He played on both the Trash and Hey Stoopid tours, and also appears in the film Wayne's World alongside Cooper, where he memorably asked the question "In fact, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name?"
They opened up Donington festival in 1992 and the following year supported Metallica at Milton Keynes Bowl.
They disbanded in 1996, but the lineup featuring Friesen reformed in January 2006 to play two shows to raise money for leukemia research.
[1] In 2002, Friesen also did a short stint playing guitar for Iron Maiden's vocalist Bruce Dickinson's solo band; they did a string of summer festival dates throughout Europe.
From 2014 to 2016 Pete played guitar in the Ray Davies/Kinks musical "Sunny Afternoon", which ran at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End.