Giving ying-yang some credit

[Hardtail]

Last week, we were exposed to this video:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tuLEmWccM&search=malmsteen%20amazing

 

It's hilarious! I love it.

 

But... gotta give the old guy some credit in this one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FYW1rhxEI&search=malmsteen%20amazing

[Pappy P]

Dang. That guy makes it look easy.

[Guitar55]

The first one is hilarious!!!!

[Pappy P]

I can't get that to load.

[Big Red 67]

Originally posted by Pappy P:

Dang. That guy makes it look easy.

It is funny how I like the sustained notes more then the flurry inbetween. Somehow the melody turns muddy in the fast passages for me.

[Tedster]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! HOLY SHIT I SPLURFED MY COFFEE!!!

 

I'm freakin' crying with laughter!! AAAGGGHHH...

[J. Robert Rennix]

Wow, talk about your generation gap ... from the title I assumed you meant these guys:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/USA.jpg

 

I guess that'd be a cold day in hell with this forum.

[Sleaze_Disease]

I like the second vid where he goes "If you do want to play along, I tune to E Flat"...yeah, I'll get right on that...

[LeftyBlues]

You know, I'd never actually heard this guy's "music" (relative term) much less seen him play. I guess it's a generational thing, but I don't really get it. Obviously incredibly talented, but not what I call music. Different strokes....fast for the sake of fast. Give me Chet Atkins, Eric Clapton, Albert King, you get the drift. Thanks for posting it, though.

[musicalhair]

The spoof one is great! Unfortunately some of it sounds like some of my riffs sometimes

 

But seriously, Yngwie's first two records were feakin' awesome, I really liked them a lot and still did the last time I heard them. Anything I hears since then sounded like a rehashing of those records. I heard a live track on WSOU some years ago and I couldn't beleive he bad this guy was ripping off Yngwie, so I waited around till they announced the band: it was Live Yngwie. If all his stuff sounds the same I don't know, but it doesn't weaken the first two records IMO.

[Hound Dog]

It really is amazing how relaxed his picking hand appears. He plays with a lot of treble in his tone. He doesn't appear to use his palm to mute, but it sounds like he does.

 

It does get repetetive and tired rather quickly. When I first heard "Black Star" on the Guitar Player soundpage many years ago, I was blown away. But even though I really liked him, I never bought a single album or cd of his. The rest seemed like more of the same.

 

I laughed till I cried watching the first video.

[Gifthorse]

Yngwie was an innovator when he came out, no question. He has his own style too. I don't care for his playing at all but I remember having to change my diaper when I heard him in 1982 or 83. I couldn't believe it. He definately broke new ground for rock guitar lead playing whether you like him or not.

 

I had no idea how to approach playing like that back then.

 

He really hasn't changed AT ALL since he started. Same ole stuff. It is fast, and difficult to do like he does it. It is attainable now easier than it was then because there are TONS more resources with the internet.

 

Alot of players have taken the shred way further, but Yngwie really paved the way for alot of them. I mean there were shredders before him, nobody like him though. I mean John Mcglaughlin is amazing too, but he isn't a heavy metal player.

 

I remember my buddy in highschool said it best one time. He was a great guitarist but he didn't like Yngwie's tone or songwriting. He said, "you ask someone who Yngwie is and they will say, 'what kind of cheese is that?'.--he died in 97 of a Heroin OD.

[Backnblack]

i can't say nutin. i like some of his old stuff and at least he doesn't dress like Uli Jon Roth...

the first vid made me almost spew.

[Guitarzan]

the above post was me, i was unaware of BNB being still logged in. i forgot i have competition for the PC.

[revolead]

Originally posted by musicalhair:

But seriously, Yngwie's first two records were feakin' awesome, I really liked them a lot and still did the last time I heard them. Anything I hears since then sounded like a rehashing of those records.

I'll agree with that statement. I own one Yngwie record, and trust me, it's enough for anyone. However, for some reason, people always manage to pick the worst songs to try him out on. There were actually some good songs on his first records, like "Black Star" and "The Queen is in Love," and miraculously, they both have slow(er) sections.

 

Nonetheless, it's perfectly understandable why he's not most people's cup of tea.

[Jedro]

Yngwie has always been an easy target. Certainly his personality lends towards that. In the very first interviews he would say things like "unlike other guitar players, I don't play things that are rubbish". Fairly inflammatory considering the times and who else was playing in those days. He did a good job of lightening up over the next few years.

 

The only knock on Yngwie, as far as his music goes, is that his playing hasn't changed in 25 years. He has tried some different approaches; I liked the more song oriented stuff he did-particularly Trilogy and Odyssey (w/Joe Lynn Turner-not bad, eh?). It was a good break to hear him lay back and let the vocal do some work.

 

Yngwie is Yngwie. Though many came after him, only Yngwie sounds like he does. Others have done the neo-classical style, but Yngwie comes off as being more authentic. Some of his melodies (yes, there are melodies!) on the first two albums sound as if they could have been from compositions from the baroque period.

 

So, I'm out of the closet! I like Yngwie's playing. I love his control over the guitar and his vibrato is fantastic.

 

Still, all you really need are the first two albums.

[King Kamehameha]

That first video....I was like, dude, WHAT ARE YOU PLAYING? That is like what happens when my housekeeper's son gets in my room. It's fast, but it's basically fast crap. The second one has some tune, but the thing is...there are TOO MANY NOTES. He tries to cram as much fast picking in there as he can, and while it's cool, it's not what I consider music.

[Jedro]

I believe the first one was a joke.

 

The "TOO MANY NOTES" remark reminds me of a scene in the movie Amadeus. That was a good one.

[Bluesape]

The spoof was funny. He really is brilliant, certainly on a par with Vai, Satch, Johnson..... but can you take hours of that? He needs to tour with DiMeola, and perhaps Buddy, to discover that "listenability" plays a role. Nobody connects with a crowd like Buddy.

[Big Red 67]

Originally posted by Sleaze_Disease:

I like the second vid where he goes "If you do want to play along, I tune to E Flat"...yeah, I'll get right on that...

I could not agree more. Even if you did play along wouldn't you play a counter part anyway?