During a recent interview with Sam Ash Music, ex-Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman shared a story about his disappointing tryout with KISS back in the day. Friedman played with Megadeth from 1989-2000, but not making the cut with KISS still causes the musician to wonder what might have been. Friedman shared this story when asked if there was any KISS song he would have liked to play guitar on.
“I would’ve wanted to be on any KISS song. I’ll give you a quick story about that – when they were changing guitar players a long time ago, I got a call from KISS’ people,” Friedman recalls. “They say like ‘Do you think you’d be interested in auditioning for KISS?’ I’m like ‘Tell me when and where’. They came back and were like ‘We’ve got a couple of questions for you. You don’t have any facial hair, do you?’ No. ‘You got long hair right?’ Right. ‘You’re skinny right?’ Right. ‘And you’re over 6 feet tall?’ and I’m like ‘What? I’m 5’7 but I’ll have an operation, I’ll do something.’ And they were like ‘I’m sorry, it’s not going to work out.’ I was so bummed.” (NME)
