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People have treated him like a joke for so long. In a time where every player sounds the same as the next, he is still one of the few guys who truly has a unique style and voice. If you sound like Yngwie, its because you are copying Yngwie, and there is nothing more obvious than a Yngwie copy.
He is no joke. Hes an amazing musician but for me to listen to its just one song and thats it. Hes inspired millions of guitarist around the world. But man,how fast and how much can you take.
Yes and also all the Eddie tapping clones that miss, and dont play, all the other cool stuff that Eddie did. I would say Eddie and Yngwie are the 2 most copied players since 1978. Before that it was Jimi but only a few really attempted the Jimi thing, it was considered too far beyond for a while.
Love him or hate him, you can’t argue his single-minded, no-compromise artistic sensibilities. Even though they often come across as elitist or arrogant, such artists can change the world in ways that pandering, ear-tickling compromisers cannot. His hero, Blackmore, is the same way, as was Holdsworth, who he name-checks in this video (although of the three Holdsworth was by far the most talented and simultaneously the most humble). I don’t own an Ynwie Malmsteen album. As a prog fan, I find his song arrangements quite pedantic compared to the incredible technique and passion of his lead playing. But credit where credit is due: the guy more or less single-handedly invented the rock sub-genre of Neoclassical Rock. His playing isn’t merely a freak show of blisteringly fast techniques-it drips with passion and emotion as well. He marches to the beat of his own drummer, and I’m fairly certain Ynwie couldn’t care less what any of us think. I admire that about him.
Saw Yngwie open up for AC/DC in '84. Best show I ever saw. He threw a guitar and failed to catch it. Played for an hour and a half covering most of RISING FORCE and MARCHING OUT. Incredible show. Then the headliners came on and tore the roof off. Yngwie won everyone over. Even encored. It was killer.
Yngwie is a lot more affable , at least in recent interviews than he used to be....even making fun of the old "not to be confused with other Yngwie Malmsteens" quip.
I agree. He seems more at ease: lean, fit, witty and affable, indeed. Yngwie mentioned 'In the Dead of Night'. His version is an absolute masterpiece. I loved the 'Inspiration' album. The artwork is beautiful: rainbows, Doric columns, temple ruins, lightning and storms.
Wow... So much hate for this guitar innovator out there... He makes great points in comparing pre-internet/internet eras... Even when he is very careful about not giving ANY possible negative opinion, he still gets hate from the majority of comments! To ANY "Yngwie hater" out there - HERE is a CHALLENGE - If you make a hateful comment toward Yngwie, please attach a link to a video of you performing any of his music in your comment - if you can't, then don't comment... 🌎✌🌿🎶
Wow, you seem so challenging. Playing fast doesn't make anyone a genius. This world has plenty of people who rip on guitar on a far more advanced level. If you take a young guy like Josh Meader, it would be only honest to say that Yngwie couldn't play one lick by him, but he could play Yngwie better than Yngwie himself.
@@GuitarTotality You sound like an eternal five year old! Defending Castle Greyskull with such determination. LOL You must feel very heroic! ruclips.net/video/NmwWuEpA-UE/видео.html Watch till the end..
@@luckylicks3497 Your link is "click bait" to more "Yngwie hate". The Truth in my "challenge" still Stands - You have not proven that you can perform ANY of Yngwie's music. I believe that most guitarists out there who COULD perform some of Yngwie's music, would not post hateful comments, for they have Respect for Yngwie's musicianship and original style on guitar! They Know what it takes... THAT is the POINT of my "challenge". "By the power of Greyskull... Your own antagonisms deflect back at you and knock you down - For you have no Truthful 'legs' to Stand on!" ✌🎶
@@GuitarTotality Yngwie used to play much better, but nowadays he can't play worth crap. He invented himself by playing 8-gauge strings on a scalloped fretboard for wide vibratos, sticking with a single A-minor arpeggio and using cocaine for fast harmonic minor runs. He's been trying to reinvent himself for about 30 years - now he can't even play his own solos. I've been a longtime fan, just maybe angry at him for blowing it off and being so frickin' lazy. The problem is in his head, being stuck on one lane forever. He's a sex maniac who sees himself as a pornstar with a guitar, not realizing that after 30 years those same pickup lines are getting way too old. He was creative up until Facing the Animal. Then he got so cocky it partially blinded him. Nobody can take him seriously anymore.
I saw him live when i was a kid he was my wearing a pirate floofy type shirt spandex pants and would after every song chug a few red bulls and blow dry his hair and chuck his guitar to his guitar tech
I saw him open for Triumph in 86? at the Civic Center in Baltimore MD.EVERYONE in the arena was buzzing WhoTF is this guy? He played Eruption as easy as Three Blind Mice and was throwing his guitar up 20 feet and it still sounded musical.By the way Triumph was amazing,they had a lazer system that made a head in the center of the arena,fuckin wild.The 80's were awesome when it came to RnR shows.Everyone together basically having a lovefest in the parking lots and enjoying themselves to the fullest, including myself.Long live Yngwie Malmsteen!
Sadly people ask "WhoTF is Triumph" these days. Besides being an awesome band, they had a seriously extensive stage presence. They're kinda like Steve Morse, where everyone recognizes the name, but always a distant memory.
@@KarstenJohansson well the same could be said of every 80s guitar hero including Yngwie , he and Morse have about the same level of fame...worshipped by guitar players and unknown by the public. Speaking of Morse and Triumph have you seen this? ruclips.net/video/_3XdLlLBvm4/видео.html
I agree, if he doesn’t end up playing for Christ, maybe he’ll at least work with a band again and hire a real producer and mixer to put out something decent
@@oldguyjammin9732 I think it's been pretty difficult for anyone to work in any band since the Covid 19 outbreak. There only just allowing concerts again in my country, but you must be vaccinated. I've actually composed a few Christian covers my self. Just need someone to play them it was going to be an old friend but I don't think he has the time or interest. Soon I will have the tabs done as I finally have a computer and guitar pro 7.
Yngwie is awesome he's just EPIC and that's how he lives and how he plays. as far as Yngwie saying he doesn't have a favorite guitar?? he's got a million clones of the same guitar, white strat seventies style with maple scalloped fingerboards and signature pickups, there might be hundreds in his house but they're all the same guitar.
Most un informative Top-5 I’ve ever seen. First one I’ve ever seen, but definitely the most uninformative. My guitar culture pet peeve: that Yngwie always sounds exactly the same all the time. Yeah he can play, but fer Ritchie’s sake give us something other than the relentless March of the arpeggios
I love it. Yngwie, could you answer these questions? "I don't have any answers. I never have had. I had some when I was young, but I avoid having them."
@@legatrix Yngwie's singers have always been the highly skilled operatic type to match his own skills on guitar so I think you're wrong on that one. Yngwie is not as good at singing as Hendrix was either, Yngwie should not sing.
Such a legend. One of the greatest players ever, but I do wish he'd practise more these days to get his technique back to how it was before his car crash.
More like an attitude you can do it , than a derogatory opinion . All the concept, knowledge and technique, can't be analytical in the creative mode, that is where having a sense of humor and personality come into play!
Its cool when one of your idol like another of yours. Allan Holdsworth best guitarist ever, Yjm inspiration for a whole generation, shawn lane is the only one i can think to be on the same level than those monster. Huge respect for you Mr Malmsteen, you rock , we need more guitar heroes to make rock great again 🤟
Oh the maestro gets old as his music but the legend gets bigger EVH was cried by a lot of guitar players but when it comes to YJM you will see a lot more people moved by the maestro because his music his attitude his technique influenced more variants of the genre than EVH's
I'd just mastered the scale run in Over The Mountain (Ozzy/Randy Rhoads) and then Yngwie came about. That was when the idea of modes really struck me, because Randy's Mixolydian run sounds instantly Yngwie-ish if you play it with the Phrygian mode, and even more-so if you play it with Harmonic Minor (or one of its modes, the Phrygian Dominant).
@@Hologhoul Uli is one of my favourite guitarists, and has played a significant role in how I developed my style. That Jeff Beck style upward slide with simultaneous whammy bar dip? I totally stole that from him. :D
The begining of the solo in War Pigs is E mixolydian then E Dorian After Forever intro is mixo, Free Way Jam is Mixo Running Free Iron Maiden is Natural minor . the end run or Over the Mountain is Mixo The interlude before the solo, after the tritones is natural minor The song is in G natural minor with a raised 7 sometimes .more like a relative diminished added F#( the pitch is G , it is 1/2 below standard) It goes to Eb F. iV V of G natural minor ( i told them land of dreams) Astrology is C min Bb ii I of G nat min
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@YJM How about starting a Friday Q&A thing like Leon Todd???
i guess Im quite randomly asking but do anyone know a good site to stream newly released series online ?
@Emanuel Kristian Flixportal xD
@Reign Ben thank you, I signed up and it seems to work =) Appreciate it!
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Yngwie scalloped his camera lens apparently
This made my day!😂
LOOOOL
easier make vibrato
🤣😆🤣😆His vocal chords too!
I had to turn on closed caption and was a buncha question marks
Congrats, you achieved the rare, actual real-life 'lol' from me.
Yngwie changed the game back in the early- mid 80’s. Legendary!
Recorded on a Ford model T.
People have treated him like a joke for so long. In a time where every player sounds the same as the next, he is still one of the few guys who truly has a unique style and voice. If you sound like Yngwie, its because you are copying Yngwie, and there is nothing more obvious than a Yngwie copy.
I love Joe Stump. Yeah he's an Yngwie copy but he's like a metal Yngwie.
@@JD-vj4go i took joe stumps class at berklee summer program in 03
He is no joke. Hes an amazing musician but for me to listen to its just one song and thats it. Hes inspired millions of guitarist around the world. But man,how fast and how much can you take.
Yes and also all the Eddie tapping clones that miss, and dont play, all the other cool stuff that Eddie did. I would say Eddie and Yngwie are the 2 most copied players since 1978. Before that it was Jimi but only a few really attempted the Jimi thing, it was considered too far beyond for a while.
@@michaelcraig9449 SRV was a hell of a Jimi copy but he added his own stuff to it a little bit
Love him or hate him, you can’t argue his single-minded, no-compromise artistic sensibilities. Even though they often come across as elitist or arrogant, such artists can change the world in ways that pandering, ear-tickling compromisers cannot. His hero, Blackmore, is the same way, as was Holdsworth, who he name-checks in this video (although of the three Holdsworth was by far the most talented and simultaneously the most humble).
I don’t own an Ynwie Malmsteen album. As a prog fan, I find his song arrangements quite pedantic compared to the incredible technique and passion of his lead playing. But credit where credit is due: the guy more or less single-handedly invented the rock sub-genre of Neoclassical Rock. His playing isn’t merely a freak show of blisteringly fast techniques-it drips with passion and emotion as well. He marches to the beat of his own drummer, and I’m fairly certain Ynwie couldn’t care less what any of us think.
I admire that about him.
I've been a massive fan of Yngwie since the 80's , an absolute genius music artist.
He needs another yellow strat with a Ferrari sticker... I just don’t feel he has enough.
you guys: top 5 anything?
yngwie: no
I like seeing more & more, that Yngwie has a good sense of humor. He is funny!!!
I think he started smoke yjm signature weed
I met him once. Very cool guy, took time to sign a couple albums for me, gave me some guitar picks and we talked his STEELER album.
Saw Yngwie open up for AC/DC in '84. Best show I ever saw. He threw a guitar and failed to catch it. Played for an hour and a half covering most of RISING FORCE and MARCHING OUT. Incredible show. Then the headliners came on and tore the roof off. Yngwie won everyone over. Even encored. It was killer.
I saw that tour in Boston, I came for the warmup band! lol 4 years later I purchased an 88 Yngwie signature strat. Still have it and play it.
Respect for Yngwie. "If I put my mind to something, consider it done." We should all be that way.
That's why he is Yngwie, and most people are not!
I also heard somewhere that he doesn’t compromise.
@@dansdrumchannel9239 He had to add the J because of all the other Yngwies!
@@michaelcraig9449 I have heard him say that before, and it always makes me laugh!
Yngwie is a lot more affable , at least in recent interviews than he used to be....even making fun of the old "not to be confused with other Yngwie Malmsteens" quip.
I agree. He seems more at ease: lean, fit, witty and affable, indeed. Yngwie mentioned 'In the Dead of Night'. His version is an absolute masterpiece. I loved the 'Inspiration' album. The artwork is beautiful: rainbows, Doric columns, temple ruins, lightning and storms.
That's weed
Yngwie recorded this on a Tamagotchi
Wow... So much hate for this guitar innovator out there... He makes great points in comparing pre-internet/internet eras... Even when he is very careful about not giving ANY possible negative opinion, he still gets hate from the majority of comments! To ANY "Yngwie hater" out there - HERE is a CHALLENGE - If you make a hateful comment toward Yngwie, please attach a link to a video of you performing any of his music in your comment - if you can't, then don't comment...
🌎✌🌿🎶
Wow, you seem so challenging. Playing fast doesn't make anyone a genius. This world has plenty of people who rip on guitar on a far more advanced level. If you take a young guy like Josh Meader, it would be only honest to say that Yngwie couldn't play one lick by him, but he could play Yngwie better than Yngwie himself.
@@luckylicks3497 And, YOUR performance video link is where?
@@GuitarTotality You sound like an eternal five year old! Defending Castle Greyskull with such determination. LOL You must feel very heroic! ruclips.net/video/NmwWuEpA-UE/видео.html Watch till the end..
@@luckylicks3497 Your link is "click bait" to more "Yngwie hate". The Truth in my "challenge" still Stands - You have not proven that you can perform ANY of Yngwie's music. I believe that most guitarists out there who COULD perform some of Yngwie's music, would not post hateful comments, for they have Respect for Yngwie's musicianship and original style on guitar! They Know what it takes... THAT is the POINT of my "challenge".
"By the power of Greyskull... Your own antagonisms deflect back at you and knock you down - For you have no Truthful 'legs' to Stand on!"
✌🎶
@@GuitarTotality Yngwie used to play much better, but nowadays he can't play worth crap. He invented himself by playing 8-gauge strings on a scalloped fretboard for wide vibratos, sticking with a single A-minor arpeggio and using cocaine for fast harmonic minor runs. He's been trying to reinvent himself for about 30 years - now he can't even play his own solos. I've been a longtime fan, just maybe angry at him for blowing it off and being so frickin' lazy. The problem is in his head, being stuck on one lane forever. He's a sex maniac who sees himself as a pornstar with a guitar, not realizing that after 30 years those same pickup lines are getting way too old. He was creative up until Facing the Animal. Then he got so cocky it partially blinded him. Nobody can take him seriously anymore.
After Eddie entering our lords kingdom, Yngwie is now the holder of the scepter.
Loved the bit about YM hearing Holdsworth for the first time, being blown away and becoming friends, really cool. Holdsworth was phenomenal.
Yngwie must mention uli jon roth as an influence
I saw him live when i was a kid he was my wearing a pirate floofy type shirt spandex pants and would after every song chug a few red bulls and blow dry his hair and chuck his guitar to his guitar tech
You just described the 80s.
@@nicholasthill7151 i know i was like 2 feet from him when it happened
I love that he read comments
Love Yngwie but ULI JON ROTH Invented Neo Classical.
I saw him play every note when Alcatrazz opened for Ratt. He's done nothing new since. Yawn. Technical. Notes for no purpose.
I saw him open for Triumph in 86? at the Civic Center in Baltimore MD.EVERYONE in the arena was buzzing WhoTF is this guy? He played Eruption as easy as Three Blind Mice and was throwing his guitar up 20 feet and it still sounded musical.By the way Triumph was amazing,they had a lazer system that made a head in the center of the arena,fuckin wild.The 80's were awesome when it came to RnR shows.Everyone together basically having a lovefest in the parking lots and enjoying themselves to the fullest, including myself.Long live Yngwie Malmsteen!
Sadly people ask "WhoTF is Triumph" these days. Besides being an awesome band, they had a seriously extensive stage presence. They're kinda like Steve Morse, where everyone recognizes the name, but always a distant memory.
@@KarstenJohansson well the same could be said of every 80s guitar hero including Yngwie , he and Morse have about the same level of fame...worshipped by guitar players and unknown by the public.
Speaking of Morse and Triumph have you seen this?
ruclips.net/video/_3XdLlLBvm4/видео.html
@@Siloguy I agree with you. I hadn't really thought of Triumph as only a guitar player's band. The funniest part was when ...
Yngwie cam quality settings :
- 480p
- 720p
- Vincent Van Gogh
Except the only compromise on the album is the production quality
You know Yngwie brought about a new level of playing after Eddie V. had changed the guitar player would for music.
There you have it-- Yngwie J. Malmsteen is either a claymation figurine, or a watercolor.
Malmsteen seems to be getting more humble in his age, maybe he'll take up his cross and shred for Christ.
I agree, if he doesn’t end up playing for Christ, maybe he’ll at least work with a band again and hire a real producer and mixer to put out something decent
@@oldguyjammin9732 I think it's been pretty difficult for anyone to work in any band since the Covid 19 outbreak. There only just allowing concerts again in my country, but you must be vaccinated. I've actually composed a few Christian covers my self. Just need someone to play them it was going to be an old friend but I don't think he has the time or interest. Soon I will have the tabs done as I finally have a computer and guitar pro 7.
Yngwie is awesome
he's just EPIC and that's how he lives and how he plays.
as far as Yngwie saying he doesn't have a favorite guitar?? he's got a million clones of the same guitar, white strat seventies style with maple scalloped fingerboards and signature pickups, there might be hundreds in his house but they're all the same guitar.
Malmsteen is still burning ships. Thanks for the music. Rock on.
Yngwie, the greatest guitarist of all times.
Potato cam
I have always liked Yngwie, he is an extraordinary artist. He is a true one-of-kind person who makes the world a more interesting place! Imho.😀
His answers are just like his music - highly articulate but so boring...
highly skilled answers?
@@KowankoMusic highly skilled in avoiding specific answers
Yngwie is looking great and sounding great. He seems to be entering a new golden age.
Keep on keepin on Yngwie J!
With much love and respect from
Indy. ✌💛🤘
Bravo Maestro! Can't wait for the new album and tour. I'm sure I'll be making many road trips to see you live. Rock on!
Most un informative Top-5 I’ve ever seen. First one I’ve ever seen, but definitely the most uninformative.
My guitar culture pet peeve: that Yngwie always sounds exactly the same all the time. Yeah he can play, but fer Ritchie’s sake give us something other than the relentless March of the arpeggios
Uli Jon Roth was doing the neoclassical thing (Sails of Charon) before Yngwie. Far Beyond the Sun’s a great composition though, his best imo.
I love it.
Yngwie, could you answer these questions?
"I don't have any answers. I never have had. I had some when I was young, but I avoid having them."
I've loved yngwie since 85, I guess.
Watching this is inspiring.
The passion and excitement still flows through he's veins..
I remember hearing YM the first time...
I was so pissed off!!🤣😂
Homie rocking a Nokia camera phone
He looks like Dan Aykroyd playing Yngwie.
Yngwie's inner critic isn't strong enough to tell him he can't sing, and to hire Goran Edman back
maybe those days are over for him. anyway, he can sing about as well as hendrix could, and that's all he needs really.
@@legatrix Yngwie's singers have always been the highly skilled operatic type to match his own skills on guitar so I think you're wrong on that one. Yngwie is not as good at singing as Hendrix was either, Yngwie should not sing.
Yngwie is such an original, I've loved him since I was a teen.
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,legend,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, KING STRAT .........................................long live the king....
I didn't know you could record yourself with a SEGA Dreamcast VMU, but ok.
He had me at Holdsworth. Yngwie made me pick up the guitar Allan mad me study it
‘I’m not the sort of person to follow things’ says the guy with a cross hanging from his wrist. 😂
I try and like this guy, I really do. I have come to the conclusion that I like his music............
I'm glad u stick to your guns. And if you can't appreciate what Yngwie does, I don't know how you can really appreciate music.
Allan Holdsworth - Your Favourite Guitarist's Favourite Guitarist.
I wonder if he's seen that Malmsteen plays BB King video!!
Yngwie is Yngwie enough said goodnight!!!🍺😷👍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Yngwie J Presley with those thick side burns.
YJM is awesome! Shreds not dead!
simple words..keep on shredding legend
Everyone has at least a little time to listen to YJM.
What happened to his eyebrows? :D
OMG Does Yngwie live in 2002 with dial up internet ? Man I cant wait til this is all over so everyoen can do PROPER interviews again.
You are a legend amigo. Love you lots.
Yeah that joke at the beginning 😅😆🤣
YJW needs a new phone
Much love to the eternal master!
i think he`s using nokia 3650
Yngwie is Yngwie! :)
Sorry, I think this would have been more entertaining if he said favorite guitar: Telecaster. Island album: Cindi Lauper She's So Unusual, etc...
Such a legend. One of the greatest players ever, but I do wish he'd practise more these days to get his technique back to how it was before his car crash.
The Master.
More like an attitude you can do it , than a derogatory opinion .
All the concept, knowledge and technique, can't be analytical in the creative mode, that is where having a sense of humor and personality come into play!
Its cool when one of your idol like another of yours.
Allan Holdsworth best guitarist ever, Yjm inspiration for a whole generation, shawn lane is the only one i can think to be on the same level than those monster.
Huge respect for you Mr Malmsteen, you rock , we need more guitar heroes to make rock great again 🤟
Why is he in white face
Filmed on a Potato
I get dyeing your eyebows, but when it's that obvious it kind of defeats the purpose!
rrrrrrrrrrrrespect
The maestro
Love this guy!
Omg did Yngwie really record this video with a potato?
Saw him and Lynch on tour like 10 years ago. Blew me away!
@YMJ How about starting a Friday Q&A thing???
Maestro
Oh the maestro gets old as his music but the legend gets bigger EVH was cried by a lot of guitar players but when it comes to YJM you will see a lot more people moved by the maestro because his music his attitude his technique influenced more variants of the genre than EVH's
🔥🔥
😎👍💗🇺🇸🇸🇪🎸💣🔥🎼🔊 YNGWIE!!!
The best of them all! (my opinion)
It says in options that this videos in HD 1080p
Hello Yngwie from Canada ♥️
That where Elvis has been hiding all these years
I'd just mastered the scale run in Over The Mountain (Ozzy/Randy Rhoads) and then Yngwie came about. That was when the idea of modes really struck me, because Randy's Mixolydian run sounds instantly Yngwie-ish if you play it with the Phrygian mode, and even more-so if you play it with Harmonic Minor (or one of its modes, the Phrygian Dominant).
Uli Roth was another one doing great stuff with Mixolydian and other scales/modes, way back in the 70s, great stuff
@@Hologhoul Uli is one of my favourite guitarists, and has played a significant role in how I developed my style. That Jeff Beck style upward slide with simultaneous whammy bar dip? I totally stole that from him. :D
The begining of the solo in War Pigs is E mixolydian then E Dorian
After Forever intro is mixo, Free Way Jam is Mixo
Running Free Iron Maiden is Natural minor . the end run or Over the Mountain is Mixo
The interlude before the solo, after the tritones is natural minor
The song is in G natural minor with a raised 7 sometimes .more like a relative diminished added F#( the pitch is G , it is 1/2 below standard)
It goes to Eb F.
iV V of G natural minor ( i told them land of dreams)
Astrology is C min Bb
ii I of G nat min
What he says at 1:44 i can't understand
Fenders and tekpix
素晴らし――――！！👍👍👍God 👍👍👍
Why did he even do the video then....smh
Yngwie Malmsteen come to Greece!!!!
iphones are uncool imo
Oh, the stacks of Strats...!
Great man🔥
👍🤘
If you slow it down a little bit, it kind of seems like Andre the Giant is talking.