Early Yngwie ear orgasms...

[Kapo_Polenton]

Man, digging back and watching some of the pre car accident Yngwie shows is something else.. I still think he ripped pretty good up until Fire and Ice and then got sloppy but these early shows are some crazy clean off the hook ripping and improv. Well written songs help of course as do really good vocals but the total package is here including that cool nutcracker vest!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6MgB3jz9s0&t=1711s

 

[dstroud]

i really like Yngwie. those early days were killer, i like his current stuff too.

 

[JMP2203]

i dont think he got that sloopy after that, play loud full shred video from 99? have some amazing playing

 

[MisterBulbous]

Great stuff. I saw him in '84 with Talas opening. He was in full face-melter mode by then. Unforgettable experience.

 

[rottingcorpse]

Great stuff. I saw him in '84 with Talas opening. He was in full face-melter mode by then. Unforgettable experience.

That tour was freaking fantastic stuff!

The first time we heard Steeler "hot on your heels" was a total WTF moment. Literally dumbfounded.

 

[shredhead7]

Early Yngwie is incredible. His sense of melody in his improv is something that reminds me a lot of Django. He just had great timing and phrasing. It's sad that as his technique has gotten better, if you use BPM as a judge, his phrasing has been lost. He used to breath so much more, which gave the fast licks that much more tension.

 

[psychodave]

For someone who played fast, Yngwie still has a lot of feeling in his playing.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Early Yngwie is incredible. His sense of melody in his improv is something that reminds me a lot of Django. He just had great timing and phrasing. It's sad that as his technique has gotten better, if you use BPM as a judge, his phrasing has been lost. He used to breath so much more, which gave the fast licks that much more tension.

I think you nailed it there. He can still play but everything is so rushed and just seems thrown together and as fast as possible.(vs thought out ). I think he started to believe he had to live up to the speed that was associated to his name rather than the quality of the content which is what made him so amazing in the first place. I can't listen to him play live anymore.. all the classic stuff comes out twice as fast and in a smear of notes. He really doesn't like for there to be anything but harmonic minor runs.

 

[Shawn Lutz]

Rising Force and Marching Out albums with Jeff Scott Soto are my favorite Yngwie albums although he's really good on the Live Sentence w/ Alcatrazz. I saw him just before the release of Marching out (they played a couple tracks from it) in Detroit and it was jaw dropping experience to see him doing that stuff live in a smaller venue..he blew the roof off the place.

I concur that he is still great but tends to overplay too much these days and that is when his phrasing gets lost. I don't know if he's losing it or if he is just doing what he thinks his audience wants from him. I like his speed but for me speed always cooler is spurts with spaces to take a breath.

This show I have on VHS and its really good early stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLxv6d1ernA

 

[Wayniac3]

This is back when he had his best tones, and he had hunger & fire in his playing (prior to the accident I believe).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeZnJlqARZ8

 

[paulyc]

At least there’s no fingerless gloves and overuse of the damn phase 90 !!!

 

[legend71]

I saw him on this tour on Columbus but never knew he played at Legend Valley too. Pretty cool. I saw him open for Triumph.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I know the early tones are dimarzio FS-1 before flipping to the HS-3's but I have to ask, how the hell did he deal with the hum/hiss of those FS-1? I have an awesome ESP strat with nice chunky singles but holy hell, when i run it through OD's (especially my DoD 308 to YJM grey specs) it is hiss city. Sounds awesome though and the hum goes down a bit if i find the right spot away from the amp and speakers. Noise suppression doesn't seem to do much either..

 

[paulyc]

He had the whole pickup cavity shielded. The hum is the pickups, hiss is white noise from gain. Shielding the cavity will reduce the hum about 60%, hiss I’d buy an MXR Smart Gate or find an old Scholz half rack one and put it in the amp loop. There are those dummy coils guys mount in guitars to cancel the hum, but I have no experience with them.

 

[shredhead7]

I know the early tones are dimarzio FS-1 before flipping to the HS-3's but I have to ask, how the hell did he deal with the hum/hiss of those FS-1? I have an awesome ESP strat with nice chunky singles but holy hell, when i run it through OD's (especially my DoD 308 to YJM grey specs) it is hiss city. Sounds awesome though and the hum goes down a bit if i find the right spot away from the amp and speakers. Noise suppression doesn't seem to do much either..

I have an Eric Johnson strat with real single coils and the same thing happens to me. As long as I'm playing, you don't notice the hum/hiss and in a band situation, the band noise would probably be enough (though you could ride the volume knob).

I read Yngwie's book and I believe that he switched over to humbucking single coils between Steeler and Alcatrazz, so everything that we have as far as live performances is the HS-3 (though I might be wrong on the timing).

 

[paulyc]

I know the early tones are dimarzio FS-1 before flipping to the HS-3's but I have to ask, how the hell did he deal with the hum/hiss of those FS-1? I have an awesome ESP strat with nice chunky singles but holy hell, when i run it through OD's (especially my DoD 308 to YJM grey specs) it is hiss city. Sounds awesome though and the hum goes down a bit if i find the right spot away from the amp and speakers. Noise suppression doesn't seem to do much either..

I have an Eric Johnson strat with real single coils and the same thing happens to me. As long as I'm playing, you don't notice the hum/hiss and in a band situation, the band noise would probably be enough (though you could ride the volume knob).

I read Yngwie's book and I believe that he switched over to humbucking single coils between Steeler and Alcatrazz, so everything that we have as far as live performances is the HS-3 (though I might be wrong on the timing).

You're not wrong on HIS version of events, but go back in old interviews and the FS-1 shows up. Either he forgot or he wants to sell his newest pickups.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

I know the early tones are dimarzio FS-1 before flipping to the HS-3's but I have to ask, how the hell did he deal with the hum/hiss of those FS-1? I have an awesome ESP strat with nice chunky singles but holy hell, when i run it through OD's (especially my DoD 308 to YJM grey specs) it is hiss city. Sounds awesome though and the hum goes down a bit if i find the right spot away from the amp and speakers. Noise suppression doesn't seem to do much either..

I have an Eric Johnson strat with real single coils and the same thing happens to me. As long as I'm playing, you don't notice the hum/hiss and in a band situation, the band noise would probably be enough (though you could ride the volume knob).

I read Yngwie's book and I believe that he switched over to humbucking single coils between Steeler and Alcatrazz, so everything that we have as far as live performances is the HS-3 (though I might be wrong on the timing).

You're not wrong on HIS version of events, but go back in old interviews and the FS-1 shows up. Either he forgot or he wants to sell his newest pickups.

John Norum is another former (maybe still in some strats) FS-1 user and it was the same deal.. AMAZING tone and he was apparently stacking OD's into a Marshall for that. Again, his hiss/noise is far less than what I have going on. None of these early Marshalls had a loop for noise suppression, how the hell did they manage that one? I picked up one of the newer EHX noise suppressor pedals. It has outputs for the loop as well. Maybe I ought to try that into my JCM.