got my Alcatrazz casette in the mail...

[dstroud]

No Parole From Rock and Roll - man Yngwie's tone is excellent on that! His clarity is incredible - can't wait for my cd copy to come in!

 

[Marshall Law]

that was a great record

 

[PeteLaramee]

Awesome. I had that on vinyl 25 years ago.

Hirosheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeemaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

[just42dave]

My alcatrazz cd is one of my prized possessions...Disd I spell that right?/

 

[eaeolian]

You listen to that record - and watch live vids from that era - and you understand why everyone thought Yngwie was going to be the next "guy everyone wants to be".

It never really panned out that way, though.

 

[dstroud]

My alcatrazz cd is one of my prized possessions...Disd I spell that right?/

yeah, I think it's Alcatrazz.

 

[jmgman69]

 

[dstroud]

You listen to that record - and watch live vids from that era - and you understand why everyone thought Yngwie was going to be the next "guy everyone wants to be".

It never really panned out that way, though.

yeah, I really really like his playing on this. Probably my favorite Yngwie material.

 

[Gainfreak]

I still have the vinyl in my moms basement along with some other gems lol

 

[dstroud]

I still have the vinyl in my moms basement along with some other gems lol

yeah, I might have the record in storage at my moms house too, I gotta do some digging when I go back just to see if it's there.

 

[Gainfreak]

I still have the vinyl in my moms basement along with some other gems lol

yeah, I might have the record in storage at my moms house too, I gotta do some digging when I go back just to see if it's there.

Me to lol!! Its probably warped to hell being that its been a damp basement for more then 20 years lol

 

[mentoneman]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!


graham bonnett RUINED those records. could you imagine dio or ray gillen instead?



"they CALLED IT TNT!!!!!" tha fire-BALL that SHAMED the SUUUUUUUUNNNN!!




could anyone sing more annoying??? was the guy passing a kidney stone during that song?
they should have had yoko ono singing harmonies. and william shatner doing a sing/speak interlude for one verse.

 

[dstroud]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!


graham bonnett RUINED those records. could you imagine dio or ray gillen instead?



"they CALLED IT TNT!!!!!" tha fire-BALL that SHAMED the SUUUUUUUUNNNN!!




could anyone sing more annoying??? was the guy passing a kidney stone during that song?
they should have had yoko ono singing harmonies. and william shatner doing a sing/speak interlude for one verse.

Yeah, Yngwie with Dio or Gillen would have been awesome!

 

[70strathead]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!

he was aweful live, could never sing in pitch yet he demanded that they play in standard tuning on the studio record. this one's called island in the sun.......our single! dork

A

 

[Gainfreak]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!

he was aweful live, could never sing in pitch yet he demanded that they play in standard tuning on the studio record. this one's called island in the sun.......our single! dork

A

Pat/Ant

I never got the whole Bonnet thing either lol. There was a point in time where you were young enough to be impressionable and doubted yourself and you just thought to yourself is it just me or is this guy fucking terrible? Then you really dig deep and say....nope, Its not just me..this guy sounds like he has been gargling on draino

 

[mentoneman]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!


graham bonnett RUINED those records. could you imagine dio or ray gillen instead?



"they CALLED IT TNT!!!!!" tha fire-BALL that SHAMED the SUUUUUUUUNNNN!!




could anyone sing more annoying??? was the guy passing a kidney stone during that song?
they should have had yoko ono singing harmonies. and william shatner doing a sing/speak interlude for one verse.

I'll never forget seeing them live in 1984, I waited all day to sit in the first row. At one point the entire crowd was chanting "Yngwie! Bonnet's gay!"

yngwie was my guitar idol for a few years. BIG FAN back then.

mark y. (pluto here on the forum) and i heard him for the first time in honolulu on 98 rock's metal shop radio program prior to the alcatrazz release. they played hot on your heels intro and it was life altering as a guitar player.
i remember writing down "ingvay ninesteen/steeler/shrapnel" after the host Cynthia Fox mentioned the gtr player's name and ran to the nearest record store the next day to order that one.

then graham bonnett world premiered the first alcatrazz album on that same radio show and instantly hated bonnett's vocals forever, but he said they were coming in concert and i thought i died and went to heaven. mark K. (kaleiwahea on the forum) and his band sacred rite opened for alcatrazz that show at the University of Hawaii ballroom and me and my friend andrew punched face to get front of stage right in front of yngwie. andrew pulled yngwie's cable out of his guitar and Y almost kicked him in the face, but pulled back at the last second and just wagged his finger with a scowl, replugged, and WAILED!!!

mark and yngwie hung out backstage before the show and i thought mark was the luckiest guy on the planet for that.

zachman and i caught yngwie in pomona valley auditorium the next year for the rising force debut tour, and that was another mind bending show. he was SO GOOD back then. the ultimate cocky guitar hero, and he destroyed anyone in that era with that band. jeff scott soto, the johanson brothers on keys and drums...crushing. i remember standing in line for the show before they opened the doors and hearing the band play sails of charon, and changes by yes. my favorite moment of that one was this FAT sweaty dude jumping on stage and before the security could get him he did a swan stage dive and he might as well have been named Moses because the crowd wanted no part of that flying hernia and parted clean so manboobs took a cold floor to the face!

then in true rock and roll cruelty, the crowd filled back in, OVER staples mctuckenstine. close to a minute later, as i was ebbing and flowing with the tienemann square brigade, i felt fatty's hand under my foot! ewwwwww! dude was a rug for a few hunderd headbangers...i felt kinda bad but he was still squirming down there so i knew he was breathing...


as the curtains were closing after the encores, yngwie's gold bracletted hand flung a white sweat towel at the crowd. I grabbed it, and as i was bringing it in, some guy jumped on my back to try and tug of war it from me, and zachman came from beind and punched him in the kidneys! i felt the jolt and heard the "ooFF!!" of air...
the guy begged me for a part of the towel so i let him rip off a corner with his teeth!

final yngwie story was seeing him open for dio on sacred heart?/marching out tour in honolulu, and the radio all week played up the vivian vs yngwie saga talking about bad blood between the two and who would win the "showdown". i called in and answered a rock question the day before the show and won a dio satin tour jacket
anders and jens johanson showed up to the jazz cellar that night (oahu's only rock club at the time) and sat in with the cover band for some deep purple "smoke on the water" and anders punched a hole in the dude's floor tom! we hung for a while then later, by request they carved their initials in my friend's beater surf wagon car with his keys...

the night of the concert, once again i rushed the stage and was ground zero for what would be yngwie's coup de grace.
he played like he REALLY wanted ol' viv to feel every nuance of the emasculation cause he wood-chipped that fretboard like a beaver on angel dust. the peruvian snorkel candy kicked in HARD for ole yng yng.
viv musta been clinging to the doorknob of his dressingroom like a chinese orphan one-pinkying a clothes line against katrina.

yngwie's playing overall and solo in particualr that night was filthy and stupid--blowing out snoot powder fueled flurries and he raced across the stage like a maniacal pied piper--the climax of his solo was him playing the trill eruption part with his teeth,
and just outright flipping the swedish bird at the lisping irishman.

the audience was stone cold SCREAMING for like a few minutes after his set, probably the most radical response i have ever seen for an opening band who most people had no clue about...i kept thinking this was probably how it was when halen opened for sabbath.....

and little vivsy came limping out tail between his legs that night, hung like a light switch. so anticlimactic like eating a massive steak dinner then someone offering you a piece of bologna.

then the ultimate icing on the cake...hanging out the next night at the jazz cellar, and yngwie and his lady stroll down the stairs...i autonomically run towards him grabbing a cocktail napkin and pen from a waitress on the way in slo motion and get promptly chested in the face outta nowhere by a 7 foot tall backwoodsman/biker of a bodyguard. but the mighty Yng calls him off and very cordially signs my napkin and ends up sitting with me and my friends at our table for an hour or so, and if you thought Digi was bad with Vai, nothing comes close to my blushing schoolgirl self chilling with the king of the guitar universe a that moment in time

i begged him to sit in with the cover band but he said he was to hammered. we talked about uli, and graham cracker bonnett (you think I dislike the guy....oh MYYY!!)
he left his sunglasses at the table when he left and i heroically returned them to him as he was heading down the streets of waikiki.


so in closing yeah i kinda liked him back then....

 

[70strathead]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!

he was aweful live, could never sing in pitch yet he demanded that they play in standard tuning on the studio record. this one's called island in the sun.......our single! dork

A

Pat/Ant

I never got the whole Bonnet thing either lol. There was a point in time where you were young enough to be impressionable and doubted yourself and you just thought to yourself is it just me or is this guy fucking terrible? Then you really dig deep and say....nope, Its not just me..this guy sounds like he has been gargling on draino

i never got it too. even when he was with rainbow and MSG, he just didn't fit image and personality wise. I have some bootlegs of Rainbow live on that tour with him, and he does at least sing in pitch in that period...probably because Ritchie's threats to ice him on the spot if he didn't sing proper..yngwie wrote the entire music too Alcatrazz in a two week period because they had ZERO songs, and yet they were secretly planning to fire YJM during the Japan tour and had already contacted Vai...so as luck would have it, Polydor signed Yngwie during that tour and that was his calling card.. gargle with draino!!

 

[70strathead]

dont forget hiroshima.....

EVAH!


graham bonnett RUINED those records. could you imagine dio or ray gillen instead?



"they CALLED IT TNT!!!!!" tha fire-BALL that SHAMED the SUUUUUUUUNNNN!!




could anyone sing more annoying??? was the guy passing a kidney stone during that song?
they should have had yoko ono singing harmonies. and william shatner doing a sing/speak interlude for one verse.

I'll never forget seeing them live in 1984, I waited all day to sit in the first row. At one point the entire crowd was chanting "Yngwie! Bonnet's gay!"

yngwie was my guitar idol for a few years. BIG FAN back then.

mark y. (pluto here on the forum) and i heard him for the first time in honolulu on 98 rock's metal shop radio program prior to the alcatrazz release. they played hot on your heels intro and it was life altering as a guitar player.
i remember writing down "ingvay ninesteen/steeler/shrapnel" after the host Cynthia Fox mentioned the gtr player's name and ran to the nearest record store the next day to order that one.

then graham bonnett world premiered the first alcatrazz album on that same radio show and instantly hated bonnett's vocals forever, but he said they were coming in concert and i thought i died and went to heaven. mark K. (kaleiwahea on the forum) and his band sacred rite opened for alcatrazz that show at the University of Hawaii ballroom and me and my friend andrew punched face to get front of stage right in front of yngwie. andrew pulled yngwie's cable out of his guitar and Y almost kicked him in the face, but pulled back at the last second and just wagged his finger with a scowl, replugged, and WAILED!!!

mark and yngwie hung out backstage before the show and i thought mark was the luckiest guy on the planet for that.

zachman and i caught yngwie in pomona valley auditorium the next year for the rising force debut tour, and that was another mind bending show. he was SO GOOD back then. the ultimate cocky guitar hero, and he destroyed anyone in that era with that band. jeff scott soto, the johanson brothers on keys and drums...crushing. i remember standing in line for the show before they opened the doors and hearing the band play sails of charon, and changes by yes. my favorite moment of that one was this FAT sweaty dude jumping on stage and before the security could get him he did a swan stage dive and he might as well have been named Moses because the crowd wanted no part of that flying hernia and parted clean so manboobs took a cold floor to the face!

then in true rock and roll cruelty, the crowd filled back in, OVER staples mctuckenstine. close to a minute later, as i was ebbing and flowing with the tienemann square brigade, i felt fatty's hand under my foot! ewwwwww! dude was a rug for a few hunderd headbangers...i felt kinda bad but he was still squirming down there so i knew he was breathing...


as the curtains were closing after the encores, yngwie's gold bracletted hand flung a white sweat towel at the crowd. I grabbed it, and as i was bringing it in, some guy jumped on my back to try and tug of war it from me, and zachman came from beind and punched him in the kidneys! i felt the jolt and heard the "ooFF!!" of air...
the guy begged me for a part of the towel so i let him rip off a corner with his teeth!

final yngwie story was seeing him open for dio on sacred heart?/marching out tour in honolulu, and the radio all week played up the vivian vs yngwie saga talking about bad blood between the two and who would win the "showdown". i called in and answered a rock question the day before the show and won a dio satin tour jacket
anders and jens johanson showed up to the jazz cellar that night (oahu's only rock club at the time) and sat in with the cover band for some deep purple "smoke on the water" and anders punched a hole in the dude's floor tom! we hung for a while then later, by request they carved their initials in my friend's beater surf wagon car with his keys...

the night of the concert, once again i rushed the stage and was ground zero for what would be yngwie's coup de grace.
he played like he REALLY wanted ol' viv to feel every nuance of the emasculation cause he wood-chipped that fretboard like a beaver on angel dust. the peruvian snorkel candy kicked in HARD for ole yng yng.
viv musta been clinging to the doorknob of his dressingroom like a chinese orphan one-pinkying a clothes line against katrina.

yngwie's playing overall and solo in particualr that night was filthy and stupid--blowing out snoot powder fueled flurries and he raced across the stage like a maniacal pied piper--the climax of his solo was him playing the trill eruption part with his teeth,
and just outright flipping the swedish bird at the lisping irishman.

the audience was stone cold SCREAMING for like a few minutes after his set, probably the most radical response i have ever seen for an opening band who most people had no clue about...i kept thinking this was probably how it was when halen opened for sabbath.....

and little vivsy came limping out tail between his legs that night, hung like a light switch. so anticlimactic like eating a massive steak dinner then someone offering you a piece of bologna.

then the ultimate icing on the cake...hanging out the next night at the jazz cellar, and yngwie and his lady stroll down the stairs...i autonomically run towards him grabbing a cocktail napkin and pen from a waitress on the way in slo motion and get promptly chested in the face outta nowhere by a 7 foot tall backwoodsman/biker of a bodyguard. but the mighty Yng calls him off and very cordially signs my napkin and ends up sitting with me and my friends at our table for an hour or so, and if you thought Digi was bad with Vai, nothing comes close to my blushing schoolgirl self chilling with the king of the guitar universe a that moment in time

i begged him to sit in with the cover band but he said he was to hammered. we talked about uli, and graham cracker bonnett (you think I dislike the guy....oh MYYY!!)
he left his sunglasses at the table when he left and i heroically returned them to him as he was heading down the streets of waikiki.


so in closing yeah i kinda liked him back then....

great story!! do u still have the satin DIO jacket??

 

[racer_j]

You listen to that record - and watch live vids from that era - and you understand why everyone thought Yngwie was going to be the next "guy everyone wants to be".

It never really panned out that way, though.

I think for a while back then everyone did. Practically everyone on Shrapnel was a Yngwie clone in one way or another.


J.

 

[eaeolian]

You listen to that record - and watch live vids from that era - and you understand why everyone thought Yngwie was going to be the next "guy everyone wants to be".

It never really panned out that way, though.

I think for a while back then everyone did. Practically everyone on Shrapnel was a Yngwie clone in one way or another.

Yeah, for a while, but he didn't have the staying power of a lot of the other '80s guys, and he was never the same after the car accident. I saw him twice before the wreck and about fifteen times after, and he's never again been as good as those first two times.