“MARTY FRIEDMAN Seems To Be The Only Ex-MEGADETH Member That’s Amounted To Anything”

Megadeth has gone by tons of members through the years, however there’s just one that stands out to frontman Dave Mustaine. In an interview with Bloodstock TV, Mustaine mentioned he feels Marty Friedman is the one former Megadeth member that is ever amounted to something.

“[The recent reunion show at Budokan] did have lots of these feelings [of days past]. It did really feel prefer it was the nice outdated days. Additionally, Marty has made fairly a reputation for himself on his personal since then. Of the entire ex-band members of Megadeth, Marty appears to be the one one which’s ever amounted to something. No offense to the opposite guys — that is how the info are.

“For those who have a look at their gross sales and stuff, Marty‘s the one one which’s ever executed something important. And to have the ability to go over and go to him in his world… It was neat to see him out of his atmosphere. Plus, when he got here in, he was very suggestive on some issues to make the present actually easy. And he needed to go over all of the songs that we had been enjoying a number of occasions to ensure all the things was simply actually shit-hot.

“And, after all, Marty being in Marty trend, he obtained on the market and he mesmerized us all, me included. I discovered it type of laborious to look at him and do my job on the similar time, however I very a lot needed to simply sit there and watch Kiko and Marty play collectively, as a result of they two are among the best guitar gamers in laborious rock and heavy metallic proper now, and to look at the 2 of them play collectively was outstanding.”

Whereas I am unsure if saying no one else has ever amounted to something is true, it is laborious to argue with Friedman‘s success in Japan after Megadeth. Dude grew to become a TV star and a pop star over there, and has been doing extraordinarily effectively for himself.