he has so much feel when he was younger.. his licks were so clean and have so much passion…i think he was more passionate and creative in his youth.. his best works were his first albums… his style changed as he got older… but his vibrato has always been surreal… he also uses his pinky much more during his youth than nowadays…if anyones noticed…his fingers are also skinnier in his youth lol, obviously he's put on some weight… but he was seriously on fire and way beyond his time at this time of his youth…this solo was amazing.. so crisp and fierce sounding… YJM rules.
His vibrato was so good in the 80s. His phrasing and his feel was just INSANE too. I've come to the conclusion yngwie is THE best 80s shredder. Amazing playing
The car accident in 1986 it changed everything about his playing you'll notice the change after trilogy album. I could not even hold the guitar pick after the accident
He just kept going deeper and deeper into the neo classical sound. Don’t think it’s what people really wanted to hear and he kinda put himself into a box I think.
SO many people forget this was pre-Coma before he got into a car accident and damaged his hand. I don't think he ever got back to these days. Trilogy was his last Album pre-accident
But no one shreds like Yngwie! YJM made shredding an art form. His vibrato, tone, and improvisational skills are unmatched. When he first hit the scene he was unstoppable, he took them all out. Yngwie is the father of shred guitar. He is the king!
When I first heard Yngwie crying.He touched my heart.Yngwie showed a new direction as J.Hendrix or R.Blackmoore.It succeeded in the history few.Is unsurpassed. Even though I am a fan of his and I have to be critical.Today it is evident that it is burned. Recurring musical themes in his songs are tho current evidence. The guitar is still excellent.Lost the original ferocity of his play and got perfection of his tones. his game in 20 years and today is different.Still remains unsurpassed
Man, this guy is one of the best showmen out there. I don't like everything he puts out, but he broke some serious ground back in those days. He's one guy I really hope I get to see play live one day.
Yngwie was the type of guy became the best. But being the best was not good enough for him. He left his pursue of excellence and became content with what he had already accomplished. He had a goal and he did it. Respect the man. Don't talk shit about what he is now, he doesn't have to be like this anymore.
QUE CAPO POR DIOS, LA MEJOR EPOCA, EN ESE TIEMPO YNGWIE ERA EL MEJOR GUITARRISTA, TREMENDO TONO Y FRASEO, GENIO TOTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPOSIBLE DE MEJORAR.
THIS is the Yngwie that i saw as a 17 year old kid and got totally blown away by....I was truly numb for a few days after experiencing this guy live up close i'm not kidding. I was so incredibly fortunate to have been able to see him get famous AND infamous in no time,he destroyed everybody on the scene. And of course he changed,he's been on top of that hill for 30 years now he already conquered! I'm now 44 and after 30 years i love him as a brother.For Real. Thank you Maestro. Peace,JB68
No... he still has it! The fire and passion is still there! YJM is still a great musician. I saw Yngwie in concert a little over a year ago and he played amazing. He still composes and plays at a high level! YJM has nothing to prove to anyone, he has already done more and accomplished more than most will ever dream of. Yngwie is the main reason I play guitar, and I will always support him. He still kicks major ass!
At 1:15 you hear an excerpt from EVH's "Live without a net" solo, although much faster and not tapped. At 3:45 you hear an excerpt scarily similar to Nuno Bettencourt's "Flite of the wounded bumble bee" without the delay Nuno used. Also scary fast. Amazing talent, undeniable influence.
I think Yngwie throws those pieces in to let you see that it's nothing big, anybody can play those parts. Was easy to him anyway. LOL Those certain pieces you mentioned blew minds back then.....and were nothing big really. THEN came Yngwie with HIS style of playing..neoclassical. Blew everybody's mind away and nobody CAN copy it. LOL The ONLY players that influenced him is Bach, Paganini, etc. He never heard of these new bands EVH, etc. Only was practicing HIS music. He never really listened or had time to listen to anybody else unless it was in his category is all. Pentatonic just wasn't enough for him. He never plays a song the same way ever. He just thinks of what to play as he goes.
I think that excerpt precedes Flight of the wounded Bumblebee by several years as it is an excerpt from his opening solo On the Rox from his Steeler days.
+Kimmie Murphy Oh yeah, after already hearing Di Meola, Holdsworth, Halsall, McLaughlin etc, compared to whom YM is pretty simple stuff. So yeah genius. Maybe you are, no-one else.
+BubbaZen10 I said 'compared to them' not compared to me you tedious bellend. And it's true. He did a version of Dead of Night and all he did was his usual 'neo-classical' shtick, couldn't hack it. Probably sounds great to you though.
There's so much in the comments about how ohhh 1980s yngwie tone ohh so good ohh he's fallen so far: Yngwie himself said all these live concert DVDs were overdubbed. Meaning if he made a mistake on the guitar, they went back over it later in the studio and overdubbed it. They also mixed and remastered his "tone" that everyone is raving about. His tone basically hasn't changed. It's a strat through a marshall plexi. He still uses the same exact thing today. The problem is everyone today records concerts on iphones, instead of recording them analog through 1980s mixing equipment and redubbing and remastering them in a studio for weeks at a stretch. If you go see him live as I have, his tone is more brutal now than it's ever been. Standing in the room his guitar sounds like a wild animal. It's totally brutal. He's also doing things technically now that if you pay attention closely are beyond comprehension. He is always innovating, always building, working, and totally immersed in his music. Really only guitar players appreciate him, and like every great musician, people usually hate or love him. Paganini was and still is renowned the world over as one of the greatest musicians that ever was, and at the time he was also hated the entire world over, sued for millions, and given endless waves of criticism, insult, and bad press. Nothing about great musicians or humanity has really changed in 250 years.
I think the pre accident Yngwie is the best. His play just seemed so much more free to me. His technique just changed after his accident. Don't get me wrong I still love the guys playing to this day, it's just I think his playing was awesome before his accident
He still plays great to this day. I even think his tone and sound got better with the Seymours for pickups. I just think he played better before the accident
+Ricardo Grande No, as a matter of fact, he´s not. Yngve Johan Malmsten (original swedish spelling) is from Backlura, Hässelby which is in the western outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. That´s where he´s from. His first ever live concert, at the age of 13, was Ritchie Blackmore´s RAINBOW "Rising" - Tour at the Stockholm Concert House on September 20, 1976.
The clarity of picking! The crispness of tone! Shame he's only gotten lazier in his playing, as time has gone by. I'm sad to say this was Yngwie at his best.
en el año 84 hacer eso con la guitarra, despertaba el interes de todos los que querien tocar asi no podian, que eran muchos, existio un antes y despues desde el primer disco de este figura.
People said the same about Mozart in his day. Rather than counting notes, try listening to the chords, keys, changes, harmonies and vibrato. There is an explosion of feeling going on.
+superclaw900 It's more like this; he had a near-fatal car crash which kind of ruined his hands. After that he had some personal problems ( you know, wife-beating, alcoholism, etc.) So I guess it was more sudden than slow :)
+JP Jona Is all that true? I love his music but never looked into his personal life. That would explain some of the awful playing i've seen of his recent live shows on youtube.
Yes, all is true. It was in the late eighties though. His play style changed after the accident. Many players experience loss of dexterity as they age, so that is probably the main cause nowdays
+JP Jona The alleged wife-beating, IMHO, was a pure bullshit claim by his very unstable and now very ex-wife. She is really a piece of work. Look her up (Amber Dawn Lindin). She now is a "professional" Dominatrix. In any event, she dropped all charges. She has made all sorts of claims of abuse by Yngwie, but her testimony is extremely suspect, and very dubious. When Yngwie was drinking, I am sure he was no prince...but beating up on women does not appear to be in his character. The police were called a couple of times to his Miami home for "disturbances". At no time during her relationship and (short) marriage with Yngwie, did she file charges for domestic battery or anything of the sort. As she is not the submissive type, it is hard to imagine her silence as being due to "battered wife syndrome".
thats right...got to give him credit where its due because he reached the world with an intensity not seen before and sought after ever since....I knew it the minute I read the column in guitar player before i even heard it...premonition had my AMP buzzing....Randy RHoads had began a new glimpse of things to come and Malmsteen fulfilled the prophecy.
A mí personal mente me gustan muchísimos artistas que ya hasta tengo que ver un listado con sus nombres o recordarlos con algún tema destacado que tengan, pero como el grandioso Yngwie no hay ninguno
I know what you're saying, but to say Yngwie is a fraction of what he used to be is a bit harsh!! He is still an incredible guitarist and songwriter!! A few months ago in Albany, NY I saw Yngwie in concert and he put on an amazing performance!! After all these years he still plays extraordinary!! To me Yngwie will always be the best!! He will always be the king!! Don't you know the 11th Commandment?? "Thou Shall not criticize or disrespect Yngwie Malmsteen." LOL!! CHEERS!!!
I love his passionate, fiery style. I find people weird who say that Malmsteen doesn't play with emotion (typical criticism hurled at shredders). Far from it! It's the passionate, fiery, aggressive kind of emotion that he plays with. And if you wanna go for that, it's good if you know how to shred. Also this is prime Yngwie. He is still an awesome guitar player, but he somewhat lost his edge in the later years.
at this solo his alternate picking was very flawless and hard...this has inspired all shredders. those inspired-shredders no need to confess..because when they say "no" i tell guyz...THEY LIE
im not really serious and don't know the percentages but it is really hard for me to find someone who understands or feels about music, I only have 3-4 friends who understand but they study music all life....
He had more musical ideas here in a one long solo than these days in a whole album just repeating same old tricks and licks. If you hear same minor harmonic scale played hundreds of times wildly up and down, yes, he has amazing technique but it won´t suprise you anymore.
@DadandMom52 I don't get how some only here "fast notes" when there is a veritable symphony happening when he plays. Are you even listening to the keys and how he is using the bass pedals? Yngwie has PASSION!
Hmm...it seems like he used to use more wrist in his picking. Maybe after the car crash that damaged the nerves in his hand in 1987 he started developing more of the circle picking thing, because after that point when he picks a very fast run his hand is barely moving except for his thumb and first finger. In the older vids like this he doesn't seem to be doing that.
mchlaughlin and holdsworth are both great, you have a point, i meant exactly what you said about him being the "pioneer" (for 80's electric guitar shred). Yngwie actually had demo's in the late 70's as well, he's been around longer than people think... As far as uli, moore and eddie, they were great, but yngwie took the speed and accuracy to another level. also, many of his songs are more of classical compositions
The best neoclassical guitarist of all time🙏 Unfortunately throughout these years it has not evolved it's a pity. Very quickly he acquired the dexterity of velocity but he locked himself in his style
He is at his best here, so clean and a lot more musical than these days. Plus, he has started using a really fuzzy and overly distorted tone these days, at least live. here he has that fat but still cleanish sound that is just fantastic.
If he was more mainstream he could have been. Not a good enough songwriter to reach a mass audience. That is where guys like Eddie and Randy had him beat, otherwise yes, could have been.
I would say Satch's playing has aged better than Yngwie's over the years. Yngwie has kind of become a clone of himself. But in their primes, Yngwie's energy, passion and guitar tone were never matched by anyone!
he has so much feel when he was younger.. his licks were so clean and have so much passion…i think he was more passionate and creative in his youth.. his best works were his first albums… his style changed as he got older… but his vibrato has always been surreal… he also uses his pinky much more during his youth than nowadays…if anyones noticed…his fingers are also skinnier in his youth lol, obviously he's put on some weight… but he was seriously on fire and way beyond his time at this time of his youth…this solo was amazing.. so crisp and fierce sounding… YJM rules.
His vibrato was so good in the 80s. His phrasing and his feel was just INSANE too. I've come to the conclusion yngwie is THE best 80s shredder. Amazing playing
The car accident in 1986 it changed everything about his playing you'll notice the change after trilogy album. I could not even hold the guitar pick after the accident
Steeler,Alcatraz,and his first 3 solo albums,are his best.
He just kept going deeper and deeper into the neo classical sound. Don’t think it’s what people really wanted to hear and he kinda put himself into a box I think.
100% way better phrasing and feel.
That tone is absolutely amazing. GIMME
And this was 30 years ago where there was nothing like this at all...
In my opinion, talk about being or becoming a "groundbreaker!"
SO many people forget this was pre-Coma before he got into a car accident and damaged his hand. I don't think he ever got back to these days. Trilogy was his last Album pre-accident
YJM 80´s sound...insuperable
But no one shreds like Yngwie!
YJM made shredding an art form. His vibrato, tone, and improvisational skills are unmatched. When he first hit the scene he was unstoppable, he took them all out. Yngwie is the father of shred guitar. He is the king!
This is some primetime, great Malmsteen. SO far ahead of everyone back in '84.
Yngwie at his zenith. Peerless in the '80s. Look at him now. Kids, don't do donuts.
But he doesn't like no fookin' donuts!!
In my opinion, when you're THIS talented and ambitious, it's easy to see WHY you'd have trouble "fitting into" a BAND, thus having to go "SOLO!"
When I first heard Yngwie crying.He touched my heart.Yngwie showed a new direction as J.Hendrix or R.Blackmoore.It succeeded in the history few.Is unsurpassed. Even though I am a fan of his and I have to be critical.Today it is evident that it is burned. Recurring musical themes in his songs are tho current evidence. The guitar is still excellent.Lost the original ferocity of his play and got perfection of his tones. his game in 20 years and today is different.Still remains unsurpassed
Man, this guy is one of the best showmen out there. I don't like everything he puts out, but he broke some serious ground back in those days. He's one guy I really hope I get to see play live one day.
monstrous vibrato , dripping with natural. god gifted skill:,
Yngwie was the type of guy became the best. But being the best was not good enough for him. He left his pursue of excellence and became content with what he had already accomplished. He had a goal and he did it. Respect the man. Don't talk shit about what he is now, he doesn't have to be like this anymore.
QUE CAPO POR DIOS, LA MEJOR EPOCA, EN ESE TIEMPO YNGWIE ERA EL MEJOR GUITARRISTA, TREMENDO TONO Y FRASEO, GENIO TOTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
IMPOSIBLE DE MEJORAR.
The pedal notes in the beginning still get me. So clean.
THIS is the Yngwie that i saw as a 17 year old kid and got totally blown away by....I was truly numb for a few days after experiencing this guy live up close i'm not kidding.
I was so incredibly fortunate to have been able to see him get famous AND infamous in no time,he destroyed everybody on the scene.
And of course he changed,he's been on top of that hill for 30 years now he already conquered!
I'm now 44 and after 30 years i love him as a brother.For Real.
Thank you Maestro.
Peace,JB68
Never gets old
No... he still has it! The fire and passion is still there!
YJM is still a great musician. I saw Yngwie in concert a little over a year ago and he played amazing. He still composes and plays at a high level!
YJM has nothing to prove to anyone, he has already done more and accomplished more than most will ever dream of.
Yngwie is the main reason I play guitar, and I will always support him. He still kicks major ass!
At 1:15 you hear an excerpt from EVH's "Live without a net" solo, although much faster and not tapped. At 3:45 you hear an excerpt scarily similar to Nuno Bettencourt's "Flite of the wounded bumble bee" without the delay Nuno used. Also scary fast. Amazing talent, undeniable influence.
Yngwie is a classically trained guitar player, I think that's why I like his style...
I think Yngwie throws those pieces in to let you see that it's nothing big, anybody can play those parts. Was easy to him anyway. LOL Those certain pieces you mentioned blew minds back then.....and were nothing big really. THEN came Yngwie with HIS style of playing..neoclassical. Blew everybody's mind away and nobody CAN copy it. LOL The ONLY players that influenced him is Bach, Paganini, etc. He never heard of these new bands EVH, etc. Only was practicing HIS music. He never really listened or had time to listen to anybody else unless it was in his category is all. Pentatonic just wasn't enough for him. He never plays a song the same way ever. He just thinks of what to play as he goes.
rozzie101 classically influenced not classically trained.
I think that excerpt precedes Flight of the wounded Bumblebee by several years as it is an excerpt from his opening solo On the Rox from his Steeler days.
the chords and the tapping after 3:30 sound so magical
An absolute Godlike right hand.
I miss THIS Yngwie..
Blues / rock players at that time were probably ...''What the fuck, how the hell is he doin' that?''
Kenny Ken Nope.
+Claymor yea u were:::
+Kimmie Murphy Oh yeah, after already hearing Di Meola, Holdsworth, Halsall, McLaughlin etc, compared to whom YM is pretty simple stuff. So yeah genius. Maybe you are, no-one else.
+Claymor Have a video of you playing something that simple, perchance?
+BubbaZen10 I said 'compared to them' not compared to me you tedious bellend. And it's true. He did a version of Dead of Night and all he did was his usual 'neo-classical' shtick, couldn't hack it. Probably sounds great to you though.
Those bends in between the fast lick at 0:34 is quite impressive (among other stunning moments!)
Absolute King!! The Only Guitar god !!!
There's so much in the comments about how ohhh 1980s yngwie tone ohh so good ohh he's fallen so far: Yngwie himself said all these live concert DVDs were overdubbed. Meaning if he made a mistake on the guitar, they went back over it later in the studio and overdubbed it. They also mixed and remastered his "tone" that everyone is raving about. His tone basically hasn't changed. It's a strat through a marshall plexi. He still uses the same exact thing today. The problem is everyone today records concerts on iphones, instead of recording them analog through 1980s mixing equipment and redubbing and remastering them in a studio for weeks at a stretch. If you go see him live as I have, his tone is more brutal now than it's ever been. Standing in the room his guitar sounds like a wild animal. It's totally brutal. He's also doing things technically now that if you pay attention closely are beyond comprehension. He is always innovating, always building, working, and totally immersed in his music. Really only guitar players appreciate him, and like every great musician, people usually hate or love him. Paganini was and still is renowned the world over as one of the greatest musicians that ever was, and at the time he was also hated the entire world over, sued for millions, and given endless waves of criticism, insult, and bad press. Nothing about great musicians or humanity has really changed in 250 years.
Incredible performance, a legend!
beautiful beautiful beautiful
its beautiful
The same here...he´s so great, but there is nothing inside me that makes me a fan...
A Genius at work!
I think the pre accident Yngwie is the best. His play just seemed so much more free to me. His technique just changed after his accident. Don't get me wrong I still love the guys playing to this day, it's just I think his playing was awesome before his accident
My favorite concert is Live In Leningrad.....year after his accident. He came back stronger than ever.
He still plays great to this day. I even think his tone and sound got better with the Seymours for pickups. I just think he played better before the accident
Accident?
Yes in the 80s. Car crash
Didn't hear about that
That's my BOY !!!!! Miss you dude!
I've been watching this video for 3 years straight
Yngwie's an all time guitar legend! :)
Yngwie was so amazing he could slow motion the world
Maestro Malmsteen is from another planet!
+Ricardo Grande
No, as a matter of fact, he´s not. Yngve Johan Malmsten (original swedish spelling) is from Backlura, Hässelby which is in the western outskirts of Stockholm, Sweden. That´s where he´s from. His first ever live concert, at the age of 13, was Ritchie Blackmore´s RAINBOW "Rising" - Tour at the Stockholm Concert House on September 20, 1976.
Unbeatable in this clip.
doesnt get any better than this !!
This had to be right before the first album, because i saw him in '84 by himself touring for it.
He was on fire in the 80's. 🔥
Well said my friend, I feel the same way! We are brothers in spirit!!
CHEERS!
Best guitarist in the world
Yngwie fkn" Malmsteen that's who
and he still is unbelievable, go see
him live while you still have the chance.
I agree. I've seen him 5 times already.
Awesome solo!!!!
The Young Viking Chief at his best moments, back in 1984. Period.
The clarity of picking! The crispness of tone! Shame he's only gotten lazier in his playing, as time has gone by. I'm sad to say this was Yngwie at his best.
At his best yes but he still looks and acts youthful at the ripe old age of 59...let's see how many of you can do that at his age
gracias
Wow tahun 1984, tuh umur ku baru 2 tahun cuuuukk,,de'e wes dolanan gitar,,aku sek dolanan lemah cuuuukk 😂😂🤭,,bener -bener legend saluto🤘🤘🤘
its because some peoples ears cant hear well enough to relize that when he plays fast its actually harmonic melody at a faster speed
Pre coma yngwie.....Awesome!!!...
en el año 84 hacer eso con la guitarra, despertaba el interes de todos los que querien tocar asi no podian, que eran muchos, existio un antes y despues desde el primer disco de este figura.
People said the same about Mozart in his day. Rather than counting notes, try listening to the chords, keys, changes, harmonies and vibrato. There is an explosion of feeling going on.
is it me, or did yngwie slowly unlearn the guitar as he aged?
+superclaw900 It's more like this; he had a near-fatal car crash which kind of ruined his hands. After that he had some personal problems ( you know, wife-beating, alcoholism, etc.)
So I guess it was more sudden than slow :)
+JP Jona Is all that true? I love his music but never looked into his personal life. That would explain some of the awful playing i've seen of his recent live shows on youtube.
Yes, all is true. It was in the late eighties though. His play style changed after the accident.
Many players experience loss of dexterity as they age, so that is probably the main cause nowdays
+JP Jona
The alleged wife-beating, IMHO, was a pure bullshit claim by his very unstable and now very ex-wife. She is really a piece of work. Look her up (Amber Dawn Lindin). She now is a "professional" Dominatrix. In any event, she dropped all charges. She has made all sorts of claims of abuse by Yngwie, but her testimony is extremely suspect, and very dubious. When Yngwie was drinking, I am sure he was no prince...but beating up on women does not appear to be in his character. The police were called a couple of times to his Miami home for "disturbances". At no time during her relationship and (short) marriage with Yngwie, did she file charges for domestic battery or anything of the sort. As she is not the submissive type, it is hard to imagine her silence as being due to "battered wife syndrome".
Deuterium2H Jesus.. I would have steered clear of that thing
This guitar was his best tone !!
Great video.... thansk for the upload!
this is awesome!!
….back when he had good tone
Yngwie is a legend.
Yngwie at top of his game.
Wow! This is Yngwie at his best!
thats right...got to give him credit where its due because he reached the world with an intensity not seen before and sought after ever since....I knew it the minute I read the column in guitar player before i even heard it...premonition had my AMP buzzing....Randy RHoads had began a new glimpse of things to come and Malmsteen fulfilled the prophecy.
A mí personal mente me gustan muchísimos artistas que ya hasta tengo que ver un listado con sus nombres o recordarlos con algún tema destacado que tengan, pero como el grandioso Yngwie no hay ninguno
I know what you're saying, but to say Yngwie is a fraction of what he used to be is a bit harsh!! He is still an incredible guitarist and songwriter!!
A few months ago in Albany, NY I saw Yngwie in concert and he put on an amazing performance!! After all these years he still plays extraordinary!!
To me Yngwie will always be the best!! He will always be the king!!
Don't you know the 11th Commandment?? "Thou Shall not criticize or disrespect Yngwie Malmsteen." LOL!!
CHEERS!!!
The best guitar tone in the world.
I agree with you!!!!!!!!!!!
thats my big solo i reALLY ENOYED PLAYNIG THIS ONE
The Best!!
I love his passionate, fiery style. I find people weird who say that Malmsteen doesn't play with emotion (typical criticism hurled at shredders). Far from it! It's the passionate, fiery, aggressive kind of emotion that he plays with. And if you wanna go for that, it's good if you know how to shred.
Also this is prime Yngwie. He is still an awesome guitar player, but he somewhat lost his edge in the later years.
My god !!!
at this solo his alternate picking was very flawless and hard...this has inspired all shredders. those inspired-shredders no need to confess..because when they say "no" i tell guyz...THEY LIE
Awesome, man!
im not really serious and don't know the percentages but it is really hard for me to find someone who understands or feels about music, I only have 3-4 friends who understand but they study music all life....
He had more musical ideas here in a one long solo than these days in a whole album just repeating same old tricks and licks. If you hear same minor harmonic scale played hundreds of times wildly up and down, yes, he has amazing technique but it won´t suprise you anymore.
Lol people asking for tabs 😄
+thewickedpickett Lol
+Mathieu Rouzes-Lalande Good luck.
+Mathieu Rouzes-Lalande could you tell me the name of the tabs?
i gotcha man
nmjdks.avnkda. f.dnafdk.sanfld;a vnkfldskal????!!!!!!!
*fingers pop off*
found them ( watch?v=l2FlTqG9tpk )
big fans of all of them! Becker is probably my favorite...also have really gotten into Guthrie Govan lately
Lord of the Guitar. Cool
really good
he's the best ever here; the GOAT ...
@DadandMom52 I don't get how some only here "fast notes" when there is a veritable symphony happening when he plays. Are you even listening to the keys and how he is using the bass pedals? Yngwie has PASSION!
i like how jason becker was able to play that bach piece on his lap
Hmm...it seems like he used to use more wrist in his picking. Maybe after the car crash that damaged the nerves in his hand in 1987 he started developing more of the circle picking thing, because after that point when he picks a very fast run his hand is barely moving except for his thumb and first finger. In the older vids like this he doesn't seem to be doing that.
mchlaughlin and holdsworth are both great, you have a point, i meant exactly what you said about him being the "pioneer" (for 80's electric guitar shred). Yngwie actually had demo's in the late 70's as well, he's been around longer than people think... As far as uli, moore and eddie, they were great, but yngwie took the speed and accuracy to another level. also, many of his songs are more of classical compositions
wouldn't doubt that...
The best neoclassical guitarist of all time🙏
Unfortunately throughout these years it has not evolved it's a pity. Very quickly he acquired the dexterity of velocity but he locked himself in his style
A fucking Guitar genius. Salute from Me ; ) And now i got the Bluray + 2 Cd´s from this fine concert YEEEEAAAARH ; )
The Clarences love & support Yngwie!
Great tone, alot of fire in his playing, but the tone and fire, i don't hear it anymore, to me
its gone, have been for a long time.
Yingyang Palmtree!
well said
He is at his best here, so clean and a lot more musical than these days. Plus, he has started using a really fuzzy and overly distorted tone these days, at least live. here he has that fat but still cleanish sound that is just fantastic.
After him, the void!
Ahhhhhj....the best!! Ahhj
yeah i know....i'm huge fans of those guys as well. i kinda meant he took shred to a level people didn't know was possible.
Best solo performance in my most educated opinion on earth xD
He actually made his Guitar sound like a Harpsichord at one point. How great that was.
@DadandMom52 when it comes to shredding, music doesnt rly matter, its more the technical skill that counts
yeaaahh \m/
Here is a question: was he the most influential guitar player of all time?
He was, and for me he "still " is!!! And stil for centuries to come, dude! ;):)
If he was more mainstream he could have been. Not a good enough songwriter to reach a mass audience. That is where guys like Eddie and Randy had him beat, otherwise yes, could have been.
I would say Satch's playing has aged better than Yngwie's over the years. Yngwie has kind of become a clone of himself. But in their primes, Yngwie's energy, passion and guitar tone were never matched by anyone!