There are moments of this guy's guitar library that are absolute genius to me! The track "MARCHING OUT" on his second solo record called the same(marching out) is my all time favorite lead solo in a track. It has technique,melody,tons of feel and tone! Incredible playing!!!🤘🤘
A year later in 85 I got to hang out backstage with Yngwie and band. I was 15 and sat in front of him while he warmed up. Just amazing. Opening for AC/DC at the Hollywood Sportotorium..
When he first came out i became a Clone of him for about 4 years! I was playing his lines,hadxs cream strat, was dressing like him,had my hair styled like his and even had the attitude/ego back then!😂 my whole existence was Yngwie malmsteen back then, It was Edward Van Halen all over again to me.
He is. I mean think about it: dude comes from a place that was very "closed" mentally (60/70s sweden, but any other northern eu countries was like that, now things are different) to fucking 80s Los Angeles lol. Can you imagine a 20 year old that became the hottest star in the guitar world overnight not going nuts and getting somewhat of an ego? That would happen to 95% of people. I also think that coming from a very different place (remember, Sweden had a single tv channel that aired for 4 hours a day, no internet, and doing an international call would cost SHITTON of money so you really didn't know much about the outside world and other cultures) makes you think and being social in a very different manner (especially humor, yngwie's humor is very European, even to this day). Then in a blink of an eye everything gets reversed and you go from being some kid in Sweden that likes to play guitar to be considered a god. I mean, who wouldn't flip out lol. Let alone the fact that from there on fake fickle people start to surround you because of your sudden fame. I think a lot of people misjudge yngwie from interviews he did in the 80s when admittedly yes, he was coming off as egotistical and a bit of a douche, especially when asked about guitar players. I can kinda understand why. I mean it's like you go interviewing a chef, or a movie director and you ask them about other people. You'd think the dude is an asshole, and so you'll start being an asshole too. You're supposed to talk about your guest, not bringing up other people constantly. It's pretty clear from this and many other interviews that he's simply 100% passionated about what he does and he doesn't compromise his artistic integrity for absolutely nothing or no one. I am not trying to excuse yngwie for what has said in past interviews, I could care less shit as he doesn't even know I exist lol. I just think people often misjudge or take him completely out of context. There is a very recent Rick beato interview with yngwie and it's probably the best yngwie interview out there. It truly shows yngwie the man, and not the "rockstar". Go check it, it's really REALLY good.
@@walterevans2118 hahaha. I've been a super Yngwie nerd since around 85. This era is so interesting. I am about 23 minutes in now and man it is better than I even hoped. !!
Wow!!!! I found your channel a while ago, and listened to the Barney Kessel interview, but I didn't know ALL these tapes were available now? Yngwie was my 3rd guitar hero, and when I heard him my whole playing world changed. I no longer play rock, I play Jazz, and mostly Gypsy jazz now, and I'm so glad i have so many interviews to listen to. I also loved you guitar column when I was a kid, so thx for all of this. I finally have the time in life to listen to these taped interviews.
Jas, you were my favorite music journalist. Loved your columns . I also learned English reading Guitar Player and Guitar World. I started plying guitar after the movie Crossroads. But my main influence was Malmsteen. I couldn't believe someone could play like that. Thank you so much, mr. Obrecht for all the great articles, columns and great questions. 👍 Thanks for sharing.
I'll never forget the first time I heard him play. Spring 1984, I was about to head out the door to get on the school bus with MTV on. The video came on for "Island In The Sun" and that solo floored me. Spent all day at school wondering "what the hell was that?" And I thought the term "it is what it is" was of a relatively recent origin; here we hear the Maestro using it in 1984! (3:25). A linguistic as well as a musical groundbreaker LOL! Great interview and I agree with some of the other comments, he comes across here as much more humble and down to earth than the interviews in print lead me to believe. Great stuff! Thank you Jas.
Hahaha...I still remember watching "Island in the Sun" when I had maybe played guitar for a few months and thought..."WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY PLAYING THE COOL SOLO???" (as he's ripping on the guitar walking down the prison hallway, lol). Years later would find out...oh it's THAT guy...what an insane talent, once in a generation type player.
This is amazing to hear! Thanks so much for posting this. Yngwie sounds like such a sweet guy back when he was young. It’s true about how jealous people can get, and I could just imagine what it was like for yngwie. I bet half the negative stories you hear about him are borne out of jealousy
He was a very bright and focused 20 year old. Pretty humble too. No wonder so many hate(d) him. Commonality with Edward in your recently released interviews, not in it for the money. They are always the ones that succeed. His now famous ego is pretty justified. Zero compromise to his vision. I'm not a massive Yngwie fan but I'll put out there that after Hendrix; then Edward; he really was the next 6 string electric game changer. 🤘
Absolutely. Like Ed Yngwie was this pure focused musician who just loved to play and create and to take his instrument to a new level. He wasn’t into the ‘fame’ trip at all.. He loved to play too much for all that…I also remember that like with ED VH a lot of other players became very jealous of him and at such a young age in the spotlight that must have been a heavy burden for Yngwie to take looking back.
You could tell here that Yngwie was a purist musician by what he said about the word ‘practice’..He felt that word implied some kind of arduous ‘sacrifice’ but to him it wasn’t…Just playing the guitar was something he ENJOYED.😊
@@vbassone Yes. Allan was a genius because he took the guitar which is an instrument sounded with percussive attack on the strings and turned it into sounding like an instrument you blow upon. Like a saxophone…As EVH said of Allan -‘The attack of his pick is INVISIBLE’. Yngwie LOVED Allans playing. Right back to this interview …Somewhere on UA-cam there is a video on Yngwie and his band doing a sound check playing Allan’s stuff of UK ‘S In the Dead of Night…Plus on a section of Kree Nakoorie on the No Parole from Rock and Roll album Yngwie was promoting in this interview you can hear him use the vibrato bar in ways that kind of sound like a tribute to Allan’s playing..Among doing his own thing.
"This style" is YNGWIE! 😁 Seriously can anyone name anyone that was playing like what you hear him playing on Rising force or Marching out? Back then i was playing for about 4 years and i remember thinking this guy definitely invented another way to play that was nothing like Eddie Van Halen who everyone and i Mean EVERYONE was copying! Even the guy with the Rick james Band was copying eddie! Yngwie has his own style 100%! I don't hear the typical Eddie influence with him. Love the way he took Paganini Violin licks and baroque music and used them in a heavier context.
Here is a funny one: Myself being used to the German pronunciation of J.S. and Johann's last names, at ca. 42min when you mentioned Randy being into Bach and Pachelbel I misheard the words and instead heard: "Taco Bell"; so I genuinely had the same impression of Yngwie as "WHO's THAT!?" so I had to rewind a bit to check about it ( even the YT's CC got it like that too !) hehehehehe gosh I had a laugh. Anyhow, THANK YOU very much sir for sharing these jewels. All the best ! AB ps.- I am subscribing.
Amazing interview! I see Yngwie differently. He has a reputation for being arrogant or egotistical but he is in fact humble. I think this is because he is confident and knows what he wants. I find it amazing that Yngwie was able to develop his style and technique on his own before he was 20 years old. A non musician may not understand completely how amazing his technique is. To put it simply there was no one playing like this on guitar for almost another 20 years, and to this day even with the internet making learning the guitar so much easier there aren't too many guitarist in the world that have this degree of technique. I have heard less than a handful and none of them come close to Yngwie. He was able to figure out on his own technique that differed greatly from other guitarist in terms of mechanics which allowed him to play so fast. I love that Yngwie is a purist. An example being his use of single coil guitar pickups in a world dominated by double coil pickups in the hard rock world. Yngwie created "shred" guitar.
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Yep. Seeing a lot of people in the comments saying “oh he’s not egotistical, he’s just confident.” Or saying that his ego is acceptable because he’s brilliant. Or that people are jealous. Yes, he was brilliant, but you can’t behave like an asshole because you’re good at something.
Almost finished with part one, looking forward for part two. I keep reminding myself that he is only 21 years old here. Or maybe still 20, trying to temember the dates and his birthday. Man, just like listening to Jan’s interview with Eddie when he was still only 21 or 22. So much experience with everything, different types of playing, gear, this sounds like an interview that could’ve just been done this week. I don’t remember hearing many guitar players talking about melody and modes and scales, and just giving such great advice. I mean, 21 years old. And so advanced. Just like Eddie and Randy, and maybe a few other greats!!! 😝🤘🏻🎸
All without the help of the internet too, which all the recent so called amazing musicians rely on. Yngwie is truly self taught in every sense, and a true genius.
i love Yngwie. i have been listening to him nearly everyday of my lif since i first heard him in 1991 when i was 14 yrs old. I enjoy his playing that much.
When yngwie first came to this country and started touring with Steeler they did a little record promotion add a record shop and my girlfriend went and she said there was only about 10 people there and she first met yngwie and talk to him for a couple of hours and she said he was a beautiful guy. Then every timing they would come back to town she would go to the show and he would get her VIP passes and he treated her like gold. Finally one day he came on tour and she brought me to the show and introduce me to him on his tour bus and he was a very nice guy. Contrary to all the stories I hear I didn't have a problem with him. But then I didn't get on his nerves 🤣
This is so great! I've been waiting/hoping for this one. I discovered Yngwie in August 1983 when I bought the Steeler album. On New Year's Eve, I was at a party and the radio station from Providence RI was counting down the best metal albums of the year. I heard the DJ say something about "guitar player from Steeler" which got my attention. I don't remember what track they played, but I bought the album two days later. That would have been January 2, the day before this was recorded. I got the Guitar Player issue with the interview about a month later. Talking Heads on the cover. I still have it! It was interesting that you mentioned Ulrich Roth twice. That wasn't in the print issue, which surprised me at the time because his influence on Yngwie was so obvious. Thank you for sharing these recordings. Such a wonderful part of Guitar history!
I remember the printed version in GP being a pretty neutral interview with a few things that got others upset at Yngwie, and I thought that English not being his first language played a role, especially after I heard The Spotlight tape he had sent Mike Varney. His voice on that tape was slightly like a Swedish person trying to sound like an Englishman with a little bit of German sprinkled on top: "Uli Rote, 'Ary Moore" being cited as some of his guitar influences other than Hendrix, Blackmore, and Allan Holdsworth as his pitch, cadence and awkward emphasis on certain syllables gave off the effect of listening to a slightly warped record, but, of course, there was nothing at all warped about his spot-on playing. A little bit of time passed after this interview, and he had a talk with Steve Rosen for Guitar World that seemed to go very sideways, with odd highlights of him saying he had never heard Jeff Beck, placed in the magazine to appear as though, He (Yngwie) CLAIMS to have never heard OF Jeff Beck. The Rosen interview, combined with some off-putting behaviors (even before the notorious donut episode) pretty much marked Yngwie as a world-class jerk. After hearing this tape (and as I suspect I will find when I listen to part 2), I REALLY want to hear any recording of that interview by Steve Rosen to see how much was taken out of context to show Yngwie in a bad light. This tape definitely goes a long way toward proving what I always thought: That Yngwie's newly acquired (and at the time, still developing) English skills were a factor in many misunderstandings about what he was trying to share with us. I never got the weird vibes that some other folks did from this interview in print, which (again) I perceived to be pretty fair at the time, and these tapes seem to reinforce the notion that Yngwie was a well-intentioned young man, who could be easily misunderstood. How unfortunate they were not available soon enough to counter the slant of the Rosen/GW interview! Perhaps, a lot of people may have developed a more open opinion of Malmsteen decades ago.
He was labelled an egomaniac when he started soloing in the middle of song verses in Alcatrazz and couldn’t understand what he was doing wrong. I think he started out alright, but when he started getting so much attention, it got to his head because he had never been praised so highly by so many people; at home he was always told he’d never amount to anything as a musician and that he’d have to get a job. I’ll admit his abilities and attitude when he was starting were impressive, but he’s his own worst enemy.
What an excellent interview from a young Yngwie. He sounded so down to earth, modest, but very knowledgeable about what he was doing & about his contemporaries. I always remember when I first discovered him playing in the 1st half of the 1980s. I would enthuse about EVH and Michael Schenker & then one day this bloke said to me - 'Have you heard about THIS young guy' ? ...The TWO bizarre things I remember about Yngwie was that at first idiots didn't believe he was even REAL and then everyone in England was pronouncing his Christian Name INCORRECTLY......At this workplace (The Dental Estimates Board which I would call 'The Mental Destitute's Board') these people couldn't believe Yngwie was REAL. This clown kept insisting after being played No Parole From Rock N Roll - 'Its a CHEAT , Its a TAPE SPEEDED UP......NOBODY can play that FAST that ACCURATE with that emotional INTENSITY' .....So this Daft as a Brush idiot told me I was being fooled by a technological cheat like 'autotune' is today...Much like they falsely claimed EVH's 2 hand Bach solos were a 'synthesizer' solo cheat back in 1978.....Yngwie was so good that people wouldn't even believe he was REAL..🤔🧐😳...lol .....Then later when people went to the Alcatrazz gigs & heard bootlegs the daft Dumbos finally realized that Yngwie was in fact TOTALLY REAL.....That was a dinner plate drop wake up call ....CLANGGGG !!!😲😲...The moment when hundreds of thousands of guitar players globally suddenly went - 'Oh SH*T...WE'RE IN BLOODY TROUBLE NOW' 😧😦😨🥴🥴🥴.....Then they couldn't pronounce his first name correctly.....'Hey Evans, what do you think of 'ONG -VI' ?? ......then another one would come in and go - 'Have you heard this lead break by 'ARG-WEE' ?? ......One Jack Hammer even called him 'YIG-NEY' 😕🤥🙄....I think even when I was listening to Yngwie (pronounced ING-VAY) back then in Alcatrazz it was obvious that all these band he was placed in were too limited a musical environment for what he knew he could express as both a player & composer. The Steeler band wanted to limit his neo classical melodies by forcing him into 'thud rock cliche'.....Alcatrazz, (though Graham Bonnet was a totally brilliant vocalist),, might have been an attempt to build a Rainbow sound reunion without Mr. Blackmore but that wasn't going to work either. That's when Yngwie went his own way & carved out his own empire & thank GOD he did because anything else would have wasted his potential. And he never looked back. And re-designed the sound of Rock Guitar to sound like Paganini's violin. 💥💥💥💥💣💣💣👍👍👍🙏🙏
@@Juliana_So_Unique I'm only interested if you are (in the words of Roy Orbison) PRETTY WOMAN ....Sings - 'Pretty Woman , Don't walk on by..Pretty Woman don't make me cry.'
There are certain things that I will always find a bit mysterious about Yngwie's early history, and there is absolutely nothing more mysterious than his absolute command of not only the English language, but of the "American" dialect, vernacular and idioms. I do understand that English is taught as a second language in Sweden...but C"MON...how the heck was Yngwie speaking so "American" after only arriving in the USA a few months earlier, at the age of 19. He must have been learning and speaking English even when attending Sweden's equivalent of elementary and middle schools, and quite probably being taught by American-born teachers. Heck, it is difficult to even discern his native Swedish "accent", in these interviews.
Malmsteen talking about Gary Moore... very interesting, and shows that Gary was as important as Eddie playing guitar at that time. In fact, the difference was that Eddie was in the US and Gary was in Europe...
EVH moved to the US when he was 7, went to US schools and grew up there . I'd say he was more american than dutch tbh, when the first EVH album was released he was 23 . YJM came to the US as a 19/20 year old, not really the same thing.
@@transparent6748 Not as you worded it the first time, sure EVH was born in europe but he grew up as an american, not many refer to him as a "european" guitarist. He didn't play guitar at 7 while YJM had played for 13 years when he arrived to the US. I don't think thats the same, fine if you do though.
@@Sunedosa you won’t give up do you,,I’m sure his father who actually went to the states with his family and chased a music career influenced Eddie more than anyone,,Eddie learned piano first and his biggest hero was Eric Clapton who’s probably also American according to you,,if Eddie had been brought up in the states and schooled traditional wise in music the outcome would have sounded much different trust me,,,and yes a very famous youtuber for guitar technique Troy Grady calls him the dutch inventor
@@transparent6748 Does the wikipage say "European musician " then ? Even if you're technically correct he was not generally PERCEIVED as dutch/european. Argue against that as much as you want, more people consider him american than not : Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (/væn ˈheɪlən/ van HAY-lən, Dutch: [ˈɛtʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)]; January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020) was an American musician. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex in 1972. Van Halen is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in rock history,[1] and was well-known for popularizing the tapping guitar technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard.
Interesting hearing about Sweden back when it was civilized and sophisticated and low crime, apparently somewhat nationalistic too. Didn't take long to destroy themselves, like every other 'enlightened' European stock.
All laid out in the Protocols of Zion (1905). Planned and executed, all of it came true. 3hr audiobook reading uploads elsewhere on the other YT alternatives.
@@Nghilifa The whole of Europe could have shared in their success, at escaping the usury debt slave global system, but instead Europe was compromised by the enemy and turned against the one showing the way. Traitors like Churchill were used to achieve this.
40 yrs later and he never wavered from his vision
“For 8 years I played 9 hours per day.” That’s how you do it. Thanks for sharing the good stuff, Jas! 👌🏻🎸🖖🏻
That’s why so many stop playing it takes a lot.
He had me playing 10 hours a day I'll tell you that!
There are moments of this guy's guitar library that are absolute genius to me! The track "MARCHING OUT" on his second solo record called the same(marching out) is my all time favorite lead solo in a track. It has technique,melody,tons of feel and tone! Incredible playing!!!🤘🤘
A year later in 85 I got to hang out backstage with Yngwie and band. I was 15 and sat in front of him while he warmed up. Just amazing. Opening for AC/DC at the Hollywood Sportotorium..
When he first came out i became a Clone of him for about 4 years! I was playing his lines,hadxs cream strat, was dressing like him,had my hair styled like his and even had the attitude/ego back then!😂 my whole existence was Yngwie malmsteen back then, It was Edward Van Halen all over again to me.
I read this when it came out. He's a bit more humble on tape than it seemed in print. Glad to hear it.
Amazing interview. It puts everything about Yngwie into perspective. He comes across as an incredibly intelligent person. Hats off to Yngwie..
He is. I mean think about it: dude comes from a place that was very "closed" mentally (60/70s sweden, but any other northern eu countries was like that, now things are different) to fucking 80s Los Angeles lol. Can you imagine a 20 year old that became the hottest star in the guitar world overnight not going nuts and getting somewhat of an ego? That would happen to 95% of people.
I also think that coming from a very different place (remember, Sweden had a single tv channel that aired for 4 hours a day, no internet, and doing an international call would cost SHITTON of money so you really didn't know much about the outside world and other cultures) makes you think and being social in a very different manner (especially humor, yngwie's humor is very European, even to this day). Then in a blink of an eye everything gets reversed and you go from being some kid in Sweden that likes to play guitar to be considered a god. I mean, who wouldn't flip out lol. Let alone the fact that from there on fake fickle people start to surround you because of your sudden fame.
I think a lot of people misjudge yngwie from interviews he did in the 80s when admittedly yes, he was coming off as egotistical and a bit of a douche, especially when asked about guitar players. I can kinda understand why. I mean it's like you go interviewing a chef, or a movie director and you ask them about other people. You'd think the dude is an asshole, and so you'll start being an asshole too. You're supposed to talk about your guest, not bringing up other people constantly. It's pretty clear from this and many other interviews that he's simply 100% passionated about what he does and he doesn't compromise his artistic integrity for absolutely nothing or no one.
I am not trying to excuse yngwie for what has said in past interviews, I could care less shit as he doesn't even know I exist lol. I just think people often misjudge or take him completely out of context. There is a very recent Rick beato interview with yngwie and it's probably the best yngwie interview out there. It truly shows yngwie the man, and not the "rockstar". Go check it, it's really REALLY good.
He is to an extent, buy he made a major mistake getting rid of JLT, since then his albums got worse and worse, as did his career
Thanks for publishing this. Articulate, intelligent, humble, great interview with Yngvie.
this is such a wonderful and honest interview with Yngwie! thanks for sharing!
Greetings from Germany, KREUZZER!
oh my god. this is GOLD Jas. (all your work is) But to actually hear this interview is going to be absolutely insane. thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yip ….lol
@@walterevans2118 hahaha. I've been a super Yngwie nerd since around 85. This era is so interesting. I am about 23 minutes in now and man it is better than I even hoped. !!
I know! 'oh I started speaking English about 18 months ago ' whaaaa!!!???
This is fantastic 4 YM fans .. Holy Grail of Yngwie interviews !!!! 🎸🐐
These interviews are absolutely priceless. It's such an amazing treat. Thank you, sir.
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Wow!!!! I found your channel a while ago, and listened to the Barney Kessel interview, but I didn't know ALL these tapes were available now?
Yngwie was my 3rd guitar hero, and when I heard him my whole playing world changed. I no longer play rock, I play Jazz, and mostly Gypsy jazz now, and I'm so glad i have so many interviews to listen to. I also loved you guitar column when I was a kid, so thx for all of this. I finally have the time in life to listen to these taped interviews.
Jas, you were my favorite music journalist. Loved your columns . I also learned English reading Guitar Player and Guitar World. I started plying guitar after the movie Crossroads. But my main influence was Malmsteen. I couldn't believe someone could play like that.
Thank you so much, mr. Obrecht for all the great articles, columns and great questions. 👍
Thanks for sharing.
I'll never forget the first time I heard him play. Spring 1984, I was about to head out the door to get on the school bus with MTV on. The video came on for "Island In The Sun" and that solo floored me. Spent all day at school wondering "what the hell was that?" And I thought the term "it is what it is" was of a relatively recent origin; here we hear the Maestro using it in 1984! (3:25). A linguistic as well as a musical groundbreaker LOL! Great interview and I agree with some of the other comments, he comes across here as much more humble and down to earth than the interviews in print lead me to believe. Great stuff! Thank you Jas.
Hahaha...I still remember watching "Island in the Sun" when I had maybe played guitar for a few months and thought..."WHO THE HELL IS THIS GUY PLAYING THE COOL SOLO???" (as he's ripping on the guitar walking down the prison hallway, lol). Years later would find out...oh it's THAT guy...what an insane talent, once in a generation type player.
I never realized --Yngwie is a prodigy!
Thanks Jas! Something incredible to listen to at work this morning
This is amazing to hear! Thanks so much for posting this. Yngwie sounds like such a sweet guy back when he was young. It’s true about how jealous people can get, and I could just imagine what it was like for yngwie. I bet half the negative stories you hear about him are borne out of jealousy
This is truly fantastic-thanks for posting!
Man the idea that the Solos were improvised with no splicing is wild.
He was a very bright and focused 20 year old. Pretty humble too. No wonder so many hate(d) him. Commonality with Edward in your recently released interviews, not in it for the money. They are always the ones that succeed. His now famous ego is pretty justified. Zero compromise to his vision. I'm not a massive Yngwie fan but I'll put out there that after Hendrix; then Edward; he really was the next 6 string electric game changer. 🤘
Absolutely. Like Ed Yngwie was this pure focused musician who just loved to play and create and to take his instrument to a new level. He wasn’t into the ‘fame’ trip at all.. He loved to play too much for all that…I also remember that like with ED VH a lot of other players became very jealous of him and at such a young age in the spotlight that must have been a heavy burden for Yngwie to take looking back.
You could tell here that Yngwie was a purist musician by what he said about the word ‘practice’..He felt that word implied some kind of arduous ‘sacrifice’ but to him it wasn’t…Just playing the guitar was something he ENJOYED.😊
yup. you are spot on with this!!
You forgot Allan Holdsworth, a TOTAL game changer…..
@@vbassone Yes. Allan was a genius because he took the guitar which is an instrument sounded with percussive attack on the strings and turned it into sounding like an instrument you blow upon. Like a saxophone…As EVH said of Allan -‘The attack of his pick is INVISIBLE’. Yngwie LOVED Allans playing. Right back to this interview …Somewhere on UA-cam there is a video on Yngwie and his band doing a sound check playing Allan’s stuff of UK ‘S In the Dead of Night…Plus on a section of Kree Nakoorie on the No Parole from Rock and Roll album Yngwie was promoting in this interview you can hear him use the vibrato bar in ways that kind of sound like a tribute to Allan’s playing..Among doing his own thing.
Loved the interview! Thank you!
No guitar player can beat Yngwie in this style of playing! King Yngwie!
"This style" is YNGWIE! 😁 Seriously can anyone name anyone that was playing
like what you hear him playing on Rising force or Marching out? Back then i was playing for about 4 years
and i remember thinking this guy definitely invented another way to play that was nothing
like Eddie Van Halen who everyone and i Mean EVERYONE was copying! Even the guy
with the Rick james Band was copying eddie! Yngwie has his own style 100%! I don't hear the typical Eddie influence
with him. Love the way he took Paganini Violin licks and baroque music and used them in a heavier context.
What a great interview, thank you Jas this is amazing. PLEASE post a Randy Rhoads interview if it exists.
Here is a funny one: Myself being used to the German pronunciation of J.S. and Johann's last names, at ca. 42min when you mentioned Randy being into Bach and Pachelbel I misheard the words and instead heard: "Taco Bell"; so I genuinely had the same impression of Yngwie as "WHO's THAT!?" so I had to rewind a bit to check about it ( even the YT's CC got it like that too !) hehehehehe gosh I had a laugh. Anyhow, THANK YOU very much sir for sharing these jewels. All the best ! AB ps.- I am subscribing.
Hi Jas, thanks for posting! Great interview!
Amazing interview! I see Yngwie differently. He has a reputation for being arrogant or egotistical but he is in fact humble. I think this is because he is confident and knows what he wants. I find it amazing that Yngwie was able to develop his style and technique on his own before he was 20 years old. A non musician may not understand completely how amazing his technique is. To put it simply there was no one playing like this on guitar for almost another 20 years, and to this day even with the internet making learning the guitar so much easier there aren't too many guitarist in the world that have this degree of technique. I have heard less than a handful and none of them come close to Yngwie. He was able to figure out on his own technique that differed greatly from other guitarist in terms of mechanics which allowed him to play so fast. I love that Yngwie is a purist. An example being his use of single coil guitar pickups in a world dominated by double coil pickups in the hard rock world. Yngwie created "shred" guitar.
Great interview !
Thanks for putting it Up.
Great Interview. Malmsteen appeared more mature back then.
It was before fame and fortune took it's grips
@@elec123 and before he got CTE from his car accident
Cte?
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Yep. Seeing a lot of people in the comments saying “oh he’s not egotistical, he’s just confident.” Or saying that his ego is acceptable because he’s brilliant. Or that people are jealous. Yes, he was brilliant, but you can’t behave like an asshole because you’re good at something.
In that Mike Varney/Spotlight under influences: Uli Jon Roth, Al DiMeola, Allan Holdsworth and Ritchie Blackmore! Great to hear this interview!
Almost finished with part one, looking forward for part two. I keep reminding myself that he is only 21 years old here. Or maybe still 20, trying to temember the dates and his birthday.
Man, just like listening to Jan’s interview with Eddie when he was still only 21 or 22. So much experience with everything, different types of playing, gear, this sounds like an interview that could’ve just been done this week. I don’t remember hearing many guitar players talking about melody and modes and scales, and just giving such great advice. I mean, 21 years old. And so advanced. Just like Eddie and Randy, and maybe a few other greats!!! 😝🤘🏻🎸
All without the help of the internet too, which all the recent so called amazing musicians rely on. Yngwie is truly self taught in every sense, and a true genius.
i love Yngwie. i have been listening to him nearly everyday of my lif since i first heard him in 1991 when i was 14 yrs old. I enjoy his playing that much.
When yngwie first came to this country and started touring with Steeler they did a little record promotion add a record shop and my girlfriend went and she said there was only about 10 people there and she first met yngwie and talk to him for a couple of hours and she said he was a beautiful guy. Then every timing they would come back to town she would go to the show and he would get her VIP passes and he treated her like gold. Finally one day he came on tour and she brought me to the show and introduce me to him on his tour bus and he was a very nice guy. Contrary to all the stories I hear I didn't have a problem with him. But then I didn't get on his nerves 🤣
Ah nice.
Very cool experience 💥
Yngwie’s temperament tends to vary depending on how drunk he is.
This is so great! I've been waiting/hoping for this one. I discovered Yngwie in August 1983 when I bought the Steeler album. On New Year's Eve, I was at a party and the radio station from Providence RI was counting down the best metal albums of the year. I heard the DJ say something about "guitar player from Steeler" which got my attention. I don't remember what track they played, but I bought the album two days later. That would have been January 2, the day before this was recorded. I got the Guitar Player issue with the interview about a month later. Talking Heads on the cover. I still have it!
It was interesting that you mentioned Ulrich Roth twice. That wasn't in the print issue, which surprised me at the time because his influence on Yngwie was so obvious.
Thank you for sharing these recordings. Such a wonderful part of Guitar history!
So cool Jas... Johnny Beane sent me... I see him live with then back in the 80s... my senior year in High School... it was a killer show! 🤘😎🎸🔥
I remember the printed version in GP being a pretty neutral interview with a few things that got others upset at Yngwie, and I thought that English not being his first language played a role, especially after I heard The Spotlight tape he had sent Mike Varney. His voice on that tape was slightly like a Swedish person trying to sound like an Englishman with a little bit of German sprinkled on top: "Uli Rote, 'Ary Moore" being cited as some of his guitar influences other than Hendrix, Blackmore, and Allan Holdsworth as his pitch, cadence and awkward emphasis on certain syllables gave off the effect of listening to a slightly warped record, but, of course, there was nothing at all warped about his spot-on playing.
A little bit of time passed after this interview, and he had a talk with Steve Rosen for Guitar World that seemed to go very sideways, with odd highlights of him saying he had never heard Jeff Beck, placed in the magazine to appear as though, He (Yngwie) CLAIMS to have never heard OF Jeff Beck. The Rosen interview, combined with some off-putting behaviors (even before the notorious donut episode) pretty much marked Yngwie as a world-class jerk.
After hearing this tape (and as I suspect I will find when I listen to part 2), I REALLY want to hear any recording of that interview by Steve Rosen to see how much was taken out of context to show Yngwie in a bad light.
This tape definitely goes a long way toward proving what I always thought: That Yngwie's newly acquired (and at the time, still developing) English skills were a factor in many misunderstandings about what he was trying to share with us. I never got the weird vibes that some other folks did from this interview in print, which (again) I perceived to be pretty fair at the time, and these tapes seem to reinforce the notion that Yngwie was a well-intentioned young man, who could be easily misunderstood. How unfortunate they were not available soon enough to counter the slant of the Rosen/GW interview! Perhaps, a lot of people may have developed a more open opinion of Malmsteen decades ago.
YNGWIE Interview ....Early 1984 ??...BRILLIANT.
He sounds so nice. Kind of weird that he was labeled an egomaniac from the day he landed here.
He was labelled an egomaniac when he started soloing in the middle of song verses in Alcatrazz and couldn’t understand what he was doing wrong. I think he started out alright, but when he started getting so much attention, it got to his head because he had never been praised so highly by so many people; at home he was always told he’d never amount to anything as a musician and that he’d have to get a job. I’ll admit his abilities and attitude when he was starting were impressive, but he’s his own worst enemy.
🤘 awesome 🤘
What an excellent interview from a young Yngwie. He sounded so down to earth, modest, but very knowledgeable about what he was doing & about his contemporaries. I always remember when I first discovered him playing in the 1st half of the 1980s. I would enthuse about EVH and Michael Schenker & then one day this bloke said to me - 'Have you heard about THIS young guy' ? ...The TWO bizarre things I remember about Yngwie was that at first idiots didn't believe he was even REAL and then everyone in England was pronouncing his Christian Name INCORRECTLY......At this workplace (The Dental Estimates Board which I would call 'The Mental Destitute's Board') these people couldn't believe Yngwie was REAL. This clown kept insisting after being played No Parole From Rock N Roll - 'Its a CHEAT , Its a TAPE SPEEDED UP......NOBODY can play that FAST that ACCURATE with that emotional INTENSITY' .....So this Daft as a Brush idiot told me I was being fooled by a technological cheat like 'autotune' is today...Much like they falsely claimed EVH's 2 hand Bach solos were a 'synthesizer' solo cheat back in 1978.....Yngwie was so good that people wouldn't even believe he was REAL..🤔🧐😳...lol .....Then later when people went to the Alcatrazz gigs & heard bootlegs the daft Dumbos finally realized that Yngwie was in fact TOTALLY REAL.....That was a dinner plate drop wake up call ....CLANGGGG !!!😲😲...The moment when hundreds of thousands of guitar players globally suddenly went - 'Oh SH*T...WE'RE IN BLOODY TROUBLE NOW' 😧😦😨🥴🥴🥴.....Then they couldn't pronounce his first name correctly.....'Hey Evans, what do you think of 'ONG -VI' ?? ......then another one would come in and go - 'Have you heard this lead break by 'ARG-WEE' ?? ......One Jack Hammer even called him 'YIG-NEY' 😕🤥🙄....I think even when I was listening to Yngwie (pronounced ING-VAY) back then in Alcatrazz it was obvious that all these band he was placed in were too limited a musical environment for what he knew he could express as both a player & composer. The Steeler band wanted to limit his neo classical melodies by forcing him into 'thud rock cliche'.....Alcatrazz, (though Graham Bonnet was a totally brilliant vocalist),, might have been an attempt to build a Rainbow sound reunion without Mr. Blackmore but that wasn't going to work either. That's when Yngwie went his own way & carved out his own empire & thank GOD he did because anything else would have wasted his potential. And he never looked back. And re-designed the sound of Rock Guitar to sound like Paganini's violin. 💥💥💥💥💣💣💣👍👍👍🙏🙏
You certainly are a passionate man.
@@Juliana_So_Unique That's rich coming from someone with the profile title - 'Lesbian Mustard Bottle'....lolol
@@walterevans2118 You should see my seed. My mustard seed.
@@Juliana_So_Unique I'm only interested if you are (in the words of Roy Orbison) PRETTY WOMAN ....Sings - 'Pretty Woman , Don't walk on by..Pretty Woman don't make me cry.'
He never mentions Talee Savage who came to America with him and lived with him during the Steeler period. I chat with her a few times
I learned a lot from sir yngwie by playing transcriptions. I am a viking etc. ... Great for development but I never got to his phenomenal speed
So cool he learned English to read your work. The circle is complete
very cool !!!!
There are certain things that I will always find a bit mysterious about Yngwie's early history, and there is absolutely nothing more mysterious than his absolute command of not only the English language, but of the "American" dialect, vernacular and idioms. I do understand that English is taught as a second language in Sweden...but C"MON...how the heck was Yngwie speaking so "American" after only arriving in the USA a few months earlier, at the age of 19.
He must have been learning and speaking English even when attending Sweden's equivalent of elementary and middle schools, and quite probably being taught by American-born teachers.
Heck, it is difficult to even discern his native Swedish "accent", in these interviews.
Genius
yngwie was playing out of his mind back then.
16:14 Schenker is tasty
@@bradford_shaun_murray lol
His English was way better back then!
Before the car crash.
I read 86 percent of people speak English in Sweden. English is taught universally in Sweden.
Yngwie!
Malmsteen talking about Gary Moore... very interesting, and shows that Gary was as important as Eddie playing guitar at that time. In fact, the difference was that Eddie was in the US and Gary was in Europe...
He learned English from reading Guitar Player Mag. Fitting 🎸
He literally said Eddie didn’t play melody he’s a flashy player lmao!
Correction,,Eddie Van Halen is a European guitarist like you Yngwie lol,,living in the states 😅
EVH moved to the US when he was 7, went to US schools and grew up there . I'd say he was more american than dutch tbh, when the first EVH album was released he was 23 . YJM came to the US as a 19/20 year old, not really the same thing.
@@Sunedosa it’s absolutely the same,,not born in America.period
@@transparent6748 Not as you worded it the first time, sure EVH was born in europe but he grew up as an american, not many refer to him as a "european" guitarist. He didn't play guitar at 7 while YJM had played for 13 years when he arrived to the US. I don't think thats the same, fine if you do though.
@@Sunedosa you won’t give up do you,,I’m sure his father who actually went to the states with his family and chased a music career influenced Eddie more than anyone,,Eddie learned piano first and his biggest hero was Eric Clapton who’s probably also American according to you,,if Eddie had been brought up in the states and schooled traditional wise in music the outcome would have sounded much different trust me,,,and yes a very famous youtuber for guitar technique Troy Grady calls him the dutch inventor
@@transparent6748 Does the wikipage say "European musician " then ? Even if you're technically correct he was not generally PERCEIVED as dutch/european. Argue against that as much as you want, more people consider him american than not :
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen (/væn ˈheɪlən/ van HAY-lən, Dutch: [ˈɛtʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)]; January 26, 1955 - October 6, 2020) was an American musician. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex in 1972.
Van Halen is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitar players in rock history,[1] and was well-known for popularizing the tapping guitar technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard.
Come on. John Norum?
Which Bach!? 😂😂😂😂😂
NO PAROLE FROM ROCK'N'ROLL
Interesting hearing about Sweden back when it was civilized and sophisticated and low crime, apparently somewhat nationalistic too. Didn't take long to destroy themselves, like every other 'enlightened' European stock.
All laid out in the Protocols of Zion (1905). Planned and executed, all of it came true. 3hr audiobook reading uploads elsewhere on the other YT alternatives.
Germany was low crime and nationalistic way back when, look how that turned out. Nothing good comes out of nationalism.
@@Nghilifa The whole of Europe could have shared in their success, at escaping the usury debt slave global system, but instead Europe was compromised by the enemy and turned against the one showing the way. Traitors like Churchill were used to achieve this.
Lol asking for his full birthday. Nobody gives out that information anymore because of ID theft.
I like KISS but he is good too. KISS is rock and roll and he plays rock and roll so he plays good too.