http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA5-g6q-3D4

Alot of other songs here too.

I " tried out " for this band ..Ed Day and two guitar players ( edit )...I had learned the guitar " bridge " in the third....he stopped the drummer after I played that on bass,,,. I really thought Marty would be there..day late / dollar short( it was his music that I had to learn though..go figure ). A story from the past at least.

Very cool. Never heard of Hawaii before. Thanks for sharing.

Amazing to think that Marty was playing this sort of stuff at the same sort of time that malmsteen came out. Extremely progressive for the time. Love the fact that he nabbed the really good bits and put them in cacophony songs later on.

Thanks for posting this mate. I knew about this band after reading abou tMarty in Guitar Player magazine back in the '80's but I was never able to get hold of any material. Really good stuff! :)

EDIT: At 6 mins 13 seconds in this clip there is the exact same passage played as in a Cacophony song!! Check it out! Think it may be Speed metal Symphony but not 100% sure but it's def on one of their tracks.

It's from Speed Metal Symphony, you are correct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ92m89X7iU

This is the album I had to learn ( I have never seen the cover until I saw this link , just an old casette was what I was given ). There is an instrumental on the album as well.

Man I used to catch alot of grief when I brought up the name Marty Friedman ( local musicians during that time ). I never got to meet him or see him play in the local clubs...but he was the best the Washington DC area EVER had.

Edit : and the great Danny Gatton

Lol...