Rock out with Denver's great blues musician Mad Dog for his Double Birthday Bash at Nissi's!
Although Friedman's artistic nature revealed itself early – he began writing poetry before discovering his love for music – the storied tale of how Friedman discovered his inner Mad Dog and the multi-genre artistic talent that has kept his career alive for five decades is compelling.
But his musical persona, Mad Dog, didn't emerge until years later when Friedman was in college."I had drunk something called MD 2020, and I don't remember much from that night, but the next day everybody was calling me Mad Dog. It kind of stuck because I think it was an ironic nickname. I'm a very mellow kind of guy," Friedman chuckles, reminiscing about the college days that gave him an integral piece of his identity.
After King Comfort broke up, Friedman spent his time teaching for a living and doing side gigs with bands of many different genres."That was really, really good for me because it introduced me to a lot more styles than just straight country blues, which was pretty much what I did," Friedman explains. Throughout his career Friedman's artistic style ebbed and flowed, morphing into new creations as he expanded his skillset."I mets band...
And Friedman has taken to improvisation like a duck to water."When you're playing with a band, you've got a setlist. Everybody's gotta know what's going to happen, right? And maybe you stick to it, maybe you don't. But when I'm playing solo, it is totally improv," Friedman explains."[The inspiration] can be anything: It could be the weather, it could be something that happened to me on the way to the gig.
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