YJM live in 81' at 17 years old

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Shawn Lutz":3cpwr6xs said:
I first saw Yngwie just before the release of Marching out in a small venue in Detroit, St. Andrews Hall. He blew the roof off the place and was excellent live.

I just downloaded Kree Nakoire from Live Sentence from iTunes. I have thta album on vinyl and havent hear it is ages...great stuff.
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Same here. I saw him on that 1985 tour at Summerfest in Milwaukee. Its one of my fondest concert memories. We sat on a bench in the first row on the right side of the stage from noon until Yngwie came on that night and it was worth the wait. Talas opened up for Yngwie and Billy Sheehan was cool enough to strike some crazy rock star pose for us every time he saw us taking a picture.
 
Shawn Lutz":h7vdz8zp said:
70strathead":h7vdz8zp said:
Shawn Lutz":h7vdz8zp said:
I first saw Yngwie just before the release of Marching out in a small venue in Detroit, St. Andrews Hall. He blew the roof off the place and was excellent live.

I just downloaded Kree Nakoire from Live Sentence from iTunes. I have thta album on vinyl and havent hear it is ages...great stuff.
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me too. Shawn, have you heard Alcatrazz Live at the Country Club in L.A.? Its not an official release but you can find it on ebay a lot. Pro Soundboard recording and smoking! I have had this old video footage from 81' and some in 82' for about 15 years also some where's he's reheasring Rising Force songs with a drummer in what seems like a basement in Stockholm. Apparently someone let the cat out and started posting them on Youtube recently. Last time this happened Malmsteen's Management asked them too be removed , so thought i would share in case it does get removed. :lol: :LOL: I missed the 85' tour, but saw the trilogy tour which was kick ass.

Anthony
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Anthony, I didnt but on iTunes they had Alcatrazz Live from Hollywood, thnik maybe that is the same one?

They were actually playing live version of Evil Eye on Detroit radio. Both of my sisters were telling me I would like it but I never heard it. They couldn't remember the name but said it had no words and was all guitar lol. I didn't know who it was so I asked a bass player who was into the whole European Imports and he said it was Alcatrazz (same guy turned me ont Loudness). I went out and bought the Live Sentence album shortly after that, wore that sucker out. Then I saw the solos all on those cassette tapes Rock Performance Guitar Method songs where they teach you the solos and had a few tracks of Yngwe. I was into Rhoads and VH at the time and started learning Hiroshoma, Jet to Jet, Kree Nakoorie. I painfully tabbed then all out from verbal instruction and started learning them...man was my technique in for a suprise lol. When Rishing Force came out I was completley hooked on Yngeiw and wanting to play like that. I really only got into the 2 albums althought I liked some on Triology I still only listen to the first two.

I later got his earlier album with Steeler but hated it other than the solos :)
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hmmmmm. I know alacatrazz played Receda, Ca which was the Country Club gig but I don't recall a Hollywood gig...but Steeler definitely did a couple Hollywood gigs. Im thinking that is the Country Club because sometimes they title them differently, but dude you gotta grab it! they do desert song and a bunch of tunes that are not on live sentence. Thats so funny, i bought those cassette tapes too! HA! i think i may still have them actually. I actually bought a marantz cassette unit to slow down that stuff, but it didnt pitch correct, so it was a major pain in the ass to transcribe and play in the correct key. ah...those were the days, no tab books back then, and not that they were ever that accurate in fingering IMO. I hated the Steeler songs too. My first exposure to Yngwie was the hot on your heels intro solo. wayne findlay ( MSG guitarist/keyboardist) played it on a boom box in our wood shop classs in high school and i almost lost a finger using a router listeing to it! lol! I actually like some of the mid 90's stuff..Magnum Opus and Facing the Animal are pretty kick ass. sounds like we were in the same school of thought pre-yngwie, allthough not too much RR, EVH , U Roth and Blackmore were my big heros and still are. :thumbsup:
 
It is so interesting how he had his style down at that age, the vibrato is insane already! It tells me that I was right with my thoughts of training with low gain equipment to get that foundation down.
 
Cool for posting this Anthony. I like some YJM stuff....mainly the Alcatrazz/Rising Force albums. Interesting that he had his playing down at an early age, but never really went any further. It makes me think of all the players that died early in their careers. There is always speculation on what "so and so" might have done. Then seeing stuff like this makes me wonder.... :confused:
 
Greazygeo":1rqplzl3 said:
Cool for posting this Anthony. I like some YJM stuff....mainly the Alcatrazz/Rising Force albums. Interesting that he had his playing down at an early age, but never really went any further. It makes me think of all the players that died early in their careers. There is always speculation on what "so and so" might have done. Then seeing stuff like this makes me wonder.... :confused:
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i hear what your saying but you have to understand that the songs Yngwie was writing at that young age were really just long instrumentals and heavy scandanavian vibe .. i have some stuff where its like 15 minutes songs of just jamming through dark broken/inverted chord progressions. He's grown a hellava lot as an overall musician/arranger/composer with the vast catalogue he has. I doubt he could have written that entire concerto for electric guitar and orchestra or even thought about it at that age, chops wise on some stuff, maybe, but he expanded his technique as well for all we know he may have been born with that gift, but the guy played 8 -12 hours a day non stop. no short cuts as he would say I also think a lot of people dont really listen to right stuff he did after the first three rising force..there is a lot of melodic stuff and killer material that i think is brilliant. Im actually more interested in the musical arrangements and melodies than his solo's. unless he plays bluesy which i kinda dig more form him these daze.

one thing is for certain, he's been playing the NMV Marshalls turned up for a long ass time, its a wonder his ears are not shot to hell and has tinitus! these were fs-1 pickups by dimarzio at that time which have a darker sound. i kinda like them but damn there are really noisy.
 
the earth stopped the day i heard hot on your heels on 98 rock in honolulu.
we had pretty hip radio in hawaii. i ran to the import record shop and nabbed that sucker!
 
mentoneman":3byscmwf said:
the earth stopped the day i heard hot on your heels on 98 rock in honolulu.
we had pretty hip radio in hawaii. i ran to the import record shop and nabbed that sucker!
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LOL, I was pretty damn blown away when I heard the same thing on 88.1 WCWP , "The Animal" a local college radio stations that played metal on the weekends.

The had a call in contest which I won to see Alcatrazz at the Rio Theater and that was completely sick!!! I just sat there with my jaw dropped and I didnt even play guitar yet....
 
I may have hit the wine bottle a little too hard tonight... but is that a Danelectro neck I see on that Strat he's playing in the Spotlight Kid video??

JQ
 
Very cool :rock:

I think he is still trying to fit into those leather pants today
 
mentoneman":1ymevsqc said:
the earth stopped the day i heard hot on your heels on 98 rock in honolulu.
we had pretty hip radio in hawaii. i ran to the import record shop and nabbed that sucker!
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I hear you! That's how my world felt back in '85 when my bro brought home the first Rising Force album. I just sat there all night long, stunned... listening to it over and over. Not long afterwards, I nabbed both of his Alcatrazz albums (one being the Live one), and the Steeler album. Need to go out into the garage and dig those up. God only knows what condition they must be in by now...
 
BTW... great to see all of the Yngwie love here. He was and always will be my personal "guitar god". I may not listen as often as I used to. But NO ONE impacted me the way he did. Even when he was at his most obnoxious and brash, I still could not help but love the guy. I'm normally not drawn to people who are too full of themselves, but have always been able to overlook and dismiss this in Yngwie. This thread is making me think that I need to quit waffling about buying tix to see him in Denver in October. Was just down there for a Sade concert last week (LOL... love her music and the show was one of the best I've seen), but may have to drive the 550 miles again in Oct just to see the man.
 
I never heard the young Yngwie- I love how he played then! (Not very aware of his Music- once bought a cassette but it was all Viking Metal- didn't listen to it even all the way through ).


The tone ( even with poor audio on the vid ) is very nice and fluid and warm without too much gain and I like his phrasing MUCH better with longer notes and slower passages mixed in.

Vibrato and bends great- this virtuosity for a 17 year old may be unprecedented on electric guitar, and of course at that time there may have been no one at any age that could play this way.

I have more respect for him after hearing this-

Good thing I didn't hear it back then.

A true Virtuoso of the guitar and a pioneer of the Violin Tone.

Too bad he doesn't play this way now.

Amazing.
 
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