Yngwie Malmsteen Critiques Joe Satriani, Metallica, Kirk Hammett, Pantera, Dimebag, Phil Anselmo 

yngwie 100% knew what he was doing with his "critique" with pantera. I'll respect his opinion, but easily choose a pantera record over a yngwie record anyday.

What about the interview with Dimebag where he was asked to rate Yngwie and he responded “who?”

Yngwie is a perfect example of why we shouldn't care what others think of our abilities. As long as we're crushing it that's all that matters!

I’m personally not a big Yngwie fan, but I respect his honesty.

Yngwie was the Simon Cowell of the 80’s

Yngwie staying true to himself knocking every guitarist but himself

He's a virtuoso. You can't expect his opinion to be mainstream. He was honest about how he felt. Which is not very common in the industry.

Haha I remember him rating lay it down by ratt in a hit parade back in the 80's. He said something like singer should take up plumbing! He got to the end of Warren's solo and said it was great and that's all I need to hear.

I saw Pantera tons of times and they were spot on every single time. You can't say that about a lot of bands. The "I'm Broken" lead is not one of Dime's best, but it's definitely not trash. One of my favorite leads of his is on the Power Metal album on the song "We'll Meet Again".

Good old Yngwie. AKA: The Swedish Meatball

Lol Anselmo talking about Malmsteen in an interview is gold.

I like Yngwie's honesty...I would like also to hear the other guitarists' opinions about Malmsteen as well.

If I had to choose between him and Dimebag, I'd choose Dimebag eternally. Fucking genius at all levels. Unmatched.

I love this. Especially since he wasn’t told who he was listening to up front.

Come to think of it, I don't think I have ever heard a complete yngwie song

“He likes Donuts though”…

Yngwie has also been playing the same thing for over 30 years… and his singing sucks too! But everyone else is out of tune and boring. 😆

I'm a big Dream Theater Fan. Had to go check out what he had to say about them. Shockingly he liked it! That a boy YM! LOL. (BTW Under a Glass Moon solo is bad ass!) Thanks for the upload man, good stuff.

He is coming at it from a point of view where everything has to be played literally perfectly. Dimebag for example, played with soul and basically tore the rule book up when it came to riffs and solos. To compare the 2 of them is futile. But I do think it's funny that he is on the Pantera Home Videos being harassed to enjoy a donut, which he refuses. Philip on the other hand said Yngwie was a "Sap" who is clearly talented but lacks any sort of soul in his playing, while Dimebag would put 100% soul, energy and power into all of his music.

Classic Malmsteen.

Yngwie being Yngwie. He let George Lynch tryout his scalloped-fret guitar and immediately took it away from him because he was sounding better on it than himself.

But how does he feel about donuts ?

To be honest, I'd rather listen Dimebag solos than Yngwie.

Jake E Lee said it all when he said “ Yngwie is an ass*****”!!!

I appreciate his candidness and honesty, but find it kind of pitiful that he appears to believe his playing possesses some fantastic originality and musicality seemingly not present in the majority of the tracks he’s judging - when in actuality his playing gets quickly tedious and boring, and he long ago became a vacuous parody of himself. As a guitarist, I still have huge admiration for his technical skill, and love trying to learn his stuff, but none of it matches the creative intuition of any Dimebag solo. The “I’m Broken” solo is literally one of the the greatest in rock/metal, and way beyond anything Malmsteen’s ever wrote in terms of sounding totally unique and being sonically mind expanding.

Funny thing is I could say everything about Yngwie that he said about others.

I had this issue when it came out. F’n Yngwie is something else.

If nothing else, I think it is great that Yngwie just gives a blunt, uncensored opinion when asked for it and doesn’t kiss ass or sugarcoat it just because most people might be expecting it. That said, I am also truly thankful that not everyone shares Yngwie’s tastes.

What's boring (or bad) to one person may not be to another. For example, many will say that Yngwie's solos are boring because they all sound the same after 3 songs. So it's really a 'to each their own.' And remember, fast arpeggios, especially when that's all you play, don't automatically make you a great guitarist.

"Mighty Turtle Head" is one of my favorites! The fact that Yngwie says right away there's a reversed guitar solo in there shows that he at least knows about the things he talks about beforehand, I respect that. That song is a B-track unreleased demo from previous albums, not really supposed to be mindblowing in terms of guitar antics. It's just a tune, dude LOL (strat tone rocks)

"Lars is a great drummer." I couldn't stop laughing to hear anything else he said.

WOW! 1994. Almost 30 years ago! CRAZY! Blink of an eye. Different time. Different persona these days. Still the king of that melodic fury and he's added a soulful character to the fury over the years that I really like.

I remember Phil talking about Yngwie and Dimebag and Phil offered him a donut. Yngwie got really offended and said what is donut 🍩. I did see Yngwie in the 80’s and he opened up for someone who I can’t remember. He’s a real douchebag.

Yep,screw him dissing Dime like that.Maybe Dime didn't have his speed,but a far better human being.

Pantera kicks Ass! Music with energy to it! 🤘💀 I've been a fan of Yngwie since 83', in regards to comments Yngwie made, we all have our repititous behavior in what we do, even Yngwie. I miss the days when Yngwie shared the vocals with a lead Vocalist, it was more exciting, just even wondering who was gonna sing on the album. He should ask Geoff Tate to do an album with him, or ask Jorn.

Yngwie Malmsteen is that guy that everyone worships, as a guitar player, but very few metal musicians listen to. His playing is boring and annoying. I guess it matches his personality. Kirk Hammett, so it seems, is the most hated lead guitar player among the group. I understand why. He is creative. These guys hate creativity. Their thing is: be fast, fast, fast and virtuoso to the end. To hide the lack of creativity. To be honest, if you don't like the solos out of "Sanitarium", or "Ride the Lightning", or "My Friend of Misery."... etc. I have nothing to say!

Have to hand it to him, Yngwie is funny AF🤣🤣🤣 rips Joe a new one, 🤣🤣🤣

You can tell he doesn't like donuts.

I don't agree with him much but he had a ballsy opinion that's a fact!!

I literally remember reading this article in the magazine in 1994.

Oh man, why didn't you do the whole thing? kudos

Huge Yngwie fan and I totally agree with what he said here; that Satch song bites and Phil Anselmo is the biggest poser douchebag ever; from power glam to hardcore ? I would rather hear honesty than a bunch of smoke blowing up the undeserving ars like we get with Slash & Bonamassa.

I remember reading this when it was first out (i subbed to GW then). His critique for Jeff Beck was hilarious. From what i recall, he'd never heard '''Cause We Ended As Lovers'' before and tore JB's solo to pieces "Every note is out of tune....". Sorta tried to back pedal when he found out who it was. The mag ran responses to this feature in the mail section for about 3 months. Pretty funny memories :)

I have that issue. The Death Metal lesson was the best with Carcass and Obituary.

Back in 2004, I had a coworker that was an insane shredder on guitar and was excited to see Malmsteen at a small club. The day after the show I asked him about it & his reaction was a face of disgust & disappointment. He said Yngwie was a dick to the audience & people afterwards wanted to kick his ass.

I remember this very well. It was when he was promoting his album "The Seventh Sign" back in '94, I believe. I thought it was very funny. Yngwie has or had at the time a very dark sense of humor. Had he criticized me like that I would have gone like: "Oh well, maybe next time you hear something from me you'll like it." But at the time quite a few people took what he said very personally.

Way to go Yngwie for not being a pvssy and catering to everyone's feelings. I love Pantera but you're entitled to your own opinion about them, doesnt change how I feel about them one bit !

He is a bit of DB royalty but being at a live show, he absolutely gives it his all.

I remember this interview in the mag. Especially where he couldnt describe his disgust with Anselmo's vocals. I remember another interview from the same mag where the Blind Melon guitarists were bagging on Queensryche. Anyone remember that one?

Ah… the ‘find a reason to hate Yngwie’ effort continues.

I had this issue of Guitar World with this feature in it as a teenager in the 90s. I remember thinking then that there was no way someone could be that arrogant. But now that I'm older, I think that for all his arrogance, there's something to be said for the pure honesty on display here. I don't agree with anything Yngwie says but the fact that he has the guts to say it is pretty awesome in its own way. Obviously whoever had the idea to do this blindfold panel with Yngwie knew they would get some outrageous responses and indeed struck gold. High five and a beer for that guy.

Dime is a far more versatile guitar player. A soulful player, who also possesses the ability to shred. Malmsteen can only shred. I respect Malmsteen but Darrell is unmatched

Yngwie is on the pantera cowboys from he'll or vulgar display of power it never says his name but he's going to a elevator mad as hell saying he don't like donuts and pantera is still steadly trying to give him one😂 took me awhile to figure it out

all we really need to know is what was the donut spread like at catering for yngwie during this interview?

Yeah, well I remember hanging with Pantera in Nashville in 1994 and Far Beyond Driven had just been the first metal album to debut at #1and Yngwie was playing the Cannery for $5.

Oh, that Yngwie!

Telling it like it is, in his mind

I bumped into yngwie at the apple store at the mall said what's up he seemed like a cool dude.

"Completely overdone! that stuff has been done for 30 years" kinda ironic that Yngwies entire back catalogue is exactly the same shit he has done for over 30 years.

Let’s find out in 100 years which records people will still be listening to: Yngwie’s or Pantera’s

I could watch him Roasting fan submissions!!! That be a good RU-vid channel

I like how he said that Kirk Hammet is "pretty good at it".

Looked up that satriani song and tbf it’s pretty bland. Not one of Joe’s best

I have a Yngwis cassette from the 80's and that was the last time I played it.

Almost All Classically oriented composers or musicians would have a tough time understanding Pantera, Satriani or Primus.

Love Yngwie! I used to hate him as a kid, for his outspokenness and ego. But hey, gotta give it to the guy, he’s not afraid to talk and also plays a mean guitar!

This interview was 25 yrs ago.

So he doesn’t like bending. Great. What a tool

Is Richard Christy the narrator? Dry gold! 🤘

lol Yngwie was 100% correct on ALL of his honest critiques here. Dimebag's tone in particular sounds like broken glass coming out of a cranked Marshall stack and is truly abhorrent !!

Yngwie wasn’t shy about his opinion in ‘91 haha

Then/young Yngwie critiquing current Yngwie: Every solo run sounds the same, its like there is no more creativity, sounds like an old shoe and very dated. Its the same old scales and runs that have been done for the last 30 years ;-p BTW I'm a 45 year old guitar player that was hugely influenced by Yngwie back in the day, so no disrespect, just a poke and prod for fun. Yes Yngwie was a cocky dickhead, but weren't we all when we were 20 and really good at something. The painful part to witness is when that 20-30 year old is now pushing 60 and still hasn't changed at all musically or personally.

"and Lars is good at drums". And all credibility is lost. I don't care if he's a virtuoso, his opinion is now worth as much as a kid playing at Guitar Center.

Sounds Like You have to give Yngwie Credit he is the Greatiest Witness He Him Self

I still have this magazine in a box in my closet. 🤣

I've studied alot of Hammet, Dimebag and Yngwie. personally I like Dimebag more and I've always thought his solos where more tasteful than Yngwie's. That's just my personal opinion.

I frukkin love Yngwie.

Even tho I don’t agree on Malmsteen’s opinions, it’s great to hear someone being such honest, haha. 😅🤣

Ha ha! The maestro has spoken! 😂

Yngwie!!! Donut bad mouth the Abbotts....lol.

Lars is a great drummer ummm ok yngwie

HE DON'T LIKE DOUGHNUT'S!!!!!!!

Jeez the Pantera fanbase is one of the worst in metal. To people shitting on Yngwie: he was one of the best guitarist in the 80s and created some of the most memorable guitar album ever. Just like Pantera wrote amazing heavy metal album. I love both guitarist, but anyone saying Yngwie is only fast and that's it OBVIOUSLY never listened to an album by him, and holy shit you are missing out on good music. Rising force is miles ahead in terms of creativity and technicality than most bands (certainly more than Pantera) and was a game changer for the guitar. Incredible well written, new and interesting, especially at his age. I guarantee Dimebag tried to play some of his licks despite what it is said about their relationship. There's NO WAY Dimebag didn't have any respect for Yngwie, as far as his guitar playing goes. They are both legend and seeing how Dimebag seemed to be ( a loveable feel good guy that's 100% about guitar )I can't believe he didn't think Yngwie was good. That's how much he changed everything. EVERY guitarist at one point tried to play Yngwie. Obviously he plays neoclassical stuff he's not gonna like I'm broken it seems very obvious. He just says what he feels like and doesn't lie, and he's right on a lot of thing he said in that interview, you can tell he has some amazing ears If you play guitar or like guitar music and think Yngwie in the 80s/90s is trash and has no emotion that's s because you are either jealous of not being able to play what he plays, or you are tone deaf. Real recognize real, Pantera and Yngwie are both amazing. Yngwie couldn't create a Pantera song, and vice versa. He was an ass but he seems to have chilled out over the year. The interview is from 1994 he was still considered amazing, which is a problem for his ego. It's easy: if you see someone say/write that yngwie is nothing but fast note when talking about his early albums: this person has watched one old yt video of yngwie in the 2000s and has never listened to any of his songs from start to finish. Some pantera fan needs to stop the beer drinking and weed smoking for a second and be real, the flood solo and outro is great no doubt, it's not 'the best thing that happened to guitar playing ever'. Maybe listen to any other metal band.. ever for a second. I guarantee some people like more the Pantera's image (no fuck given, drink and smoke all day and headbang) than the music. I honestly think that if the music of pantera was made by some nerds they wouldn't have had the same success, and still to this day. That's okay, I like pantera and the image they had when I was younger (and still somewhat to this day) I do agree that Yngwie is nowhere near as good nowadays, but his early albums are still top notch Oh and btw, yes Lars was considered a great drummer in the 90s, if you're 16 years old please don't give out your opinion. You weren't there.

Who is this '80's hair model?

whether you agree with him or not, you gotta respect his ruthless honestly. Not many guitarists would have the balls to say what they really think.....

Great minds think alike and it's all Yngwie! 😆

How can you not like the Im Broken solo

He is right on the money 💀... the metallica influence is surely from cliffs writing and music skills he spread to metsllica

Yngwie is the man. Dimebag is now and has been my favorite 🤩 metal guitarist to date. Absolutely the only guitarist that can make me feel something through solid state distortion. Just incredible.

Everyone has a right to their opinion. I've honestly never heard any of this dude's tunes and if i have, i don't remember them. On the other hand, Dime is a legend down here in Texas. So there's that, just my opinion.

Don’t hold back next time! 🤣😂 No matter what he says, I still love them 🤪

I still got that manga. I may sell..

Funny part is, he’s right about it all. In these cases.

I remember that . he hears modes and can identify intonation issues

I like Pantera but I respect Yngwie’s view and almost agree for the most part haha. I like when he criticizes Pearl Jam

I can't say I disagree with anything he said. I haven't heard that Satriani track, so no comparison there. But 100% agree on Enselmo. Different strokes for different folks.

i would definitely agree with mr. EGO about Kirk Hamfists playing...

Spot on regarding Kirk Hammett. But he's in Metallica, and I sit on a couch, so....

THE MAESTRO

Ive been shredding axe for over 40 years and NOBODY out guns Frank Marino on the live album from the 70's Even Malmsteen would yield to the King Bee himself if he heard that LP One of the Greatest live album's ever recorded ***** I know, because I was there !