The sheer level of cocky self-confidence that Yngwie had -- just incredible. He knew he was the greatest thing alive on guitar at that point, and he was absolutely correct.
I watched this video 100's of times offline, and I just never get tired of it. Truly this song, in its raw state, is the epitome of live playing by this band.
I've been playing guitar since 1978. When I first heard Yngwie in 1983, it changed my playing overnight. As I was trained on the classical guitar, his neo-classical style was perfect for me!
Yeah totally agree. I think that time he was at his zenith. All downhill from there though in my opinion. Started getting repetitive and boring. That's why good guitarists need other good band members to write catchy and interesting songs, not self indulging non-stop noodling, which is what it became.
Exactly. I can find 20 cleaner, faster UA-cam guitarists in 5 minutes, but the same level performer? Playing with such wild stage acrobatics, but at the same time, a control on his fretboard? Almost impossible. Yngwie is an entertainer.
@@tomb8430 I will always like Eddie Van Halen better, and Yngwie is far from his prime now. But in this day, yes, he was petrifyingly good. Don’t like his own music, but he had some great numbers with Alcatrazz; “Suffer Me” is my favourite of his guitar solos.
This is a masterclass in showmanship and instage malfunction management. Guitar's out?, He just checks and calmly swaps guitars. Thanks for posting. Greetings from Italy.
The story is a bit deeper than that. If you notice how he hops in front of him at 1:48 and you can hear Graham make a sound of surprise haha. On one end you hear Yngwie was trying to take the show and he was a jerk. Stealing the spotlight from the frontman.. On the other hand, We hear someone unplugged his amp or something on purpose, and they have gotten into fist fights over it. Yngwie actually choked him because he thought he did it. Graham says he didn't but hey. Just spreading some info I came across in recent interviews n whatnot.
@@gustavomachado3488 Who cares if Al DI did that? Not comparable... Yngwie was still one of a kind back then, and Al Di Meola was nothing like Yngwie back then, he was still good tho.
2024 and I'm sitting here laughin. What a guy, even without his guitar, he steals the show. Steal it in a bad way. Doesn't really matter, when you are the king you are.
Yngwie has technical issues, then returns with an absolutely blazing guitar solo. I know that Bonnet has criticized Yngwie for being arrogant and overplaying, but I have several Alcatrazz bootlegs from this era, and Yngwie sounded great throughout. I trust the tapes over Bonnet's recollection.
I think Bonnet's beef was that Malmsteen tried to overtake as the frontman of the band. You can see that in the performances. Massive ego, although yes, spectacular playing - especially at this time of his career - which I like the most.
There's a bit of "technical issue" when Yngwie accidently rolled the volume knob to 0 at time 1:57. 😊 He knew it, that's why he quickly recovered. You can see it in the video, watch close. That's not a slight at all on his amazing talent. I've done the same thing a few times playing excited and live. It happens more readily with fast players on Strats, cause the volume knob sits right below the high E string.
He was definitely overplaying in his later days with Alcatrazz because he just wanted the stage to himself. And you can tell because during most of the filmed concerts with Alcatrazz, all the cameras were on him. When Vai joined, their songs got better and you could actually see the rest of the band, and I actually liked his sound combination with them better than Yngwie’s
Yngwie was from another plane of existence, and so was a tad arrogant. A friend at by him on a plane and Yngwie was a total ass-hat, and started speaking Swedish with his manager, so my friend started speaking in Swedish, then Yngwie switched to Italian, which my friend also speaks! Dude was not happy. I love that true story and it does not change my opinion of that man.
There’s a funny story about him and one of his bandmates ive read, he saw one of his bandmates working on music with some program on a laptop. Story goes yngwie told him he cant do it that way and then wasnt too happy when the mix actually sounded good. Im not condoning his behavior and have never really gone out of my way to read a lot of stuff about him, but at the same time he was pretty much breaking new ground and changing the guitar landscape and im sure he knew he was different (even if we all knew about ritchie and uli)
Wow, yngwie dominated this performance, im sure many thought at the time (before the performance) that its just some fill in guy trying to play like blackmore, but he is so much more here, amazing
Jejeje in this concert, It was Bonnet who disconected Yngwie's guitar He is laughing at his "travesura" ... Listen, the bass and keyboards are barely audible..😮
People are saying he’s not playing with any soul. Now I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t like his music and thinks he’s a childish arrogant little shit, but I have to disagree. When he plays those solos, he’s truly putting his own flesh and blood into every single note. So I have to give him credit there, and no doubt he’s inspired me big time.
Well,, He and a select few just know how to premeditate their notes so intuitive with both their touch technique and feel.And I haven't even addressed the part of the tone which proceeds from all of that. I mean the world is full of great guitar players in every genre, but to be able to hold and play that thing like its literately part of you body mind and soul is something most of us never acquire. Kinda like The Borg from Star Trek haha, a collective of all working as one.
I didn’t a tech lost his job. The problem he was having with the first guitar could just have been soldering getting broken in the output Jack when he smashed the guitar at the monitor.
He changed the guitar completely later So I think it wasn't problem with amp Probably cable connector was broken inside after a wide swing with guitar Now Yngwie uses radio-link and here is the reason why %)
@@NickMJR that's what i figured as well, he made that fast showy swing and the guitar cable and its connector were already in a very tightened position, so the cable connections inside the guitar were broken off by that tightened connector : ( then Yngvie returns at 1:46 and startles Bonnet from behind. He suddenly has a black strat instead of a cream-colored one. He made that guitar swing one time too many, lol.. He's very energetic and that's all part of the show, but you shouldn't have the cable that tight.. : ) I think Yngwie is very fond of his radio-link.
Bonnet sounds amazing, Shea doesn’t miss a note, Waldo is excellent on the keyboard solo, Uvena is like a metronome and Malmsteen just makes that guitar scream…Alcatrazz deserved better, with or without Yngwie.
I just read the following from an article on Bravewords, and I wonder if the following quoted story is from this performance? "I went off stage and I went off to the bus and he came off stage and grabbed me by the throat, started pressing in here (pointing to his throat), really really hard, trying to destroy my tonsils and whatever else. And I was like, 'what are you doing?' He said, 'you fucking bastard, you pull my fucking cord out of my guitar when I do my lead.' And I didn't at all. I didn't know. I actually walked off stage and had pulled it out by accident because the stage was dark and the spotlight was on him. And I'd gone off to the bus just to get some air, sort of thing. And he thought I did it on purpose, which I didn't. And so he tried to kill me, basically. And he could destroy my vocal cords and my tonsils, whatever. As I said, he's bigger than me. "And then our Yugoslavian, one of our Yugoslavian roadies, I remember him so well, bless him he died not so long ago. And he got hold of Yngwie, got hold of him by the head, put him under his arm like this and said, 'you fucking touch Graham one more time, I break your fucking neck.' Because he was stronger and bigger than him (Yngwie)."
Love how Yngwie returns after a technical failure with complete assurance that he's the hottest guitarist on the planet! That's the secret...the mark of a Pro is how well he recovers from (or sometimes just ignores) a mistake! As the old saying goes..."The show must go on!"
Sharon would never allow it…for one, Yngwie is quite a forceful personality and Sharon doesn’t want anyone who answers back And with respect to Ozzy, his voice isn’t up to the sort of neo-classical acrobatics Yngwie’s songs demand
No, that was different. Here, Yngwie bashes his guitar into that floor monitor, and it stops working. He had to get another guitar to continue the song.
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Yngwie always sounds good live--saw him open for Dio in 1990 new haven ct- dio had that rowan robinson guy😮 thought he sucked-- hard act to have a guitar player open like that--- i wishes it was vivian that would have been a great show
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The sheer level of cocky self-confidence that Yngwie had -- just incredible. He knew he was the greatest thing alive on guitar at that point, and he was absolutely correct.
In his own mind yes, however, there’s thousands of guitar players with soul and vibe than him. Nothing special, just a stiff robot nothing more.
@@river2352oh yea, cuz I’m sure Kurt Cobain has WAYY more soul than Yngwie… I’ll be waiting for that Trilogy Suite cover 😂🤡
@@thecrypticstench you’re right, he absolutely does!
Yngwie has so much soul
@@river2352no he doesn't. Druggie Cobain is overrated af
Yngwie belongs to the rare breed of complete naturally gifted guitarists ,complete flow .
Agree... loved him in the beginning, but he got a bit boring later. Just my feeling.
What a legendary performance,, Graham and Malmsteen immortalised themselves here
Indeed they have my friend =)
Honestly
I watched this video 100's of times offline, and I just never get tired of it. Truly this song, in its raw state, is the epitome of live playing by this band.
Not Bonnet 😬
@@tomb8430 ME. TOO.
I've been playing guitar since 1978. When I first heard Yngwie in 1983, it changed my playing overnight. As I was trained on the classical guitar, his neo-classical style was perfect for me!
The Alcatrazz period has some of Yngwie 's best playing.
His first and second solo album >
Fire and Ice >
Holy fucking shit it is my 30th time listening to that solo and i cannot get tired of it
1983 malmsteen is just so damn impressive. A lot of players today are technical, but what 20 year old does a performance like this nowadays?
Yeah totally agree. I think that time he was at his zenith. All downhill from there though in my opinion. Started getting repetitive and boring. That's why good guitarists need other good band members to write catchy and interesting songs, not self indulging non-stop noodling, which is what it became.
Exactly. I can find 20 cleaner, faster UA-cam guitarists in 5 minutes, but the same level performer? Playing with such wild stage acrobatics, but at the same time, a control on his fretboard? Almost impossible. Yngwie is an entertainer.
@@tomb8430 I will always like Eddie Van Halen better, and Yngwie is far from his prime now. But in this day, yes, he was petrifyingly good. Don’t like his own music, but he had some great numbers with Alcatrazz; “Suffer Me” is my favourite of his guitar solos.
@@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316 I tend to agree.
@@skyarubi And moss they am edited
This is a masterclass in showmanship and instage malfunction management. Guitar's out?, He just checks and calmly swaps guitars. Thanks for posting. Greetings from Italy.
The story is a bit deeper than that. If you notice how he hops in front of him at 1:48 and you can hear Graham make a sound of surprise haha. On one end you hear Yngwie was trying to take the show and he was a jerk. Stealing the spotlight from the frontman.. On the other hand, We hear someone unplugged his amp or something on purpose, and they have gotten into fist fights over it. Yngwie actually choked him because he thought he did it. Graham says he didn't but hey. Just spreading some info I came across in recent interviews n whatnot.
*Yngwie was the greatest 21 year old ever to play rock guitar.*
Al Di Meola recorded an album with Return to Forever when he was 19, mate.
@@gustavomachado3488 But was it rock guitar?
@@johnp.johnson1541 If it's good it's good
@@gustavomachado3488 Al has 5% the talent
@@gustavomachado3488 Who cares if Al DI did that? Not comparable... Yngwie was still one of a kind back then, and Al Di Meola was nothing like Yngwie back then, he was still good tho.
2024 and I'm sitting here laughin. What a guy, even without his guitar, he steals the show. Steal it in a bad way. Doesn't really matter, when you are the king you are.
Yngwie has technical issues, then returns with an absolutely blazing guitar solo. I know that Bonnet has criticized Yngwie for being arrogant and overplaying, but I have several Alcatrazz bootlegs from this era, and Yngwie sounded great throughout. I trust the tapes over Bonnet's recollection.
I think Bonnet's beef was that Malmsteen tried to overtake as the frontman of the band. You can see that in the performances. Massive ego, although yes, spectacular playing - especially at this time of his career - which I like the most.
@@tomb8430 totally.
There's a bit of "technical issue" when Yngwie accidently rolled the volume knob to 0 at time 1:57. 😊
He knew it, that's why he quickly recovered. You can see it in the video, watch close. That's not a slight at all on his amazing talent.
I've done the same thing a few times playing excited and live. It happens more readily with fast players on Strats, cause the volume knob sits right below the high E string.
He was definitely overplaying in his later days with Alcatrazz because he just wanted the stage to himself. And you can tell because during most of the filmed concerts with Alcatrazz, all the cameras were on him. When Vai joined, their songs got better and you could actually see the rest of the band, and I actually liked his sound combination with them better than Yngwie’s
Bonnet is right …but so what …Yngwie is a great player and fantastic showman!
I love Yngwies playing at this point in his career. Up to the second rising force album.
Totally agree.
Yngwie was from another plane of existence, and so was a tad arrogant. A friend at by him on a plane and Yngwie was a total ass-hat, and started speaking Swedish with his manager, so my friend started speaking in Swedish, then Yngwie switched to Italian, which my friend also speaks! Dude was not happy. I love that true story and it does not change my opinion of that man.
There’s a funny story about him and one of his bandmates ive read, he saw one of his bandmates working on music with some program on a laptop. Story goes yngwie told him he cant do it that way and then wasnt too happy when the mix actually sounded good.
Im not condoning his behavior and have never really gone out of my way to read a lot of stuff about him, but at the same time he was pretty much breaking new ground and changing the guitar landscape and im sure he knew he was different (even if we all knew about ritchie and uli)
These were magical times, and the main solo is wicked!
It is indeed. Those were the days when I like Malmsteen.
@tomb8430 - always like Yngwie, he's one of the last real guitar heroes. A true legend.
Saw them in San Francisco 1984--amazing
Love Graham + Yngwie, man, this song means so much to me, thank you, really.
Yeah I love this song too. Despite the malfunction, it showcases Graham's vocal abilities. Cheers bro.
Wow, yngwie dominated this performance, im sure many thought at the time (before the performance) that its just some fill in guy trying to play like blackmore, but he is so much more here, amazing
For me the best Malmsteen
and by the way, an amazing cool song
Thats a perfect rock god performance in everyway
Jejeje in this concert, It was Bonnet who disconected Yngwie's guitar
He is laughing at his "travesura" ... Listen, the bass and keyboards are barely audible..😮
3:07 Just complete control of the instrument.
lost in sound.
Yngwie is the king!
1:44 💀💀💀
Originally a Rainbow song off their Down to Earth album.
4:48 hitting the strings with the cord 😅
Young Malmsteen played so much better than the old one.
He practised all day, every day, back then. Now days, it’s clear he goes months in between.
People are saying he’s not playing with any soul. Now I’m saying this as someone who doesn’t like his music and thinks he’s a childish arrogant little shit, but I have to disagree. When he plays those solos, he’s truly putting his own flesh and blood into every single note. So I have to give him credit there, and no doubt he’s inspired me big time.
A coversong that is performed ten times better than the original song. Amazing.
Well,, He and a select few just know how to premeditate their notes so intuitive with both their touch technique and feel.And I haven't even addressed the part of the tone which proceeds from all of that. I mean the world is full of great guitar players in every genre, but to be able to hold and play that thing like its literately part of you body mind and soul is something most of us never acquire. Kinda like The Borg from Star Trek haha, a collective of all working as one.
thousands of people lost their mind that night, but one guy lost his guitar tech job
I didn’t a tech lost his job. The problem he was having with the first guitar could just have been soldering getting broken in the output Jack when he smashed the guitar at the monitor.
* i doubt a tech lost his job
I don't know but a have impresion that one of the best performance of the bands from the past its exacly happen in Japan
グンゼ肌着のグラハム・ボンネットのどら声懐かしい🤣
Inacreditável performance...... Malmsteen the king
My fauvorite performance by malmsteen Alcatraz bo net days
yngwie accidentally turning the amp off is the best part
graham getting scared when yngwie comes back at 1.47 is even better
@@hevirocknroll7118 well, if you’re gonna make an entrance then make it a grand one so it looks like part of the show!
He changed the guitar completely later
So I think it wasn't problem with amp
Probably cable connector was broken inside after a wide swing with guitar
Now Yngwie uses radio-link and here is the reason why %)
I think he accidentally switched to the middle position. He used to disconnect the middle pickup
@@NickMJR that's what i figured as well, he made that fast showy swing and the guitar cable and its connector were already in a very tightened position, so the cable connections inside the guitar were broken off by that tightened connector : ( then Yngvie returns at 1:46 and startles Bonnet from behind. He suddenly has a black strat instead of a cream-colored one. He made that guitar swing one time too many, lol.. He's very energetic and that's all part of the show, but you shouldn't have the cable that tight.. : ) I think Yngwie is very fond of his radio-link.
I think he was his best back in those days. He wasn’t trying too hard
2:55 How is he even doing this?!
Bonnet sounds amazing, Shea doesn’t miss a note, Waldo is excellent on the keyboard solo, Uvena is like a metronome and Malmsteen just makes that guitar scream…Alcatrazz deserved better, with or without Yngwie.
Totally agree. This era was just something else.
Perfect
Jesus Yngwie
A little malfunction in the beginning but its still a sweet performance.
I love this performance. And Graham's singing is just power.
Just made it that much unique.
Fucking Yngwie, lmao...pure magic....
Thank god for punk rock
Can’t believe Carl malmsteen’s kid is that good at guitar!
So glad yngwie had a solo career he needed to be a virtuoso at this point
Increíble
yngwie being yngwie
You may wonder why it took so long the guitar change. Well, it was the time Ingwie needed to execute the technicians
Only a young ingwie Would accidentally kick his guitar cord out like that
He actually blew the guitar out when he rubbed it against that monitor.
Most Legendary.
Bonnet the Boss
Yngwie broke the guitar with that slide.
Why isn't Yngwie on the same stage as Michael Angelo Batio, Paul Gilbert, Chris Impeliteri? They are also fast guitar players.
❤
Uma das maiores pérolas do rainbow é essa música, Graham bonnet sempre arrebentando.
Sim, a música é realmente uma jóia. Este desempenho é dinamite!
It's almost like he was mocking EVH at 3:14 haha.
Orgulho de conhecer essa banda fantástica
o Malmsteen tem presença...
Without a guiar, it sounds like Graham is singing at karaoke
I just read the following from an article on Bravewords, and I wonder if the following quoted story is from this performance?
"I went off stage and I went off to the bus and he came off stage and grabbed me by the throat, started pressing in here (pointing to his throat), really really hard, trying to destroy my tonsils and whatever else. And I was like, 'what are you doing?' He said, 'you fucking bastard, you pull my fucking cord out of my guitar when I do my lead.' And I didn't at all. I didn't know. I actually walked off stage and had pulled it out by accident because the stage was dark and the spotlight was on him. And I'd gone off to the bus just to get some air, sort of thing. And he thought I did it on purpose, which I didn't. And so he tried to kill me, basically. And he could destroy my vocal cords and my tonsils, whatever. As I said, he's bigger than me.
"And then our Yugoslavian, one of our Yugoslavian roadies, I remember him so well, bless him he died not so long ago. And he got hold of Yngwie, got hold of him by the head, put him under his arm like this and said, 'you fucking touch Graham one more time, I break your fucking neck.' Because he was stronger and bigger than him (Yngwie)."
Was wondering the same thing.
He must have been big as Yngwie is over 6ft 3in 😮
1:00-1:45 The best part of the song
Agree. Bonnet's voice is just awesome. One of the most under rated singers in history.
Они лучшие!❤
Yngwie blew Blackmore completely away.
I agree in this case he certainly did.
지렸다 ㄷㄷㄷ
Love how Yngwie returns after a technical failure with complete assurance that he's the hottest guitarist on the planet!
That's the secret...the mark of a Pro is how well he recovers from (or sometimes just ignores) a mistake!
As the old saying goes..."The show must go on!"
Totally agree. It is a most impressive comeback in the face of total failure. And that goes for the rest of the band as well. I love this clip.
Он лучший❤
Can you imagine if YM and Ozzy had made an album ?
Sharon would never allow it…for one, Yngwie is quite a forceful personality and Sharon doesn’t want anyone who answers back
And with respect to Ozzy, his voice isn’t up to the sort of neo-classical acrobatics Yngwie’s songs demand
0:58 woah
So clean sound. What stack he used?
solar powered when the sun goes down lol
Plexi cranked to hell
Plexi plutonium, I think he has a 100 amplifiers on stage haha. All cranked to the outer rims of our universe.
Crazy that he was skinny at one point
He didn't want no donuts back then
Man this beats van halen out of the ball park yngwie is the best guitarist ever
Yngwie always wants to be Ritchie and it's never wrong at all!
That’s crazy he’s wearing just a generic Fruit of The Loom undershirt. The 80s rule.
No one wants in Yngwie in a band. He is a star others remaind in shadow, thats why he established his own band.
I was there... saw this right in front of m
I'm a real rocker since I was a baby and this is real
3:23
its so weird to see him play something different...😅
I wonder if that was the cord incident that caused the choking of Grahm Bonnet
No, that was different. Here, Yngwie bashes his guitar into that floor monitor, and it stops working. He had to get another guitar to continue the song.
I'm probably the only guy who likes this dudes vocals and isn't paying attention to Yngwie lol.
You're not alone. I think Bonnet's voice is one of the most powerful and on note voices there is.
Is that the singer from Rainbow 🌈?
It is.
Cop enemy of terminator was vocalist here
That’s why they have a keyboard guy
2023 hadir
Per fortuna s’ode … [un grido nella Pampa … Penserà forse qualcuno] .. un … “Good night Tokyo” ! Altrimenti le informazioni a disposizione del fortunato [perche presente già sul pianeta all’epoca di questo evento liet/musical] .. ascoltatore .. rischierebbero rapidamente di eguagliare quelle a disposizione degli studiosi prima delle stele di Rosetta … 😮😅😊 .. Chi è questo singer ? Tal Bonnet ? Forse … Faraone sconosciuto … alla sfinge svedese, strato/leopardata .. Già dalla complicata & black story ..
El hijo no reconocido de Richie Blackmore¡!😂🎸
is it Rainbows song or Alcatrazs?
Rainbow - Off the Down to Earth Album.
Ah ahah Hey Ingwie what's happen ?😂😂😂😂
Song?
Yngwie always sounds good live--saw him open for Dio in 1990 new haven ct- dio had that rowan robinson guy😮 thought he sucked-- hard act to have a guitar player open like that--- i wishes it was vivian that would have been a great show
Yngve Malmsteen
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3:35 woah
Меня то тоже обнимите в месте😂❤
Gitare kabel e ketarik... 🤣🤣🤣
Blackmore's Son
If you pay close attention, you'll witness the most musical minute of early Yngwie's career.
yngwie screwed the guitar jack looool
David bowie is a good metal singer
Qualche stonatura di troppo … Ma va be ! Si capisce ! … Alcatraz … 😅
In my opinion Yngwie´s best playing, but Graham´s singing is too annoying, no intonation, no passion, no control...
Bear in mind it’s the end of the gig and Graham’s style of singing isn’t kind on the vocal chords 😂