Hendrix, Van Halen and then Yngwie as far as totally innovative style inventors.
How do you figure? Love uli and Ritchie but they sure as shit didn't do what Yngwie did. Also, nobody owns harmonic minor, Bach and Paganini didn't have the rights to the notes, nobody does. The 3 string arpeggios and full six string arpeggios are all his own in context of the guitar as was the pedaltone Bach thing he does.J.S. Bach, Niccolo Paganini, Uli Jon Roth, and Ritchie Blackmore would like a word with you.
Yngwie refined a style that already existed.
Hendrix and EVH invented their styles.
How do you figure? Love uli and Ritchie but they sure as shit didn't do what Yngwie did. Also, nobody owns harmonic minor, Bach and Paganini didn't have the rights to the notes, nobody does. The 3 string arpeggios and full six string arpeggios are all his own in context of the guitar as was the pedaltone Bach thing he does.
But yeah all those guys are incredible and had their own thing going on. Don't forget the mad axeman Michael Schenker! He also had some 'minor" scale and classical inflections in his playing.
YJM deserves that spot, without question imo. He didn’t refine; he REDEFINED the classical rock genre. Just as Hendrix redefined blues/rock, and EVH redefined rock.I just don't see Yngwie on the same mountain as Hendrix and EVH. That's all. He didn't invent - he refined.
I purposely chose Roth over Schenker - but ya, Michael's a major fave of mine.
Use to play an extended Rock Bottom back in the day.
I agree, Yngwie is a game changer and with Eddie gone, the last of the great game changers. He's up there with Hendrix and EVH IMO...of course he's a metal guy so not and politically correct blues derived or drifted into adult contemporary enough for some, and frankly I respect the hell of him for that.How do you figure? Love uli and Ritchie but they sure as shit didn't do what Yngwie did. Also, nobody owns harmonic minor, Bach and Paganini didn't have the rights to the notes, nobody does. The 3 string arpeggios and full six string arpeggios are all his own in context of the guitar as was the pedaltone Bach thing he does.
But yeah all those guys are incredible and had their own thing going on. Don't forget the mad axeman Michael Schenker! He also had some 'minor" scale and classical inflections in his playing.
YJM deserves that spot, without question imo. He didn’t refine; he REDEFINED the classical rock genre. Just as Hendrix redefined blues/rock, and EVH redefined rock.
You can definitely measure the influence any of these players had, by the sheer numbers of guys that picked up the instrument and tried to copy that style. I’d say EVH #1, Hendrix #1a, then YJM #3. IMO.You can look at it two ways.
1. Yngwie deserves to be alongside Hendrix and EVH exactly for the reasons you mention.
2. Both Hendrix and EVH re-defined what people expected to hear out of an electric guitar.
The entire popular music world stopped when both Are You Experienced and VH1 dropped. You didn't
have to be a guitar player or even a rock music fan to realize that shit was from another planet.
With Yngwie it was mainly the rock guitar community who was hit off side the head - first with his technique,
then 'the funky scale', and finally the way he melded those with a almost Spinal Tap like Rock God vibe.
You can definitely measure the influence any of these players had, by the sheer numbers of guys that picked up the instrument and tried to copy that style. I’d say EVH #1, Hendrix #1a, then YJM #3. IMO.
He has 4 or 5 killer les pauls at his house.I think he used a LP to record all rhythm guitars on the Magnum Opus record.
I think he sold off a gold top a few years back, I think he was thinning the herd to finance a new Ferrari probably lol. Also sold the 24 fret strat he had I believeHe has 4 or 5 killer les pauls at his house.
I hung in until Odyssey, which I thought was a good album (perfect songs for that era) and some of his solosThe phrasing on his first handful of albums was creative and well thought out.
But after the orchestra disc, he devolved into a parody of himself - mindlessly blowing his load on everything he plays.