Music For Speeding
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Music for Speeding is an instrumental album by the American guitarist Marty Friedman
. It was produced by Marty in 2003, and he wrote all the songs. It continues the exploration of progressive rock
and Japanese pop
music Marty started experimenting with on previous releases.
Marty Friedman (guitarist)
Marty Friedman is a guitarist, well known for his tenure as the lead/rhythm guitarist for thrash metal band Megadeth, which lasted almost a decade...
. It was produced by Marty in 2003, and he wrote all the songs. It continues the exploration of progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
and Japanese pop
J-pop
, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
music Marty started experimenting with on previous releases.
Track listing
- "Gimme a Dose" - 3:45
- "Fuel Injection Stingray" - 3:27
- "Ripped" - 4:24
- "It's the Unreal Thing" - 4:02
- "Cheer Girl Rampage" - 3:59
- "Lust for Life" - 4:25
- "Lovesorrow" - 4:25
- "Nastymachine" - 4:27
- "Catfight" - 3:56
- "Corazon de Santiago" - 3:50
- "0-7-2" - 0:40
- "Salt in the Wound" - 2:02
- "Novocaine Kiss" - 3:47
Musicians
- Marty Friedman - guitars, programming and sequencing, shamisenShamisenThe , also called is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Japanese pronunciation is usually "shamisen" but sometimes "jamisen" when used as a suffix . -Construction:The shamisen is a plucked stringed instrument...
- Jimmy O'Shea - bass
- Barry Sparks - bass
- Jeremy Colson - drums
- Brian Becvar - keyboards
- James "Jake" Jacobson - synthistration and arranging on track 7
- Jason Moss - additional programming
- Ben Woods - flamencoFlamencoFlamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....
guitar on track 7
Links
- Detailed song information from Marty's official website.