Yngwie malmsteen is one of the fastest guitarist in the world, and has a band called Yngwie J. Malmsteens Rising Force,feel free to post and dont post things like noobs.
Yngwie malmsteen is one of the fastest guitarist in the world, and has a band called Yngwie J. Malmsteens Rising Force,feel free to post and dont post things like noobs.
Yngwie may be fast but he lacks the emotive playing of Vai and Satriani. Sometimes I feel Yngwie is playing notes fast to show he can and not because the song needs it.
Allthough having said that, my knowledge of Yngwie is based on a few tracks and not complete albums. He may play with more emotion on tracks that I haven't heard. If that is the case let me know of a few tracks to sample and I will download them legally off of Napster Light.
My favourite track out of those I have heard is "Icarus Dream Suite Opus 4", 8 minutes and 32 seconds of greatness.
I have Rising Force and Far Beyond the Sun already, they are not what I am after. I want to hear tracks where Yngwie plays with emotion and not where he is just rattling off notes like a robot.
I get the same feeling from Vai and Satriani as I do listening to Yngwie. Guitarists like Albert King can squeeze more emotion from a single note then can be found in an entire album by those guys. If you want raw emotion in the playing, definately check out King's "Born Under a Bad Sign."
I am not a fan of malmsteen. He writes some of the most bland and generic music i have ever heard. I know he tries to do teh neo-classical thing but it turns into the same harmonic minor shred licks over generic riffs. And this is coming from someone who likes shred music. To me guys like Jason Becker embody what neo-classical music can and should be. He can actually write a neo-classical song without ever touching a harmonic minor scale. Which shows alot more inventive style then malmsteens.
Malmsteen is indeed a great guitarist but like many people said, he lacks the emotional connection with his music. He also isn't very good song writer. His first album is great, and his second, but then it starts faltering.
I heard, though, that his newest album is actually quite good, and is more in the line of his very earlier work, but I haven't heard it.
I would hardly call it a thread, anyway. The only positive things have been said by you, and all of the negative posts have all had alot more to say than the positive ones.
