Megadeth Guitarist Marty Friedman's Journey To Japanese Pop — npr.org

hide captionGuitarist Marty Friedman was known as a shredder when he was with Megadeth, but says he needed more happy music in his life. Are there genres of music that are simply too far apart for any one musician to hold onto them both at same time? If anyone knows, it might be Marty Friedman. He made a name for himself in the early 1990s when he became the guitarist for the platinum-selling thrash metal band, Megadeth. And remember, this was at a time when thrash metal still got booked on mainstream TV like Letterman.

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