When I was about 17, I stood for over an hour in the rain outside the stage door of the Paramount in Seattle, hoping to get Yngwie's autograph... Yngwie could not have been a bigger jerk to me. I was soaking wet in my new Yngwie concert shirt, and just stunned at how rude he was to me. I was THE Yngwie supporter of my high school. I had gotten into fist fights over people slandering him... I was crushed. But then, out pops Joe Lynn Turner. He gives me a huge smile, shakes my hand, and says "How ya doing? I hope you liked the show tonight!" He was so cool and down to earth! He chatted with 3 or 4 of us for a good 15 minutes, very kind and respectful to everyone. I got the sense that Joe was pretty fed up with how Yngwie treated the fans that had the "privilege " of meeting him. Joe asked me with a wry smile, "Did you get to meet Prince Charming?" We both laughed and then he was off with a handshake and a smile... Joe Lynn Turner is one hell of a great singer, and a really good Dude. 👍

@z1az285

3 ай бұрын

hmmm...sounds like yngwie did try his best to emulate one aspect of Blackmore, though ritchie has definitely improved over the years

@georgestanley8837

3 ай бұрын

Yes, Yngwie is a legend in his own mind

@TheRichie213

3 ай бұрын

You should of offered him a donut 🍩 😂

@maxxschneider5534

3 ай бұрын

I've known more talented assholes than I can count. I don't care how good he is you have no right to be disrespectful.

@z1az285

3 ай бұрын

@@georgestanley8837 He is incredibly talented, but he is not the only one and there are others just as gifted as him with a lot more humility

“Yngwie’s Yngwie” that’s the best description of the man ever. Great clip!

@whynottalklikeapirat

3 ай бұрын

People use that meme regularly about everyone and everything in everyday life. “Dad’s dad, mom’s mom, a dog is a dog and it is what it is”. He hardly invented faster than light speed travel with that one, even Steins “a rose is a rose is a rose” is a cliche at this point …

Probably Yngwie's best album. Joe is definitely my favourite of the singers YJM had. I saw the tour. It was an amazing show. JLT was outstanding.

@ral8031

3 ай бұрын

No

@stevegardiner8473

3 ай бұрын

@@ral8031 ha ha. You are entitled to your opinion. Even if it's wrong 😉

@down-the-rabbit-hole

3 ай бұрын

I prefer Jeff Scott Soto

@stevegardiner8473

3 ай бұрын

@@down-the-rabbit-hole JSS perfectly suited the early stuff he sang on 👍

@stevegardiner8473

17 күн бұрын

@@BeaverdamMan I actually really like the Eclipse album. I think it has some great tracks, and I think Göran Edman did a pretty good job on it. I saw the tour, and while Edman couldn't really compete with JLT, it was a decent enough show, which I thoroughly enjoyed.

36 years aince I heard Odyssey for the first time. Changed my life! Thank you Joe!

I went to a meet and greet during the 'Rising Force' tour and I have to say Joe was so nice and kind to me as a late teen. Yngwie was also cool but Joe actually asked me questions such a great dude!

Odessy is Yngwies best album. Joe said it right. Yngwie didn't over play. He just played enough.

Best vocalist for Yngwie by a mile. Love that album and the live in Leningrad album. Joe is a legend!

Odyssey is a great album and stands out because of the quality of Joe’s vocals, and melodies too. Joe pushed his upper range on that album, really impressive.

@tjhooker824

2 ай бұрын

I think Joe and Yngwie pushed each other just right. Yngwie had horrible depression during this period. Lots of personal tragedy and emotional instability. Yngwie said himself he was struggling too much to be dialed in.

Respect for Mr. Turner,one of the best vocalists ever .He is so right...

What a powerhouse Joe Lynn and Maestro Malmsteen!

@kaudsiz

3 ай бұрын

With Malmsteen it’s more like a cocaine and alcohol-fuelled madhouse

By far, Odyssey is Yngwie’s best album. THANK YOU Joe Lynn Turner 👍🏼

This is called tact kids. It's a lost art. Learn how to utilize it because history will respect you more. You don't have to vomit every feeling onto social media. JLT made his observations so palatable in how he approached the subject. Respect.

Got to see the Odyssey tour when they came through Philly...Joe was incredible on vocals and Yngwie was in his prime!!!

BIG FAN - Joe - I met you at the Birch Hill, Sayerville NJ - You were eating a cheeseburger and I came up to bother you! You signed an autograph for me, and were very personable. True Pro - Amazing voice!

Odyssey is the best Yngwie album and he should've stayed the course. JLT is such a gentleman and everything he's involved in is spectacular. And his resume is insane! He said it perfectly "he did not overplay".

@down-the-rabbit-hole

3 ай бұрын

I prefer Trilogy and Marching Out. Then again, I love Jeff Scott Soto.

@evhfan5150

3 ай бұрын

@@down-the-rabbit-hole agree with Trilogy..Odyssey was good but Trilogy was better..

I wore out my Odyssey CD listening to it on the school bus in high school back in the 90s. Great album, great vocals. My favorite yngwie album for sure.

Best album Yngwie ever did and it was because of Joe Lynn Turner. He is an incredible singer and writer.

@Pazuzu-

4 ай бұрын

Not even remotely close of being Yngwie best album.

@user-df7lz6ds6x

4 ай бұрын

@@Pazuzu- 🤣 yeah, OK then.

@nicholasdorazio10

4 ай бұрын

@user-df7lz6ds6x That's very hard lol, I would agree saying I don't think it's his best. It's effing great though!

@josephkunath4173

4 ай бұрын

Eclipse, Fire and Ice, Seventh Sign, Magnum Opus, Facing the Animal and Alchemy smoke this album.

@Pazuzu-

4 ай бұрын

@@josephkunath4173 Pretty much. Dont forget Marching Out and his Alcatrazz album.

Joe Lynn Turner was the best thing to happen to yngwie and gave him his best shot at real mainstream success. They wrote great music together… I saw them on that tour and they were phenomenal live. Joe is the real deal with the Midas touch.

@michief3801

4 ай бұрын

Yes! The best live line up Yngwie ever had was the Leningrad show with Joe Swede bros and Dunaway

Love Odyssey. Yngwie's best album. Riot in the Dungeons is sooo underrated.

@AnthonyWabo

3 ай бұрын

It's mine and my dad's favorite song of the album! He raised me on good music, man!

@lewisgraham4235

3 ай бұрын

Die on your feet or live on your knees! Classic!

@tjhooker824

2 ай бұрын

Every note on that album is perfect

Odessy my favorite Yngwie Album with Joe Lynn Tuner songs like Heaven Tonight ,Crystal Ball, Rising Force, were perfection

Masterwork of an album. I love Bob Daisley’s bass part on “Crystal Ball”. Still my fave Yngwie track.

@Mr.Wrong1

3 ай бұрын

Crystal Ball is a gem of a track. My favourite song on that album.

@tjhooker824

2 ай бұрын

Bob Daisley is a BEAST

Huge respect for this great singer 🤙

Leningrad, got the Video, that Jacket Joe (I bought one) You were awesome, a powerful singer and you helped Y's band become a Rising Force. You still are a Powerful singer Joe😊

Great album and Joe is a legend and definitely one of the best vocalists for sure.

To say Yngwie was not a good songwriter would be wrong, Yngwie was a great song writer as one can hear on his first 3 albums before Turner, but with Turner the songs became more radio friendly songs for that time. Great songs for sure.

@silverstone3228

3 ай бұрын

I never understood people saying he is not a good songwriter, for them songwriting process means commercial radio shit and i can’t stand that ,

@tedkord1968

3 ай бұрын

Yngwie was a great writer of music, lyrics not so much.

@okidoke-xe8gj

3 ай бұрын

100% agree... Eclipse was also very good

@tjhooker824

2 ай бұрын

They just don’t understand that all of the baroque influence and stylistic choices are enhancements

Most down to earth Album of his career. Close to what 'Van Hallen' on the "mainstream" thing And I love Joe Lynn Turner, his so cool!

I saw them at Hammerjacks in Baltimore April 10th,1988. Two days after the album’s release.One of the best shows ever for me. I was 23 at the time, yngwie was 24 Joe Lynn turner was 37

Cracking album - when I heard rising force for the first time, my mind was blown as a kid.

I love Joey Lynn Turner on the Yngwie Albums! I was listening to those when I was stationed in Germany in 1990. I had listened to Yngwie first in 1988 the Trilogy album.

Great interview!! Saw this tour at Barrymore’s in Ottawa as a late teen. Incredible show. Love the backstory. JLT looks like he’s aged gracefully with all his faculties. Great to see.

I always thought that Yngwie Malmsteen and Joe Lynn Turner would have made more albums together!!!! That Odyssey record was really good!!!! Not only was it commercial AOR album, but 😊😊😊😊it featured Malmsteen's technical chops on guitar!!!!😊😊😊

@michaeldean7220

4 ай бұрын

Spot on! However, spectacular the guitar playing it still needs to be in the context of a good song.

the first time i seen Joe Lynn Turner was in 1983 with Rainbow. it was a video and he really stood out to me as a great singer.

I have always been a big fan of Yngwie and JLT. Odyssey was my favorite album by far!

It's true that most of Yngwie's singers made 2 records with him. JLT we will always miss the second one that we never had the occasion to hear with you!

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

3 ай бұрын

He did two albums! Live in Leningrad is great.

@astralcrab

3 ай бұрын

Matt Leven did also only one

Joe is so fuckin' cool. Odyssey Is a great record. I wore out a copy of the "Live In Leningrad" video. I'm also glad that Joe ditched that wig. He looks so much better like this. I'm glad he finally embraced the look. I'd work with Joe any day.

Odyssey is an amazing record… 🙏🙏🙏

Went to see him in Norman Oklahoma as a teenager and he canceled. We were devastated and never bought another ticket for one of his shows. I believe it was 1985 or 1986 and he was opening for ELP.

Yngwie's best are his 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Eclipse was as good as Odyssey. Live in Leningrad goes to 4th place in my rating. Joe Lynn Turner seems the kind of gentleman I would like to have discussions with on many topics, more than others in the YM history. Joe's attitude and work ethics seem admirable and a good sense for melody too.

JoeLynn is my hero. What a fucking tone this man has. rising force is still my go to when I crack my first tinnie

…And what an interview! Wow 😮

one of the best shows I saw back in the day . Concord Pavillion was so good I had to go the next night to The Warfield. Joes vocals were stunning

If anyone remembers Guitar School magazine there an interview with Yngwie in about 1990 where he was asked what he thought of rap music? The young Yngwie replied "That stuff is rock bottom sh*t!". 😂

@alexrossi4464

3 ай бұрын

Can't stand rap, techno! 😲😭

Odyssey was on my turntable no matter what other music I listened parallel..my favorite still is crystal ball

JLT, the archetypal perfect Rock singer huge range , fantastic vibrato and tone ,after I surrender i was mesmerised ,I had the guitar skills as a young dude but never found a singef anywhere near JLT .!

Still one of my favorite albums! JLT was the icing on the cake.

Hey Joe! Wish I had the chance to thank you for the good ole days when Ezra introduced me to many of my favorite songs!

I was lucky enough to see this lineup of the band in Pensacola Fl back in the day!

Joe has never lacked confidence. I doubt history will remember him as one of the greatest, but he has always been the right guy for the albums he's been on.

My favorite Rising Force album!! 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

Great cd. I remember buying it when it came out. I just graduated from college.

Lately, I've been checking out the available Joe Lynn with Purple live videos here. By all means watch them!! A lesson in great, relaxed and soulful singing. Consistently high level!!

Dee is such a nice humble guy. About 11/12 years ago I walked into him on my vacation in LA. And I usually don’t tell celebs that I appreciate “thanks for your all you done, it’s been important for me.” Because they are doing their day to day business too. But in this case I just had to say: “Excuse Mr Snider, thank you so much for your music. It marked a great time in my life and your songs played loudly when I did my homework - even though is said were not gonna take this homework!” He smiled shook my hand said nicely: “it’s been great for us to! Have a great day.” And to you sir. “It’s Dee btw” 😂 I think he’d expected me to also for a self or autograph but for me just saying thanks is all I need. What a great dude!

@BeamRider100

3 ай бұрын

Looks a bit like Dee now.

Joseph Arthur Mark Linquito aka JLT. One of my favorite singers from the Rainbow era...

"Heaven Tonight" is by far Yngwie's best song. His playing actually had feeling on that song and the lyrics and singing were great.

Malmsteen is definitely “his own worst enemy”

@williammalakuskie6355

4 ай бұрын

He wrote a song with that title !

Cool image with the Shades! JLT worked Rising Force which Yng opens every show with to this day!

Dont Let It End is a helluva jam too!

@xtreemrokker

3 ай бұрын

That was Jeff Scott Soto who co-wrote that with Yngwie. He’s a decent composer but never ever will be the songwriter he purports himself in being. The other song with which he apparently wrote with Jeff Scott Soto was “I’ll See The Light Tonight.” Both songs, you may remember, were on Marching Out (1985).

@dmitryowens

3 ай бұрын

​@@xtreemrokker JSS was a killer singer.

@down-the-rabbit-hole

3 ай бұрын

@@xtreemrokker Jeff Scott Soto is an amazing singer and my favorite with Yngwie

great Interview. I wish Yngwie would work with a singer again

@dmitryowens

3 ай бұрын

He needs to - he's a terrible singer.

Joe is looking great, btw, terrific singer and an amazing human being....

Class

Joe Lynn Turner was the Best Vocal Yngwie ever had and will ever have!!!

You're so right Joe. It is what it is.....

Odyssey is a great album!

Did you ever hear his work with Riot?? Outstanding!!!

This album and Eclipse are some of YJMs best song based releases. ❤

❤JLT is a swell, good-hearted guy. He stuck around where others probably would have left. Odyssey is a great album, but you can hear how Yngwie's playing suffered post-the-car-accident. But a great album nonetheless.

only 2nd to Marching Out....great abum! The song Rising Force just slams!

I love that album a lot too. It's beautiful work, I really don't understand why Yngwie hates it because it's conventional or cheese. That solo on Now is the time is pure gold, and Joe Lynn Turner's voice is wonderful, as always in all his work with YJM.

Joe looks cool af without hair!

Odyssey is one of my favorite albums Yngwie did and I wish you had worked with him on more albums. Always loved your voice Joe.

Great Sethi!

I'm under no illusion that Yngwie was probably not someone people wanted to be best friends with. He's a great guitarist, among other things, and he, like me and everyone else, has our demons. Musically speaking, Yngwie's story is a lot like Nikola Tesla's in terms of, both men were absolutely brilliant at what they did. They didn't receive the kind of reception they should have. Now, personality wise, they had very little in common, but had they received it, musically, we'd be in a different place, and technologically, if we went with Tesla's ideas, we wouldn't even recognize what we could have had compared to what we do. It seems if you get a little too creative or intelligent for society, it rejects them, for which, we all lose. I say this is all due respect to Joe Lynn Turner, he did good with Odyssey in terms of getting it on the charts, but with ballads, I don't think Yngwie's heart was in them. His style with slower tracks like Crying (Trilogy), Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4 (Rising Force), or Marching Out once you get past the really fast intro (Marching Out), he does better slower tempo songs through instrumentals. Mark Boals did Yngwie a lot better justice with Trilogy, and later with Alchemy and War to End all Wars, and to be fair, even Mark had issues with Yngwie midway through the Trilogy tour. My favorite Joe Lynn Turner involved song was, and is Street of Dreams. Rainbow was a great band, but it seems like they (JLT included) wrote that song specifically to be performed by JLT. I'm not saying this was the case, BUUTTT.... I think Rainbow at least had more chemistry with JLT than Yngwie Malmsteen did.

Just about every big band has had feuds at least once and now that all of these rockstars are aging we really get to see who lets go and forgets about the petty ego-driven fights they had and who doesn't. Great of JLT to recognize Yngwie's personality is just the way it is, and also to admit he was in a very difficult position at the time which might have influenced his decisions.

Yngwie has always been about himself. Thats just yngwie. It served him well for a long time. But got old pretty quick. I guess he’s mellowed out quite a bit if he can tour with Satriani, Vai and Paul Gilbert.

Joe you'r the best❤

Joe was on fire in Odyssey. Yngwie wouldve been smart to make another album with him but here we are. Many times in life, stupid ppl are granted certain skill sets. Yngwie fit that mold many times over

I took Joes wife and Ingwie’s girlfriend to McDonald’s in my personal car. Me and my girlfriend worked at the holiday inn in Dayton Ohio. Scored some back stage passes for my effort. It was a great show. The bass player said he broke his foot at the last show before the Dayton Area. I was surprised that Ingwie was drinking red wine and everyone was was really nice. Especially Joe.

"I'm my own worst enemy" is a great quote from Joe here. Coincidentally, Yngwie wrote a song called "I'm my own enemy" that came out on the Fire and Ice album a few years after Odyssey. I'd take several albums over Odyssey, but it did have some great tunes.

saw him 1989 at the concert in Hamburg,Germany (Docks) Hell of a concert with the Johanson bros....I hope they all reunite for Odysee 2...

Very thoughtful and intelligent man

Brutally honest about Malmsteen. I can´t understand why Yngwie hates his singers so much. Joe is right when he talks about Malmsteen´s limitations and I guess that´s precisely the problem: his lack of objectivity about himself. Too much ego or insecurity? Maybe both.

@dmitryowens

3 ай бұрын

Yngwie's vocals are awful.

Last album wow 😮

I remember when the band came to my city, there was joe out front.......and there was Yngwie out front, you could tell there was some spotlight tussle going on, can only imagine when the donuts arrived, yngwie loves his donuts

it was his best record. , that one was a classic, in my time,

@Pazuzu-

4 ай бұрын

All the other 80s Yngwie albums are miles ahead of Odyssey by absolutely any other criteria imaginable.

Yngwie's worst career mistake was turning Joe away. The Live in Leningrad concert is one of the most epic musical performances of all time despite the wardrobes. It's sad to hear how Joe was treated after looking after him after his car accident.

@user-lv7ph7hs7l

3 ай бұрын

"...depite the wardrobes." Haha dude. Yeah.

Listen I appreciate everything Turner is saying and at that time it must’ve been quite a hectic scene All of Yngwies singers have been very unique and he’s right, the singing isn’t his strong point, he is a virtuoso guitar player but you just have to respect him because he’s done it his way all the way through up to right now, Long live the maestro

That is my favorite malmsteen album just for reason he said didt over play

What!? No way, the days with Vescera, Sparks and Terrana were IT \m/

Odyssey and Fire&Ice are Yngwies best albums

⚡💯

JLT's Magnum Opus Brilliant vocals on that Album

@hydraodisy3758

4 ай бұрын

That was not Joe Lyn Turner but Michael Vescera on vocals on Magnum Opus.

Comrade forgot to put his wig on before the interview😂

"middle aged" rockstars and their bold stories ❤

Million % right

Joes New look is cool as fuck.

If Yngwie had continued making albums as good as Odissey, he wouldn't be dragging his ass around today. His last good album was Eclipse, from then on it has been downhill and without brakes.

Odyssey and Eclipse were GREAT Albums

Al i the only one who love the song hold on from that record? It was my favorite song for a few years, even though its peak 80s cheese.!it has a super catchy pre chorus and alot of cool things going on with the guitar, like a phrygian love song, its weird really

Ahh Joe Lynn Turner, always good whomever he works with. Brought Rainbow back to something resembling actual music and I wish there was more with Yngwie. He is like Kirk Hammet. He's great when a figure of authority who knows what they're talking about tells him no, or try that again, or this is boring do something new. Becoming his own producer (and sound engineer and bass player and drummer and now singer) was his worst mistake. The music isn't bad but I really don't need to heary every album. First 7 albums were great and the classical one, the rest... bah. And I used to be a huge fanboy, I scalloped the neck of my Squire and put YJM pups in there, two anyway couldn't afford a third and some nicer hardware plus a fret job. Saw him live. I know all the horror stories and I had the occasion for a short meet and greet olus autograph. This was around 2007 or so I think. He was very nice. He talked to two drunk 15 year olds for 10 minutes. Although it was in Asia so everyone was sitting down and nodding politely. We were wasted and headbanging standing on our chairs about 15 rows from his amps (oh man, 30% of my tinnitus is that show, Plexi is loud. 20 even louder). He greeted us with "hey, it's you guys" and was very friendly. I could feel the arrogance ooze from him a real diva (I know opera people, same species). But to us he was humble and nice. It did feel like having an audience with god on one of his less "smitey" days.

Dead on target with his views on Yngwie!!