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    Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun LIVE
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  • @davidepannone6021
    @davidepannone6021 Год назад +17

    To me the most mind boggling part of 80s yngwie was the precision while doing all the stage antics. It's like his guitar truly was just an extension of his body.

  • @craigwilson3214
    @craigwilson3214 3 года назад +19

    The #1 Master shredder. His guitar playing is so fast and prefect. It is perfection. Ear candy.

  • @epic103
    @epic103 3 года назад +95

    Despite his detractors, Yngwie is the king. He's a game changer like Hendrix and EVH before him.

    • @Blaze-ing
      @Blaze-ing 3 года назад +4

      Yes he is an excellent guitar player i try to learn as much from his technique as i can

    • @taylorpenunuri8677
      @taylorpenunuri8677 3 года назад +8

      EXACTLY! Many people do not see / understand this.

    • @OrignalElidest
      @OrignalElidest 2 года назад +8

      @@taylorpenunuri8677 the amount of modern shred that is based of this dudes technique is probably bigger than EVHs influence on modern shred. YJM is crazy

    • @Guinnessrules
      @Guinnessrules 2 года назад +4

      Yeah, he is a star.
      And from little sweden like me.
      He was my first guitar hero.

    • @realscience948
      @realscience948 2 года назад

      If he would only make music that is listenable!

  • @niniyeadarefin6555
    @niniyeadarefin6555 2 года назад +12

    Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the greatest and most technically skilled guitarist of all times. He is a monster. Even guitarist like Joe Satriani told in many interviews that, Yngwie's guitar playing gave him chills and wonders sometimes while touring together. Because the knowledge Yngwie has on classical music is really crazy! Very few guitarists can do that kind of stuffs other than Jason Becker. Yngwie's influences are all over in Jason's music, although what he presented are also so difficult and complex as well like Yngwie's.

  • @Suzy_StayTiny
    @Suzy_StayTiny 3 года назад +28

    Back in the 80s when Malmsteen first made an impression on me and my fellow metalheads, we always said that if Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, etc were alive, THIS is what they’d be writing! 🔥🎸

    • @Guinnessrules
      @Guinnessrules 2 года назад +1

      Yeah, they definitely be into metal.
      Most likely tech death....🤣

    • @riffsthatkill2180
      @riffsthatkill2180 2 года назад +1

      Yes, but admittedly they'd be better at it lol. Not at playing it, but writing it .. because Mr Malmsteen loves to take snippets of their chord progs and melodies.

    • @patrickadolfsson4784
      @patrickadolfsson4784 8 месяцев назад

      That Bach ”tune” played with organ, sonata in D-minor ? (D-minor I’m sure of!) That piece is really heavy& would concidered beeing Metal today, for sure! 🤘🤘

  • @merlin5420
    @merlin5420 2 года назад +12

    The duelling solos between Yngwie and Jens is so epic, akin to watching Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris going toe to toe! 🎸🎹🔥🔥🔥

  • @pulsatingsausageboy2076
    @pulsatingsausageboy2076 3 года назад +41

    That’s what the 1980’s was all about right there boys.

    • @Suzy_StayTiny
      @Suzy_StayTiny 3 года назад +2

      YAAASSS!! We had a LOT of fun back in the day!! 🔥🤘🏻🎸

  • @gunnelalmge7543
    @gunnelalmge7543 3 года назад +22

    That´s Yngwie alright! With him are the Johansson brothers, Anders on drums and Jens on keyboard. Extremly good musicians!!! All three of them swedish. YES!!!

    • @jimsteinmanfan80
      @jimsteinmanfan80 3 года назад +5

      Not just brothers but also sons of one of the most well known swedish jazz musicians.

  • @ginacole270
    @ginacole270 3 года назад +21

    Yngwie is a guitar GENIUS 🤘🤘

  • @gundalfthelost1624
    @gundalfthelost1624 3 года назад +13

    Pure 80's perfection. Yngwie is a hero among the guitar players here in Sweden, has been since the beginning.

  • @AudiophileTubes
    @AudiophileTubes 3 года назад +13

    YNGWIE is an ungodly, groundbreaking player! I had the privelege of first seeing this master in the early 80's at the famous L'Amour rock club in Brooklyn, NY. Every jaw in that place dropped! Yngwie must have been around 21 back then.

  • @bayurahmadi7754
    @bayurahmadi7754 2 года назад +6

    10:15 love This part "battle session yngwie with keyboard jenss johansen" so insane 😍

  • @donaldcampbell9483
    @donaldcampbell9483 3 года назад +8

    I saw him back in 85. Incredible show!

  • @maureenwagg5305
    @maureenwagg5305 3 года назад +41

    Yngwie is one of the best guitarists ever. Try his version of Hendrix's classic Spanish Castle Magic. The lead singer is off the chain.

  • @Q.Q.
    @Q.Q. 3 года назад +28

    John said classical chord progression. Well, that first part, the "prelude" here, before he went into "Far Beyond the Sun," is actually Albinoni's Adagio in G minor.

    • @bitdevice
      @bitdevice 2 года назад +5

      Actually the first part is Paganini - Violin Concerto No 4. Second part is Adagio in G minor (but not played in G minor)

    • @Guinnessrules
      @Guinnessrules 2 года назад +1

      Didn't he play alot classical pieces while learning how to play?

  • @timwhite5562
    @timwhite5562 3 года назад +3

    It warms my heart to see the rare shredder who plays thumb over.

  • @christiangramg_hifi
    @christiangramg_hifi 2 года назад +3

    Yngwie is one of the best, and Jens Johansson...top notch, period.

  • @salsaucedo
    @salsaucedo 3 года назад +25

    his name is pronounced Yngwie (Ingvay) a Swedish guitarist who began his career with Steeler and Alcatrazz in 83 and 84, in 85 formed Rising Force and the rest is history. Known for his neoclassical style rock with the influence of Niccolò Paganini , and Johann Sebastian Bach.

    • @rickthomsen3133
      @rickthomsen3133 3 года назад +1

      Yes indeed 1000 percent correct!! You the man.

    • @ramymeziane8270
      @ramymeziane8270 2 года назад +2

      *not the sebastian bach from skid row ( note)

    • @Stefan-
      @Stefan- 2 года назад

      @Patridge Yeah, that would be more like the original Swedish spelling of his name which is Yngve Malmsten (i am Swedish), it seems like the international version of the spelling which he has used through his career is pronounced more like Ingvay though.

  • @glenngastonjonsson7954
    @glenngastonjonsson7954 2 года назад +6

    That was a brilliant reaction. Thanks!

  • @danilobriz8499
    @danilobriz8499 Год назад +2

    that intro still give me chills.

  • @user-on3lr3yd9z
    @user-on3lr3yd9z 3 месяца назад +1

    AWESOM!!!Mr.Yngwie J.Malmsteen The Best Guitar Player!!!💪🎸🔥

  • @randycomerford2038
    @randycomerford2038 3 года назад +3

    Far Beyond Amazing!!!

  • @Wrcoach2
    @Wrcoach2 9 месяцев назад +1

    And it all comes from Yngwie hearing Van Halen 1. He said how much he LOVED the whole band & how they played like they didn't give a fuck, just get on stage & go for broke every time!! He said if he ever made it big, he'd make sure his band took the stage with that kind of attitude, EVERY NIGHT!! Ergo, playing the keys while lying on the floor, playing Ring Around the Keyboards & all the other stuff they do onstage. Yngwie is a man of his word, he did EXACTLY what he said he'd do, go on stage with that Van Halen, I don't give a fuck 'tude & rock the living HELL out of the crowd.!!

  • @NoirHammer
    @NoirHammer 3 года назад +3

    My mind was blown back in the 80s when I played the vinyl version of his first album. Yngwie electrified the 80s with EVH, of course.

  • @pensnut08
    @pensnut08 3 года назад +6

    I've seen him live quite a few times and you really have to see him to believe it. Get close as you can.

  • @scirasco1
    @scirasco1 3 года назад +2

    Live in leningrad is yngwie of the height of his career ,like epic 103 said a game changer nobody in style comes even close,malmsteen is a pioneer hendrix van halen malmsteen

  • @Roadkingrider
    @Roadkingrider 3 года назад +18

    FYI: This live show was from 1989, in Leningrad, Soviet Union ( USSR ) !!! 🤘👍🤘

    • @Stefan-
      @Stefan- 2 года назад

      Yes, Leningrad is now St Petersburg BTW.

    • @mytulacom
      @mytulacom 2 года назад

      @@Stefan- Я был на этом же концерте, только в Москве, зимой 1989 года

  • @ACorpseWithoutSoul
    @ACorpseWithoutSoul 3 года назад +4

    This is so insane playing. Yngwie Malmsteen - Arpeggios from Hell

  • @proshantosarker3355
    @proshantosarker3355 3 года назад +3

    This is the malmsteen magic bro

  • @DaveSteele07
    @DaveSteele07 3 года назад +2

    Standing in a club with Marshalls blazing watching Yngwie destroy the room... One has to experience this live show at least once!!

  • @jim_8621
    @jim_8621 3 года назад +4

    Yngwie Malmsteen is a true guitar hero.

  • @ledgm108
    @ledgm108 3 года назад +3

    Yay!!! A reaction to the ONLY performance of this song!!! 🤘🏻

  • @MrAxe-ij4gq
    @MrAxe-ij4gq 3 года назад +6

    Best Yngvie Band EVER !!!

  • @ACorpseWithoutSoul
    @ACorpseWithoutSoul 3 года назад +1

    That keyboard player is Jens Johansson and he join Finnish band Stratovarius 1995. BTW it is my hometown (Helsinki) Band. Enjoy guys this Stratovarius song Black Diamond. Stratovarius Black Diamond Wacken 2007

  • @Thedesertguy75
    @Thedesertguy75 2 года назад +5

    Dude, fire and ice record is my favorite. Either Perpetual or Leviathan are killer

  • @sheirralee3015
    @sheirralee3015 2 месяца назад

    yngwie is legend, he created many beautiful song and solos

  • @jaxrebel007
    @jaxrebel007 3 года назад +10

    Yngwie at his best, though later work was pretty darn solid too

  • @gaiavenus
    @gaiavenus 3 года назад +3

    Oh wow, barley any reaction on this amazing guitarist and my favourite guitarist. Please more Yngwie Malmsteen, Black Star live is amazing too. Thank you for reacting to this legend that not many react to. You guys are awesome loved your reaction.

  • @bryanforis1839
    @bryanforis1839 3 года назад +6

    One of the best guitar players great live

  • @NorthernPanzer666
    @NorthernPanzer666 Месяц назад

    His 1st album Rising Force, incl this track, actually has a picture of Jimmi Hendrix guitar, which was released in 1984. Yngwie was 24yrs old. And had just bought Hendrix guitar in '83

  • @nestors.6724
    @nestors.6724 3 года назад +8

    Jens on the keys.. 🔥👌

  • @dalejohnson2638
    @dalejohnson2638 2 года назад +3

    Yngwie is amazing h does have songs with a vocalist but he mixes instrumentals into his set the intro reminded me of Icarus dream suit opus

  • @Maidiac88
    @Maidiac88 3 года назад +39

    I love Yngwie! He has a lot of haters but he's a neo-classical guitar god.

    • @Zandman26
      @Zandman26 3 года назад +4

      I thank Yngwie for creating neoclassical metal, and is amazed by his skill.
      What I don't like about him is that at least during his peak he never credited the band backing him.

    • @Maidiac88
      @Maidiac88 3 года назад +2

      Unfortunately too true.

    • @Fhieryyy
      @Fhieryyy 3 года назад

      Why he has so many haters bro?

    • @Maidiac88
      @Maidiac88 3 года назад

      People think he's egotistical and cocky, which he kinda is. Some say he plays with no emotion, which is not true. Other people just don't like his musical style. Probably other reasons too but those are the ones I hear the most.

    • @Fhieryyy
      @Fhieryyy 3 года назад +3

      @@Maidiac88 because them can't be like him bro.yngwie has unique style

  • @puniiorangi582
    @puniiorangi582 2 года назад +1

    I'm sitting here watching you two reacting to your reaction 😂🤣😂 I'm just laughing reacting to two awesome thanks you always woft to

  • @metalneverdie5315
    @metalneverdie5315 3 года назад +6

    Mr. Jens Johansson from Stratovarius on Keys..one of the best ever..this fucking amazing..Check out Stratovarius - Black Diamond.

  • @patrickadolfsson4784
    @patrickadolfsson4784 8 месяцев назад +1

    You don’t know how right you are in the comments on them beeing a supergroup! Jens( keyboard!) & Anders(drums!) are sons of Swedens most famous Jazzpianist, Jan Johansson who died in a car crash in 1967..! ♥️😎🤘🤘 😊

  • @randycomerford2038
    @randycomerford2038 2 года назад +1

    The Maestro at work!!!

  • @barskuleli8612
    @barskuleli8612 8 месяцев назад +1

    Malmsteen is one of the best musician of all human history and probably the best guitarist of all times. No one like him…

  • @edmonddp
    @edmonddp 2 года назад +1

    Yngwie in his prime was the GOAT in 80s

  • @erwinamesz7642
    @erwinamesz7642 3 года назад +3

    LEGEND!!

  • @uriel393
    @uriel393 3 года назад +2

    Huge Yngwie (Ing-Vay) fan here. Great to see you young Metalheads checking him out, the Keyboardist & Drummer are brothers (Jens & Anders Johannsen) & are currently in Stratovarious & Manowar respectively, if you want to check them out in more current stuff.

  • @Thedesertguy75
    @Thedesertguy75 3 года назад +2

    Everyone dogged the 80s once we got in the 90s....but Noone and nothing beat the sheer talent and entertainment enthusiasm of that decade!
    Nothing.
    The 90s musicians weren't even close. But it was time for change, you couldn't play better or more complicated than some of this....it had to go slower....this guy is a master.

    • @luisnunes2010
      @luisnunes2010 3 года назад

      If you're talking about the flannel brigade, fine, but Angra and Rhapsody of Fire picked up where Yngwie left off.

  • @lantzkeefer6
    @lantzkeefer6 3 года назад +3

    That is a young Yngwie, I remember buying this album when it first came out and I was blown away,So Good.Alot of great bands and musicans come out of Sweden.Look at this my next video coming up is The Skeleton Key,lol, didn't he pick that one to👍

  • @slayczar
    @slayczar 2 года назад

    Playing like that alone in your bedroom is one thing - there are thousands than can do it - but playing it perfectly night after night in front of a crowd is exceptionally impressive. wow.

  • @vanwylde9993
    @vanwylde9993 3 года назад +3

    You have to watch...Appegios from hell. mind blowing stuff. Enjoy. Cheerz from Oz.

  • @bayurahmadi7754
    @bayurahmadi7754 3 года назад +1

    Eargasm!!!

  • @rtrooperw8115
    @rtrooperw8115 9 месяцев назад +1

    Legend!

  • @ewaa37911
    @ewaa37911 3 месяца назад

    Every time you listen to a live version of this, it’s so different
    Always brilliant though❤

  • @anitnec
    @anitnec 8 месяцев назад +1

    I have seen live Him live ! A big hug to you GuYZ

  • @nocturnal277
    @nocturnal277 3 года назад +1

    That's how you rock in the 80's

  • @evilvolts
    @evilvolts 3 года назад +8

    the best version of this song was with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra Yngwie even used his teeth at one point.

  • @kitoyobeni1
    @kitoyobeni1 3 года назад +10

    I wish Yngwie would stick closer to the original studio compositions when performing live, they're so beautiful, especially this one.

    • @12floz67
      @12floz67 2 года назад +1

      I understand that completely but playing the same way day after day year after year gets old fast. Plus like any other guitar player from time to time you lose your spot and have to improvise, it helps keeping things fresh.

    • @kitoyobeni1
      @kitoyobeni1 2 года назад

      @@12floz67 Sure, but seeing him live is about cramming as many extra notes in as possible. Dynamics are key.

    • @12floz67
      @12floz67 2 года назад

      @@kitoyobeni1
      That’s what most people go to see, a demonstration of his skills. Me personally, if I want to hear the album I’ll play it but every time I’ve seen him live pushes the envelope and that’s what I hope to see. To each their own I guess.🍻

    • @Shreddah
      @Shreddah 2 года назад

      The '85 live video version is pretty neat though and close to the original.

  • @Heinrich12626
    @Heinrich12626 Год назад +1

    Amazing

  • @channelsikasep4827
    @channelsikasep4827 3 года назад +3

    Trial By Fire, played it about million times a day back then 😂😂😂

  • @ronhanisco8697
    @ronhanisco8697 3 года назад +1

    Yngwie= G.O.A.T.

  • @allencastleman7617
    @allencastleman7617 Год назад

    Ohhh HELL YEAH !!!

  • @vovindequasahi
    @vovindequasahi 2 года назад +1

    Malmsteen kicks ass. It just brings out the beast inside of you, right?

  • @magnuslofgren2441
    @magnuslofgren2441 Год назад

    Yngwie is the guitarrist, one of the fastest players in the world, unfortually from the backyard of Sweden, you know Stockholm ;)
    It's nice to see that they are realizing that music is always about having fun, right?

  • @guygraham4016
    @guygraham4016 Год назад

    Yens and anders Johansson are also from Sweden and he uses the best of the 600 vocalists he tried out the first two months he returned back to the US ( la)!

  • @stephenjohnson6284
    @stephenjohnson6284 3 года назад +4

    What a great Sunday evening jam! You Wolf Hunterz do it right! His name is pronounced
    ing-vay 🤘 Love your channel, and Keep Rockin!

  • @terryminator4208
    @terryminator4208 3 года назад +3

    Baroque & Roll🤘

  • @vmarchena14
    @vmarchena14 11 месяцев назад

    The drama and the tragedy you feel when he shredding the intro is other worldy. You get the same feels when you hear the " Maggot Brain" solo by Eddie Hazel (Funkadelic) Please do a review of that song !!!!!!!! Legendary solo

  • @stamaalexgabriel2262
    @stamaalexgabriel2262 3 года назад +2

    Yeah,with the crazy great Johansson brothers ( key and frumos) in the future playing in Stratovarius and Hammerfall !!!!

  • @user-sw8yq9gw1l
    @user-sw8yq9gw1l 2 года назад

    Это было в Ленинграде в 1989 году, мне было 5 лет и родителям не с кем меня было оставить поэтому Я там был , самый юный фан Мальмстина на тот момент)

  • @legenden38
    @legenden38 3 года назад

    Hello, I have met Yngve Malmsten. Yes, for that we are stVAR His name. I've met him several times. Hail Sweden

  • @kdm71291
    @kdm71291 2 года назад

    I saw Engwie open for AC/DC on their “Fly On The Wall” tour.

  • @stepitupandgo67
    @stepitupandgo67 Год назад

    probably one of the coolest shows I ever saw was this tour at the budokan in tokyo...88?..it sounded terrible,...but you could tell they were doing the things....he did circles around his keyboard while he was having solo battles with yngwie...I loved this line up ...the old school craziness!!!

  • @NicholasCorvin
    @NicholasCorvin 3 года назад +1

    *Yngwie J. Malmsteen mashed in the melody of "Adagio" [the one that Floor "Valkyrie Goddess" Jansen covered] in the guitar solo [before the band kicked in].*
    🎵🎸🥁🎹🎸📢🎵🌟✨🎵💿📀🔊✅🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🤘😎👍

  • @DK-5
    @DK-5 2 года назад

    Lol you guys are awesome

  • @Voldrani
    @Voldrani 3 года назад +2

    In before the "Yngwie is a soulless mechanic" comments.

  • @gallaxy70
    @gallaxy70 3 года назад

    Don't be Mad... I got to see him LIVE on this Tour in 85 Opening for AC-DC in Wichita Ks..I was Front Row..wore my Yngwie Concert T-Shirt for my Freshman School Photo..

  • @karstenstroh1111
    @karstenstroh1111 3 года назад +1

    Hes from Sweden rock bad assssss 🎸🎸🎸🇸🇪🇸🇪

  • @unbrokensoul35
    @unbrokensoul35 3 года назад +3

    Jens johannsen is the keyboardist

    • @antoniocarlin5026
      @antoniocarlin5026 3 года назад +1

      then with Stratovarius ....and finished hate Yngwie!! jajajaja

  • @antonioduverge3558
    @antonioduverge3558 3 года назад +1

    What the fuck was that? Amazing!!

  • @kevinb1900
    @kevinb1900 3 года назад +1

    Wow! Haha!!!

  • @kopashred
    @kopashred 2 года назад

    He plays a Paganini in the beginning, violin concerto 4

  • @dorisg.3
    @dorisg.3 2 года назад +1

    He is the guitar Mozart 🙏🙏🤘🤘👍👍

  • @evilvolts
    @evilvolts 3 года назад +1

    Yngwie wasn't with a Band He WAS the band.

  • @ricknesar1627
    @ricknesar1627 3 года назад +1

    Yngwie Malmsteen, Stockholm, Sweden´s own!

  • @glennlennartsson4887
    @glennlennartsson4887 3 года назад +1

    Yngwie is a swedish guitarr player.

  • @Nissardpertugiu
    @Nissardpertugiu 2 года назад

    The intro are both pieces of Paganini and Albinoni incorporated

  • @66millionyearsago
    @66millionyearsago 2 года назад +1

    watch far beyond the with new japan philharmonic orchestra absolutely incredible

  • @Gustav3087
    @Gustav3087 3 года назад

    Nice reaction jajajajajajaj

  • @Stonefalconetti
    @Stonefalconetti 3 года назад

    He is the "Blackstar" guy you did a reaction on...

  • @ryant3600
    @ryant3600 3 года назад +3

    check out some Paul Gilbert with Racer X..

  • @alangary9893
    @alangary9893 3 года назад +1

    His backing band was called Rising Force an back when guitarists and drummers learned technicality playing well not just chord pregressions .or making something hard heavy an quick all the time not even

  • @A5p3r07h
    @A5p3r07h 3 года назад

    Ah. So, this is what happens when you feed a gremlin after midnight.

  • @galaxyheavymetal5292
    @galaxyheavymetal5292 2 года назад

    yngwie is now over 60 years old...time passes

  • @evilvolts
    @evilvolts 3 года назад +2

    Yng (Ing) wie (Vey) Malmsteen you had correct

  • @terriecooperman7232
    @terriecooperman7232 3 года назад

    In my book top. 5 guitar player malmsteen, Buckhead, Santana, Hendricks,Steve ray the rest only wish to be this good