Interestingly, my favorite of all of these is Marty Friedman's "Scenes". That record is just beautiful.
Hey, I don't know if anyone would think this is interesting or not, but in college, on my floor freshman and sophomore year was a guy named DAN Friedman. He played guitar, and was GOOD. I mean REALLY good. He had a vintage white strat (that he chained up in his room when not there, but he didn't leave all that much; the library was the "Homer Babbage Library" and we used to joke that it was going to be the "Homer Friedman Library" because his dad's donations were the only way he could stay as long as he did). He didn't have the long hair, but he was a dead ringer for Marty Friedman. There are other things, too, in that both started playing after a dalliance with Kiss, and Dan went to high school with a pretty famous "Blues" harmonica player, so he's got some industry connections. I know it's a common name, and I know the backstory doesn't add up (Marty is five years older than me, and I had understood Dan to be a year older than me) but I've always suspected some connection, just can't prove it, even in this age of the internet. I remember going to see U2, and asking Dan if he wanted to go; he passed, but when we got back to the dorm, he called me and another kid over and literally played the entire album all the way through. It was pretty cool.
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