Yngvie Malmsteen unleashes the fucking fury!

He's finally realized shred metal is never coming back, not even in Japan and Germany, and now he's chasing that sweet Joe Bonamassa money.

Even Ferraris get the blues

I've probably made more mistakes than anybody. But I don't dwell on them. I don't expect people to understand me, because I'm pretty complex, and I think outside the box with everything I do. I've always taken the untraveled path. Obviously, people have their opinions, but I can't get too wrapped up in that, because I know what I can do and I know what kind of person I am. And I have no control over what anybody says about me. Back in Sweden I'm 'Mr Personality' in the tabloids, but obviously I can't take that seriously. I know in my heart that if I do the absolute best I can do, maybe ten years from now people may turn around and say 'he wasn't that bad'.

YM, 2005

his taste in Ferraris stuck in 80s Magnum PI era as well (video rolled into Yngwie, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde and Nuno Bettencourt playing Bohemian Rhapsody. Yngwie relatively restrained).

sun’s out guitars out

To be fair, musicians flaunting their wealth has never stopped being popular, it just doesn’t really work the other way around when you’re not that famous anymore.

maybe if he unbuttoned his shirt more

Mr Personality?

Tabloids?

'Cause he's so ugly?

He’s stuck in a very specific time and place and it’s perfect really

I like how they have to blur his license plate

i wish they’d blur his chest

😂

“It’s not the notes you don’t play, it’s the many many notes you play.”

Tbf his music would be way more interesting if he adopted New Complexity tenets.

“It’s not the notes you don’t play, it’s the many many notes you play.”

From his wiki page:

"As a teenager he was heavily influenced by classical music, particularly 19th century Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, a German multi-instrumentalist and composer of the 18th century."

Prime material for the 'unusual details in Wikipedia articles' thread.

It takes time to learn how to listen though. It’s not something one could pick up on first or second hearing

I like that he's described as a multi-instrumentalist first and a composer second.

xp

Not to be confused with Sebastian Bach, lead singer of Skid Row.

I didn't realize Tommy Wiseau played guitar

the early Rising Force stuff is really pretty good Euro trad metal.... he really was astonishing, much better when he sticks to neoclassical

Yeah, his first three albums are really good, and the two recent ones with Ripper Owens on vocals are better than they had any right to be. But "Yngwie plays the blues" is an idea no one should have encouraged.

I like his old stuff
as a persona he’s a total cheeseball egomaniac & i kinda love it

omg this is a gift

love yngwie's take on the late career back-to-basics recd. gtr could be a little wetter tbh

Everything wetter than everything else.

yngvie malmsteen unleashes the fucken furry lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-qmRS3-a4
If you shred for me baby
I will turn your Yngwie (J.) Malmsteen

He makes Joe Bonamassa look like Charley Patton, ffs.

The insanity makes this vastly more entertaining than any Bonamassa I’ve heard tbh

loool Nick B

I watched the youtube vid and the hollow ringing sound of endless decay has stuck in my head for 24 hours

I saw this dude back in '85 opening for AC-DC with his "Rising Force." He was a 22-year-old goofball then and now he's a 55-year-old goofball. He was charming, but...

I suggest people listen to Ritchie Blackmore.