Alcatrazz opened for Scorpions in 1983 in San Juan. Awesome concert, even better than Zebra and Night Ranger in 82. Sad note: A pair of twins got killed after the concert crossing the crazy FD Roosevelt avenue right on front of the stadium.
Envy!...I remember seeing the newspaper ad for that show, but I was too young barely 13....little did I know that yngwie would become my favorite guitar player!
Yngwie was a youngster. Was this after his stint with Steeler? He was already turning heads with his elaborate style. Great guitarist. Not a real good song here though...it's very "radio friendly" I guess?? sj~13
Great song! Alcatrazz played twice in Puerto Rico. The first time was opening for Loverboy (Yngwie Malmsteen was on guitars), and the second time they opened for Kerry Livgren (Steve Vai played guitar for Alcatrazz). 🤘😎
So wild to see Malmsteen with a V and that young. He played with Alcatrazz before VAI did. Jeff Loomis is now playing with Alcatrazz... that's even more difficult to wrap your brain around.
They should create a lot of new prisons like that...in Brazil, there's a lot of space for that, we should create one inside the Forest (Amazônica). Anyway, this band with Yngwie was fantastic.
i was trolling Yahoo answers back in the day, i had VH1 classic on in the background. solo comes on, i'm like "this guitarist is amazing, sounds a lot like malmsteen". this is the video that was one when i turned around. that moment when a guitarist has such a distinct sound they can be picked out blindly by sound.
That short hair is one reason Bonnet is/was great. Part of rock and roll is nonconformity. And when EVERYBODY else has long hair he had the balls to say "Fuck you! I like my hair short!" And his voice is so awesome no body minded.
Ritchie Blackmore hated Graham's hair and persona...The reason he let him go from Rainbow. Blackmore also hated Ian Gillan's voice, so perhaps Blackmore (while a brilliant guitarist) was a bit of a tool.
Hard to believe one of the greatest metal vocalists and one of the greatest metal guitarists - careers intersecting on inverse trajectories - came together for this one album.
Nah, not that great of a singer. Always sounds like he is yelling instead of singing. Always mangages to get greatest guitar players. Thats what has always made Alcatraz.
O man. They do not make them like that anymore. Wow. I always loved the record but never seen the video until now. Yngwie only 19/20 here.... what a god!
They named it “The rock”, land of the living dead A repose for the rich and famous And all the infamous would tell each other's lies ¿Why did they want to tell the truth? (Sail away now…) On an island in the sun Cool Pacific winds blow Most were poets and they wrote in basic prose On the walls of their sunset Blvd In their nine by five rooms, whose became inspired By the silence in sight of the city (Sail away now…) On the island in the sun Cool Pacific winds blow (Sail away now…) Just across the bay Battered by the waves (Sail away now…) On the island in the sun Cool Pacific winds blow
such a good song! a bit sad how much graham bonnet looks like huey lewis, but damn if he doesn't have a voice made for rockin' hard, then i just don't know who does!
just goes to show fine tuned musical skill and vocal ability doesnt necessarily make your music good if you cant rock. this is the music that brought the death of rock n roll. and then in the 90s was the death rattle.
Hard to avoid sounding like a grandfather when you say things like that. Those same words were used every generation about the previous generation's music being the only "real" music, and the new stuff was garbage. Over, and over, and over again. Sucks to be that blind to obvious stuff throughout history. In 20 years, they'll be saying the same things again. "I hate the new. Said the new...after it had become the old"
They always over did Graham Bonnett voice in the recordings. If they toned down the volume would sound so much better. It always sounded like he was yelling instead of singing.. But Yngwie, once a guitar god, always a guitar god.
This band had a killer line up....bad video vox should had left his hair long. Ymalsien the guitar solo is beyond cool.He was too good for this bee bop style. Alcatraz had some bad ass songs. this one is cheezzzee but solo..so fxcking beautiful man he was so great when he was young. JerryGordn ty
At the 3:28 mark, the backup female singers do a really interesting, descending change up that really sets it up the song coming back and then fading out. It works really well. I wonder whose idea that was?
What you're talking about is called a modulation, and it's not just the backup vocals, it's the entire band changing to a different key. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the back up vocals are actually Graham Bonnett.
One of my most favorite work of yngwie. The tasteful solo, The melody, the simplicity. It just rings to me.
Just to see Malmsteen with a Flyng V is worth the video XD
It's an Aria. He had a sponsor deal with them. Never used them for recording.
I have it! (^.^)
I have the regular Aria Pro II XX version :)
Aria was throwing free guitars at him. I think he played them long enough to satisfy them then back to his Fenders.
Fo Sure.
Graham Bonnett. The best dressed man in Rock and Roll! And one of the best vocalists ever!
Worst vocalist I've seen in a while. Absolute dogshit.
Ah.... The 80s, what a wonderful decade
Alcatrazz opened for Scorpions in 1983 in San Juan. Awesome concert, even better than Zebra and Night Ranger in 82. Sad note: A pair of twins got killed after the concert crossing the crazy FD Roosevelt avenue right on front of the stadium.
That's sad about the twins
Probably by complete coincidence, Graham Bonnet was in the Michael Schenker Group before Alcatrazz.
@@gringo3002 and rainbow before that
Graham Bonnett fantastic!
I saw them in San Juan in 1983. My first concert!
Envy!...I remember seeing the newspaper ad for that show, but I was too young barely 13....little did I know that yngwie would become my favorite guitar player!
Noel Perez I was also 13th I went with my older cousin and some friends.
Cool! \m/
Yngwie was a youngster. Was this after his stint with Steeler? He was already turning heads with his elaborate style. Great guitarist. Not a real good song here though...it's very "radio friendly" I guess?? sj~13
Scotty J. Yes, it was after he left Steeler.
今聴いてもめちゃかっこいい。名曲ですよ。
ボネット、イングウェイ、他のメンバーもかっこいい。
変態の俺としては看守長のビキニも見たかった。
なんとなく分かります!!
Literally the best glam metal song of the 1980s u rock graham bonnet
Gracias Alcatrazz tu fuistes la primera banda que me influencio a los 5 años de edad y ahoa que tengo 33 me siento joven al escucharte
HECTHOR ARCE estamos muy contentos de que nuestra musica te haya motivado a ser un buen ser humano gracias a ti por confiar en nuestro trabajo.
no se dice fuistes, se dice fuiste :P
Muy bien 👊👊👊👊
Great song! Alcatrazz played twice in Puerto Rico. The first time was opening for Loverboy (Yngwie Malmsteen was on guitars), and the second time they opened for Kerry Livgren (Steve Vai played guitar for Alcatrazz). 🤘😎
this is one of my favorite albums. yngwie at his peak
100%
Graham Bonnet + Malmsteen...... what a gem !!!!!!!!!!!!! 80's will never stop kickin ass
80's melody metal good!!
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So wild to see Malmsteen with a V and that young. He played with Alcatrazz before VAI did. Jeff Loomis is now playing with Alcatrazz... that's even more difficult to wrap your brain around.
They should create a lot of new prisons like that...in Brazil, there's a lot of space for that, we should create one inside the Forest (Amazônica). Anyway, this band with Yngwie was fantastic.
Joliet Correctional should get this as a renovation
Graham simply was/is GENTLEMAN of rock
この曲ももうクラシックなのですね。
i was trolling Yahoo answers back in the day, i had VH1 classic on in the background. solo comes on, i'm like "this guitarist is amazing, sounds a lot like malmsteen". this is the video that was one when i turned around.
that moment when a guitarist has such a distinct sound they can be picked out blindly by sound.
The coolest short haired singer in Metal rock history.😎
Rob Halford, the Metal God himself, would have something to say about that.
@@bobthebear1246 Yea but Halford is bald so that makes him the coolest bald headed singer in metal history
@@satannewsted he meant, before being bald
Udo Dirkschneider?
esta rola es d mis favoritas d mi lista d heavy rock d todos mis tiempos y fue la mejor epoca d alcatrazz
damn !!! GB can sing his ass off !!!!!
The backing chorus really makes this song in my opinion.
I agree. This song has a strange allure about it with every instrument contributing a shit ton to its addicting factor.
This song had 80s hit single written all over it. No idea why it wasn't.
Absolutely love this song and video!!! Fact - Life for convicts at Alcatraz Penitentiary was exactly how it was portrayed in this video.
That short hair is one reason Bonnet is/was great. Part of rock and roll is nonconformity. And when EVERYBODY else has long hair he had the balls to say "Fuck you! I like my hair short!" And his voice is so awesome no body minded.
Not many could match that voice, if any..
@@universalsoul7653 For sure. One of the best singers to come from the 80's.
The definitive persona
@@GorditoCrunch343 Graham Bonnet actually came from the 60s. Look-up "Only One Woman" by The Marbles. That was Graham singing in 1968.
Ritchie Blackmore hated Graham's hair and persona...The reason he let him go from Rainbow. Blackmore also hated Ian Gillan's voice, so perhaps Blackmore (while a brilliant guitarist) was a bit of a tool.
Hard to believe one of the greatest metal vocalists and one of the greatest metal guitarists - careers intersecting on inverse trajectories - came together for this one album.
I love how Yngwie appears in front of the priest at 0:44 : already guilty as charged !!
warner kurt LMAO very true!
Yeah considering he is Protestant 😸
Talk about a unique voice. Bonnet deserves greater recognition.
Nah, not that great of a singer. Always sounds like he is yelling instead of singing. Always mangages to get greatest guitar players. Thats what has always made Alcatraz.
O man. They do not make them like that anymore. Wow. I always loved the record but never seen the video until now. Yngwie only 19/20 here.... what a god!
Like the Album says,No Parole From Rock And Roll.And that's just the way I like it,
I had awesome taste in music back in the day. 🎸
A bloody great song! What vocals !
I'm here for most of New England, who had a great thing before this.
my all time favorite singer
57 IN 2024 AND STILL ROCKING ...
Godamn I miss the 80’s… I think… I’m not really sure …. It was “The 80’s” 😂
\m/, ,\m/ ❤
mann was für Zeiten waren die 80 er richtig cool
My favorite Alcatrazz song is General Hospital, a metal radio favorite.
Great video, fantastic song!
What a classic. Love it
Love this guy bonnet great singer 2 great bands he sang for
They named it “The rock”, land of the living dead
A repose for the rich and famous
And all the infamous would tell each other's lies
¿Why did they want to tell the truth?
(Sail away now…)
On an island in the sun
Cool Pacific winds blow
Most were poets and they wrote in basic prose
On the walls of their sunset Blvd
In their nine by five rooms, whose became inspired
By the silence in sight of the city
(Sail away now…)
On the island in the sun
Cool Pacific winds blow
(Sail away now…)
Just across the bay
Battered by the waves
(Sail away now…)
On the island in the sun
Cool Pacific winds blow
such a good song! a bit sad how much graham bonnet looks like huey lewis, but damn if he doesn't have a voice made for rockin' hard, then i just don't know who does!
Love it, great chorus.
Yngwie 's the best thing about this group.
Cmon man Graham Bonnet is a Legend
このフライングＶカッコよかったな〜。当時、池袋の楽器屋に同じモデルがあって、う〜ん、と悩んで買わなかったんだけど、あれ、今誰が持ってるのかな～?楽器屋さん、家に電話までしてくれたんだんだけど。
イングヴェイがフライングVで演奏してるのって割かしレアだな(´・ω・｀)
Y M killing it back then
Yngwie is a kid in this video! So young and awesome.
I saw Malmsteen live in PR with this band and when i told him in Guitar center he said" Dammmmmm" that was a loooong taime ago, LOL
who is here in 2020
wassup my brudduh
@@obitokotito1116 2021
Graham Bonnet should be In the RRHOF. His range and rasp is so unique. Efen Great with Rainbow .. Check out Lost in Hollywood 🤘
Back when vocalists could really sing and musicians actually played their instruments with aplomb...
AudiophileTubes you forgot ‘and when videos didn’t worry about a disgusting #metoo manhunt
just goes to show fine tuned musical skill and vocal ability doesnt necessarily make your music good if you cant rock. this is the music that brought the death of rock n roll. and then in the 90s was the death rattle.
@@hellish1102 that's the most ridiculous non-sequitur I've read in a long time. You've got shit for brains.
Hard to avoid sounding like a grandfather when you say things like that. Those same words were used every generation about the previous generation's music being the only "real" music, and the new stuff was garbage. Over, and over, and over again. Sucks to be that blind to obvious stuff throughout history. In 20 years, they'll be saying the same things again. "I hate the new. Said the new...after it had become the old"
Bhatt Hole yeah but who’s right? Especially considering musicianship, hard to say it’s better than it was 40years ago and I’m 23
好きやったんよね〜この曲！でもヴォーカルの顔見て、
えっ！ウソ？この人が歌ってるん！？って思った！😆
後にレインボーの元ヴォーカルだったと知る！
とっても・・・やすしだと思います・・・///////
イングヴェイを初めて知ったのはこのビデオクリップだった。懐かしい。
Ojalá tu amor por mi fuera tan fuerte como el colchón de Bonnet
That should’ve been an eighties classic!
Backup singers💣dangerous
Omg this made me happy! Wow!
They don't make music videos like this any more.
Graham Bonnet's voice is nuts.
They always over did Graham Bonnett voice in the recordings. If they toned down the volume would sound so much better. It always sounded like he was yelling instead of singing.. But Yngwie, once a guitar god, always a guitar god.
This band had a killer line up....bad video vox should had left his hair long. Ymalsien the guitar solo is beyond cool.He was too good for this bee bop style. Alcatraz had some bad ass songs. this one is cheezzzee but solo..so fxcking beautiful man he was so great when he was young. JerryGordn ty
At the 3:28 mark, the backup female singers do a really interesting, descending change up that really sets it up the song coming back and then fading out. It works really well. I wonder whose idea that was?
What you're talking about is called a modulation, and it's not just the backup vocals, it's the entire band changing to a different key. Oh, and I'm pretty sure the back up vocals are actually Graham Bonnett.
BABYMETALのSU-METALの歌声を聴いて、
Graham Bonnetを思い出した。
Mt. RR 遅レスすいませんノンビブラートの切り裂く様な突き刺さる歌声は近いものがありますね。なかなか日本では・・世界もかな？痺れる様な美しくカッコがいいノンビブラートのｖｏっていないですよね。
At beginning when i listened to bonnet in rainbow i didnt like him voice but now i like his voice
やっさん、かっこ良すぎ。
同じく
Rock You to the Ground💣Desert Song💣MSG💣
横山やすしにしか見えない。
それにしてもこの曲は日本の歌謡曲に近いので日本人にの心に刺さるのだと思います。
Great band, funny video. :)
オールナイトフジで流れたのを初めて見たときは衝撃だった。
WOW!!
Graham looks like Jerry Reed's Cletus from Smokey And The Bandit.
Glad to see fat-positive represented in this video.
I so miss actual musical skill in pop
So I remember this video. Don't remember the other one for this song.
インギー若い💗
This in HD would awesome
I ❤ Graham bonnet
Reminds me of Prison School! 😁
メガネ、ネガネ、、怒るでしかしっ！
@Kenjifly Not sure, but looks like a early 80's ARIA pro..the did a Explorer type as well.
Clint Eastwood es el cantante ?😉
Gram bonnet great singer
Was Beavis modeled after Graham
Hell no. That's Dale Gribble from King of the Hill minus the baseball cap lmao
This sounds so much like Cold Chisel with Jimmy Barnes.
Graham's voice is fuckin' rad!! \m/
Oh the days when MTV was important.
Yeah now MTV is rubbish!
Oh the days when MTV didn't absolutely suck.
Is this before he was in Steeler or after?
Yngwie in the best shape ever
Malmsteen😊😊
БЛЕСК !!!!!!
Красавчики!
yasushi yokoyama..
Kazuhira Miller
Kurt Russell sings pretty good ,\,,/
このプロモをベストヒットUSAで見て、次の日即レコード店へ走ったね。
Malmsteen FTW
They made YM scoot down...he is about 6'4"