Marty Friedman, who recently joined Facebook (yay!), may be best know in the West as a former member of Big-4 member Megadeth but in Japan he is much more famous than that. He had his own TV Show for a while and regularly appears as a guest on Japanese television and has frequent columns in Japanese guitar magazine Young Guitar.
So it’s understandable that the recent tragedy in Japan would be close to his heart. And so he recently announced the following:
I am going to LA right NOW to the climate controlled lockup where all the guitars have been in their cases since January 2000. All guitars I used on all the Megadeth recordings, tours, videos, everything WILL be auctioned off. When I get to the lockup I will do my best to sort out which was used for what ( I suck at that…I`m sure many of you guys know better than I do) and notate as many details as possible.
Pictures, descriptions and how to bid will all be up on my US website as well as my Japanese website within 2-3 days. I have NEVER sold ANY of my guitars before, this is the only way these guitars will leave my possession. I urge you to please spread the word and most of all BID HIGH. You will be putting a huge deposit in the `karma bank` as and have some pretty cool guitars to show for it. DO IT!
Now that the guitars have been inventoried, we are putting together the auction itself. This will take a few days to put up, as we are going to every length to do this properly with emphasis on authenticity, efficiency and most of all, making sure that 100% of the proceeds go directly to earthquake relief. So in the meantime, I`ll put up a pic or two a day of some of the guitars that will be auctioned
There will be more details on his official website within the next few days so if you fancy grabbing yourself a piece of heavy metal history, now is your chance and you will contribute to helping out thousands of people who have been affected by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Me? Well unfortunately there’s no way I can afford a new guitar, even from one of my top idols like Marty but I’m sure many people will find much to their liking, so please bid as much as you can, remember it’s for a good cause!!