Yngwie plays the blues....

peteri

This just popped up on my instagram feed. 

Love the text!

https://imgur.com/a/Sqo9oYt

springhead

He’s not at home when Mr Modesty comes knocking. 

soma1975

I can't leave the TGP thread on this alone. Some people properly are all



about him...

soma1975

prlgmnr said:

Why don't you see Thora Birch in anything anymore, is the real question here.

Wasn’t her dad a pervy weirdo that used to chaperone her and try to direct her sex scenes in films and stuff? 

TINMAN82

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Gary Moore was a superb player but IMO he was playing the rocker's approach to blues. I remember hearing some of the second "blues" album on the radio, although I'd missed it being introduced, and thinking That sounds like Gary Moore but I hope it isn't ... turned out that it was. GM certainly played rock (and jazz-rock) with great taste and I'll never knock him for that, but I can't accept his "blues" albums as either blues or as good representations of his musical achievements. He has done far better.

If my opinion strikes you as being heresy, then take a few breaths, put the album on and enjoy it and maybe you'll forget about lighting the bonfire or sharpening the pitchfork. You might want to post on here though about what an awful specimen I am for holding such heretical views.

GM did have a rockier aproach to the blues and, a bit like Walter Trout, it was his signature approach to the genre. Make no mistake, he was a MONSTER blues player.

https://youtu.be/VVOwCBScxw0

SidNewton

I saw Malmsteen at the height of his success at the Hammersmith Odeon around '87. I remember enjoying it at the time though I have no desire to listen to him now.
On the other hand, worst gig I've been to was Gary Moore at The Colston Hall. I think it was the 'Back To The Blues' tour.
God it was the most appaulling display of over the top, tasteless blues mangling I've had the misfortune to witness,
Never again.............

TINMAN82

SidNewton said:

I saw Malmsteen at the height of his success at the Hammersmith Odeon around '87. I remember enjoying it at the time though I have no desire to listen to him now.
On the other hand, worst gig I've been to was Gary Moore at The Colston Hall. I think it was the 'Back To The Blues' tour.
God it was the most appaulling display of over the top, tasteless blues mangling I've had the misfortune to witness,
Never again.............

Gary Moore was you’re worst ever gig? Wow.

stratman3142

SidNewton said:

I saw Malmsteen at the height of his success at the Hammersmith Odeon around '87...

Was that the gig where he tried and kept failing to set fire to his Strat, which was a great Spinal Tap moment? If so, I was at that one.

SidNewton

stratman3142 said:

SidNewton said:

I saw Malmsteen at the height of his success at the Hammersmith Odeon around '87...

Was that the gig where he tried and kept failing to set fire to his Strat, which was a great Spinal Tap moment? If so, I was at that one.

Can't recall that but then again it was a long time ago. I think it was the Odyssey tour which, having just checked, was '88.

Wolfetone

Appalling.

DrJazzTap

Its a funny old world when rob chapman can successfully top the blues charts. (Again I'm not a chapman fan)

And yet yngwie, who lets be honest redefined the electric guitar for a generation of guitarists pisses it up the wall. If you were a betting man ten years ago you would have put money on yngwie. I mean surely everybody has to slow down at some point? I'm not a yngwie fan, but he does make me smile. 
My old guitar teacher interviewed himover the phone for total guitar. He said he was incredibly arrogant and full of himself...the interview carried on and then abruptly ended..yngwie rushed off of the phone because one of his pet ferrets had escaped and was swimming around in his pool. 
Ferrets are obviously the rock and roll pet of choice!

Nunogilberto

peteri said:

This just popped up on my instagram feed. 

Love the text!

https://imgur.com/a/Sqo9oYt

One thing I’d never associate with Yngwie is a vast musical spectrum. He’s the guitar equivalent of a dumper truck full of piss - he’ll come along and drown the song in nothing but fast, neoclassical triplets. I’ll always remember him doing this to Rocking In The Free World on the G3 DVD...

Philly_Q

I've been waiting all day to watch that Yngwie video.  I don't know about blues, but it sounds like an unprepared Frank Marino stumbling into a studio after an ill-advised 48-hour bender.

And @horse thanks for reminding me I must get Ghost World on Blu-ray.

skullfunkerry

SidNewton said:

I saw Malmsteen at the height of his success at the Hammersmith Odeon around '87. I remember enjoying it at the time though I have no desire to listen to him now.
On the other hand, worst gig I've been to was Gary Moore at The Colston Hall. I think it was the 'Back To The Blues' tour.
God it was the most appaulling display of over the top, tasteless blues mangling I've had the misfortune to witness,
Never again.............

...until now 

Anacharsis

I have never been a fan of Malmsteen, but part if me is glad he is still out there, still holding on to his way of doing things.

Those lyrics really do hurt, though. 

DrJazzTap

Anacharsis said:

I have never been a fan of Malmsteen, but part if me is glad he is still out there, still holding on to his way of doing things.

Those lyrics really do hurt, though. 

Come on have a heart! He's down to his last three Ferraris!

gearaddict

Wow. Just seen this. That's the worst thing I've seen since I accidentally caught sight of the screen during my colonoscopy. 

Lewy

gearaddict said:

I accidentally caught sight of the screen during my colonoscopy. 

I believe that's the opening lyric to track 3 on the album.....

english_bob

Nunogilberto said:

One thing I’d never associate with Yngwie is a vast musical spectrum. He’s the guitar equivalent of a dumper truck full of piss - he’ll come along and drown the song in nothing but fast, neoclassical triplets. I’ll always remember him doing this to Rocking In The Free World on the G3 DVD...

Yep. For me it was a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On", mauled by endless squiddly-diddles that put me off Yngwie.

Don't get me wrong, if I could play as fast and clean and exciting as him I'd want to do it all day every day too, but I'd like to think I'd have the good taste to slow down every so often.

prlgmnr

Lewy said:

gearaddict said:

I accidentally caught sight of the screen during my colonoscopy. 

I believe that's the opening lyric to track 3 on the album.....

I woke up this morning.

Camera up my arse.

So I shut my eyes tight.

And thought of driving my cars.

(This stuff writes itself, people).