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04 Juni 2009

Marty Friedman - Future Addict album

Future Addict album (2008)

Future Addict album is a collection of reworked, reconstructed and completely remade versions of songs spanning Marty's entire career, from his first band Deuce to his current J-pop themed metal, including a few songs from his Megadeth years. In addition, there are also 3 new songs on the record: "Barbie", "Tears Of An Angel" and the first single "Simple Mystery". [wikipedia.org]

Track List (click on song tittle for listening): 01.Barbie
02.Simple Mystery
03.Tornado of Souls
04.Burn the Ground
05.Where My Fortune Lies
06.Breadline
07.The Pit And The Pendulum
08.The Killing Road
09.Static Rain
10.Secret of the Stars
11.Massive
12.Tears Of An Angel

Marty Friedman - Exhibit A Live in Europe

Exhibit A Live in Europe (2007)

After Marty Friedman’s successful ‘European Loudspeaker 2007’ tour, Mascot Records releases a live CD recorded on several locations during this tour. In spite of the nice cover (a nicely folded digipack), I wonder whether there will be many people who will enjoy this album. Of course it is difficult to ‘feel’ the contact between band and audience on an almost completely instrumental CD. Normally, it is the lead singer’s task to accomplish that and since there is no such person in Marty Friedman’s band, I guess we’ll have to do without it. What annoys me more is the fact that there are hardly any chats between the songs and that there is hardly any audience audible.
In conclusion the only thing left on this first ever live solo CD of Megadeth’s former axeman is a sort of compilation album, more than half filled with songs from Marty’s last two records (Music For Speeding’ and ‘Loudspeaker’). The sound is quite good although a bit dull every now and then. Friedman’s partners in crime are drummer Jeremy Colson (Steve Vai), Chris Catero on bass and guitarist Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower and Spastic Ink), who gets a lot of room for expression next to the Master himself. From ‘Dragon’s Kiss’, Marty’s best ever solo effort, we only get short fragments of the songs ‘Tears’ and ‘Anvils’, his last two albums are represented with a total of nine songs. Last song on the album is the Elvis classic ‘Hound Dog’ featuring Friedman himself on vocals. [lordsofmetal.nl]

Track List (click on song tittle for listening):
01 Theme from Namida(Tears)
02 Elixir
03 Anvils (Celluloid Revenge Ending)
04 Gimme a Dose
05 Street Demon
06 It's the Unreal Thing
07 Fuel Injection Stingray
08 Stigmata Addiction
09 Tibet
10 Angel
11 Paradise Express
12 Ripped
13 Cheer Girl Rampage
14 Thunder March
15 Ballad of the Barbie Bandits
16 Hound Dog

22 Mei 2009

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2001 Alive in an Ultra World
Disk 1
01. Giant Balls Of Gold
02. Burning Rain
03. The Black Forest
04. Alive In An Ultra World
05. Devil's Food
06. Blood And Glory
07. Whispering A Prayer
08. Iberian Jewel

Disk 2
01.The Power Of Bombos
02.Incantation
03.Light Of The Moon
04.Babushka
05.Being With You (In Paris)
06.Principessa
07.Brandos Costumes

2002 The Elusive Light and Sound, volume 1
01. Celluloid Heroes
02. Love Blood
03. Fried Chicken
04. Butler's Bag
05. Head-Cuttin' Duel
06. Eugene's Trick Bag
07. Amazing Grace
08. Louisiana Swamp Skank
09. Air Guitar Hell
10. The Reaper
11. Introducing the Wylde Stallions
12. Girls Mature Faster Than Guys
13. The Battle
14. Meet the Reaper
15. Final Guitar Solo
16. The Reaper Rap
17. Drive the Hell Out Of Here
18. Get the Hell Out Of Here
19. Welcome Pre-Frosh
20. The Dark Hallway
21. The Dead Band Ends
22. The Cause Heads
23. Find the Meat
24. The Ax Will Fall
25. Now We Run (cue)
26. Hey Jack
27. What!
28. Still Running
29. Dead Heads
30. Blow Me Where The Pampers Is
31. Pins and Needles
32. Plug My Ass In
33. Loose Keg Sightings
34. Don't Sweat It
35. How Hidge
36. Beer Beer
37. We're Not Gonna Protest
38. Initiation
39. See Ya Next Year
40. Now We Run

21 Mei 2009

Steve_Vai_and_G3_Wallpaper

Steve Vai

G3 (Joe Satriani-Steve Vai-Yngwie Malmsteen)

07 Februari 2009

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Vai's Career

1990s and 2000s

Vai continues to tour regularly, both with his own group and with his one-time teacher and fellow guitar instrumentalist friend Joe Satriani on the G3 series of tours. Former David Lee Roth and Mr. Big bassist Billy Sheehan also joined him for a world tour. In 1990, Vai released his critically acclaimed solo album Passion and Warfare. The song "For the Love of God" was voted #29 in a readers' poll of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time for the magazine Guitar World.
In 1994 Vai began writing and recording with Ozzy Osbourne. Only one track from these sessions—"My Little Man"—was released on the Ozzmosis album. Despite Vai penning the track he does not appear on the album. His guitar parts were replaced by Zakk Wylde. Vai's band members throughout the 1990s included drummer Mike Mangini, guitarist Mike Keneally and bassist Philip Bynoe. In 1994 Vai received a Grammy Award for his performance on the Frank Zappa song Sofa from the album Zappa's Universe.
In July 2002, Steve Vai performed with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, in the world premiere of composer Ichiro Nodaira's Fire Strings, a concerto for electric guitar and 100-piece orchestra.
In 2004, a number of his compositions for orchestra, as well as orchestra arrangements of previously recorded pieces, were performed in The Netherlands by the Metropole Orchestra in a concert series entitled The Aching Hunger. In 2003, drummer Jeremy Colson joined Vai's group replacing previous drummer Virgil Donati. Vai's latest album, Sound Theories, was released in 2007. Steve Vai released a DVD of his performance at The Astoria in London in December 2001, featuring the lineup of bassist Billy Sheehan, guitarist/pianist Tony MacAlpine, guitarist Dave Weiner and drummer Virgil Donati.
In February 2005, Vai premiered a dual-guitar (electric and classical) piece that he wrote called The Blossom Suite with classical guitarist Sharon Isbin at the Châtelet Theatre in Paris. In 2006, Vai played as a "special guest" guitarist alongside additional guest Zappa band members, drummer Terry Bozzio, guitarist-singer Ray White and saxophonist-singer Napoleon Murphy Brock in the Zappa Plays Zappa tour led by Frank's son Dweezil Zappa in Europe and the U.S. in the Spring as well as a short U.S. tour in October.
On September 21 2006, Vai made a special appearance at the Video Games Live concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Hollywood, California. He played two songs with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. One song being the Halo Theme, the second was for the world premier trailer for Halo 3. Steve Vai made an appearance at the London Guitar Show 2007 on the 28th April 2007 at the ExCeL Center by doing a masterclass. In late April 2007, Vai confirmed the release of his next record, called Sound Theories, on June 26. The release is a 2-CD set consisting mostly of previously released material that Vai rearranged and played in front of a full orchestra. Vai says that the project was a great joy because he considers himself to be a composer more than a guitarist, and he is happy to see music he has composed played by an orchestra that can play it well. A DVD will eventually accompany the record but will be released in August. He makes a guest appearance on the most recent Dream Theater album, Systematic Chaos, on the song "Repentance". However, this appearance is vocal rather than instrumental, as Vai is one of many musical guests recorded apologizing to important people in their lives for wrongdoings committed in their pasts. [Wikipedia.org]

Vai's Album (Click on song for check sound)

1999 The Ultra Zone