Yngwie Malmsteen Interview, 1992

[@merrittmussorgsky2937]

I think this is the most genuine interview I've ever seen of Yngwie, he seems like himself here, not trying too hard, not taking himself too seriously, confident but not arrogant. It's refreshing to say the least. I don't know, I can't quite put my finger on it but there is something different and special about this interview, if only it was longer.

[@jmuhlenbruch]

I think he’s so misunderstood, mostly based on jealousy. I think his attempts at humor get misunderstood as arrogance. He deserves to exude confidence as he can back it up.

[@danvincent2600]

He hadn’t grown his ego beard by then

[@therightisright8276]

Yeah right.😆

[@zeem2524]

As long as the topic is yngwie the universe is at peace

[@therightisright8276]

@@zeem2524 Um, no. Not really. Biggest asshole in music ever, period.

[@TheMack]

My first real hard rock concert was Yngwie's Fire and Ice tour in 92! Was supposed to see Ozzy, but they were out of tickets, so Yngwie it is! =)

[@GuitarGangsterArmi]

Jealous!!!!

[@TheMack]

@@GuitarGangsterArmi Yeah, I was 16 years old and it was really like jumping into the deep end of the pool :) The concert was in Copenhagen, Denmark, in a small movie theatre where you could sit in the comfortable chairs, although most people were standing in front of the stage. The volume was crazy, the speakers on the left and right side of the stage was placed in ear-height so you could stand just a feww feet from them, getting blasted to all hell! =)

[@paulcristadoro3489]

@@TheMack t

[@wattage2007]

Nice. Saw him on the Eclipse tour in Scotland two years before. Knockout gig. Almost the same lineup too.

[@irmasil3]

A really nice interview..Malmsteen speaks seriously on this one.

[@Jasonjk74]

The first time I saw Yngwie was on the Fire and Ice tour, in Cleveland

[@lhstrat9156]

I was there also at Flashes (I think that place closed shortly after). That was the first time I saw Yngwie also.

[@ridenar1456]

Did he shout Hello Cleveland! ?

[@Baroquenstrings_]

"Vivaldi's great everything he did was great." - Yngwie Malmsteen

[@danvincent2600]

Stravinsky: ‘Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 500 times.’

[@Baroquenstrings_]

@@danvincent2600 Practice makes perfect.

[@evanescapades2513]

Fire and ice....masterpiece!!!!

[@joshuafult84]

0:25 funny he says that because the issue with a lot of his music is the guitar has way too much focus essentially deluding the actual music.

[@rekdinhopoetico]

Fire and Ice is a great album, I love all the tracks, arrangements, interludes and solos. PS - I was never a huge fan of grunge either.

[@maddgun]

Malmsteen has more talent in his pinky than all Nirvana members combined

[@ADAMnotJASON]

A good song is a good song. Yngwie is awesome, and some grunge songs were great...

[@Batsinthebelltower]

soundgarden were a decent grunge band , coming from a yngwie fan

[@vanguard4065]

Batsinthebelltower i never liked soundgarden. i did like pearl jam aic and collective soul when it came to grunge and alternative

[@Nissardpertugiu]

@@Batsinthebelltower Soundgarden is like Alice in chains . They WERE heavy metal in the 80's .

[@axxmaniaxx]

i can relate to malmsteen. i'm known as a airbrush artist, but wanna be known for other things as well, such as my guitar playing & songwriter, moviemaker, etc......

[@jmuhlenbruch]

What he said about hack musicians I’ve said for years. Miles Davis is like a Monet masterpiece.....rap is like stick figures!

[@GuitarGangsterArmi]

This is what a lot of people are blind to because they’re too stupid to see it. Yngwie is one of the 10 greatest composers to ever live.

[@Nobody2879]

Yngwie's last 7 or so albums are poorly built houses that fall apart when I walk into them...

[@whitex4652]

... and you are surely one of the 10 greatest comedians ever... 🤪

[@JD-vj4go]

I love YJM but his compositions are mostly Classical ideas he borrowed or Rainbow tunes he borrowed.

[@rmzzz76]

Over 200 years after his death and Mozart gets over 6 million streams a month on the leading streaming platform, Malmsteen's barely cracks 400,000... In the decades following Mozart's passing, in that near term, there were tribute concerts held. The weight of his loss felt. Are there any guitarist who will see that for? Eddie Van Halen is a contender and there's been tributes held across all genres, that's the kind of weight you're looking for in order to see future generations continue admiration. I don't see that happening when Mansteen passes, but I could be wrong.

[@alangary9893]

I concure wuth U

[@danvincent2600]

It’s surprising how few people mention his left glass eye

[@freaker126]

this is the most serious I've seen Malmsteen interview. Also, during this time I just enrolled in the military at age 20. I think. :p

[@Chrishagen]

The donut period

[@joelleferreira4292]

A real creator only can speaks this way : I suscribe completely to this fact that first of all we are persons who take at serious _(but we know about smiling and also laughing at ourselves, yes! )_ the powers we own from Life, and that, without premeditation, only by liking the work we do, respecting ourselves first of all so that it is easy for us to respect others and their own sincerity inside the work, then, YES, we are creators because it's only happens this way. Your realisations today, Yngwie Malmsteen, prove that you are right, for your music is keeping on a logical always surpreending positive evolution, though you have always been gifted. I saw you on stage by the time of this 1991 'interview. I was ruling my own broadcasting on a freelance autodidacte way in a small french town, I was interested in programming and in learning about it, I made it, as a volunteer but with very serious goals on finding out new ways of music distribution for true melomanes who expected more than products without quality _alias this never forbids the logical remunerations expected for that artists happen to be retributed for their work as any workers should be, it is a matter of honor for all the society, if we want excellent Music we have to take care about the Real Men who are creating it_, just as part of communication' experiences ( which was a part of my professional formation in another area ) which were emerging since the early eighties. When happened successive breaking news about huge transformations inside the society, Europe and world, from one minute I decided to stop all this in aim to gain more informations. I am still improving myself about communicating and it seems I make it creating my own path with no name🤭. I know I made the good decision. Compliments for Your last LP, very 👋 good.

[@juancasas4821]

Yngwie papasito

[@laika5757]

Blackmore, Brian May, David Gilmour... fantastic Rock Guitarists. 🎼🎵🎶🎸

[@abyglider5130]

How many times yngwie say " you know" 😊 please count🤣

[@marcelocastro6992]

Recording with no overdubs? He gotta have balls

[@CrossTheLine1000]

wow!!!

[@SpiralDream]

By the looks of it, seems Malmsteen wouldn’t be very fond of rap music.

[@cornbobrimlove7892]

It's not music for one thing.....It's noise garbage....

[@nicholasdorazio10]

​@Cornbob Rimlove Alot of it is but not all of it. The Yngwie of the rap game is CAN-I-BUS. An absolute fucking beast and black balled by the industry.. Look up Canibus Poet Laureate. Nobody like him on the planet and I think you would respect his ability to ryhme. Very deep and very intelligent. Not your average cat😁

[@rikmarlon]

It's a shame that Eclipse didn't have a tour

[@JAV619]

I LOVE Yngwie. But even if he doesn't like donuts, he sure liked something back then.

[@robertanderson1043]

Beer. Which he eventually quit too.

[@iosifpateroulis1081]

We love Yngwie. We hate grunge rubbish.

[@fatalexception1269]

Ironic that more people still listen to grunge music than Malmsteen nowadays. I don't think he realised at the time of this interview that music isn't always a technical showpiece: sometimes it just has to capture a particular vibe or mood that people relate to - and that is exactly what grunge music did in the early 90's.

[@bojanbelic957]

He destroyed many of his songs by two minutes solo, and for many people who are not players he is the most boring man on the earth. Second, from 1990 his albums are the same. The fast track , double bass drum, than some Hendrix blues, then ballad and the instrumental., harmonic minor, sweep picking arpeggios, so fucking boring. Dragons, demons, occult , devil, his lyrics are on the mental level of idiot. If he ever realize that, he would be more important figure. No, but, her think he is Bach and also Baudelaire talent of lyricist. That is because his music today does not mean a thing, nothing.

[@JedNadin]

You see where he's coming from though, right? He's dedicated his life to his craft, both as a physical technician and as a songwriter. Understanding theory and mastering his instrument to be able to create advanced compositions. Then, these grunge kids come out, barely nailing power chords, no finesse, no understanding of theory and just bang out these 3 minute simplistic radio hits, that are polished and lacking the rawness that punk had. This is right at the start of the grunge thing too, it was probably taking a massive chunk of his paying audience. Grunge killed the guitar solo, and Yngwie IS the guitar solo. I'd like to see his view point on it all today. He's seen some shit come and go, and he's ignored a lot of it, too. I'd LOVE to see him react to mumble rap, then see how much those artists were banking. His head would implode. YJM for life.

[@bojanbelic957]

Oh man, i have written essays on Corelli, Bach, Vivaldi, i red Dante and Goethe in original, i know notes i dare to say that i know something on music. Ymgwie really did not gives omething new in music. Blackmore was the first ho played harmonic minor runs, arpeggios in the same timing, mixed occult and dark with classical music, Yngwie just gave the more speed, and showing off. Grunge had the pure energy without virtuosity , the better lyrics, and the music is not just for the musicians. If it is, the Stones and Beatles would not sell ten records. If you have solo, brrrrr, and shitty i am viking, dragon, evil, demons words, every song dedicated to the virtuosity of course you will loose the audience. Dont blame grunge, it was a normal decade passing thing, we hade the hard rock, and the punk in late 70s, than new roman tics, metal and the glam, hairy thing for a decade, naturally the generations have changed and i get tired of solo, speed and so. Paganini is more famous beacuse of the virtuosity than as a composer.

[@merrittmussorgsky2937]

If you knew anything about music or guitar as an instrument then you wouldn't say Yngwie didn't give something new to music. He was/is the biggest and most influential guitar player since Eddie Van Halen and Hendrix! No one at that time in rock was even close to Yngwie's technique and his solos are always improvised on the record and every show, he went further and showed how far you can go with classical music in a heavy rock setting and what's possible technically on guitar. He raised the bar to such an extreme height for the instrument. Paganini was the most famous violinist of his day because he rewrote the book on violin technique that we still employ today and as a virtuoso influenced and inspired countless musicians of the day as well as a performer and a composer. Paganini was an excellent composer, Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liszt thought so much of his caprices, especially his 24th that they composed their own pieces inspired and based on his melody and variations. Paganini was a prolific and well respected composer on violin as well as guitar. He could also play a melody so sweet and tenderly people would often burst into tears at his concerts. BTW what does Dante or Goeth have to do with music??? LMAO Besides the fact that Franz Liszt wouldn't travel without their works and composed pieces based on these literary works such as Mephisto Waltz and the Dante Sonata? And you say you've written essays on Bach, Vivaldi etc etc? I find that hard to believe seeing that you write like a five year old with learning disabilities or the random ramblings and incomplete thoughts of a man that has gone mad. Please tell me that English is not your first or even third Language. Italian certainly isn't my first nor second language but I can without a doubt read and write it better than you can English. English is my second language btw and you don't see me typing like a mentally impaired intellectually challenged small child. SMH. Might want to hit the books a little harder next time ;)

[@bojanbelic957]

Well, it is true. He influenced many players, but he never get the full recognition and the fame as a composer. If you take a way the pure guitar skill, his songs are already done many times. Out of the guitar world, and the players, he never had the classic. House of the r.s.Stairway to h., Hotel Ca., Paranoid, Smoke on the w,you know want i want to say! I love him, but, he will not be remembered as a composer. And in last 15 years, lets be honest, his audience are places with a 1000 seats, and he is more or less, obscure figure. I am sorry to say that, but out of the guitar fans, he has no audience. That is a proof he nave no all time songs, and classics to continue his career. He even do not have money to afford the real band any more.

[@かおり小寺-g7k]

良い。イキイキしてる。

[@laodamasdimopoulos2655]

How can people come out on public and call Soundgarden or AIC or Pearl Jam or whatever Seattle bands "crap" ? Rock would be dead of it weren't for Seattle. Music is about riffs, chord progressions, virtuosity, skills....But it's also about so much more...Don't hate on grunge people. I love Yngwie as much as I love fucking Kurt

[@claudiominotti4082]

Finally a good comment here. Picked up the guitar BECAUSE of Kurt. Love Yngwie as well.

[@hardluck8732]

Rock is dead because of what grunge started. Rock never recovered from that time period.

[@philphil4042]

Grunge is pain to my ears period.

[@philphil4042]

@Roy Dabral nirvana was a joke like the sex pistols and others....

[@efwfew]

Same could be said about any kind of music, from hip hop to pig squeal grindcore. Yngwie always been a guy with strong opinions so I get why he would say this. His music is about top of the line technique and virtuoso, so I get why he would feel this way about simpler (but efficient) music

[@RogerSullivanNOLA]

Yngwie's last 7 or so albums are poorly built houses that fall apart when I walk into them.

[@rmzzz76]

An honest interview... I respect his view and respect that he's genuine to his views, but he's also a very one-dimensional human being who can not comprehend the brilliance of subtle nuance in composition and the art of minimalism. He has a right to view musicianship as a sport in dexterity and classify only great performances as those who can blaze scales, but I find most of his catalog of "music" to be unlistenable, soulless garbage... He's criticized Satriani and Jeff Beck, but yet they have much higher listening audience on the streaming platforms, proving more people give a damn about their instrumental guitar music than Malmsteen's. There is a demographic of younger listeners who care about Malmsteen's music, but it's a smaller footprint than pretty much everyone he's publicly criticized. But if you weigh the greatest of a guitarist by their dexterity and speed, he's still holding the crown.

[@danpena4472]

Is he wearing makeup?

[@Beltesassar_]

Dan Peña Most metal artists usually had some makeup on, he probably has some aswell on

[@Nissardpertugiu]

Eye liner

[@Nobody2879]

yes he's gae

[@marcelocastro6992]

Basically he was talking about Nu metal, i 100% agree with him

[@ravenconacher]

Nu metal pushed metal to new levels and instead of focusing on technicality they focused on groove and vibe.

[@gabrielbrouwer]

Nu metal wasn’t a thing back then. He was talking about grunge.

[@marcelocastro6992]

@@gabrielbrouwer watheaver, both grunge and nu metal suck

[@gabrielbrouwer]

@@marcelocastro6992 Alice In Chains is really good imo and Pearl Jam’s first album was okay. The rest isn’t that great imo.

[@Tictac-s2e]

I appreciate any musician that can write a good song, but This @1:42

[@mojopin70]

Can i look at it ? No. Ok, don't look at it.

[@therightisright8276]

Ask him if he likes donuts.

[@nicholasdorazio10]

He'd ask you if you can play🤣 And you'd respond. "I cant play like you"

[@therightisright8276]

@@nicholasdorazio10 I'd reply, "Yes Wingwang, I can play with over 40 yrs experience in gigs and recording but unlike you, I play DIFFERENT genres, DIFFERENT styles, using DIFFERENT techniques, DIFFERENT axes, fx and amps because I DONT want to be a 1 trick pony doing only the same recycled crap I started doing 44 yrs ago,including wearing the same outfit. You see Wingwang, I know variety is the spice of life and allows me to grow musically, instead of thinking my fans only deserve the same old shit and that I'm so absolutely great I don't need to experiment, try new things or expand my musical horizons. I also know I'm NOT a vocalist and okay with that, so unlike YOU I 'd actually HIRE a vocalist". That is what I'd say to Wingwang's face, but when I saw that he didn't acknowledge fans waving, greeting and aporoaching him at a Dallas Guitar Show, I found him too self absorbed, egotistical and narcissistic to ever hear MY or anyone else's words. The guy TRULY is an ASSHOLE. Believe it.

[@nicholasdorazio10]

@TheRightisRight 🤣🤣I agree on the vocalist part for sure. God damn you got a thing for this guy dude!!

[@nicholasdorazio10]

@TheRightisRight You gotta stop watching Yngwie videos dude🤣 That was too deep lol

[@therightisright8276]

@@nicholasdorazio10 I dont watch videos. I met the douchebag in person.

[@AliensAnonymous]

A little YM -- though great -- goes a looooonnnggg way.

[@montyrayza7220]

What Malmsteen fails to realize is that music is more about songs, tone, expression than technique - for example Sounds Like Teen Spirit is better and more important in music history than his entire catalogue.

[@lucrebrazzi4069]

Vanilla Pudge . ...

[@seanmyers6961]

So does Yngwie have any grammys

[@geezberry8889]

was nominated but no . neither does satriani

[@mattiasorre1718]

Such a schmuck...what he wants to say is "Im not just a guitar virtuoso, Im so much more - a genius! I'm Beethoven, Paganini, Mozart!" Just because he'd learned the same shredding technique that has always been a basic requirement for every jazz/classical soloist in the business

[@JoshhhXx]

Love em or hate em he was unique definitely not on Bach or Paganinis level but I like yngwie

[@johnmcminn8288]

i'm glad he stopped wearing mascara

[@iSiberianHusky]

He never stopped wearing a bra, though.

[@danielmaurice7468]

He lost me at that house analogy

[@CloudsBeyond]

If you sold a house without a basement, you could be discombobulated in to thinking there were no windows below ground level juxtaposed with a philosophical perspective on the music industry and musicians within it, that was all he meant.

[@Kman.]

The reason is Malmsteen is lost...he is wrapped up and lost in himself.

[@mojopin70]

Well, Malmsteen isn't known for his intelligence lol

[@Nissardpertugiu]

@@mojopin70 though he is very intelligent .

[@chazbono5991]

Mojopin 70 why do you say that? He composes, and plays a stringed instrument at an unbelievable level. He basically became rich off of intelligence alone.

[@therightisright8276]

Except where he asks before the interview, "Is this going to help my career? Because if not, I won't speak to this unworthy lowlife American interviewer!" 😆

[@beerdeddi1]

From this period on he began to gain fat!