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Interview with Yngwie - Yngwie Malmsteen
Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force released their best album in years called "Attack" on September 16th. Read the review here. Revelationz set up an interview with Yngwie himself. Yngwie J. Malmsteen is indeed a man that is truly passionate and dedicated to his music. The new album "Attack" is no exception. I will now let you in on my conversation with one of true innovators of rock guitar.
Hi, This is Yngwie J. Malmsteen
Hello, Thanks for calling. So how are you today?
Uhh, How do you say it? I have been doing a lot interviews today, the day before then and the day before.. So whenever you are ready?
Okay, I am ready right now, so let's start. The album title is called "Attack". Is there any connection between that title and the release date close to September 11th?
I certainly would not capitalize of something horrible like that, you know. I am not American I am Swedish. I have lived here for longer than I have lived in Sweden. My son is born here and I have family here and all that. I think that what happened that day was not an attack on America, I think it was an attack on the whole world. But once again I tell you. I am not a politician I am a musician so I would never get involved with it in a public thing, you know? Never!
Okay, but let's talk about the new album. It seems like there has been a really good vibe in the studio!
Thank you.
How did you team up with Dougie White, the new singer?
(pause) - Ahh, Okay. (laughs) You know I am not blaming you, but it is difficult to a hundred times over and over and over to answer the same question.
I am sorry.
I had a line-up that I toured with for 12 months last year and they basically became pricks. I told them to fuck off and that' s the end of that. I went back to Miami and I started writing songs and then the management called me and said "You forgot something - You have another Tour, a South American Tour" So I think funny enough that Dougie contacted me. In fact he came to see the show in London and I saw his show, when he was with Rainbow. So we knew each other already and also Derek I had known before and Patrick. I have known them all before. We just went and did this Tour and it was great. It was a really good Tour. I got along with everybody really well and that was the Tour. I didn't say, "Yeah, this is my new band". So I went back to the studio back home and I just started writing and I wrote all the songs and I wrote all the lyrics and I wrote everything and perfected it in my mind. I perfected into PERFECT, exactly how I wanted it. Then I called the people and said, "Hey, come over here". Patrick came in and did the drums. No problem. Dougie comes in and I said here is the lyric sheet "Do it - Here is the song, here is the melody" Finished.
So unfortunately even though it was a good time it wasn't like a band playing at all. Everything was put on separately. There you go. It certainly has a good vibe I think.
All right. You probably answered this question too, but how would you describe the new album in contrast to your other albums?
I would leave that up to you really!
Yeah, (both laughs) I think that it is classic stuff. Classic Malmsteen.
Vow. That's great. Thank you. That's a compliment.
Now I am answering the question myself. I think that the new album has all the classic elements. It's got fast songs, it's got instrumental songs. I think that it's got everything.
Thank you. That was really what I was trying to get with it.
While we're at it. I might as well add that my favorite songs are "Stronghold" and "Touch the Sky".
That's cool. Great. Thank you.
Is there gonna be a Tour in support of the new album?
Of course -but I have no dates. I have nothing. I know that we are gonna start in Asia and then Europe and the States.
Okay, so it's gonna cover the whole world?
Oh yeah, definitely.
Are you gonna use the same line-up for the Tour as on the record?
That's the plan. That's the plan. Except for the bass player cause I play the bass (laughs).
I know. So after all these years are you still excited about a new album release?
Me?
Absolutely. Oh yeah, definitely. Of course. It's labor of love you know. This is labor of love that's the only way I can put it. You work your ass off and all of a sudden you have it finished and then you have to sit and talk to 10.000 journalists, which is labor of love basically.
Then I can understand that you must pay a lot of attention to the reviews?
No.
Not anymore.
No.
Now that you have your own studio has it changed the recording process compared to your earlier recordings? Now that you have the freedom.
Yes and No. It's kind of great because I have 2 studios. What is great is, that you have the freedom to take your time if you need to. But usually it doesn't take that long so it's pretty much the same really.
Okay, So you moved to United States. But originally you are from Sweden. Did you ever consider that being a disadvantage in the music business?
At the time as I grew up in Sweden it was horrible. This was not the place to be for a musician. Funnily enough what happened was, as I moved to America and sort of made it. At the same time also Europe got a record deal. So us two we grew up together as sort of competitive bands, it was kind of a childish thing but whatever. All of a sudden Sweden became one of the hottest musical places in the world and still is. Now you are probably better off as a musician composer artist in Sweden than you are here in America. You see - I don't look at it that way. I don't look at it the way the clubs are and what can I play. No, I know what work is and when I work - I work and when I don't work I want to be in paradise. And I live in paradise. So there you have it.
Yeah, you moved to Florida right?
That's right. The palm trees.
Being from Denmark myself I can imagine that it must be nice.
It is (laughs)
Since you seem to work with various musicians from album to album. Is there anyone that you haven't worked with yet, but you really would like to?
No, not really. All the people that I would love to play with they are all dead.
Okay, You don't pay that much attention to, what should we call it, the "new" music?
No I am afraid not. I do know that in Europe there sort of a neo-classical movement going on. At least that's what I heard. Like I said, I have done dozens of interviews every single day for weeks and so you can't help hear it from journalists and they say "You know this band, you know that band? They are all inspired by you. They are all neo-classical Malmsteen style bands". Wow, that's cool. I don't know exactly who they are but I have heard some of them a little bit and that, I think, is a good thing, because it the nineties there was a lot of sludge musically I think.
Yeah, I think that the style of music that you do is coming back in Europe, like you said before. I think it's ready for a comeback.
That's really good. Great.
So you have to be there and play some shows.
Count on it.
When listening to the new album sometimes I find some guitar sounds that are quite similar to some of your previous songs. Is it because you play the same guitar or is it the tone of the amp? Is it something that you do on purpose - Like now I want to create the same sound as on "Crystal Ball" for example?
No No No. I don't try to re-create anything. I just do what I do basically. I found many years ago that if you get a good sound from a particular guitar or a particular amp there is absolutely no reason to change it and that's why I never did. I use a Strat and a Marshall and that's it. (Laughs)
IT'S VERY LOUD
For the final question I would like you to look back on your career and point out the highlights of the 80's and then the 90's. If you take the 80's first.
I think that the first revelation was, I mean, I did pretty well in Sweden as a kid. In fact I just saw a video from 1981 and I had pyro and all sorts of stuff. So that was great. When I moved to the states that was the beginning of new life. So in the 80's I think that would be the definite point there.
Maybe also when I started my solo career with Rising Force, which was a couple of years later. That would be the two points.
And in the 90's it started off pretty good. In the middle and in the end of the 90's I thought really stunk. You know really badly. The great thing I did manage to do was to record with the Czech Philharmonic. A symphony called Concerto Suite. That would be the highlight of that decade.and now we are here.
So what albums are you most proud of in the 80's and the 90's?
I am most proud of my latest one.
Ha Ha, But that is not from the 80's or the 90's.
You know I wouldn't like to make an album and say "Let's finish this one - it isn't that good"
I understand. You basically answered this. But what are your plans and your goals for the future?
The immediate plan is to go on the road. And the goal per se is just to carry on doing what I have always been doing, which is to me the only thing that I know. You know?
Yeah, that's what you love
Exactly
Actually that was all. It has been a pleasure talking to you
Same. I will se you when we come to Denmark.
I will be there. Good luck with the new album and see you later then.
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Written by Michael - 9/26/2002 |
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RevelationZ Comments
| Comment by Wischi (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | Michael, incredible how you handled Yngwie, huge respect from here.
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| Comment by Mad Maxx (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | great interview
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| Comment by Uli Jon Roth (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | Yngwie's new album is good, but not great, his best is yet to come. When he visited my home in Wales last year, he tried playing my 7 string 6 octave guitar and sounded absolutely terrible. I think most rock fans will agree that technically I am a much better guitarist than Yngwie, but he is still good, he asks me for tips a lot, so in someways he is like a student. Unfortunately, the proposed tour with myself, Al Di Meola, and Yngwie never really got off the ground, but we still hope to do it next year. I apologise to the fans who were looking forward to it. Visit my official site soon still under construction just now. Best Wishes to all.
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| Comment by Micael Andersson (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | I just want to say that Yngwies latest album "Attack" is definietly one of his greatest albums!! Every song has it´s own "magic"! His guitar sound is the best he´s recorded since "Trilogy" and the whole production is really, really great!! Everyone who is in to hardrock should buy this album. And by the way, the interview was great!!
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| Comment by Micael Andersson (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | I just want to say that Yngwies latest album "Attack" is definietly one of his greatest albums!! Every song has it´s own "magic"! His guitar sound is the best he´s recorded since "Trilogy" and the whole production is really, really great!! Everyone who is in to hardrock should buy this album. And by the way, the interview was great!!
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| Comment by jason malmsteen (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | I dont think you are a better player than yngwie at all, not a chance, you really need to open your ears mmmmkkkkk!!!!
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| Comment by KEVIN in MELBOURNE,FLA -09/28/2002 (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | EXCELLENT INTERVIEW,GREAT JOB
WITH THE MAESTRO-YNGWIE!!!!
UNFOURTUNATELY IN THE U.S. IT IS GETTING MORE DIFFICULT TO GET INTERVIEWS WITH GREAT MUSICIANS SUCH AS YNGWIE !!!
I HOPE HE WANTS TO PERFORM HERE IN MELBOURNE,FL!!!!
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| Comment by Ex-Uli Fan? (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | If that post was really you, Uli, then I am an ex Uli fan. If not, nevermind. ;-) But seriously, if that was Uli, I find it rather ironic that they call Yngwie an egomaniac! Best album yet, Concerto excluded (out of many genius works) from Yngwie!! Every time you hear it again, it grows even greater! Fantastic!!!
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| Comment by Mr. Shred (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | Hey Uli,
I definitely 100% don't think your anywhere near what Yngwie is. I've heard some of your recordings and they sound like a little kid trying to play. Yngwie is the master of the strat, the 6 string... not the other crap guitars they make. He plays real music.
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| Comment by Mental Mike (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 28, 2002 | No, I don't think that it is the real Uli Jon Roth... Just someone with a quite ironic sense of humor :)
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| Comment by Bill Cameron (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | Great interview! hope you come to Canada Yngwie i've been a fan for 18yrs and never seen you live come to Edmonton alberta i'll drive 15 hours south to see you perform. from a huge fan up in the cold north of Canada
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| Comment by Ex-Uli Fan? (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | Actually, I was kidding...even if it was Uli, I wouldn't cease to be a fan...lol...even tho I'm personally more inspired by Yngwie's work, Uli's place in music history is cemented and his tremendous contributions in pioneering "neo-classical rock" can't be denied. So even if he was the biggest jerk in the world, I'd never really slag the guy. It's the same thing I always said about Yngwie, I don't necessarily believe he's as bad as they paint him, he certainly wasn't when I met him. But even if he was far worse than they say, it wouldn't matter....he's the best!! Credit where credit's due!
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| Comment by Henry Nord (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | Yngwie Malmsteen is God.
He is a nice person I Think
I saw him in Sweden on the
80s and 90s. God bless you
Yngwie. He is the faster guita
rist in this world.
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| Comment by simon (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | I wanna now when yngwie comes to sweden on tour.....
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| Comment by Randsom (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | Uli, I must say that you really suck!!
You just want to be like Yngwie! How low can you go!
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| Comment by mariano j . brascich (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | http://www.losautistas.com.ar/mariano/
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| Comment by yngwie115 (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | good album but not the best from yngwie too mauch improvisation on the solos and nothin new.we miss fire and ice!!however yngwie remains the best!!
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| Comment by yngwie78 (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 29, 2002 | good album...with more great solos...GREAT DOOGIE...AND GREAT PATRICK....but more similar to some of previous songs...P.S. a patrì fire & ice è bello però ogni disco der ciccione è da paura....
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| Comment by Neoshredical (Anonymous) - Monday, September 30, 2002 | The asshole posing as Uli Jon Roth....a few comments ago....should get a life....Uli Jon would never make such ridiculous comments.
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| Comment by Hoshang Malmsteen, Sweden (Anonymous) - Monday, September 30, 2002 | Yngwies best albums are Odyssey, Trilogi,Eclipce and Fire N Ice, plus the 7 sign,.
The greatest guitarsolos of all time and history ever ( togehter whit Randy Rhoads on Tribute) is on Odyssey, anyone who goes against it is tonedeaf o just a prick.. Yngwies work there on especially Hold on, Now is the time and Faster the speed plus Riot in the dungeons are just beyond human capability. That is way Yngwie stands alone and is GOd...When i hear that record i get speachless, its a special record, its beauty and perfection working together, ooh my god listen to the solo to Dreaming....im crying
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| Comment by scotty (Anonymous) - Thursday, January 10, 2002 | great interview for an obviously tired of same OL' same old Yngwie. I still think Malmsteen is #1!!!!
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| Comment by JayDub (Anonymous) - Sunday, February 10, 2002 | Sorry guys,
The people saying he's No1 are wrong!
You need to hear:
Rhapsody
Ring Of Fire
George Bellas
Tony Macalpine
Vitalij Kuprij
Greg Howe
Then you will know he's not no1.
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| Comment by Polka Furby (Anonymous) - Sunday, February 10, 2002 | Tra Velo Coa Coa.....wasn Krach Lärm
runter bitte viel Lärm Duuuuh!
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| Comment by Rob labonte (Anonymous) - Sunday, February 10, 2002 | Jay Dub connais rien du passé musicale.Rhapsody c'est juste une évolution des groupes des années 80 du genre helloween,gamma ray,manowar,iron maiden et bien entendu du dieu MALMSTEEN.Luca et alex de rhapsody fabrique de très belle mélodie,mais rien à comparer avec YNG.Tony Macalpine est bien aussi,mais encore là Jay ,tu-es dans champs.Je ne crois non plus que ULI est écrit une chose ridicule du genre.ULI est un guitariste chevronné,mais je ne crois pas qu'il se veuille meilleur que le dieu des dieux.J'ai un immense respect envers JIMI HENDRIX ,mais je crois qu'à l'heure actuelle il dois se retourner dans sa tombe.MALMSTEEN n'a pas fini de nous en faire voir.Avant de connaître YNG j'étais un fans inconditionnel d'Iron Maiden.Je n'avais à ce moment là aucune idée qu'il pouvait y avoir un homme sur cette terre qui avait un talent aussi vertigineux.Je ne sais pas ce qui se passe dans la tête de se génie et encore moins dans son système nerveux.C'est animal est une vraie machine.J'en suis tellement amoureux que je suis en train de venir cinglé,non sérieux je vénère ce druide!!!!.MALMSTEEN est comparable à une éclair qui transperse un ciel rempli de bon musicien j'irais même jusqu'à dire que c'est orage électromagnétique en personne.Ne lâche surtout pas de nous illuminer avec ton éclair de génie musicale intouchable.MALMSTEEN sera toujours ROI quoi qu'il se produise.Je te béni au nom du Père et du fils et du Saint-Esprit AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Comment by jayDub (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | Whatever you say, rob.
next time in english?
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | hay jay dub, those pussies are just copy cats!!!
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | to all who don't like yngwie, here's 4 words for you,
YNGWIE IS GOD AMEN
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| Comment by Tony Diamond (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | i just heard the new yngwie malmsteen album and it is awsom it just gets better and better every year an e becuase of YJM i started plaing guitar in 84 and im still playing he is that awsom it listen to and try and play along lol!!!!!!!!!
long live Yngwie
and this interview was great
man
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| Comment by Tony Diamond (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | i just heard the new yngwie malmsteen album and it is awsom it just gets better and better every year an e becuase of YJM i started plaing guitar in 84 and im still playing he is that awsom it listen to and try and play along lol!!!!!!!!!
long live Yngwie
and this interview was great
man
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| Comment by rsetiawan (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | hey Jaydub, I likes tony macalpine and yngwie both no 1 so it useless to compare them coz they are different (tony macalpine's classic are mostly chopin)... so there are alot of no1 really :)
but about that uli jon roth... nggg who is he/she/it ? honestly I never heard his name bfore ?
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| Comment by Arjen Alkemade (Anonymous) - Sunday, March 10, 2002 | Great read
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| Comment by Rob Labonte (Anonymous) - Friday, May 10, 2002 | You say right!!! Thom
MALMSTEEN IS GOD!!!IS GOD AND HE WILL BE FOREVER!!!
AMEN.
But it is wrong to say than Rhapsody,MacAlpine,Ring of Fire and other's are Bad.They are just great and not perfect!
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| Comment by JayDub (Anonymous) - Wednesday, July 10, 2002 | Hey guys,
Sorry if my comments pissed you off earlier.
Its just a matter of opinion and thats my opinion.
I'm not saying Yngwie is bad - He's great!! He is the father of Shred, Neo Classical Metal.
But I just think some of these new guys or other guys are better.
But Yngwie was a revolution.
All these guys are just an evolution.
OK
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| Comment by Victor Sibarani (Anonymous) - Saturday, August 10, 2002 | I've heard all the bad stuff you guys said about Yngwie, but listen to the music,no body could ever write a song with a real classical heart and soul as Yngwie did.Listen to the guitar.Who the HELL could play those arpeggios,sweeps and all that stuff as good as Yngwie? Beat yourself blind, man !!!!!!
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | i think that yngwie is with out a doubt, THE BEST
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | hey jay dub, not trying to start a brawl or nothing, but yngwie is all i have ever listened to. to say those other pussies are copy cats is wrong, but i will always remain on of those who believes in his vision, so keep rockin, and the interview was as always great!!!
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| Comment by JayDub (Anonymous) - Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | Man!
Some of you guys are freeks!
Open your ears.
there is a lot more than Yngwie!
Some of you guys live,breath & shit Yngwie.
It's unbelievable.....
"YNGWIE IS GOD" IS BULLSHIT!
There are heaps of guys technequly heaps better than Yngwie LOOK AT GEORGE BELLAS!
Yngwie is an extreemely tallented guy. No doubt
But the way you guys carry on is unbelievable.
And if you love the whole "Neo Classical Metal" thing - Just listen to the real thing - Paganini, Vavaldi, Chopin & so on
I don't want to be the anti-christ for some of you, but stop this whole YNGWIE IS GOD thing.
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| Comment by Century X Artist Management (Anonymous) - Tuesday, September 10, 2002 | Great album, excellent songs and excellent sound. Yngwie is definitely back...and as the market now definitely seems to be ready again for Rock Music, we hope that Yngwie will be amongst the leaders of the pack for the good of the Rock'n'Roll crowd! More tours, more new acts, more good music, yeah, let's get it back to how it was in the good old days!
Glenn Hughes, Joe Lynn Turner payed a fantastic gig in London (Mean Fiddler) last week and so did Dio. Way to go and Long live Rock'n'Roll!
A little bit of publicity :) check out
www.stereogentleman.com and www.stereogentlemen.com, check out the songs Rolling Head, Century X, Horseman, Another Planet's Sky, etc. We'd be glad to read your comments!
*Century X Artist Management*
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| Comment by eddie kempster- usa -virginia beach virgina (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 10, 2002 | yngwie sounds good although he needs mike vescera as a singernot to say doogie is bad but 7th sign did very well that guys a legend on vocals him and yngwie blend so beutifully. if yngwie would share the spotlight maybe metal woould take a drastic change here in america till then everybodys here knows malmsteen is just a shredder and hasnt changed a bit for the fans sake attack is a great cd but remains dull and incomplete without mike vescera another rushed cd by the swede just to to try to outdo ARK the new jorn lande band come on yngwie wise up theres no since in trying to out do anyone you are the best with simplicity your friend for life ed
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 10, 2002 | Some guys have practiced & practiced to have "trickier techniques" than Yngwie, but NONE have the pure power, drama & force as Yngwie...I know Bellas personally, as well as Mike Batio...they are very impressive, but I find them and all the others mentioned ultimately boring in comparison....plenty 'o' chops, but where is the HELLFIRE?? Where are the high bends that pull at your soul? The vibrato? The atmosphere? Besides, Yngwie is the original. And no, he's not god...no one is. Bottom line, Yngwie has ALREADY gone down in history, the rest will eventually be forgotten, talented though they may be.
~ J ~
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| Comment by Hione (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 10, 2002 | What about Dr Dre
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| Comment by hione (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 10, 2002 | Dr Dre is pretty good at the guitar in his ability to mesh it in with the beats
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| Comment by Hoshang FRom Sweden (Anonymous) - Sunday, November 10, 2002 | I want to say that the singer Doggie White sound to old and boring..no good..hate it...the only good this on Attack is The music...its just so beautiful and the production..why Yngwie didnt you have Mice Vescera here...it would sound great whit these songs..annoying whit Doggie..weak singer...
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | WHO THE F*@!CK IS DR. DRE???
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | not saying yngwie is GOD himself, just god of the stratocaster. the other guys are probably very talented, but they lack virtuosity!!
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | but i will agree with jay dubb, just listen to the original composers, that is where its at!!!
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 10, 2002 | Yes, I must agree on that point too....the great masters have inspired so many of the great rock bands, from the Beatles to Kansas, all the way to Yngwie, MacAlpine and many more in the future, I'm sure. Everyone owes it to themselves to become as familiar as possible with classical music! ~ J ~
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| Comment by Rob Labonte (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 13, 2002 | My farorite guitariste TOP??
1..YNGWIE .J. MALMSTEEN 2..JOE SATTRIANI 3..STEVE VAI 4..PACO DE LUCIA 5..AL DI MEOLA 6..JIMI HENDRIX 7..ED VAN HALEN 8..JEFF BECK 9..SRV 10..SLASH 11..RHANDY RHOADSE
12..ERIC CLAPTON 13..JOHN PETTRUCCI 14..RITCHI BLACKMORE 15..MYCHAEL SHENCKER 16..LUCA TURRILI 17..GEORGE BELLAS 18..TONY MACALPINE 19..DAVE MURRAY 20..MARTY FRIEDMAN etc.etc.etc
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| Comment by yo bro (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 20, 2002 | Who is the nigger who likes DR.DRe?
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| Comment by Uli Roth (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 20, 2002 | I bloody well am better then yngwie and he knows it too!
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| Comment by ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 20, 2002 | Have you guys heard Michael Angelo & Nitro (With Angelo in it)?
Angelo is like THE FASTEST!!!
He makes Yngwie look like "The Clap" no shit!!!!
And the singer in NITRO makes Mark Boals soundas low as CHEF(from South Park). But I like Mark's tone better.
Anyway If any of you guys have heard it, I'd love to hear your comment's about them.
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| Comment by ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 20, 2002 | Oh & also.
Fuck you to the prick who is acting as Uli Jon Roth
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | All right guys, let's do it straight and honestly: Attack! is rather new titles much more than new music. It is certainly one good album, but never as significant as those trademarks that meant an evolution phase in Yngwie's career like Rising Force, Trilogy, Eclipse, Fire&Ice or Facing the Animal were. In my point of view, Alchemy was simply great since I find there a brilliant effort in blending roots and innovation, goin' back and forward at the same time. Concerto Suite was outstanding and a major score. However, I insist, all Malmsteen fans (me included, of course) keep on waiting the album (hereof mainly instrumental,I guess)that will outmatch himself finally goin' over the edge settled up to date. As long as it happens, I think I will better keep hooked on "Far beyond the Sun".
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | Hector - you bring up an interesting point....isn't a great album enough? Why does everyone expect every album from Yngwie to be some big "new" evolution? Every other artist or band is allowed to put out mediocre albums without facing those kinds of unrealistic expectations, but for Yngwie, it's not even enough to put out a great album! I think there are some things on Attack!! that are somewhat new, but mainly it's just excellent music in the same vein as we know Yngwie for. And it ups the ante yet again. That SHOULD be good enough, I would think!
~ J ~
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | Hi J,
Ok, I sort of agree with you...BUT the problem for me is when every album released by Yngwie is supposed to be "his best album in years" or "his best album ever", that is just stupid and we know. There are good albums and bad ones, and some sound better than the rest...let's go inverse: why every Malmsteen album surprisingly turns out to be "his best"?? It is also allowed to fail, so making a pretty standard album is yet possible. I remember Yngwie himself saying back at an interview that for his taste, Magnum Opus was full of garbage, so?
And well, regarding "evolution" I was somehow trying to tell that after listening to "You don't remember" or "Broken Glass", tracks like "Touch the sky" doesn't catch my head a lot.
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| Comment by MARTY MAR (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | I must comment on a few things. I loved the Yngwie interview, Yngwie is to the point(naturally) and damn funny as always without trying. As for Jay Dub: G Bellas is technical, but his vibrato, tone, and feel can dissapoint. Your obviously a youngster who hasn't really developed your ears. Yngwie's sense of direction and melody is a gift that I'm afraid Bellas just cant reach, as far as solos. Fret Fire makes the most valid points and arguments. I must say Greg Howe's effort with Kuprij was very good. Rhapsody sucks and the solos are choppy and abrupt with not much feel and no one wrings the notes out like Malmsteen. Ring of Fire was horrible, Bellas sounded like a bubbly bee, with now feel and that made the solos unimpressive. I hope not to offend, cause I have all those albums. And for the comment by Yo Bro, you truly are an ignorant mess, and not suprisingly so.
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| Comment by MARTY MAR (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | I must say that I enjoyed the Yngwie interview. He is so damn funny, and he doesn't even try. Yngwie is awesome.
Fretfire makes some very valid points and arguments.
JayDub, you are obviously young and haven't listened to guitar very long. Yes Bellas is technical, not as much as Yngwie, just different. His solos don't sound musical, and his vibrato, tone, bends, note choice are often dissapointing. Ring of Fire album was horrible. Rhapsody sucks alot of times, musically, and the solos are abrupt, choppy, with no feel. Yngwies solos always sound alive. I must say Greg Howe's effort with Kuprij was very good, better than the Bellas and Kuprij, which was better that Kuprij and MacAlpine, as far as solos, feel, note choice. And to the comment by Yo Bro, you truly are as ignorant as you've made us to believe.
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | Hector - Ok, I can agree with most of that....a lot of this stuff is perspecive, I think. You can even agree on a fact but differ in the reasons you believe it; for example 2 people may agree that Yngwie is repeating, but one might think he's rehashing while the other may see it as quoting himself and building on a foundation.
I would say that the "latest album is always the best" thing is true only in the sense that Yngwie's slowly and gradually getting "better", at least faster and more intense, and that he's finding some new things while largely staying the same....the overall effect is an upward climb. But that doesn't mean that each latest release is necessarily the best. In the case of Attack!!, I'd have to say it is one of his better albums, but I don't know if I could pick a "best" any more, after so many.
Regarding "evolution", I certainly wouldn't point to Touch The Sky as an example of it! I basically like Doogie, but I think that song suffered somewhat from his treatment. But regardless, that's merely a catchy sort of "pop" metal tune to me, and you're right, it is quite similar in ways to You Don't Remember or Broken Glass. To show evolution I would point to Rise Up (especially the interlude!!!), Valley Of Kings (vocal harmonies), Majestic Blue ("jazzy" sections), In The Name Of God, and the really strange case of Valhalla...in the interlude, he combines 2 of the most repeated Yngwie "cliches", the 3 string arp and the pedal point sequence. 2 of the most "rehashed", if you will, of all! But somehow, he manages to make it fresh, whimsical, and to me, even a bit shocking! I believe this is mainly due to the crazy tympani and bassline and the key he does the section in.
Just my take....I'm glad to see that posters here can disagree on some things and still be civil.....makes for an interesting discussion! :-)
Cheers,
~ J ~
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | Marty - of course I agreed with ya and thanks for the kind words....I thought your comments were dead on as well.
I know George and I think he has so much potential, but I agree, not only him but really most or all of the others can sound kind of "flat" next to Yngwie...he's just so free and expressive and just plain ferocious. Plus, with him being the original, it's pretty hard to be someone coming along later in roughly the same style and make your own mark. To be frank, I've been playing for almost 30 years and I'm a quite decent guitarist, but I feel my comments about the others also apply to me. Yngwie has something that I lack. But I look at that as - that's ok, there's only one #1....at least I'm good and I like the way I play...LOL...as a friend once wisely said, "you have to learn to enjoy getting your ass kicked. Then you can really get better." I think by going to Yngwie, I pretty much went to the right person to get an ass-kicking from! ;-)
Cheers,
~ J ~
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 23, 2002 | Hi again J,
For quite a long time I've been attempting to switch myself into this kind of discussion upon Yngwie's work, I think that there's a lot to comment about it for such a great artist deserves but a serious and enthusiastic analysis.
I really appreciate your observations and vocabulary on Attack! No doubt, no doubt...about Majestic Blue...well, I'm speechless!!!
Regards.
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 24, 2002 | Hey Hector :-) Likewise! It seems like there's a pretty intelligent bunch in here overall...it's been a nice surprise talking here. I've been to a lot of forums to compare it with too...lol
Is this site based in Denmark? I wasn't familiar with it, I found it doing a search on Yngwie, but it seems like a very cool site!
Cheers,
~ J ~
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| Comment by Steen (Staff) - Thursday, October 24, 2002 | 
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Keep rockin'
Steen
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Thursday, October 24, 2002 | Thanks Steen! This site will be a regular stop for me.
Rock on,
~ J ~
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Monday, October 28, 2002 | i just wonder, who is going to be the bassist on tour, not saying yngwie couldn't, i know he's good but, he can't play bass and guitar at the same time! wish for the return of marcel jacob!!!
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Monday, October 28, 2002 | I'm guessing it'll be Mick Cervino, he was on the South American tour with the rest of the current lineup, and in several interviews he showed a lot of enthusiasm for Yngwie's music.
~ J ~
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| Comment by Erick Hasiholan Gultom (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 11, 2002 | Hi guys,
Whoever that have ever heared heavy metal / rock guitar music stuffs of so many guitar greats of the universe, after listening and understand and comparing them deeply must be honestly to cry " yngwie's are fucking great.The BEST, NO DOUBT!!!
It's not to pretend to say Yng's stuffs ( especially the last) are GREAT. ya know men!
I've ever and frequently heard Randy Rhoads', EVH's,Steve Vai's, Joe satriani's, Steve ray Vaughan's, Jimmy Page's Eric Clapton's, Ritchie Blackmore's, Jeff Beck's, Uli jon Roth's, Gary Moore's Steve Morse's, Michael Schenker, Steve Howe's, Ted Nugent's, Chris Impellitteri's, zakk Wylde's Whom I know that The FIRST TWELVE I've just mentioned you sistematically are no doubt also world's The Premier Guitar Gods ( also like Yngwie)World ever has till today and the remains are The next ranked.
But from all those guitar gods' stuffs I've always live with daily, After know them so deeply and well comparated I will not doubt to cry "YJM IS THE BEST" Long Live LARS YNGWIE JOHANN LANNERBACK MALMSTEEN !!!! God Be With You Man !!!How do you think guys Lets argue, just be free and fair to argue, OK!!!
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| Comment by Erick Hasiholan Gultom (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 11, 2002 | Hi guys, I think it's important and necessary to tell you the premier guitarists that have ever exist in the modern and contemporary world music ( not wrong to say that ever in universe too ) from the past to today.
The basics that I use to rank them from the upper to the lower are so strong and objective enough I think.
First, I've ever known and heared the whole stuffs of the guitar greats' ,or minimally the main or the best stuffs of theirs. I enjoy and monitoring theirs, one by one, note by note, tab by tab, harmony by harmony , variation by variation and so many other musical elements in each of theirs.
I my self often do listening to them all ( the stuffs, next I call them The Greatest Stuffs of the Greatest Guitarist in the World -GSGGW ) seriously in my daily music listening life as my primary ritual need.
Secondly, I've studied and known so many files about them one by one: their biographies, their regular musical development, their musical visions, their musical influences in daily life ( as in put or out put for them them selves and to other or next generation guitarists and musician ).
Thirdly, from commentaries of heavy metal, rock or also/even bluess guitar music critics, I know how good they ( next I call them GG: Guitar Gods ) are personally.In this view I think critics are believeable and quite objective. Many of them are methodically accountable as experts in their own specific field
About the sources of the files I tell you above, I've got them from many guitar magazines namely: Guitar Player, Guitar World, Young Guitar, Rock magazine, The Rolling Stones and so many guitar musical websites namely: guitargods.com, guitarlords.com, classicrockrevisited.com, metal-guide.com, musicmelodicrock.com, musicplayer.com, dinamitemetal.com, metalupdate.com, guitar.com, musictoday.com, webpages.charter.net and allmusic.com and surely their own official and unofficial websites of GG
You know men, after day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year and time by time I monitoring them, I think personnally I am able and dare enough to rank GG from the upper to the lower
As near as possible to the scientific methodiacally objective and accountable in the view of ideal guitar music.
I rank them from some aspects, firstly, guitar playing technics / skill in playing guitar, secondly, improvesational abilities in playing guitar, thirdly, guitar playing innovations, the fourth, guitar-sounds and equipments making abilities, the fifth, guitar-musical harmonies in the materials / stuff, the sixth, musical-arrangement abilities and many other aspects relating to category .
You know so many guitarists are very good in the first and second aspect, but weak in other points, some are well in the fourth, fifth and sixth, but bad in others..and so many combinations of those aspects I've used to point and rank then to know the quality of theirs on guitar musics.
Finally, to category a guitarist as a guitar god, the guitarist must get high rate or points in each and in all of the six aspects I just write above.
The more points the guitarist gets in each or all aspects above the better he get ranked (position in ranking)
So, that's the formula and parameters I've used, men .., to reach the well-done result
Once more, guys !!!. I determine the aspects to rank, as to make the objective and accountable result' and I think the aspects I use as categories are accountable enough as parameter, OK !!!!
Hey men, here they are the accountable ranking as result of my never-ending research I just told you above. It begins from the upper to the lower :
!.Lars Yngwie Johann Lannerback Malmsteen, you know as Yngwie Johann Malmsteen / YJM
2.Randall William Rhoads, you know as Randy Rhoads
3.Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, you know as Eddie Van Halen / EVH
4.Steven Siro Vai, you know as Steve Vai
5.Joe Satriani
6.Stevie Ray Vaughan / SRV
7.James Patrick Page, you know as Jimmy Page
8.Ritchie Blackmore
9.Eric Patrick Clapp, you know as Eric Clapton
10.Jeff Beck
11Ulrich Roth, you know as Uli Jon Roth / UJR
12.Gary Moore
13.Steve Morse
14.Michael Schenker
15.Brian May
16.Stephen James Howe, you know as Steve Howe
17.Ted Nugent
18.Al DiMeola
19.Eric Johnson
20.Adrian Smith
21.John Petrucci
22.Chris Impellitteri
Note : The bold italic and underlined ones are the most favourire GG in my view, next are the bold italic ones, nonetheless, I love the others / the remains. So the core is ....I love all of them, surely.
They are The Greatests of The Greatests, men !!!.. The Guitar Gods world has ever had untill this time.
That's all I've had and arranged in my mind in trying to tell you the fact ( for you, all the guitar greats die hard lovers or maniacs or and automaticcally also the lovers of the hard-ideal guitar musics).
And now.... how do you think of this opinion of mine, guys ?????????
Let's discuss and argue, friends......
Long live metal guitar music !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Comment by Allasrandro Luigi Motarelli (Anonymous) - Sunday, August 11, 2002 | Hey Gultom,
You forgot a very important "guitar god" or what ever you want to call it.
TONY MacALPINE!!!
He is amazing.
His polytonnality, his bazzar 7string riffing, his amasing technique.
He also does it all!
From the neo-classical metal of RING OF FIRE or MARK BOALS solo albums
From the fusion/jazz of CAB
And the prog of PLANET X
And that is were Yng falls down he only does one style.
And not only a guitar genius he is also a keyboard vustuoso WOW!!
I couldn't agree more with JayDub
All those other guys flog Yngwie!1
I mean I'm only 13 years old from Australia but I can still tell all that Yngwie doesn is going Up & Down the Phrigian Dominant/ Harmonic Minor Scales, Diminished Appegio's and a few sweeps hre and there.
I know he is intence or powerfull but he is nothing compared to some of the other guys.
And stop the George Bellas bashing. Just listen to his classical overtones, his odd time or complex beats, his chromatic licks and progresive interludes.
So you guys need to open your ears!!!
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| Comment by thom scott (Anonymous) - Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | mick would probably be the 1st pick, but i was just hoping for a little nostalgia. perhaps dio for the vocals and the johannsen boys doing their things? whataya think?would it be the bomb?
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | OK! And we will have Marcel on bass! lol
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | Luigi: Boy, you are good fine listener! Tony McAlpine deserves our sincere respect. His music is beautiful and honest and his genuine style is in no way neither alike Yngwie's nor copycat of him, those guys who insist in such misleading comparisons have no idea of music basics and should give up arguing nonsense.
I consider myself a true and serious fan of Yngwie's music and damn well know it in, out and upwards, have studied and analyzed his work for years and can tell that we're talking here about two directions, two different musical conceptions with very few element in common (speed, "classical" lines and patterns which are for sure nobody's ownership and a minor approach of blues-pentatonic based structures)but phrasing, scale preferences as well as execution, rhythmic sequences and lead themes and overall composing articulation never matches each other.
On the other hand, saying Yngwie is nothing compared to other players is not valid. If you go carefully, you should find that just a handful of those guitar men equal Yngwie in expression, performance and originality. In my experience, no piece has ever toched my very core as Icarus' Dream Suite has, or shocked me
like Trilogy Suite did in my early youth. Nevertheless, you have pointed to this subject once again: Yngwie seems to be still comfortable with his harmonic minor ascending-descending routine, 3 string diminished arpeggio before-the 16th groups-solo-intro interlude thing rather expanding his possibilities to enhance and perfect his opus. I also get the impression often that Yngwie only fills songmolds with notes and change names. Good for opening your ears!!!
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| Comment by Uli Jon Roth (Anonymous) - Wednesday, September 11, 2002 | Fuck you ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ very good name for an arse schizter such as yourself. Can you play or are you a no-talent arse eater?
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| Comment by ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 14, 2002 | Hey fake Uli
Even if you are better in your opinion, you never brag about it. There is one thing that I have learnt as a guitarist- Never think you are good or put yourself higher than anyone. If you do you have proved to be a lesser musicion and a lesser person.
And Uli, yes I do play guitar.
I don't think the real Uli would say that crap. If he did he has really dissapionted me. You can put your name as anyone on this post.
LOOK I WILL BE YNGWIE MALMSTEEN (fake)
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| Comment by Yngwie Malmsteen (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 14, 2002 | HI Im the fake Yngwie
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| Comment by ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 14, 2002 | See my point.
That Yngwie Malmsteen post was really me.
Uli Jon Roth is probably some D****head with nothing better to do.
Seeya
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| Comment by Shred-a-holic (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 21, 2002 | Yeah,
Thats not Uli, he'l never say things like that!
You can be anyone on this post!
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| Comment by Baldo (Anonymous) - Wednesday, November 27, 2002 | I think you're a bit out of your league Uli...
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| Comment by willie mozartez (Anonymous) - Tuesday, March 12, 2002 | Everyone whose ever heard Yngwie's song would say that Yngwie Malmsteen is The Godspeed !!!
No Satch, No Vai and No Others, Its just Yngwie Malmsteen the best guitarist in the world
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| Comment by Peter (Anonymous) - Sunday, May 12, 2002 | I used to be a big yngwie fan, almost fanatical you might say. I moved away from Satriani&Metallica an into Yngwie, but he's nothing special after you've heard 2 or 3 of his albums.
I agree with JayDub, the only way to truly appriciate music is to listen to it all, so listen to some other Artists besides Ygnwie, because (as like his favourity classical composers (Baroque and Romantic era) - Vivaldi and Paganini) his compositions on the most part lack; they're just big shred pieces, which is nothing without melody.
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| Comment by Peter (Anonymous) - Sunday, May 12, 2002 | oh yea, if you want some crazy shred stuff with a BIT more melody than Yngwie start off with some Jason Becker - he woulda ripped Yngwie in 2 if he could still play, Yngwie would be nothing if Becker could still play (cause becker was doing it faster, more melodic and harmonized at a much younger age that Yngwie).....'nuff said.
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| Comment by erick hasiholan (Anonymous) - Wednesday, June 12, 2002 | I think jason becker is not and will never be comparable to Yngwie.
Nothing special and amazing he has given to the world of guitar music, don't you ??? nothing, note it.Nothing essential with him !!!
]But Yngwie: he created some new, essensial, and important guitar playing technics,sounds and euipments.
Yngwie also are the creator of NEO-CLASSICAL METAL genre, no doubt nobody can doubt and deny. That's why, jason, open your eyes widely, abroad and widen your sight and knowledge, then compare it with what jason has contributed.
For detail on Guitargods analyzing, see at my mail above I ever sent, OK!
I'm waiting your arguments.
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Wednesday, June 12, 2002 | I would pretty like to know when the hell this pointless kind of who´s above who / AAA guitar winner is getting to its end. Erick, don't want to be rude but your so named list is worthless and your effort to quantify talent and emotion is actually vain: Chris Impelliteri?? Ted Nugent?? Adrian Smith?? Eric Clapton??... ever CREATED some new, essential and important guitar playing techniques, sounds and equipment????? Hello Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Paco de Lucia, Neil Gerardo, Steve Stevens, Bernd Steidl...anybody there???
Following your steps, it is rather strange not to find Becker starring position 23.
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| Comment by yngwie fan (Anonymous) - Friday, July 12, 2002 | Ithink malmsteen is one of best guitar players ever,but his albums are too much of technical show and less of melody.I like his older albums such as odyssey or 7 sighn,in thouse albums u can hear band as whole making good musick.I can't see the point in getting derek sheran(planet x) on attack album since u can hardly hear the keys(he is known as 1 of best keabord players).
When i red that derek was in the line up i expected some blowing guitar- keybord fuson reaction but got non of that.
ok malmsteen is one of best fastest and he is 1 of a kind but there are others like
michel romeo (symphony x)
tony mcalpine
james byrd
alex masi
timmo tokki
who are talented guitar players whith great bands that Not only shred but make breath taking
musik
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| Comment by abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (Anonymous) - Monday, August 12, 2002 | ein swine schitzer en das gut arse licker, JA
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| Comment by YNGWIE MALMSTEEN (real) (Anonymous) - Monday, August 12, 2002 | Hello everyone
Thank you for listening to my interveiw.
I know Uli personally- AND THAT WAS NOT HIM!!!
Thanks for all the nice words
Godspeed - Yngwie
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| Comment by ShredMasterChop (Anonymous) - Saturday, October 12, 2002 | Yngwie Malmsteen Sucks!!!! Jason Becker is way better then that no
talent Egomaniac Yngwie, and Jason could shred when he was 16. I used to
be a fan of Yngwie, but I found that Rusty Cooley, Richie Kotzens
early Solo albums, and Paul Gilbert are way better then Yngwie. Yngwie is still
playing the same tired old sloppy arpeggios and same lousy tone, his music has not
progressed since he first started. Maybe if Yngwie tried some new things, instead of
playing the same worthless crap that he has recycled for the last 21 years, he might
be interesting, but I don't think he has either the talent nor the vision.
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| Comment by JayDub (Anonymous) - Tuesday, November 12, 2002 | I completly agree with you Shred-Master-Chop. Thats what i've been saying all along!
If you like Rusty Cooley's Shred.
Then check out francesco fareri. Were talking Michael Angelo speed here. THE MASTER OF SWEEP ARPEGGIO'S
www.francescofareri.com
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| Comment by Erick Hasiholan Gultom (Anonymous) - Thursday, December 12, 2002 | To be objective and honest, You both SMC and jaydub are totally not objective and honest.
To view a musician someone must be objective and honest, something rarely owned by music consumer, as you two, right !!!
Objectively and honestly too, Jason Becker and Paul Gilbert are good indeed, but to be compared to Yngwie - intelectual music critics and other guitar greats as we have known: recognize his ability and vision or anything positive points he's achieved- these two good guitarist ARE NOT in a same level for sure. About Jason, I think he is not better than his bandmate while in Cochopony, Marty Friedman ( ex Megadeth as we know ).About Paul, He himself admit that Yngwie are too good to compare with him, as so many music communities (who like or dislike yngwie personally just neutral in viewing))HAVE RECOGNIZED.
So, for you SMC and Jaydub, be an Intelectual, not childish one in observating music, be wise, OK !!!
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Thursday, December 12, 2002 | Summarizing: a) Yngwie is an excellent, on the top guitar player.
b) He with NO doubt boosted guitar playing during the 80's and for my judgement and taste, Rising Force album remains unmatched.
c) Years later, Yngwie thinks he's too damn good to consider evolving as a musician. Therefore, his music has become a single formula gone over and over.
d) Sadly, Yngwie now seems to be comfortable with it, playing tennis and swimming under the sun of Miami. He had lost the vision that took him that far.
For me, my guitar hero is still a 20 years old dude from Stockholm getting off the plane with nothing but a Strat and a pair of jeans.
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| Comment by Uli Jon Roth (real) (Anonymous) - Monday, December 23, 2002 | Yngwie is right I have the upmost respect for that son of bitch who sucks mine arse!~
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| Comment by yngwie sucks (Anonymous) - Saturday, December 28, 2002 | yngwie is a cocky fat fuck. he isnt creative for shit. he is nowhere near being "God". he cant play guitar, he is just fast, but not that fast. sweep picking aint doin much for his music, if he learned how to do something else on guitar maybe he would be good. just face it he sucks. no one fuckin buys his CD's, like who the hell wants to mix heavy metal with neo-classical music. NO ONE. Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai will tear up his fatass, they will shred him in a fuckin second. go listen to fuckin kirk and steve solos, thats fuckin technique baby. no one can touch Kirk and Steve. Good luck on your next album Yngwie *laughs*... if you are lucky enough maybe 2 people will buy it.
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| Comment by EWWW (Anonymous) - Saturday, December 28, 2002 | JESUS CHRIST!!! YOU ALL SUCK!!! none of you know the real guitar players out there, and I know you all think im gonna say Hendrix and Page are the gods... HELL NO! they both suck as much cock as yngwie does on guitar. i think you all need to get out of your little worlds and listen to the real guitarists. im gonna name a few to get you started: Kirk Hammett (NO LIMITS,INSANE!), Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Eric Clapton and a couple more. those guitarists have everything that create a "Guitar God" which is melody/rhythm/technical skill/speed/musical-writing abilities/ and most important which really makes a guitar god CREATIVITY!! but about speed and Eric Clapton, ive seen him shred, dont underestimate him. to sum this up, no one can touch Kirk Hammett and Steve Vai *they are the real guitar virtuosos*, and when it comes specifically to a more bluesy guitar sound, no one comes close to Clapton and Satch. and i agree with that other guy, Yngwie is an egomaniac and so fuckin cocky. malmsteen truly sucks, he needs some guitar lessons.
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| Comment by Yngwie J. Malmsteen (Anonymous) - Saturday, December 28, 2002 | Hello my friends and fans!
As you all know,
I have released
yet another peace
of shit album
that no one is going
to purchase. Yes,
I have gained another
100 pounds or so, but
no worries my friends
I am still the best
guitar player to
pick up the instrument.
Well not really...
I'm just an egomaniac
and I'm also very
cocky as the other kid
mentioned. After I
handle some business
with the Immigration
I will be kicking off
another tour in which
you my dear fans will
have the opportunity
to watch me sweep pick
for an hour straight.
Be there to support your
favorite guitarist... ME!
Take care friends!
Sincerely,
Yngwie J. Malmsteen
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| Comment by he really sucks (Anonymous) - Sunday, December 29, 2002 | Yngwie is no good, he isnt creative for crap. My friend Kevin Abdo can shred Malmsteen, and he is only 17. Kevin is also more creative than Yngwie will ever be, sadly though, he wont ever be and its true. You guys should check out his bands website: www.setback.cjb.net, and experience the creativeness in this young man's guitar playing. Cheers to my bro Kevin Abdo!
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| Comment by Larry Hanollkyye (Anonymous) - Monday, December 30, 2002 | I think Yngwie was good in the 80's. He started the whole "shred" thing.
But now there is sooooooooooo many other better guitarists out there.
But he thinks that he is the best.
And he thinks that if you do a single diminished lick - your ripping him off BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!
If he had a not so big ego he would want to expand his horizens and be alot better.
BUT NO!!!!!!!!!
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Monday, December 30, 2002 | EWWW, you-got-the-best-jokes-of- the-site...I have tears in my eyes!!Hammet and Vai "untouchable guitar gods"! fuck them twice!! what a couple of twisted jerks! It is people like you who put these crap every fuckin' year at the top of Guitar World's Reader's Poll!!! Talking about lack of creativeness there you have clockwork Steve and his loose, cheesy, ridiculous tricky playing that is nothin' but a cheap imitation of master's Frank Zappa!! Just listen to "jazz from hell" and surprise yourself to find out where from little snotty Stevie has "taken" some weird ideas!!!!
Huh, who was the other clerk????? Hammet from Metallica right??? What the hell this Grammy band has to do with metal nowdays??? Oh well, I suppose same as metal has with classical!! and as for Kirk's playing in near future, watch out for him doing some cool licks for any Pepsi spot or touring Britney Spears to give that MTV item hard rockin' flavour to her pop tunes.
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| Comment by I THINK YNGWIE IS A EGO NO TALENT!!!!!!!! (Anonymous) - Wednesday, January 1, 2003 | Why would you put your middle name's enitial in Yngwie J. Malmsteen???!!!!!!???!!
It is understandible if your name is John Smith. But there is no one else in the planet called Yngwie Malsteen!
IT ALL EGO!
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| Comment by FretFire (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | Wow, this forum went downhill fast! :^(
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| Comment by Hector doesnt know shit (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | hey jackass, you obviously dont know shit about guitar. it takes a little something called "creativity" to make a real guitar player, and Yngwie sucks because, that hasnt and never will cross his narrow mind. so dont you ever fuckin talk shit about Kirk and Steve being "cheesy" you gay fuck. Hammett and Vai will smoke yours and Yngwie's ass on guitar. AND dont you ever in your fuckin life rip on Hammett about him winning the Guitar World Hall of Fame, because if Yngwie was half as good as he is, he might have won that award that was chosen by the people. so where was Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix on this readers poll?? oh my bad, i think the people have finally realized that Page and Hendrix have no technical skill whatsoever. but anyways this isnt about them, its about Malmsteen. so Hector, why dont you take some time and listen to real guitar players like Vai, Hammett, and Clapton you know, people with skill and creativity on their mind, not to mention they can smoke you and Malmsteen on guitar. ohhh i almost forgot... go fuck your dumbass twice.
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| Comment by so true (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | the people against Malmstteen including myself, are totally right. if you play the same old shit since you started, you fuckin suck. and thats all fuckin yngwie right there. he fuckin sucks man. he couldnt play an E chord if he tried.
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| Comment by no doubt (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | yngwie is a fucking disgrace to guitar playing.
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| Comment by Darth Vader (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | YNGWIE!!... you... SUCK
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| Comment by i am the king of SWEDEN (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | yngwie sucks my dogs flaming left nut. my grandma can shred that fatass
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| Comment by Hector (Anonymous) - Saturday, February 1, 2003 | Whatsoever the fuck your name is:
Creativity is beyond your comprehenssion.
Yes, I don't know SHIT...but you certainly DO and made it clear enough for us all.
I will slang whoever I want if necessary. In fact, I've had.
About Yngwie,I already said what I had to.
It is obvious you can barely speak, why do you pretend to deal with music?
I'm done with you pussy, go keep adoring your 1 size fits all guitar godies, you impressive idiot.
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| Comment by hector is gay (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | hector is a pussy. he sure knows a lot about guitar... yea right.
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| Comment by too much (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | hahahahahah!!! 1 size fits all guitar godies! i think you are the impressive idiot here Hector. lets think before we speak mmmmkk.
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| Comment by Steve Vai (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | aww isnt that the cutest thing ever!? hector is protecting his little guitar hero. that is so cute. you disgust me you queer. Vai will rip Yngwie another asshole. why dont you go listen to your little Malmsteen and his "Rising Faggots" play their crap. Try again buddy, Malmsteen got nothing on Vai
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| Comment by i am the king of SWEDEN (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | Yngwie aint worthy of even arguing over. What needed to be said has been said, he is an egomaniac and his arpeggios suck anyway. The great "Slowhands" can shred his ass, and im not trying to be funny.
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| Comment by Hector doesnt know shit (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | Hector, i think ill save my arguments for someone who knows about guitar playing. Im not gonna waste my time arguing with some freak that worships Yngwie Malmsteen's bullshit guitar playing.
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| Comment by George Fullerton (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 1, 2003 | If Leo Fender was still alive, he wouldve fired whoever made Yngwie Malmsteen a Custom Shop Stratocaster.
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| Comment by The Man (Anonymous) - Sunday, June 1, 2003 | Obviously, Yngwie is the greatest guitar soloist who ever lived. I am a real musician with a real college degree. If you were to remove a 95 lb. mole from Yngwie's ass it would be in the combined form of Steve "I'm a FUCK UP" Vai, Kirk "I guess I should stop opening up beer bottles with my teeth" Hammett, Eric "No Hand" Crapton, and the dope-eyed glue sniffing spores responsible for the past dozen or so posts.
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| Comment by Kevin (Anonymous) - Friday, August 1, 2003 | "The Man" shows that he obviously has no knowledge of anything related to guitar or guitarists. I mean, you have to have your dick so far up your dumbass to actually have the nerve to say what "The Fag" just said, I mean, what "The Man" just said about those three guitar legends. People like "The Man" and his untalented guitar hero, Yngwie Malmsteen, give guitar a bad name. I'm absolutely disgusted by the people who actually think they got something good to say about that fatass Swedish hairball that tries to play guitar. Yngwie never had a good album and never will. I guarantee you that Steve Vai, Kirk Hammett, Joe Satriani, and Eric Clapton will sweep Yngwie's sorry ass. We all know you aren't a "real" musician and you probaly got no college degree, so don't try to impress anyone with all the college bullshit. By the way kid, your in-between-name jokes are hilarious, you made me do something I haven't done in a long time, which is cry.
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| Comment by In their own words.... (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 | Awfully odd then that I've SEEN multiple interviews with BOTH Vai AND Satriani where they EACH unabashedly GUSH (like little teenybopper groupies, I might add) over Yngwie's playing. In Satch's case, it was him saying that he WISHED he could do a high bend perfectly in tune every time like Yngwie. On another occasion, he marvelled at Yngwie's feel and called his phrasing "sexy". (Yet you call YNGWIE gay???) Vai, for his part, talked about how insanely hard it was for him to learn and especially to TRY to master Yngwie's parts when he had the un-enviable and monumental task looming before him of stepping into Yngwie's shoes in Alcatrazz.
As far as the old sluggish and non-too bright dinosaur, E.C., and the original wimpy boy dweedler, Kirk Hamfist, you've GOT to be kidding! HOW in the WORLD can you type that with a straight face?? By trying to say Clapton smokes Y.J., you painfully dispay your utter ignorance of anything resembling musical sophistication, finesse, etc.....my God, talk about playing the same tired shit for 40 years! And by the other, even more lame-brained and laughable comments about Kirky-boy v.s. the Great Yng, you blatantly show your immaturity and betray your obvious identity as that of a zit-face little geeky Metallica fan...oh, sorry...don't want to offend you! (smirk)
Oh, also quite odd that even back in Clapton's long past glory days, HE was going to see Hendrix play night after night, in AWE of Jimi.....NOT the other way around.
Well, gotta run now and watch Satriani's concerto for electric guitar, 90 piece orchestra and 50 piece choir........oh wait, it wasn't Satch...it was Vai...no, it was Hammet...OH that's right, it was YNGWIE who composed that!
Well, anyway...have a nice day. :)
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| Comment by wolf (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 | hammett sucks, he is not able to bend a string alright in live performances. He is always flat or sharp, that´s why he abuses with the wah wah. Yngwie is a guitar god , and i love vai´s playing
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| Comment by Dear Kevin and the other nameless cunt (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 1, 2003 | Steve Vai (your God)
Joe Satriani
Jorge Strunz
Paul Gilbert (GIT graduate)
John Petrucci (Berklee graduate)
Joe Stump (major COPYCAT)
Tony McAlpine
The Czech Phillharmonic
The New Japan Phillharmonic...
Some more positive references upon Yngwie required?????
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| Comment by ??? (Anonymous) - Monday, January 13, 2003 | All of you Yngwie Malmsteen freaks are so gay. Why dont you go suck his cock if you can find it under all those layers of fat? Better yet, kiss his fatass if he is so good huh? You think that fat bitch is so good, I wonder why no one listens to his music. Who the fuck wants to listen to some gay Swedish fuck play Neo-classical/metal pile of crap. Does anybody buy his albums. Everytime I go to Best Buy, Yngwie Malmsteen's CD's are always there with the little "Super Saver" stickers selling for $4.99 because they cant get rid of his piece of shit records. And that aint a lie, go see for yourselves, I guarantee you itll be on the "Clearance Items" section. For all you smart asses out there, Yngwie has admitted to having respect for the great Vai on an interview, so dont even say anything. As far as Hammett goes, he could shred Malmsteen while takin a shit, and the obvious, way beyond Yngwie's creativeness, oops, Yngwie couldnt be creative if his life depended on it. Eric Clapton always had more feel than Yngwie. You people have no life, all you do is worship some gay looking Swedish guy who claims to be a guitar player, he is so cocky. Yngwie fuckin sucks, he couldnt sell a damn record if it was for free. But youre too stupid to understand my last sentence. You know what, stupid me for wasting my time stating the obvious about that egomaniac. Yngwie doesnt have anything on the real shredders. Vai, Kirk, Joe, even Dimebag Darrell will have Yngwie's lard ass for breakfast. You guys really need to listen to real guitarists, and damn, I dont know anyone that is influenced by Malmsteen, after all he is a disgrace to guitar.
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| Comment by Jack Osbourne (Anonymous) - Monday, January 13, 2003 | Hey Wolf, you couldn't play a Kirk Hammett lick if the world's existense depended on it. How much of an idiot you are buddy. You dont even know what flat or sharp means. Why dont you go learn the solo to "Blackened" or "Dyers Eve", learning how to play the first line of those two solos will keep you busy way beyond your lifetime. They are on the "... And Justice For All" album just to let you know, and take a shot at "The Shortest Straw" even. Wolf, don't hurt yourself trying to play those solos, you might end up in the hospital or something man. About the wah-wah thing, lets just move on to Joe Satriani.
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| Comment by Kevin (Anonymous) - Monday, January 13, 2003 | Im not here to preach about any guitar player out there. Seeing that Im mature and I do have a clue what Im talking about, I really dont care what any of you say. You need to understand that Hammett, Vai, Satriani, Clapton, and Malmsteen have different styles on guitar and cant be compared to one another. But saying that Hammett, Vai, Satriani, and Clapton suck is plain ignorance. So why dont we all just cut the crap and stop saying shit about guitar players that are way better than us. All the comments are getting stupid now, lets just all chill alright.
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| Comment by Bargain bins (Anonymous) - Monday, January 13, 2003 | You will also see great classical and jazz recordings n the bargain bins. Does that mean they also suck? No, it means that the (especially american) public is muscally retarded and follows every lame fad that comes along. The N'Sync and rap records sell in the millions, according to "some people" that would make them great. Any true musician or music lover knows that the "it sells, it must be great/it doesn't sell, it must suck" arguments are 100% bogus.
And the "guitar people" seem to think that a guitrist has to be all blues-based to have feel and be creative. Yngwie's compositions and playing are way over all their feeble heads.
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| Comment by Agree (Anonymous) - Tuesday, January 14, 2003 | These two last comments seem to be the smartest ones in a while, i think the problem comes with clueless people like the kid up there who lives obssessed with shit, fuckin' asses and sucking cock.
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| Comment by ALLIGATOOR (Anonymous) - Friday, January 17, 2003 | I´ve bought "attack" for 1$ in an "all to 1$" bargtain-shop, is it a good price ??
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| Comment by synthbanjo (Anonymous) - Saturday, January 18, 2003 | yngwie is without a doubt on top of the heap for emotionally-filled sweeps and arpeggios. But has anyone ever heard TJ WHITE play? He's from New York and is absolutely INCREDIBLE!! Combining the smooth, lightning fast runs of Yngwie with the blues feel of Rory Gallagher and the compositional skills he has - not to mention the over the neck technique (hammers the notes like Stanley Jordan, as if the guitar was a piano)- makes him a real contender for one of those top spots on the list. Check him out... www.tjwhite.net
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| Comment by Kevin (Anonymous) - Saturday, January 18, 2003 | Sup everyone? How is everybody's guitar playing coming through? I've never heard of T.J. White before, but I'll make sure to download some of his music. Lets keep this forum going. Peace.
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| Comment by guitarmanfromHell (Anonymous) - Monday, January 20, 2003 | holy shit..im surprised to see anyone who heard of TJ White!
i saw him play in saratoga (NY) with another dude and they tore it up on fucking acoustics! he played a whole song that sounded like a entire band...guitar bass and drums on the guitar!
ive never seen yngwie do that.
synthbanjo, where you from?
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| Comment by synthbanjo (Anonymous) - Monday, January 20, 2003 | Hey Hell Man!!
I'm from Albany NY, where are you from?
ive seen him in Saratoga a couple times and I know what you mean. That song is called "Two Hands" and it rocks.
Theres another they do called Overhand where he plays over the top of the neck like a piano...its sick. Last time I saw TJ he played electric (strat) and was tearing thru arpeggios like Yngwie, and then he started playing an electric synthesizer 5 string banjo. Unreal musician. You can hear Yngwie's influence, and definately some blues in there. All originals too, good writer. One of this century's guitar masters, thats for sure.
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| Comment by johnson mcjohnson (Anonymous) - Wednesday, January 29, 2003 | whom do you guys think is better ..malmsteen or petrucci.??...i kow they are somewhat different styles...i think malmsteen is great...although he doesnt allow breath in his solos....when he does ..man!!!he sounds great...in my respectful opinion id say as a guitar player john petrucci is better...overall andrew york is the greatest guitar player whom has ever touched the unstrument
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| Comment by stuart mansion (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | Yngwie is incredible, but those of you who haven't heard of Michael Angelo Batio really need to check him out! The guy is like a machine. His style's different the Yngwie, but fantastic. Look for his c.d. No Boundaries. Michael@Angelo.com Stu
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| Comment by Uncle Chiefy (Anonymous) - Monday, February 17, 2003 | Michael Angelo Batio is amazing!
Every critic since 1996 has rated him as the fastest, most accurate guitar player of all time. You have to check out his music, especially his first c.d titled no boundaries. Listen for tracks four and eight.]
There's a new prodigy coming out of Cleveland OH. Check him out or e-mail him at jimmysmbox@yahoo.com. He's fantastic! I've seen him. They have a c.d. coming out in 2004. Look for it!!!!!
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| Comment by guitarmanfromhell (Anonymous) - Monday, February 17, 2003 | TJW blows away Batio...I wish the critics could hear him shred. The songs on his website are lame...you have to see him live. Even Yngwie would be impressed, and he doesn't impress easily!
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| Comment by dro (Anonymous) - Tuesday, February 25, 2003 | jesus, why can't we acknowledge that ALL these players have talent instead of taking sides and saying ridiculous things like "__________ could shred__________'s ass while taking a shit"?! seriously, grow up. I like all of the guitarists you guys mention. Its real easy to talk shit on the internet, you're not proving anything. Posts like these are the reason that most internet BBs suck.
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| Comment by confusious (Anonymous) - Monday, November 3, 2003 | DRO IS A MEATBALL. NEITHER OF THE TWO COMMENTS ABOVE WERE CRACKS ON ANYONE. IN FACT, IT SOUNDS TO ME THAT THEY'RE BOTH MALMSTEEN AND BATIO FANS. WHATS THE PROBLEM, DRO? CAN'T PEOPLE EVEN CONVERSE WITHOUT YOU GETTING ALL DEFENSIVE. READ AND COMPREHEND! THAN YOU CAN CONTRIBUTE. THANK YOU.
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| Comment by leonardo (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 22, 2003 | i didn´t hear this album, and i wouldn´t like to hear this!!!!
i think yngwie will never make good records like rising force, marching out and trilogy!!! he is a good guitar player but everything after that is shit!!!!!!
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| Comment by xxx (Anonymous) - Saturday, March 22, 2003 | Damn, yngwie has got to be one of the most overrated piecies of
shit in the world. I hate to break it you guys but anyone in to
actual classic music who's not a loser who spends all there time
at home wishing they could play sweep arpeggios as fast as
yngwie, will laugh in your face when you tell them yngwie's
supposedly this great musician. Please, yngwies shit got old
after his first 2 albums. You see let me compare yngwie to someone
who's actualy good on guitar, randy rhoades. You see when randys
not playing solo's (which by the way are way better then yngwies
could ever hope to be) he's playing this thing called "rhythem".
Yngwie never really got a handel on this, his idea of rhythem is
playing through a scale pattern more then once. Yngwies song's
are basicly a cheezey drum pattern with a guy playing the same
old tirered guitar shit for like 5 minutes while the 10 losers who
bought his album wet themselves wishing they could play guitar
that fast.
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| Comment by Luke (Anonymous) - Monday, March 24, 2003 | Hey guys, why don't you freshen up the discussion a bit. I got this one off www.guitar9.com, it's quite cool stuff it you're into guitar: it's a russian guy called stereo gentleman, www.stereogentlemen.com, there's a review too on the site.
Yngwie is, no doubts about that, a very fine guitarist. I've been playing for 20 years. Some like it others don't. It's not my cup of tea, but it used to (his first) album Rising Force was, and still is a great piece of guitar. Let us remember that he still has influenced many young guitarists and inspired them to start playing the guitar. And that's still thanks to him. Then, the newcomers leapfrog their teachers and evolution takes place, new stuff comes around and the circle goes on. Words of wisdom? Well, not really, just observing....and there's still other guitarists that not a lot of people know, like Jeff Beck or Steve Lukather for example... ;) Keep cool...
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| Comment by koukousabzi (Anonymous) - Monday, March 31, 2003 | is yngwie malmasteen a gay?
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| Comment by american eagle (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 1, 2003 | at least he's bisexual.
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| Comment by koukousabzi (Anonymous) - Thursday, April 3, 2003 | I don't think so eagle. have you heared about his comments on the plane to Tokyo.while he threatened to kill the woman who poured a glass of water on him.check it out!
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| Comment by a guy (Anonymous) - Thursday, April 3, 2003 | Man you guys are immiture dickheads.
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| Comment by american eagle (Anonymous) - Thursday, April 3, 2003 | Oh, sure he will ! by writting another stupid song like those cried aloud to his criticals, creditors and mortgagees like "vengeance", "liar", "crash 'n' burn", "crucify" and so on...the girl should expect that Mr. Run up and down same old scale will have "no mercy" on her.
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| Comment by michael may (Anonymous) - Friday, April 4, 2003 | mariano j. brascich
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| Comment by mariano brascich (Anonymous) - Friday, April 4, 2003 | congratulations!!11
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| Comment by Lambaster (Anonymous) - Friday, April 18, 2003 | XXX - mybe you should spend more time LISTENING to music instead of whacking off to (probably gay) porno. Yngwie plays a great RHYTHM (learn how to spell while you're at it, moron - maybe then you can get a better "handel" on things LOL) in EVERY song. And no disrespect to the dead or shortchanging of his accomplishments intended, but Rhoades was absolutely primitive compared to Yngwie.
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| Comment by Buckethead (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 | I really can't stand the losers who call people like Yngwie 'Talentless'. Sure his album sales are pretty low, but maybe that's because the charts are being topped by the mainstream crap like Britney Spears and... Linkin Park.
You really think you can judge a musician's talents by his/her album sales? Get a freakin' life. Believe me, I've suffered the exact same kind of abuse, and probably will later on this very website.
Sure, there's probably someone better out there, but i guarantee that it's not the likes of Hammett or Clapton... (No disrespect to them). What I'm TRYING to say is, if you're going to express your opinion, you're going to need to support it somehow, and by that I don't just mean "because he's a fag" or "because he's a fat loser".
If you know who I am, etc, don't even bother arguing over whether I'm real or not; I won't be here again, so anyone else who posts as Buckethead here is fake... And no I don't have a release date for the new GNR album.
Peace, my loves ;)
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| Comment by spleenboy (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 22, 2003 | WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY ^ ^!!!??
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| Comment by aXeman800 (Anonymous) - Sunday, April 27, 2003 | dude, that's buckethead... although the chances of him being real are google to one.
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| Comment by spleenboy (Anonymous) - Sunday, April 27, 2003 | oh yeah. buckethead: slash with a bucket on his head, a stupid raincoat, and a white mask. whatever. we've had enough of these fakes already. get a fucking life, guys.
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| Comment by Eddie Murphy (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 | This is the funniest shit I have ever seen. Is this a comedy bulletin board? The fact that anybody spends time writing about Yngwie cracks me up and secondly that anybody would bother to waste their breath insulting people who are obviously fucking morons. It's all funny!
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| Comment by reason x (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 29, 2003 | you're nothing but right Eddie, and you've just got into the joke...FUNNY HUH????
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| Comment by xxx (Anonymous) - Wednesday, April 30, 2003 | Lambaster, you are a total asshole who knows nothing about guitar.
Randy primative compared to Yngwie?!? Lets see Randy was doing
the whole classical thing and using the harmonic minor way before
fucking yngwie dumbass. But I guess because Randy dosen't overplay
using the same old shit over and over again you consider him primative.
Well thats OK cause your a dumbass and don' t know what your talking about
so you can go and fuck off to some Yngwie music, which your probable doing right
now dipshit.
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| Comment by matt aka smokin frets (Anonymous) - Friday, May 9, 2003 | recently saw malmsteen at mean fiddler in london, mind boggling!
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| Comment by what does it matter? (Anonymous) - Friday, May 9, 2003 | Just thought someone should say that yngwie is probably technically the best guitarist on the planet but there is more to guitar playin than that, to make it big you need magick on stage and this is a rare quality that few possess. Jimi Hendrix is probably the best example of this gift and if yngwie possessed the same energy Hendrix had he wud rule the world but its not something aquired u either have it or you dont and im learning yngwie like most the guitarists at the moment just dont have what it takes to really make a mark on people, its a cryin shame to.
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| Comment by Lambaster (Anonymous) - Sunday, May 11, 2003 | xxx - 1st of all, my remarks were insulting only in response to the insulting tone of your initial remarks, which was unprovoked. You come on calling Yngwie a piece of shit right away, then expect people who appreciate and who are inspired by his music to reply in a civil way?
As I said, my desire (unlike you) is not to slag someone (Rand) who was very talented and who died before realizing his full potential, but the fact is Randy would've never achieved the levels Yngwie has. Listen to the concerto suite or Preludium from WTEAW. You guys PROVE that you're listening on an incredibly shallow level by insisting that Yngwie plays the same shit over & over. All you hear is the speed, evidently you hear none of the variations and subtlety, but then again, that kind of superficiality is typical of adolescent boys.
Randy was coming from a classical GUITAR approach, Yngwie from a classical VIOLIN perspective - completely different. (by the way, Uli Roth was doing FAR more of what Yngwie did later, while still only a fraction, than Randy. He was using harmonic minor way before Randy came along - but what's the difference, since BACH used the scale extensively long before any of them)
Yngwie composed far more than Randy, even if you go only as far into Yngwie's career as Randy's lasted before it was cut short. Randy was only a step up from Eddie, but Yngwie was a whole revolution for rock guitar - light years ahead, dumbasses - counterpoint, pedalpoint, and more recently, full-blown symphonic composition - too bad all you can hear is the speed.
You're missing so much! It must suck to have such deficient ears, huh BOYS?
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| Comment by Lionheart (Anonymous) - Monday, May 12, 2003 | Completely agree with you Lambaster, you don't need to be a genius to recognize someone who's serious into MUSIC...take a look at the whole of this message board and you'll find that the most solid arguments (not every of them positive to Yngwie) come from people with cultural/arstistic background and opposite to greasy kids gnarling whose sole experience of classical music comes from their nintendo sessions...well, now I guees XXX will post more of those "interesting" points of view of his own, wont't he??????
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| Comment by Lambaster (Anonymous) - Monday, May 12, 2003 | Oh boy, I can't wait for that reply, Lionheart! lol - no, but seriously, I don't want to get in flame wars with anyone, including xxx. As I said, the constant slags on Yngwie occasionally irritate me and I'm compelled to say something, though I should probably keep my mouth shut most of the time and I don't.
I just never understood why people find it necessary to go to boards about artists they don't like and slag them. I don't like Korn, but I would never go to their websites or boards and slag them. Also, there are many shredders I don't care much for, but I won't go to their Guestbooks and say ______ is a piece of shit, Yngwie smokes him/her, blah blah blah - I may feel many people may overrate some of these shredders, but what's the point? If I don't like them, I just don't bother with them.
Yeah, I've noticed with certain posters (including yourself) that there seems to be an artistic background. Another excellent point you made was that not all these people are pro-Yngwie. When I run across these people who obviously know music but don't like Yngwie, I have to take them seriously and listen to their points, while still making mine. But I'm afraid "Yngwie suxx and you're an asshole" isn't quite going to get a real serious response from me.....
Anyway, I'm glad to see there are cool people out there - lol - thanks for your post!
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| Comment by owner of a prs (Anonymous) - Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | So far, Lambaster is the hero of this board. Thanks for making such a powerful point, dude. Up until a post by 'Peter' on 1/1/03 which read...
"oh yea, if you want some crazy shred stuff with a BIT more melody than Yngwie start off with some Jason Becker - he woulda ripped Yngwie in 2 if he could still play, Yngwie would be nothing if Becker could still play (cause becker was doing it faster, more melodic and harmonized at a much younger age that Yngwie).....'nuff said."
... There weren't any real negative things beng said about Yngwie. This website is pro-Yngwie, and the only way some of these assholes could've got here in the first place is by typing "yngwie sucks" in a search engine.
All of a sudden, some other dude said "I THINK YNGWIE IS A EGO NO TALENT!!!!!!!!" What an asshole. The board went from positive to negative real fast. Personally I think that Yngwie is an extremelly accomplished and talented musician, those of you who can only bring him down by calling him a 'fag' obviously have nothing at all to prove. My point has been made.
So, from here on, anyone who insults Yngwie or the likes of Yngwie in a very stupid way, I shall officially certify as a 'fan of Korn'. Good day to you all.
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| Comment by aXeman800 (Anonymous) - Tuesday, May 13, 2003 | good point there, p.r.s guy.
could a man with no talent play 'flight of the bumblebee' on a fender strat? hell no.
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| Comment by spleenboy (Anonymous) - Thursday, May 15, 2003 | go away.
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| Comment by strat king (Anonymous) - Thursday, June 19, 2003 | hey there
yngwie's pretty good. i studied him for a while, copped his best licks, then moved on. every now and then ill put on Krakatau real loud. nothing like a little 'yngwie in the morning' to wake you up.
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| Comment by Jimi Van Vaimsteen (Anonymous) - Friday, June 20, 2003 | I had to post just because I think this name is hilarious...
Anyways, going WAY back in these posts, good old "Uli Jon Roth" (hehehe) over there forgot all about Yngwie owning one his model 7 strings....LOL
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| Comment by owner of a prs (Anonymous) - Saturday, June 21, 2003 | ... Or indeed, a little 'Yngwie at lunchtime', with the likes of arpeggios from hell.
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| Comment by outsider (Anonymous) - Monday, June 23, 2003 | I am a fan of Malmsteen's but I am also a fan of many other guitarists. It seems to me that a lot of you define a good guitarist by how fast he can play or by how many records he has sold. Yngwie never claimed to be the fastest guitarist and he makes it pretty clear that he doesn't like mainstream music. I seem to remember reading somewhere that Yngwie likes his songs to sound good whether he plays them fast or slow. Those of you who worship Yngwie like a god should become more openminded and listen to other styles and techniques. If you listen to the same thing you will probably sound like the same thing and remain unchanged. If you listen to a variety you might can gain some insight on each style and maybe incorporate it to find something new. For those of you who think Yngwie sucks and and has no guitar technique, maybe you should look at some of the comments you've written. Some of you can't even type a sentence without making several mistakes, let alone play a guitar as accurately and with as much precision as Yngwie. Also, does Yngwie's ego have an effect on how he plays the guitar? Does it really control his level of skill and difficulty? As long as he can make music I don't care how he acts.
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| Comment by Randall L (Anonymous) - Tuesday, July 22, 2003 | Yngwies newest release is probably his best one all together,He is one of the all time great guitar players but its sad that he does not get the recognition that many far less talented ones do..Like Clapton etc..
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| Comment by some_guy_that_plays_guitar (Anonymous) - Saturday, August 2, 2003 | I must say guitar players in general are really fucking cocky...
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| Comment by some_guy_that_plays_guitar (Anonymous) - Saturday, August 2, 2003 | Face it - Yngwie is an asshole, cocky as hell. I respect the man for his amazing technique. But the man is a complete show off. Nothing more. Move on.
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| Comment by some_guy_that_plays_guitar (Anonymous) - Saturday, August 2, 2003 | Owner of a prs thinks he's hot shit. I bet he sucks. By the way...I DID find this site by typing in "Yngwie sucks" on a search engine.
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| Comment by Zach Hoban (Anonymous) - Tuesday, August 5, 2003 | I wonder if this is a real interview. You never know anymore. It seems to me that the only way a person gets better is to practice. Unfortunately Yngwie fails to list anywhere on his website or his articles that he has practiced with metronome. He says he does no exercises and just plays. Bullshit Yngwie. This is not only God given talent but also hard work. Who do you think you are fooling. While your music is very intense and inspiring, I would like to see collaboration with Tony MacAlpine in the future. Please be more honest in your lessons and articles on guitar playing how specifically you built up your speed. And dont tell players out there you dont know.
Cheers
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| Comment by TJ White www.tjwhite.net (Anonymous) - Thursday, August 21, 2003 | I have studied Yngwie for years. After learning the licks, I have taken what I want and put it to use in my own playing style. It takes practice to build up to Yngwie's speed, but it is NOT impossible. Once you "decode" his finger placements and landmarks, the arpeggios and sweep runs are quite natural. Practice DOES make perfect and while Yngwie may be unwilling to share with his fans the WAY he practices, it is understood and generally accepted that the man does in fact still practice. Whether it's accomplished in front of the TV or not doesn't matter. (Actually, if you are one who watches TV, this would make a GREAT time to get in some practice) I too think Yngwie can be pompous and 80's retro with the tight pants and big hair, but hey, this is his image. In fairness, he IS a professional entertainer. We all have seen more extreme examples of pomp. My guitar playing has been enhanced by Yngwie's influence, and I mention that in all my own promotional copy and interviews. I am thankful for his contribution and have many Strats with scalloped necks. Love 'em.
For all you Yngwie fans out there who want to but can't (yet) play his riffs, keep at it... As far as the authenticity of the above interview, I can vouch for it being the real deal. The rest of you Yngwie haters, go post on the ANTI Yngwie website, not this one.
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| Comment by alex (Anonymous) - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 | i think yngwie is excellent. thats it.
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| Comment by The Machine aka me@myplace.com (Anonymous) - Monday, October 13, 2003 | Yngwie's so fat that when the microphone fell from in front of his wall-o-marshalls-all-cranked-to-ten and you couldn't hear them
Yngwie's so fat that he can reach from the first fret to the tenth
fret.... with one finger
Yngwie's so fat that his amp tech made him a pedal board out of parts from a truck weigh station
Yngwie's so fat that people in the audience say "that guy plays a
violin like a guitar".
Yngwie's so fat that when him and Shawn Lane were out having a drink, a bunch of groupies asked Yngwie who his skinny friend was.
Yngwie's SOOO fat that he has to look in the mirror to see what he's playing.....after he sees, he starts saying his own Yngwie's SOOOO fat jokes
I can say these jokes, because I'm a waaaaaaaaaaaaaay better guitarist than slacker boy yngwie! Remember that, jackasses!
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| Comment by The Machine aka me@myplace.com (Anonymous) - Monday, October 13, 2003 | Yngwie practices like this:
Bite twinkie
Chew
Swallow
Repeat
Do this continuously and soon you will be just like weenie head yngwie!
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| Comment by Morten (Anonymous) - Monday, October 13, 2003 | @above
Someone is desperate need of a life!
You're supposed to eat the twinkie not smoke it...
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| Comment by Steve (Anonymous) - Wednesday, October 15, 2003 | I happened to stumble upon this website purely by accident. But I must say it was a good read. I never laughed so hard in my life!
Music is not about competition, period. The real battle is impressing yourselves, not others. Sure, we all want people to admire what we do, whether it's music, sports, cooking, etc.
I tip my hat to Yngwie. No, I don't think he'll ever write a halfway-decent song, but his technique is astounding. I personally liked his stuff with Alcatrazz the best. When someone is prodding him, he is at his best. He had more fire and soul in his playing in that band. His vibrato was to die for! Left to his own devices, he can't edit himself.
I feel that my opinion is just that..my opinion. Nobody has to agree with me.
Judging by the comments I've read here, you all view guitar playing as a gunslinging match. It shouldn't be this way. "So and so is not worth the hair on so-and-so's butt" or whatever the case may be...YOU ALL NEED TO GROW UP! If you're 12 or 13, then that behaviour is somewhat acceptable. I work with guys much older than me(I'm 34) and when they talk like a 13-year-old, I just shake my head and say "It's just MUSIC, dammit!" LOL
By the way...Uli Roth is not the type to say bad things about Yngwie or anyone else, for that matter.
One more thing...I own two 7-string guitars and they opened up my writing tremendously. If you're one of those "7-string sucks" kind of dudes, I can only feel sorry for you. You're missing out on opening up new doors. I think if Yngwie did play a 7-string, he would make that thing scream!
I've said enough...now just learn to love music for music's sake!
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Monday, October 20, 2003 | Look, you fuckin retards can argue all you want about "how fast Yngwie is" or "how Kirk Hammett can kick Yngwie's ass in shredding". Speed isn't the only thing that makes a good guitarist. It's idiotic to compose a list ranking guitarists by how "good they are", especially when a list like that has Eric Clapton and Yngwie in the category. The talent factor of a guitarist depends on so many different things besides just speed and technique. Yngwie is one of the greatest neo-classical guitarists around BUT he is ridiculously bad at playing the blues (and those of you who've seen his "instructional video" can agree). It's not his fault, blues just isn't his particular style. Blues is all about feeling and a distinctive type of musical expression of sadness that flourishes in that type of music. Yngwie ruins that by putting in completely useless arpeggiations and shredded scales into it. But that doesn't mean that he's BAD. Just not the best guitarist for Blues music. Just as, I'm sure, Eric Clapton wouldn't do to well playing neo-classical metal. But that wouldn't make him bad either. If speed is all you morons care about, by all means, rank Yngwie, Jason Becker, and Michael Angelo above Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn. Obviously the speed and style of the guitarist are the only contributing factors that make a "great" guitarist. Certainly not what the guitarist did to music itself. In every single post (unless I missed something) I noticed that no one even bothered to mention the incredible Robert Johnson, who belongs in any "top guitarist" list for what he did for music and delta blues. Nor did anyone mention Ramon Montoya for his contribution and expertise in Spanish Flamenco guitar. THen there's also Chuck Schuldiner of Death and his death metal influence, The Edge from U2 for his innovative approach and philosophy towards music and melody, Tom Morello for his near-rhythmic technique in Rage Against the Machine, etc etc. The list can go on for ages. The truth is, Yngwie is a good guitarist in his own field. Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Steve Vai, Angus Young, Joe Perry, Marty Friedman; all good guitarists in their own field and good musicians in general. But that's it. They're good musicians. Some are weaker where others are strong and vice versa. So you goddamn fuckwits can sit around all you want and waste your time arguing about how much better Yngwie is at playing guitar than whoever you idiots are comparing him to this week. Meanwhile, I will get on with it and recognize the talent that these musicians have within their own spectrum and the musicianship they may display. Silly me.
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| Comment by RR81 (Anonymous) - Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | Lambassfkr: To say that Rhoads was primitive in comparing him with Yngwie is a joke!Have you ever sat down and listened to the Tribute live recording with Randy Rhoads?? just remember that was in 81, if he were still alive today he would blow Yngwie away in a hearbeat.
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| Comment by Marinko (Anonymous) - Tuesday, October 21, 2003 | Yngwie is good, but Greg Howe is a far better player!!
Not to mention Shawn Lane, which can put Yngwie running like hell...Shawn Lane is one of the best!!
Ranking:
1 - Shawn Lane
2 - Greg Howe
3 - Vinnie Moore
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30 - Yngwie...
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| Comment by Bela Fleck (Anonymous) - Tuesday, November 4, 2003 | You brain dead fucks still haven't realized that the person posing as the Yng is actually Grace Slick on steroids.
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| Comment by David (Anonymous) - Tuesday, November 11, 2003 | yngwie malmsteen is a loser, his music sux, he makes my 4 year old borthers guitar playing look good. his music is not melodic all he's got is speed, he's an arrogant show off and he looks like a fat housewife with a strat
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| Comment by dixiehound1961 (Anonymous) - Wednesday, November 12, 2003 | To Steve of 10/15/03: I too accidentally stumbled upon all of this. You are right -- very amusing indeed! I'm probably in the minority here being that I'm female and 42, but I wonder if any of you guys have ever heard of Chet Atkins or Roy Clark? Granted, they are not heavy rockers, but deserve their propers. Best to all and keep rockin! P.S. I am a Pete Townshend fan.
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| Comment by berl (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 13, 2003 | Yngwie sucks so much ass it's disgusting. he sucks shit in hell. he's the most over rated assbag ever. he is a talented guitar player but his music is dated 80's trash that no one wants to hear. there's no wonder he never made it the radio. yngwie blows jimi hendrix's cock 10000 times. anyone who likes his shit has no idea what music is about. Yngwie you suck filthy cocks, you always have sucked cocks, and always will. fuck you Yngwie Malmsteen. fuck you to death.
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| Comment by Andy (Anonymous) - Friday, November 14, 2003 | Berl sucks so much ass it's disgusting. he sucks shit in hell. he's the most under rated assbag ever. he is a talented insulter but his music vision is dated 80 b.c. trash that no one wants to hear. there's no wonder he never made it anywhere. berl blows yngwie's cock 10000 times. anyone who likes his shit has no idea what music is about. Berl you suck filthy cocks, you always have sucked cocks, and always will. fuck you Berl. fuck you to death.
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Saturday, November 15, 2003 | Hey Steve (10/15/03)
I bet seeing these fuckin fuckwit losers post their sheltered and completely ignorant comments about "how Yngwie is a cocky faggot" or "how Yngwie is a fat bastard" makes you cringe with disgust.
I know I do.
Oh! Oh! Maybe I'll criticize and make fun of Steve Vai because he has a mole on his back or maybe I'll criticize Eddie Van Halen because his teeth are not porcelain white!!!! Hey!! Maybe I'll completely ignore John McLaughlin's musical talent because he's a picky eater!!! Or better yet!!!!! I'll ridicule Keith Richards' musicianship because he's old!! HAHA!! Yeah, apparently "looks and personality" have everything to do with how skilled a guitarist is. God forbid Jimi Hendrix gained a little weight or all you fuckasses would talk shit about him too!
All you shitheads arguing about "who's a faster shredder" and jeering about "how cocky Yngwie is" make me sick. You fuckers don't even deserve the privelege of listening to music.
Idiots.
Steve... I feel sorry for the both of us. Immersed, here, in a massive vat of shitthinkers. At least we know how to appreciate music properly.
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Saturday, November 15, 2003 | You too dixiehound1961 (11/12/03).
I'm sorry you had to see such rubbish coming out of all these supposed "musicians".
Pete Townshend is great and it's even greater that you like him. I bet most of the people in this forum don't like him because he's partically deaf, since all they care about is everything except the actual musicianship.
Cheers dixiehound. :)
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| Comment by dixiehound1961 (Anonymous) - Wednesday, November 19, 2003 | To Joe (11/15/03)
Alas, intelligence amidst this sounding board. To quote SNL's late great motivational speaker Matt Foley: They are "living in a van down by the river." Send me an e-mail @yahoo.com if you ever come across interesting music-related tidbits or any sites as funny as this one as I'm always up for a good laugh. Take care.
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| Comment by Cacophony (Anonymous) - Friday, November 21, 2003 | You released da fockin' fyoory!!!
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Sunday, November 23, 2003 | To dixiehound:
Haha, well said. What's you name? What kind of music do you listen to? (Besides The Who :P)
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| Comment by Gunther (Anonymous) - Monday, November 24, 2003 | What's next about these faggots?? A public hang around invitation??? What the fuck do we care about your opinion on Pete Townhsend???
This is a Malmsteen sounding board not a Joe & Dixiehound one.
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| Comment by dixiehound1961 (Anonymous) - Tuesday, November 25, 2003 | To Joe:
My name is Carol, and I live in Augusta, Georgia. If you'd like, you can e-mail me anytime at dixiehound1961@yahoo.com. I listen to all of the veteran rockers as well as their disciples i.e. Ed Roland, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl. Long Live ROCK!!
Hey Gunther - chill out dude! We're all just having good fun here. Go back and read ALL the comments - you'll laugh your ass off man! P.S. Kiss my GRITS :)
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 2, 2003 | To dixiehound:
Coolness, I'll be in touch soon. :)
To Gunther:
Shut up.
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| Comment by Bojan (Anonymous) - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 | There are lot of great guitar-players - like Tony MacAlpine, George Lynch, Victor Smolski, Shawn Lane, Greg Howe, Andy LaRocque, etc. - but Yngwie is just the fuckin best... ;)
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| Comment by EWWW is a dumb ass (Anonymous) - Wednesday, December 3, 2003 | Hey dumbass , you should probably remove the shit from your brain before you talk shit about yngwie. Not only does he play circles around your friends Kirk, eric, and even steve (although steve to a much lesser extent), he knows how to play in tune. Something that Kirk has a little trouble with. In fact, listening to Kirk Hammett is a lot like getting your dick caught in your fly. Very unpleasant. I cant even imagine how stupid you must be to even mension Yngwie and Kirk Hammett in the same sentence. Either your deaf and you just go by what your gay tastes tell you or you have absolutely no musical ear. Yngwie Malmsteen has more tallent in his left testicle than all of the guys you have mentioned put togother! You might as well stop listening to guitar all together because all you are doing is polluting your mind with Kirk Hammetts filth.
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| Comment by EWWW SUCKS (Anonymous) - Friday, December 5, 2003 | you just have no taste and yo suck fuckin cock
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| Comment by steve morse (Anonymous) - Thursday, December 11, 2003 | iam god. please.
enough said
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| Comment by metalme (Anonymous) - Sunday, December 14, 2003 | i think yngwie is really cool, i like the way he plays......clean
and really fast. he is a master of guitar techniques.
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| Comment by Jason Becker / Rhandy Rhoads Fan (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | Whoever said Kirk Hammet is better than Yngwie is a moron who obviously doesn't know how to play any of Kirk's solos. Look, unlike you I play in a Metallica cover band, and we actually play the good Metallica songs from the 1980's that Metallica is too drunk and lazy to play anymore- songs like Disposable Heroes, Fight Fire With Fire, Ride The Lightning, Damage Inc., and Blackened. Kirk's solos are easy to play since (unlike Yngwie) he has a weak alternate picking technique and relies on fast hammer ons and pull-offs and 2 hand tapping for much of his fast playing, plus Kirk is a "wah pedal whore" who uses a wah pedal all the time to cover up his sloppy playing. I bet you're so ignorant that you think that Kirk's one-note "solo" in Metallica's St. Anger album is better than anything Yngiwe played, and you probably think that the Metallica drummer SARS Ulrich is better than Gene Hoglan or Dave Lombardo. Look, I can play all those Kirk solos without any problems (they're not that hard once you figure out Kirk's tricks), and I can play all of RHandy Rhoads's solos too, since they revolve around 2 hand tapping and hammer-on / pulloff techniques for the most part, but I also have the tab book for Yngwie Malmsteen's "Fire and Ice" album, and I am just completely cowed by that fucking thing. I sit down with the tab book and a cup of coffee to try play the intro to the song "Fire and Ice" and I am like, how the hell do I play a million notes in 5 seconds. LOL. And yeah, Michael Angelo is the world's fastest guitar player but who cares? All his original compositions sound like pretty lifeless technical exercises for the most part. Speed in and of itself is pointless. Yngwie at least does play with some feeling even though he does tend to repeat the same lick from J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D-minor over and over again in his solos (Yngwie if you're reading this, please leave that Toccata & Fuge in D-minor string-skipping lick alone, move on to new material, you are such a great player and you can do so much better than that- the only criticism I really have of your playing is the repetitiveness of some of your solos). Also, it is a common misconception that Yngwie does nothing but sweep-pick all the time, nothing could be more true, he doesn't sweep pick half as much in his pieces as say, Michael Angelo or the great Jason Becker does, in most of the passages where Yngwie is playing very fast, HE IS ACTUALLy ALTERNATE PICKING EVERY SINGLE NOTE!!! how amazing is that? That's right, for the most part Yngwie doesn't rely on "tricks" like hammer-ons, pull-offs, 2 hand tapping, or sweep picking to play fast (although he does utilize all 3 of those techniques, just not as often as other guitar players do) that's why I guess it is so hard for me to play his solos, compared to Kirk's easy wah-pedal whore solos. Anyway, one more thing, Rhapsody sucks man. I went out and bought their Revenge of the Dragonflamer CD or whatever it was called and it was awful. Man if you think they are good, you need to go on Kazaa and download mp3's of the Cacophony songs "Concerto" and "Speed Metal Symphony" by Jason Becker and Marty Friedman. "Concerto" is like the best neo-classical shred instrumental ever- it's a symphony of nothing but electric guitars, no cheesy and fake sounding "synthesizer symphonies" like Rhapsody plays.
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| Comment by Jason Becker / Rhandy Rhoads Fan (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | oh yeah, one more thing I forgot to mention, check out Alex Skolnick's solos on Testament's "First Strike Still Deadly" album. In my humble and worthless opinion, that album is one of the best thrash metal albums ever. It easily ranks up there with other thrash masterpieces like Metallica's Master Of Puppets. Just judging by Testament's last two albums- "The Gathering" and "First Strike Still Deadly", they have got to be like the best thrash band in existence right now. I saw slayer play live a few weeks ago, and they played the entire "Reign In BLood" album live as their encore, and even they couldn't top the Testament show I saw a few months before that where they played "Over The Wall" and Chuck Billy incited the whole crowd to storm the stage (we all rushed up there when chuck said "Over the Wall", hehe) and we had an onstage moshpit with the band playing their guitar and bass solos in the middle. Now how cool is that? Man, I so wish Ca$htallica would go back to playing thrash metal and doing cool stuff like that. Oh well, now my band is thinking of changing direction from being a Metallica cover band to being a Testament / Judas Priest tribute band....
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| Comment by Joe (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 16, 2003 | To Yngwie/Rhoads fan:
I admit, I do admire your ability to defend your words against Hammett with sturdy facts instead of the usual "duhhhh.... Yngwie shits twinkies on Kirk Hammett's guitar playing." that is usually posted here by most of these self-proclaimed "musicians".
But once again, I must emphasize the fact that a TRUE musician should realize that speed has very little to do with how skilled a musician is. Kirk Hammett is not worse than Yngwie, he's just different in his style. If Kirk played his solos like Yngwie, I'd probably never listen to Fade To Black again. It's such a beautifully constructed song and the very notes seem to be mourning right along with them. An "Yngwiefied" Kirk playing that song would add hundreds of completely cumbersome and functionless notes thus displacing all the emotion of the song. (And he'd use that Toccata & Fugue string skip lick a few times, just like he did with Dio when he covered Aerosmith's "Dream On" <---Another song butchered by his ridiculous, unnecessary shredding.
Another aspect that is grossly overlooked is composition skills. Sure Yngwie is a decent composer when it comes to neo-classical metal as is Kirk Hammett with thrash metal BUT so many Kirk's songs along with their riffs are considered masterpieces in composition. People who don't even like metal may very well recognize the infamous intro to "One" or "Fade To Black" or "Master Of Puppets" and these songs were quite innovative for their time. Yngwie was around during the early Metallica period but I don't see much of his work cited in guitar books or mentioned by many guitarists. Kirk had a knack for composition. And still, I have to point out that that DOESN'T make him BETTER, just DIFFERENT.
Well, you may very well disagree with everything I've said thus far but that's the way my senses perceive music. Speed is NOT everything. There is no such thing as a "better" guitarist, only differences in style.
I hope what I'm saying makes sense to you because it seems like you're one of the more respectable musicians on this site (unlike almost everyone else who like to think that a person's appearance or dietary habits define how good of a guitarist he is).
And yes, Testament is the ultimate thrash metal band. :P
By the way, what's the name of your band?
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| Comment by H (Anonymous) - Wednesday, December 17, 2003 | To Rhoads/Yngwie Fan & Joe,
Fan, I very much appreciate your observations, you bring out several points that most people here can't remotely figure out due to their MTV indoctrination.
I'm a Malmsteen fan/guitar player and have studied his style too. In fact, it's not only the Bach-esque string skipping lick the only thing that Yngwie should be considering to remove in future composing: there you have the 3 string minor/diminished arpeggio
pattern ALWAYS used as interlude, I mean, he could come up with any other kind of structure when thinking about an interlude which instead results 99% in that pattern, and...why the hell to play pedal point ALWAYS upon the 15th,17th,19th or 20th frets of 1st and 2nd strings???? And what about ALWAYS bending at the 21th fret up to fucking same E ???? and so on...
Regarding Michael Angelo, I used to think like you about him, but once I listened to "No Boundaries" well, I had to change my mind a bit (still you are somewhat right about his frentic playing), yet exists plenty of melody, feeling and honesty in his music, at least in that album. Another thing that Michael Angelo fans don't seem to note when comparing him with Yngwie is the fact that Angelo's soloing is MOSTLY chromatic (more quantity of notes)and thereon, more linear than Yngwie's which is mostly minor based (less quantity of notes) and not so linear, the auditive result is that Angelo is running the scales faster than Yngwie, but the real thing is Yngwie plays a minor based run and the effect is almost CHROMATIC, it is, almost circular with less notes!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe, I agree with you regarding speed and being good or bad against being DIFFERENT, BUT
we in no way can't deny of the resources, skills and open possibilities that define and make the DIFERENCE between two guitar players. To say the opposite would pretend what is not.
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| Comment by The Great Kat (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 23, 2003 | I think that Garfield likes Snoopy because he flirted with Odie who had sex with SpongeBob Squarepants that day :(
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| Comment by A real musician (Anonymous) - Friday, December 26, 2003 | great kat sucks balls. her stuff is just noise. it's not fuckin music. she needs to be raped by a street gang and beaten during her pregnancy. dumb bitch
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| Comment by ShredMasterChop (Anonymous) - Monday, January 5, 2004 | Allright, this is The Shredmaster back again after 14 months (DAMN THIS THREAD IS LONG) and I have come to a few conclusions. I saw Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai, and Satch on the G3'03 tour, and I came to the conclusion that while Yngwie does put on a great show, and his band is great, his music was not all that different then Rising Force. In fact, the most applause came when he started to play Black Star. His technique was good, and he could keep up while jamming with Vai and Satch, and thats all that he was doing, keeping up. My original post said that he had not changed his style, nor his guitar tone, and I witnessed first hand the very thing that I said. He can sweep, and play an excellent Jimi Hendrix rendition, but his playing lacks change, which I think that for someone who could create a style of guitar playing (neoclassical shred) and not innovate with the times to be too bad.
Now, for someone who has changed with the times, check out Steve Vai. Even Steves backup guitar player could out shred Yngwie (Tony MacAlpine) and his band bowed to no one that night. Innovation? I may not be the biggest Vai fan, but some of the things that he does, both technically and emotionally with his music were far more interesting (and faster) then what Yngwie had to play. I am a guitar player, and I am the first to admit that Yngwie does have some finger twisting songs that I cant even come close to, but Vai, Tony MacAlpine, Jason Becker, and Rusty Cooley have a collection of music that innovates with the times, instead of stagnating.
P.S. I live on the same street as Kirk Hammet, and I still think his playing sucks. wanna know why? because his playing lacks substance. Yngwie could out shred Kirk any day, because Yngwie can at least play outside the pentatonic box. Check out most of Kirks solos, which include Box patterns, tremolo picking, and tapping, and that lame ass drummer Lard Bullshit playing his stupid patterns behind kirk. If only they had fired Lars and hired someone who could play (and think).
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| Comment by Shred (Anonymous) - Saturday, January 10, 2004 | wow. too much guitar praise for an asshole immigrant who thinks he's one of the best guitar players out there. he's not even close to among the best. and the whole lefties guitar, strung up for a righty...wanna-be jimi hendrix thing is just totally gay. what an asshole...listen to george lynch and marty friedman....own shitsteen.
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| Comment by Morten- (Anonymous) - Saturday, January 10, 2004 | @shred...
ehrm 'tard the US consists of immigrents, the only ones who are'nt immigrant are the Indians...
And ohh every body want's to be like Hendrix, play out of tune, out of scale, out beat... ypper. Hendrix was the first that's true but that's about it. And ever litened to Speed Metal Symphoney or Go Off??? Friedman gets floored in both taste-, style- and shredwise by Jason Becker.
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| Comment by Smart Guy (Anonymous) - Saturday, January 10, 2004 | Shred: I mean, what's wrong about Malmsteen thinking he's one of the best guitar players out there???? The US are essentialy a bunch of stupid immigrants thinking they're the best nation in the world !!!!!!!
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| Comment by Morten (Anonymous) - Wednesday, January 21, 2004 | @above
Take your pills and get a life...
(I guess there's a webby who might want to save us all some time and edit the post a bit?? ;-) )
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| Comment by to jason becker ......+ (Anonymous) - Sunday, January 25, 2004 |
I also have the tab book of fire and ice, and it is not that good.The arpeggio tabs of "fire and ice"are put in such an awful manner. They can easily be played using only the e,b,and g strings.someone else said something about yngwie's interludes which is not true.to me most of them sound very unique and beautiful.i am not sure but i think that "heathens from the north" has an interlude without diminished arps, "demon driver" has sort of a chromatic interlude with only one diminished etc.. and the pedal bach thing is very cool, he shouldn't get rid of it anyway, I liked your post especially when you said that thing about the guy not being able to play hammett's stuff .\And please people, stop referring to michael angelo as the fastest player. If you want fast, buy or download CHRIS IMPELLITTERI'S instructional video. that guy alternates 6 string arpeggios.I can't believe that not many
shred guitar players know of this monster.
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| Comment by ryan (Anonymous) - Thursday, February 26, 2004 | u bunch a fuckin dipshits...Yngwie Malmsteen has an ego like no other...he has the balls to insult Hammett n Vai...what a nutsack...hes a great guitarist...but he has his head up his ass. I H8 him with a passion!! He can even compare 2 the likes of Randy Rhoads(R.I.P)!!
Stupid swedish prick!
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| Comment by yngwie (Anonymous) - Thursday, February 26, 2004 | you're a stupid swedish prick.
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| Comment by Morten (Anonymous) - Sunday, February 29, 2004 | @above
And you making an intelligent comment like that, makes you...??
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Sunday, February 29, 2004 | Dimebag Darrell is the king
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| Comment by yngwie (Anonymous) - Tuesday, March 2, 2004 | @ Morten
Yes.
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| Comment by yngwie (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 6, 2004 | I am a bort fligga bop bop.
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| Comment by yngwie (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | you're all just jealous.
losers.
I truly hope that none of you were any of my recent G3 shows.
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| Comment by Mik (Anonymous) - Sunday, April 18, 2004 | I love listening to Malmsteen, vai and Satriani but name one song that shows Kirt Hammett as a technicle guitarist, he uses the wha peddle too much and his solos always sound the same.
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| Comment by I am he, who might u be? (Anonymous) - Sunday, April 18, 2004 | Malmsteen rules, randy roads rules but Zakk Wyled just kicks ass.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, May 7, 2004 | Michael angelo batio is the fastest followed by yngwie
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| Comment by H (Anonymous) - Saturday, May 8, 2004 | If we're talking about nothing but speed, we ought to say that probably Chris Impelliteri is the fastest guy. As I wrote before, Angelo plays the most chromatically, hence the 'speed' feel more circular, Malsteen and Impelliteri plays the most inminor/modal scales, so imagine these guys playing a la Angelo and he might not be the fastest.
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| Comment by ynggay (Anonymous) - Saturday, May 29, 2004 | i'm gay
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| Comment by Petrucci (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 8, 2004 | yngwie is THE best GUITARIST entertainer!
ok ok so he shredds so much that some people cant pay attension to his songs. but when he plays LIVE thats when he stands out as the best in the world, he is a true musical entertainer.
when you see a yngwie show u get no bullshit, you get what you pay for! just like with steve vai and metallica.
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| Comment by petrucci (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 8, 2004 | who gives a FUCK whos the fastest!!!
(michael angelo is the fastest but yngwie is NOT second fastest)
the song somewhere over the rainbow by impelitari is so beautiful THATs what we should be talking about, how a guitarist can move us emotionally. just because its faster than jeff becks 'cause we've ended as lovers' doesnt mean its better, they are on the same level of beauty i believe. i love yngwie because of his emotion he puts into his playing and most of his songs are really good and full of hooks. not the fucking speed
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| Comment by idiothater (Anonymous) - Wednesday, June 9, 2004 | ynggay has no real emotion, you fucking wannabe musicfan reject, only love of being a cock rock wanker. if he had any emotion, he wouldn't be preoccupied with showing off how uselessly fast he is. he's not even a musician. he's an athlete. the shit he spews out isn't music.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Saturday, June 12, 2004 | I am the fastest 300bpm
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Monday, June 14, 2004 | you're a fucking moron jamer.
fuck you.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Thursday, June 24, 2004 | guitar playing is not about emotion or speed but originality.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 | like i said. you're a fucking moron. i'm not even going to bother responding to that retarded comment.
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| Comment by Rasheed (Anonymous) - Tuesday, June 29, 2004 | Any Ynygwie basher is just a jealous guitar player. He isn't a cocky man at all. He is a gentleman. He has his own style which he doesn't need to change. Clapton has his own way too. Michael Angelo is awesome. Yngwie and Van Halen should do a recording together. I think there is nothing wrong with speed but there is something wrong with jealousy and hatred.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, July 2, 2004 | i didn't want you to respond to it you pessimistik prik
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, July 2, 2004 | i'm talking to the dick who stole
my name by the way
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| Comment by Yngwank (Anonymous) - Tuesday, July 6, 2004 | He always sounds the same. He's had a few inspired moments early in his career, but now it's always the same old same old. And he has some annoying vocalist screaming laughable lyrics like "I am a Viking" over his crappy music which is basically arpeggio after arpeggio. Anyone who knocks grunge because he wanted the lame hair metal 80's to go on forever doesn't know inspired music isn't always the hardest thing to play from a technical standpoint. Of course, 90% of grunge was crap too, but 99% of 80's metal was utter shit. And to top it all off, he's a fucking dick. The interviewer asks him how he's doing at the beginning of the interview and he doesn't even have the common courtesy to say "fine, thanks", but instead tells him to get on with it.
He can sit in floriduh for the rest of his life scalloping the fretboards of his million wasted strats, making his lame instructional tapes and touring Japan once in a while until he croaks having not even been a footnote in musical history. He's not Paganini, he's not Blackmore, he's a soulless Swedish meatball on par with Aqua, Europe, Ace of Base, and Abba (yeah, what a musical hotbed of talent).
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 | haha. what a tard.
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| Comment by Steve Bello (Anonymous) - Tuesday, July 13, 2004 | I haven't been on here in a while and I see that nothing has changed much LOL! To dixiehound, thanks for the nice compliments! And to Joe as well for kind words as well.
Just for the hell of it, I have a new website you all can check out if you're at all curious: www.stevebello.com
Thanks and stay cool!
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Sunday, July 18, 2004 | fake jamer is most defenitly gay
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| Comment by Me (Anonymous) - Sunday, July 18, 2004 | Well, here we go again with the gay thing...webmaster should be seriously considering to reserve some room for gay forum, as it seems to have plenty of audience around.
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| Comment by mariano j brascich (Anonymous) - Tuesday, July 20, 2004 | www.studiomjb.com official web paga
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Sunday, July 25, 2004 | yeah you are. what the fuck are you trying to prove by stealing my name anyways?
you fucking retard
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Sunday, July 25, 2004 | your a fucking dick
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Sunday, July 25, 2004 | oh look at me i'm so funny i stole his name now i'm pretending to be him
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Wednesday, July 28, 2004 | i'm not the one so unoriginal that i have to steal someone else's (idiotic) name. you're even worse than the shithead that stole Uli Jon Roth's name, way before.
get a life, loser.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, August 20, 2004 | OoooTWAT
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| Comment by IDB Chops (Anonymous) - Sunday, August 29, 2004 | Ok, I saw malmsteen in may, lynch was also playing the show.
Ok now, those of you who rag on malmsteen or kirk are fucking selfish. You guys are the ones that want the guitarist to play for you and only for you, and if you don't like something that he played, and just because you don't like it, you insult him and humiliate yourselves. So shut the fuck up and listen to what he is playing, if you don't like it, fuck off.
The man put countless hours into perfecting and honing his skills. Who the fuck are you to put someone else down? what if half the world ragged on your ass huh? You would be crying like the little bitches that you are.
I loved watching yngwie play, hes cocky? fat? so what? gimmie a fucking break. You guys want your guitarists to look hot or something? now THATS gay. What business is it of yours how he acts with people or how fat his ass is? Non one of your goddamn bussiness, once again, shut the fuck up.
George lynch also played the same show yngwie did, and to all you guys that like lynch, go fuckin die. That old ass piece of shit played cRAP-Metal at the show, fucking pathetic, fuck off and die lynch, you saggy gimp.
Most of you people who rag on guitar players are fuckin jealous, yeah thats right, I know it, you are all secretly wishing you could play that well or even have a fraction of the popularity they had or do now. Go stand next to yngwie and call him a fag then, and try to play what he plays, can you? NO, and even if you can, so what, can you come up with soooo many unforgettable classics. Most of you are a bunch of kids that haven't grown up and don't know how to appreciate someone's hard work, and aren't even merely mature enough to walk away from something that isn't your fancy instead of throwing insults.
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| Comment by IDB Chops (Anonymous) - Monday, August 30, 2004 | ...oh and not to rag on yngwie or anything, I think Becker's "Concerto" disgustingly smokes yngwie, and I honestly don't think yngwie can play that song the way becker can. I'm a drummer but I'm looking at the tabs for concerto and just the finger placement is something that I haven't seen yngwie do. Really sad what happened to Becker.
Get well bro!
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 | duhhhh, my name is jamer and i'm a fucking moron that likes the taste of his own cum-filled ass.
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| Comment by IDB Chops (Anonymous) - Friday, September 10, 2004 | thats pretty gross jamer
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, September 10, 2004 | don't cry you fucking turd
puncher
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, September 10, 2004 | go lik your musty dog fanny
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| Comment by IDB Chops (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 12, 2004 | what a bunch of kids
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, September 17, 2004 | More like, you go "lik" your musty dog fanny.
NERD!
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, September 17, 2004 | Stay out of this Chops. This is between me and the cowfish.
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| Comment by sick of gay teens (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 19, 2004 | Why young gay people keep using this forum to post their gay fantasies to each other??..... gee, get yourselves a date and make your nasty dream come true anywhere the hell else !!!
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| Comment by Dan The Axe Man (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 25, 2004 | Malmsteen Sucks. He is truly a cockhead only liked by poser faggots!
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| Comment by Dan The Axe Man (Anonymous) - Saturday, September 25, 2004 | Get off this Malmsteen A God Bullshit. Listen to Shaun Fuckin Lane and you will see where im coming from!
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| Comment by Hugo Matos (Anonymous) - Sunday, September 26, 2004 | i think that the guy that stole jamer's nick is so gay!!!!he chould just go listen to his Christina Aguilera records(who he must think that is the best guitarrist in the world xP)
about yngwie, he is my favourite guitar player, but i dont just hang around sayin he's the best, because no guitarrist is perfect!!!Dan the Axe MAn, about Shawn Lane, i´ve played some of his stuff and i´ve heard so much better than him.About that "who´s the fastest guitarrist in the world", i think that in this style of music it´s really hard to find a guitarrist who isnt fast... Michael Angelo is good...but i've heard such speed from Paul Gilbert or the Symphony X's guitarrist. i just think that yngwie allies good speed to great riffs, to beautiful melodys, and therefore, to great music (hey...isn't that what it's all about??!!!).
about the ppl who say that Kirk Hammet kicks Yngwie's ass, i just say that they should start playin some stuff of both of them and then say that again with some support.
YNGWIE if you are reading this!!! PLEASE COME AND PLAY IN PORTUGAL!!!! IN THE ATTACK TOUR YOU CANCELLED THE GIG THE DAY AFTER I BOUGHT THE TICKET!!!
Also you ppl should Hear to some Paco de Lucia, hes one of the best!!
loved the interview, i just think that yngwie jould let his singers write lyrics too...(look at the Marc Boals interview)
Yngwie RUUULLLEEEZZZZ
Greetings from Portugal
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Friday, October 8, 2004 | fake jamer is a cowfish shaging cunt, go fuck yourself you bellend
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| Comment by suheily (Anonymous) - Saturday, November 13, 2004 | you a good singer and my dadiy love your sing
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| Comment by suheily daddy (Anonymous) - Saturday, November 13, 2004 | iam sorry daddy song i my daddy know how to play too to ylike you know he a good man thank you have a good day good bye
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| Comment by brumus (Anonymous) - Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | websites for TJ WHITE
www.tjwhite.net
www.tjwhitemusic.com
www.t-notes.com
this dude rocks!!!
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 18, 2004 | whoa, jamer, don't talk about yourself that way. everyone here knows you're a dirty assrot that gets his kicks from teabagging both of his daddys.
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| Comment by jamer (Anonymous) - Saturday, November 27, 2004 | only a dirty tird puncher like you would know what teabaging is.
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| Comment by ALESSANDRO GIORDANO (Anonymous) - Tuesday, December 7, 2004 | MALMSTEEN???? NO.1??????
GET OUT, MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK, HE'S GOOD... BUT THAT'S
IT. JUST SWEEPING THE GUITAR
AROUND DOESN'T GET YOU ANYWHERE.
FOR EXAMPLE... UM...
LISTEN TO RHAPSODY. MAN, THAT'S
A VIOLI'NG'UITAR, IF YOU KNOW WHAT
I MEAN... AND LUCA TURILLI JUST
STARTED PLAYING WHEN HE WAS 16!!!
HE'S A FUCKING GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO OFFENSE MALMSTEEN, BUT
PLAYING THE GUITAR IS NOT JUST
ABOUT PLAYING FAST WEIRD STUFF.
PLAYING THE GUITAR IS ABOUT
MAKING MUSIC, AND THAT'S WHAT
MANY HAVE TO LEARN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Comment by Jimmy (Anonymous) - Monday, December 13, 2004 | First of all, are you really Uli Jon Roth? If you are I would like to say that I am a huge fan and that this is the fisrt time I've ever been able to communicate to a Super Star, secondly, Michael, the interview was well conducted... was it a little hard to understand what Yngwi was saying at times?
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| Comment by God_SpidKillz (Anonymous) - Saturday, December 25, 2004 | Hy, everybody,Yngwie Malmsteen is good guitar-hero, he has a great classical culture,but he's self-esteem is too hight.
And, I think Michael Angelo is really better than him, faster and more melodic than Yngwie, and he's not "GOD" ;)
>"No boundaries and Peace"
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| Comment by zt (Anonymous) - Sunday, December 26, 2004 | i think malmsteen is a tacky, corny, lifeless, soul lacking guitar player. he is cocky, and is not to great.
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| Comment by a focused dude (Anonymous) - Friday, December 31, 2004 | Malmsteen WAS great guitar player before ending up as a sun catcher, pool & martini swimmer, funny daddy freak he is...Complete lack of ideas he thinks he's too damned good to even think of evoluting and has been recording the same fucking structure which he calls 'songs' that is nothing but same shit put together in different order so you get the feeling to be listening to fresh music, and by the way don't expect his new album to come much rather play any of his fucking last cd's in the shuffle mode and that's it.
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| Comment by sunny (Anonymous) - Monday, January 10, 2005 | instead of comparing and blabbering about who is god and this and that , we should be happy that we have so many talented guitar players around :) if u wanna argue on something id say a topic like should fucked up bands like korn,limpbizkit get record deals ? i mean that kinda crap seriously sucks is it even worth it ?
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| Comment by Boond (Anonymous) - Wednesday, January 19, 2005 | Hi!I am from sweden and yngwie is the WORLS FUCKING GRATEST AND FASTEST GUITARIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!I can tell you that your interview was great!Yngwie´s Attack is great!
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| Comment by jeevan (Anonymous) - Thursday, February 24, 2005 | He is one of my favourite guitarists. His work has always been very respectful and I have been learning a lot.I like his latest album a lot. And I also want to tell people,listen and feel the exposure he has shown to us.
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| Comment by terro (Anonymous) - Thursday, March 10, 2005 | yngwie is the fastest guitars on planet end of story.
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| Comment by DAN SCHENKER (Anonymous) - Tuesday, March 29, 2005 | I dont wanna use OFFENSIVE words because I would sound like a kiddo. So here is somthing for some bunch of you out there who like to say YNGWIE sux and you criticize who is better more technical or faster.
First of you should know that the reason you exist on this planet is because of your own feelings. As long as you feel and understand that thats all it matters. Similar to you...all these guitarists have less deeper stronger or hyper feelings than you. THATS ALL. YOu cant compare any1 to anybody because they all feel different. And you are WRONG when you say YNGWIE plays same stuff...over again...he doesnt. Its his feeling that are different and fool you thinking he uses same sweepicking. Watch him playing with his eyes closed. Also...VAI was taught by Satriani and so Kirk H. Before that you know from whom Metallica (influenced-used-stole) the harmonics from Master of Puppets from Michael Schenker and the old time Scorpions. And they still play. WHat the hake did I just say ? Did you get it ? Prolly KNot ! What I said was that your mom knew your grandma and your grandma used to listen to Louis Armstrong. And these days...every1 is influenced as we all were and will be in the next few years. All you have to learn is play guitar and not chat. Learn how to play a song from A to Z by any1 (not saying only Yngwie) and you will see you wont be able to play it with the same virtousity due to your lack of feeling which is ...UNIQUE. Peace...Long live the music and its vibrations from my soul to you.
-dan schenker-
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| Comment by Matt (Anonymous) - Wednesday, March 30, 2005 | Deep stuff
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| Comment by Queen of Shred (Anonymous) - Tuesday, April 12, 2005 | Just read all those comments from the last 2 1/2 years. Most of these people don't know where their own shit comes from! Yngwie is great, maybe not the greatest musician ever, but he has certainly inspired me more than anyone (except Bach, Vivaldi and Beethoven) in my own music. I've played violin for 15 years now, ever since I saw Yngwie play Trilogy Suite when I was 5 years old (always wanted to play that on violin, not guitar, for some reason). I've noticed that some of his songs do repeat things from earlier ones but so what. It's what I like. There's really nothing that sounds better in my opinion than dim 7ths and that minor 3rd interval that you get in harmonic minor and phrygian dominant. I could listen to Malmsteen shred all day (and sometimes I do). And to those who say there is no emotion in his music, listen to Miracle of Life. It's the only song that can make me cry every time I hear it -- maybe it's just my interpretation of the song but it really means a lot to me. I'm going to see Yngwie when he tours this year. To those people who said they can get really cheap Yngwie albums, where do you find these??? I've had to order mine in specially after finding all the shops round here had sold out. Also, what's the obsession with using gay as an insult on this thread? You people are so immature and don't even know what you're talking about. Thanks to the people who posted real valid comments on this website. And thanks to all the other dickheads -- I really did have a good laugh reading all the crap you wrote. I hope Yngwie makes many more albums. YJM is god of the stratocaster, as Paganini is god of the violin. Long live Yngwie!
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| Comment by Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck (Anonymous) - Sunday, June 26, 2005 | Tack!
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| Comment by gordon (Anonymous) - Thursday, July 21, 2005 | i think he is a gay wanker that stands in front of a mirror checking hisself out he's so self indulgent and all you fools admire all that guitar wanker. keep widdling widdlers!
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| Comment by Javier Torres (Anonymous) - Friday, July 29, 2005 | Hi I'm a great guitar fan so i think we couldn't compare any guitar player but god bless yngwie
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| Comment by Jelle (Anonymous) - Sunday, October 2, 2005 | Why is it that the best guitar player has to be a rock, blues or metal guitarist?
I love Joe Satriani and have some of Vai and I have respect for Malmsteen, have seen them on DVD but personally the most impressive I've seen is John Williams the classical player.
All these guys are only good with a pick in their hand, so in a way I admire classical players more.
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| Comment by Ex fan (Anonymous) - Friday, October 21, 2005 | Yngwie, have you ever listened to Vitalij Kuprij's music and to the players he teams up with?? That's REAL imaginative music (call it neoclassical if you want) that not necessarily needs to be old boring cliche in order to mantain a personal style, every album he issues is full of fresh musicality instead of a same old tracklist in different order...wll, once you do it you will realize that you have been (WITH NO EXCUSE) beaten to death !!!
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| Comment by I know everything (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 24, 2005 | Let's settle this once and for all. It's between Yngwie and Vai for who is the best ever. Period. Take it from me, because I know everything. Now that that's settled, let's all move on with our lives. Thank you and you're welcome.
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| Comment by Steve Vai (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 24, 2005 | I have to agree with that last comment from I Know Everything. What do you think, Yngwie?
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| Comment by Yngwie (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 24, 2005 | Yes, Steve. I agree. He really does know everything.
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| Comment by Michael Romeo (Anonymous) - Thursday, November 24, 2005 | Actually no, I'm pretty sure I'M the best...
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| Comment by Mike (Anonymous) - Friday, January 6, 2006 | First off, "ShredMasterChop" how can you possibly mention Rusty Cooley's name in with Steve Vai and Jason Becker? Rusty Cooley is doing nothing innovative or experimental. His song writing SUCKS bad. All he has is speed. His playing is lifeless and cold. He isn't a pimple on either Vai's or Becker's ass! As a matter of fact Kirk Hammet (and thank your for sharing with us that you live on the same street as him. That means you live right near Joe Satriani as well) has more feeling and soul in his playing. Stop giving props to Cooley for playing fast. Watch the videos of him on his website live with his band. Or the ones of him noodling. Everytime he tries to play something soulful (which is rare) he fails miserably. If all you people need for criteria to make a good guitarist is speed then you are very very sad!
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| Comment by Little Drummer Boy (Member) - Wednesday, January 25, 2006 | 
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Comments: 166
Ratings: 46 | | 1. YJM is a great great Guitar player which no one can deny (regardless of who plays faster cause once you hit 170bpm and pull off 32nd notes to most its jaw dropping). He has made his mark in the industry amoung the rest of the guitar gods, influencing countless talent. M. Romeo (Symphony X), S. Forte (Adagio) and E. Ravn (Wuthering Heights) to name a few. When you hear these guys PLAY you think YJM. "trademark"
2. I can not believe this has been going on since 2002.
3. YJM did start off sounding like a jerk but he did say "thank you very much" at the end. It must have been Michael bringing him back down to earth...If it were me I would have called Steve Morse
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| Comment by John H. Wilson Jr. (Anonymous) - Tuesday, August 22, 2006 |
Why do you scallop your fingerboard. I like the idea. I've never played a scalloped fretboard. Who would you have to do it? why don't more guitarists scallop their fretboards? Right now my oldest son and I are in the genesis stages of making a custom strat from a pre-routed East Indian rosewood Rosewood Strat body. Are tonal woods as important to electric guitars as they are to acoustics?
I want to put a Maple/Malpe scallopped neck on the instrument. . What size fretting wire should I use, should I use a bone nut or metal? How long should the neck be... 22 frets or 24? What kind of pick ups would you suggest? I was thinking about Fender golden lace Pickups: Or Paul Reed Smith Tremonti pickups.. I do want to bring out the beauty of the tonal wood, but I want the potential to make it scream also. I think that I can accomplish this with my amps and foot pedal effects.
I want to match athestic form with function with this beautiful Rosewood body ( $600.00) a lot of money in my house hold.. then there's all of the other components.I'd appreciate any information or suggestions you might be kind enough to offer.
Respectfully,
John ZH. Wilson Jr.
807 Maple Street
Amory, Mississippi 38821
brengcw@bellsouth.net
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| Comment by TJ (Anonymous) - Tuesday, May 1, 2007 | This dude Yngwie is NOT the fastest! Van Halen is a much better player. However, I rescently heard a dude on the internet who totally blew both of them away!! Yngie has some speed but nothing impressive and No real content at all. Van Halen has lots of speed and content but they both have only ONE distinctive style. This other dude makes both of them seem like a G.I. in basic guitar training!...
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| Comment by HAKE (Anonymous) - Monday, May 28, 2007 | WWW.MYSPACE.COM/HAKEROCK
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| Comment by Julneojazz!!!! (Anonymous) - Friday, August 24, 2007 | Yngwie is good but there are any other guys for there that can play better than he.
for example Greg Howe, He is the best Jazz Rock Neoclassical Fusion etc. guitarist in the world and he dont have the money that yngwie have because is not much famous but you guys have to go out of the yngwie world because is the same thing always.
I recomended guitarist like:
Shawn Lane
Greg Howe
Benvenutti
Michael Romeo
they are guitarist that can play jazz and also neoclassical and can uses the modes.
my english is bad because I am from Guatemala
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| Comment by hi (Anonymous) - Friday, August 24, 2007 | Yngwie lose all when he go out of sharapnel records
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