Yngvie FUCKING Malmsteen, thats who!

Could you spell his name right atleast...plus the guy cant play in the pocket for shit....chops out the ass but what a waste!

Rising force is still a great album. It's too bad he hasn't matured since then. It is also too bad that he is such an arrogant A-Hole (this is an understatement) which makes listeneng to him very hard to do. Give me something with a groove please....mh

some peeps say he has wasted his talents and hasn't reached his full potential thefefore he is a waster etc... but really, he achieved guitar god-hood at 24. wow. he, and van halen, are the most copied shred guitarists. I mean just look at neoclassical metal - players still play his licks like identical to the way he does... and there's soooo much. 99% is all crap, but it shows what he has achieved at least in the light of his career. im not saying he's brilliant (i think rising force was amazing though) BUT he has established something MASSIVE. innit? ;O)

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This is what happens when you get 99% technical musician mixed with 1% creative composer. Yawnnnn....

Actually, if any of you have ever heard "Inspiration" you'd know he can play quite well in the pocket at times. He just doesn't quite know when to let the music breathe to it's greatest effect.

I'd like to see him get rid of the da^^n keyboards and get a real singer. He'd be really cool in a hard rock/ blues setting....the neo-classical stuff has to go.

yeah, spell his name correct - Yngve Malmsten.

Is a god, hes got his own saound, own tecnics, plays with great feel and improvaisation, great vibrato and so on.......... he is a god no matter what. You just have to exept it.

I hope you can read my english (swedish guitar player

Yngwie ( ingvay ) is a true pioneer and has shaped the guitar community in a vast way.
I'm a big fan of his but I do not buy all his stuff because of the repititious nature of his style and attitude.
I do reccomend the following cd's; Rising Force, Inspiration,Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar and Orchestra In E Flat minor OP.1, all of which show YJm in a variety of settings and at his best.Another three tracks I'd like to mention are the ones that YJM did on the Cornford Amplification Amp Odyssey 2002 CD, these little known performances are truely one of a kind and unique YJM tracks they are titled Hendlicks, Ballad, & Brush With The Blues the first and last being the blues YJM style, should remove any doubt that YJM has an awsome talent.
Oh and buy the way CORNFORD ROCKS!!!

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Yngweenie as I call him is a beginner in my book. Yes, he has some chops, but that's about it.
There are a million players that make him look like an amature.
Not only does he lack feel, groove,soul, and everything else that makes a guitarist great, he's a d!ck.
I don't have the faintest idea how he got on the new G3 tour. Steve and Joe would have been better off putting a garbage can on stage with them. And I know for a fact that they are sorry for helping out the drunken idiot.
Speaking of CORNFORD, look at Guthrie Govan. Not only far superior in every aspect of the guitar, he's a cool guy. Also about 20 times faster than Yngweenie, but he is a master of Jazz, Blues, Metal, Rock, country, etc etc etc...
Time to wake up children and realize that Yngweenie couldn't tie your shoes on his best day.

I'd never heard of this guy before, so I searched around for a review of his music and this is the kind of thing I kept coming up with;

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (1984)

Disclaimer- If you're a guitarist, an aspiring guitarist, familiar with the names MacAlipine or Impelleritti, related to the Malmsteens, or just plain Swedish- you will definitely enjoy this brilliant and talented classically-inspired Swedish musician, who recorded this when he was only 19. An impressive work. There is no need to continue reading. If not...

Cover: 5 Serious Guitar Students Who Work At Strawberries out of 10.
There's no denying that this a classic album cover. If you're between the ages of 30 and 40 and liked hard rock, you've either seen this, owned this or knew someone who did. A lot was made of this young Swede (who made his bones with Ron Keel, then Alcatrazz); and his name which everybody made fun of ("Why the 'J' ?), and mispronounced (I would say, "Wang-E", and the fat rock-guy in my freshmen class would shout, "It's ING-VAY!" and then toss his hair over his shoulder like Cher). Anyway, it's a picture of a woman's arm holding a cream-yellow Fender Strat above some flames. The title is written in that Germanic, New York Times font.

Booklet: 2 Serious Guitar Students Who Work At Strawberries out of 10.
Everything is written in this damn New York Times font, making it nearly impossible to read - (white letters, black background). There's lyrics to the two songs that have lyrics. Yngwie is credited with all bass and guitar parts, lyrics, as well as production, and "cover concept". Among others, he "thanx" the following: Aria guitars (but not Fender), Paganini, J.S. Bach, H.P. Lovecraft and Rod Serling. Hmm...that last one worries me.

Songs: 0 Serious Guitar Students Who Work At Strawberries out of 10.
He should have thanked Jeff Goldblum and whoever wrote the line, "Be afraid, be very afraid!" This is excruciating in its dullness. The supreme bloated majesty of extensive solo-ing, or "Metal For Boys Who Love Boys Who Love Music". I am in hell. I picked this up on disc just to review what I had long ago thrown away on vinyl. This is my Twilight Zone undoing. I was playing this in the car on the way home and worried that if I got killed in an accident listening to it, the local papers wouldn't read, "Man Killed In Fiery Wreck, Listening To Heavy Metal Music", they would read, "Man Killed In Fiery Wreck, About To Come Out Of The Closet". I can't tell you how bad this is. This is a new level of "suck". Leads and solos. He goes up the scales and he goes down the scales, again and again. Boring. The titles say it all: "Icarus Dream Suite, Opus 1"; "As Above, So Below". The singer, Jeff Scott Soto, is a low-rent Dio. Neither opera nor rock, and certainly not a "Force" of anything. This is the non-alcoholic beer of rock. I wish I was English, so I could say, "Bloody wanker!" with some authority.

File under "Shit".

Comments: If you want to listen to fat noodlers, hang out in the prep kitchen of The Olive Garden.

HAhahahahaha ha ha! That was funny! YM was really good. I saw Angus just kick his ass in like '86, but.... he'd take any of the wanna be speed techs. Easy .. w/ thier small strings and easy action, they were not like this maniac w/ an old strat w/ poor action just on fire. That was then. To hear the raw and hungry(w/less effects) YngididindingMalsteen, you gotta go back to Steeler, when he jammed w/ Ron Keel. There's some slower hooks on there. And his response to "Eruption". For me.. Rising Force, reminds me of getting home from school doin lil puff, grabin the tennis racket and gettin down to...yes...."Now your ships are burned"! Even the bass goes on that one. And about Jeff Scott Soto....partially because of him Marching Out was YM's most successful album. If you thought he was bad try listening Malmsteens other singers!

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Oh yea......and the dude almost won a Grammy for Rising Force. Shit can get you one of those ....but $ wouldn't$ that $ be nice$

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