Pre-Doughnut Malmsteen

[MrBump]

Say what you want about the chubby megalomaniac, he was pretty damn awesome in the 80's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj3ec2cCaJw&feature=related

Mark.

[gwEm]

i fully agree. i brought an Alktrazz live album on itunes a few months back and its AWESOME.

malmsteen still acted like a c0ck though in interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07gZRzjqRtE

(with vintage strat smashing at the end)


edit: that album is called Live '83 and comes with my highest recommendation

[Philly Q]

I think his hair's better now.  :lol:

Thumbs up to Alcatrazz - I like their post-Yngwie stuff too.

When I first started buying Guitar Player there was a "new talent" column called Spotlight, edited by Mike Varney (of Shrapnel Records fame).  Yngwie, aged 18/19, was one of the very first people featured, and within months he'd come to the USA and done the Steeler and Alcatrazz albums.

[Denim n Leather]

i fully agree. i brought an Alktrazz live album on itunes a few months back and its AWESOME.

malmsteen still acted like a c0ck though in interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07gZRzjqRtE

(with vintage strat smashing at the end)


edit: that album is called Live '83 and comes with my highest recommendation

Do you mean the live Alkatrazz album, Live Sentence?

[hunter]

He is an awesome player (still is). Problem is that it wears down fast, I start to listen and I am amazed, and after 10 minutes I am increasingly bored. Too many notes. He should throw in more slow, stretched melodies and do less of the fast bits IMO.

Gary Moore, while playing a completely different style, has that dynamics of fast/slow down to a T.

[gwEm]

i fully agree. i brought an Alktrazz live album on itunes a few months back and its AWESOME.

malmsteen still acted like a c0ck though in interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07gZRzjqRtE

(with vintage strat smashing at the end)


edit: that album is called Live '83 and comes with my highest recommendation

Do you mean the live Alkatrazz album, Live Sentence?

no, Live 83 is a different album, and better I think.

edit: seems it was released earlier this year

[Denim n Leather]

i fully agree. i brought an Alktrazz live album on itunes a few months back and its AWESOME.

malmsteen still acted like a c0ck though in interviews:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07gZRzjqRtE

(with vintage strat smashing at the end)


edit: that album is called Live '83 and comes with my highest recommendation

Do you mean the live Alkatrazz album, Live Sentence?

no, Live 83 is a different album, and better I think.

edit: seems it was released earlier this year

Cool, I'll look into it.

[Denim n Leather]

He is an awesome player (still is). Problem is that it wears down fast, I start to listen and I am amazed, and after 10 minutes I am increasingly bored. Too many notes. He should throw in more slow, stretched melodies and do less of the fast bits IMO.

Gary Moore, while playing a completely different style, has that dynamics of fast/slow down to a T.

I've seen Yng about 7 times live, and it's always the same:

At about the halfway point, he gets warmed up and his pure speed and technique when he lets the stops out is nothing short of superhuman. However, that's also the point when listener fatigue sets in for me and I get lost in a the succeeding wash of 9 million notes!

[Philly Q]

I've never seen Yngwie live, but it sounds similar to the experience of seeing present-day Jeff Beck.

All the squeaks, skronks, microtonal melodies played on the whammy bar, etc are amazing for a few songs, but it just gets overwhelming and you start wishing he'd play Louie Louie or something.  :|  :lol:

[MrBump]

I've never seen Yngwie live, but it sounds similar to the experience of seeing present-day Jeff Beck.

All the squeaks, skronks, microtonal melodies played on the whammy bar, etc are amazing for a few songs, but it just gets overwhelming and you start wishing he'd play Louie Louie or something.  :|  :lol:

I'd never wish for ANYONE to play Louie Louie.  Even Motorhead.

[gwEm]

Yngwie was totally awesome in Alcatrazz it seems - I mean really on fire - its hard rocking, listenable, melodic, poseurish and all those good things. now i find his playing today obnoxious and impenetrable, i could never imagine going to see him live :(

[Philly Q]

Yngwie was totally awesome in Alcatrazz it seems - I mean really on fire - its hard rocking, listenable, melodic, poseurish and all those good things.

I have a theory on this....  :lol:

Yngwie was (maybe still is) a total Ritchie Blackmore fanboy, whether he admits it or not, and when he works with people who've worked with Blackmore, he respects them and it keeps his natural megalomania in check.

It happened with Graham Bonnet, and it happened again with Joe Lynn Turner on Odyssey, which is one of his best albums, songs-wise.

[MrBump]

I have a theory on this....  :lol:

:)

[shobet]

I believe his ex-wife is now a professional dominatrix / actress in a certain genre. Just google for Mistress 7, Perversion Barbie or Amber Dawn Landin. I'd give you links but they're full of pink bits.

She's also as mental as a box of badgers I'm told.

[Afghan Dave]

I believe his ex-wife is now a professional dominatrix / actress in a certain genre. Just google for Mistress 7, Perversion Barbie or Amber Dawn Landin. I'd give you links but they're full of pink bits.

She's also as mental as a box of badgers I'm told.

I feel a Rising Force, coming Faster than the Speed of Light... I'm trying to Hold On but there's a Riot in the Dungeons, I think Now Is the Time, I Can't Wait.... I'm going to Unleash The Fury.... like Krakatau ... I've released a Legion of the Damned!