I went to the Guitar Evolution show w/ Alex Skolnick trio, Chris Poland, and Marty Friedman last night. CRAZY stuff! Alex's band only seems to play cover songs, but he does a song like War Pigs and makes it all jazzy. I was more than impressed by his chops. Chris Poland's band was all right, but they felt a little too generic to me. Lotsa fast licks way up high on the neck, but nothing too original. The bass player was pretty sic though, I think more people were cheering his leads than Poland's. And finally Marty Friedman...
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AWESOME!!! Both he and his accompanying guitarist tore it up. Marty definatly has not been sitting on his ass since Megadeth. He played a fairly wide varity of songs, from heavy power chords riffs to to a 10 minute mellow ballad. I can now DEFINATLY hear his influence in the Megadeth songs he played in. If Slash(GNR) and Joe Perry(Aerosmith) some how had a child togeather, I think it might sound a lot like Marty.
After the show (when about 90% of the people had left) they raffled off an Ibanez (GSA20 I think) guitar. 2 people ended up having their names drawn, so they had to rock paper sissors to see who got the guitar.
If this circus is stopping in a nearby town, I would HIGHLY RECCOMEND attending.
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AWESOME!!! Both he and his accompanying guitarist tore it up. Marty definatly has not been sitting on his ass since Megadeth. He played a fairly wide varity of songs, from heavy power chords riffs to to a 10 minute mellow ballad. I can now DEFINATLY hear his influence in the Megadeth songs he played in. If Slash(GNR) and Joe Perry(Aerosmith) some how had a child togeather, I think it might sound a lot like Marty.
After the show (when about 90% of the people had left) they raffled off an Ibanez (GSA20 I think) guitar. 2 people ended up having their names drawn, so they had to rock paper sissors to see who got the guitar.
If this circus is stopping in a nearby town, I would HIGHLY RECCOMEND attending.
