I THINK THE ANIMATOR DREW THE WRONG MEMBER OF MEGADETH
Monday, January 4th, 2010 at 2:00pm by Axl RosenbergOkay, so for some of you young ‘uns who will forever think of Chris Broderick as Megadeth’s guitarist, you should know that before Broderick there were some other dudes in the band, and before them there was this guy Marty Friedman, and before him there were, again, some other dudes.
But this is a story about Marty Friedman, so let’s just stick to him for a sec.
See, after Marty quit the band in 2000, presumably because he couldn’t look at himself in the mirror anymore after actively participating in the creation of “Crush ‘Em,” he moved to Japan, where everyone who was ever famous will stay famous forever. (Seriously, it’s like the Never Never Land of famous people over there.) At least, I think that’s what happened – all I really know is that Friedman was in Megadeth, and then he wasn’t, and then Blabbermouth started posting fifteen stories a day about Friedman and Japan. I’d do the research to get the full story but I don’t care that much.
So, why did I bring this up? ‘Cause Friedman’s latest Asian endeavor is a collaboration with Gary Suarez’s favorite musician of all time, Andrew W.K. (Who, reader Porkspam tells me, seems to be having fun with the rumors that there are multiple Andrew W.K.s And there’s a video for this collaboration, entitled “Kiba,” which I believe is Japanese for “Really strange and terrible song that makes you kinda glad that Marty Friedman isn’t in Megadeth anymore.” (It may or may not also mean “Fang.”) But what’s really weird – I mean just beside how FUCKING STRANGE the song is – is that the video is animated, and portrays a cartoon Andrew W.K. maxin’ and relaxin’ with a cartoon… Dave Mustaine.
I’m serious. Check it out:
I mean, sure, Mustaine’s hair is more wavy than curly (Friedman has curly hair), but in what fucking universe is Friedman a ginger? I mean, look at this photo of the guy, which was taken in 2009:
I’m not fucking crazy, am I? The guy’s hair is brown!
So what happened? Was it a major communications breakdown between Friedman and those wacky Japanese animators? Was there some consensus that having two cartoon characters with roughly the same color hair might be too confusing for the viewer? Or have I just put too much thought into this?
I’ve put entirely too much thought into this.
Sigh.
Here’s Friedman the way I like to remember him, in an only slightly less bizarre video…
-AR
Exactly why no nation should put PCP in their drinking water supply. (Or…exactly why they should…)
DOOOOOOON! (that was my head exploding)
Mushrooms are legal in Japan. Just thought y’all should know.
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I love Japan. XD
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That definitely looks like Mustaine. I prefer to remember Friedman from the Holy Wars video. Good times…
somehow marty friedman looks younger now than he did during the rust in peace-era…
http://spinelanguage.com/2009/12/29/turning-japanese/
I’m 18 and what is this?
Are we completely sure that this isn’t just a cutscene from a new Wario Ware Inc. game?
Conglaturation! Video make win!
Marty Friedman grumbled through his last few albums with Megadeth that he wanted to move in a poppier direction – like more poppy than “Train of Consequences”. So he moved to Japan and pursued a career writing J-Pop. It still astounds me that one of the most influential thrash lead guitarists of all time who wrote some of the most lyrical, tear-jerking and (incidentally) note-perfect guitar solos in the history of the form would turn his back on that but, hey, I guess that’s a testament (no pun intended) to the breadth of his vision. Whether we like it or not, he has been there and he has done that. That lineup of Megadeth (Menza, Friedman, Ellefson, Mustaine) demonstrably ran out of steam.
You know what, I actually like this.
I agree.
Come now, surely this site of all sites should recognise that, despite the hair, it looks too Jewish to be Mustaine.
Marty needs to eat something and stop going to the mall for glamor shots wearing make-up that makes this 47 year old dude look like a 15 year old.
Fuck everyone except Gary and the two posters above me. I like it.
“the WIND” (1:38) hahahahahaha priceless
I work for a Japanese company and this video definitely confirms my suspicion that the Japanese don’t think like everyone else. The Japanese thoughts are definitely in anime.