let’s talk about yngwie

[bionicmark]

He hasn't been a "douche" for years & years....

When he got married & became a father.. The douche act went out the window..

Dude loves guitar , loves playing guitar & loves his fans.

 

[Metlupass2]

Whoa I found Yngwie with an ESP.

Here's a good read.

http://www.rockcellarmagazine.com/2015/ ... t-apology/

 

[sytharnia1560]

awesome technique but the usual criticism, get's pretty redundant. Interesting how ihs big influence is Blackmore, but Blackmore is light years ahead of this guy in terms of touch, feel, and musicianship and not even close.

No offense to Yngwie but the listener just gets worn out after a while.

well to be fair he isn't trying to copy richie and well no one on the planet sounds like blackmore so yeah pretty redundant comment really

 

[Mailman1971]

Guy bores the shit out of me.



Only song I liked was "Heaven tonight"
Saw him in concert back in 85 opening up for AC/DC.
He was getting cups tossed at him to quit and let AC/DC play.
Can only handle in small doses.

 

[jammin1]

I've always been a big fan of his. Seen him multiple times all the way back to the Alcatrazz days.
Thru thick and thin (pun intended) Yngwie will always be a monster player!

 

[Dave L]

I think people tend to forget the actual 1980s Yngwie, back then he didn´t really have the endless neoclassical shredding thing going on as much and mostly ripped monster solos in the context of hard rock songs. The Yngwie people think about is the 90s Yngwie.

 

[sytharnia1560]

He was getting cups tossed at him to quit and let AC/DC play.
Can only handle in small doses.

thats funny, the only time I have seen AC/DC I was bored shitless after 30mins and left....angus' constant extended soloing in every fucking song just grated on me this was around 1991

 

[ghosty999]

I recommend everyone to read this Authorized Auto Biography "Relentless" then straight after read the Unauthorised biography "As Above So Below". You could not get more different version of the same events. Really really really interesting reads.

Mid 90s onwards Yngwie bored me, it got to samey. Anything post Goran

 

[metalmaniac93]

I was a huge Yngwie fan up until and including Odyssey. Eclipse was good, but after that it is hit or miss for me. Seventh Sign and Facing the Animal were killer discs. His recent stuff is terrible IMO. Saw him in 85 on the Marching Out tour with Jeff Scott Soto and Talas opening in Detroit at St. Andrews Hall!!! Man, what a show!!!

 

[bish0p34]

I'm still a big fan of Yngwie. Especially the first 4 or 5 albums. His tone was amazing. He has has such a great feel with his vibrato, and bends. I think people often say he has no feel, when it's really that he sometimes has no taste and just shreds...but that's what we love him for.

I still like to put his stuff on and listen to the fookin fury.

 

[5150clone]

I haven't bought anything from him in awhile but love his playing. I remember seeing alcatrazz live on vhs and thinking how effertless he looked. Great comand over the instrument

 

[shredhead7]

I recommend everyone to read this Authorized Auto Biography "Relentless" then straight after read the Unauthorised biography "As Above So Below". You could not get more different version of the same events. Really really really interesting reads.

Mid 90s onwards Yngwie bored me, it got to samey. Anything post Goran

I finished Relentless in November, I thought about reading the unauthorized book. I wish Yngwie would have been a little more in depth on some of the actual story lines, and less on the, 'well, back than I spoke my mind, but he had it coming, but still, I just wanted to be left alone, but still he had it coming', bit...

I'm reading Van Halen Rising right now, which is also good.

 

[shredhead7]

I loved Yngwie back in the day. I started taking lessons in 87 and my teacher told me to go out and buy some Yngwie. I bought Trilogy, which was his newest release at the time, but it wasn't mind blowing...I was still in Dokken mode. A month later I met a kid in high school, whose guitar teacher burned him a mix tape that had Loudness Disillusion on side 1 and Alcatrazz Live on side 2. That blew me away! I then saw 'I'll see the light tonight' on MTV and bought Marching out shortly followed by Rising Force and a week later I found Steeler on vinyl. All of this happened within 4 months of each other, so it became all Yngwie all the time. For my birthday that year, I got the Live in 85 vhs. I lived and breathed that guy, needless to say. In June of 88 I went to my first concert, third row seats to see Yngwie on the Odyssey tour. Fucking mind blowing!

I don't listen to him much any longer, he just kept rehashing the same thing and now it's all about how fast he can play. But when I go back and listen to those early Alcatrazz recordings, he was untouchable. His timing and note choices were flawless; he was like the second coming of Django.

 

[IntenseJim]

Yngwie is a huge fan of us.

 

[controlled_voltage]

for all the dudes that don’t like the speed or scales.......