I was banned from Yngwie's official page for making a joke about Yngwie not liking donuts. One of the proudest moments of my life.

@benjaminshiels1824

2 жыл бұрын

🤣

@phantasm8180

2 жыл бұрын

I highly doubt Yngwie has time for that.

@medicinebuddhahealing

2 жыл бұрын

🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩 Many doughnuts 🍩 and blessings to you 🙏 Your comments have made the doughnut gods extremely happy!

@stanmil5495

Жыл бұрын

Well the security guard liked doughnuts

@taylorkoh1679

Жыл бұрын

He is like the dolly lama he will not break a circle because it is enternal. You have to cut it for him.

The story I always think of when Yngwie Malmsteen comes up. Quite a long time ago Malmsteen came to Australia for the first time (1990) and only played on the East Coast (Melbourne/Sydney). There was a guy in Perth who was one of the biggest Malmsteen collectors in the world. He had every pressing of every record, a replica of Malsteen's guitar custom built and the local record co guy made sure he got anything Malmsteen related, all the posters, stickers, media kits etc. We'll hook you up in Melbourne. So he flew the 3,500 miles yo Melbourne and headed off to the press conference that he had been invited to. 'Lets wait to the end and then we'll take you up and introduce you'. Press conference went well and he seemed in a good mood. At the end they took the guy up and started to introduce him and Malmsteen turned his back on him and said 'Oh just fuck off'. The record co guy was super shocked. 'It was all arranged, let me find out what happened'. Record co guy rings Perth guy and says 'so sorry apparently he's been having a bad day, but tonight after the show you have backstage passes and he'll sign some stuff for you and we'll get a photo'. Perth guy - 'No. I'll be back in Perth'. Record co guy 'What? But you have tickets for all the shows'. Perth guy - 'Nobody treats me like that. So he can go fuck himself' and he went home and sold off his entire collection and never listened to Malmsteen again. That is the story that sums Yngwie Malmsteen for me.

@josh371

Жыл бұрын

That's devastating. I am glad I didn't bother seeing him in Brisbane last time.

@badgermacleod2037

Жыл бұрын

He really is an arrogant obnoxious prick that deserves to be a pariah in the Metal community. He hurt a gell of a lot of people over the years & deserves nothing less that utter contempt for his skeezy attitude.

@almeli3927

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad I won't waste my money seeing him. I only like the first record anyway

@TehOneTrewIdjut

Жыл бұрын

And John Lennon (you know, someone almost universally beloved) invited a crazed fan into his home for dinner who was convinced the songs were being written for him. John Lennon had an ego like a skyscraper. How the hell does a guy who is only admired by his fellow musicians get a head this big? Kind of bums me out. I have never heard a person who wasn’t a guitarist say his name. Even then they usually call him Ying-way.

@chocodiledundee1

Жыл бұрын

Bro aussies are like that , you only have to let an Aussie person down once !

My mate in Perth, Australia (who's disabled and in a wheelchair) went to see Malmsteen and even got a VIP meet-and-greet ticket... after waiting in the designated area for two hours with the other dozen or so meet-and-greet ticketholders, Malmsteen's agent came out and introduced him and encouraged the crowd to cheer and applaud as he emerged from the dressing room. They did, but he never came through the door. The agent went back there and checked, only to return and say "Guys, I have to tell you... that wasn't good enough. He's not going to come out unless you REALLY cheer and applaud. Louder! Louder!!!" and then after a few minutes of the people clapping and cheering as loud as they could, he emerged and sat down for fifteen minutes and signed autographs without speaking or making eye contact with anyone. Then he abruptly got up and went back to his dressing room. And that was the VIP meet-and-greet tickets they that paid extra for. It was apparently the most pathetic thing my mate has ever seen. A year later, however, Joe Satriani played at the same venue and was a total pro, came running over to my disabled wheelchair mate as soon as he saw him, talked with him and signed autographs and got photos. For free!! Moral of the story: Yngwie is a loser, Satch is a legend.

@gtiz5

8 ай бұрын

Wow, I am not as close you all the the YM’s music but have always been fascinated by his technicality. Recently saw (first ever) interview of him with Rick Beato, and I could see that Y is a difficult guy, but is being described here is shocking, shame on him for behaving that way, regardless of how good he is. Disappointed!

@alirezaroshannahad

8 ай бұрын

Satch is down to earth! I have seen him two times and talked to him once. He is very humble. Someone who has paved the way for so many instrumental guitarists since he entered the instrumental rock scene.

@matej9255

8 ай бұрын

same here, Satriani is one of a kind! @@alirezaroshannahad

@malectric

7 ай бұрын

Reminds me of a Suzi Quatro concert I attended in New Zealand back in the 1970s. She threatened to walk off stage unless the concertgoers all got to their feet (and tangled themselves among the chairs).

@LeonLandgren-qt9pg

6 ай бұрын

Yngwe is shy.

Sounds like Yngwie is the Steven Seagal of the music industry.

@pop000690

Жыл бұрын

He really is. I wouldn't be surprised if he went full Seagal and pretended he was a secret agent or something lol

@mojobag01

Жыл бұрын

Only more tedious.

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

The most accurate take on this idiot I've seen so far.

@kylerollins6483

Жыл бұрын

Just waiting on that space ice video to drop now

@sole__doubt

Жыл бұрын

Yngwie is really a great guitar player. Seagal isnt really a great anything.

Long story: Years ago my best friend loved Yngwie and his playing. My friend played mostly Stratocasters. After an Yngwie show my friend had like a minute to grab one his guitars to have it signed by Yngwie. My friend happened to grab his only ESP guitar. The guitar was taken inside Yngwie's tour bus to be signed. When the guitar came back out of the bus, Yngwie had written in large black letters across the front of the guitar with a permanent maker "PLAY FENDER". This really ruined the guitar's looks, plus very much disappointed my friend. About a year later, my same friend and his band opened for Yngwie in a club in Greensboro, NC. My friend was given the ok to video the Yngwie sound check and his show. During the show Yngwie motioned to my friend to hand Yngwie the camera. Yngwie filmed the crowd, band, and himself for several minutes. He hand off the camera to his tech. After the show my friend asked for his camera. It was returned without the tape. My friend told Yngwie's manager to simply erase Yngwie from the tape, then return it because the tape contained my friend's daughter's first birthday celebration with their family. Yngwie refused. The bass player for Yngwie promised to get the tape back asap and took my friend's info. Several weeks later the bass player called my friend from New York to say he dropped the tape in the mail and he apologized for Yngwie's behavior. When the tape arrived all the concert footage had been erased. Everyone knows what an egotistical asshat Yngwie has always been.

@01blaval

2 жыл бұрын

The ”PLAY FENDER” thing was hilarious 😅🤘🏼 I would be proud to own that guitar, what a signature😅😎🎸 The ”tape thing”.. not so much…

@shanewalton8888

2 жыл бұрын

What is special about this. ROck guitarist are given guitars all the time to sign that are often sold for profit by the owners. The rockers know the scam. Your friend is a moron thinking Yngwie would sign an ESP. Keith Richards almost never signed his actual name to a guitar.

@stthbldt3594

2 жыл бұрын

What city was it? sounds familiar to me

@TheTVisions

2 жыл бұрын

The creep is really trying to be as strange and mean as Ritchie in every way he can think of, it seems. Pay money to see this freak 'play' you're a sucker. :/

@InTheSh8

2 жыл бұрын

Guitar must have gained value!

Just imagine Yngwie's surprise when, one day, he opens up his KZread and finds that Johann S. Bach filed a copyright claim against him. From a strange Gmail account.

A few years ago I went to see Yngwie live. They were offering a $400 meet and greet with the man. I had the money, and there was a donut shop down the street. It took EVERYTHING I had not to go get some donuts, hide them in my hoodie, buy the meet and greet, and somehow discreetly film myself offering him a donut, just to see what would happen.

@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316

8 ай бұрын

There are people who’d pay you to do that…

@BrunodeSouzaLino

8 ай бұрын

He would probably kick you out then eat the donuts in secrecy.

His first 3 solo albums: the Grammy nominated "Rising Force", Marching Out and Trilogy were incredible and like nothing anyone else was doing when they were released. At that point in his career he had the talent and potential to go on to become one of the greatest guitarists of all time. However, at some point after Trilogy he suffered a very serious car accident and had to learn to play again. His relearned playing, whilst still technically impressive, appeared to be based very heavily on straight scale and arpeggio runs and lacked much of the unique character and invention of his former style. This was accompanied by a change in sound from the cleaner, cranked non-master volume amps to a much more forgiving pre-amp based, more distorted sound. The old NMV amps were incredibly unforgiving to play but allowed (and encouraged) a lot more expression, dynamics and character that has been lacking since. After the innovation and accomplishments of his early albums he could have taken his incredible talent and gone in the direction of players like Beck and continued to improve, innovate, explore and challenge himself. Instead, he has appeared to dissolve into a steadily declining cliche of himself with an ever-narrowing range of ideas.

@gregorysmith8964

8 ай бұрын

>with an ever-narrowing range of ideas. Happens to every man over 30. Can't teach an old dog new tricks. If you think otherwise you're just another white person.

@Bagelrob399

8 ай бұрын

@tested211 I agree. The 1959 series were the best amps Marshall put out.

@stephenhursey1506

8 ай бұрын

An accident doesn't excuse a bad attitude

@CrazyHenkie777

7 ай бұрын

Excellent analysis, I totally agree with you! The before Yngwie was a force of nature, we will never know where it would have taken him.

@Der_Peter_Silie

7 ай бұрын

@@CrazyHenkie777Exact!

man, if only Yngwie J. Malmsteen stopped that atrocious imposter Yngwie Malmsteen

@rahulmenon4357

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe his Rising Force weakened over time

@joriankell1983

2 жыл бұрын

LoL

@blacklassie558

2 жыл бұрын

@@rahulmenon4357 maybe he needs Viagra to make his force rise again haha

@boneytony5041

2 жыл бұрын

J is for jag off!

@warpath6666

2 жыл бұрын

Accolades must be given to Yngwie in the 80's and 90's for supporting the idea that "It is okay to dress like a gay pirate" 😄

In 2013 I got a letter sent to my actual mailbox 📫 from Malmsteen & his legal team threatening to sue me if I didn't take my 8 guitar lessons down I worked on for my subscribers. He's an arrogant unlikeable guy for sure. I grew up playing as a kid in the 80s and he was INCREDIBLE then. But after getting threatened by him and team I gladly took my lessons down and never told any of my students about him(not that he needs me but he really hurt himself more than me. Great video man.

@dowens3781

2 жыл бұрын

Why? Did you use some of his songs in your lessons? Because if it was just licks or parts of solos, that can't be copywritten as far as I know.

@tonyii3818

2 жыл бұрын

Saw Yngwie a week ago. Better now than ever. More intense. I love him.

@mikegrossguitar

2 жыл бұрын

@@dowens3781 it was just me teaching parts of his songs. I didn't have any of his actual music playing in the background at all.

@onkelmarvin8360

2 жыл бұрын

Yngwie has become a " Caricature "...............of himself !!!!! Listen to his solos, how he puts in more and more notes, it`s fucking unbearable, and proof, that he`s one of the biggest egos around, since he can`t even stay true, to his own god damn solos !!!!!!

@tonyii3818

2 жыл бұрын

@@onkelmarvin8360 Always been this way. He's great and you will always be nothing. Just saw him last week. Fucking nuts!

Yngwie is a great technical guitarist that I can listen to for about 10 minutes.

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

You can last 10 minutes?

@OGxCSH

Жыл бұрын

If that lol

@joshuafult84

11 ай бұрын

Yup being that technical doesn't matter because he's a terrible composer.... He doesn't have any good songs or albums.

@Secular-hz9fn

11 ай бұрын

@@joshuafult84 Agreed. Great new speed player back in the 1980's.. It was something new at that time. But since then?.... Saw him live a couple of time between late 1990's and 2000's and nothing had changed. You hear one album or seen one show you've heard the rest. And his lyrics?.... Spare me.

@ricardorodriguez5549

11 ай бұрын

His Richard-ness ruins everything

I haven't seen Yngwie in a long, long time. However, I used to write for a certain magazine and do a radio show. Album reviews, music satire, stuff like that. As such, through the 90's until about 2007 I went to a lot of shows in this capacity and I would do interviews, have a +1, backstage passes and all those sexy things. So, being a fellow Swede, I was excited to meet Yngwie. I was supposed to interview him and was waiting in his tour bus talking to members of his road crew. They all hated him and told stories about him getting blackout drunk, saying the most repugnant shit to people when not being wholly apathetic. How much did his own road crew hate him? They pissed in his drinks, and he was too drunk to notice it. I wouldn't have believed it had I not seen this happen personally. I attempted to do the interview, after waiting for nearly two hours, but his rambling was incoherent, and when he wasn't speaking nonsense he was just a recalcitrant prick. Total waste of time on my end. He may have consumed gallons of actual piss in his life, but he's still a fuckin' brilliant guitarist.

@Lexcoaster

Жыл бұрын

Now that's a story!

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

Haha, he's not a brilliant guitarist just because he can shred. Any teenager locked in a room with a guitar for long enough could accomplish what he has in his pathetic career. If even half of what you say is true, he needs to take a serious fall off stage and not get up again.

@jasonedward6993

Жыл бұрын

@@honeypotusername are you such a teenager? Have you spent sufficient time locked in a room to have developed such a talent? I'd love to write about it. It's like the Mary's Room of guitarists: having never seen or done shit, has learned everything in a vacuum yet also emerged a critic as well.

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

@@jasonedward6993 why are you defending him?

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

​@@jasonedward6993if you genuinely believe that he's "brilliant" because he sat down and learned scales, whoever had you on their payroll for years was being robbed by a hack. I wouldn't pay you to write about the sonic profile of my most recent fart. He has some of the most unoriginal, stilted, artificial-sounding guitar playing I've ever heard in my life. I'd rather listen to Post Malone play guitar; at least then I might be entertained.

A friend of mine knows a guy who did some work for Yngwie at one point and before being introduced, he was given a list of instructions on how to behave towards him. Now that's already weird enough but one of the things on this list was "Don't look Yngwie in the eyes.". Seriously, what is wrong with this man?

@heartquaker427

Жыл бұрын

Is he a Narcissist?

@niggasjit

Жыл бұрын

@@heartquaker427 Sounds like malignant narcissism for sure

@nathansmith6365

Жыл бұрын

He's a narcissistic asshole

@JoeR203

Жыл бұрын

If you look him in the eyes, you can actually see what he's thinking about. DONUTS!

@T0tenkampf

Жыл бұрын

He sounds like a bigger Karen than Mariah. I'd have to go stare him straight in the face to see what his fat body was gonna do about it

Thank you for all the exposure and for lending your platform to me like this. I'm glad so many people agree with my take and that you won't take shit from Yngwies management Buy some donuts on me.

@CorbCorbin

2 жыл бұрын

😆 Great video, man.

@Rapture-Farms

2 жыл бұрын

So it's you then .I'll be goin your way next 😁👍

@blacktoothfox677

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rapture-Farms its a great little channel. He has his head screwed on. Reckon you'll like it!

@blacktoothfox677

2 жыл бұрын

don't give KDH money, he will only go blow it all on whimsy!

@Rapture-Farms

2 жыл бұрын

@@blacktoothfox677 🤣I'll keep that in mind lol 😆

I’ll never forget a story from one of my old Guitar Center bosses. He and his band was touring with Yngwie and his band. On the last day of the tour, my bosses band mate got so pissed at Yngwie that he went into his trailer and pissed in his cowboy boots. Wish I could of been a fly on the wall for Yngwies reaction.

@hoilst265

7 ай бұрын

Your username reminded me: Yngwie has 1954 Strats...that he scalloped the fucking fretboard on.

Im a music teacher. A co worker of mine said him and his friend went up to Yngwie to ask for an autograph at a guitar convention. Apparently he ended up talking to them about his rolex watches and how expensive they are, then told him he didin't have anymore time to give them an autograph.

This isn't just about Yngwie. This is also very much about KZread copyright claims. It hits on more than one level. Great work!

@JDUBB2399

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully bungie is successful in their claim against youtube and is able to force youtube to enforce better and easier to understand copyright rules.

@earld158

2 жыл бұрын

It's about Yngwie. Thats why it only seems to happen with certain artists. Yngwie, Eagles, and a few others push things way beyond youtube policy

@wstone2010

2 жыл бұрын

yeah they just down right refuse to enforce anything with any logic or common sense on this website. too many people abusing copyright strikes and nothing happening.

@stephenclarke3990

2 жыл бұрын

Good thoughtful comment. Well said.👍🏼

@f1jones544

Жыл бұрын

Not everyone exploits KZread's copyright policies. Malmstein does. It's on him and all about him.

I like to imagine what would happen if Yngwie was a leader of a country. Absolutely Terrifying.

@TomTom-uw9el

2 жыл бұрын

Literally 1984

@richardharrold9736

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, that's basically what happened in the USA 2017-21...

@allanallan4791

2 жыл бұрын

The county you're looking for is canada.

@unclejudymusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@richardharrold9736 here we go 🍿

@rahulmenon4357

2 жыл бұрын

Free donuts for all!

There's an awful lot of musicians who really dislike Yingyang & they're exceptionally good musician's to say the least. I don't care how well he can play, he's lord douché.

@trillrifaxegrindor4411

Жыл бұрын

judging a musician on shit other than music is fucking retarded.......that being said,after odyssey yngwie kind of pressed repeat

@honeypotusername

Жыл бұрын

He can only shred. That's literally it.

@badgermacleod5588

Жыл бұрын

@honeypot username : I really don't understand why anyone would be the least bit enamored with Yingyang. He's arrogant, obnoxious, narcissistic & treats fans like trash. He's doing the same shit as Kevin DuBrow was in 1983 & 1984 & that killed that band. So, I don't understand why he hasn't been pilloried for his idiotic antics ? The greatest reason for the demise of Quiet Riot was Kevin DuBrow dumping on all the other bands at the time. His band members were after him constantly to cool it with trashing other bands. They knew he was becoming a liability & his mouth was going to ruin everything. That's exactly what happened, after the Condition Critical tour wound down, they were finished. The sad part was that he could sing & he had one hell of a band backing him. If he just played it cool & stuck to what they were doing instead of what everyone else was doing, things could have been very different for them beyond 1984/1985.

@badgermacleod5588

Жыл бұрын

@honeypot username : Do you remember Quiet Riot ? I'm dating myself, a first gen Banger. You do come across as someone who knows what they're talking about. Shredding isn't everything, it's a piece of the songs structure, not the song itself. Some wouldn't understand what you meant by your statement. A fairly typical Banger will break down the song's they really like. Even those that don't play an instrument will break it down into it's composition. As a side note there was a mini-documentary on Heavy Metal. Multiple clinical studies came to the same conclusion. All the stereotypes were wrong & they were surprised how Bangers interact amongst their own people. It took over forty years & multiple studies to figure out what we knew all along. Go figure ? Cheers from 🇨🇦🤘

@Secular-hz9fn

11 ай бұрын

@@honeypotusername Exactly. The guy is a fast Shredder that is it. Maybe that was a big thing back in the early 1980's but it got old very fast. It says why he has been performing to crowds less than 1000 ppl since. But whatever stroke his ego.

I visited this one music shop where I used to order stuff from and I asked why they include Yngwies pictures in the orders. They replied that he once had guitar clinic/fan meetup there and just brought them big ass box of his pictures and they didn't know what else to do with them all. The box was so big that they have been handing the pictures out for over 10 years.

@RoyHodgson97

28 күн бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I saw Yngwie in the early 2000's. He was fantastic, but you could tell that the person in the building that loved him the most was Yngwie Malmsteen.

@trident1314

2 жыл бұрын

yeah yngwies great just ask him😂

@thedogman2576

2 жыл бұрын

😅

@overkilling84

2 жыл бұрын

Well I heard Yngwie J. Malmsteen is a great interviewer and shows his personal side whenever he hears or shares a common area with his best friend Yngwie Malmsteen. I reckon both have had their differences over the years but they have gotten back on friendly terms.

@Scott__C

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad I saw his best iteration that was with Joe Lynn Turner.

@JakesGuitarThing

Жыл бұрын

I went to see him live some time around 2008. The main thing I remember from that gig is that he did about ten mins of random shredding, not part of a song or with the band, just playing as fast as he could at the front of the stage. I say ten mins, felt like an eternity. The whole crowd was noticeably bored by the end of it (this was a gig with no support act or anything else going on BTW, these were people who paid to go see Yngwie and they were bored of his noodling). Looked around and most people were stood, eyes glazed over, not really paying that much attention any more. Think he noticed because he seemed to be getting angrier as he went on. They got back in to the songs and everybody perked up. After 3/4 songs he did the same thing again... Also the gig was already mad loud to start with and he was there angrily gesturing to the sound people to turn it up several times,. My ears were ringing after even though I had plugs in. Was a great show otherwise. He and the band performed really well and he was very entertaining to watch on stage but man those long noodling solos really dragged the show down.

The fact you can copyright claim something without actually proving you are the copyright holder shows what a joke the KZread system is

My friend has a "Steeler" album... signed first by Yngwie... who put "Moo" next to Ron Keel... Ron Keel signed it with an arrow pointing to Yngwie saying "Dick". Appears somethings will never change. April is at it again..... (sigh)

I got to see him perform at the old New England Patriots stadium in 85'. Keel opened (Steeler) and then he played ahead of Aerosmith on their Done With Mirrors tour. It was a great show, and my 15 year old self had a great time! Too bad you were born too late to see it, but I enjoyed watching your video. 🤘 Side note: He was a diva even back then, and apparently nothing has changed.

@brownholecharles

Жыл бұрын

i think i read in an interview it was Jimmy Page was who he modeled his "diva" antics after ?

I like Yngwie just like the next guy, but this is necessary on principle. Good on you KDH for having a spine and sticking up for a small creator.

@botleydot

8 ай бұрын

You like him just as much as the next guy, so, not at all?

yngwie becomes more and more the steven seagal of guitarplaying 🙈

@Siloguy

2 жыл бұрын

Why are you so mean....to Steven Seagal?

@frankpfau9054

2 жыл бұрын

@@Siloguy 😂

@ultragroove1

Жыл бұрын

Perfect 🤣

@circleprex

Жыл бұрын

Genial comparison 😂😂😂

@allandnothing5987

Жыл бұрын

While you losers sit around whining

There's no denying that he's an incredible guitar player and had some great albums early on. I really just lost all respect for him after finally seeing him in concert for the first and last time. He didn't play any of the classics. Just non stop boring shredding arpeggios in your face. Just him and a bass player and drummer. With the bass player doubling on vocals and keyboard. Never seen a more public display of complete narcissism.

@KarstenJohansson

5 ай бұрын

Yngwie calls it "improvising all the time" when he plays the same 5 riffs over and over again for an hour.

Yngwie sat in with my rock band in Hallandale Fl. Right before we we all walked out together, he stops and says " hold on, I've got to give my 20 thousand dollar watch to my valet before we play" we hit the stage and he says "what do you want to play" we knew none of his stuff, I said " how about Stormy Monday Blues" we did it and he killed it.

Yngwie Malmsteen should be turned into the Karen term for guitarists

@drdelewded

2 жыл бұрын

Hasnt it been that way since the 1980s?

@PhilDuggs

2 жыл бұрын

Calm down there Yngwie

@jeffreyklaproth7794

2 жыл бұрын

hilarious!,

@tonyii3818

2 жыл бұрын

You couldn't hold his coffee. Keep typing lady

@tonyii3818

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidaston5773 Keep typing lady. Lol grow that

In '92 YJM played a bar in Montreal, Que. CANADA for the Fire and Ice tour. The opening act was a Montreal band called Sinister Fiend. The guitar player was an ambidextrous monster. The band mysteriously had their plug pulled half way through their set.

@devilslayerror

Жыл бұрын

Seems like Yngwie shit his pants

@MrSFblack

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like someone didn't want to be upstaged

I'm one of the two women who actually was an Yngwie fan (but I never bought the leggings, lol). I saw Yngwie live in the 80s, bought his music, and was a guitarist who was very influenced by him, and even had a bit of a crush on him. I met him at a supposed guitar clinic at Robbie's Music in Nanuet, NY, and he decided to not play and just give autographs, instead. I asked him why he wasn't going to be playing and he said "That wasn't part of the deal." Even though that's what everyone was there to see. It was at that moment, my respect for him started to sour. I since just see him as an obnoxious, vapid, douchebag whose music I can't even tolerate for 5 seconds. Thank you for this video. I'm sorry he's too big of a baby to handle honest criticism.

@ClochardCeleste

3 ай бұрын

That wasn't part of the deal, what is the problem ? l

@tbs7007

3 ай бұрын

Not my problem. He lost fans by reneging on his agreement to do a guitar clinic which WAS part of the deal as it stated on my ticket purchase.

@LEOsoulMonarch

2 ай бұрын

Might I perchance put you on to Jake Pitts, Eric Gales, Kingfish Ingram, and Jackie Venson? Potential new guitar heros and crushes. Lol. 😉

@LEOsoulMonarch

2 ай бұрын

Also, I'm sorry for what you had to experience. Having someone you look up to and like just being the worst thing since taxes must've been the mood whiplash of the CENTURY. 😔

@scottfriery9091

2 ай бұрын

@@ClochardCeleste It was supposed to have been a *guitar clinic* ... that's the problem! You must be a vapid douchebag like Yngwie if you think that only signing autographs while at a *guitar clinic* is okay.

I'm from Sweden, understand this: Yngwie was a bloody genius already at around age 18 playing and practicing in Sweden. As he said himself in a recent interview, the only thing he heard from people (probably including his own family) was that he would never make it, and they all laughed at him. Now this is, as he mentions in the video, the mentality in Sweden. Creativity is shunned, negativitiy against yourself and others is encouraged (never think that you are someone! Have no confidence!), conformity is a must. I'm not joking, when he said that "In Sweden I was told that I wouldn't amount to anything, but in USA the kids learn in school that they can become the president if they want" I understood exactly what he was talking about. So don't be too harsh on him, he must have had jealous people around him in USA as well. The guy did lots of drugs and hard party, something must have went wrong in his head. I agree that his first albums were better, but he has good things in the later ones too. These rockstars meet a lot of people and they see the bad side of humanity very quickly (people just wanting their money). That is one of the reasons Jimi Hendrix died so early, he was looking for a woman to love, but they all wanted "to go to bed with his guitar" so to speak. And industry devoured his energy

@dethmedic52

6 ай бұрын

You can either let the world leave you cold an bitter an full of yourself. Or become a warm light that is actually helpful to the very community that made him so famous.....

@sorenkorvberg8736

6 ай бұрын

@@dethmedic52 Yes, I didn't say I condone his behaviour. Same thing happens to most rocks stars - they either burn out early (die young) or continue to play until old age and becoming more feeble and cringe. Just look at Rolling Stones, a bunch of elder home people still thinking they are young, or the voice of Bon Jovi which really has become terrible, sadly.

@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316

5 ай бұрын

@@sorenkorvberg8736 i personally think Yngwie’s probably quite an unhappy person. If you’re silencing criticism then clearly you’ve got some issues, and he’s not wrong about life in Sweden; everyone’s just like “you can’t be a musician for a living, get a fucking job”, and you can’t really say “what if I don’t wanna do that, what if I wanna make music?”, and Yngwie was trashed throughout his entire childhood, even when he could play like the devil. I don’t condone his behaviour either, but he must be pretty miserable.

@sorenkorvberg8736

5 ай бұрын

@@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316 It's mainly the fame, the drugs, and all bad people he's met through the years. All of that takes a toll. People don't realise what an equally great curse it is as well as a blessing to be so creative and genius like Yngwie, Hendrix, Clapton etc

@sorenkorvberg8736

5 ай бұрын

@@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316 And by the way, they cut out a part from that in that recent interview on youtube, I heard it in his reels in facebook, there he said "sweden is a nightmare for creative people like me", but since "no one should be offendeeeeed" today, they cut that part out

I had the misfortune of meeting Yng on a G303 tour stop in Seattle. During the event, just before the show started, I actually ran into his keyboard player and that guy was actually cool AF! We chatted for a brief sec and he was just as real as could be. After the gig, admittedly I wasn't exactly sober, myself and a friend and I are waiting outside the back of the venue (Paramount, I do believe) between the back doors and the tour busses. Now, mind you, I have no idea about this guy's reputation or personality or even a whole lot of his music. I can tell you that his show was actually quite good and his band were pretty freaking on fire that night and he actually did play his ass off and it was definitely a, both, LOUD and impressive performance. So, out walks Yng - he's got a babe in one arm, holding a glass of champagne in his other hand and he's got those Texas-cop sunglasses on. I'm right in front of him and everyone behind me was yelling, cheering, and screaming for his autograph. He seems like he's in a good mood and he was very much a 'trapped in the 80's rockstar', no doubt. Now I'm not gonna sit here and fat-shame the guy 'cause that's not cool but yeah - he's sweaty all over and he could probably benefit from a cardio regimen - but to his credit, he's wearing leather pants and boots and was recently underneath hot incandescent lights during a live show - anyone's gonna be sweaty. Nevertheless, here he comes - he's got the half-cocked smile and he's about ready to sign autographs. Well... everyone's yelling "ING-VEY, ING-VEY.." but I see the programs with the name "YNGWIE". So, I ask quite casually, "Hey." He looks right at me. And I go, "is it ING-VEY or ING-WEEE?" with that sour lip look of disgust he looks at everyone and then looks to me and says "it's ING-VEY!!" and he storms off! My bro starts laughing his ass off... I got about a hundred people absolutely pissed off at me that I (inadvertently) clowned a legend. And honestly, that was not my goal. I just didn't know. Oh, well. F it if he can't take a joke! Nevertheless, I did get to meet Steve Vai and (my absolutely favorite) Joe Satriani and both those guys were super cool and about as real as it gets!

@wildmanfisher

2 жыл бұрын

Steve Vai is such a cool dude. Yngwie wishes he had half the talent Vai has and a fraction of his cool.

@tdang9528

2 жыл бұрын

Learn to use paragraphs.

@nckhed

2 жыл бұрын

​@@tdang9528 At least he used punctuation, so it's still easy to read.

@cordiayngwie

2 жыл бұрын

Ing vey or ing wee don't worry i won't get mad

@pkdude5334

Жыл бұрын

so you just assumed everyone chanting was wrong?

4:36 Michael McKeon is the BEST! I did a show with him in 2016 at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in LA for a fundraiser called "The Peter Boyle Multiple Myeloma Foundation." I was the drummer for the late Fred Willard. He played an INCREDIBLE acoustic solo set. As a guitarist, songwriter, and performer, he's by far more than the joke they sell that is Spinal Tap. I told him that I was suddenly afraid to go out because, as a drummer, I might spontaneously combust. He looks me in the eye and says, "You don't have a contract. You'll be fine."

@topher4677

2 жыл бұрын

On top of that, McKean's an incredible dramatic actor. He's amazing as Chuck McGill on Better Call Saul.

@StratsRUs

2 жыл бұрын

Fred Willard too ! Amazing and well done !

@Savoy1984

2 жыл бұрын

I nearly always think of him for being in Short Circuit 2.

@petegaslondon

Жыл бұрын

Oh Dude ... This resonates - I lost my VIRGINITY to Spinal Tap!!

Long ago the Devil said to Yngwie: "I'll give you all the speed and technique that you desire, in exchange for your soul." and Yngwie sealed the deal, but he thought that he would have to give up his soul when he dead, but the Devil took it right away. that's why his playing has no soul or feeling to it. and that's why he's jelly of Gary. he's so sterile he should be a surgeon. "nurse...100cc of donits, stat"

You got to love Yngwie but he has seriously kind of become the Steven Seagal of guitar heroes.

That’s like the world’s greatest roast. He should feel honored like any other famous person who gets a roast.

I'm one of the lucky ones to have seen him play in his prime. I went to his first ever UK gig at the Marquee Club in London in 1985. His playing was absolutely jaw dropping. Never seen anything like it. It was also unbelievably loud, louder than any other gig I've been to.

@waldemarpierzchalski

2 жыл бұрын

Because you suppose to not want hear anything afterwards anyway

@colinforsecs3393

2 жыл бұрын

I always said 1984-85 Malmsteen was the greatest "lead" guitarist, single note to note player I've ever heard

@davestryjak6042

2 жыл бұрын

I saw him in the 80s too and he was fantastic, that's the sad part WAS!

@paulmorgan8254

2 жыл бұрын

you obviously never went to any Motorhead or Saxon concerts 79 onwards till maybe 81, they were both outdoing each other to be the loudest band in the world and you couldn't hear properly for 3 days after. best days of my life, you could could still see major bands in smaller venues.

@davidyates8880

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulmorgan8254 I did see Motorhead play, as well as hundreds of other gigs. As I said, nothing was anywhere near as loud as this was.

Almost every musician, especially one whose career has spanned 40 years, and drank a lot of booze, is going to have unflattering stories. For every negative story I’ve heard great stories describing a warm and grateful man. It’s all part of the legend. Love him or hate him, he is who he is. He came here, achieved every immigrants dream, and changed the electric guitar forever. I’m sure if our lives were put under the microscope, a KZreadr could make an unflattering video about us.

@BrunodeSouzaLino

6 күн бұрын

The important thing about criticism is not who is doing it, but how you react to it. By censoring criticism, even ones which remotely are about you, you are opening a whole uphill battle you can't win. A good example of how you deal with criticism is MAB. He just laughs at himself and recognizes some of the ridiculous stuff he did in the 90s was necessary because otherwise he wouldn't stand out. On another end you have guys like Yngwie and Don Healey, the latte is so litigious that he will eventually start a lawsuit against himself.

Hi, watched some of your videos and you won a subscriber! You're doing a useful and great job! Keep up the good work.

Yngwie is not only blocking the criticism, also the GOOD covers of his songs, for example, the Brazilian guitarist Cesario Filho who plays excellent and BETTER like a Young Yngwie has had many of his cover videos taken down by him and his management

@mvp019

2 жыл бұрын

Which is so stupid - it's like free advertising for their product, but their ignorance and ego sabotage it.

@ftft9627

2 жыл бұрын

yes, it is a shame, far beyond the sun by Cesario was just divine

@Alex_Martz

2 жыл бұрын

@@ftft9627 Exactly!, it was even BETTER than the original, that's why Yngwie got jealous and took it down

@christosalexiou8979

2 жыл бұрын

Great player indeed this Cesario, i didn't know he had his covers down... thanks for the info ... Btw, if you haven't done it yet, please check the Greek guitarist Panos Arvanitis on youtube, he's on the same "level" than Cesario, Yngwie style but no covers... and now i know why....

@Alex_Martz

2 жыл бұрын

@@christosalexiou8979 Thanks, I'll check the greek guy too

My buddy lived around the corner from YJM and as we drove by his house he came driving up in his Ferrari. We pulled up had a few words dude seemed cool. Later my buddy went by his house and he signed some old guitar magazines with YJM articles. This was early 2000s. Not a fan of his music or the attitude towards other musicians but the guy has his place in guitar history.

@shawnstarks1743

2 жыл бұрын

True. I live in North Miami Beach. He’s pretty cool for somebody who is approached by complete strangers all the time.

@SixStringSlinger1

2 жыл бұрын

Not really. If everything else about him didn't happen then yeah. But who you are matters. Plus when you play like 💩 for many years, ppl forget how good you once were. I'm so glad I've never been a fan of the turd 💩

I started listening to YM when the first Alcatrazz album came out. Yeah, I am that old. And a guitar player. And a musicologist. So, him going solo, doing the classical music / heavy rock / guitar virtuoso thing, that was unbelievable at the time. Then. Though i got a first idea about his ego, when I bought the album - it says all songs by YM. Nope. He takes an original baroque piece by Albinoni and claims he has written it? Wow. Moving on. I got my first crisis (ahem) when JSSoto left the band. Ok, Trilogy is good. And I really, really dig the JLTurner (also cringe-worthy, I know) album Odyssey. I thought him saved. But no, Turner left. In comes Goran Edman, whos voice I knew from MADISON (check out the track 'Oh, Rendezvous* from 'Best In Show'). So, I loved these albums with Edman, too. Afterwards... I lost interest, tbh. I happened to see him live, once, at a German Festival. 2 songs in I left for the press tent. Sorry, but that was just pure ego, showing off, and showing his worst side. A pity. What a gifted, talented, inspiring guitar player he once was.

A good friend of mine sat in front of Yngwie Malmsteen, on a plane circa 2003. My friend Patrick told Yngwie that he was a fan and admired his style. Yngwie responded thank you, then started speaking Nordic in front of Patrick, but being a man with photographic memory (true story) Patrick responded back in Swedish, to which Yngwie started speaking Italian, another of the 8 languages my friend speaks. Not saying anything against Yngwie Malmsteen, but the way Patrick explained Yngwie's annoyance gave me a hearty laugh, whilst sipping on single-malt, Speyside Scotch with Patrick. The man rewrote the book on rock guitar, whilst everyone else was still trying to be Van Halen - also brilliant. Peace

IMO - The trip about this is if they (team Malmsteen) whould have just chilled with letting opinion be just that and not jam-up channels with strikes, the negative posting would most likely fade in time. But now the KZread push-back kraken has been released and it's probably is going to lead to a major brand-reputation crisis management test for Malmsteen's management.

@Metaljonus

2 жыл бұрын

Love your videos dude! \m/

@dowens3781

2 жыл бұрын

He's released the fucking fury!

@tricky48

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed! BTW "Still here \m/"

@wstone2010

2 жыл бұрын

a legend appears in the comments

@therightisright8276

2 жыл бұрын

Hope so.

Yngwie has released the same album 22 times. It takes a very, very small person to insult Gary Moore.

@Secular-hz9fn

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. Show me the last time Yngwie performed in front of more than a 100 ppl.

@ricardorodriguez5549

11 ай бұрын

Right on the money. He’s mierda

@Jaidezilla

10 ай бұрын

Once you've listened to his first three albums there's really no need to listen to any other yngwie. And Steeler was just him pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore.

@leonardomattarmonteiro2824

8 ай бұрын

​@@JaidezillaThree? You're being VERY kind. Malmsteen released one MASTERPIECE & a good 2nd Álbum.All the resto os rubish.

@robertc7093

8 ай бұрын

Is not really like that, same thing you can say for Satriani if you feel music like that no? Let's be reasonable, all songs is different with a single point, SOUL...those solos all of them almost is from soul really, is sad, is broken soul, if you don't feel that, I'm sorry for you, and let's see music no man ..man, can be sometimes sick off,but his music have very big emotional sensivity

Whatever he is as a person, he does deserve credit for being one of the guitarists that raised the bar. Much like Van Halen and Randy Roads had done years before. He wasn't the first nor necessarily the best to play in a neoclassical style. But he did bring it to the forefront. Would we really have had all the Shrapnel artists if Yngwie had not burst onto the scene? He is probably a great example of "Never meet your heros. They tend to disappoint you in person."

been watching a lot of your videos lately... keep up the great work KDH

I love how you are standing up for six string t.v. I love that channel, I am also glad other youtubers stood up and with you when a certain guitar company owner tried to come at you. Rock on both of you!!!!

Gotta love the donut intro. The best is that I didn’t even see it coming when you took a bite out of your donut. Also wanted to say I really like the fact that, contrary to a lot of smaller KZreadr that use big KZreadr names to try and make a name for themselves, you always seem to feature people with less visibility than you to none at all. I enjoy that cyber Robin Hood-ish attitude of yours. Keep up the good stuff. Cheers.

You cannot expect the same fire from any musician 40 years past their prime. The same can be said of TV shows like The Simpsons & SNL. Enjoy what they gave you, not what they're giving you now.

@dm8579

10 ай бұрын

Even if you don't the same fire, you could at least have some creativity and do something different. Even if it's not up to the same standard as the old stuff, at least there would be something new to hear.

WOHOW! This is new to me. Just came from Rick Beato interview and found to me strange comments about Yngwie "being more friendly than ever"? What? Followed him since mid 80ies and enjoyed his stuff, moreover his solo presentations leaving a crystal clear impression of a very humble man. It is only with these comments, first observed less than 3 hours ago, and now this video, that YT has now again taught me insightful details between black and white, about masters regardless of music, sports, politics or anything else that I now feel like I've been totally blue-eyed before. Thanks for indeed insightful presentation - also the copy-right thing, of which I myself hit a strange wall about a decade ago, like outta nowhere, coudn't find the reason.

@RockShowTrader

3 ай бұрын

Goes to show you that the true character of a person comes forward in tough times, under stress (for a rock star, this means after a bad gig, or after too many drinks, etc), and not when in front of a camera doing an interview where he gets to talk about the 2 things he cares most about in this world; the guitar and himself.

Frantically trying to watch this before it gets taken down again😂

Every metal guitarist goes through an "Yngwie" phase. When he was good, he was really good and every soloist wishes they could shred like that. However, they usually reach a point where they realize he's just REALLY good at arpeggio runs and his songs all sound the same. He can only do what he can do. He's awesome at it, but it's a small tool box to draw from.

@rahulmenon4357

2 жыл бұрын

He's definitely the biggest tool in that box xD

@tinfoilhatter

2 жыл бұрын

he's the mike-tyson, the cassius clay-of-modern-frickin'-music, okay?

@tonysarrio8940

2 жыл бұрын

What a stupid fcking comment. Yngwie was an innovator. If thats all you hear you are seriously musically retarded.

@mvp019

2 жыл бұрын

@@tinfoilhatter hardly

@tinfoilhatter

2 жыл бұрын

who's the m-v-p, if not the malmsteen then, jeeves? hahaha~

Malmsteen saying someone else isn't tasteful is peak richness

Thanks for the vid. Watching it makes me realize how lucky I was to see him live in the 80s. Twice, no less. Rising Force and Marching Out tours. Sunken Garden Theater in San Antonio. That kid was actually being nice, it was really all downhill after Trilogy. But you can’t take away the fact that he was an absolute god on guitar. And one of the very few who is recognizable from the very first note. Sadly though, it is true that he let his ego get the better of him, and is now a parody of a parody of himself.

My favorite Malmsteen song is 'Ship of Fools'... I just never imagined he was at the front of the ship, arms outstretched like Rose on the Titanic, lol.

just imagine a parrallel worlds where he would just says "yeah, sry guys, I'm getting old, not always on the top anymore", I'm sure 100% people would totally understand and get over it considering the amazing career he got behind him. I don't understand how you can have that carreer, yet, end your life like you've been the drunk solo guitarist dad of a cover band for the last 25 years.

@Hoganply

9 ай бұрын

Even saying/doing nothing in response to criticism would suffice.

Jealousy can come out in alot of strange ways

Hey what was the video called where you were talking about this guy who butchers guitars and puts them back together and sells them on his website?

Yngwie is arguably my favorite guitarist and has been a huge inspiration for my playing since I was a kid, so it really sucks to here about his attitude throughout the years and see his current actions. But good on everyone for calling him out on it. As much as I love a lot of the music he's made, it's no justification for being the complete ass he's made of himself

@sqlb3rn

2 жыл бұрын

The music is not the man. Otherwise no one would listen to Michael Jackson.

@JohnDoeWasntTaken

2 жыл бұрын

@@sqlb3rn MJ is innocent though

@dusty3913

2 жыл бұрын

He’s “arguably your favorite”??? Who tf are you arguing with over your own opinion…

@BorkBorkDoggo

2 жыл бұрын

@@dusty3913 Myself obviously. He's tied up with Michael Romeo and Christian Muenzner for favorite. Imagine being a some kind of npc who doesn't have arguments with yourself on the reg. Sounding kinda sus famalam

@vanguard4065

2 жыл бұрын

@@BorkBorkDoggo well said!

Yngwie's harsh words towards Phil Anselmo's vocals are fucking hilarious since his own lead vocals on his last few solo albums are legitimately some of the worst I have EVER heard. Yoko Ono is unironically a much better singer than Yngwie.

@kirkwilson6229

2 жыл бұрын

Yngwie Malmstein, you've been served...

@Fuzzybunny-ki1cw

2 жыл бұрын

Can't argue with you about Malmsteen's vocals but hey he wasn't lying about Phil Anselmo's terrible pipes.

@bensepulveda71

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, that Yoko Ono comparison was gold. Well done. 👍 👏

@sqlb3rn

2 жыл бұрын

I will take cemetery gates over yngwei dog shit any day. Don't get me started on his tonka toys drum samples

@montyrayza7220

2 жыл бұрын

@@sqlb3rn I 2nd that bro,

If only I had half his guitar skills, I would dress up and make a comedy tribute act 'Yngwie KrispyKreme' 🍩🧑‍🎤🎸 Then expect getting sued by both Malmsteen Management and KrispyKreme donuts. 😂

First time I heard of Yngwie he was playing for Alcatraz. I was a young bass player, Iron Maiden and Rush were my teachers but I played with a guitar player who LOVED Yngwie and went to one of the States, (I'm Canadian), to see them somewhere. Seatle I think, could be wrong, probably wrong.. lol. Eventually saw him in his early solo career in Montreal around 1990-'91, (yes, I'm old dammit.... lol) 🤘😎🤘

@lukescullin2948

7 ай бұрын

Nothing like RUSH...RIP Neil. The PROGFATHERS. Learning bass from RUSH AND MAIDEN ....NICE!

Yngwie has been pretending to be Ritchie Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth for his whole career.

@davidyates8880

2 жыл бұрын

Blackmore is a renowned piece of work himself, however, Uli always comes across as a decent human being. I'm lucky to have seen them all, Yngwie in 1985 and 1988 and he was amazing, saw Blackmore with Rainbow in 1983 and Deep Purple in 1985 and he was dreadful and Uli with Electric Sun in 1983 and he was different gravy. Funny similarities between them, I think both Blackmore and malmsteen have been in decline as players for many many years, I think in Yngwie's case it was first noticeable after his car crash. Then if you look at Blackmore and Uli, they are both very avant garde. Neither Malmsteen or Uli can sing at all (one can assume that Blackmore can't either) but at least he was clued up enough to employ a singer. All great as players.

@mansquatch7433

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidyates8880 I wouldn’t really compare Malmsteen to Blackmore, unless your barometer for musicianship is arpeggio playing. Blackmore was a musical innovator and one of the founding fathers of modern hard rock heavy metal. He also blew 95% of his contemporaries out of the water as a player. To come from a childhood of listening to 50s bands and eventually write “Gates Of Babylon” is unbelievable and his impact on rock guitar is incalculable. Yngwie grew up listening to Blackmore and would eventually parlay that into being a stagnant, self-important blowhard who was a punchline before the year 2000 and nearly forgotten by 2022.

@funnydick8939

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidyates8880 Blackmore wrote and co-wrote memorable, life long hits. Yngwie hasn't written one note that sold albums beyond his fan boys. Incomparable guitarists.

@nathaninostroza7655

Жыл бұрын

@@funnydick8939 far different backgrounds, although they both vibe with classical music, yngwie s influences are Ritchie and Uli Jon Roth, mainly, both players he got to meet personally in the future, but not while he was crafting his style, on the other hand, Ritchie learned from the mighty Big Jim Sullivan, a superb-lative teacher and a jack of all trades on guitar. Theres no way in hell yngwie could learn how to make a decent song like Ritchie. And i worship Yngwie, but there s a reason why Ritchie s music is so revered by zillions of ppl to this day. Even that monster talent Uli Jon Roth is, hasnt come yet with such massive tunes, and he was part of fucking Scorpions (i love them too), a hell of a band with a fairly great ability to make hits. I can live with that, and the fact Uli s music and yngwie s, while great, it's just something else when it comes to making songs that stand the test of time, their music do it for me, but what Ritchie got from Big Jim was hitting the jackpot. Thing is, those three cats are their own thing in their own league by their own right. like em or not.

@nathaninostroza7655

Жыл бұрын

@@mansquatch7433 oh, bro. Even Uli Jon Roth couldnt hold a candle to prime Ritchie (69-72), rainbow Ritchie s a better composer, but his playing suffered for it. And i don't mind. Rainbows music, any song,any album, any era, never fails print a smile in my face, automatically. The man in black s a genius.

Yngwie calling someone else's playing "un tasteful" is hilarious

@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316

5 ай бұрын

I thought it was very rich of him to say that Eddie Van Halen made the Strat “uncool” and that Hendrix “had no musical impact on him whatsoever” and “did not contribute to his style”, especially when there are pictures of Yngwie holding left-handed strats upside down, exactly like Hendrix. It’s like Yngwie’s just TRYING to come off as a c*nt

Bro I'm literally ADDICTED to your content rn. Great stuff, keep it up. Proud of you.

Hamburg, Große Freiheit 36, 1998, habe Yngwie nach dem Konzert im Tourbus besucht. Er war nett und freundlich, nahm damals sogar ein Videotape von mir an. Im Prinzip ein guter Mann, mit Ecken und Kanten..

I was fortunate enough to see Yngwie Malmsteen and Rising Force on their debut album, in 1984. Met them after the show at the hotel parking lot. Got their autographs and chatted with Marcel Jacob(R.I.P.)and the Johansson brothers. Yngwie and Jeff Scott Soto went straight inside the hotel. Marcel and the bros were hungry, so we drove them to a Whataburger near by. True Story.

@chelizard2516

2 жыл бұрын

that's an awesome story! lucky!

@nathaninostroza7655

Жыл бұрын

Marcel, what a loss. Thanks for your story. Congrats for your luck.

I once was in a big music shop in Vienna - they wree showing G3 Video with Vai, Satriani and Malmsteen on a big screen and playing the music over big speakers. Vai was soloing and I was surprised at how many people and what kind of people were staring at the screen. Then Malmsteen played his part and within 30 seconds I was the only one left standing there. I thought that really summed up the man I once adored.

I have a question: if you cover a yingway song (or eagles and others lmao), but don't say who you're covering in the title/disc/comments, how long would it take legalbots to find the video? What if it was quieted and put as a background for a video? These questions drive me to practice guitar - without a metronome (to make sure my tempo is undetectable, y'know)

YJM's first 3 to me were Epic. I was a teenager when Yngwie hit the scene and he kicked ass back then. I saw him live a few times and I have to concur with this video

Love this as a past yngwie fan . It's honest it's critical and it's reality. It all.ends with eclipse. Sad he cares nothing about his fans and his past legacy so he deserves every bit of this stuff. This is what he has done to his past band members. I wish there was more people speaking the truth. Great job guys.

WARNING: This Swedish man hates donuts! Do NOT, and I repeat - do NOT bring donuts!!!

As Guitar Center’s Ntl Promotions Mgr. I had him play at the 1997 East Brunswick store opening. He had a case of Heineken on his rider and before he went on to play to about 80-100 people at a time, he warmed up in a back office and did his best to plow thru said case of beer in front of his wife and young son. By the time he went on, he was a sweaty mess. But he did play his ass off - for the first two 20 min sets . We circulated people in and out of the store w/ giveaways outside to let new customers in and he played subsequent sets…getting and little more bloated, sweaty, and slightly sloppy. All that said, it was an interestingly fun experience. 🤘🔥🎸

I was deeply inspired and moved by that track...and his song far beyond the sun helped me grow as a musician with the harmonic minor scale.

I was able to see yngwie live in the 80's. He was opening for somebody. I think it was iron maiden. He played a lot of notes.

@RequiemWraith

Жыл бұрын

And that was just the first 5 seconds....

@zeknoss

7 ай бұрын

(with Oven Wilson voice) Wow, that's a lot of notes. Wow...

I feel for that kid. I was lucky enough to have seen Yngwie live and met him several times between 85 and 92..He was a God, now he is a parody of Yngwie

@sixstringtv1

2 жыл бұрын

I'm so jealous 😔

@allandnothing5987

Жыл бұрын

The only parody here is you.

@shortwinger3

Жыл бұрын

I met him at a Generation Axe Meet and Greet in 2018. He was the only one in the band who was a total douchebag. Every one who tried to interact with him somehow was blown off by him.

@patrickjamesworrow1130

Жыл бұрын

He's an egotistical fat prick, and that's a fact, It really is a tragic shame! that he still tries to squeeze in them tiny silly leather pants that have always been to small for him, It's time he gave he's nan her frilly shirt back.

What video is that? Every one he's made?

Also, at one show, I spoke with members of the opening band. They told me that Yngwie decided to do a 3 hour sound check, and they literally had 15 minutes to set up before the venue opened the doors. He also told us that the opening acts weren't allowed to speak to Yngwie unless he wanted to speak to them, and if so they were instructed to refer to him as Mr. Malmsteen.

It's been a life long goal of mine to be personally insulted by Yngwie. Sounds like there are ways to do it and not have to pay a Cameo fee!

Showing support and love \m/

@spank3434

2 жыл бұрын

i donit donut

what's the pedal that's been discontinued since 2005? might be a great pedal

maybe some other viewers can suggest yngrown Toenailsteens next set list : "I am not a viking (in a celestial ferrari ) "I am a Hiking " " "Heaving tonight " "Far beyond the scum " "now my shit is burned " "little sandwich " " rising damp " ....oh, ive had enough...lets bring the mushy peas on ....

He's famous for being one of the biggest jerks in the music business. That kind of reputation doesn't just develop out of thin air.

@sqlb3rn

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to see him and Dave mustaine having a nice discussion about playing guitar over a thanksgiving meal.

@georgoroth

2 жыл бұрын

@@sqlb3rn most under rated comment hahahahaha

@thomasanderson9202

2 жыл бұрын

No shit? As a Swede I have known this since the 80's. Not exactly news.

@ThrashXumer

2 жыл бұрын

In one show he did in spain the band that opened for him was Mago de Oz. That band is bigger than yngwie in spain but at that point they where a young band. So in the end of the show the singer said something like "sorry if our sound wanst good. Thats cause "god" (started imitating yngwie) didnt let us do a proper soundcheck". Thats just an example but there are a lot of stuff here just about it

@thomasanderson9202

2 жыл бұрын

@@ThrashXumer bla bla bla. Old news. Yngwie is an ass. Been known since the 80's.

Yngwie's repetitive guitar playing hasn't a leg to stand on against Gary Moore. He's a poor man's Ritchie Blackmore.

When a Narcissist has actual talent is probably the biggest waste. Because not only do you see what they could’ve been had they had proper orientation, you really can’t ever get to them. You can’t change or convince anyone of their flaws if they won’t hear it. With talent or recognition of any sort, they will cling to that in their own perverse way until it kills them. Almost especially if it will kill them really.

I liked Yngwie the first time I heard him. But it didn't take long for me to get bored of his "dragons are storming the castle" style.

@Mr.Goldbar

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I much prefer his more "I wanna fuck you so hard while shredding on my Strat" style he had on Odyssey and Eclipse

@KiraPlaysGuitar

2 жыл бұрын

How about Curse Of The Castle Dragon - Paul Gilbert?

@vanguard4065

2 жыл бұрын

i never get bored of Yngwie my favorite guitarist

@geneevans7885

2 жыл бұрын

I’m not gonna lie I was with you on this, but man I listen to trial by fire, I came to one conclusion. The guy is a great guitar player, he’s the reason why fender is still relavant. The older I get, the more I really appreciate this guy.

@Mr.Goldbar

2 жыл бұрын

@@geneevans7885 Trial By Fire is what made me a fan of his playing too! But his personality is... Questionable at best

Yngwie was one of the most awesome additions to Metal back in 1988 or so. My comments regarding Yngwie's absolutely awful recording/mixing quality have been removed from various forums. Loved Yngwie but continue to hate his "demo" sounding albums.

Imagining Yngwie Malmsteen spending his whole day staring at his computer fuming and intentionally looking up and reporting anything he doesn't like is both sad and absolutely fucking hilarious to me.

Long before the albums you listed he came out with Blackstar, which you got as a plastic 45 inside of Guitar Player magazine. I can remember pulling that out, putting it on a turntable, and falling absolutely in love with guitar. With that said, by trilogy I lost all interest, but you are missing more than a few of his early albums, like No Parole for Rock and Roll by Alcatraz.

@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316

5 ай бұрын

I liked Alcatrazz more than any of Yngwie’s solo stuff

Bravo! Well articulated presentation. I'm 65 and have enjoyed great guitar work for decades...and play every day for my own enjoyment. I'm also a violinist. So, when I first hear Malmsteen, I'd already heard the top 50 greatest virtuoso violinists ever recorded. THAT puts his music into context. I would encourage the neo-classical guitarists out there to start digging into the stunning recordings of the all time great violinists. When you do, you'll realize that Malmsteen has only scratched the surface of how the electric guitar can be used in a classical format. Check out Heifetz playing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with Fritz Reiner conducting. Then, Itzhak Perlman playing Brahms violin concerto live in Berlin version.

@dappawap

2 жыл бұрын

lol to be fair you violinists have better instruments for that music...and I never liked it when he did solos with an orchestra, bad sound.

@thesting6820

Жыл бұрын

The violin is not a guitar, and it is unfair to compare Malmsteen to classical violinists. You are comparing apples to oranges. Malmsteen plays rock music and not classical music. You have a point, the violin is much harder to play than guitar because there are no frets. Proficiency in playing violin outweighs the proficiency of playing guitar. So, a great violinist is a much better musician than lesser-than-great guitarist. My point is that Malmsteen needs to be judged as a rock guitarist, and NOT a classical guitarist. So, it makes no sense to compare Malmsteen to classical violinists.

@brownholecharles

Жыл бұрын

Yngwie really only plays a few scales outside of the blues. His Fenders have scalloped frets so his vibrato requires minimal effort. Not to diminish his stamina for 32nd & 64th note runs which is impressive i suppose. I think in terms of technical mastery on par with the greats of violin, you have to look to the giants of gypsy jazz - Angelo DeBarre, Stochelo and Jimmy Rosenberg, Bireli Lagrene .. these players are capable of really astounding performances on instruments without electronic amplification.

@thesting6820

Жыл бұрын

@@brownholecharles Thanks for the great post. And, yes when I remember all of Yngwie's albums I remember hearing the occasional major scale, the lydian mode and maybe a few other modes but mostly I hear minor and harmonic minor scales. My point is that I cannot ever remember him modulating to other keys.

It was after listening to Yngwie's album "Fire and Ice" that got me inspired into guitar playing, into the world of music and ultimately into audio engineering, I love his music, I love his techniques he came up with, BUT I JUST CAN'T STAND HIS F****N EGO. . .

@johnsmith-kc1sn

Жыл бұрын

"Never meet your heroes"

@TheRocknRollAnti-Narciss-lb7qk

Жыл бұрын

@@johnsmith-kc1sn . Except Sabaton. Yeah. Meet them. They are cool AF. No lie. :)

@menamgamg

Жыл бұрын

It's sad but luckily art exists totally separate from the artist. If we can't separate those two that's also an ego issue.

New to you, but I love your stuff, man 👍

Malmsteen accusing other guitarists to be sloppy is the most funny thing I heard today😂

Speaking of Mr Yngwie massive ego let me tell you a story. Once upon a time back when I was a wee lad, I worked at PMT in Manchester. No doubt my British and Irish pals will be familiar with the place. Anyway PMT is pretty famous for hosting artist signings and shit like that and I met a lot of people; Dave McLean, the guys from trivium and of course Yngwie. Now these promos went one of two ways, Dave just signed some stuff, shook some hands and left, the triviums guys hung out for around 6 hours meeting fans, messing with gear, making a noise and that sort of thing. Yngwie was there for all of 15 minutes and all he did was complaint at the fact the vending machine didn't have diet pepsi in it. Then he left in a huff, no meet and greet no nothing. Imagine being that big of a jerk.

@melonxo

7 ай бұрын

trivium ever so humble 🥺

I once heard someone describe John Popper's harmonica playing as "Yngwie Malmsteening it." It wasn't a compliment.

@CarsInDimension

2 жыл бұрын

BTW, I think John Popper is a world class harmonica player, but it's true that he plays a lot of very fast, high notes.

Yngwie Malmsteen? Sounds like a perfect euphemism for skid mark. "All the kids in gym class laugh at me because my shorts are always Yngwie Malmstained".

I got a copyright strike for an instructional video on how to play Yngwie's song "Dreaming" - couldn't figure out why I was stricked for just a how to play video - do you think Yngwie had something to do with it?

"Yngwie Malmsteen leggings for all the two women that listen to his music." 😆