I've been trying to find some good yngwie stuff, but i'm finding it a bit hit and miss. I like the tracks far beyond the sun and arpeggios from hell, but then there are tunes like i am a viking which i think are awful. Can anyone help me here? What stuff of his should i be looking out for? I can tell he probably has some music that i would like a lot, but i just have to whittle it down a bit.

Cheers...

Get the first album, basically all the instrumentals are ok and don't touch 90% of tracks if they have a vocal.

I liked the first 3 albums then gave up after Odyssey since that was poor enough.

I did meet him though after a gig at the Dominion in London on the Odyssey tour.

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Yngwie released a CD in 2002 called "Attack" that was just great. Of the 14 or so tracks at least 5 or 6 were excellent. He is kinda stuck in a timewarp in that you feel you're listening to an 80's project but the playing is undeniably awesome. Pick it up and I'm sure you will like it. It was in my car's CD Player for at least a month.

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Well you have come to the right place as I am an Yngwie fan since the mid 80's. First I will highlight a few albums and then I will include a quick list of recommended tracks.

My personal recommendations would be the first album, Marching Out, Trial By Fire, Odyssey, Fire And Ice. These are the ones with the best playing and compositions, although I really enjoy The Seventh Sign for the production, songs and vibe. Magnum Opus was a little more experimental and perhaps more contrived but there were some interesting songs on it. Eclipse was his most commercial sounding album and Yngwie has often said how disappointed and angry he was with the production/mastering quality. There are some cracking songs on there though, with powerful catchy riffs, fluent and melodic solos etc.

From the mid 90's onwards I feel he ran out of ideas and seemed to settle for sub standard compositions and production. Only the real die hard fans like myself were able to hear between the lines, and enjoy what little good stuff was on those albums. He did a true classical recording was a philharmonic orchestra which was very enjoyable and a breath of fresh air. More recently he did an album called Attack!! which had heavy crunching riffs and blistering solos, plus he returned to a few familiar themes from his early years. The current album is disappointing, so my fingers are crossed for a better one next time.


Recommended tracks to check out!

(1) Black Star (classic often imitated, never bettered)
(2) Far Beyond The Sun (my favourite track)
(3) Evil Eye
(4) Icarus Dream Suite Op.4 (superb)
(5) As Above, So Below (good chord progressions and solos)
(6) I'll See The Light Tonight (classic riff and superb solo with masterful phrasing and pedal point sequences)
(7) Disciples Of Hell (superb acoustic intro, amazing solo)
(8) Anguish And Fear (tricky riff & blistering solo!)
(9) Soldier Without Faith (atmospheric chord structures and a solo with lots of ideas and variation)
(10) You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget (memorable chorus, excellent solo with nice melodies)
(11) Liar (fast tempo rocker with cool fragmented arpeggio sequences)
(12) Fire (solo is the highlight, very ferocious and full of tonal variations and ideas/techniques)
(13) Trilogy Suite Op.5 (some would argue his best track, full of masterclass techniques and classical sequences)
(14) Rising Force (memorable riff, high velocity solos and a fast picked ending that makes your jaw drop!)
(15) Bite The Bullet (menacing classical riffs and solos)
(16) Riot In The Dungeons (similar to the previous, a continuation really with vocals and more)
(17) Deja Vu (time signature changes, clever riffs, energetic solos)
(18) Bedroom Eyes (bluesy riff and solos)
(19) Save Our Love (big production, packed with orchestrated guitar parts and a superb melodic solo with phrasing to die for)
(20) Motherless Child (infectious high tempo riff and solo arpeggio sequences and main solos)
(21) Judas (very catchy all the way through, with some nice playing too)
(22) Perpetual (sorta Black Star II)
(23) Hmmm...most of the tracks from Fire And Ice are worth listening to, so I won't list them all!
(24) Never Die (brilliant song to drive to! Packed with energy, chunky riffs, superb arppegio sequences and a rippling solo)
(25) Brothers (emotive and melodic instrumental, quite beautiful and powerful)
(26) Seventh Sign (heavy riff, again with classical arppegio sequences and hellraising solos)


This list could go on a lot more but there should be plenty here to get your juices flowing. Pretty inspirational stuff and class leading at the time, and probably not really equalled for tone and passion since by others. A lot of other guitarists have been and gone, who concentrated too much on picking every note too accurately and hence were very boring. Malmsteen is a tremendous picker and he can chop your head off with some firey, toneful playing!


NCGM

thanks for all these recommendations. keep them coming!

NCGM - since you seem quite eager to talk about yngwie, i would be interested to see what you have to say about the influence yngwie had on metal in general. Was a lot of the music in the eighties inspired by him? I was young in the eighties, so i don't really have any idea how he fits into things.

Although i was young then, i am interested in quite a few guitarists from that period, as well as a few guitarists who play in an arguably similar style nowadays. (people like megadeth guitarists marty freedman and chris poland, jeff loomis, john petrucci, etc.)

One of the weirdest things about yngwie is that he's always hyped up as being super technical, as if that's all he had to offer. If that's what people's perceptions of him genuinely are, then he is rather misunderstood, imho. It seems obvious to me that there is a style of music he really enjoys playing and so that's what he does - if all he wanted to do was pick super fast etc, his music wouldn't sound like it does.

I would even say that some al di meola stuff really seems of a much more technical nature to me, although i'm no expert on this. I think to truly understand that aspect, you have to be able to play it - I can't! Anyway, people never seem to go on about al di meola the same way.

One of the things i really like about yngwie is his strat guitar tones. I think that distorted humbucker lead tones are pretty boring compared with the squeals and honks you get out of a strat. Just my opinion of course. And his playing always sounds...believable. I don't know how to explain that, but it's just that when you listen to it, it's always easy to visualise a person playing it on a guitar. Maybe it's to do with that thing you said about how he doesn't concentrate on picking precision too much...i just think that in supposedly high energy music, that sort of rawness adds a lot to the overall sound. Good technique is fine, but if you want your solo to blow people's heads off, it maybe shouldn't sound easy.

Anyway, isn't the internet great? To me, finding people to talk to about yngwie is like finding a support group for an embarassing ailment!

Cheers

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Although I was young then, I am interested in quite a few guitarists from that period, as well as a few guitarists who play in an arguably similar style nowadays. (people like megadeth guitarists marty freedman and chris poland, jeff loomis, john petrucci, etc.)

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I would say that Yngwie was a huge influence on guitarists but not particularly other musicians or metal musicians because the metal fraternity didn't consider him to be heavy enough, i.e. a bit too musical, classical and big for his boots. Some of the players who liked Richie Blackmore and Randy Rhoads, then heard Yngwie and moved towards what he was doing. Other guitarists upto that point had only dabbled at Classical influenced rock and metal, but Yngwie just blew them all away with his execution and full understanding of what was required etc. In short he just moved the bar to a much higher level!

The guitarists you mention were more into either Jazz (Chris Poland) or exotic Eastern stuff (Marty Freedman). Now if you want to hear both styles in one, check out Jason Becker because he could play like someone possessed! He played classical and exotic Eastern stuff in a way that others could only dream of. Unfortunately he developed a crippling illness at the peak of his powers, but even then he still managed to release another album that was amazing. Check out his albums Perpetual Burn and Perspective, plus the two albums he did while in the band Cacophony.

Other genre leading guitarists from the 80's with recommended albums in brackets include Vinnie Moore (Time Odyssey), Tony Macalpine (Maximum Security), Joey Tafolla (Out Of The Sun), Paul Gilbert (various appearances on other peoples albums, plus his band Racer X) and a few more.

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I would even say that some al di meola stuff really seems of a much more technical nature to me, although i'm no expert on this. I think to truly understand that aspect, you have to be able to play it - I can't! Anyway, people never seem to go on about al di meola the same way.

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Yep fast picked passages of music is not what Yngwie is all about. It's his style that forms the basis for what he does, and the technical aspects merely help him achieve this. Many people overlook how melodic he can be or how brilliant his phrasing is sometimes.

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One of the things i really like about yngwie is his strat guitar tones. I think that distorted humbucker lead tones are pretty boring compared with the squeals and honks you get out of a strat. Just my opinion of course. And his playing always sounds...believable. I don't know how to explain that, but it's just that when you listen to it, it's always easy to visualise a person playing it on a guitar. Maybe it's to do with that thing you said about how he doesn't concentrate on picking precision too much...i just think that in supposedly high energy music, that sort of rawness adds a lot to the overall sound. Good technique is fine, but if you want your solo to blow people's heads off, it maybe shouldn't sound easy.

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Yeah he wires his pickups in a unorthadox way to achieve his distinctive sound. He also uses vintage MkII Marshall amp heads and I myself once owned one and they sound superb, i.e. fat and warm with a slightly dark tone. A lot of guitarists thesedays go for a rather dry tone, which I find dull and boring. I like to hear real valves being driven hard and making those lovely squelchy fat tones, harmonically rich with a lot of "audio textured taste"!

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I'm not sure how many other Yngwie or Neo-Classical fans there are on these forums, but you've found at least one in me! By the way, check out a few more bands in the Neo-Classical style like Symphony X, Adagio. There are a few good ones out there, although as always in any genre there are plenty of shameless clones with no ideas of their own.


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Cough Cough.....

you know damn well I've been known to do the Odd Yngwie cover in the past

or has you memory finally succumbed to your dotage

indeed, My Wife, bless her cotton socks, is still very much an Yngwie Fan.....

me, Well i LOVE his playing, always have... but I got a bit tired of the same harmonic minor, and phrygian scalar solos... although he has always been able to pull off amazing technique, it sometimes runs away with him... BUT when he's on form his phrasing and touch is amazing...

it's a shame he's an arrogant arse..

I've met him on several occasions... and he's never yet shown any signs of maturing beyond the prima donna stage of "stardom"

unlike guys like Gary Moore.., and Satch.... both of whom are fantastic players , AND good blokes....

(Bastards..... don't you just hate it when they're not just really talented, but nice too ????? )

To add to the list NCGM's of players you might want to further the education with....

Alex Skolnic. (Testament)

Criss Oliva (dead, but look up the band he founded, Savatage)

Al Pitrelli

(yes I know they've all been in Savatage.... it's coincidence... honest)

Frank Gambale.

Zakk Wylde could do some awesome things toa guitar... Ozzy spoilt him IMHO... his country metal things were scary...

George Lynch.... OUCH!

Reb Beach... under rated...

Richie Kotzen

George Bellas

Joe Stump

Prior to the Solo thing, Yngwie played in a band called Alcatraz.... Mike Varney didn't, contrary to popular belief, just magic him up from the depths of Scandanavia
When Yngwie left Alcatraz to pursue the solo thing.... guess who replaced him....










yep, that nice young Stevie Vai ........ who has been quoted of saying something along the lines of

"when I got the gig after Yngwie left, I really had to up my game to match his technical standards... "

and that it was this process that was at least pertly responsible for his "green meanie" the virtually self built, rebuilt, hacked about charvel, that was the ancestral precursor to the JEM.

My own take on the Yngwie signature model is that Scalloped frets are for wimps


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oh i didn't know that the frets were scalloped aswell!! doesn't that bollox the intonation??

i've read that scalloped boards are difficult to play, gotta have a really light touch haven't ya??


cheers


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The work Yngwie did on the Alcatrazz albums was miles ahead of its time. I remember locking myself in my room for days trying to learn his riffs off my vinyl copy of "No Parole From Rock n Roll". I finally was able to play the solo from Hiroshima Mon Amour and I was on top of the world

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Step away from the CD player and sit down...Do not go near the remote control until the dangerous contamination has been removed. This the CAGPA and we are here to save you from the insiduous threat of terminally pointless noodling, crap stage clothes bar hair and overtly pompous empty headed poodle rock...

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yngwie who?

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...Yngwie F**king Malmsteen that's who!


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you know damn well I've been known to do the Odd Yngwie cover in the past

or has you memory finally succumbed to your dotage

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Yep even Yngwie can't play the solo to Rising Force with his toes like you can Max!

Err...memory?....Dotage?.......Hey 34yrs old is still young enough to widdle like a good 'un! I'm very rusty though and have not played on a regular basis since the mid to late 1990's, so a bit of head down and practice hard is on the cards...


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There's nothing like the taste of industrial strength Listerine for removing that nasty 80's taste from your mouth. In the morning.

I bet the fella could do a 'wailing' Ride of the Valkyries as the chopper swoops overhead. The horror - Circle back and nail 'im, Dawg!

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You wanna watch what you're saying or he'll unleash the fury on you! See you in Tokyo, bitch!

Thanks for all those max. Are these guys you have listened to a lot or are you more just aware of them? I've actually heard a few of these guys, but it can be pretty hard to get a hold of this sort of stuff.

I've heard some frank gambale stuff on his website. I got quite interested in him after i read something he said in an interview. It was a comment to the effect that he spent a long time playing the keyboard instead of the guitar for a while, because he finds that lots of guiatrists all sound the same. I'm really fed up of what i think of as 'bluesy' lead as well, and he seemed to be hitting out against that. The stuff of his i heard really reminded me of al di meola, of whom i am a big fan.

I've also heard ritchie kotzen. I'm a big fusion fan and he played/plays in a band called vertu, with fusion legends Stanley Clarke and Lenny White.

Now...how about Joe Satriani and Steve Vai? I've heard a little of their stuff, and found it thoroughly disappointing. I just thought that it was stylistically very familiar, and it didn't even seem to push and technical boundaries. I think Slash delivers a far more exciting solo than these guys. Anyone care to put that right? What is considered to be these guys at their best?

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Vai and Satch are VERY different players from Yngwie .

IMHO Vai is over rated.... although I'm going to see him in October...

Satriani on the other hand is almost god like....

neither of them would be considered as neoclassical players... although they both have the ability to be ......

Satriani is IMHO one of the Best all round players ever to pick up a six string...

he has ALL the chops.... Blues, Jazz, fusion,. classical, and they are all components of his style, which is, very definitely HIS style... and his expressive touch is just the most awesomely delicate, controlled and yet incredibly emotive thing.... yet he can trowel it on with the best of em....

I'm particularly fond of the "Flying in a Blue Dream" Album, and indeed the title track.... and likewise some of "Crystal Planet"

it's ALL talented playing, but IMHO those two albums have the most expressively accessible tracks on them.....

"Flying In a blue dream" 's intro use of harmonic sustain is an absolute classic.... never bettered by anything I've ever heard....

Neoclassical Vai.... Hmmm go and look up a Film Called "Crossroads" starring that irritating teen actor (was it Ralph maggio?) from "The Karate Kid"

Steve Vai appears in the guitar duel at the end... it became a Guitar fret wanking standard called "Eugene's trick bag" .....

most of the rest of the film's guitar work is Ry Cooder.....

I have listened to all the people I listed previously, even covered some of their tracks at one time or another... and a lot of their stuff can still be found.... Amazon is dead good at that sort of thing


I don't play much any more, it's too frustrating...
these days I'm woefully out of condition and too slow to try much of it....


It's probably worth remembering that Satriani made living as a guitar teacher,in between earlier albums and so on.... and his pupils included Steve Vai, Kirk Hammet (Metallica) , Larry Lalonde (Primus) Counting Crows' Dave Bryson, , the jazz player Charlie Hunter and a load of other "name" players...

in many different styles....

you don't get that kind of student roster unless you're VERY VERY VERY good indeed.....

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Try this long running website run by people who know what they are talking about and hold music in high regard:

http://www.destinyrecords.uk.com/

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I really love Gambales albums The Great Explorers and Thunder From Down Under. Passages is quite enjoyable too, plus check out his stuff with Chick Corea if you like full on Jazz.

Interesting to hear about the keyboard approach because when I started out, I wanted to play my keyboard written/improvised solos and melodies on the guitar. My solos were miles away from the usual guitarists approach, although I later moved towards the latter style.


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I've been a fan of Yngwie's for over 20 years but alas it's been a very long time since he's released a decent album - I own 17 at the last count BTW.

Concern yourself with only four - YJM's Rising Force (1984), YJM's Rising Force Marching Out (1985), Trilogy (1986) and Odyssey (1988).

Odyssey is a much maligned album for reasons that escape me, there's some very nice playing on there and some very commercial tunes which is perhaps why you're not supposed to like it. It also has Joe Lynn Turner singing on it who was the best vocalist he worked with IMHO.

Incidentally, check out track three off the 1990 album Elipse, which on the whole is a bit cack, the guitar solo on 'Save Our Love' is one of his best in terms of a song solo as opposed to a strictly instrumental solo - the melody is just lovely.

Despite his unquestionable talent, it's when you see him with Satriani and Vai (G3 in Denver DVD anyone) that you realise he is a bit of a one trick pony, something I thought I'd never say. Vai and Satriani's command of so many different techniques is simply breathtaking.

...and talking of those two it's Satriani all the way for me - Vai is amazing and probably would nudge it on the technique front but it's Satriani's use of melody (d'you remember that, it was very popular once) that is delightful. Listen to 'Thinking of You' off the Time Machine double album and tell me it doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up - he thinks lyrically, like how a singer would.

Finally, one other track you MUST check out is 'Where Were You' by Jeff Beck - this is some of the finest guitar work I have ever heard and Brian May once said something similar - Beck actually makes the guitar sound like someone singing, it's simply stunning.

Whatever you listen to, enjoy.

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I think Fire And Ice is one of his very best. He returned to something more like his first album in soloing style, more raw and direct with nice phrasing and definitely more emotional delivery, plus the songs were more varied and adventurous. The other album worth a mention is The Seventh Sign which I think has a real feel good factor. The playing has more joy and passion with plenty of strong melodies. Also the commercial element doesn't take over completely which is very welcome.

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I agree it is a fine album but I think the criticism comes from the strong AOR style, probably the fault of Mr Turner. He is an excellent vocalist but both his studio and stage delivery are a little feminine for metal tastes. The singer that most suited Malmsteens work would be either Jeff Scott Soto or Mark Boals because their voices are more operatic, particularly Boals who can deliver those high penetrating notes.

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...and talking of those two it's Satriani all the way for me - Vai is amazing and probably would nudge it on the technique front but it's Satriani's use of melody (d'you remember that, it was very popular once) that is delightful.

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I agree to a point in that Malmsteen tends to slip into a lazy shredding mode, going on auto pilot and not stopping to think about what he is playing or how to be more sympathetic to the music. This is a real shame because he DOES have a large palette of musical knowledge to draw from but he chooses not to for some insane reason.

I cannot decide between Satch and Vai but then why would I want to? Both can play with immense feeling and melody, or with huge creativity and off the wall ideas.


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Can`t believe I missed an opportunity like this for so long!

My recommendation?
1)Scallop his bloody fingers.
2)Set fire to his flares
3)Force him to listen to "I do like to be beside the seaside" for twenty four hours non stop
4)Set fire to all his guitars
5)Poke him in the eyes with a blunt stick (or a raspberry)
6)Give him a vasectomy (so at least there won`t be more than one)
7)Set fire to his collection of Troll Dolls (echtedes gut!)
8)Run all his amps over with a Volvo V70
9)Shave all his hair off. It worked on Samson......
10)Shave all the frets off his guitars.

On second thoughts, 10) might make him widdle even more.

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I had a couple of Yngwie albums back in the past and yeah he is a great guitarist but i think it all gets a bit same sounding after a while. The only thing that improves is his Sitar playing lol. I think the last Yngwue album I bought was "Fire and Ice" about 12 years ago.

To be honest Yngwie also pissed me off when he dissed Steve Morse in one of the U.S Guitar Mags around the time Steve replace Satch in Deep Purple.

Pabs

Hi,

I too am a bit of a closest yngwie fan..

For me the 1st and 2nd albums are the best. I really like the "Seventh sign" too and that has to be up there. It was the first yngwie album I bought, when I heard a track of his on the friday rock show on R1 back when it was released... It just totally blew my mind how amazing his guitar playing was and also I really liked and still do his guitar sound.

I have learned to ignore the words of the lyrics and just follow the melodys. I really think his lyrics verge on the naff to so bad that they are emabarrasing to listen too. If you can do that you might find that the 2nd album is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!


Cheers

Steve

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Alex Skolnic. (Testament)

Criss Oliva (dead, but look up the band he founded, Savatage)

Al Pitrelli

(yes I know they've all been in Savatage.... it's coincidence... honest)

Frank Gambale.

Zakk Wylde could do some awesome things toa guitar... Ozzy spoilt him IMHO... his country metal things were scary...

George Lynch.... OUCH!

Reb Beach... under rated...

Richie Kotzen

George Bellas

Joe Stump

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I just don't like the guy

I have seen so much stuff about him basically saying he invented everything and he doesn't even listen to other guitarists, he hasn't got time for other peoples music. He is quoted saying sumthin like "i hardly get enuff time to write my music, let alone listen to anyone elses" nice guy!

There are many players of guitar who are considered really good also nobody mention john petrucci? who totally rips up

also another one, dunno how popular he is, but he was a student of Satch called

Andy Timmons, defo check him out if you can, some real killer stuff

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We Fell From The Sky

I bet nobody on here has ever heard of a Yugoslavian (I think) guy called Misha Calvin. He did three albums between 1993 and 1998, the debut one Evolution being his best. His style was a mixture of Malmsteen and Vai all rolled into one but with a strong emphasis on melody and phrasing, plus he could rip with the best of them. He worked with two good singers on the debut album - Tony Martin (Black Sabbath + others) and Ian Parry (Elegy + many others).

http://www.heavyharmonies.com/cgi-bin/glamcd.cgi?BandNum=938&CDName=Evolut ion

Some of the best guitarists are the ones you never get to hear...



NCGM

Andreas Volanblast... get him in yer head when you get sick of teh fat gay light stringed skando exhibitionist