Just wondering,what do you think about the guy(I've heard a lot of bad shit about him here)so what's your opinion?

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Great Player. Sometimes TOO fast for my liking but when im in the mood for it then its great.

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im a know-nothing-n00b

Who is he? and what band does he play for?

EDIT: SORRY! i had to put the "K" in "know" kthxbi

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He is Yngwie Malmsteen

he plays in the Yngwie Malmsteen band...

download some songs

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he is hella fast and a good guitarist, but flame me if you want but he falls into that sort of "generic" virtuoso guitarist framework. for example, play a heavier piece from say, joe satriani, and then play malmstein, if you didn't know the piece and were not told who it was it's hard to tell who is who. i prefer soloists who have a distinctive style, even if they can't fly up and down the fretboard as fast. i like to hear a solo and go "hey thats soandso" as opposed to that dude sure can shred, but who is doing it.

and for the record i do like malmstein alot so my bitching is just my small complaints, doesn't mean i don't think he rocks

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Yngwie and Satriani sound NOTHING alike.

Theya ll have thier own distinct style and sound.

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using satriani as an example, but i don't know it's really hard for me to tell the difference. i'll take your work for it tho.

i guess i just think there is more to soloing than flying up and down the neck... meh, thats my blues trainin talking

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thier is.... thats why is easy as hell to hear the difference

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Yngwie is cool, but it gets boring after a while. You can only tear up the Harmonic Minor so many times before it gets old. But yeah, the dude is an amazing guitarist.

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Do yourself a favor and check Yngwie out BUT... start with his first 3 albums - "Rising Force", "Marching Out" and "Trilogy". I own nearly his entire catalogue, but after the first 3, his albums turned into more singing and less instrumentals. Yngwie wrote the book on shred. I bought "Rising Force" on cassette in 1984 when it was released (yikes!! - cassettes and 1984), and no one's really come along and done it better. I'm not saying he's my absolute favorite guitarist (he's not), but his first 3 albums are classics.

I Am A Viking!

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i hate to be a jerk.. but that's completely ignorant, man. malmsteen's style is neoclassical.. sooooo very different from satch's surfish kinda rock playing. they're just about as different as punk from heavy metal or something. they're both fast, and both play guitar.. that's where the similarity ends!

a lot of people complain that malmsteen has no emotion. those people undoubtedly NEVER listen to classical music, either! if you think that classical music sucks, you'll hate malmsteen. i love it.. i really enjoy figuring out a way to play classical pieces in a metal style, so malmsteen is one of my favorites.

plus, he can fucking rip on the guitar


do yourself a favor.. get his first cd "rising force" and love it.

I used to like him a lot more, though I still have great respect for him. After a while I just got sick (like other people said) of his repetetiveness. I like his instrumentals a lot better than the song in which he is singing. He has a lot of great great songs like "Far Beyond the Sun", "Black Star", "Trilogy Suite op.28 (i think)", and many others. When he plays Far Beyond the Sun on the G3 dvd, my heart just totally jumped out of my chest. I had heard it lots before and loved it but he played it so well and made it so memorable.

i have herd one song, the riifs were rather boaring, and the solo was uninspirational, though it was extremely fast, he just seemed to be playing a scale as fast as he posibly could (that was what it appeared to be anyway)

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i think thats what i was trying to say.

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You forgot Blitzkrieg, and his redition of Beethovens 5th.

Hes good but Jason Becker outdid him at only the age of 16

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That is so fucking true. Blitzkrieg is a great song, good to play on guitar too. Beethoven's 5th is alright...

Jason Becker owns him. He could outshred him, but better yet...outwrite him.

Im making my own Jason Becker e-gang/religion

Ok Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the greatest guitarrist there have ever been. Just for his writing and playing. And yes hear the first three records, they are the best. I really like I'll see the light tonight and Blitzkrieg is a great song.

But like BLS and ShredIsNotDead said, Jason Becker is my GOD, is the best guitar player I have seen in my whole life, since he was like 8 years old and playing that classic guitar, is like inspiring. And at his school at 16 playing Black Star was really outstanding. The remake of AIR is just amazing.

Also Paul Gilbert check him out, really good playing.

Check out Tal Farlow, that guy was shredding before Yngwie and Vai were an itch in their daddys pants.

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Yeh i read somewhere that some kid gave Jason a tape of "him" playing but it was really just Malmsteen speed up twice as fast. So Jason wanted to be better than this kid... SO HE FUCKING LEARN THE SONG TWICE AS FAST

Thats pretty fucking crazy when you can play malmsteen double the speed

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i like the man, not a fan of the music.

hes amazing, pompous and dresses extravagantly. as far as the music, i think hes the best of the main three (vai, satch) because he has more complex songs and plays some classical

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i like i like Vai a bit better but Malmsteen is probably the best KNOWN guitarist out there IMO iv heard better but there just local bums lol

Bets Known?? NO WAY. This thread proves that he IS NOT.

Vai is definetly the most known followed my Satriani.

Yngwie, Becker, Gilbert, Petrucci are know by musicians, but not the average listener.

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i meant the best guitar player who is actually making big dollars

Hes obviously a talented player, and i like some of his records, but his solos can sometimes be fast-for-the-sake-of-it, which i dont like, but at least hes got some skill.

if you like malmsteen better than vai and satch, that's your opinion, but you can't say his songs are more complex, 'cause that's not subjective, and I think you're wrong.
depends on which of his songs you're talking about, if you're talking about his orchestra stuff, then that's complex (but not AS complex as vai satch.). i can say that more than half of his stuff are regular rock-guitar instrumental songs, and they sound VERY similar to eachother, and they are not very complex. One of the big complaints about Malmsteen's music that every one says is he overuses Harmonic minor, and he's very REPETITIVE.

second, Vai and Satch do have some classical licks in their songs, but not as much.

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Vai and Satch have one very important thing on their side... DYNAMIC'S Yngwie really does nothign too special, he just plasy extremely fast and accurate. Where as Vai and Satch each have their own special tricks.

None of them is neccesarily better than the other.

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Now this guy, HE's right. like Vai did Paganini's 5th and I like his better and none could outdo the others,but in my opinion I think Vai is better.And Paul Gilbert.

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Paul Gilbert is one of my favs

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PAUL GILBERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Personally i don´t find the feeling in malmstein themes, but he plays "Fast And Furious" (hehehehhe).
I prefer petrucci, vai, satriani,Curt Cobain( ),...

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^he is my guitar god of choice, with satriani a little behind (told ya he was just a BAD example, listening to surfing with the alien at them moment)

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We're talkin about Yngwie here,so since you didn't stay on topic....

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And who granted you some authority?

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Myself!!!!!!

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Malmsteen is a fat, repetitve and arrogant Swedish piece-o-shit that is EXTREMELY boring. Black Star is OK but I listen to his songs and doze off after about 30 seconds. Vai, Satriani, Becker, Gilbert, Angelo, Neil Zaza, Greg Howe and many others definatly own Yngwie.

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Allright then,good for you!

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if you don't like classical music, you'll think that malmsteen just plays a scale as fast as possible and that's the end of it. really, his composition is very educated compared to so many other great artists.

comparing him to jason becker is tough. becker was great, but rather unoriginal (hate to say it). it's my opinion that he'd still be doing the same thing, emulating others. he, like rhoads, is very sensationalized now that he can't play anymore. i love him, cacophony is absolutely amazing to me (love friendman too!) but.. well.. he's not the greatest imo.

Kurt Cobain is such a lame guitarist.. incredible writer and singer, but his guitar work is poop. i know you were being sarcastic, but im just throwin down my thoughts

Aparently you havent heard Becker's later work, it was nothing like Cacophony.

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i'm actually a very big fan of jason becker, and know his stuff quite well, if you must know!



you all keep talking about the same few guitarists like they're the only guitar gods out there. gilbert, vai, satch , petrucci, gilbert, vai, satch, petrucci.. it's as repetitive as you say malmsteen's songs are! lol.

al di meola is very remarkable. michael romeo, also. troy stetina, obviously. frank gambale, joe pass, steve morse, tony mcalpine, marty friedman, duane allman, joe bonamassa, tommy emmanuel, ritchie blackmoore, dimebag, iommi, .. the list goes on.

ever heard of shawn lane? he blows them all away as a gutairist and as a musician in general.

my main point is this.. why argue who's better? nobody is better. it's all what you like and what you don't like, and there's no fact involved.

Not arguing who's better.....just asking for opinions.

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i love yngwie and being able to play his stuff makes me even appreciate him even more...... i think the next step is that michael angelo batio guy....

Yeah i know

I play Yngwie stuff also, and you can know the effort hi does to make he's songs. But I think Michael Romeo is better than him, but just cause he is newer he doesn't get that much attention. But Michael Romeo is way better than Yngwie.

Vai never did that, or Beethoven's 5th. those songs were made by other people, and renamed as "Vai" or whatever.

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what? i thought that performance on the G3 dvd was disgusting, one of the lowest moments in malmsteen's career. He played it so bad, it was almost unrecognizable; he would hit unwanted strings, wrong timings, and he wouldn't play the original solos that were in the studio song, it was improvised garbage with the same run over and over again.

(and he also looked like a real tool, with all those marshall stacks behind him, kicking his legs, and smashing up a 1000 dollar guitar at the end. but that has nothing to do with his playing)

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What I meant was that Vai COVERED them, and I do have the Mp3 with him playing some of the 5th caprice,I lost the beethoven one tho

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No he didnt, people just rename the file. Its the same thing with Cacophony's Speed Metal Symphony... i downloaded it thinking it was a vai song, but once i heard it i knew it wasent vai.

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No,but I got it from his website(Vai)and you could tell it's his style anyway.

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Where on his site? I cant find them.

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First,go to sights and sounds then aural fixiation when youre there click on the first link(crossroads eugenes trick bag?.... thats it,it starts with a trill and then arpeggios and so on

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yngwie is fuckin awesome at guitar. sometimes it gets annoying when he plays fast cuz it usually sounds the like the same scales. but i still like it.

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malmsteen is probably my favorite player... yeah hes awsome... not that fast, but very good.

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Yngwie not fast....

WTF?

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Yngwie is a genious . that blitzkrieg that was ausome and his/ritchie blackmoore's scalloped fretboard feel like ur playing air guitar, and is louder. the reason why u guys dont understand his music is because ur not listening to the music loud enough to feel it. if u listen to it loud enough u will tell what he ment. he also uses melodic minor like in little savage. he pretty much wrote the book on shred/ neo-classical. and he schooled Eddie Van Halen , now u gotta admit thats pretty fuckin ausome.
yea i agree jason becker is pretty ausome i meen wow. but somone i think is a mix of steve vai and malmsteen would have to be Vinnie Moore. he does the fast ass multi taping like steve vai, just faster(defying gravity) and he has the speed, dexterity, and he went to berklee too.
another good guitarist is joe stump. he teaches at berklee and toured with everyone in this genre.
but all in all if yngwie didnt jump into the scene in the 80s then most of the guitarist today would be even more sucker. like pop bands of today. is that what u want, no solos in between a song?
REMBER
BILLY SHEENHAN

I think Chris Impelliteri is a fucking load better... Yngwie is a little boring from some of the songs I check out...gah

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as a guitarist, he is very very bloody good. there are better, but who cares. probably the best guitarist is some 55yr old kid who has no social life, no band, works in the local fast food place, still lives with mum, and has spent every spare second alternate picking the chromatic scale.

as a songwriter/musician, hes not great, but very few are.
sometimes his solos seem completely detatched from the song

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Yngwie has done some of the greatest shit ever, and some of the worst shit ever. His problem is that he hires super lame vocalists/drummers/bassists and writes retarded lyrics. He is apparently unable to function in a cooperative band environment like Page, Hendrix, Van Halen, Gilmour, etc... and is therefore self-relegated to obscurity.

I'll see the light tonight is one of the greatest videos ever. Best theme, and the most incredible special effects I've ever seen.

This is why I will always love Yngwie...


Yngwie or the Highway
Guitar World, January 2002
No one doubts Yngwie Malmsteen has the mettle to back up his metal. But when the Swedish shredmeister stood up for America before a South American audience, he demonstrated his courage.

On October 2, three weeks after the terrorist air strikes on the U.S., Malmsteen treated the audience at this concert in Porto Alegre, Brazil, to a rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and was roundly booed.

"The majority of the crowd was great," says Malmsteen from his Florida home. "I didn't leave the stage because I knew most of the crowd wasn't booing, but enough people were doing it, so it could be heard very clearly." Unfortunately, things quickly went from bad to worse following Malmsteen's solo. "After I play my guitar solo, there are separate keyboard, bass and drum solos," he explains. "That's when people started yelling, 'Osama! Osama!' That was just a bit too much."

Adds Yngwie keyboardist Derek Sherinian, "To see the anti-American rallies on TV is bad enough, but to be in the middle of one is scary beyond words. When the band went backstage after the final song, I told Yngwie, 'I refuse to go out for an encore.' "

Undaunted, Malmsteen returned to the stage alone and once again struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner." "I told the crowd that I was going to play it one more time. I told them, 'If you start booing I'm leaving.' And sure enough, the crowd started booing after the first few bars. So I said, 'God bless America, and fuck you all,' and walked offstage."

Malmsteen quickly clarifies that his words were not meant against Brazil. "I love Brazil," he says. I just responded spontaneously as if I had been punched in the face. I'm a musician, not a politician, and I was just playing a song." As for his fervent devotion to America, Yngwie explains, "I've been living in the States more than half my life, and I love this country."

Actually no he didn't. I believe eddie was the first to do cathedral which yngwie ripped off, along with tapping arpeggios and 6th string pinch harmonics which by the way 90 percent of people give zakk credit for. Yngwie does one thing, harmonic minor, over and over again. At least eddie had great rhythm playing and chord progressions. Dont get me wrong i really do enjoy listening to the sweed and he is one of my favorite players, i just get irratated when people try to down play eddie

Uli Jon Roth wrote the book on neo-classical in the mid to late 70's and Malmsteen is his little bitch. Eddie Van Halen definitely wipes his ass with Yngwie when it comes to song writing and variety...

stay on topic,it's about Ynwie,not who's better than Yngwie

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My opinion of Yngwie Malmsteen :

I cannot stand his songwriting. But if you want to learn to perform harmonic minor scale runs and sweeps up and down the neck with fluidity and ease, he's certainly a guitarist whose catalogue you should study.

Anybody here ever catch him live?
I saw him in 2002 and it was a cool show, but he was playing at an insane volume level! I was about 3 feet from the stage and I felt like if I didn't get the fuck out of there I was going to permanetly lose my hearing.

It was a small club and I swear he had about 10 full Marshall stacks behind him. lol

I've seen him a few times:

Day on the Green at Oakland Coliseum 1985
Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre 1989ish
Some club in L.A. 1993ish
I think I saw him one other time but can't remember for sure...

He was always awesome, but he did the old "throw the guitar around my back in the middle of a solo to look super cool" trick a few too many times.

I imagine he was mind-numbingly loud at Oakland Coliseum but I was 16 and my parental appointed chaperone wouldn't let me leave the stadium seats and descend into the madness. There were several people in the upper seating decks with "Yngwie is God" banners and the random air guitarists in the crowd were going batshit insane.

He was fairly tame at the club, but I experienced what you're talking about at a Racer X concert in LA. My ears were ringing for 4 days afterwards. During the show I kept thinking my head was going to explode like in "Scanners" and I'm pretty sure a deaf person could have heard the dueling leads because they were penetrating my entire skull and I'm not sure that my ears were even functioning at that point...

That is how I felt at the Yngwie show. It was like he was beating the shit out of me with his amps. lol