solo album “Wall of Sound”, before he ends the evening with “Dragon Mistress” and, of course, “Thunder March”. Marty isn’t afraid of taking his skills and his guitars into for him new territories. Another one is when Marty treats us to some Argentine tango with the song “Adios Nonino”. One of most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, the song “Night” from Marty’s 1992 solo album “Scenes”, gets an outing here and it is one of the highlights of the evening for me.
He opens the evening with the beautiful song “Lovesorrow”, from his 2003 album “Music for Speeding”, followed by his splendid cover of Yutaka Ozaki’s “I Love You”. The audience largely consists of diehard Marty fans who know every song and every note. He plays both electric and acoustic guitars and manages to give us a great and very varied show. The entire show is instrumental (it’s billed as an orchestral concert) with Marty and his guitars at the centre of it all. In recent years, Marty has put on some very special intimate gigs for Japanese fans with setlists that vary quite a lot from what he plays when he’s on tour in other parts of the world. Having made his name as a heavy metal guitarist with Cacophony and Megadeth, since relocating to Japan, Marty has been active in a wide variety of musical styles, both as a solo artist and as part of various projects. And he pulls it off like the world-class guitarist and artist that he is. This evening in Yokohama, in a beautiful venue inside the Red Brick Warehouse down by the water, Marty Friedman manages to give us plenty of emotional ballads but he also gives us some full-on metal and, most surprisingly, Argentine tango. Every time I see him perform he comes up with something new. There is nothing that Marty Friedman can’t do with his guitar. Marty Friedman at Motion Blue in Yokohama on 26 th November 2019 He always delivers and he always pushes the limit.
Marty Friedman, quite possibly the best guitarist in the world, always has a few tricks up his sleeve when he’s performing.
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