Malmsteen playing some Schenker back in the day

[Findthetone1]

You can really hear the Blackmore influence in his early days IMO.

 

[controlled_voltage]

bonnet on the albums is passable
Live he is a trainwreck
this is yngwie in his prime and it started a revolution

 

[Tone Junkie]

Malmsteen is a technical monster. Speed clarity strat tone and Marshall’s. He raised the bar five notches.
Schenker master of feel and smooth leads with Lots if tasty licks.

Bonnet not my favorite but gets the job done.

Both awesome guitarists. Two different styles.

I still can’t believe yngwie had a near fatal car accident and had paralysis on his right side. Came back to produce them wrong.

Cool vid.

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

he was so fiery and clean back then! killer strat/marshall tones and good memories but man how wonderful would it have been to have replaced GB with Dio in that scenario!? the whole alcatrazz era was tolerating broadway ethel's awkward james dean/west side story/miami vice persona long enough to get to the next groundbreaking yngwie solo.

Lol true. Bonnet is so hard to take seriously. I don't know how he landed so many gigs apart from the fact that he said yes to next to no money?

 

[midnightlaundry]

Remembering back in the day, I always thought GB was out of place because he had short hair..
WTF? This shit won't do.
But if you listen to him, his pipes were strong!
But kids are fickle.. WTF did I know??

 

[Metalhex]

Shutup stupid, the men are talking..

Men don't say shutup stupid like a 5 year old ???

 

[mentoneman]

eerie similarity…?

 

[tonedog]

Check out his playing at the last half of the great UK song In The Dead of Night . He covers it well and his playing is amazing in this.

 

[guitarded_1]

For me personally, I think the album that song comes from (Assault Attack) is absolutely brilliant and contains not only some of Schenker's best playing, but I also think that Bonnet absolutely slays on the record. This live performance, sure Bonnet is sort of phoning it in a bit, but more importantly, what Yngwie is playing on this live tune is absolute garbage. I'm not just saying that because I'm a huge Schenker fan (though I dig early Yngwie as well), it's just abundantly clear that Yngwie is doing nothing to enhance the song, and is simply injecting as much flashy, creatively bankrupt wankery as possible.

 

[harddriver]

No one does Schenker better than Schenker....

I can add nothing to this statement........

 

[harddriver]

Yngwie's playing has it's place... but the I'll show you how superior my playing is by wanking every other measure within a song gets somewhat tiring to my ears.

Schenkers solo's fit the song structures better, they are more melodic, follow the tempo and flow with the songs.

What I just heard Ynqwie doing just sounds spastic and cluttered. Yeah, I know he sweep picks really fast and likes to emulate Paganini but sometimes it just doesn't fit.

 

[Mark Skid]

Top comment...
Lol, this song belongs to Michael, period. Yngwie completely lacks Schenker's feeling, his deep melodic style and unique tone. This is Yngwie's version, and honestly speaking, I absolutely don't like it. "Less is more" as they say, and this is the huge difference between Schenker and Malmsteen. I can listen to Michael all day long... I give up on Yngwie after one song.
- Freya2021

 

[Kapo_Polenton]

Yngwie's playing has it's place... but the I'll show you how superior my playing is by wanking every other measure within a song gets somewhat tiring to my ears.

Schenkers solo's fit the song structures better, they are more melodic, follow the tempo and flow with the songs.

What I just heard Ynqwie doing just sounds spastic and cluttered. Yeah, I know he sweep picks really fast and likes to emulate Paganini but sometimes it just doesn't fit.

He more or less played the middle lead note for note on the parts that matter so there is no doubt he respected Schenker's playing. I also felt he screwed around too much but I disagree with some of you guys saying there is no substance here. That outro solo is rippin.

 

[Techdeth]

This was cool . Yngwie is what made me step up my game as player . Him and Steve Vai were my go to as a kid . Every time I watch him and reminds me of those days

 

[nigelpkay]

Man tough crowd, I thought it was great. Yngwie was way more restrained than the comments were making out. Desert Song is one of my favourite tracks of that Schenker era. I saw him play a few years ago on that tour when all his MSG singers were with him. Graham Bonnet sounded amazing for his age. They all did actually Barden and McAuley too. Was an awesome show.

 

[Purpleibby]

Man tough crowd, I thought it was great. Yngwie was way more restrained than the comments were making out. Desert Song is one of my favourite tracks of that Schenker era. I saw him play a few years ago on that tour when all his MSG singers were with him. Graham Bonnet sounded amazing for his age. They all did actually Barden and McAuley too. Was an awesome show.

It was great and so is YJM, still the KING IMO.

 

[CarlF]

 

[* velcro-fly *]

Anybody "doing Schenker" aint Schenker...unless of course its Schenker

 

[paulyc]

Anybody else think it’s criminal that Schenker doesn’t have a sig Gibson V ?

 

[John 14:6]

Pretty cool, a bit too much pissing around and making it hard for Bonnet to sing (if you call it that lol - shout?) but the outro solo is blistering and super precise. I don't agree with the caption that he plays better than Michael ever could as Schenker is so unique that nobody does it him like him. He's also very melodic in a different way than Malmsteen.

Yngwie at his young and hungry best!