Marty Friedman Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/marty-friedman/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Marty Friedman Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/marty-friedman/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite 617 Q&A recommendations https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-617-qa-recommendations/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:32:24 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042795 One of the best parts of the 617 Q&A series (Six Questions; One Recommendation; Seven Somethings) is the one recommendation portion. Typically, if we haven’t flipped them already with our somewhat standard interview portion, it’s when the artist really comes alive and often provides some deeper insight into what they’re buzzing about off the stage as we ask them to tell us what they’ve been into recently that isn’t their current project. Over the years, we’ve had some doozies, from […]

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]]> 617 Q&A: Marty Friedman on ‘Dreaming Japanese’, alleged metal feuds, and Cap’n Crunch https://vanyaland.com/2025/02/04/617-qa-marty-friedman-on-dreaming-japanese-alleged-metal-feuds-and-capn-crunch/ Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:06:11 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10040636 Marty Friedman is an alien in a genre made up of outcasts. The guitarist moved to Japan 23 years ago, shortly after his decade-long stint with metal titans Megadeth came to an end. It was there that he found not so much a rebirth as a reinvention that saw an immersion into the Tokyo music scene and foreign environment that somehow led to various television undertakings, the latter making him a household name in the country. One was just as […]

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