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Marty
Friedman has sold over 10 million albums with the multi-platinum band
Megadeth. He has also a dedicated following for his own solo albums of
orchestral soundtrack style music, of which he has recorded 4 to date.
Marty has toured the world several times over very successfully with
Megadeth. Along with touring, he has done many music/guitar seminars and
clinics all over the U.S., Japan, Europe and South America. His new solo
album “Music For Speeding”, shows Marty at his best. If you like his
first solo album “Dragon’s Kiss’”, the Cacophony albums and “Go Off”,
than this album will surely appeal to you.
That’s part of the biography of Marty Friedman, which was sent along
with the album. This is one of these CD’s that I planned to put in the
player of few times, to get to know it enough to make a review and then
put it aside with the rest. But, it has grabbed me in its jaws, I can’t
put it aside, I really like it.
Off course you must like some heavier music to buy this, so the regular
progfan won’t like this. Most of the guitar solo albums are hard to
listen through for me, for most of them I won’t get to the end in one
time. But this one has a lot of variation, and it’s finished before you
know it.
It starts with the sweeping track “Gimme A Dose”. It’s hard to stay on
your chair with this one. A bit of a Satriani track, but correct me if
I’m wrong, because I’m not completely familiar with the work of Satriani.
“Ripped” is a heavy song with some surprising rhythmic and instrumental
turns. It has a strong baseline underneath. The middle part contains a
beautiful, quiet piece, played with an attackless guitarsound.
The speedy
parts are impressive.
“Cheer Girl Rampage” is a funny intermezzo.
It’s
full of surprises, sudden breaks, synth noises, whistles, bells,... and
it ends in a cacophony of sounds.
“Lust For Life” is a quiet song with a piano and a superb melody. It
gets a bit harder after a while, but it remains a beautiful ballad.
“Lovesorrow” has a bluesy start, contains some acoustic music on a
flamenco guitar, but also changes a few times in a symphonic climax, as
if a whole orchestra plays along. This must be the synthistration by
James Jacobson, as mentioned in the booklet. Superb track!!!
“Corazon De Santiago” is a sentimental track, alternating between
acoustic and electric smooth guitar sounds. Again a song to relax with.
So
the album has found a place next to Satriani and Vai in my closet.
It never gets boring, because of the variation in styles, speed,
sphere,... so if you like guitar music, this “Music For Speeding” must
find its way into your collection.
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