Hawaii

Hawaii was the rock music group formed (initially seeing that Vixen) by potential Cacophony and Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman upon relocating towards the isle state in the first 1980’s. Already equipped with an archive deal in the guitar-friendly Shrapnel Information, Friedman immediately joined up with pushes with vocalist/bassist Gary St. Pierre and drummer Jeff Graves to record 1983’s One Country Underground debut: an average Shrapnel release experiencing inadequate, paper-thin creation but jam-packed with electric guitar heroics. Far better was the next year’s Loud, Outrageous and Large EP, which presented a fresh four-piece line-up changing St. Pierre with vocalist Eddie Time and bassist Joey Galisa, and resulted in several touring engagements back again over the mainland. But Hawaii had been apparently still looking for a perfect sound and set-up, and extended to a five-piece by adding second guitarist Tom Azevedo ahead of documenting 1985’s The Natives are Restless. This probably became their most effective, and certainly most broadly distributed work, but wasn’t more than enough to avoid Friedman from dissolving the group quickly thereafter, and time for California where he’d soon find better success with these Cacophany and Megadeth.