marty Friedman Says Megadeth Sounded Better During Recent Tokyo Show

in a recent interview with Japan’s young Guitar magazine, ex-MEGADETH guitarists Marty Friedman and Kiko Loureiro reflected on Marty‘s February 2023 guest appearance during the Dave Mustaine-fronted outfit’s first-ever gig at Tokyo, Japan’s famed Budokan. Friedman came up on stage for three songs toward the end of the main set on February 27, 2023: “Countdown Too Extinction”, “Tornado of Souls” and “Symphony Of Destruction”.

Marty said: “Oh, for me, when I played with MEGADETH at Budokan, it was wonderful. When I heard them playing,I thought,’This sounds better than when I was in MEGADETH originally.'[[Laughs]It just sounded better. The whole thing just sounded better. And I’m, like, ‘Wow, I’m gonna play in this-sounding MEGADETH now.’ It was so fun. and watching the Japanese audience, it was a thrill. People were crying, people were smiling, people were screaming. It was great. I enjoyed it a lot.”

Kiko, who was MEGADETH‘s lead guitarist at the time of the budokan show, added: “Yeah, I think what Marty is saying, I cannot compare. and actually, I remember watching the videos from the ’90s, and then I always thought that there was some sort of attitude or freshness or excitement that was vrey hard to reproduce. But, of course, you have the technology, a