Conference napalm::heavy_metal

    Have any people in America heard of Yngwie ??
    
    	Brynn.
    

>    Have any people in America heard of Yngwie ??
    
Yeah, but we just try to ignore him!  8^)

Truthfully, although Yngwie is very technically talented, I never 
listen to his music. It bores the hell out of me! All I hear are 
scales and progressions over and over - while it may be fast, it is
not exciting.

I prefer Yngwie when he was with the band Alcatrazz - I have their
live album 'Live Sentence' with Yngwie on guitar and Graham Bonnet
on vocals - it is much better than Ynwie's solo stuff. It has his
fast playing, but in a rock/pop context (they cover Rainbow's 
"All Night Long" and "Since You've Been Gone").

Besides, I can never spell his name right!  8^)

cat

    
    re:.2
     Yeah we have heard of Yngwie,
    
     For albums that are good check out Yngwie J. Malmsteen "Rising
    Force" there are only ywo songs with lyrics but the album is a master
    piece and if you like songs with vocals try "Marching Out",but by
    far the best is(IMO) Alcatrazz "NO Parole From Rock N Roll"
    
    				M
    				 B

    I have an album of his when he was with Steeler, I have only listened
    to it once though.
    
    
    devil dog

    I have a couple of Yngwie tapes, that I listen to fairly often,
    only because I admire his abilities.  Their music doesn't thrill
    me too too much.  Maybe Yngwie is just too talented to be associated
    with such a band?  
    
    HITMAN

    Ok, 
    
    First off, let's do a YJM doscography for those who don't know about
    him:
    
    Steeler
    Alcatrazz - No Parole from Rock n Roll
    Alcatrazz - Live Sentence
    Rising Force
    Rising Force - Marching Out
    Rising Force - Trilogy
    Rising Force - Oddesy
    
    misc:
    Live Marching Out EP
    STARS project
    
    Ok, I heard the bootleg tapes of Yngwie from Sweden WAY before he
    even moved to the states!! (see what being in rnr will do for ya?)
    Anyway, I was blown away when I first heard him.  No one had played
    so far AND so claenly before.  Also, he was ripping off these Bach
    and Paganini licks and it was wild.
    
    OK, so I think Yng's best guitar playing/song writing is on No Parole.
    The writing is weak on Steeler, but after Alcatrazz Yngwie got major
    tendonitis in his left hand and ever since then his playing has
    been a little more sloppy.  Also, he has a big ego (I've met the
    a$$hole before), and I think the pulicity went to his head.  Now
    i don't think he writes as well.  His last two Rising Force albums
    I think are crap!  
    
    Anyway, now every guitar player in the world wants to sound like
    Yngwie...they're all cloning him.  Its a drag i wish sometimes the
    F__ker never even bothered playing guitar.
    
    I predict Yngwie will be a has been in two years, and will never
    have a hit single and will never headline a major tour.
    
    You know the joke, what's Yngwie Malmsteen mean in swedish?
    
    Opening act!
    
    hahaha
    
    Buck

    I have the first album "Rising Force" and I like some of the songs,
    more from a technical standpoint, like Hitman.  Yng is a great player.
    I have heard some of the other stuff and it seemed very repetative,
    so I never bought any of the albums. 
    
    I thought the lyrics were incredibly weak on the album I have.
    
    gh

RE : .0

    I have the 4 Yngwie albums on CD. I like his playing.
    I would say that I prefer the last one Odyssey, coz I like also a lot
    John Lynn Turner vocals. This albums sound like good-rainbow IMO.
    The first album (the only almost-all-instrumental-one) will be my
    second choice out of it's 4 albums.

	Didier "Faster as the speed of ligth"


    PS : any date plan in France ? 

                Yngwie is  the  nutz!  I would vote for his first
                album being the  best  (Trilogy  and  Oddesey are
                geat, but too poppy  to  be  put  with  the first
                two).
                
                I even named an 8800 after him (I think it was an
                8800, I forget now).  See node YNGWIE::
                
                - Rob
                
                

    Though I haven't heard much of YJM's stuff, what I have heard sounds
    a lot alike.  Technically, he's a wizard !  I would love to hear
    him hit a few bluesey licks every now and then but speed is his
    style, so there.  Joe Lynn Turner I think is a great addition to
    Rising Force and this will help the band to get a wider audience
    IMO.  I agree with Buck about everybody and their brother doing
    Yngwie chops now ... I'd rather do pork chops ... :^)  Besides they're
    easier and speed isn't that critical !
    
    
    				Mr Scary II

    Ha!  Pork chops.  Gotta like it!  My playing is alittle more like,
    ah, nonexistant, but I listen pretty good though!
    
    HITMAN
    
    P.S.  YJM is supposedly the fastest in the world, right?  I think
          Eddie Van Halen is rated second, then {gag} Roy Clark, Santana,
          etc...

    Yeah, Yngwie is the fastest fer sure!
    
    hey, did y'all hear I replaced Gilbert in Racer X?

    Rep -.1
    
    Uh, um, uh, err, duh...  I fergett...
    
    I remember hearing it on the radio last year.  I can't remember
    who they took that info from.  Rolling Stoned?  I'm not sure.  Damn,
    I'd better check my informants before I report!  (^;
    
    But thats what I remember hearing.  The fact that Roy Clark is in
    their really shocked me.  He is really fast, and good at what he
    does, so I admire him for that.  I guess I couldn't see him in leather
    or spandex with long hair...
    
    I remember George Harrison being on that list too.  I guess the
    sitar (what a wierd looking contraption) helped his speed in the
    mid/late sixties!
    
    HITMAN (who thinks the list was fairly accurate)

    I think Tommy Skeotch, while he's not the fastest, kicks all their
    butts !
    
    jc

    I don't know why people are so hung up on music competition.  Who
    really cares that Yngwie can play faster than Van Halen can play
    faster than Jeff Beck can play faster than Eric Clapton can play
    faster than...
    
    It's stupid.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not slagging the importance of
    speed.  I love to listen to fast guitar playing.  I'm just saying that
    music is entertainment, not the Olympics.  Anyone so shortsighted
    to believe that someone is a better player simply because they play
    faster is overlooking the whole purpose of playing in the first
    place.
    
    IMO
    gh

    Never said anybody was better than anyone else just because they
    were faster.  I also have 20-20 vision.  (^;  Just bringing up a
    trivia goody.  Thassall!  
    
    HITMAN (Y'kno what I mean, glh?)

    
               I feel that if you are to be considered one of the best
    guitarists you should be able to do it all. 
    
               Speed, Feeling, Great improvision for example.
    
           People like Hendrix, Beck, Blackmore and Clapton paved the way 
    through the 60's and 70's.
    
           People of today like Joe Satriani, Vinny and Gary Moore as
    well as Eddy V. H. pretty much have it all.
    
           Let's not forget Roy Clark and even Glenn Campbell can play
    a mean guitar.
    
           Blues guitarists like Joe Gibbons and Johnny Winter.
    
           People like Harrison who is a pretty efficient guitarist
    is not necessary one of the greatest. But, he is one of the finer
    songwriters. 
    
           I guess what I'm trying to say is if a person is rated just
    on his chops then he should have it all. And if he is rated as a
    musician then other aspects should be considered.
    
                                        Rich 
                                      
          

    Glenn Campbell?
    
    What about Rick Campbell??
    
    What about Vivian Campbell???

    Yo, Hitman!  I didn't mean to imply that you personally felt that
    way.  I was refering to whoever would write an article like that
    to begin with.  
    
    I don't think anyone here would be so limited to think that faster
    was always better!
    
    I've just heard a bunch of that stupid kind of talk and wanted to
    complain.
    
    glh

                                                                               
    Here's a review for the Malmsteen gig in November, at the Dominion, 
    London.                        
                                                                               
    It was extracted from Metal Hammer, without permission                     
                                                                              
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
        And on the eighth day, the Lord said "Let their be very fast           
        guitarists" and there was.. Yngwie J. Malmsteen and his very fast      
        guitar playing antics.  Don't believe me ? No I don't either.          
           Try telling that to all the punters who'd come to be dazzled        
        by Yngwie's fretboard flying digits.  Cue more hate mail as Mark       
        declares Yngwie is to be "crap live".  All credit to Joe Lynn          
        Turner and his Rising Wig.  The man deserves better than this,         
        the man deserves some respect, he deserves his name on the             
        posters somewhere, he deserves some songs y'know.                      
           Yngwie has pathetically little decent material for a                
        supposedly headlining act.  the band flirts with melody and            
        harmony on occasion, but in general Turner's pissing in the wind,      
        unable to flex his vocal talent, cause there's nothing there for       
        him to sing.  And I don't give a damn about how many copies of         
        the Bible, the Koran and any other documents Yngwie's willing to       
        swear an oath over, his onstage mannerisms owe more to Rainbow         
        era Blackmore than is reasonable outside of the realms of              
        Spitting Image on a Sunday night on the telly.  Wait a minute,         
        maybe that's it! Maybe Yngwie's taking the mick and at the end of      
        one gig he's going to drop the Blackmoreisms and grin and say          
        "now this is me", the way Mike Yarwood used to at the end of his       
        TV show.  Crazy name, crazy guy!                                       
           Or maybe not.  Sorry Yng-fans, but all this widdly squiddly         
        guitar heroics leaves me colder than the kind of cold stares Liz       
        Evans reserves for Lisa Dominique.  The very next night you'd          
        have found me grinning from ear to ear at Wembly (spiritual home       
        for many a Scotsman), where Steve Vai, the only man in the world       
        who can get away with a fluorescent green guitar, made his guitar      
        talk, sing and make noises no guitar should ever make and I            
        didn't get bored once, not once.  With Yngwie there was never the      
        possibility of a smile, let alone a grin. Its a grey world these       
        'Gods's gift to guitarists' musos inhabit (unless your name is Mr      
        Vai) and its grey songs they play with grey conviction.                
           Like fellow Swedes 'Europe'.  Yngwie is at best pastiche of         
        familiar sounds that works remarkably well in front an audience        
        who isn't too fussy about how much flair and originality is            
        thrown in with the well worn musical cliches.  How Joe Lynn            
        Turner copes with glancing over his shoulder every few minutes to      
        see Yngwie throwing all Ritchie's shapes I don't know, it must be      
        deja vu city for the poor guy.  This retro-rock museum piece is        
        not is not the way forward for metal.  On the ninth day the Lord       
        said "I only gave you Ygwie to prove I had a sense of humour, and      
        you fell for it".  Here endeth today's session.                        
                                                                               
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 I agree!!                                                                     
                                                                               
    -Tony                                                                       

    
    	Did you know that Joe Lynn Turner is to leave Yngwie and try
    to reform RAINBOW!!
    	It would be a good thing too, mind you anything's better than
    being in Yngwie Malmsteen's band...
    
    	Duckula.

    Ahhhhh no!!!!!!!!!!!!
    
    Look at old Tony Iommi trying to make it with *the new* Black Sabbath.
                                                            
    The new stuff sucks in comparason to the old stuff!!! 

                
                Good!   I  never  liked  Turner,  now maybe he'll
                bring back Soto.
                
                - Rob
                
                

    I heard "Trilogy" for the first time tonight.  It was my first
    time really having a chance to listen to YJM's work.  I was impressed
    and I felt like I had heard it all before.  But I guess what I was
    hearing was YJM clones and not the other way around.  Impillettiri
    sounds A LOT like him, ya know, kinda shows you every lick he knows
    in every tune !  But it still had some good grooves in it.
    
    
    				Scary

    Did ya all hear about Yngwie's ravaging sucess in Russia?  12 sold out
    shows, beating Billy Joel's Glasnost record!  Hmmm, maybe good ole
    Yng's found a market niche?  ;^>   No longer will he be the ultimate in
    opening bands in the US, he can play Russian and Japan and be worshiped
    as a god figure there forever :^> x 1,000! 
    
    Seriously, I guess since Russia is `behind the times' in many ways, and
    they have not heard much rock n roll (seriously guys n gals, I have
    been there, and the Beatles are current to them!!!), and Classical is
    big there, so maybe this classical metal was a logical progression for
    them, and Yng fit the bill. 
    
    Buck, who sez "sheeesh, all we need is another 2 million Yngwie
    clones in the world!"

    
    Can anyone Confirm This....
    My singer the other night Heard a rummor that Yngwie is going to
    
    be doing some work with Ronnie James Dio,,,I hardly Believe this
    
    is true,But I figured I'd ask.
    
    {tama}

    
    	Deep down in his heart, Yngwie wants to be Ritchie Blackmore.
    
    	White scalloped Strats, dark diminished scales, Joe Lynn Turner...
    
    	For some reason, the Dio thing sounds like the next step.
                                                                          
    
    						Les Fister
    

    I agree with Les (.36) that Yngwie seems to copy a lot from Blackmore.
    I doubt that he and Dio would be able to work together, as both
    have strong dominant personalities and that generally isn't compatible
    in a band.
    
    gh

    Why would he want to do something with DIO?  When I heard YJM for
    the first time, I thought I was listening to DIO.
    
    Chris D.

    Ya But can you Imagine if the two were willing to work together
    as a team,and leave the Attitudes out of it. 
    
    jim

    Yng has said in the past that ROnnie DIo is is FAV singer and he
    has always wanted to play with him...no surprise if they do a 
    project.
    
    I met Yngwie in NYC and Boston for a breif moment and he was a d*ck
    in both places (actually, a bigger d*ck in NYC cuz I talked to him
    for a longer period of time!!)
    
    He IS stuck on himself, noone can ever tell me otherwise
    
    Buck, who remembers Yng walking away shaking his head after someone
    told him he s*cked (it was in response becuase that person said
    "you remind me of Al DiMeola with your arpeggios and harmonic minor
    passages," and Yng said "No way dude, you're f*cked, I sound nothing
    like Al...Al sux!"  so the kid said "no way man, YOU s*ck!"  Yng
    couldn't handle it)

    I believe YJM would meet his match if he teamed up with Ronnie,
    cuz Ronnie's a dark child with connections in lower places, catch
    my drift ?  Dio eats Pentagram Post Toasties for breakfast, with
    bats blood of course !
    
    
    				Scary

                                    
    
    In a recent interview YJM said that he had written every track for
    the new album (which he is preparing to start work on - after the
    live Russian album is released).  When the interviewer asked his 
    Speedlyness why a great songwriter like Joey Lynn Turner had not 
    been allowed to lend a hand in the writing, Yngwie Johan Malmsteen 
    replied...     
   	   ...<and I quote>..
    	   			    	     
    "Tough shit - all I can say is that Turner will definetly be singing
    on the next album - maybe"....

    
    	Perhaps Mr. Malmsteen has a slight ego problem.
    
    	I thought the 'J' stood for something else, but I won't say
    it...
    
    							Les
    

    You know what Yngwie Malmsteen means in Swedish?
    
    Opening Act!
    
    Seriously, I met his high-holyness in NYC in 1985, right after Marching
    Out was released, and he was at his height in Guitarists popularity.
    I said "Hey Yng, I liked you're playing on Rising Force, it was
    really hot"  he said "I know".
    

                I  met   him  also  after  Aerosmith/Keel/YJM  at
                Foxboro and basically  got the same response.  He
                left the rest of  the  band behind and I hung out
                with them for about an  hour until the cops tried
                to throw the band out of  the  parking  lot while
                they were waiting for the equipment to be loaded.
                Everyone  else was pretty cool.  YJM was  one  of
                those gestures Tony showed Alan and myself on the
                trip to Hampton.  :`)
                

                

	Hi , I,m Jun Matsui. This is my first entry on this notes.

	Yngwie is one of my favorite guiterists. I have his all album 

	and his demo tape (which is he was about 17 in Swedwn).

	This tape includes original form of his music.(ex. there is

	original of "Rising force" in ODYSSEY .)    

	Already his talents , fast play , clasical phrase appeared

	in this . 

	I expect live CD in MOSCOW (it will sell on OCT).



	PS. Dou you understand my poor english ?

    
    Yes, your English is fine....why don't you go and introduce yourself
    in the Metalhead roster (note 3, I think).
    
    Flip

    Yngwie releases a new live album called 'Live in Leningrad', through
    Polydor on October 16.
    
    Side one:	Liar, Queen in Love, Deja Vu, Far beyond the sun, heaven
    		tonight.
                
    Side two:	Dreaming, You don't remember, Blues gritar solo, Black
    		star and a cover of Jimi Hindrix's Spanish Castle Magic.
                
    Flip

                
                
                Cheater!!!   He  owes  us  new  songs, not a LIVE
                album!!!  Sort of like Rush cheating us...
                
                I wan't NEW Yngwie music!!!!
                
                (I'll buy it anyway though... :') ).
                
                

    
    Yngwie is presently working on new material at Criteria Studios
    in Miami.
    
    Flip

I've much much impressed by Yngwie's Live album which was played in Leningrad.
It contains a lot of Yngwie's adlib and classical phrase. I realize his guitar
playing much dependent on classic music again. I like the Blues that was played
by Yngwie. It's funny, His Blues obtains the velocity of light. It might to be
my favarite album. 

By the way, I heard a rumor that nobody take out a guarantee from Russia. Is it
true ? Yngwie couldn't take out his money too ?
                     
Kazunari.

    re .56
    
        I mean that Yngwie earned his guarantee by his gigs in the 
        USSR, but he couldn't take it out. I don't know the truth.
        
        Yeah, I have an album by Vinnie Moore. I'm pleased with his
        correctness guitar playing. He plays a tight guitar sound, 
        while Yngwie plays a thin. I don't konw a full and detailed
        about him. How many albums did he release ?
    
        Kazunari.

    There is an interview with Yngwie in the newest (Jan '90) issue of
    Guitar Player.  I read it and it seemed like he's trying real hard to
    dispel the reputation he's acquired as an egomaniac.  There were
    several points in the interview where he seemed to be trying to justify
    the way he operates in a band situation.  My feeling was that it didn't
    really work.  He didn't come off like the total jerk he has in some
    previous interviews I've read with him, but still didn't seem like the
    nicest of people.

    He said that he was not very happy with the live recording, as they
    only had the opportunity to record one of several shows and he thought
    it was a bad night.  Apparently they didn't fix it up in the studio
    either.  

    He's currently working on his next studio album.

    Greg

    
    
    	re: "not the nicest of people"
    
    		Of course he's not nice, he got his attitude from
    Ritchie Blackmore! :-).
    
    -MrB.

    
    Musicians on the new album:
    
    Goran Edman			vocal
    Michael Von Knorring        drums
    Mats Olavsson		keyboards
    Svante Henyrson		bass
    
    Flip

    -1
    
    Whos playing guitar?
    ;^)

    		Chris Impilliteri !      8^)
                
    
    
    			Scary

                Yuk!  He's not fit to clean Yngwie's boots!  If I
                had to pick a 'same but different', it would have
                to be someone like  Vinnie Moore.  Impelletiri is
                a messy slob.
                
                - Rob -
                

                
    re: -1
    
    No way dude - Impelleterri burns Malmsteen to pieces. People always
    put CI down as a sloppy player - but you listen to his stuff (and
    watch his instructional video 8^) ) and you will see he is as clean
    a player as the rest.
    
    At least he doesn't rely on hammer-ons to pull off his licks !
         
    -Tony

                well, if  he  doesn't  want  to be referred to as
                sloppy, he shouldn't  play  so  sloppily  on  his
                albums.  As far as I'm concerned, he's sloppy and
                just doesn't generate those spine-tingly feelings
                I get when I listen to some of Yngwie's stuff.
                
                - rob -
                

    
    
    Rob,                                   
                                           
    PLease define what you mean by *sloppy* ?

                
                He does  not  have  a very clean sound out of his
                picking, to me  it siunds pretty hacky, along the
                lines of Vinnie Vincent.    Don't get me wrong, I
                like Impellitiri, but his style  leaves something
                to be desired as well as his compositions.
                
                

The new singer for Yngwie's Rising Sun is : Goran Edman

It's new LP will be ready for April

Didier

    What's Joe Lynn Turner doing now ?
    
    
    				Scary

    Singing with... 
    
    Deep Purple  <snigger!>

I got a chance to throw in the 'Live from Leningrad' disk last night, as I 
was playing around with my Atari PC (trying to get this baby up and running).

I was a little suprised - I sorta liked it! Yes, there were masturbatory 
guitar pieces in there (whaddya expext from Yngiwe?), but there were also some 
decent songs on there. (Actually, all the best songs were the four that were 
co-written with Joe Lynn Turner.)

And speaking of JLT, I think that's one of the reason's I liked this one over 
previous Yngiwe albums - Joe Lynn's voice isn't that great, but there is 
something about it I like!

Overall, I'm not sure I'd reccomend someone spending $10 on this thing, but it 
could be worse. And this is probably the best Yngwie album I've heard to date.

alan

    
    Yawn!!!! 
    
    J.

    I also listened to the first album recently and was thinking about it. 
    For it's time it was quite revolutionary and obviously he's an
    outstanding player technically,  but I have maintained all along that
    it's totally derivative of many classical pieces.  

    It kind of amazes me that many of the same people that belittle many
    bands for being derivative of an earlier bands distinctive sound, then
    almost in the same breath praise someone like Yngwie for his "unique"
    sound.  I bet if Bach were around, he wouldn't be hearing anything real
    unique in Yngwies music!  It amazes me even more that Yngwie himself
    obviously considers his music original and unique and has the nerve to
    berate other musicians that utilize the same musical basis (classical
    baroque period) and influences that he did.

    Now before someone decides to blast me, I will continue in saying that
    I enjoy listening to Malmsteens music (at least the instrumental
    pieces) quite a lot and own several of his albums.

    gh

    RE: -1 and others...
    
    When you say "Yngwie's first album", do you mean Rising Force, or 
    Steeler?
    
    Yngwie's FIRST album was with Steeler, under the album by the same
    name.  His second release was "No parole from rock n roll" by 
    Alcatrazz...his technical 3rd album was "Live sentence", a live album
    by Alcatrazz, released when Yngwie said he was gonna split the band!
    So, in actuality, Rising Force is Yngwie's 4th US release!
    
    B.

    Also, I feel that "No Parole..." is by far Yngwie BEST work to date,
    followed by the Steeler album...a close 3rd is Rising Force, and the
    rest is superfluous IMHO.

                
                
                
                BTW, he  does  give  credit  to  Bach in the fine
                print of the album (special thanks column).
                
                Steeler kills!   4  on  the  floor  and ready for
                more...
                
                (My favorite Ron Keel album as well)
                

    
    Can someone please answer me a couple questions so I can win some
    Dimarzio goodies from a UK guitar magazine.
                                 
    Its a crossword, and I have got all but a couple of the asnswers
    :-                           
                                 
    Q: What animal was Moje (how this relates to Yngwie I do not know!).
    Q: What is the first name of Yngwie guitar tech (its not Geoffery
       whatshisface BTW, I need Blackmore's old tech).
                                                      
    Thats the only two I can think off from the top of my head - theres
    one more which I'll bring in tomorrow.    
                                              
    Cheers,
    -Tony

    >Q: What animal was Moje (how this relates to Yngwie I do not know!).
    
    Moje was Yngwie's Cat...he died, and Yngwie wrote and dedicated the
    _Icarus Dream Suite, Op. 4_ to him!

    
    Ahh!!!
    
    Thanks Buck.
         
    You mean the choppy one is a cat lover ? Hmm.. maybe hes not so
    bad afterall 8^).
                  
    Thanks again,
    -Tony

    re: .76
    
    Well, I can't speak for anyone else, but when I said first album I
    ment first solo album, Rising Force.  Sorry, I should have made that
    more clear.
    
    gh (who still wants to get the old Steeler/Alcatraz stuff)

The new LP is out. I've heard a tune of it. I thought it wasn't very original,
and the new singer is no John Lynn Turner IMO.

I think the title of the LP is something like "Passion & Warfare" 

Didier

>I think the title of the LP is something like "Passion & Warfare" 

Ooops I got everything completly wrong. This title is Steve Vai's new LP title
not Yngwie's.

Soory for that

Didier

>The new LP is out. I've heard a tune of it. I thought it wasn't very original,
>and the new singer is no John Lynn Turner IMO.

    How was the new LP comparing with previous albums Didier? Is it worth to 
    buy?
    
    Kaz.

    I've seen yesterday on "Headbanger's Ball" a clip from the last Yngwee
    album. The singer is someone who lacks the presence of Joe Lynn Turner
    and the song was commercial and weak with Yngwee jumping here and
    there. I like "Odyssey" and this new clip convinced me to avoid the new
    album.
    
    Sorin

                                              
    I've been on a course in Bournmouth these last few days, and guess
    who was in the hotel ? Yup! Non other than the man himself, Yngwie
    Johan Malmsteen and his band, although I didn't approach him/them,
    I didn't want to get squashed by his ego!! He was apparantly playing
    in Bournmouth or Poole or somthing.
                                       
    Anyway, the new album is called 'Eclipse', and it has 11 tracks on it 
    including :-                               
                                               
    Making Love                                
    Save Our Love     (predicable naff ballad) 
    Motherless Child                           
    Demon Driver                               
    Eclipse           (instrumental)           
    Judas                                      
                                               
    Its a boring album really, Odyssey blows it out of the water.
                                               
    Cheers,                                    
    -Tony                                      

RE : Kaz, Sorin

Yes, it sounds like it is a very poor album compared to "Odyssey" and the 
1st LP which are my 2 prefered LP from Yngwie.

I didn't hear the instrumental yet, but I'd still liked to.

RE : -1 

Only 6 songs, are they very long or is it just a short LP ?

Didier

    re: 88
        
    Thanks for the info Didier, but it's too late.....I bought it...
    Yep, I agree with ya. It's a VERY boring album comared with all of 
    previous albums! New singer is poor I think.
    
    No worth to buy! 8-(
    
    Kaz.

	My impression of "Eclipse" album is bad .
	I think this album is worst of his albums .

	I think following flow ;

		Rising Force
		   |
		Marching Out
		   |
		Trilogy		--> Odyssey
		   |
		Eclipse

	Certainly , his guiter technique very progressed ( I could play most
	of former album's songs , but too difficult this album ) ,
	but songs not progressed .

	He has very splendid members .
	He cannot use talent of members effectively .


	But I'm going to go his concert at 27-Jun .
	I expect his live play and old songs .

                Well, I  picked  it  up  today, and believe it or
                not...
                
                
                
                I actually LIKE it! :')
                
                Yeah, it's more commercial than his earlier stuff
                (my favorite was his first  as well), but I'd put
                it  in  the same class as  Trilogy  and  Oddesey.
                Needs a bit more listening to, but it's not often
                that  I  put  on  a  new album and actually  like
                almost everything I hear on the first shot.
                
                Cheers...
                

                BTW,  Yngwie    gives  special  thanks  to  Monty
                Python's Flying Circus  and  dedicated this album
                to the late Graham Chapman.
                
                

    
    Ynvie Malmsteen has threatened to walk out of his recording contract
    with Plygram because he thinks they don't give his records enough
    promotion.
    
    FLip

    
    You can only promote an aweful album so much.....
    
    

    
    				I AGREE!

Well, the biggest problem with an Ynwgie record is where to promote it to? 

Rock radio won't touch it, because there aren't any 'hits' (read: formula 
rock) songs on the records. 

Classical radio certainly wouldn't even consider playing it. 

Clubs won't play - its usually not even remotely danceable.

The only places left are underground radio, press, and live shows. But he's 
too well known for a lot of underground radio. There is a lot of press on him, 
but most of its negative (no one likes his ego). And he always seems to get 
good opening slots on tours, so that's not the companies fault.

Seems to me that if he really wants Polygram to support him, he should go and 
get some outside songwriters, a big-name producer, and deliver an album that 
is radio-ready. Until then, I think he should be happy with what he's got!

alan

                So does a strong gust of wind...
                
                :')
                
                I  even    heard  Yngwie  on  WSSH  once!    (The
                instrumental ballad from Trilogy).
                
                

    
    Agagagagaga!!!

    RE: Merlin
    
    Crying?  Oh gawd!!

                Yep.   I  was  sitting  in  the Salem High School
                parking  lot  waiting  for  someone  to  get  out
                flipping through the stations  and  found  YM.  I
                said, "What station is this?!?!?    I  don't know
                this frequency!" Then ABBA comes on  with the old
                'Wish... WSSH' announcement!  I was stupified...
                
                -Merlin -
                

    The yng outa get off his butt and play anywhere, anytime, anyhow.
    He wants to be a stadium star and wants it handed to him.
    classic my arse!

    
    Maybe he ran out of people to steal material from.  At least they
    won't sue him since mostly they've been dead for hundreds of years.
    
    J-Dot 

    
    	His solo on the intro to Steeler's "Hot on Your Heels"
    	cranks!!
    
    	Great mix of classical and electric!!
    
    							GTI
    

    
    Oh, purleeeeez!!!
    
    J-Dot

    WHATEVER U GUYS OUT THERE SAID ABOUT YNGWIE HE STILL KICK
    ASS...........CLASSICAL INTO METAL.

    
    
    
    	Just wondering.. does anyone happen to know who is his
    	new singer???
    
    	JW-

        He sang on John Norum's album.They did Vinnie Vincent's
    song "Back on the Street",his voice is killer.I think he's 
    from Stockholm,Sweden along with John.
    			 Love the new Yngwie 
    				mad solo for "Bedroom Eyes"
    					P.I.
    					i
    					e
    					r
    					r
    					e

    	Can't wait Saturday night at Cumberland Civic Center in 
    Portland,Me. with DIO & Y&T. Haven't seen Yngwie since the 
    1985 Tour with AC/DC. Oh? note something stuipd, Had tickets
    for him at the Paradise with Joe Lynn Turner singing,Oh well.
    	Had other plans,We all make misakes.
    			Gotta split 	
                             home is calling
    					P.I.
                                        i
    					e
    					r
    					r
    					e  :^) Hey!!
    

                Ah yes,  the  Paradise  show...  that was the one
                that was originally  Lita/Yngwie  at  the Orpheum
                that  they moved (when  I  had  2nd  row!)  to  a
                general admission show...  Oh  well,  at least we
                got his multimeter out of it! :')
                
                

    Ah...Clear out the cobwebs in this topic....
    
        Herr Malmsteen's next album is due out in early 92'....I can't wait
     to hear it! It's called NO MERCY....
    
                     Frizkid
    

    Hopefully Yngwie has dried out, lost the ego, got hooked with with a
    good producer, decides to use top-notch studio musicians, and is
    working with union writers...
    
    THAT would be killer!
    
    If he churns out another "everything done by YJM", forget it...

    
    
    Eclipse stunk. I agree, he has to tone down his ego first.
    
    
    
    
    Chris

    Malmsteens new album is titled "Fire and Ice" with the first single
    being "Teaser".
    
                   Frizkid
    

>                   -< He also has a Greatest hits package" >-
    
    ...but he never had any great hits!?!

    
    	I think an album which encompassed Alcatrazz, Steeler and his solo
    	stuff would be pretty good.  He had a few solo hits I liked some-
    	what.
    
    							GTI

    
    
    He had TONS of great songs though, so what if they weren't hits :').
    
    

    Semantics, my man!

    I liked Mr. Malmsteen....Some of his stuff is too Dungens and Dragons
    but for the most part he rips.  He started a whole slew of
    neo-classical shreders. Back then EVERYBODY wanted to be him...
        We'll have to see if he tries a different direction this time.
    
                       Frizkid
    

    
    dungeons and dragons?!?  that's DIO... :')
    

    
    >> We'll have to see if he tries a different direction this time.
       
    I doubt it - before every Yngwie release there is that uncertanty that
    he'll calm down and learn to play guitar (as opposed to electric
    violin). Unfortunatley, he's getting exceedngly boring and predictable.
    
    -Tony

Yes, I have to admit that I agree with Theodore Dallison here!  Yngwie is
BORING with a capital B.


GAZ

    I went to see him out of curiosity last year in Edinburgh,I stayed
    until I heard "I'll see the light tonight" and left(about half way
    through)I was very bored!
    
    
                                              Staynz

    I picked up the _YJM Collection_ CD recently.  Why?  I donno, I don't
    have any YJM on disk, and this one had a bunch of fav tunes, so I 
    figured WTF.
    
    It's not bad...not great...I prefer Alcatrazz with YJM far better..

    Alcatrazz was good...but Gramm Bonnett was the reason that group never 
    went anywhere.  Now Stealer was a different story...Great band.
    
                          Frizkid
    

    
    	Graham Bonnett bores me ... if it wasn't for his vocals on Chris
    	Impelletteri's album I'd probably like it alot more than I do.
    
    							GTI

    I like his singing,some of Rainbows biggest hits in the UK came with
    his vocals on them.
    
    
    
                                                 Staynz

    
    Steeler IS a definate must have!
    

    Steeler ROOLZ!

    I've heard the first single and I was major dissapointed!
    
     It went like: Teaser~~~~~ Your gonna set the night on fire.
          AAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKK!
    PLus the music was just o.k. I expect more from Yngwie....
    
            Frizkid
    

I guess it's the number one LP in Japan tho...

jc (Who watched MTV for that tid-bit)

    
    
    I got it... Don't really care for it.. typical Ingwie, I was sorta
    expecting alot more from him, but it's your basic Ingwie album.. if
    you like the last couple albums, you'll like this one... 
    
    One thing, I can't say the git playin is'nt incredible! The album is
    just BOOOORRRRIIIINNNGGGGG... IMHO..
    
    
    JW-

    
    ....and he's still got that MAJOR FACKIN' ATTITUDE!!!
    
    
    Bleck.

    Yea he does....I saw the ad for the new album and it said something
    like:  Guitar as you've never heard it before or something like that.
    
             Frizkid
    
      

    
    
    i heard it and of course it was totally predictible and is full of 32nd
    and 64th notes and has the jeff scott soto/turner soundalike for a
    singer.  in other words, i loved it :')
    
    

    	I've got it and the last album is much better.But I still like 
    this album and of course the rythem sound,sounds like shit!!
    	Oydessy is the best sounding album.
    Pierre who wishes he'd play more bluesy then fast!!But still he's good.

    
    but if he played bluesy stuff, he'd sound like satriani and then i'd
    have to hate him.  i LOVE the speed daemon yngwie style.  and vinnie
    moore and macalpine...
    
    

    
    	And what, pray tell, is wrong with Satriani?
    
    							GTI
    

    I can`t really see how any one can knock Satriani. He`s a master of
    so many different styles,it`d be difficult to critcise him,i would have
    thought.
    

    boring

    
    I agree with Flip.
    

    So do i.
    
    I was lying in that last note.
    

    re: What's wrong with Satriani
    
    Nothing, Rob just doesn't like him.
    
    gh

    
    Flip took the word right out of my mouth... BORING.
    
    - Rob who hates anything bluesy
    

    Hey ROb, wanna start a blues band??

    
    sounds good to me.  who's gonna play drums? :').
    
    - rob who could probably even manage that boring repetitive guitar :')
    
    

    
    Hey I'll play...
    
    ;')

    
    Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force (first release)
    Marching Out (second release)
    Trilogy (third release)
    
    The others I don't have so I can't make any reccomendations but I
    hear they are more pop oriented. Trilogy is too but there is a
    KILLER instrumental on it!

    Nothing Yngwie has is all instrumental.  It's mixed with vocal
    numbers.  For recommended Yngwie listening, my list is the following
    (in order):
    
    No Parole from Rock n Roll (his best album IMHO) -- with Alcatrazz
    
    Steeler -- with Steeler
    
    Rising Force -- YJM
    
    Marching Out -- YJM
    
    Trilogy -- YJM (although by this point it's getting a little tired)

    >   Which one has "Black Star" on it?
     
    Rising Force.

    
    I have to agree with Buck,But I'd say all the albums are great and
    the newest one made me sick. 8^(
    
    Pierre 
    
    

    You going to see him, Mike?
    
    glh

    Gee...only eight?  How does he manage to be heard?

    gh,
    
      Yngwie is playing Bangles in Denver soon!!!

    You guys used to play Bangles with Hydra didn't ya?
    
    So, you going?
    
    gh

    
    
      Ya I've played there a time or two...and no I probalby won't be
    going...I am broke!!! I saw Yngwie a couple of years ago here at the
    city auditorium and he and his band were HOT!!

    I saw Yngwie up in Denver a couple of years ago and I agree with Bob:
    Go see it he shreds!!!
    
                Frizkid
    

    I saw him about 2 years ago and got bored.He must spend a fortune on
    picks as he seemed to throw lots to the audience.The lead
    singer,there's another thing,he had about as much life as a vagrants 
    vest  8).I stayed until "I'll see the light tonight",then left.
    
    
                                                            Staynz
    
    re-1
    we disagree and uncle Frizster...................and Warrant are shite!
    8)

    I guess everything I like is SHITE then....
    
         Friz...Who can handle it...Sniff..Sniff.
    

    Some of the best musicians have bad attitudes...
    You don't have to talk to them or hang out with them so why do you
    care?
    
             Frizkid
    

    Right!  Like Ritchie Blackmore for instance.  I hear he's real hard to
    work with.
    

    ....have to agree with Mike on this one.I'm more impressed with a
    musician if they're talented and have no ego problem.
    
    re Friz,my sister in law is still so large that she effects the tides!
                            
    
    
                                               Staynz  8)

    I take it that you then were not big fans of Buddy Rich?  ;-)

    Buddy Rich was cool.  I got to see him just a couple of months before
    he died.  Great show!
    
    gh

    For those of you youngsters not familiar with Buddy Rich, he is widely
    regarded to be one of the best big-band jazz drummers ever.  I think
    a lot heavy metal "flash" drumming has origins going back to Buddy
    Rich, who was the first drummer I can recall to really "feature" the 
    drums to the extent that it's done nowadays (although drum solos were
    fairly common in the swing era as well).
    
    However, he was also known to have a tremendous ego, probably the
    biggest in music that I've ever heard although it sounds like Yngwie
    comes pretty damn close.
    
    He never wasted an opportunity to tell (or "show") you how good he was,
    or how much better he was than someone else.
    
    

    
    That's for sure. Also a big drug addict.

    
    but at least in his case, it was fairly ture, not too many people could
    even come close to touching him.
    
    

    Yes, there are all kinds of stories about Buddy Rich's abilities.
    
    I can't remember which guy it was offhand, but when he died, one of
    the other great big-band drummers told this story about how they played
    a gig together.
    
    The other drummer was determined to show up Buddy Rich and worked out
    this really complicated thing.  The story goes that he played it,
    expecting Rich to be impressed, but Rich just sat down at his own
    kit and played it... with one stick!!!

    I just saw on the net that the "Legend in his own mind" was busted in
    Miami for beating up his girlfriend.  He broke her jaw and his finger
    in the process.

    What a man, he's my hero...

    What I caught of it on the local news, he also held her hostage for
    awhile. . . two days later, they were no the tube together all lovey-
    dovey blaming the whole thing on some relative of hers...
    
    Go figger!

From:	DECPA::"Igor_Sinyak@ccm.hf.intel.com" "Igor Sinyak"  5-DEC-1993 23:42:36.30
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Hey there,

I am conducting an aggressive subscription campaign for Rising Force.  
You are being invited to join because in the past six months, you have 
expressed an interest in neo-classical metal and/or Yngwie Malmsteen 
somewhere on the net.

Announcing Rising Force - the neo-classical metal forum:

The purpose of this forum is to provide a means of communication for 
those appreciating the incorporation of classical music into today's 
rock/metal.  While this was the in thing to do for guitarists a few 
years back, the only ones left playing it and listening to it are those 
who truly love it.

There are bits and pieces of threads occuring about the topic on the 
Internet, and this is an attempt to let us express our opinions without 
flames like "they don't play with feeling, listen to blues instead".

While the current title - Rising Force - might suggests an 
Yngwie-centric forum, and perhaps he has been the most successful with 
the genre, there are many others worth discussing.  For instance most of 
the Shrapnel Records catalog, some Leviathan, etc.  Another goal is to 
publicize little known musicians - (how many of you have heard of Dan 
Dalley) who are playing our songs.

Neo-classical metal has more popularity in Europe and Japan than in 
North America, so I'm especially looking forward to submissions from 
those lands.  I also would like to include in our discussions bands such 
as Helloween, Lillian Axe, Dream Theater, Extreme, Europe, etc. who 
throw in a classical melody/progression/solo here and there.

I will be the editor of the mailing list.  Frequency of mailings will be 
determined by volume.  As we ramp up subscription, a regular schedule 
will be published.

Send mail to Igor_Sinyak@ccm.hf.intel.com or reply.
I'm of course doing this in my spare time, not implicating Intel.

Feel the Rising Force (usually I avoid cliches like the plague :-)
Ig

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    Someone tell this guy his "interest" in this genre is a decade to late!
    
      _    /|   
      \'o.O'    
      =(___)=   Aack!!!
         U      
    

    
    hey!  im still interested !  :')  i still love the style, i just have
    no idea who's doing it these days.
    
    

    I replied back to the guy immediately!
    
    

	Update to the arrest in Miami on Aug 18th - 

	Seems the girlfriend won't support the fact that the mother is
	charging him with threatening them with a gun...  
	Yngwie is already undergoing court ordered counseling for 
	an earlier beating of the girlfriend, whom BTW he married on
	26 Dec.  Some people will never learn, and I'm not talking
	about him...    
    
	/Cap'n Quad

	Their house is two streets over from my parents in Miami, that's 
	where I	got the info from...

    So the real truth is that Yngwie DID beat her huh?
    
    She wrote a letter to a Guitar magazine saying it was all an invention
    of her mother because her mother doesn't approve of their relationship.
    
    The guy does come across in every story and every interview as one
    the world's foremost assholes.
    
    	db

Yngwie had his new album(released at FEB) tour in Japan .
I don't know whether it is released at worldwide .
The title of new album is "The Seventh Sign".
Next is songs list.

The Seventh Sign

    1.Never Die
    2.I Don't Know
    3.Meant To Be
    4.Forever One
    5.Hairtrigger
    6.Brothers
    7.Seventh Sign
    8.Bad Blood
    9.Prisoner Of Your Love
   10.Pyramid Of Cheops
   11.Crash And Burn
   12.Sorrow
   13.Angel In Heat	(extra track for Japan)


This is set list of one of his concert.

  16-MAR-1994 at Budokan Tokyo.

    1.Never Die
    2.Bedroom Eyes
    3.Bad Blood
    4.Forever One
    5.Pyramid Of Cheops - Drum solo
    6.Far Beyond The Sun
    7.Seventh Sign
    8.Yngwie solo (Trilogy,Krakatau,Spasebo Blues...)
    9.You Don't Remember
   10.Key solo
   12.Brothers
   13.Crash And Burn
   14.Heaven Tonight

	encore
    1.Black Star
    2.Burn	(Deep Purple)
    3.I'll See The Light Tonight

Tour members;
  Yngwie J. Malmsteen	- Guitar
  Mike Vescera		- Vocal
  Mats Olausson		- Keyboad
  Barry Sparks		- Bass
  Mike Terrana		- Drums

I think his new album is the best one of all his albums.
You had better listen this new album as soon as possible.

Jun

    Pulled this off CompuServe last night:
    
Subj:  Happened at Yngwie show?		Section: Guitar World
  To:  all				Saturday, September 03, 1994 11:25:16 PM
From:  Rick Beem, 76450,3246		#1920

    I went to a Yngwie show in Cincinnati on July 26, 1994.  The show was
    stopped  mid-way because Yngwie got pissed at the drummer and threw his
    guitar at him.  The guitar  hit the drum kit and messed it up really
    bad.  Yngwie then followed/chased the drummer  back stage.  The singer
    was courteous enough to come out and announce that they had  no drummer
    and couldn't continue.
    
    Doesn't anyone know why Yngwie was angry that night, and if the drummer 
    finished the tour, or if the tour was canceled?
    
    It was still a great show, regardless.  But, talking with a few other
    people in other  cities, it seems that this same type of behavior has
    occured at other shows.  I wish he  would get a grip on his anger, else
    venue owners will stop booking him.

If that's true Yngwie, he's a freaggin' loser!

Droid

    I'm surprised he can get booked even without that kind of foolishness.
    
    gh

    I've often prided myself on being able to separate the person from the
    music.  I've defended David Lee Roth in many a notesfile even though
    people seem to love to hate him.  Fact is, they're wimpy without him.
    
    However, two people I simply WILL not support in any way or fashion
    (i.e. I will copy their tapes rather contribute one cent to their egos)
    are:
    
    	Yngwie   and    Sinnead O'Connor
    
    Yngwie's ego is just out of control.  He was influential, I can't deny
    him that, but NEARLY as much as about a dozen other guys.   And unlike
    Van Halen and Hendrix, there are now guys who are "doing Yngwie" better
    than Yngwie.
    
    I.E. some of the people he's influenced are much better than he is
    musically.  I don't think ANYONE does Hendrix better than Hendrix, nor
    Van Halen better than Van Halen (although SRV and EJ come close on
    the Hendrix count (Frank Marino, the veteran would-be hendrix clone
    gets only a "dishonerable mention")) and I'd have to say that Steve
    Vai AT TIMES shows some of Van Halen's panache but he is not very
    consistent (IMHO).
    
    I also don't think it's fair to say that Vai is a Van Halen imitator,
    it's more that I see a lot of similarities (lots of "personality" in
    their playing).
    
    	db
    
    p.s. Shut up Mike - thank you

    hey Hey HEY ... what's this with Sinead O Connor?  She ROOLZ!!!

    
    	Eddie Van Halen is still one of my favorite guitar players,
    	but Steve Vai, IMO, has progressed way beyond EVH's ability.
    
    
    							GTI

It doesnt sound that unlike old Malmsteen the E-G-O to kick the drummer
out of the band in mid-gig! This guys gotta be the biggest a**h*le in the
music business. You know every time hes back in Sweden for a visit theres
plenty of reports in the papers about him being in a fight or thrown out
of some joint somewhere. Not to mention bragging about how he's the true
incarnation of Paganini or how bad Ritche Blackmore (his biggest influence)
has become. How pathetic!  

Has he ever written a half-decent tune by the way? 

/tOM

    
    He's written plenty of decent tunes. I think Trilogy was his last good
    lp.
    
    Actually I agree with him about Blackmore.
    
    If I was the drummer I would have picked up a cymbal stand and wasted
    him.

    >    p.s. Shut up Mike - thank you
    
    be nice db, or you'll hurt my feelings.

    Last good album being Trilogy??  Pete, you're being too kind!!
    Yngwie's last "listenable" effort (imho) was Marching Out.
    Trilogy was CRAP imho!!!
    
    He's a total has-been.  Remember that hissy he pulled while opening
    for Aerosmith at Foxboro on Labor Day like 5 years ago??

>    If I was the drummer I would have picked up a cymbal stand and wasted
>    him.
    
    That's what any true professional would have done, at least then the
    crowd would have gotten to see some entertainment!
    

    
    All is fair when it comes to Yngwie. 

    
    i was at that aerosmith thing... his own fault he backed into one of
    his zillions of marshall stacks....  topple... WHAM!!!!!  smash...
    
    

    "Yngwie opening for Aerosmith".
    
    I'm surprised he agreed to do it - after all, he knows so much more
    about music than those hacks right?
    
    Rob, Buck... what happened at that concert.   I love a good Yngwie
    story.
    
    	db

    
    he was walking backwards and backed into one of the stacks.  the top
    marshall head fell off and whacked his guitar neck pulling the thing
    right out of his hands.  im unclear after that as to whether he threw
    the guitar or what he did.  i do recall a roadie running out with
    another one.
    
    

    ...and from reports, he went backstage and threw a MAJOR hissy fit!!
    
    The stage mgr., who also runs the bookings at Great Woods, proceeded in
    then getting Yngwie kicked off the ELP tour, which was to play Great
    Woods in a few weeks after that.  He vowed "no one with that attitude
    will EVER play in one of my venues..." and he didn't!

    
    Imagine this:  you're his guitar tech.  10 minutes
    before he hits the stage you remove his strings
    and replace them with flatwounds, in opposite order,
    douced with WD-40.  That's what this fool deserves.
    
    Again, see ya,
    Kev --
    

    Kev, that was too funny...

>        douced with WD-40.
    
    ...or Pledge, eh Buck? 

    >...or Pledge, eh Buck? 
    
    People always ask me .. "How do you play so fast?" -- I always have a
    simple, one-word answer for them...
    
    
    
    		P	L	E	D	G	E

    
    	Is that why your playing is so clean?
    
    	Is that why you always shine on stage?
    
    	Is that how you're able to dust your competition so easily?
    
    	And when did you decide to polish up your act as such?
    
    
    							GTI
    

   ...and why you never have any wax buildup  %^o

 

    
    Yngwie has a new CD.  It's all cover tunes.  Ritchie Blackmore/
    DP, Kansas, Scorps (avec Uli), and some more things I cannot
    recall.
    
    Kev --
    

    
    the other cover tunes ins't the only non-memorable thing associated
    with this CRAP of a CD.   Absolutely horrible!

    
    	Jealousy is so unbecoming of you, Buck.  8^)