In Miami , 2017 , I had a chance to hang backstage with Yngwie , Steve Vai , Rudy Sarzo, and Niko McBrain. Along with about a dozen other players I was given a chance to perform on stage before the main guys came on. It was a surreal experience to be hanging with and opening up for the musical heroes I grew up with. Great video
I have seen Yngwie nine times live and I have all his cds and DVDs. I saw him twice with Alcatrazz in 1984, twice with Rising Force in 1985 (Soto, Boals), in 2001 with Jorn Lande, 2013, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Yngwie went thru a bad period during Covid- his live playing wasn't consistently upper calibre or smooth from roughly 2020-2021. However, ever since 2022, Yngwie has sharpened his knives and sounds consistently much better (eliminated some of the laziness/sloppiness) and even features the band a little more (a little more LOL). His last 4-5 albums are sketchy but even they contain moments of brilliance. Yngwie is kept afloat thanks to Japan: EVERY single album he has ever done has charted there and many have charted #1-#40 with quite a few gold and some platinum albums. He can always count on a Japanese tour. He has a decent cult following in America and a few other countries he does well in...but Japan is his savior. That said, his last two albums charted in America in the top 80-90 the first time since 1992 that any of his albums charted in the USA! His wife April got him slimmed down and saved his life- no more smoking or drinking. Yngwie penned an autobiography RELENTLESS in 2013 (which competes with journalist Anders Tegner's tabloid-like book that doesn't sugarcoat things).
Great perspective saw him twice as well with alcatrazz and twice with ripper met him twice. So appreciative of his fans and grateful to be able to do what he loves
I was into jazz fusion guys like Allan Holdsworth, Scott Henderson, etc but my friends were into 80s shredders....Yngwie was the guy everybody loved to hate. I never listened to that style until recently when Joe Satriani, Steve Vai (who I was a fan of, being a Zappa fan) and Yngwie all traded solos on some YT vid a few years back. As much of a Vai fan as I was (and still am) I have to admit....Yngwie sounded better than all of them. I was impressed. Anybody who can draw my attention away from Steve Vai gets mad props.
I talked to a guy from Spain and I guess Paco’s last name is pronounced, “Loo-thee-a,” at least according to him. But Paco was amazing. I think Paco died over 10 years ago and it’s hard to say any Flamenco player is or was better. But it’s hard to believe a guitar player could play that fast, especially without a pick.
Paul Gilbert even had that Racer X song YRO which means Yngwie Rip Off. Chris Impelliteri was an obvious Yngwie clone (even using Graham Bonnet of Alcatrazz). Yngwie got his revenge on Chris: he used the riff to Stand In Line for his song Making Love (he just slowed it down a little) LOL!
I'm a guitarist started in the 80's. Every guitar player was inspired by Yngwie Malmsteen. Shit I even named my dog after Yngwie. I played Malmsteen stuff upto Fire and Ice album. I had to relearn to play because you are going to sound like him in your playing. But like it or not, you are going to have EVERY guitarist you listen to and play in your style of playing. So everyone is a clone. I'm sure my style has every Rock N Roll band or softer metal band I ever listened to from the 60's 70's , 80's 90's all the way to probably 2008 because I stopped listening to any new bands. It all turned speed metal and that is not me. It doesn't attract woman. yeah there are some cool stuff but rare to me. Sorry guys I call it cock rock because that is the audience it really attracts.
"Yngwie has 300,000 subscribers on his channel." That's because he blocks the ones who say anything remotely negative about him. When I was a kid in the 80s and his solo album came out, I bought it. Everyone was amazed with his playing because it was something new. Nobody else was playing that fast. I bought his 2nd release and after awhile it just sounded the same as the first. It was getting boring. I liked the slower stuff he did, but there wasn't much of that. I bought his 3rd album for the hell of it and it just reaffirmed my feeling that it all sounded the same. Never bought another Yngwie record after that. I have the G3 DVD he was on and he seemed like he was trying to upstage Satch & Vai during the jam session. Yngwie felt the bluesey song they were playing was too slow so when it was his turn to solo, he came in blazing fast. It didn't fit the song at all. At the end of the video when the three of them are walking backstage, Satch says in an excited tone "Oh man, that was the BEST one yet!". You just know he was saying that to appease Yngwie's ego and make him feel like the show wouldn't have been that good without him.
rediculous - Jimmy Page was 70s guitar. EVH wasn't shit yet. Unless this is your list of douche bags - then you've got a more accurate list. Hendrix was a cool guy but the other 3 were trash human beings.
I like Impellitteri but he gets compared to Yngwie because he sounds just like Yngwie, at least on his earlier stuff, I haven't checked out his latest. Paul Gilbert is amazing, he can play Yngwie runs with little effort, but Paul sounds nothing like Yngwie, even while playing Yngwie runs he still sounds like Paul Gilbert, his whole approach to playing, his attack, his tone, pure Paul.
Haha. Uli Jon Roth played Yngwie before Yngwie. Listen to Yngwie's "Inspiration" album. Vittorio Camardese. Tapping in the 60s! Al DiMeola, John MacLoughlin, Paco De Lucia. Alan Holdsworth Andrés Segovia And many more...
Way different genre Holdsworth definitely original though but in the rock world nobody caused as many imitators as Hendrix van Halen and Malmsteen@@rushshukla4636
@@joanstone6740 Even within Rock. There are so many unsung guitar heroes. Steve Hackett for instance. Tapping in the early 70s. Steve Lynch 8finger tapping like Stanley Jordan in the jazz genre. The great Shawn Lane! Marty Friedman in Hawaii. Had his own neo-classical style with exotic lines. Steve Stevens. Flamenco driven metal and rock... As I mentioned before: Uli Jon Roth. Sails of Charon 1977! And many unsung heroes more.
The Hammett story...you forgot to tell where Joe Satriani thought the tape that Kirk brought him was a fake of someone playing and sped up REALLY fast...it took even Joe a while to believe Yngwie was that fast!!
Great video. I don’t understand why everybody immediately goes to the clone thing, saying Yngwie is a clone of Blackmore, and implelliterri is a clone of Yngwie, etc., etc. That is bullshit. Every guitar player in the world was influenced by somebody, even multiple guitarists/styles before them. And anybody that says they’re weren’t is lying. It’s how you take those influences, give it your own voice and make it your own. He Sounds nothing like Blackmore, and Blackmore can’t play like YJM. Chris is insane and sounds nothing like YJM. Uli and Schenker were playing harmonic minor and neoclassical style licks way before YJM, he just happened to take it to a whole new level. So what. Why can’t we just admire these hugely talented guitar players for what they do. Without YJM and the thousands upon thousands of guitarists he influenced, we wouldn’t have half of the great music we have today as it relates to guitar shredding. That’s all I’m out. Y’all rock on! 🤘🤘🤘
Yes I agree but in 'Stand in Line' Chris Impellitteri does look like Yngwie: he does Yngwie's moves, a wall of Marshall stacks behind, musically. So obviously people compared him to Yngwie.
Funny how Kirk wanted to play like Yngwie, tried playing like Yngwie, failed at playing like Yngwie, stopped playing like Yngwie and then got insulted by Yngwie XD
as much as I respect Gilbert, he just sounds like a clone that gets the notes right but doesn't have the Yngwie feel. nobody except Yngwie does. You can't discount Randy Rhoads either. He most likely had even greater influence on guitarists in the 80s with only 2 years with Ozzy. tragic to not know what he had in store next.
Rising Force was the best. Would love to see the Johansen brothers and a real singer, and stop improvising over the songs to the point they're almost unrecognizable.
Both Blackmore and Malmsteen share influences in Paganini - the pirate shirts, the the pentacles etc. Yngwie is definitely influenced by Blackmore, the scalloped strats but for me not a clone, Yngwie’s playing is on another level. Blackmore would love to be Yngwie - but they are..both wankers 😁
@@Yiannis2112 Malmsteen once said that when he was hanging out with Blackmore, Blackmore was very interested in Yngwie's techniques and asked Yngwie questions. And then Craig Goldy also said that Blackmore was his idol and when he met Blackmore, Blackmore asked him to show how Craig was doing those tricks on guitar. Obviously in the 80's new young guitarists did things that seemed unbelievable in the 70's.
I don't think he's overrated. Just hated. I like both though. The Fade To Black and MOP solos are among my favourites. Kirk can write solos you can hum which is difficult. As much as I like YJM I find there's no growth in his playing. Tbh I find it boring. There are far better guitarists. Holdsworth for example.
@@rushshukla4636Kirk Hammett IS overrated . If he weren’t in Metallica he would be unheard of . Boring solos and a crap thin tone . He keeps up with Lars and he’s a team player , I’ll give him that much . Thanks for your input and rock on 😊
@rushshukla4636 Nothing special about those solos Yngwie runs circles around him in every aspect he's just famous for being in Metallica if it weren't for Metallica he'd be frying food somewhere.
@@chickentwisties2298 I hate that term 'runs circles around'. It makes me cringe because it's totally meaningless. I doubt YJM could play Kirk's solos. Music is not about competition. It's not a sport and how many notes you can play. It's about melody and songwriting. I have 5 YJM albums and there's zero growth in his playing. There's more to music than the Phrygian dominant scale which is the meat n two pots of everything he does. I'm more impressed with people like George Harrison and John McLaughlin who use Indian and Eastern scales to broaden their sound. The only people who laud YJM over others are teenage boys who know nothing about music and think everything is about speed and quantity. YJM is just a niche player. He's not in the same canon as Hendrix,Page, Schenker, Roth or Moore. He's a one trick pony I get very bored of after two songs because he cannot do anything else.
Malmsteen is like iPhone 3.. the greatest when it came out and had influenced others smart phones companies to be better..now 2024 even the cheapest brands from China are better than iPhone 3
Paul Gilberts cover of Far Beyond The Sun in this video is awful, it's like your typical RU-vid cover, all the technique but just zero feel or musicality, it genuinely sounds completely and utterly rubbish
YM is a Ritchie Blackmore clone. Ritchie is the real deal. Kid from Sweden did not ever know Ritchie scalloped his strat, lol 😂. He could be his twin brother. He dresses like him he looks like him. He plays like him. Even gets the same lead singers from 🌈 Ritchie had 😆
Not only from Rainbow but he also did guest appearances in live shows with Deep Purple singers Ian Gillan & Glen Hughes, lol. And he auditioned for Dio in the early - mid 80s but Dio passed on him because "his style didn't fit" which is really just a nice way of saying Dio had no interest in working with a Blackmore clone.
You are jealous and unhinged and that’s a COMPLETE incorrect statement other than the fact that Blackmore “ influenced “ YJM . Blackmore could NEVER play like YJM. Similarities , yes . Influenced, yes . Both use Strats , yes . “ Clones “ ? Ummm , NO .
Hammett may be an icon, but not a hero. He lacks musicality and has non ear for harmony or4 melody.i can think of no pro guitarists who imitate Kirk's bland pentatonic wahwah.
when I was 16, I was on my guitar journey.. it was like.. 2000.. I had the internet.. I was discovering things.. and when I downloaded an illegal video of yngwie with alcatrazz playing evil eye.. everything I thought I knew, went directly out the window. yngwies speed and accuracy is disgusting. guy is an absolute weirdo on the guitar.
