Love YJM but this is just a mess

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Beyond Black said:
His work with Alcatrazz and RF’s early releases is still unfuckingtouchable.
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I do get fatigued by his playing after this period but what stood out to me around then was the great tone he had. Just a great Strat, Marshall tone. Singing and raw at the same time. The articulation was off the charts. It really showed how good his technique was. So clean and precise.
 
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skoora said:
I do get fatigued by his playing after this period but what stood out to me around then was the great tone he had. Just a great Strat Marshall tone. Singing and raw at the same time. The articulation was off the charts. It really. Showed how good his technique was. So clean and precise.
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And some of the best vibrato to ever vibrate.
 
Shreddy Mercury said:
What the hell is that drummer doing in Fire and Ice? I skipped around to some songs, but his drumming sounds like garbage in at least that song. Long live the Maestro.
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Just wants to get paid! probably makes 300$ a show.
 
I really like his music overall and felt he really brought it even up until the early 2000's but this not paying a real band or singer and just playing shit instrumentals is killing his brand. That is my main point here, not to say he is a loser. I would never say that as he is in fact the "Maestro" and on my mount Rushmore of guitar players.
 
espquade said:
Problem with that is if he indeed decided to change his style and say start playing flamenco or jazz or something people would complain and say he abandoned what he was known for and bitch about that.

Perfect example would be when Gary Moore switched from his hard rock shred style to the blues and many didn't care for it nearly as much or look at when Lynch for a time started playing with less gain and trying to sound more like Jeff Beck and people complained that they didn't like it as much and wanted him to return to his original style.

Your damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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i was in the “why gary” camp when he bailed on the shred and went to AOR restaurant blues, but his Still Got The Blues album was his best seller at 3 million copies.

the lynch low gain thing didn’t work because he sucked trying to play that way—shredding with low gain— and i mean he seemed terribly lost. as much as i loved me some prime time Lynch his foundation is very USA flash/gimmick hollywood based. shades of EVH trying to jam with holdsworth and jeff berlin at the Roxy. GONG!
 
When he did a Masterlclass event down here at the venue national bands roll through, the non-guitar playing Yngwie fans didn’t realize it was specific to guitar and came thinking it was a show. I was aware of non-guitar playing Yngwie fans because 3 of my cousins are bigger Yngwie fans than any of my guitar buddies and none of them play (hell, 2 are women), but I was pretty surprised at how many people showed up to that event pissed off that it wasn’t an actual concert.

So while you got guys like Vai, Petrucci or Satch who have audiences full of guitar nerds who will spot every single sweep arpeggio not played as cleanly as the studio version, Yngwie’s got a mixed crowd and a portion of it doesn’t GAF how sloppy he is because he’s still playing fast and sounds like the dude they knew in the 80’s.

All that said, I couldn’t technically call myself an Yngwie fan as I only dig a few tunes, but I’ll go see him anytime he rolls through because it’s still Yngwie and if you can get within 10 feet of his wall of Marshalls while he’s playing, it’s a fucking experience every guitar player should experience at least once, for as long as one can. I lasted about 15 seconds.
 
He still got it IMHO. Playing's great ! The guy is 62, looks like a fit rock star (maybe ozempic but I don't care LOL) and is touring the world shredding like a madman !! What's not to like ? People are shitting on Zakk or Yngwie all the time and I really don't understand why. Tough crowd !! Certainly better than Tim Henson or random AI shit for my own taste. I'm old, beat me !!
 
mentoneman said:
i was in the “why gary” camp when he bailed on the shred and went to AOR restaurant blues, but his Still Got The Blues album was his best seller at 3 million copies.

the lynch low gain thing didn’t work because he sucked trying to play that way—shredding with low gain— and i mean he seemed terribly lost. as much as i loved me some prime time Lynch his foundation is very USA flash/gimmick hollywood based. shades of EVH trying to jam with holdsworth and jeff berlin at the Roxy. GONG!
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I prefer Gary's earlier stuff like Corridors of Power etc.. but still like the blues stuff and it was cool to hear him putting some fire in it here and there and I agree with your statement on George Lynch as it really didn't work and seemed like he was really struggling with it.
 
Fiesta Red said:
He should enlist Corey Feldman (or whichever Corey is still alive) to sing for him. That would be an improvement
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I sure could see him doing a project with the Fripps though. She would be an awesome vocalist for him. I’m kind of only half joking…😉
 
Ironically, my favorite album of his is not his tunes - it's his cover album Inspiration. He does "In the dead of night" by UK, and his solo at ~3:00 is just cream of the crop for me. Such gorgeous phrasing.
 
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