@@johnp.johnson1541 Likely Yng used to stuff a Shure 57 down the front of his spandex tights during his lead solos, to attract the underaged groupies in the front row he really like them minors.
Yugoslaians were known for liking to fist fight and cause havoc. My father is a yugoslavian he was in his 20s during the 80s, he was involved in a lot of fist fights back then.. It was pretty common in yugoslavia in discoclubs, concerts, celebrations or in Village Pubs / Taverns for fights or multiple fights to happen often. One of my Uncles almost went to the jail for 2 years because he smashed an big ashtray into a guys face and broke 4 of his teeths. One dude was checking out my Uncles Girlfiend in the Discoclub, my unlce noticed that and didnt like it, so he grabbed an Ashtray from the table and went tothis dude and rest is history...
When I think of Graham Bonnet its around 81 and MTV put the video All Night long in its rotation. It was bad ass. I wish we had another Rainbow album with Graham on vocals again. The whole album is killer. Eyes of the world rocks hard.
Graham is not the first musician to complain about Yngwie's violent behavior. ---------- Graham, my most favorite vocalist. Yngwie, my most favorite guitarist. Took me about 20 years to decide this.
It's so unfair the way Graham caught crap for not "looking rock and roll" when he was with Rainbow. He is such a beautiful singer. I would take him over Dio, Coverdale, Hughes, all those guys. Not just that but for being such a sweet guy too. Another rare thing in rock.
@@pastxmas I think Ritchie could have been exaggerating when he talked about band problems with Graham’s hair to be honest. From what I remember the denim crowd who thought he didn’t look like Ronnie were very quickly won over by Graham once he started singing….Graham would make jokes about it- ‘I looked like this SURFER’…Anyway, he couldn’t have looked as ridiculous as the poor guy who auditioned for Rainbow before him doing Mistreated at that castle. Ritchie said he and Cozy had to control their laughter…They were spluttering uncontrollably. This big Italian guy who had a face resembling Lou Ferigno in THE INCREDIBLE HULK who would sing the first line in a small whisper with a pitiful look on his face - ‘AVE- B-B-BIN MISS-TEATED’……lol
It's weird to say but I was bored at the one Yngwie concert I saw... He was just playing leads thorough every part of every song... This is when he had Joe Lynn Turner with his band. Such a great vocalist couldn't get a note in edgewise.
I don’t appreciate that either, I listen to music to be entertained not impressed, these prima Donbas who think it’s all about them, it’s not it’s about the songs
Yngwie tried to have his bodyguards beat me up at a club on Long Island in the mid 80's because I asked him what he thought of Bob Fripp, Sonny Sharrock and Django!
In short, I am a retired guitar tech. I've worked hundreds of gigs 1980 to 2005 over a 25 year span. I won't drop names, but worked with many a celebrity guitarist. That said, I ain't buying the "I accidently unplugged him, and didn't know I it" story. Mr Bonnett, all due respect, that simply does not happen. I've seen Yngwie's rig many times. Also was friends with "Fergie" RIP his tech, and I assure you this was no accident. So yeah' jus say'n.
it was no accident... and conveniently he leaves out how drunk out of his mind he was when they played live... watch the metallic live concert ... right before kree nakoree... Graham is babbling on and on and yngwie strums his guitar for him to stop. YJM was sober when he played. Granted.. Yngwie shouldn't have put his hands on him. at that point they hated one another. sad. they could have made another great record together.
Slightly of topic but food connected, I wonder if Bobby Rondinelli tried to kill someone attempting to steal the sandwiches. I wonder if he ever found that eternal sandwich.
@@MichaelBradley1967 Are people still doing this ‘doughnuts’ joke on poor Yngwie ? Wasn’t that Dimebag originally ? …The release the F***** fury joke wasn’t funny…on a plane flight someone poured ice cold water onto a sleeping Yngwie..that could give one a hell of a jolt.
Yngwie may be the biggest and most selfish freak in the rock business ever, his idol Ritchie's actually a nice guy once you know him person to person privately and realize that it's more of a front with him, a sane alter boy almost if you will compared to the crazy Swede who's actually weird for real... 🤯
@@ravenmad9225true he's very personal and can be an asshole to try to get to know him. But people have said once he's opened up he's a very funny nice guy. Shows you Ritchie is strange too.
JOE LYNN TURNER: 'There's No One More Self-Absorbed Than YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'. (copied from a music mag). That comes from a guy who had worked with Ritchie for years, so he should know.
I met Yngwie in 1997 and he was super cool to my friend and I. Signed all of my albums and posters. He thank us and said enjoy the show. I know a lot of people said he as a egomaniac and a jerk but he was cool that night.
There are celebrities who are very nice to fans but don't treat their bandmates & peers well. There are celebrities who treat peers fine, cordial to fans but lousy to their staff or underlings. It really can depend on what capacity you meet them without taking into account other variables such as mood or influence of "substances".
He's a top bloke. Can't say the same for Ritchie or Yngwie. Talented, yes. Arrogant? also yes. And , no I do not know them. But it all adds up, eventually.
I went to a Rising Force show at the Moore Theater in Seattle. The opening bands were fine. Yngwie came on and I walked out after a few songs because the sound man had him louder than everyone else in the band, and I'm pretty sure it was on Yngwie's orders. Never went to another of his shows.
Grahmn is right Yngwie disrespected his band so much playing out of tune , getting his cord pulled out mid song when he rubbed guitar agaist monitor. He ruined a great band because of his sick ego. Alcatrazz now seems like a happy functional band. I dont care how great he is if he played out of tune on stage his ass be fired and to play solos over verses is pathetic. Look what he did to his great keyboard player mats olzen. Didn't even say shit about his passing.
I have nothing against Graham but to diss his keyboard and bass player like that? Not cool at all. They seemed fine to me and I'm sure they worked hard. So they weren't 100-mph prog. shredders, big deal.
Yngwie’s a joke. Out of all the musicians I’ve met, he’s about the worst. He opened for Dio and I managed to get back stage and Yngwie came out first just being rude and cocky to everyone. Me and this biker were taking dibs on who was gonna take him down first.
Having worked with and met many musicians over a lifetime, and heard the daftest, real " Spinal Tap" stories and experienced a few myself, I believe every word. There's no point making it up. Real life is funnier than fiction.
Well, Yngwie saw Graham’s version of events and in 2022 gave an interview where he contradicts it…Yngwie claimed the incident happened when he didn’t have a guitar tech because his tech was accidentally injured 2 days before. He didn’t have a tech or a roadie…Yngwie said he started doing a Capella solo and he saw Graham walking behind his amps and his guitar went dead .Yngwie said -‘ I thought he must have stumbled on the speaker cable. I went back to put the speaker cable back in and lo and behold that’s what happens. My solo ends in a big crescendo like a spluttering noise…Then after that we were going to play Since You’ve Been Gone and as I started the riff the guitar goes dead AGAIN and I see him behind the amps again…So he pulled my cable out TWICE to f*** with me…I took my guitar and threw it on the ground.’ Yngwie then claimed - ‘Graham came on the stage and started SCREAMING at me going - YOU DESTROY EVERYTHING. YOU STEAL THE SHOW FROM ME and he pokes me in the stomach with his microphone stand . So I punch him out. 😮😢and I shout - f*** you ALL …I’m leaving,striding off stage to the tour bus. I took a plane the next morning, and on the plane wrote the lyrics of I am a Viking on a napkin.’ He didn’t mention anything about attacking Graham round the throat or someone wrestling him to protect Graham….Myself I don’t know what to believe…Possibly someone DID pull Yngwie’s cord behind his Marshalls deliberately , even twice but was he SURE it was Graham ? After all when Marshalls are stacked high as Yngwie’s always were then it can be difficult to see who is standing behind them. I don’t know.
If Graham had unplugged his speaker cabinet, his solo would have ended in abrupt silence. Not a big crescendo like a spluttering noise. So take that into consideration if you want to believe one over the other. The one with the obvious, embellishment, shall we say?, is probably unreliable.
@@walterevans2118 My amps give you a crescendo of splutter only if you unplug the guitar from the input. Otherwise they just go silent. Maybe a little click, but yes. Malmsteen is probably the one who made stuff up.
Yngwie has always left me cold and uninspired. He lacks originality. He's copped Blackmore's compositional style and image and Schenker's leads, and he behaves like a major rock star. He is not a major anything. He probably gets his Ferraris on HP. Nothing wrong with that, but his arrogance is embarrassing. It's fitting that he was replaced by Steve Vai, a far classier talent. Thomas Rocklin got it right. Yngwie's his own biggest fan, and he really thought Purple were going to ask him to join them in '94. Glad they didn't.
Back in 84 my buddy and I met the arrogant malmsteen after a show. It was a dive club called the Agora Ballroom in Hartford, CT. We didn't have tickets, so we hung outside, back stage and listened to the show. During the encore we walked to the side door where the bands enter and exit. A plain airport shuttle Lincoln Continental pulled up and a quintessential sleazy road manager got out and glared and me and my buddy. He opened the trunk and took a 45 1911 colt out of a brief case, slid it inside his waistband and said, Dont do anything stupid, I`ll shoot your asses. We glared back at him and said, F**k off/ try it a**hole! Just then, the side door flung open and Malmsteen came out, full of himself, only to see us, haha and looked at us like we were peasants. The sleaze ball manager with his hand on the pistol said, Dont do anything stupid. We gave him the pissed face. Malmsteen hopped down the steps, I extended my hand to shake his, and he looked at me like I was a peon and gave me a half limpy handshake like he was royalty and how dare this peasant reach out his hand to me. Then he twisted and slithered his lanky body into the back seat of the car. My buddy and I said, What an arrogant bleep sucker! Oh yeah, we yelled F**k you f***** to the road manager when he glared at us before he got into the drivers seat. haha Then I said to my buddy, I never touched a colder, more clammy hand in my life. It felt like a cold slimy dead fish. A year later I saw him open for Ted Nugent on his Penetrator tour at an old small former movie theater in New Haven, CT. He was still his same arrogant self. Like with all players like himself, after 15 mins its like, YAWN! It all begins to sound the same! Can I hear something musical. maybe a decent song with a melody? haha Nugent blew him off the stage. When Nugent was doing Great White Buffalo wood splinters was falling down from the high ceiling and the upper balcony. haha Brian Howe`s vocals were awesome that night.
@@a.y.7738 Major. Because of it, I never bought any of his music. I only heard of him because a buddy of mine popped a cassette in my car while we were cruisin. Don`t treat potential fans like bleep. ha
Handshakes are important. Back when I was a Democrat, I once went to the airport to greet General Wesley Clark, who was running for president at the time. I shook his hand. He looked like a four foot tall cadaver, devoid of any life energy beyond what it took to walk. Thin and frail, transparent skin, and a handshake, again, very corpse-like. I could hardly believe the difference between the image I observed through the media filter, and the reality I experienced that day.
On the other hand, most current interviews with others of this generation you just see so much comical hair dye (including, of course, Yngwie himself). I like Graham's approach better.
@@walfernu all night long; through the eyes of the world, dancer (Michael Schenker group), only one woman. Those are just off the top of my head. While they may not necessarily be written by GB, it’s him singing - and it’s memorable for that reason.
@@wilsonbrownofficial2828 That's what I meant. All his great hits were actually written by the Bee Gees, Schenker, Malmsteen or Blackmore. I love his solo career but his own songs are not memorable although I really like Night Games off the Line Up album. Maybe you don't quite like Malmsteen but he had memorable songs like Jet to Jet, Hiroshima mon Amour, Black Star, Far Beyond the Sun, Trilogy, Heaven Tonight, Rising Force, Save Our Love and the list goes on and all written by him. I Think we have different points of view and that's great but the fact is that Malmsteen has done more for the music world than Bonnet will ever do. Still he is an awesome singer!!
in music you have musicians and entertainers, and you cant be both, but the two worlds,so musicians like yngwie are trying to be entertainers, but he has limited appeal, you see it with dave lee roth and evh they collided too.
Had to fire him at that point, to the detriment of the band. No other option. That’s just the way the ball bounces when there’s a ball hog on the team 🤷♂️
yngwie is a massive AH . you hear story's you never know but i know someone who was on tour with him in a different band and he said he was horrible man that treated every one around him like shit ,the guy who told me is real nice guy too and never says anything bad about any one, but he did about ying . btw dont like bully's even when i was one ,mr malms would be bleeding from his ears if id have seen him do that to the much smaller bonnet.
Eddie Van Halen was the sameway. Yeah, now that he is dead, everybody overlooks that part of him. He was always a miserable little curmudgeon with zero social skills. It became worse when he became a miserable dry drunk along with his brother, then ramped up 10 times worse when he became a crack/meth head. After that phase, he toned down his miserable attitude.
Graham was the horrible man. Yngwie was a young guy, 20, who, a much older Bonnett, 37, basically a no-talent, had ben exploiting and disrespecting. Yngwie is well-known as being a good guy. Perhaps you are thinking of terrible-tempered Eddie Van Halen.
I had no idea that ALCATRAZZ was Graham's band for him to fire Yngwie ? I thought it was the other way round, and that Yngwie sacked Graham because Yngwie's image was too clean cut for a metal band, also that he didn't grow his hair !
Graham sang great while Yngwie was ripping leads through the verses, though! At least yngwie plays in harmony with what he is doing, Mistreated on Inspiration with Soto he does something like that at the end. When he did mistreated with Glenn live , Glenn was pushing Yngwie to solo even more , totally awesome, Yngwie full shred over a song Glenn wrote and sang with Blackmore
I thought bonnet wrote pretty crap music and the only thing that made it listenable at the time was malmsteens playing . I thought bonnets vocal ability was pretty dam average too . I can understand how malmsteen playing through his vocals would drive him nuts though . Malmsteen went on to greatness but to be honest these days he is just a sloppy wall of noise and most the time his guitar is out of tune and either he don’t know or he just don’t care lol
Well, you compared God's gift to an omelet, of course, Ying Yang has a sick ego, but c'mon, he's a genius and this Bonet guy better run aside when magic's happening, Graham is just another Ok singer but nothing more and then that grandfather meowing, compare how Yngwie looks now still Rockin' but that grandpa should be taken to a nursing home ( sorry, I'm usually more polite but that meowing got on my nerves ) Yngwie Rocks!!!
Roger Glover came thru his Bedroom door with an AXE during the recording of FIREBALL in 1971 ....lol ...Ian Gillan was nearly destroyed by an irate Ritchie though...With a PLATE of SPAGHETTI ......lol
@@walterevans2118 frank zappa was injured by a fan in his leg meanwhile playing on stage...nobody has dared to hurt blackmore meanwhile he was playing on stage.
@@metacosmos Yes, didn’t that incident happen to poor Frank at the Rainbow Theatre in London ?…Ritchie broke a stage managers jaw in Austria by kicking him I think ? In 1977 ..This guy was being cruel to a fan I think…They had to get Ritchie out of a cell to do a gig….Ritchie was kind of like a ‘doomsday machine’ in those days really…lol ….Smashing cameras at the 1974 California Jam,,,,Igniting a riot at Wembley arena in 1980,,,Baptising cameramen onstage in Birmingham in 1993 ,,,bopping Ian Gillan in the face with plates of Spaghetti ,,,,fighting David Coverdale on the floor at the feet of a casually indifferent Brian May and Roger Taylor sipping cocktails…..Ahhh HALCYON days eh ?….lol
@@walterevans2118 those are petty incidents compared with rolling stones and led zep mischieves, but nobody has ever tried to kill blackmore aiming a gun towards him.
I love Graham and I think Yngwie is a dick, but I've heard how Graham story has evolved over the years.... The rest of Alcatrazz doesn't back up Graham's story either.
Great guitarist for sure ,but it's the same s*** every show. Saw him on the G3 tour and while it was good it wasn't the high point of the night by far.
Accident? I don't think so... Besides, try to kill him? I think what happened was Graham did unplug his guitar, Yngwie got pissed and jumped on Graham, but a real attempt to kill him? Come on, Graham...
The band went into the toilet and disbanded without Yngwie, everyone knows that fact! Hard Rock fans didn't want to listen to the poppy crap Steve wrote with Graham Bonnet, David Lee or White Snake. Sorry, facts are facts! Steve is great guy and great at his brand of music but he's No Ritchie Blackmore, MSG, EVH, YJM or Adrian Vandenberg. Joe Stump is a much heavier, darker version of Ritchie and Yngwie with a touch of Michael Schenker and Gary Moore. A perfect fit for the new Alcatrazz picking up where Yngwie left off and that is exactly what Alcatrazz fans want to hear. Graham was given a second Golden opportunity to make Heavy Metal History. He didn't make history, he fell flat on his face. For him to say "I was looking for a hot keyboard player and sharp base player, which I didn't find, these guys will have to do" is disgraceful! Especially after everything Jimmy did for him over the years. What a fucking Dick! Without Jimmy, Gary and Jan, Graham wouldn't have had anything to sing over and Yngwie wouldn't have had anything to solo over, that's why it's called a band. You owe these men a public apology Graham.
Well it folded pretty quickly after that…Vai moved on quickly to other things like David Lee Roth and Whitesnake before going solo with passion and warfare in 1990.
@@walterevans2118 Yeah, I wasn't taking a jab at Steve, only Graham. Steve's solo instrumental music is amazing. He gave Graham and Dave exactly what they wanted. Poppy, showtune-ish garbage that really went nowhere because hard rock fans don't listen to much pop.
Somebody on another post was suggesting that on this issue I was sounding biased on Yngwie's side & against Graham Bonnet side. Well, I try to be fair and even handed....Whatever did or didn't happen in 1984 there is one criticism I would have to make of Yngwie (Sorry Yng, please don't hurt me 😖...lol) ...I think it was kind of silly of Yngwie in such a short time to veer from hero worshiping Graham (phone call disbelief) to trying to ASSASSINATE Graham only months later 😳🥺(whether a left hook or a throttle)... That was really SILLY of Yngwie from the point of view of being a newcomer in the business.....Kind of like 'kill the guy with the ball' in American Football (& damn the referees)😕🙄...When people make the cliche point about never meeting your heroes they meant 'Never meet your heroes in case they don't come up to your expectations.' ...NOT -'Never meet your heroes in case you end up trying to THROTTLE them' ......lol .......To make an error between these two perspectives is as daft & dangerous as mistaking the two different 'Meet and Greet' advertisment statements - 'Yngwie Malmsteen makes a very good meal FOR visiting journalists' with the statement -'Yngwie Malmsteen makes a very good meal OF visiting journalists' .....lol
I understand everyone gets older. But for god's sake Graham don't button your shirt all the way up, don't wear a square pattern shirt, and don't keep your hair so tidy. You are a rock legend, you have a responsibility.
All Graham needs to know, is that when his name is mentioned not only does everyone know who his is, .. but everyone's agrees about his legendary place in Rock. Nowadays, if you drop the name "Malmsteen" most folks think you are referring to a Wood Stove or Pellet heater. 😊
@@oldnikix Shaddap. Nobody gives a rat's ass about a megalomaniac who hogs the stage while he puts his band over to one side and plays lead guitar over everything while standing in front of 900 Marshalls. He's a clown. David Gilmour from Pink Floyd plays one note with feel better than Turdvay.
Went to a YM concert it was one of the worst, his amps all over the other instruments and endless boring solos, plus vocals were provided between Yngwie himself and the keyboard player and neither know how to sing, complete waste of time and money never went again to see this clown again, his last good record cane out in 1995 and is just good nothing special
Yngwie also played over Joe Lynn Turners singing...which isnt a cool thing to do. Its ignorant. It might have been in 73' or 74' ...??..but I had a rock magazine where young talented musicians sent in their picture and bio and the magazine contained a featured section for this in the back...towards the end prior to adds. In the back section was Yngwie Malmstein ...age 19..dressed in black holding a guitar . Below a short paragraph red: Hi..my name is Yngwie Malmstein and i am a fan of Ritchie Blackmore. I hope to become successful in music one day. It read something to that affect. Probably a few years later he was in Alcatraz idk?...but i recall him sending in his picture and write up along with other unknowns...
😂Steve Vai was average and limited on guitar when replacing Yngwie on Alcatrazz. Yngwie's ego hurt his career, but he is a revolutionary along with E.D.V and Hendrix. Lick the wounds. Because he is not American! If it were, they wouldn't be throwing stones. Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert and the guitar community were freaked out when he showed up! He took the US guitar world by storm.
Steve definitely didnt have the picking technique that yngwie had but he was far from “average and limited” you dont leave berklee and end up in frank zappas band by being “average and limited”. If you wanna talk about limited its yngwie and that becomes real apparent in his music at a certain point once you look at his stuff post odyssey. I dont know what this bullshit about him being a “revolutionary” like hendrix is because yngwie isnt a innovator, it’s obvious he picked up a lot of shit from uli roth, di meola, schenker, and blackmore, he just happens to play faster
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That Yugoslavian Roadie is a 100% Hero
Mandatory military training of at least 2 years.
Likely, that Yugo was unzippering Graham's pants every night and servicing Graham's microphone.
@@johnp.johnson1541 Likely Yng used to stuff a Shure 57 down the front of his spandex tights during his lead solos, to attract the underaged groupies in the front row he really like them minors.
Yugoslaians were known for liking to fist fight and cause havoc. My father is a yugoslavian he was in his 20s during the 80s, he was involved in a lot of fist fights back then.. It was pretty common in yugoslavia in discoclubs, concerts, celebrations or in Village Pubs / Taverns for fights or multiple fights to happen often. One of my Uncles almost went to the jail for 2 years because he smashed an big ashtray into a guys face and broke 4 of his teeths. One dude was checking out my Uncles Girlfiend in the Discoclub, my unlce noticed that and didnt like it, so he grabbed an Ashtray from the table and went tothis dude and rest is history...
When I think of Graham Bonnet its around 81 and MTV put the video All Night long in its rotation. It was bad ass. I wish we had another Rainbow album with Graham on vocals again. The whole album is killer. Eyes of the world rocks hard.
My Fav Rainbow album. all songs are good!
Graham is not the first musician to complain about Yngwie's violent behavior. ---------- Graham, my most favorite vocalist. Yngwie, my most favorite guitarist. Took me about 20 years to decide this.
It's so unfair the way Graham caught crap for not "looking rock and roll" when he was with Rainbow. He is such a beautiful singer. I would take him over Dio, Coverdale, Hughes, all those guys. Not just that but for being such a sweet guy too. Another rare thing in rock.
@@pastxmas I think Ritchie could have been exaggerating when he talked about band problems with Graham’s hair to be honest. From what I remember the denim crowd who thought he didn’t look like Ronnie were very quickly won over by Graham once he started singing….Graham would make jokes about it- ‘I looked like this SURFER’…Anyway, he couldn’t have looked as ridiculous as the poor guy who auditioned for Rainbow before him doing Mistreated at that castle. Ritchie said he and Cozy had to control their laughter…They were spluttering uncontrollably. This big Italian guy who had a face resembling Lou Ferigno in THE INCREDIBLE HULK who would sing the first line in a small whisper with a pitiful look on his face - ‘AVE- B-B-BIN MISS-TEATED’……lol
@@pastxmas you'd seriously take Bonnet over Dio's Rainbow, Rising, Long Live Rock and Roll?!!?!?
I hope that crack you are smoking is legal!
You know who really knows about his violent behavior? His wife. (just saying)
It's weird to say but I was bored at the one Yngwie concert I saw... He was just playing leads thorough every part of every song... This is when he had Joe Lynn Turner with his band. Such a great vocalist couldn't get a note in edgewise.
I don’t appreciate that either, I listen to music to be entertained not impressed, these prima Donbas who think it’s all about them, it’s not it’s about the songs
Yngwie tried to have his bodyguards beat me up at a club on Long Island in the mid 80's because I asked him what he thought of Bob Fripp, Sonny Sharrock and Django!
Uhh…What?!
@@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316 True story!
In short, I am a retired guitar tech. I've worked hundreds of gigs 1980 to 2005 over a 25 year span. I won't drop names, but worked with many a celebrity guitarist.
That said, I ain't buying the "I accidently unplugged him, and didn't know I it" story.
Mr Bonnett, all due respect, that simply does not happen. I've seen Yngwie's rig many times. Also was friends with "Fergie" RIP his tech, and I assure you this was no accident.
So yeah' jus say'n.
it was no accident... and conveniently he leaves out how drunk out of his mind he was when they played live... watch
the metallic live concert ... right before kree nakoree... Graham is babbling on and on and yngwie strums his guitar for him to stop. YJM was sober when he played. Granted.. Yngwie shouldn't have put his hands on him. at that point they hated one another. sad. they could have made another great record together.
@nc1969 in his book Relentless Yng says he wrote "I am a Viking" on the plane ride back from kicking Graham's ass
Graham is the man! Best damn voice.
If Bonnet says it was an accident that's good enough for me. He's got no reason to lie about it all these years later.
To be fair, Graham stole Yngwie's doughnuts before he unleashed the fury on him.
But as a solo act, Yngwie got ALL the donuts, unfortunately.
Slightly of topic but food connected, I wonder if Bobby Rondinelli tried to kill someone attempting to steal the sandwiches. I wonder if he ever found that eternal sandwich.
😂😂😂
@@MichaelBradley1967 Are people still doing this ‘doughnuts’ joke on poor Yngwie ? Wasn’t that Dimebag originally ? …The release the F***** fury joke wasn’t funny…on a plane flight someone poured ice cold water onto a sleeping Yngwie..that could give one a hell of a jolt.
@@walterevans2118 Hey now, I didn't start this thread, I'm only enjoying it 🤣😂
Yngwie may be the biggest and most selfish freak in the rock business ever, his idol Ritchie's actually a nice guy once you know him person to person privately and realize that it's more of a front with him, a sane alter boy almost if you will compared to the crazy Swede who's actually weird for real... 🤯
Maybe true about Ritchie,but not many people would get the opportunity to get to know him like that.
@@ravenmad9225true he's very personal and can be an asshole to try to get to know him. But people have said once he's opened up he's a very funny nice guy. Shows you Ritchie is strange too.
JOE LYNN TURNER: 'There's No One More Self-Absorbed Than YNGWIE MALMSTEEN'. (copied from a music mag). That comes from a guy who had worked with Ritchie for years, so he should know.
Yah, yah, shure, I transcribe the Paganini and play it at light speed on my leetle axe, and then I choke the sheet out of my lead singer!
Vinnie Vincent say's " Hold my beer."
Yngwie was probably out of his
gourd on coke when he did that.
Very common at that time. Not
many are honest about that.
I love Graham Bonnet but he should say after all these years he unplugged Ynwie's guitar on purpose, I don't see who can believe it was an accident...
Exactly 😂😂😂
I thought he already told this story and he unplugged on purpose in the previous version, which would have hurt the attention seeker for sure.
I met Yngwie in 1997 and he was super cool to my friend and I. Signed all of my albums and posters. He thank us and said enjoy the show. I know a lot of people said he as a egomaniac and a jerk but he was cool that night.
Nice to hear a contrasting experience, glad you guys have fond memories of him. Thanks for sharing 👍
Hope he grew up.
I think he was alcoholic and probably did tons of cocaine. in the 80s,...which makes you a big egomaniac and very self centered asshole.
There are celebrities who are very nice to fans but don't treat their bandmates & peers well.
There are celebrities who treat peers fine, cordial to fans but lousy to their staff or underlings.
It really can depend on what capacity you meet them without taking into account other variables such as mood or influence of "substances".
Graham always keeps it real. Not a big time Charlie like a lot of them.
He's a top bloke. Can't say the same for Ritchie or Yngwie. Talented, yes. Arrogant? also yes. And , no I do not know them. But it all adds up, eventually.
I went to a Rising Force show at the Moore Theater in Seattle. The opening bands were fine. Yngwie came on and I walked out after a few songs because the sound man had him louder than everyone else in the band, and I'm pretty sure it was on Yngwie's orders. Never went to another of his shows.
*ghey move* by you.
Yngwie was a perfectionist at that time and had a bad ego problem , I think hes a nicer person now than back then for sure.
That happens as we get older. And thank God for that!
Yngwie is a painter....
@@totallyunmemorable Yeah 👍 even AXL Rose 🌹 has mellowed in his old age 😄👍
@@davidvanberkel5599 Yeah 👍 I always laugh at the Yngwie clones on UA-cam they never get his tone right 👍 there's only 1 Yngwie no imitations accepted
@@Cayres9 yes the yngwie way😉👌
Grahmn is right
Yngwie disrespected his band so much playing out of tune , getting his cord pulled out mid song when he rubbed guitar agaist monitor. He ruined a great band because of his sick ego. Alcatrazz now seems like a happy functional band. I dont care how great he is if he played out of tune on stage his ass be fired and to play solos over verses is pathetic. Look what he did to his great keyboard player mats olzen. Didn't even say shit about his passing.
Bullshit.
A professional musician of his calibre.
"Accidentally"
unplugged a lead?
No chance.😂
I have nothing against Graham but to diss his keyboard and bass player like that? Not cool at all. They seemed fine to me and I'm sure they worked hard. So they weren't 100-mph prog. shredders, big deal.
Yngwie’s a joke. Out of all the musicians I’ve met, he’s about the worst. He opened for Dio and I managed to get back stage and Yngwie came out first just being rude and cocky to everyone. Me and this biker were taking dibs on who was gonna take him down first.
I would have paid to see that...LMAO !!!
Having worked with and met many musicians over a lifetime, and heard the daftest, real " Spinal Tap" stories and experienced a few myself, I believe every word. There's no point making it up. Real life is funnier than fiction.
Well, Yngwie saw Graham’s version of events and in 2022 gave an interview where he contradicts it…Yngwie claimed the incident happened when he didn’t have a guitar tech because his tech was accidentally injured 2 days before. He didn’t have a tech or a roadie…Yngwie said he started doing a Capella solo and he saw Graham walking behind his amps and his guitar went dead .Yngwie said -‘ I thought he must have stumbled on the speaker cable. I went back to put the speaker cable back in and lo and behold that’s what happens. My solo ends in a big crescendo like a spluttering noise…Then after that we were going to play Since You’ve Been Gone and as I started the riff the guitar goes dead AGAIN and I see him behind the amps again…So he pulled my cable out TWICE to f*** with me…I took my guitar and threw it on the ground.’ Yngwie then claimed - ‘Graham came on the stage and started SCREAMING at me going - YOU DESTROY EVERYTHING. YOU STEAL THE SHOW FROM ME and he pokes me in the stomach with his microphone stand . So I punch him out. 😮😢and I shout - f*** you ALL …I’m leaving,striding off stage to the tour bus. I took a plane the next morning, and on the plane wrote the lyrics of I am a Viking on a napkin.’ He didn’t mention anything about attacking Graham round the throat or someone wrestling him to protect Graham….Myself I don’t know what to believe…Possibly someone DID pull Yngwie’s cord behind his Marshalls deliberately , even twice but was he SURE it was Graham ? After all when Marshalls are stacked high as Yngwie’s always were then it can be difficult to see who is standing behind them. I don’t know.
But as Jimmy Cagney said in later years about his run -ins with studio boss Jack Warner -‘But we are all older now and more understanding’ .
If Graham had unplugged his speaker cabinet, his solo would have ended in abrupt silence. Not a big crescendo like a spluttering noise. So take that into consideration if you want to believe one over the other. The one with the obvious, embellishment, shall we say?, is probably unreliable.
@@onusgumboot5565 well as it’s being pulled out it can splutter but then it goes silent once it’s out. Yes…so you are saying Yngwie had it wrong ?
@@walterevans2118 My amps give you a crescendo of splutter only if you unplug the guitar from the input. Otherwise they just go silent. Maybe a little click, but yes. Malmsteen is probably the one who made stuff up.
@@walterevans2118 On one interview with Graham,he said he "may" have tripped over the cord but didn't feel it. Ok whatever you say Graham.
Yngwie has always left me cold and uninspired. He lacks originality. He's copped Blackmore's compositional style and image and Schenker's leads, and he behaves like a major rock star. He is not a major anything. He probably gets his Ferraris on HP. Nothing wrong with that, but his arrogance is embarrassing. It's fitting that he was replaced by Steve Vai, a far classier talent. Thomas Rocklin got it right. Yngwie's his own biggest fan, and he really thought Purple were going to ask him to join them in '94. Glad they didn't.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Lol 😂😂😂
I don’t get the time frame. So did he get back together with him to form Alcatrazz ??
Back in 84 my buddy and I met the arrogant malmsteen after a show. It was a dive club called the Agora Ballroom in Hartford, CT. We didn't have tickets, so we hung outside, back stage and listened to the show. During the encore we walked to the side door where the bands enter and exit. A plain airport shuttle Lincoln Continental pulled up and a quintessential sleazy road manager got out and glared and me and my buddy. He opened the trunk and took a 45 1911 colt out of a brief case, slid it inside his waistband and said, Dont do anything stupid, I`ll shoot your asses. We glared back at him and said, F**k off/ try it a**hole! Just then, the side door flung open and Malmsteen came out, full of himself, only to see us, haha and looked at us like we were peasants. The sleaze ball manager with his hand on the pistol said, Dont do anything stupid. We gave him the pissed face. Malmsteen hopped down the steps, I extended my hand to shake his, and he looked at me like I was a peon and gave me a half limpy handshake like he was royalty and how dare this peasant reach out his hand to me. Then he twisted and slithered his lanky body into the back seat of the car. My buddy and I said, What an arrogant bleep sucker! Oh yeah, we yelled F**k you f***** to the road manager when he glared at us before he got into the drivers seat. haha Then I said to my buddy, I never touched a colder, more clammy hand in my life. It felt like a cold slimy dead fish. A year later I saw him open for Ted Nugent on his Penetrator tour at an old small former movie theater in New Haven, CT. He was still his same arrogant self. Like with all players like himself, after 15 mins its like, YAWN! It all begins to sound the same! Can I hear something musical. maybe a decent song with a melody? haha Nugent blew him off the stage. When Nugent was doing Great White Buffalo wood splinters was falling down from the high ceiling and the upper balcony. haha Brian Howe`s vocals were awesome that night.
I love hearing stories like that, thank you! I think your experience with Yngwie was a pretty common one from what I've heard!
Dude that sucks! What a jerk.
@@VRPRocks You`re welcome, and thanks for another great interview.
@@a.y.7738 Major. Because of it, I never bought any of his music. I only heard of him because a buddy of mine popped a cassette in my car while we were cruisin. Don`t treat potential fans like bleep. ha
Handshakes are important. Back when I was a Democrat, I once went to the airport to greet General Wesley Clark, who was running for president at the time. I shook his hand. He looked like a four foot tall cadaver, devoid of any life energy beyond what it took to walk. Thin and frail, transparent skin, and a handshake, again, very corpse-like. I could hardly believe the difference between the image I observed through the media filter, and the reality I experienced that day.
I haven't thought about Graham in a while. Was shocked to see how old he is now.
He's 75.
Same
Right, as if any of us isn't much older now...
On the other hand, most current interviews with others of this generation you just see so much comical hair dye (including, of course, Yngwie himself). I like Graham's approach better.
@@YaoEspirito Right? It has more character, simply put. I for one knows that it is hard to get old, but it is worse to try to hide it.
Remember that famous Yngwie song …. ? No, me neither .
Remember that famous Bonnet song …. ? ............
@@walfernu yeah loads of them.
@@wilsonbrownofficial2828 can you name any, please? because I can't
@@walfernu all night long; through the eyes of the world, dancer (Michael Schenker group), only one woman. Those are just off the top of my head. While they may not necessarily be written by GB, it’s him singing - and it’s memorable for that reason.
@@wilsonbrownofficial2828 That's what I meant. All his great hits were actually written by the Bee Gees, Schenker, Malmsteen or Blackmore. I love his solo career but his own songs are not memorable although I really like Night Games off the Line Up album. Maybe you don't quite like Malmsteen but he had memorable songs like Jet to Jet, Hiroshima mon Amour, Black Star, Far Beyond the Sun, Trilogy, Heaven Tonight, Rising Force, Save Our Love and the list goes on and all written by him. I Think we have different points of view and that's great but the fact is that Malmsteen has done more for the music world than Bonnet will ever do. Still he is an awesome singer!!
Why is Vintage Rock Pop blurred?
I'm curious too.
@@art-fw7ciMaybe he'll respond, but until then all we can do is speculate.
in music you have musicians and entertainers, and you cant be both, but the two worlds,so musicians like yngwie are trying to be entertainers, but he has limited appeal, you see it with dave lee roth and evh they collided too.
Damn, Graham is grandpa! But then again, he was middle-aged back in the early 80s.
Yes, and then there's the Yngwie aeroplane incident.
The thumbnail is CRAZY 😅😂
Yngwie "Killer guitarist".....
Boring af
I always thought Yngwie was a psychopath!
He seems super chill in every interview I've seen. Graham not so much. Drama queen.
@@ELI5Money Hmmm :o/
@@ELI5Money One look at Flingvay's stage setup shows his massive lame ego.
Had to fire him at that point, to the detriment of the band. No other option. That’s just the way the ball bounces when there’s a ball hog on the team 🤷♂️
yngwie is a massive AH . you hear story's you never know but i know someone who was on tour with him in a different band and he said he was horrible man that treated every one around him like shit ,the guy who told me is real nice guy too and never says anything bad about any one, but he did about ying .
btw dont like bully's even when i was one ,mr malms would be bleeding from his ears if id have seen him do that to the much smaller bonnet.
Kudos 🎉
Eddie Van Halen was the sameway. Yeah, now that he is dead, everybody overlooks that part of him. He was always a miserable little curmudgeon with zero social skills. It became worse when he became a miserable dry drunk along with his brother, then ramped up 10 times worse when he became a crack/meth head. After that phase, he toned down his miserable attitude.
Graham was the horrible man. Yngwie was a young guy, 20, who, a much older Bonnett, 37, basically a no-talent, had ben exploiting and disrespecting.
Yngwie is well-known as being a good guy. Perhaps you are thinking of terrible-tempered Eddie Van Halen.
Eddie was a miserable curmudgeon with zero social skills and he became worse as a dry drunk and then a methhead @@johnp.johnson1541
@@johnp.johnson1541you smoking crack?!
He used his Aqua Net hair spray without permission
Hahahahahahahahahaha !!!!! ROTFLMFAO
I had no idea that ALCATRAZZ was Graham's band for him to fire Yngwie ?
I thought it was the other way round, and that Yngwie sacked Graham because Yngwie's image was too clean cut for a metal band, also that he didn't grow his hair !
Personally, I think Alcatraz was at it's best when Steve Vai was the guitarist.
@@flyonwall360 For sure !!
Nah. Their material with Yngwie was far better.
@@dowens70 Vai’s a far better musician than Yngwie, I know he couldn’t pick as fast but he definitely did more good than bad in Alcatrazz.
It was a fight over Swedish pizzas, probably.
That's not what yngwie says. Not that I believe yngwie. It is quite a story. I believe it was Tulsa at the cains
To be fair.. yngwie was the reason 90% of the people were there.. i saw alcatrazz a few times with yngwie and that's the reason i went.
That was Alcatrazz? Didn't follow them too close but Yngwie played an Aria Pro II guitar they did ads for I do remember
Matsumoko Aria guitars are awesome.
Find me a video of him actually playing an Aria Pro II or a Schecter who he was endorsing as well
@@kma5699 ua-cam.com/video/Z2XTxs4e6Pg/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared - that's an Aria Pro ii XX
With all that said, I wish they do an album together again ..
One cup of tea is never enough but two is one too many…
Yeah...
Mushroom tea.😂😂😂
Graham sang great while Yngwie was ripping leads through the verses, though!
At least yngwie plays in harmony with what he is doing,
Mistreated on Inspiration with Soto he does something like that at the end. When he did mistreated with Glenn live , Glenn was pushing Yngwie to solo even more , totally awesome, Yngwie full shred over a song Glenn wrote and sang with Blackmore
Alcatrazz with Ynwie what an amazing album.
I thought bonnet wrote pretty crap music and the only thing that made it listenable at the time was malmsteens playing . I thought bonnets vocal ability was pretty dam average too . I can understand how malmsteen playing through his vocals would drive him nuts though . Malmsteen went on to greatness but to be honest these days he is just a sloppy wall of noise and most the time his guitar is out of tune and either he don’t know or he just don’t care lol
Well, you compared God's gift to an omelet, of course, Ying Yang has a sick ego, but c'mon, he's a genius and this Bonet guy better run aside when magic's happening, Graham is just another Ok singer but nothing more and then that grandfather meowing, compare how Yngwie looks now still Rockin' but that grandpa should be taken to a nursing home ( sorry, I'm usually more polite but that meowing got on my nerves ) Yngwie Rocks!!!
Nobody has tried to kill ritchie blackmore?
Roger Glover came thru his Bedroom door with an AXE during the recording of FIREBALL in 1971 ....lol ...Ian Gillan was nearly destroyed by an irate Ritchie though...With a PLATE of SPAGHETTI ......lol
@@walterevans2118 frank zappa was injured by a fan in his leg meanwhile playing on stage...nobody has dared to hurt blackmore meanwhile he was playing on stage.
@@metacosmos Yes, didn’t that incident happen to poor Frank at the Rainbow Theatre in London ?…Ritchie broke a stage managers jaw in Austria by kicking him I think ? In 1977 ..This guy was being cruel to a fan I think…They had to get Ritchie out of a cell to do a gig….Ritchie was kind of like a ‘doomsday machine’ in those days really…lol ….Smashing cameras at the 1974 California Jam,,,,Igniting a riot at Wembley arena in 1980,,,Baptising cameramen onstage in Birmingham in 1993 ,,,bopping Ian Gillan in the face with plates of Spaghetti ,,,,fighting David Coverdale on the floor at the feet of a casually indifferent Brian May and Roger Taylor sipping cocktails…..Ahhh HALCYON days eh ?….lol
@@walterevans2118 those are petty incidents compared with rolling stones and led zep mischieves, but nobody has ever tried to kill blackmore aiming a gun towards him.
@@metacosmos Well, Led Zep on tour would do crazy things. They would demolish whole floors of Hotels..And THE WHO with KEITH MOON were even NUTTIER
The issue is very simple. Yngwie wanted Bonnett to keep his hair longer and he cut it even shorter... wait a minute... no, that was Ritchie XD
😂👏 If you'd like to hear Graham's side of the famous haircut story... ua-cam.com/video/0rsAMd4OW-M/v-deo.html
I love Graham and I think Yngwie is a dick, but I've heard how Graham story has evolved over the years.... The rest of Alcatrazz doesn't back up Graham's story either.
he's from skegness lincolnshire
Great guitarist for sure ,but it's the same s*** every show. Saw him on the G3 tour and while it was good it wasn't the high point of the night by far.
Malsteem is good for a laugh, or if you suffer from insomnia he is the perfect cure. Even glass eye's succumb!
Accident? I don't think so... Besides, try to kill him?
I think what happened was Graham did unplug his guitar, Yngwie got pissed and jumped on Graham, but a real attempt to kill him? Come on, Graham...
I kind of think Bonnet pulled the cord on purpose...
I wonder if it was an accident
Remember Gamma? Me neither.His two guitarist, never looked back
Huh?
The band went on to find even more success with Vai, so not sure I agree with Graham's assessment they went downhill after Malmsteen...
Vicy City gamers will know
The band went into the toilet and disbanded without Yngwie, everyone knows that fact! Hard Rock fans didn't want to listen to the poppy crap Steve wrote with Graham Bonnet, David Lee or White Snake. Sorry, facts are facts! Steve is great guy and great at his brand of music but he's No Ritchie Blackmore, MSG, EVH, YJM or Adrian Vandenberg. Joe Stump is a much heavier, darker version of Ritchie and Yngwie with a touch of Michael Schenker and Gary Moore. A perfect fit for the new Alcatrazz picking up where Yngwie left off and that is exactly what Alcatrazz fans want to hear. Graham was given a second Golden opportunity to make Heavy Metal History. He didn't make history, he fell flat on his face. For him to say "I was looking for a hot keyboard player and sharp base player, which I didn't find, these guys will have to do" is disgraceful! Especially after everything Jimmy did for him over the years. What a fucking Dick! Without Jimmy, Gary and Jan, Graham wouldn't have had anything to sing over and Yngwie wouldn't have had anything to solo over, that's why it's called a band. You owe these men a public apology Graham.
Well it folded pretty quickly after that…Vai moved on quickly to other things like David Lee Roth and Whitesnake before going solo with passion and warfare in 1990.
@@walterevans2118 Yeah, I wasn't taking a jab at Steve, only Graham. Steve's solo instrumental music is amazing. He gave Graham and Dave exactly what they wanted. Poppy, showtune-ish garbage that really went nowhere because hard rock fans don't listen to much pop.
Not that much more success lol. But definitely helped catapult Vai's success.
The singer cannot steal the spotlight from Mr Malmsteen...they are second only to the bass player!
3:16 proper Englishman right here.
'I Am a Viking on a napkin'. . . .
I was told that happened in Tulsa Ok.
wow, he's 75... wow
Yngwie is an arrogant bully
More is more...
Somebody on another post was suggesting that on this issue I was sounding biased on Yngwie's side & against Graham Bonnet side. Well, I try to be fair and even handed....Whatever did or didn't happen in 1984 there is one criticism I would have to make of Yngwie (Sorry Yng, please don't hurt me 😖...lol) ...I think it was kind of silly of Yngwie in such a short time to veer from hero worshiping Graham (phone call disbelief) to trying to ASSASSINATE Graham only months later 😳🥺(whether a left hook or a throttle)... That was really SILLY of Yngwie from the point of view of being a newcomer in the business.....Kind of like 'kill the guy with the ball' in American Football (& damn the referees)😕🙄...When people make the cliche point about never meeting your heroes they meant 'Never meet your heroes in case they don't come up to your expectations.' ...NOT -'Never meet your heroes in case you end up trying to THROTTLE them' ......lol .......To make an error between these two perspectives is as daft & dangerous as mistaking the two different 'Meet and Greet' advertisment statements - 'Yngwie Malmsteen makes a very good meal FOR visiting journalists' with the statement -'Yngwie Malmsteen makes a very good meal OF visiting journalists' .....lol
Believe me, I know first hand…..
Graham was just pissed that Yngwie was stealing his spotlight and then he couldn't even fight his own fight, What a sissy.
I understand everyone gets older. But for god's sake Graham don't button your shirt all the way up, don't wear a square pattern shirt, and don't keep your hair so tidy. You are a rock legend, you have a responsibility.
To be fair to him on your hair comment... he had apologised to me as he'd just got out of the bath r8ght before the interview.
His hair is fine. The shirt I can agree with.
Pero ese fue siempre su estilo siempre fue muy formal
Tried to "straggle" him?
Yngwie is a really bad dude with a huge ego. He coulda been a lot bigger than he was but his ego killed it.
All Graham needs to know, is that when his name is mentioned not only does everyone know who his is, .. but everyone's agrees about his legendary place in Rock.
Nowadays, if you drop the name "Malmsteen" most folks think you are referring to a Wood Stove or Pellet heater. 😊
Get outta here... Rising Force, all the way up to Odyssey... You wish you wrote and performed that body of work.
O dear imagine that IV never heard of malmsteen wood stove or pellet heater but what do you know IV heard of a guitar player called malmsteen.
@@oldnikix Shaddap. Nobody gives a rat's ass about a megalomaniac who hogs the stage while he puts his band over to one side and plays lead guitar over everything while standing in front of 900 Marshalls. He's a clown. David Gilmour from Pink Floyd plays one note with feel better than Turdvay.
You must live under a rock if you honestly believe that. Malmsteen is universally known by all rock and metal fans.
@@PerfectSense77
Exactly. I'm not an Yngwie fan, but he's far more well-known than Graham is.
That’s why he’ll never be considered up with the greats. YM can’t play with others. Most narcissistic guitar player in history.
Yngie has the best puffy shirts. He wants to be a pirate. His songs... Forgettable.
Went to a YM concert it was one of the worst, his amps all over the other instruments and endless boring solos, plus vocals were provided between Yngwie himself and the keyboard player and neither know how to sing, complete waste of time and money never went again to see this clown again, his last good record cane out in 1995 and is just good nothing special
Prance prance prance, throw guitar around back, prance prance prance, kick air, prance prance, no amplification on guitar...WTF?
Yngwie does not deserve to be near real artists like graham. That is why he has done nothing worth mentioning since odyssey..
He didn't do anything worth mentioning before that
Well as much as I don't like him anymore as he is in the Spinal Tap years ...Marching Out , odysey and alcatraz were to remember
And that's my story and I'm sticking with it.... lol.... what BS
Please move the chair over a few feet!
Yngwie also played over Joe Lynn Turners singing...which isnt a cool thing to do. Its ignorant.
It might have been in 73' or 74' ...??..but I had a rock magazine where young talented musicians sent in their picture and bio and the magazine contained a featured section for this in the back...towards the end prior to adds. In the back section was Yngwie Malmstein ...age 19..dressed in black holding a guitar . Below a short paragraph red: Hi..my name is Yngwie Malmstein and i am a fan of Ritchie Blackmore. I hope to become successful in music one day. It read something to that affect. Probably a few years later he was in Alcatraz idk?...but i recall him sending in his picture and write up along with other unknowns...
How is this man88
Would be good if Graham would get a good mic and enunciate his words and hire a storytelling coach. Because I can barely follow him.
I'm American, understood every word. Maybe you need a listening coach.
He does ramble a bit, but he is 75 years old, so that's understandable.
yngwie doesn't like dounuts
😂Steve Vai was average and limited on guitar when replacing Yngwie on Alcatrazz. Yngwie's ego hurt his career, but he is a revolutionary along with E.D.V and Hendrix. Lick the wounds. Because he is not American! If it were, they wouldn't be throwing stones. Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert and the guitar community were freaked out when he showed up! He took the US guitar world by storm.
Steve definitely didnt have the picking technique that yngwie had but he was far from “average and limited” you dont leave berklee and end up in frank zappas band by being “average and limited”. If you wanna talk about limited its yngwie and that becomes real apparent in his music at a certain point once you look at his stuff post odyssey.
I dont know what this bullshit about him being a “revolutionary” like hendrix is because yngwie isnt a innovator, it’s obvious he picked up a lot of shit from uli roth, di meola, schenker, and blackmore, he just happens to play faster
@@knightfall9394 Yes I agree with what you've written. Then there's the master of them all Alan Holdsworth : )
I don't know the truth, but please play with Yngwie. You are old and your time is short. Please hurry up.
🤭🤭🤭 Running out of coke will make you do that!🎸👀🎸
👎🏾 for the stupid beginning.
Im all for constructive criticism. What was stupid about the beginning?
@@VRPRocks
Sorry, now that it's apparently become mandatory for virtually every spoken video on UA-cam to follow the exact (and annoying) blueprint: 'Show incoherent fragments of the video, THEN the intro, then the video again', I routinely downvote it every time I encounter it. Just fed up with seeing that tiresome gimmick. Sorry
@@YaoEspiritoThanks for that info. I'm sure you're already aware of this but it's done like this as most people drop off within the first few seconds if something doesnt grab them immediately. It's always important to have something to hook the viewer straight away, rather than a rambled intro. I'm sorry this isn't to your personal taste but results show that it works. I don't do this on all my videos, but the ones that do have it have a much better retention rate. As a polite request, would you mind taking away the down thumb? I appeal to your kind side as down thumbs affect channels, especially small one-man-band type ones like mine, just trying their best. Thank you 👍🤘
@@VRPRocks
I happily remove the downvote and will even go upvote, because of the kindly discourse. But I nevertheless will continue to downvote other videos with that feature. Just tired of seeing it. Cheers 👍🏾
That's very kind of you sir. Hopefully if you come across any more of my videos they are ones without the headline grabbing intro. Thanks for offering your honest thoughts, like I say, this is a one-man channel, I interview rock legends that I like and I'm trying to improve where I can! Have a great day 👍🤘
I have seen you uploading videos regularly for many days but the video views are very low.
This is because your thumbnails are not good.
But I can help you get more views on your videos.
Don't worry about the cost. I don't want to pay for it. want friendship
Graham bonnet looking more like Grandpa bonnett these days
He is 75 years old! Hope I've half as much life in me if I make it that to that age!
Every solo of Malmsteen sounds the same except for Blackstar, the only album he made that was any good was trilogy..