I once went to see ACDC with my girlfriend and best friend who was also the bass player for my band. It was Reunion Arena, Dallas, TX, 1985. I knew very little about the opening act. His name was Yngwie Malmsteen. From the moment he came on stage to the end of his short 45-min set, I was dumbfounded by how frigging amazing and over-the-top this guy was. My best friend and I kept looking at each other, puzzled by how anyone could be performing at such a high level with no fancy light show or pyrotechnics, just pure technical mastery and showmanship. We kept asking each other, "Who is this guy?" Blew me away, and blew ACDC completely off the stage. ACDC was boring compared to Yngwie. I assumed he would soon blow up and become huge. And although he's had a nice following his entire career, his style of music and songwriting seemed to limit him. Phenomenal talent and skill, though.
@willbryan88903 жыл бұрын
The problem I see with people making claims such as "Malmsteen is all about technique! He has no feeling in his music," is that people who are incapable of thinking for themselves, only parrot something they read in a magazine, or online. If anyone does not recognize the deep emotional feeling that is pervasive in this piece, well, from my point of view, they just have a hole in their soul.
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
AMEN!
@RaymondBCrisp3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and those same people say the very same thing about Alex Lifeson of Rush...SMH...
@davidransom47033 жыл бұрын
that vibrato alone would take me years just to get close its such an emotive technique
@revylokesh17833 жыл бұрын
@@davidransom4703 the secret ingredient is a scalloped fretboard.
@johnstaley13897 ай бұрын
Agreed brother. In this video fast forward to 7 minutes and 7 seconds and tell me there is no emotion in that stunning acoustic piece. I think that those who say Yngwie lacks emotion are not unlike micro wave burrito consumers dining at Ruth's Chris. Their chicken nugget gourmet dining experience has no comprehension or appreciation for the finer complex menu served at the Malmsteen Bistro eludes their elementary PB& J taste bud level of appreciation. With that said, I just talked myself into a plate of chicken nuggets as I finish my entree of Yngwie.
@JimNewstead3 жыл бұрын
Ah man.... I remember hearing this for the first time when I was about 15 years old, somewhere around 1985.... more years ago than I care to remember! Happy memories :)
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
I was "24" . . . Completely blown away 1st hearing it (I believe) on a Metal program on LA's AOR/FM station; 94.7 KMET. Went out right away to buy the Lp, which I still have. I was working at a Pizza Restaurant. Good and bad memories. I can't believe I was 24 in 1984 :P. Good to see you here Jim!
@mikenichols39653 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, "Adagio in G minor" Also used to great effect in "Cold is Being" by Renaissance. I like this. I associated Yngwie with playing too fast and trying to impress, but this showcases his feel for classical music nicely. 🎶
@epic1033 жыл бұрын
Yngwie is far more than speed, his vibrato and bending is also top notch.
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
@@epic103 - (not saying this about you Mike) Isn't it odd when people marginalize guitar players such as this? He is doing the same thing Classical Violinists do, only on distorted/over-driven guitar, yet the same techniques are used (and a few more guitar oriented tricks/techniques). They are "musicians" who want to be the best at their instruments. I guess some folks don't like LOUD guitars ("why not BOTH"). Glad you enjoyed the _otherside_ of Malmsteen Mike :).
@shaynequisenberry8884 Жыл бұрын
This song will be at my funeral
@toddhisattva3 жыл бұрын
The middle initial "J" is important so you don't confuse him with all the other Yngwie Malmsteens out there!
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
Because "More is More!"
@bayurahmadi77543 жыл бұрын
Yngwie Johann Malmsteen
@docgonzales3 жыл бұрын
*this joke is copyrighted 1986 by David St Hubbins of Spinal Tap fame, you will be hearing from his lawyer.
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
@@docgonzales "Hello Cleveland!"?
@docgonzales3 жыл бұрын
mvunit3 'Rock n roll! ..Rock n Roll ! '
@stevenmcgowan83443 жыл бұрын
Saw him open for ACDC in 1985. He was definitely something else. I remember through the majority of his set his band just stood there doing next to nothing while he soloed...
@mauriciodelarosa24493 жыл бұрын
Never heard this artist or this piece of music before but I loved it! 🙏🏽✌🏽❤️
@2001ringwood2 жыл бұрын
Icarus' dream suite is all that one needs to listen to in order to understand his composing capability. you can also say what you want about his alleged sloppiness or repetitiveness, but YOU will fall silent/humbled while listening to this Masterpiece, and if you say you won't, you're not a true Musician or maybe just a jealous individual.
@lowdz683 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful, emotional song. Proof that Yngwie can play with depth and feel. He just chooses not to 😀. This album changed everything for guitar playing. Just look at every metal player since.
@epic1033 жыл бұрын
In fairness... Yngwie usually puts a few emotional songs on his albums. Like Crying, Brothers, Marching Out, Overture 1383, Black Star etc... Cheers
@incarnate67793 жыл бұрын
@@epic103 How do you like his new stuff from Parabellum so far??
@epic1033 жыл бұрын
@@incarnate6779 - so far the 3 songs I've heard are killer. Yngwie's vocals have come along way and the instrumental track is wicked. I can't wait to checkout the whole album. Cheers
@lowdz683 жыл бұрын
@@epic103 those songs are years old though, from back when he cared a little.
@epic1033 жыл бұрын
@@lowdz68 - No, there are other newer songs that are similar I was just giving examples that people might know. Yngwie usually puts 2 or 3 emotional tracks on every album, they're just not as known as the other songs.
@Greg-om2hb3 жыл бұрын
I saw Yngwie with Alcatraz in Sn Francisco. I bought the Rising Force when it first came out and it remains my favorite Malmsteen album.
@hector69ize3 жыл бұрын
🤔🤔🤔 There’s no denying YM is a guitar virtuoso and some folks consider him nothing more than a show-off who can only play fast arpeggios and minor scales. Personally I like his playing in Black Star. Is a must. Cheers 🥂
@karstenstroh11113 жыл бұрын
I love this song from yngwie Malmsten he is this best from Sweden 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪💯💯🎸🎸🎸🎸
@joaquimmanuel73803 жыл бұрын
I remember I bought from a hustling cousin 300 cassettes and yngwie malmsteen was in the collection I love all of his albums Back when the magazine The hit parade was out Him and alex van halen were always head to head as the best guitarists
@tomfabozzi5353 Жыл бұрын
He was sort of the Hendrix or Van Halen of his generation, in that EVERY young rock guitarist had to learn to “play like Yngwie”. So you ended up with loads of shredders, with scalloped frets like Yngwie, who concentrated on arpeggios like the ones Yngwie played. No one could ever get that tone, and that vibrato, though. He was probably the most talented guitarist of his generation (Prince, maybe the most talented musician), but his first four albums are really all I can listen to now. He never developed as a songwriter. He could/should have been enormous. I always wondered what his career might have been like if he had teamed up with someone like Ronnie James Dio for 3-4 albums. Still, for me, a better guitarist than Vai, Satriani, George Lynch or even Randy Rhoads
@tomfabozzi63093 жыл бұрын
As a guitarist there are few people I've ever heard who are more naturally gifted. Unfortunately, he found something he was exceptionally good at, and kind of kept doing the same thing. His 1st 3 albums I love, the 4th was his biggest hit and had some good pop metal songs. Everything after that? Diminishing returns. Saw him live once, and he was jaw-dropping. But he never seemed to exercise the control he had on the first few albums. He overplays everything now. Just my opinion, and I do still love those 1st 3 albums
@docgonzales3 жыл бұрын
100% agree. I thought he'd go on and do movie soundtracks but imagine being him, 24 years old 4th album just dropped, all that coke, girls, money, and people screaming at you in concert every night, thats a treadmill thats hard to get off.
@gregcormier23793 жыл бұрын
This is a good example of Yingie's abilities and is a better representation of his use of classical music influences . He didn't just shred and show of, he actually had great fluidity in his playing. Even if you don't enjoy this kind of musicyou do have to give Yingie credit for creating this style of guitar playing.
@metalmark12143 жыл бұрын
Glad you guys did this song. I remember the first time I heard Rising Force shortly after it came out in 1984 and was blown away. Would love you to react to Black Star, Far Beyond the Sun and Evil Eye.
@alangary98933 жыл бұрын
I'm glad ur lady enjoyed it bcuz this song is one of my favorites by Malmsteen and Malmsteen Always plays with Feeling and for those who dont think so they need their head examined.
@sidecardog52443 жыл бұрын
Parts of this remind me of Camel's Stationary Traveler. A wonderfully melancholy feel to the guitar and pan flute.
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
This suggestion may surprise you; take a listen to *Opeth* and their _all melodically sung_ album "Damnation". Mikael Akerfeldt; the composer, guitarist and vocalist is VERY influenced by Andrew Latimer.
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
Yngwie gets alot of effortless vibrato from his heavily scalloped fretboard that makes for very fast scales & arpeggios & vibrato by simply pushing down hard on the fretted note.He doesnt have to strain as hard as with a standard fretboard.
@stromghouls3 жыл бұрын
i speak often on facebook with his ex drummer of the rising force era, anders johansson. another guy who changed my life and introduced me to another drum hero. i will always love yngwie. been a fan for 35 years. in fact the first album i ever bought with my own money was a malmsteen album in 86. trilogy.
@ricknesar16272 жыл бұрын
Such a joy watching you guys enjoying some Swedish art to the fullest! Yngwie Malmsteen, pride of Stockholm, Sweden. Saw him live in 1988 with Joe Lynn Turner and later in 2007. What A guitar hero!
@alekhidell3 жыл бұрын
Him doing this with full orchestra is just to die for!. Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra.
@srt8turboawdjeep1462 жыл бұрын
My fav Yngwie album, its my if I had to pick one album for the rest of life, brings a tear to my eye.
@vonyroces78783 жыл бұрын
this album blew me away when it came out. a game changer!
@markpalomo49663 жыл бұрын
Yngwie is amazing no doubt and was a pioneer of that style and there's so many now that can play like that. Everybody can get burned out on any kind of music but if you like something alot our ratings can change over time and when you come back to it, you know why you liked it in the first place.(I get tired of shredding since almost everyone can do it now days) One of best solos I think is the one in the song FIRE. What do you think Nick?
@JacksonLedford Жыл бұрын
Fire, from Trilogy is one of his overall best solos! Completely agree. He composed a perfect solo for that song, always blows my mind when I listen to it.
@joshgrant824 Жыл бұрын
I think real guitarists should all come to the agreement that everyone has their own style and the way they play is their form of expression. I personally believe he’s put out some good songs with plenty of feel. Like him or not you have to acknowledge that he is insanely talented
@nc38363 жыл бұрын
So epic he was so young at this time simply incredible. Way ahead of his time
@GuitarTotality2 жыл бұрын
You want some more dynamic/emotional Yngwie music - Listen and react to "Crying" from the Trilogy album! 🌎✌️🌱🎶
@Adaeternum13 жыл бұрын
canción muy especial
@horaciobetbeder9683 жыл бұрын
ESPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!🎼🎵🎶🎸
@johnfoster52953 жыл бұрын
Have you heard Hot On Your Heels by Steeler? Killer Malmsteen solo intro. The song is kind of hair metal-ish, but the guitar work is great.
@FloatingAnarchy613 жыл бұрын
I'm not normally a fan of the more showy guitarists but this was very tasteful. Having said that I expect Nick has heard it but I'd love you to react to Surfing With The Alien by Joe Satriani. Absolutely jaw dropping.
@axolotl86947 ай бұрын
surprised neither of you uttered the syllable "prog". this was so proggy. ;-) great track, great (complicated) artist, nice reax.
@NicknLex7 ай бұрын
I have been listening to Yngwie since I was 16 so it was very enjoyable to show this to my wife. I guess it was a bit progressive now that I think about it. The second album Marching Out is amazing as well. The third album Trilogy is a bit more neoclassical with poppy hooks. Glad you enjoyed🤟
@mr.mojorisin16163 жыл бұрын
Love the Malmsteen! When's your next Live stream?
@NicknLex3 жыл бұрын
Actually doing a short pop up one in about 45 mins just for fun! :)
@mr.mojorisin16163 жыл бұрын
@@NicknLex Wish i would have known. Had to crash early because I have a new puppy and she gets me up early. Hope that ends soon as she gets older.
@NicknLex3 жыл бұрын
@@mr.mojorisin1616 Puppy is definitely more important!! ❤️🐶
@johnmcminn94552 жыл бұрын
always love this song! reminds me of when fall comes and the leaves start falling . really a lot of soul and passion in this suite. on the back of the album it says dedicated to the spirit of Moji which was his child hood CAT. the first solo has an almost cat meow voice to the phrasing if you think of it in that ...spirit!
@johnmcminn94552 жыл бұрын
thank you for doing this video, with my GF I find when I play something for her she will like it or she won't. She actually got tickets for us front row to Yngwie at Bergen PAC Englewood NJ. but I know she is a Led Zep /Plant Fan and otherwise likes dance music folk and some blues like Derrick Trucks. if War pigs by sabbath comes on she always goes "who is this" in the same respect if she plays me something I may just flat out not like it no matter who the musician is supposed to be . I always make fun of " whisper singing" and always have, even though Billie Eilish has made it so popular, it has been around a while..
@michelemichele33753 жыл бұрын
Love this. 💕 Also listened to Lara Fabian do this (“Adagio”) years ago. And recently watched Floor Jansen of Nightwish do a version. Incredible fingers, In Vain (Lars is his first name, I think)! Thanks N&L! ✨😆
@michelemichele33753 жыл бұрын
Oh and remember Procol Harum did a version. Of course this is guitar mastery and I like his take on it. ✨🤪
@nc38363 жыл бұрын
Yngwie was a game changer period!!
@RogelioMartinez-ip3tj Жыл бұрын
Yngwie it's limitless!!!!!!
@Adaeternum13 жыл бұрын
mas allá de q saco grandes canciones, luego nunca superó su primer disco
@EgoShredder3 жыл бұрын
You guys need to also check out Tony Macalpine! I am sure Nick is probably already very familiar with him, but probably not Lex.
@keaganmcginley41173 жыл бұрын
You gotta do Gates of Babylon by him
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
Gotta' do the original "Gates of Babylon" with Blackmore and Dio by 𝕽 𝖆 𝖎 𝖓 𝖇 𝖔 𝖜 :D
@keaganmcginley41173 жыл бұрын
@@mvunit3 Tributes good too though ;)
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
@@keaganmcginley4117 - the WHOLE album is awesome. I LOVE his take on UK's "In the Dead of Night", and "Carry On Wayward Son".
@nikelodeon68523 жыл бұрын
You absolutely need to do Jason becker's Air. One of the best guitar pieces ever.
@RogelioMartinez-ip3tj Жыл бұрын
You choose a very good song for her!!!
@docgonzales3 жыл бұрын
His best work
@generoberts91513 жыл бұрын
Hey guys I was going through my drawer today and there is something I want to mail you for an open box day. It is collectable. It has been there so long and I think you all will enjoy it more at this point. Do you have a PO Box? I’m not asking you to list you real address…..
@NicknLex3 жыл бұрын
Hi there!! Thanks for thinking of us, that’s so kind of you! Our mailing address is in the description! If you have trouble finding it let me know, I just don’t have it on me this very second. ♥️ - Lex
@generoberts91513 жыл бұрын
@@NicknLex thanks this trinket is 40 years old this year
@grahamhowes69043 жыл бұрын
A while since you did a STEVEN WILSON - please listen to DRIVE HOME with one of the best guitar solos ever by Guthrie Govan. Better still listen to the whole of THE RAVEN WHO REFUSED TO SING which contains DRIVE HOME as well as LUMINOL and THE RAVEN WHO REFUSED TO SING all top drawer Steven Wilson songs as well as containing some really fine work by the whole band especially Guthrie Govan - but all are absolutely top form.
@davidransom47033 жыл бұрын
he was a teenager when he started an amazing prodigy
@JoseA-Divergent2 жыл бұрын
Si te gusta: Antonio Vivaldi is Imposible que no te guste "Rising Force".... Aunque sobre gustos no hay nada escrito... Saludos.
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
True story, they recorded the drums for this album in an aircraft hangar.
@grobin37452 жыл бұрын
Yngwie wasn't wearing all those crazy bracelets in the early 80s...he started with that stuff after he got fat. We remember him in Keel...when we heard that intro to 'Hot on Your Heels', we were like..."this guy is better than EVH". You should hear it. Link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e3jdfX-mlpqLpac
@NicknLex2 жыл бұрын
I reacted to that song. Maybe you want to check it out?
@mvjonsson3 жыл бұрын
Uli Jon Roth must also be mentioned, and Yngwie would mention Uli as well.
@henrywasserman3 жыл бұрын
You would love Billy Cobham Stratus from the Spectrum LP
@FloatingAnarchy613 жыл бұрын
Oh yes. The whole album, Tommy Bolin"s guitar work is amazing. The main bass riff from Stratus was sampled by Massive Attack on the song Safe From Harm from their seminal album Blue Lines.
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
DREAM THEATER "Hell's Kitchen/Lines in the Sand"
@falagar19298 ай бұрын
all those guitars and records and everything at the back and you hear yngwie for the first time... yeah right... uh huh...
@NicknLex8 ай бұрын
Maybe if you would have read the title? Wife reacts... I have been listening to Malmsteen since I was 15 years old. Pay some attention before you write stupid comments on the web.
@Dwhite-s6r3 жыл бұрын
Elle est très belle.......magnifique....
@Iluvatarion3 жыл бұрын
Great work guys! Please can you react to "Evil Eye" (album version) of Malmsteen?
@dannyjoe33433 жыл бұрын
Such great memories.*sniff*.( man, what is happening to me?*sniff*)
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
I see you miming a bass player plucking the bass, however Yngwie himself recorded all the bass with a pick 8- (
@MikeJones-wl6gb3 жыл бұрын
Big fan of Malmsteen, however I never really tried to work out his stuff. Nice choice also! Plini...I say no more.
@ryanwahyuhidayat32433 жыл бұрын
Hey I'am request Yngwie Malmsteen Majestic Blue, this it beautiful instrumental
@johnmcminn94552 жыл бұрын
yngwie is strongly influenced by Villa Lobos especially 5 preludes which is standard Classical Repertoire, the cycle of fifths thing we hear a lot with yng, is also in 5 preludes . Heictor Villa Lobos is Brazillian and wrote the 5 preludes in 1940 in the modern Era, the piece sounds retro to 1740 the baroque Era! segovia also played Flamenco . the technique in flamenco is more advanced than lute or parlor music . it was Segovia who had the technique to make the guitar a true Solo instrument leading a 110 piece orchestra in the modern Era. the song that was Segovia's "hit" was Bach Bouree in E which was written by Bach on harpsichord in the baroque period . before segovia Fernando Sor was a composer who wrote on guitar but was not fully able to have guitar recognized the way segovia put it together . the thing with Van Halen and yngwie is the Dutch Gypsy Jazz and yng has some Gypsy Style too but he only claims DiMeola yet in his book Relentless he does say he has an uncle who played Gypsy jazz but he doesn't want to talkabout it....
@omsidiqchannel14312 жыл бұрын
I hope you can make video reaction for instrumental stationary traveller track from album stationary traveller by Camel band prod 1984👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏
@garygkc213 жыл бұрын
Check out Loomis from nevermore
@cacophony693 жыл бұрын
Please, don't listen to "Now Your Ships Are Burned" while driving but please react to it one day... and don't forget to fasten your seat belts !!!
@Jp421JP2 жыл бұрын
I see The Duck over there.
@NicknLex2 жыл бұрын
🤘🤘🤘
@NicknLex2 жыл бұрын
That one is unfortunately not scalloped hehe
@Jp421JP Жыл бұрын
@@NicknLex only Yngwie can handle that level of scallop!
@vicprovost25613 жыл бұрын
Yingie was hot stuff back in the day and we enjoyed listening to those fingers fly over that guitar. The only bad thing I'll say for the shredders is that for everyone like him, Steve Vai or Joe Satriani there were many more, especially in the hair-metal scene that were more flash and dash than anything else. Maybe I'm a Dinosaur but I much prefer old schoolers with incredible feel who have their own style and reach deep into your soul. Give me David Gilmour, Jimmy Page or Michael Schenker any time. 😊Eddie Van Halen was the best shredder ever and the guys mentioned earlier have done great things as well but so many others could not conjure up what they did, which is why I listen to old school like the later 3 much more often Great reaction guys, you are the best! 😎 Rock On!
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
STEVE VAI "For the Love of God"
@bayurahmadi77543 жыл бұрын
Next reactions song flamenco diablo from yngwie too
@raulo87623 жыл бұрын
BASTA DE PAT METHENY POR FAVOR CHICOS........YA ESTA BIEN ......EN ARGENTINA HAY MUCHOS MEJORES , BUSQUEN Y VERAN!! JAVIER MALOSETTI- PEDRO ASNAR (bajista de Charly Garcia) y tantos otros. PERO BASTA DE PAT PLEASE!!!
@Lightmane3 жыл бұрын
If Mozart played Guitar
@alangary98933 жыл бұрын
He didn't have alot of jewelwry @this point in his career
@perkeyser20323 жыл бұрын
What fuckin use is a reaction video if you already heard it?
@_BLACKSTAR_3 жыл бұрын
Yngwie rips off alot of passages from Niccolo Paganini, & he has to slow them down from the originals.
@sinqros2 жыл бұрын
Met Yngwie in the mid 80s, I used to Jam guitar with his old Roommate Kurt James, Kurt took Yngwies place after Steve Vie, in Steeler & he’s now in The Gram bonnet band, Alcatraz, BTW this is a very mediocre Yngwie song compared to what he could do on other songs..
@ridzwananwar6411 Жыл бұрын
face look like brook shield...
@virtuosodm33272 жыл бұрын
Yngwies best work, this album.Sadly he writes nothing good anymore.
@rarissonoliveira95033 жыл бұрын
Dr sin band
@LS-wn5cd3 жыл бұрын
I like Yngwie, but he's always kind of been more show than music in my opinion, where Paul Gilbert is kind of the flip side. Try reacting to his "Eudaimonia Overture"
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
Yeah but here Paul talks about "learning" Malmsteen and inspiration. . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqCwoa2embp3Z7M But I LOVE how Paul talks about "not learning things right", and it puts the artists take/personality into the covers, etc.
@historyguy59423 жыл бұрын
Couldn’t agree more. Yngwie is kind of like a dog riding a bicycle. It’s not so much about what he is doing, its that he can do it at all.
@LS-wn5cd3 жыл бұрын
@@mvunit3 That's a good clip and I'm sure many guitarists probably work on pieces that same way today and develop their own licks/riffs/patterns. I would have liked to see back in the day a match up with Yngwie and SRV just to see what they might have taken from one another that they wouldn't normally play.
@ericlilley47063 жыл бұрын
This was pretty meh for me. How about some Jeff Beck? I nominate Scatterbrain from Blow by Blow.
@fabiopiacente9453 жыл бұрын
Mucha digitacion y nada más
@maximilianomiguel86453 жыл бұрын
Giardino tiene más sentimiento, para mí
@alexandergavilan9032 Жыл бұрын
Dónde están sus obras maestras, gurus?
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
I'm actually quite amazed, how many people are saying they have never heard of this man . . . wow! I'm guessing some are Metal or Progressive Rock fans, some are guitarist fans (Jazz/Fusion), and some are just passers by here, or have only listened to AOR FM stations who don't know of all this "music" that existed outside of radio multiple decades ago to a Metalheads/Proggers delight. It's AWESOME to hear folks being introduced to fan faves :D. I used to collect "Guitar Player" magazine, and I actually owned a few issues that featured up and coming artists in the monthly article called "Spotlight". One featured a 15 year old "Paul Gilbert", who would come to LA, and then form "Racer X", and then become more famous in the mainstream for "Mr. Big", but to the shredder world he is well known to this day: www.pinterest.com/pin/734297914213804678/ 2nd issue in the February 1983 article was Yngwie at "19": gr.pinterest.com/pin/734297914213804683/ I remembered his article well, because he mentioned 2 of my fave Guitarists; Ritchie Blackmore and Allan Holdsworth (also was just discovering Uli Jon Roth, and his time with the Scorpions), who I discovered when blindly purchasing the debut "UK" album a year or two prior. By the time I heard the Metal band "Steeler" (with Ron Keel), and especially the debut of "Alcatrazz" and former singer of Rainbow, Graham Bonnet, I became a devotee of Malmsteen. But purchasing his solo album "Rising Force" (1984), this was Ritchie Blackmore on steroids . . . AMAZING compositions and playing (the vocalist Jeff Scott Soto now sings for "Sons of Apollo" with Derek Sherenian, Billy Sheehan, Billy Sheehan, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, and Mike Portnoy). This was Paganini on overdriven Guitar. Since my father was into all kinds of music, including Rock (growing-up in Honduras and listening to U.S. Rock 'n Roll from the 1950's, then being here in the 1960's with the Beatles, Santana and many others), one of those "moments" I can remember where our _differences_ were put aside; my folks never cared that I played my music LOUD, because most of it they actually enjoyed. And my Brother was influenced by what he could _hear_ behind my closed door :p. But one day I was playing my newly purchased album and "Icarus Dream Suite" was playing, and my dad peeked-in and asked; "Who is this?" and I said; "He's from Sweden, Yngwie Malmsteen", as it played-on, he simply said; ". . . pretty good!" :D. Like many are saying; I never got why he gets ridiculed as he does what he does best! It may be over the top, but at times it can be melodious, beautiful and well composed. As he once told Sam Dunn (director of Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, and Iron Maiden: Flight 666") of BangerTV, the now famous quote: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aJPdZ4OhaqqmjK8 1st hearing his solo album is a very fond memory, 1st hearing him, on I believe an all Metal program on LA's 94.7 KMET with Jim Ladd and "The Metal Shoppe/kMETAL Shop". I went and bought that Lp right away, and would play that album in the dark and just be transported, like my Rush albums. That debut album was so gorgeous, and the tracks with vocals made for some awesome Metal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rising_Force Edit: Ha! Nick! I thought the same thing when I got the album, you could hear his "jewelry" when playing the acoustic parts! :D Lex, I was getting a bit teary eyed myself, it brings back pleasant memories when this album played on my turn-table, and just the "emotion" in the music. I guess there was a little bit of Arabic/Spanish scales Lex picked-up on ( "Phrygian dominant scale"), but it was more a "Medieval" influence (Baroque, Bach) to these and Nick's ears. I LOVE how at the end Yngwie has the acoustic guitar sounding a bit far in the background, and then the different layers come in on each ear (left, right, left, etc.). He wasn't _just_ a shredder but a well thought-out composer, who could let a song breathe and then all out shred in 1 song (Opeth and Meshuggah come to mind, as well-as many Prog Metal bands i.e. Fates Warning, Dream Theater, etc.). One of the finest moments in Metal history. It proves Classical was the 1st Metal genre ;). Again, I LOVE that people are being exposed to MORE music here. I GEEK out when I get to share Playlists, history, and personal experiences because I love sharing the bands/musicians I've enjoyed with people not initiated to some of our favorites. If they were obscure, underground, or slipped through the cracks (or classics). We ALL have a long road ahead with Nick & Lex and the family they've created . . . I'm trying to be as patient as possible because I have a lot to share, but so do others, and we hope that more people will like, enjoy our selections, and will search-out more of their musics. And we are open to learn about bands _we_ have never heard before and be pleasantly surprised as well. - Loved the conversation and take on it Nick & Lex! Brought me back when I was 24 1st hearing this :D. Note: Tony MacAlpine is another animal altogether. He was more "Chopin" than Paganini on his 1st few albums, but then he became more of a Jazz/Fusion player, has gone on tour with Steve Vai as a 2nd Guitarist, and has done some great stuff with Derek Sherenian and "Planet X". Lastly: I HOPE you do a tribute to co-founding member of Kansas, violinist/vocalist "Robby Steinhardt" who passed away on the 17th of July. I suggested some tracks that featured his vocals and violin, in an Email I sent you guys. He was part of a HUGE impact on a 14 year old just learning what music could be in 1977, with the album "Point of Know Return". Take care guys.
@marioFlores-pq5xr3 жыл бұрын
I commend you for such an informative and knowledgeable comment. This is Lex's dad btw :)
@mvunit33 жыл бұрын
@@marioFlores-pq5xr - Honored to be introduced to you :D. You're daughter and son-in-law have great taste and a special bond. Bonded by music and apparently a family deeply into all types of music - much like my parents. Thank you Mr. Flores and take great care.