Yngwie Malmsteen - The STEELER Solos

[@hallgeirpedersen4331]

Pure genius - a 20 year old Yngwie Malmsteen recorded these solos in one day!

[@StardustPunisher]

Yea I can tell, they all sound the same

[@dominysynclair]

18 years old.

[@hallgeirpedersen4331]

@dominysynclair born in 1963

[@dominysynclair]

@@hallgeirpedersen4331 My bad, 19.

[@hallgeirpedersen4331]

@dominysynclair He was very young👍🏼

[@nc1969]

What I wouldn't give to see the expressions on the faces of the top LA guitarists when he first hit the clubs with Steeler. Little did they realize a force of nature was upon them. Not since EVH was such a shift in power made in rock guitar!

[@Yngsatchvai]

He played his 1st live gig and went back next night for another show and asked the owner " whos here" thinking some big name was in the house. Owner said they came to see you!! Thats all it took. Word of mouth worked!

[@g99se9]

You would have seen a bunch of dudes with their arms crossed in the back watching. I know this because I was one of them 😂

[@nc1969]

@@g99se9 arms crossed... crapping your pants... ready to faint

[@g99se9]

NCASO and selling the equipment

[@nc1969]

@@g99se9 ha, I was just messing around. Hopefully he inspired you to play more!

[@themelnibonean7017]

I bought this album back in the day, me and my friend, who were into guitars were like 'who is this guy he is amazing?' We listened to this album all day and night. The next day we went to see a Ted Nugent Concert and the opening act was Alcatrazz.

[@nicholasdorazio10]

Sooo awesomemememe!!!

[@OrignalElidest]

Thats gr8

[@mooseknuckle9662]

I saw that tour as well. I went up to the stage to talk to the kid who was doing soundcheck for the guitarist. I told him he had an amazing job being a roadie for the band. He said " Well I'm actually in the band man". It was Yngwie himself. Lol.

[@NoirHammer]

Back in the day when I bought the album, I wore out the paper circle in the middle because I used to place my finger right on it to slow down the record so I could try to hear the individual notes of the solos, especially the first Rising Force album. Man, I miss the 80s.

[@MrNachoplaza]

I really like how Yngwie's solos fit in on those 80's metal tunes

[@LucasRhoads]

Serenade solo is one best guitar solos that Yngwie ever done, really virtuous and soulfull and really beutifull, a masterpiece no doubt.

[@garyjones9228]

It's really good but I like I am a viking solo bit better what about I'll see the light tonight and krakatau are awesome and then there is Trilogy suite solo

[@Yngsatchvai]

@@garyjones9228 Overture 1383, Marching Out, Viking, Disciples OfHell, Icarus Dream Suite -> (beautiful) Soldier Without Faith= leaves your jaw on the damn floor! Crying - ( my fav instrumental ) Trilogy op5 , solo to Hold On and Dreaming!!!😲 Little Savage - bout midway😍 You Dont Remember - solo!!! 7th Sign, Forever One, My Own Enemy, Amberdawn. I could list forbdays!!

[@u.v.s.5583]

Definitely the outstanding song on this album.

[@alanwattstuffandmore6318]

When I first heard this album it totally blew my mind.

[@tonyflorez703]

40 years ago And still blows my mind like it did when i first heard it when it came out!

[@danielrios3945]

I still own this LP on vinyl in great condition, I wonder how it is worth! Malmsteen, before he became famous.

[@jfo3000]

I still have the vinyl. The pure ascending and then pure descending 3 note per string scale drills in the Hot on Your Heals solo were brutal at the time. Probably only DiMeola had done anything on that level, although he wouldn't have put THAT into a piece of music lol! Great alternate picking skill builder that i still do every day. I think they left that solo out of this video.

[@sbphillips177]

Id of loved to see Dimeolas face hearing him play that! What would he have said?..

[@cris_horizons]

i try to get the run and after of years trying i do it now clearly he does upward on the ascending plus downward on descending! and you know we are in the 2021 this is from 1983...

[@WahteverYouWant]

Wow could you please make a tutorial video for this excersize?

[@douglasnisbet1189]

I wish Yngwie would be more humble about his time in Steeler. Yes, he was the star of the band, but it was still his ticket to glory. Not to mention the album is just damn good.

[@dimkalas5206]

along with alcatrazz of course!!

[@sbphillips177]

Totally agree

[@johnp.johnson1541]

Steeler is medicore. The singing is bad. The rhythm guitar (Keel himself) is bad. The drumming is weak and stiff. Yngwie is like a Ferrari with its engine running while the rest of Steeler sound like rusty old Ford pick ups with holes in their mufflers.

[@RamonesFan201]

@@johnp.johnson1541 lmao 100%

[@rawnbadillo9886]

@@johnp.johnson1541 seriously dude...Ron Keel is one of the most underrated vocalists of his time. Listen to the song No Pain No Gain and shit your pants.

[@bah667]

Had this album when it came out. One of my favourite albums to this day.

[@christianberrian2159]

Looking back, you can really hear how yngwie influenced alot of the mid 80s LA guitarists with just this. I'm sure alot of the guys on the scene with Steeler grabbed a copy of this and wore it out.

[@RNicolasRuvalcaba]

Steeler (with Yngwie) played at a tiny club in Anaheim, CA on a week night when I was in High School. I remember being bummed cuz one of my buddies that doesn't even play guitar went to that gig..

[@julioocasioalbino551]

Insane guitar playing,by mr Malmsteen

[@fraterlucifer888]

in the 80s when I had this on a cassette(anybody remember trading tapes?) Id fast forward to the solos lol,Yngwie was full of fire and grace back then,he really didnt fit into this band but at the same time he made this band,not even a blip on the radar without Yngwie,

[@alessandroparodi8666]

Down to the wire...absolutely amazing!

[@theYuGiOhseasonzeroguy]

That one seriously rips. Might be my favorite

[@diegodutra7411]

Great! this is a first time hear Malmsteen in Steeler - very good!!

[@ChaoticRealm7771]

Right to the chops .Awesome compilation

[@JohnProph]

epic. The vibrato is just so nasty!

[@jamesha175]

the entire time yngwie was in that band he was asking himself; "WTF am i doing here?"

[@dominysynclair]

No doubt, but he was happy to be in America.

[@squiddad1528]

Still have this album on vinyl.

[@luisvillarreal5262]

And to think Yngwie called this music boring, according to Rik Fox, his band member. Yngwie had a great tone here.

[@dominysynclair]

He was right. Imagine them without Yngwie's contributions. That's what Yngwie heard when he showed up.

[@luisvillarreal5262]

@ You can say Yngwie spiced it up a bit. 😆

[@jamescarlucci9867]

isn't this the reason anyone would buy this cd, for the solos.

[@Sunedosa]

Yea i would rather push toothpicks under my fingernails than listen to Ron Keel "sing" , Jesus h fucking christ.

[@estanislaocuentasquispe7263]

Si y no, las voz del gran Ronie Keel le da mucha fuerza a este disco y también los demás instrumentistas. Las composiciones en sí son geniales.

[@andreas_XX]

How the hell can 5 ppl dislike his ground breaking solos?! Morons!

[@z1g]

Probably a jaded guitar player who used all 5 thumbs they have on one hand to hit the disslike.

[@carolmarable6825]

@@z1g or maybe someone who doesn't like one million notes per second. Gets a bit monotonous really. Personally I think Vinnie Moore plays this neoclassical shit better although I realize Yngwie started that craze.

[@RNicolasRuvalcaba]

They forgot "the" solo, at the end of No Way Out. That's what blew my mind back in the day..

[@toquemosguitarra]

Increíbles solos, inspirador!

[@sbphillips177]

Best work right here IMO..you can remember these..they're GREAT..can't stand that endless same thing over and over again now...melody vs shredding on and on..this isn't one trick pony here...

[@greggreg3520]

Yngwie est incroyable !!!

[@JoeyArmstrong2800]

All these solos were improvised in one day in the studio. Unreal.

[@Hologhoul]

40 years ago....it's astonishing. It still feels new to me in a way, to come out with such groundbreaking soloing. I'm sure he was already using sweeps back then, I wonder if he was also already using economy picking generally even then?

[@Hologhoul]

@@interestingthings8598 Yes he was obviously doing sweeps! Amusing how in recent years he denies doing them, I do think he's changed some of his note selections so he's going across strings less and using picking more, like the one at the end of FBTS. Maybe to try to be different or due to chubbier fingers now! I don't recall the guitar magazines right back in the old days identifying that he was using economy picking all the time for general purposes, i.e. when fast picking and changing strings. The tabs indicated the sweeps but did they note he was 'sweeping' just for general movement across strings back then? Maybe they did and I didn't realise it back then, but whenever they did big takes on economy picking, it was about Frank Gambale.

[@Hologhoul]

@@interestingthings8598 I think the guitar mags might have missed that he’s using same direction pick stroke when playing any line which crosses a string, that’s my point. They might have thought he was playing in a more traditional way, like John McLaughlin or some of the shredders of the time who might have used sweeps for arpeggios but not for the above scenarios. As I said, they always made a big point of Gambale’s ‘economy picking’ but for Malmsteen, his ‘sweep’ picking. If he was already using economy picking in the ‘general’ way (in addition to sweeps) then I think, as crazy as it sounds, he was actually underrated in that respect back then. Certainly none of me and my mates thought he was doing that. I’m curious, and will find out.

[@forelectricstring8833]

He says he does not sweep because is silly to give a name to pick strings one after another when doing an arpegio (like Schenker or everybody would do).

[@Hologhoul]

@@forelectricstring8833 I didn't see that one but I did hear him say he doesn't use sweeps at all. What he meant was, where some people would for example play an A-minor shape sweep all in that one position, he goes vertically and horizontally, so different note selection and with some cross-picking. I sense he might have changed some of his sweeps over the years to this method. Either way, he obviously uses sweeps and it's a logical word, he's just Yngwie being Yngwie there.

[@paulblackburn8566]

6:09 - Not sure what Ron Keel was going for there.

[@dylanbodenheimer3722]

Sounds like Rob Halford. So he could’ve gone for a Rob halford vibe, I guess

[@SubRosaUSA]

Even today, Yngwie still uses something off this album in his solo spot during his concerts. He does a part of the intro to "Hot On Your Heels" - most people never realize it.

[@dominysynclair]

The runs he wrote?

[@steveinmidtown]

Christ...Malmsteen is just frightening in these

[@takumif841]

2:04 now is the time

[@nc1969]

People make much of his speed and picking technique at the time, and understandably so... but his vibrato and bending are second to none. Absolutely the best in modern rock guitar

[@stickofbutter9733]

Now l cannot unhear Now Is The time lol.

[@shamusteakiawa]

I wish there were videos of yngwie playing guitar back when he was a young teenager. That be cool

[@connorharrison9954]

Sounds like he's practicing his speed playing while there just happens to be a song playing behind him.

[@MILLERTRANSCENDENT]

It hás a lot of melodies, awesome bending and insane vibrato

[@Halkema]

Yngwie.. masih muda 👍👍👍

[@nicholasdorazio10]

Cold day in hell solo is so lit!!!😁

[@josueguedes1899]

Just fantástic gênio original of The guitar

[@alexandergrayson2835]

This would of been a perfect album if the vocalist only had some vibrato in his singing. This is probably Yngwie's best guitar tone sound if not Alcatraz.

[@asherasator]

+Alexander Grayson That's because he's tuned to A=440Hz on this & Alcatrazz.

[@roguenation]

After watching hundreds of down-tuned metal bands live, I’ve come to the conclusion that tuning down has little correlation with heaviness. Bands tune down to B and even A , and I don’t get the sense that they’re so much heavier than when I was young, in which tuning down even half a step was unusual. Heaviness is a totality that includes playing style, musical material, band dynamics, and, in the case of recordings, production. I still play in standard tuning myself. I like the string tension and sonic definition. If standard tuning was good enough for these bad-asses, it’s good enough for me.

[@asherasator]

Various Things He tunes a half step down now A=415 Hz, as far as tone goes its a little lower, strings are slinkier.

[@chrisw5742]

@@roguenation I tune down to make the music meet my vocal range. I had thyroid cancer... this one I did in e flat though .... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHK1daukqrWUj7M I like Ron Keels acoustic version where he no longer sings like a kid in puberty. And dont expect Yngwie solos outta me. I had my neck fused c3-c7 front and back and I am lucky to even play slow stuff anymore.

[@chrisw5742]

This here I tuned down 7 half steps to A tuning to meet my voice. Doesnt make it ANY heavier. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqCYXoGjnN-Bgpo

[@OlleForsberg]

Damn this guy was too big for the bands he played with.

[@kevins.3825]

Nice I still have the album cover but not the vinyl...somebody stole it back in 85'. lol.

[@svenzia]

@fraterlucifer888 indeed.

[@seven_reparaciones_ovalle]

2:08 Intro del incio de Now Is The Time del album Odyssey

[@JamesFranklin-Y-jh5ms]

so, so sick; all of them

[@haliaeetus8221]

True. Next stop: Mathias Dieth's solos on Faceless World. Some of the absolute tastiest solo compositions in recorded history.

[@richiemclindon6342]

Черт, это божественно

[@astrofizzi12]

really great!! ANh the pics are nice as well, very rare! Were did u get them? Thanx!!

[@franksommers5354]

They are property of rik fox the bassist..

[@gerardomanzo4783]

Back in the 80s Steeler at the troubadour fucken loud and insane got ear bleed My ears still ringing hmm

[@darwo1293]

excelente, te las mandaste compadre :D

[@kennyken7278]

I actually like his Pre-solo career albums (solos) more because they didn't sound too repetitive, it's just raw in your face Rock arpeggios...His early 2000's and onwards effort sounded excruciatingly repetitive I actually stopped caring for his music for awhile

[@Zero-di9mz]

Kenny Ken lol you should learn what arpeggios mean before trying to critique music

[@nicholasdorazio10]

@@Zero-di9mz u tell em!!

[@isaacmateus2430]

Depois vem dizer q toca mal isso é mentira e inveja o cara toca demais mostro fanzão dele Yngwie Malmsteen sempre feraaaaa....

[@Christopher-s2h2o]

I think Yngwie was a good fit with Keel . Good stuff!

[@triada10j]

この時代スウィープ奏法(昔はブロークンコードと呼んでました)は用いて無いですね。その分ピッキングの美しさが際立つソロ揃い！カッコいいなあ〜

[@yjmken]

一応、動画内ですと2:12あたりはインギーによくあるスイープですね。あと、この動画ではカットされてしまっていますが、4曲目「Hot on Your Heels」のソロ出だし（動画で紹介されている部分の直前）はおなじみの3連スイープです。

[@triada10j]

@@yjmken そうなんですね!ありがとうございます コレを機にアルバム買ってみますね

[@Tnuk3]

Ron Keel is doin' country now...

[@joeylodes]

@fraterlucifer888 Yup, even started talking with a southern accent. What a joke!!! Ps ... Tracii Lords comment was perfect :)

[@emach07]

Jeez o Pete! Once his solos kick in it almost makes the rest of the music sound obsolete and/or primitive lmfao

[@elipse4594]

He always spoke bad of this band. But I love those flowy free-timey Yngwie solos over the meat-and-potato rock riffs

[@juandelhombre]

No Abduction??

[@headlesssoldier]

yngwie was way more precise before he had his accident. hes just burning on this disc!

[@Paulmatthew22]

No doubt,.His accident DEFINITELY had an affect on his later playing career

[@irishRocker1]

Paul Grady what accident? car crash or something i think i heard of before, was that it?

[@Paulmatthew22]

Yeah. He wrecked his Ferrari I think. Fucked up his right hand and wrist

[@blurginouliz]

Paul Grady I think It was a jaguar..

[@Paulmatthew22]

An expensive car no doubt. ; )

[@0sirisss]

niccceee

[@andrewbroughton65]

Groundbreaking in its day but very repetative patterns, nowdays 8 yr old kids can be seen playing it all over social media ..the bar has been raised & Shred has diversified to include many more styles & techniques ..the old phrygian mode & Diminished scale all day lost its lure..Matteo Mancuso is the Man right now.

[@blapblapblapblap]

Hot On Your Heels sounds like a Loudness solo. haha

[@nethbt]

Way waay ahead of his time..this was 1983 For fux sakes! when everyone was still playing Jimmy Page generic Pentatonics

[@Bigdaddiosa]

I don’t think Yngwie ever improved much from back then.. I think his tone on the first Alcatraz album was his best ever....just sayin

[@joes9545]

Bigdaddiosa His playing and composition improved over his first 3 solo albums. This sounds pretty basic compared to his solo material from Rising Force, Marching Out, and Trilogy. It’s still jaw dropping and beautiful but a bit more refined and complex in later albums.

[@nicholastotoro7721]

Was Ron Keel always that bad... ? Holy crap...

[@edstickler4879]

yeah...Yngwie was the shit! but I get a headache trying to keep up with that mind numbing speed after 10 minutes

[@altratronic]

They actually have a song called "Born to Rock." LOL, you can't make this stuff up.

[@svenzia]

hahahaha, you dont mean Keel "the right to rock"?(1989) They tried do copy Twisted Sister kind of i reckon. Marvelous video hahaha kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYitmGiGadhoj9k

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

He never was a great tapper, interesting that most of these solo's are littered with tapping

[@Sunedosa]

Define a great tapper from 1983 EVH excluded. Not a lot of them back then, you had people like Jeff Watson from Night Ranger who released their first album one year earlier. Personally i felt his 8 finger stuff gimmicky and unmusical, more visually impressive than anything and his alternate picking was far more interesting. Then you had Steve Lynch from Autograph, not a favorite but his tapping was pretty cool. YJM used it sparingly, octave taps here and there with occasional EVH esque parts thrown in. Not great as you say but it was never more than a minor part of his playing.

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

@@Sunedosa Vito bratta, Steve Vai, reb beach, Jake e Lee, the guy from Loudness, buckethead etc etc

[@Sunedosa]

@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 Reb Beach didn't record his first album until 3 years later in 86, Vito Bratta's White Lion 2 years later in 85, Vai's flex-able in january 84. "the guy from Loudness" Akira Takasaki was primarily an alternate picker, while his early Loudness work plus his first solo album Tusk of jaguar from 82 had some tapping it's not enough to call him a great tapper. And what the hell are you smoking, Buckethead ? He was 14 in 83 and didn't record his first album until NINE years later. Jake E Lee just no, maybe later but not in 83. Bark at the Moon from 82 had what could be tapping on ONE song "Waiting for darkness" other than that it's either alternate picking or legato. So no, you are way off here.

[@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504]

@@Sunedosa There is footage of a young buckethead tapping around this period. Also you don't know much about tapping if you think Jake only tapped on one song lol. Off the top of my head he does some in Forever (Journey To The Centre of Eternity), Rock n Roll Rebel and in his live solo. Also Randy Rhoads was doing some in this period as was John Sykes.

[@Sunedosa]

@@pleasepermitmetospeakohgre1504 There's no video of Buckethead from 83. We are talking about GREAT tappers as you stated in your original post, not people who tapped on a few songs here and there because there was plenty of people who did that. There's no tapping in Rock n rebel, not on the album or later live versions played by Jake himself with Red Dragon Cartel. Neither Sykes or Rhoads tapped more convincingly than YJM did. You introduced your own timeline here, stick to it or this is a non topic "around that time " doesn't fly if it's several years later.

[@alpacino92780]

Jesus...no wonder Yngwie thought this band was beneath him ..singer sucks, and, you can tell his solo were too repetitive and going nowhere where he envisioned himself at. But nevertheless it as a way to get his foot in the door and the rest is history as they say.

[@jimbeam-ru1my]

Whenever I hear young Yngwie I'm reminded how much better than Hendrix he was.

[@dadude7]

Downright god awful music no doubt, but the playing is fucking sensational. I remember a quote from Yngwie where he said the band backstage would practice their stage moves lo. What a laugh. They are terrible.

[@malmstring]

Lots of good bands had really cheesy coordinated moves: MSG, Kiss, Helix, Scorpions and so forth. While cheesy, it's not a measure for how good/bad a band is.

[@doughboy777]

Thanks for doing this. The solos are soooooooooooo good & the rest of the music is sooooooooooooooooo mediocre.

[@nikki78225]

True.

[@Barefoot67]

how boring, all sequenced runs

[@dominysynclair]

You're all sequenced runs.

[@jasonn9222]

All the solos sounded alike.

[@lyfeviv4490]

Not even God can help You, Jason. Your Father should have left You on the sheets.

[@nc1969]

Looks like it's back to Guns and Roses for you then...

[@cris_horizons]

yeah cause is his fingerprint ... its like you want mozart sounds like milly vannily

[@dominysynclair]

Dude, when you wrote this, it was 36 years on, you're just accustomed to Yngwie now. Imagine seeing him at the Troubadour a week after he arrived from Sweden.