hawkeye17":fzy4nycz said:
I still remember the first time I heard this back in the 80's. The fill he plays at the 1:02 mark with the pinch harmonic after it...love it. One thing about Yngwie that doesn't get mentioned enough is that the dude has amazing vibrato. It's really wide and aggressive, very cool. That whole album is great but my favorite solo on it is the 2nd solo on "Little Savage". I can't think of a more relentlessly aggressive guitar solo than this one:
"Little Savage"
i was going to put that one down but something about the overall melody is just too static. i was so flabbergasted when rising force came out, me being a musically unsophisticated guitar player, thinking it was on a level with bach/paganini. since we were covering bach, i showed my college music appreciation class teacher icarus dream, and his comment was that yngwie had impressive facility on the guitar but harmonically wasn't in the same realm as bach or paganini.
i thought he was a fool for saying it then but now i sort of get it. i love it when he plays over more interesting chord changes that makes his improvisation seem more spontaneous. i am so sick of the same Em thing he does over and over and over. it's like eddie with the tapping from 5150 on, it became so predictable and it was the same pattern. bye bye creativity. hello phone it in for a paycheck.
PS
i wish he could remix/remaster/rerecord that album...keep the original guitar/vocal tracks, rerecord the bass/keys/drums, let a big name produce it.
that is a classic
pps
all this talk of yngwie made me dust off the acoustic and remember one of my favorite moments from the master, in song:
thats the best!..Uli actually has admitted and knows his voice isn't very popular. It's the Hendrix trip he was on. Klaus sang on sails of charon and a few others that Uli wrote because he knew he couldn't do them justice with his limited range. I actually like some of his vocal stuff on Firewind, its sorta spooky sounding and in a weird way compliments the music. His latest CD Under a Dark Sky, he doesnt sing at all. There is some beautiful and incredible chlallenging guitar solo's on that release and not that many people know about it. I still think Metamorphosis is some of the most gnarliest guitar playing i've ever heard. Playing the main violin parts note for note to Vivaldi's Four Season's is no easy feet! 
