Cacophony - Eleven Blue Egyptians (Live)

[kisshell2]

i wana play like jason or atleast get some influence in my playing!

[MADEINMAIDEN]

ELEVEN BLUES EGYPTIANS!!

[esioan667]

You can also tell which one is Marty by the massive perm.

[jakethegimp2]

I loved Perpetual burn but he looks like a total faggot live. Once you've heard 5 becker tracks, you've heard them all. All the rest are just the others he's done rearranged.

[slashYa13]

@jakethegimp2 interesting. so what's it like being tone deaf?

[jakethegimp2]

@slashYa13

What?

[slashYa13]

@jakethegimp2 I bet you also think Miley Cyrus and Pearl Jam are the same

[jakethegimp2]

@slashYa13

Nah, Miley Cyrus' voice isn't half as annoying as the dude from Pearl Jam. Bet you also think Slash is a great guitarist.

[Whyrendog]

@jakethegimp2 Jason would probably laugh at that comment, that's the kind of guy he is. He thought highly of others at his clinics, as if they thought like you and wouldn't get anything out of his lessons. Yet nobody ever did his kind of style nearly as good. Ever. People sometimes come close to sounding like him, but never say take a song like "When you wish upon a star" and prove they have any skill at performing because they wouldn't know what to do without it already being done his way.

[veguixor]

jason's and marty's music is the best music i've ever heard

[100saprissa]

I thought it was powerslave at the beginning 

[tkbabalu]

these guys can barely play the guitar

[hugawandiay]

@tkbabalu they can barely play the basics, they play it virtuoso-style.

[KebarForst]

@tkbabalu You dont know anything about playing guitar..

[Whyrendog]

I loved how Jason always played this insanely complex stuff but always smiled and ran around like a kid playing air guitar just for fun or something.

[s6y9l]

@Whyrendog I don't think I've ever seen anyone enjoy playing as much as Jason. Truly a bright spirit.

[Bruno1P]

@Whyrendog your comment must be top... idk why it isn't yet...

[deadeonzx]

i cant see

[icedbananatea]

haha I love that little move Jason does at 4:10

[gokuhatake]

got damnit marty..-smack- WHAMMY BAR....KNOCK IT OFF!!! relax! jason you to -smack-

[gokuhatake]

got damnit marty..-smack- WHAMMY BAR....KNOCK IT OFF!!! relax!

[GrooveThangsFan]

I had no idea footage of this existed. Absolutely awesome! Thanks for the upload.

[GreatDestructo]

...Which one is Jason? Is he the one on the left or the right? Lol it's just that the picture quality on that camera was so bad I couldn't make out which one was which lol ;)

[bruceleerules747]

@GreatDestructo Marty is the one on the left you can tell because of the difference in his picking hand

[ShitIce]

@bruceleerules747 And the hair ;)

[bruceleerules747]

@ShitIce I meant to say that too hhaha

[93thrasher]

@bruceleerules747 and the guitar

[MrReaperGuitarist]

@bruceleerules747 And the guitar ;)

[dirtydonki]

I guess you need to be a JB fan because I see nothing special here at all.

[malcomanzer]

why everybody's saying jason's gone? he hasn't.. he just got ALS, thats it..

[authorized11111]

why the hell do the legends have to die before their time should have come, jason becker, randy rhoads, dimebag. the world is a cruel place

[malcomanzer]

@authorized11111 jason becker hasn't die and will never do.. He will be immortal, trust me.

[9erMatthew]

@authorized11111 Not to totally dog on Mr. Rhoads but he was pretty much asking for it when he pulled that little stunt with the plane, but as for Dime and Jason.... Dime was a tragedy and Jason hasn't gone anywhere, he's just an ill man who will get better in time.

[VALARLIGHT]

@9erMatthew

Mr.Rhoads didn't pull the stunt, he was a passenger and he wasn't even keen on flying

[9erMatthew]

@VALARLIGHT ohhh... well then please forgive me.

[VALARLIGHT]

@9erMatthew

You're forgiven :)

[DietGrape]

i just found out that jason was about 19 when he finished perpetual burn. that's fucking crazy. and he was already better than friedman when he was 16 and friedman was about 23..

[anechkaosina]

why the quality of the video is so baad..=(

i love this composition!

[jonorancid]

man marty should of kept with the flying v's. they look so much better

[Aeoliandorian]

@jonorancid that's not a V, it's a Carvin V220 :)

[jonorancid]

@Aeoliandorian oh yeah lol. both of them played carvin's, looks a bit like a ml shape. i like it

[mmoonnsstteerrmaster]

that camera barely stand marty`s guitar playing

[bobfnjob]

Damn, they melted the camera's brain at 1:40 haha.

[Stirrethcharybdis]

That dudes hihat makes even that dance beat sound heavy as hell

[SatanKreator]

man these two are the best what USA have done to the world, I still have hope from this country just because of those two..Hail Marty and Jason

[aswesee]

@SatanKreator Well marty sure doesn't

[SatanKreator]

@aswesee how is that i don't get it.

he is one of the best musicians in our time.

[aswesee]

@SatanKreator because marty lives in japan now

[SatanKreator]

damn way too much High Definition quality for me...

[cloudowind]

unbelievable ,ive been lisseningthem around 10 years but ijust dıscovered this vıdeo...sweep masters

[fretsonfire18]

Jason Becker \m/

[dirtydonki]

Becker was a clown

[gabrielfinol]

this horrible old quality reminded me when I tried to watch porn without the decoder box back in the day LOL

[LvnAction]

The drummer needed to listen and comp instead of playing preprogrammed rock/blues beats with too many cymbal crashes. Just neanderthal.

[SocalDNM]

@LvnAction It sounds good you ain't no music expert you fucking idiot!

[LvnAction]

@SocalDNM I'm am an expert and a published critic. I stand by my statement shit wit.

[emmanuelrodulfo]

after watching this vid, i know why jimi hendrix burnt his guitar.

[Glutonid]

2:16 how many strings is he sweeping there 3 or 2. Or maybe he isn't sweeping? HOW THE HELL HE DOES IT?

[skeleton0578]

@Glutonid yeah it 3 and 4 i think

[9erMatthew]

@Glutonid Well that's actually a pretty common pattern that Marty tends to use when he is going over a progession(The Ninja, Tornado of Souls[Megadeth]) and it's pretty much just a two string arpeggio with three notes going up and down.

I guess Jason just decided to use it while Marty plays rythm.

[Glutonid]

@9erMatthew Yeah now I know I figured it out. It's just an ordinary 3 note D minor.

[nightmarerbp]

this video is gold

[LordNikonPL]

i think when marty played with jason he was better. shame for both :(

[quilmesredlager]

hey hey hey, and marty? marty´s major arpeggios sequences after the "bizarre lick" part is excelent, it reaches my heart...

[UrbanAssault5150]

2:00 OMG JASon!!! WTF lol

[CFHxByRoNxHDS]

the perfect equilibrium between a great riff and solo =) GOD BLESS JASON BECKER

[element5333]

Jason Becker is my idol!

[MegaIronica]

my second jason's song after ... i'll let you guess number one

[rockingowl55]

there bassist Jimmy Oshea is way underrated. Most of the tracks off of Go Off have insanly good bass parts.

[aaroniusk]

so damn awesome.... so... damn.. awesome

[Tehgoodcrap]

man. if only jason didn't have ALS.....

[blayze101]

brings a tear to my eye, damn

[shadowknight132]

Man the guy who recorded this sure focused a lot on Marty. That shows how unknown Jason was at the time.

[adamhull1]

@shadowknight132

Dude, you sure you know which is which? Fortunately Jason got at LEAST 2/3's of the camera's attention. The guy is a genious-Im a drummer but followed JB for his entire career. 1 of his best trax 2 IMO.

[shadowknight132]

@adamhull1

Yeah I know which is which. Jason is the guy with a beef strat like guitar. Marty is the one with the strange guitar. Actually after looking at the video again. They split it by half.

[shadowknight132]

I wish this video was in HD. So we can hear how great it sounds.

[MADEINMAIDEN]

SCORPIONS. SAILS OF CHARON

[MetalSk8Shred]

Man Marty is young here! I bet he misses these days with Jason really bad.

[metalboto]

@MetalSk8Shred i think both of 'em do

[ITLACAELEL]

Gods of my world !!!! Behold!!

[PregnaRegna]

trully cacophonic...

[martyfriedman666]

personality?

john petrucci is an amazingly talented player, but he's boring as fuck to watch!!

these guys have personality, energy etc look at these guys!! they're rockin out!!! (and also geniuses on guitar!!

[markcball]

jason played what he wanted.true musicians delve into multiple genres.theres more then metal ya know? these people who listen to nothing but metal and bitch when an artist steps outside the metal zone and instantly criticize them can suck one.

[narutoguy56]

@markcball Infact i love metal especially Thrash metal. But theres more to metal you know???? I listen to punk, indie, alt, raggae, jazz, rock, blues. I agree i really hate those closed minded douchebag metalheads that think metal is everything.

[HillaryHitler]

@markcball

Well said my man, they can suck it all day long.

Even Buckethead goes country from time to time

Music is like food TRY THEM ALL OUT

[Googopqp]

@markcball Agreed 100%, unless someone like Jeff Loomis decided to play power chord songs like Green Day I agree completely. ANd I love this song and its mix between Metal and then that whole Blues solo thing is amazing! And more genres shows off the skills of the guitarist rather than segmenting them to one style! And thats one thing that makes Jason Becker one of my top fav guitarists!

[believin13]

@markcball ya that is true. same with Steve Vai. he's good @ playing great rock riff's, but he's has some really cool blue/jazz riff's also.

[metalboto]

@markcball your right man,variety is the spice of life !(who said that?)

[spawnofdread]

i swear to fuckin god nothing is more annoying than a god damn fucking stupid ass police scanner yappin and makin stupid fuckin squad noises while your tryin to listen to somethin because your pissed and need to calm the fuck down

[justin2354]

Marty friedmen`s picking is horrible

[duivesteyn]

this may be true but he's famous and you're not :P

[justin2354]

Id hardly call marty friedman famous, Maybe among the guitar player, becker, megadeth fans. but other than them hes not that well known.

[duivesteyn]

yeah and i think he could've been more well know if he stayed in metal genres but i guess this is the way he wanted it

[ramiropohle]

so?

he plays freakin' aswome

[marco06061994]

@justin2354 If you study guitar,there are some standard technics,but after that, some musicians develop a personal approach to this study,Marty Friedman has his own style and picking,this is a victory because he has a lot of personality and you cannot like it but the result is great,if you were a professional guitar player,your opinion was pretty different.

Ciao from Italy!

[justin2354]

What the fuck does personality have to do with how you pick? And if your talking about his own style, meaning he constantly pushs outside of key. Your whole comment was nothing but a bunch of bull shit.

[marco06061994]

ahah you can pick even with your feet if the result is good,it's will be ok to pick with your feet,the goal is having a personal approach,but it's a no sense to continue this discussion because you aren't a guitar player and if you are you are not so good of course. Ciao

[yusmalmsteen77]

u are suck man...if u can play guitar try make some i want see your own style...put in youtube everybody want see...

[xtrupt21]

That's true, everything has to do with the way a musician plays his intrument, including personality and character.

Because of that, nobody plays like the rest, everyone has their own style.

[landhozo]

the personality.... the technics....of course the music teory.... and an open mind ....

you have to work hard with all if you want to be a complete musician ...

[DoD666DoD]

@marco06061994 Many hold the pick differently but pick the same way though

[jmking182]

Unique? Yes. Horrible... quite clearly not the case.

[largesam72]

I didn't know cacophony played that song. I love the blues section of it! Jason and Marty were definately one of the best guitar duos of all time!

[quilmesredlager]

2:37 the sweep that marty does is fucking amazing,

notes stop being notes to transform into a hole big sound that transmits emotion and speed like driving a ferrari.

something only marty can do.

[SpeedMetalSymphony92]

1:58 - 2:04

i shitted in my pants!!!

[Asgueroath16]

yeah that was freakin amazin but listen the duo part al 5:53 ....

the best guitar duo eves as @largesam72said

Marty & Jason 4 ever!

[gre1990]

Wow...marty's phrasing is just....wow

[flosscal]

best duo ever

[blitzspeer]

Sorry metalopolise.

[blitzspeer]

C'mon Randy was great and in an 87 rip magazine interview with the up and coming Becker he stated Randy was a big influence as well as Malmsteen and Vanhalen and classical influences such as Paganini and JS.Bach I bought both the solo albums and cacopphony albums within a year of each other back then.Marty and Jason are great;hell my son is 8 and his favorite guitarists are Steve Vai,Jeff Loomis,Becker,Friedman and believe it or not?Chris Poland I turned him on to return to metalacolypse ha!

[MetalContentHigh]

Alot of shredders today just play fast to impress people and it works, but with Becker it was never like that. Never did his shredding seem about the speed and not the music. He is an absolute genius.

[mit7771]

And it was ALWAYS very melodic!

no ass-holeish shreading to get the spotlight here!!

[EddieVonHorror]

Friedman said J Becker had to play the more difficult and technical phrasings.

[TheIronHayden]

They say Jason Becker killed Chuck Norris with his guitar playing then brought back to life the same way

Jason Becker = Best Guitarist ever

[basslf7]

@TheIronHayden holy shit i knew it

[adamqd]

@TheIronHayden Lol quote of the day (well 9 months ago but ) awesome

[ARQUIANDRES777]

Jason and Randy Rhoads are the best guitar players around the world

[MrSalamander7]

Jason was twice (understatement) the player Randy was.

[eoinb57]

@MrSalamander7 I think this too but i believe Randy was a better song writer!

[SatanKreator]

@eoinb57 wtf rhandy man??? Jason is waaay better than randy

[eoinb57]

@SatanKreator I think Jason is a better player in opinion i think Rhoads was a better song writer!

[ramiropohle]

@eoinb57 nope, you should listent better the jason becker solos and soloist songs, he is the paganinni of our time, he had a brain bigger than his skills

the ultimate guitar player

[eoinb57]

@ramiropohle So im not entitled to my opinion? Very singled minded in your approach!

[F4TB0Y69]

@ramiropohle sorry to be honest here but there is a large difference between Solo albums and writing music for a band, look at Jeff Loomis, listen to his stuff with Nevermore and then Zero Order Phase, very diverse from one another, Randy in his short time got something like 50 seconds on Dee, that was the only instrumental piece i heard from him and was beautiful, I am a huge fan of both Rhoads and Becker, but i just feel you are unfairly judging, it aint right to say that, show some respect.

[ramiropohle]

@F4TB0Y69 well, you also should be more respectfull about jason becker dont you think?

[F4TB0Y69]

@ramiropohle i respect them both just fine, I love Beckers stuff as i said already, i just dont think saying Becker is better than Rhoads when Randy barely got a chance to release anything, Becker had all solo material, where as Randy only for a band, and then they were both untimely stricken down, all i'm saying is you shouldn't be saying one is better than the other, they were both amazing artists at different things.

[KornSOAD]

@F4TB0Y69 Yeah, but Becker released his solo and Cacophony albums when he was 17 and 18 years old. Randy died when he was 23 I think, so he dropped the ball and Jason picked it up 6 years early.

[F4TB0Y69]

@KornSOAD man they were both amazing, like i said, Jason never wrote for a band, and Rhoads did they were both different genres, it is impossible for one to be better than the other, there is only opinion.

[KornSOAD]

@F4TB0Y69 Jason wrote for Cacophony and David Lee Roth though. XD

[F4TB0Y69]

@KornSOAD Cacophony is instrumental, and im not sure how much he wrote for David Lee Roth, like i said man my opinion, no disrespect.

[KornSOAD]

@F4TB0Y69 Cacophony isn't instrumental. And he wrote the entire A Lil' Ain't Enough album, besides the lyrics obviously. And no disrespect taken.

[F4TB0Y69]

@KornSOAD everything i have heard of Cacophony is virtuoso, look, I love Rhoads and Becker, this all started because he said Randy sucked, I mean come on he and Marty and Jason (and Yngwie obv) inspired artists like Jeff Loomis and Chris Broderick. They are all inspirational to other people and I feel insulted when people rip on late great artists when they built the future thats all.

[Beholder505]

@MrSalamander7 Agree'd.

[rematpac]

@MrSalamander7 No,try about 10 times the player.Get real.

[MrSalamander7]

@rematpac I said it was an understatement.

[jonorancid]

@MrSalamander7 lol mate i would say 3 or 4 times in a understatement

[DongissimoGordo]

@MrSalamander7 not as creative tho IMO

[MrSalamander7]

@DongissimoGordo I disagree. I think it's hard to argue that Randy was more creative than Jason if you look at their works. I'm pretty sure Jason's composed more music (pre ALS) and he definately played more genres and wrote more compilicated pieces. You might like Randy's music more, but I don't see how you can call him "more" creative.

[iEatBabies0666]

@MrSalamander7

Actually, it has been scientifically proven that when Randy died, his spirit inhabited Jason Becker's body, where they combined to spawn an insane, ungodly guitar creation, but the awesomeness was too much, so God had to even the playing field for the other musicians of the universe, although Jason is still better than everybody

[MrSalamander7]

@iEatBabies0666 Not still. lol.

[KornSOAD]

@MrSalamander7 And ten times the song writer.

[MrSalamander7]

@KornSOAD yup

[PGROSYE02]

1:59=Godlike

[Kr3gg]

2: 37 !! i love this part!

[nenad1974]

The first seconds of this solo are the best Marty has ever recorded !

[ishu0009]

i wish i could have seen this live!!!

[STARDORKS]

its good up until they start playing blues....

[DaveSteele07]

I once saw them live and they reached out and picked each others arpeggios ... the crowd went wild .. they were amazing live

[strbt]

3.22 is better than 2.49 brotha

[hummarstra]

Its a shame there is no good live footage of Cacophony. I'd love to try to steal all these licks, but its nearly impossible with this shitty footage.

[crossedfaith]

umm...1988...of course it's shitty

[aamvb]

you wouldnt be able to play um even if you could see um, only god and satan can play like this !!!lol

[booyakaburger]

Don't you know? god and satan, jealous of jason's superior and still growing shred talents as compared with their own, decided to team up and inflict ALS on poor Jason. Damn deity bastards

[chenhen72]

BEST ROCK JAM IN THIS VEDIO ~!!!!

[jasonslave123]

haha if you notice no one is moving in the croud

wanna know why?

there all afraid that there godly ness will destroy them at any moment

[PATRICIONROSES]

Just see the "Solo Cacophony - Jason Becker". When he plays everybody hears in silence. When he finishes everybody starts to applause them.

[Tritono9]

no, nobody moving in the croud because they are listening, because the music is for listening, and intelillgent people listen the music.. and if is beautiful music, real music, then with only yiour mind you can move throug the entire universe

[aamvb]

kool statement =]

[meowtrox]

unity with soul and music haha

[darkstar8196]

its hard to move when you see the apocalypse happening in front of your eyes

[helrazr]

my pick hand hurts every time I see Marty play

[420ozzycat]

Wicked old school metal, really the only kind of metal! yep Modern rock sucks pig balls. lol

[steveandimrad]

This concert is 2/18/88  at chiba, japan

[pootert]

if anyone can learn or tab the lick at 2:49 i would crap a golden egg.

[gre1990]

hahaha...

both are incredible...

you can notice jason has fun while playing...and marty's got excitement...

really nice combination

[Keldrath]

marty's got the feel and the vibrato, man hes the vibrato king. adds a ton of personality.

[pekisi]

1:39 = [Diabolic]

[NINJ4Jesus]

the camera shut down temporarily due to an awesomeness overload.

[Hardysamnin]

haha, well said

[ishu0009]

i like old music!

 now a days music is made by attention deficient people!

[hydroman419]

listened to by them too.

[MasYoNo25]

Rock music now suck.......

[ELEPHIN0]

Good ol' Marty with his upside down picking hand!! Heehee!! Awesome guitarist though!!

[artartart]

PHRASING LIKE GODS

[TimeLordGuitar]

Tony Fredianelli (of Third Eye Blind) fame sounds VERY similar to Marty Friedman. Check out Apocrypha's "Forgotten Scroll" album which was produced was Marty. Tony's vibrato and note choice are very Friedman-ish...a real rarity since most guys at the time were doing the "Yngwie" thing.

Tony still has a little Friedman-esque style in his playing with Turd Eye Blind...weird but true.