I saw them on the early part of this tour in Beaumont TX. Graham actually brought me backstage to meet Yingwie, who let me play the Strat that was on the Rising Force album! What a memory!
This was a great but short lived band. Their 1st lp was fantastic. Soon as I dropped the needle on the 1st cut in 1983 it was like 'move aside Eddie, there's a new guitar hero in town!
First time I heard Yngwie Malmsteen and Graham Bonnet I was a kid and it blew my mind so bad that I never grew out of it I'll pattern myself after this man since I was 15 years old I have played professionally for most of my life but I still get chills when I hear him play there will never be another Yngwie Malmsteen people have tried and have came close but you just cannot beat the I hear envious guitar players talk s*** man this guy is a living breathing true Guitar Hero
The reason that Graham Bonnet's vocals are off here is because he is singing at the top of his lungs to compete with Yngwie's guitar. You can see him signaling to the soundman at different times to turn vocals up. Bonnet has said in interviews that Yngwie's volume was a problem live
Yngwie Malmsteen is truly the god of the guitar. There is no better player that's ever lived including Jimi Hendrix. The guitar pick that Yngwie gave me is still my most prized possesion. I've had the pleasure of standing right against the edge of the stage in a bar with him playing a Jimi Hendrix cover tune on his white strat and there is absolutely nothing better. I don't care who you put up against him. Yngwie shreds them ALL. I do wish that he played more blues. Hendrix is his Idol.
Wow this comment blew me away with it's fanaticism. Just a couple of fact checks though. Shredding isn't the be all to end all and Yngwie can't jam. He is too structured for the simplest of jams. Hendrix isn't his idol, not even close. Ritchie Blackmore is his idol. His whole image is ripped off from Ritchie! His Strat, his clothes, his stage moves, even to scalloped fretboard... all from Ritchie. Ritchie is even quoted as saying "Yeah he plays alright but I want my jumpsuit back".
I love that album! Someone make me a time machine so I can go back to see them! And Bonnet on a bad night still sounds better than a lot of other guys IMO
I remember seeing this song in concert, I was in standing in the 3rd row, I remember Graham pointing at me as I was waving fist everywhere...lol...It was quite an experience to see this band...
man me too i saw him in bogarts in cincy oh in 93 the very day after fire and ice was released i waited for six hours before they opened up and was first in and stood right at his pic mic stand first song was ill see the light and he pressed his forehead against mine like he was goingto headbut me and handed me a signed pick it was truly awesome and still the best concert i ever saw played 3 hours!
I love yngwie, and I do Bonnet on the studio album, but live he obviously had some key problems with high pitched notes! Additionaly he had a serious alcohol problem, as I read in the yngwie biography... though this song kicks so much asses love it ! Yngwie was on his best !
@zenlikestate well we all have to think, he sung many other songs before this, for example hiroshima mon amour...so u can imagine how he could feel after that... :-/
graham still gets in some killer notes and tones ....but his style is so extreme - he wont always nail it - you accept that as part of the live experience
Yngwie and a wall of marshalls. All he needed was a strat a half step down. Domination. To get to his ability at this moment would be full musical accomplishment
I can't really help you in finding videos on Graham Bonnet singing, but I saw him performing just last night (16.8.06) in Tampere, Finland, and he was great, humorous, very warm and relaxed. He has a tendency to look strained and forced while reaching for the high notes, but he DOES reach them (at least to my untrained-but-lots-of-experience-ears). He also announced he is 158 years old, so give the guy a break! And check out his Rainbow stuff!
On his worst night, most people wish they could sing that good. Graham Bonnet sang his balls off his whole career. He deserves respect, not the crap I'm reading here.
Graham wasn't in his best vocal shepe here , but I Prefer Bonnet in a bad night than some other famous singers on top!!! I juat love when Graham laughs...He does it very often in the live shows!!! Graham Rocks!
Hendrix made him want to start playing guitar, his guitar hero is really Blackmore (he modeled his look after him and even used the same singers), his musical hero is Paganini
Awesome song. Graham is a bit off, but his singing style was probably the hardest to pull off live. You have to give him props for attempting to reach the high notes. Even the late great Freddie Mercury would often opt out and sing in a lower octave note live, probably because he also wasn't fresh or warmed up. People forget that these guys play almost every night, they can't always hit the highs. Graham still rules in my book!
there comes a point where a singer needs to acknowledge his or her own limitations and sing what they're capable of singing. graham clearly was not doing that here.
Yep! Bonnet-Malmsteen Alcatrazz is No 1 ever. I wish they would meet and go: " Hey I'm kinda tired of this shit I've done lately, why don't we set up the band again" I can dream can't I.
Is Yngwie's guitar out of tune on this one? It's hard to tell if it's Yngwie or Bonnet or a mixture of both... Great soloing from Yngwie here though, I always liked his tone during this era.
He is just flat because it is live. Obviously in the studio, you can do as many takes as you want. Graham sounds incredible on a studio album. Not just in Alcatrazz but also in Rainbow, Michael Schenker....etc.
also, the bands record company president was indicted on racketeering(i beleive) charges leaving the band without a label and yngwie simply went off in search of more money and fame from a bigger label
He didnt just "play faster". Yngwie adapted classical compositions to a very Blackmore style of blues. You can clearly hear and even see the influence, but I wouldn't go as far as to say he copied Ritchie.
Well in all fairness Yngwie totally over played! But hell 25 years later he still does the same and I love him for it. If he did'nt over play he'd be someone else! The King of Shred! Alcatrazz without Yngwie sucked but Yngwie never wrote vocal songs as well as he did partnered with Bonnett.
I saw them on the early part of this tour in Beaumont TX. Graham actually brought me backstage to meet Yingwie, who let me play the Strat that was on the Rising Force album! What a memory!
This song blew me away. Yngvie Malmsteen was a beast!
This was a great but short lived band. Their 1st lp was fantastic. Soon as I dropped the needle on the 1st cut in 1983 it was like 'move aside Eddie, there's a new guitar hero in town!
First time I heard Yngwie Malmsteen and Graham Bonnet I was a kid and it blew my mind so bad that I never grew out of it I'll pattern myself after this man since I was 15 years old I have played professionally for most of my life but I still get chills when I hear him play there will never be another Yngwie Malmsteen people have tried and have came close but you just cannot beat the I hear envious guitar players talk s*** man this guy is a living breathing true Guitar Hero
The reason that Graham Bonnet's vocals are off here is because he is singing at the top of his lungs to compete with Yngwie's guitar. You can see him signaling to the soundman at different times to turn vocals up. Bonnet has said in interviews that Yngwie's volume was a problem live
Bonnet is my absolute fav singer Yngwie has played with. Nice song also :)
Yngwie Malmsteen is truly the god of the guitar. There is no better player that's ever lived including Jimi Hendrix. The guitar pick that Yngwie gave me is still my most prized possesion. I've had the pleasure of standing right against the edge of the stage in a bar with him playing a Jimi Hendrix cover tune on his white strat and there is absolutely nothing better. I don't care who you put up against him. Yngwie shreds them ALL. I do wish that he played more blues. Hendrix is his Idol.
Wow this comment blew me away with it's fanaticism. Just a couple of fact checks though. Shredding isn't the be all to end all and Yngwie can't jam. He is too structured for the simplest of jams. Hendrix isn't his idol, not even close. Ritchie Blackmore is his idol. His whole image is ripped off from Ritchie! His Strat, his clothes, his stage moves, even to scalloped fretboard... all from Ritchie. Ritchie is even quoted as saying "Yeah he plays alright but I want my jumpsuit back".
@@boxboxbox624Yngwie is the best .
one of best songs from the history
I prefer Graham in a bad night than other million singer in a top shape!!!! Graham Rocks!!!
There is hope that even I can sing live on stage one day after hearing this performance - LOL!
2:06 is the best part of the entire career of Alcatrazz
2022 still listening 🎵
wtf man, how this can sound so good till the actual days?
omg, its like a breezing driving me goose-pimply and crazy!!!
Yngwie大好き💕
I love that album! Someone make me a time machine so I can go back to see them! And Bonnet on a bad night still sounds better than a lot of other guys IMO
I remember seeing this song in concert, I was in standing in the 3rd row, I remember Graham pointing at me as I was waving fist everywhere...lol...It was quite an experience to see this band...
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man me too i saw him in bogarts in cincy oh in 93 the very day after fire and ice was released i waited for six hours before they opened up and was first in and stood right at his pic mic stand first song was ill see the light and he pressed his forehead against mine like he was goingto headbut me and handed me a signed pick it was truly awesome and still the best concert i ever saw played 3 hours!
Yngwie J. Malmsteen in his prime holy crap!🎸🤘
ありがとう!!
Thank you!🍵🍡
grahams vocals might not be the best here but his dancin makes up for it!
Yes sound out of tone , maybe this makes happened the incident when Yngwie chocking Graham's neck
@@elpablosky6300 no malmsteen choking graham happened when they broke up
@@elpablosky6300 Yngwie choked him for interrupting one of his solos. Nobody interrupts the Yngwie, not even for donuts.
Yngwie was so fucking good at the Alcatrazz time. Really godlike.
oh man, I love alcatrazz stuff but Oh man, nothing beats seeing a man in his 20s playing with men old enough to be his dad! LOL oh man, gotta love it.
you gotta understand singing live is really tough as opposed to studio work. especially when you're singing three to four times out of the week.
Yngwie is a master, a prodigy guitarrist one of the best of all time.
He is much better with your own band now.
Great band who didn't get the household name status they deserved! If they came out more recently they would be BIG!!🤠
I love yngwie, and I do Bonnet on the studio album, but live he obviously had some key problems with high pitched notes!
Additionaly he had a serious alcohol problem, as I read in the yngwie biography...
though this song kicks so much asses love it ! Yngwie was on his best !
Graham was sadly the same way in MSG after this.
I wasn't a Rainbow fan but there was probably a good reason why Ritchie wanted him to leave.
@zenlikestate well we all have to think, he sung many other songs before this, for example hiroshima mon amour...so u can imagine how he could feel after that...
:-/
Here is Nakano Sunplaza in Tokyo!!
Graham is great singer! cool & very powerful!
WTF???
lol, I love it how everyone else didn't catch that this was a joke.
10/10
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I remember watching this on cable when I was a teenager, was just destroyed by Yngwie , muscianship was much higher back then
Graham is so amazing. One of a kind.
Graham Bonnet was an inspiration to nerds everywhere that wanted to rock. rofl
Heard the studio version saw the video version But this version kicked ass beautiful guitar 🎸 work
graham still gets in some killer notes and tones ....but his style is so extreme - he wont always nail it - you accept that as part of the live experience
Yngwie and a wall of marshalls. All he needed was a strat a half step down. Domination. To get to his ability at this moment would be full musical accomplishment
totally agree - the only reason why I bought one of their albums recently was Yngwie's playing!
I can't really help you in finding videos on Graham Bonnet singing, but I saw him performing just last night (16.8.06) in Tampere, Finland, and he was great, humorous, very warm and relaxed. He has a tendency to look strained and forced while reaching for the high notes, but he DOES reach them (at least to my untrained-but-lots-of-experience-ears). He also announced he is 158 years old, so give the guy a break! And check out his Rainbow stuff!
100% agree.
Yes
@thrasher90 Asian guy?
you mean Japanese, its live in JAPAN. one of the only Asian countries
that had/ allowed Rock shows back in the day
It's my point too...Graham Rocks!!!
SOUNDS GREAT!!!
On his worst night, most people wish they could sing that good. Graham Bonnet sang his balls off his whole career. He deserves respect, not the crap I'm reading here.
michael, I could not have said it better myself. Good observations.
Graham wasn't in his best vocal shepe here , but I Prefer Bonnet in a bad night than some other famous singers on top!!! I juat love when Graham laughs...He does it very often in the live shows!!! Graham Rocks!
2:06, nuff said
bonnet really makes a fool of himself here..
love when yngwie is laughing when i really screams out! :D
Here he had just his voice tired!!! I'll put some Alcatrazz Bootlegs up where he sings incredibly great!
1:48 is my definite favorite part
Hendrix made him want to start playing guitar, his guitar hero is really Blackmore (he modeled his look after him and even used the same singers), his musical hero is Paganini
Awesome song. Graham is a bit off, but his singing style was probably the hardest to pull off live. You have to give him props for attempting to reach the high notes.
Even the late great Freddie Mercury would often opt out and sing in a lower octave note live, probably because he also wasn't fresh or warmed up.
People forget that these guys play almost every night, they can't always hit the highs. Graham still rules in my book!
there comes a point where a singer needs to acknowledge his or her own limitations and sing what they're capable of singing. graham clearly was not doing that here.
Bonnet challenged or harangue / congratulated / encouraged Yngwie? at 3:14 ?
2:40 - 2:41 epic
Thanks bro!
i love this singer he is soooooo fucking goood
Yep! Bonnet-Malmsteen Alcatrazz is No 1 ever.
I wish they would meet and go: " Hey I'm kinda tired of this shit I've done lately, why don't we set up the band again" I can dream can't I.
Is Yngwie's guitar out of tune on this one? It's hard to tell if it's Yngwie or Bonnet or a mixture of both... Great soloing from Yngwie here though, I always liked his tone during this era.
de que se habra acordado graham que se le escapo una picara risa
@spawnofwheezedog hahaha, it's like you've pulled the words out of my head, that's so right :D
wow
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Bonnet's drinking hurt his live performances back then I think
is Michael Schwenker or w.e his name is; is he faster then yngwie?
He is just flat because it is live. Obviously in the studio, you can do as many takes as you want. Graham sounds incredible on a studio album. Not just in Alcatrazz but also in Rainbow, Michael Schenker....etc.
its a shame music, is dying.
we need face the sad fact:
MUSIC IS DYING =(
the guy at 2:06 almost killed the solo!!!!hahaha!
malmsteen owns man... the music really create live with his arrengement, Yngwie Johann Malmsteen owns!
3:40 Is Yngwie wearing heels?
He is Hiro Nakamura!!!
Fuck! he teleported back in time!!!
also, the bands record company president was indicted on racketeering(i beleive) charges leaving the band without a label and yngwie simply went off in search of more money and fame from a bigger label
Bonnet kicks ass!!!!!!!
Jeez I had no idea Graham Bonnet had to work so hard to sing these songs.
Insane vocals.
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and THAT is just your point of view ;)
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@thrasher90 Hiro Nakamura!
Oh wait! the asian guy at 2:05 is brilliant
He didnt just "play faster". Yngwie adapted classical compositions to a very Blackmore style of blues. You can clearly hear and even see the influence, but I wouldn't go as far as to say he copied Ritchie.
Good that Y left that band!!
that's just your pointt of view! i like alcatrazz because of graham, not yngwie.
what was u thinking Bonnet XD
I don't know who hits more wrong notes in this video...Bonnet or Yngwie. They both are full of sour notes.
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@gmuineachan hilarious !
wouldnt be surprized if Bonnet blew his larynx out trying to sing like that. Hope he is ok now and belting them out.!!!!
カッコいい～(#^.^#)
Ouch! Grahm...what are you thinking? He can't sustain that range...it's sad.
Bonnet Fucking Rules!
Well in all fairness Yngwie totally over played! But hell 25 years later he still does the same and I love him for it. If he did'nt over play he'd be someone else! The King of Shred! Alcatrazz without Yngwie sucked but Yngwie never wrote vocal songs as well as he did partnered with Bonnett.
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中野サンプラザ！！
graham's really hurting on this one
LOL 1:27 **cough** haha Great Band
The guy at 2:06 almost ruins the solo.
poor graham 2:05
Млять... Боннет как инопланетянин смотрится ))))))