Yngwie Malmsteen's Thoughts on Grunge Music - Fire & Ice Era
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- From a 1992 interview with guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. #shorts
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If only young Yngwie knew it was going to get WAAAAAAAAY worse. Lol
well, he knows now
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY indeed!!! 😂🤣
Now its not grunge, its trap😱
Ain't no way ppl are agreeing with yngwie
@@KevinGsWKdepends on what specifically he said. Grunge really was similar to the aggression and release of frustration of late 70s early 80s punk rock, and that’s cool. But compared to Yngwie they can’t play 😂 that’s not even an insult, just a fact. What is there to disagree with here?
Say what you will about Yngwie, but at least he’s honest. Dudes a legend.
@@bubbaburdle4693 His assessment of grunge was spot on from a mass media perspective. Kurt Cobain became the standard during this era, every idiot with a microphone hung on every single heroin-steeped fit of gibberish the came out of his mouth, and much of it was a hack condemning virtuoso musicianship. He wasn't jealous, he honestly read the room and every flannel-toting fool had a crying fit over it.
@@bubbaburdle4693 To be fair, there were several decent guitarists to come out of Seattle during that era, I can respect what Jerry Cantrell and Mike McCreedy brought to the table, but the overall ideological bent of the entire Grunge movement was decidedly and obnoxiously anti-virtuoso. Kurt Cobain had the exact attitude towards any guitarist (including the two I just mentioned) who ever played a semi-technical lead break. It was utterly ridiculous and good on Yngwie for being one of the few 80s icons with the balls to actually call it out.
I’ll admit that Malmsteen has some ego issues, but I think what he said here is partly due to his limited English, at least with regards to “allowing grunge bands to play” (I think the word he was looking for was either sign or promote). But just so we’re clear, there were bands who were dropped from their labels solely because they were associated with the glam scene and many older metal acts were even barred from playing at many venues. You could say Malmsteen was overreacting, but ideologically speaking, it looked more like fighting fire with fire, for better or worse.
@@bubbaburdle4693jealous of who ? Of that no-talent edgy junkie Kurt and the rest of those braindead junkies that absolutley contributed nothing except degeneracy in the music buisness? 💀💀💀
totally honest 100%. You might not like it but that's what it is
@@bubbaburdle4693 as what, their skillset?
I saw Yngwie in a small club in North Carolina back in the early nineties. It was unbelievably loud and seeing him shred it up standing feet away from me was one of the most unforgettable experiences I’ve ever had in my life. All I could think of was how can anyone get that good? He was scary good.
Watching him live is like being in another dimension
I saw him and Glenn Hughes recently in a small venue in New York and he still shreds the same it was incredible seeing them that close
Saw him in a small club in Jacksonville in the early 90’s. Awesome show!
Saw his Fire & Ice tour at Purple Gator Myrtle Beach S.C. 91 I think.
Total bad ass!!!
I had to look twice to see if I wrote that
.lol nothing like seeing YJM front row
I was looking at the interplay between the drummer and bass and yngwie kept coming over to our section hitting notes from every angle my buddy says yngwie keeps coming over here.
It's like he needs to know the audience is watching his every move
So he will rip it up even more.
That was the best answer ever. He managed to be both honest and respectful
Lol this is accurate for today's music more than the grunge era
This video was made to point out how much of an asshole Malmsteen is
@@lazman5516 Soundgarden and Alice were great
I just said that same thing and then saw your comment. Agreed
@@lazman5516They are alright bands but Sound Garden cant cimpare to Deep Purple ,or Malmsteen
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I like it when he said “slag people off”. He’s been around Brits
In fact it's swedish: slagg av. 😅
Yep. Love that British slang.
Yngwie is a guitarists guitarist. He's at the very top of the food chain. Same league as Randy Rhoades EVH Satriani. Master Yngwie!
Above those, when it comes to skills alone.
Yngwie overshadows the guitarists you mentioned in every way.
@@lazman5516Reality is harsh. I know
@@lazman5516 I was talking about you. You pretty much proved my point.
You can’t compare them in every sense, why? Because Randy Rhoads built the infrastructure for some of the most epic songs in metal. For example Mr. Crowley, crazy train. Eddie Van Halen took shredding to a whole different level.
Just imagine what music Randy would have brought to the table if he lived!!!!
I think of Alexi Laiho as a possible advancement of Rhoads. Check out his band Children of Bodom.
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Classic Yngwie.
He is a guitar virtuoso plain and simple.
Surprisingly fair and decent take from Yngwie!
Jerry Cantrell enters the chat
Yeah, but AIC was as much metal as grunge. He’s referring to Nirvana I’m sure.
Jerry Cant Relly Play Guitar 😢😂😂😂🎉❤❤❤❤ get it its a funny joke 🤣 😂
I love Yngwie but AIC was the first thing that popped in my head when he said that.
Once you learn to play guitar you'll soon realize Jerry Cantrells guitar playing is great for a beginner. It's very eaay to play. You can learn any alice in chains song literally in a few minutes. Without all the other instruments involved In their songs the guitar would not sound good . This is what he means when he says they do what they do very well. They really aren't that talented.
@@JeremyPezzeca I've been a fan of Yngwie, and a guitarist, since the beginning of his career. Yngwie lives in a bubble though. He's wrong about the Grunge guys not being talented. What is musical talent? To me it's in the writing, and Yngwie first four solo albums and the Alcatrazz years were great, then it got stale. He's an amazing player, but I have to be "in the mood". Whenever AIC comes on the radio in the car, I stop scanning. It's really that simple.
I'm 37 and discovered a love for rock/punk/grunge/noiserock and such at maybe 13 and discovered a love of Yngwie at 18. I still love both but it's much more fun to play noise-rock and grungy punk stuff for me and then at home, I might play some classical guitar.
Music is amazing.
Get a diary
@@urzathehappy72 I have a journal but thanks for the input, I guess.
@commondog3956 This. Absolutely agree with you, embracing different genres really enrich our lives. It's totally fine to only like one specific genre, but to be able to listen to more perspectives and enjoy more different kinds of music is a big bonus.
I love both Yngwie and Nirvana
People listening to music after 1998 could afford to hold this position, but back in 1992-94 when I was in Jr. High and early High School, your social life suffered pretty severely if you listened to Yngwie, let alone tried to like both as I initially did.
They really Can,t play... the guitarist? Nirvana drummer are one of the best drummer in hard rock music. Yngwei talk about other musician n it means the guitarist...😂
This, People love to talk about the 90s, but they fail to realize that 1992 was a very different world to 1998-1999 era.@@hellsunicorn
@@sonidamara5018 Grohl is a very basic drummer. Nirvana's music itself is incredibly simple and basic
@@PeaceWatcher-ek7zlwell u can talk that way about all bands, Led Zeppelin is just some high pitched moaning with some sloppy bends thrown in, Deep purple is just noisy organ competing with medieval sounding shreddy guitar e.t.c.
How good they are just comes down to whether you want to listen to their songs over and over, or not. For Nirvana everyone did, and still does. For Yngwie clearly not.
This just shows that Yngwie understands music but also trends.
I own both Yngwie albums and Grunge albums. I have eclectic musical tastes. Grunge is more influenced by Punk, so they and Yngwie are two different shades on the music spectrum.
He doesn't slag people off as he proceeds to slag people off 😂
I've said the exact same thing about rap.
His comparison of grunge to punk was accurate. As a classically trained musician, his incredulity makes sense. There were a lot of punk and grunge bands who could barely play anything other than very simple music. But they were very successful.
Music, and especially in the great genre of rock, is not about virtuosity but about intentionality, a message, sensations and emotions. It is music and message. The Rolling Stones (e.g.) and many bands didn't become famous nor did they make us vibrate and generate moments and memories because they managed to play the Phrygian scale.
It was only Nirvana who played very basic music. The guitarists in Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Soundgarden were good and played just as many solos as in hair bands.
I wouldn’t call Nirvana “basic music.” Just because his guitar parts are easy to play doesn’t make it basic. The melodies and chromaticism in his progressions are totally unique and create very interesting harmonies and lead to unpredictable resolutions, modulations and cadences.
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100% my thoughts exactly!!
There is something I've always like about Yngwie. He is really not trying to be malicious, in fact he is trying to be as respectful and polite as his personality allows him to be lol. I kinda understand his point. Imagine practicing 8 hours per day, sacrificing time of your youth and then comes someone who plays only chords and sells an amount that he hasn't been able to achieve yet. Most be upsetting. The thing he doesn't realize is that he is a different kind of artist. He is a performer and a virtuoso. The other one is an artistic soul who probably spent only a few hours practicing and has no interest at all in other than expressing himself and reprresent the voice of a minority and for that, he only needs to know a few chords and some basic knowledge. Two entirely different things. One has what the other doesn't have. As simple as that.
have seen him live twice... nothing has topped it...
The fact is... a very small percentage of people want to hear a masterclass in instruments at all times. We love it. Guitarists who hear or watch it get inspired and can't wait to go home and shred and get faster and better.
Some musicians are song writers more than instrumentalists.
And some musicians wrote for people. And most people don't play music. Simple is more relatable. They want something they can sing along to on the way to work, without having to be trained to do so. Nirvana works because people feel like they could be a part of the band.
Yngwie is a master
why can people sell records when they "can't play"? because it's art, it makes people feel something, it's not a playing contest
Oh yeah, it’s all about the “art”. Like the Monkees and the Beatles were both artists.
I find it actually impossible to determine what the intent of your statement is
@@theflint7692 That’s art for you.
@@richardeast3328 ha ha. agree
He’s right tho, Kurt Cobain is undoubtedly one of the best song writers on this planet. His skill on guitar tho… ehh…
As a nirvana guy and a virtuoso enjoyer... I agree. In the end its all just a distraction and doesnt really matter. To each their own.
Just seen him live 3 days ago, abaolute legend 🤘
HE DOAN WAN NO FKING DONUT!!
Dude fuck yes!!!
From the vulgar videos
Donuts
Yngwie kicks ass. I bet he locks the door and pops open a twelve pack of FUCKING DONUTS!
Fuck yes!!! From the vulgar vids!
He fucking hates donuts! And Dime, being the great dude he was, no doubt offered him the best ones that day.
Exactly. Some people , or actually 'most people' cannot even understand the complexity of technically difficult music. Some people are not musically inclined. All good
"I don't really slag people off.......they really can't play" 🙃
dumb emotional woman. some people in this world SUCK and thats just a fact you big baby.
telling the truth is not disrespecting.
@@damianmmx "telling the truth..."
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..."really can't play guitar" - if you believe that's "the truth" - then that's a problem with your ear.
@@damianmmx Guitar is polyphonic instrument and the guy who is playing it as monophonic or like violin, read: Yngwie Malmsteen, has zero credibility to judge anyone's playing of guitar.
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I know it's a meme that he likes donuts and that is why he got fat, but in actuality, it was likely due to drinking. Whether drinking replaced or continued after giving up other vices (such as something like cocaine, though I'm not sure if he was using in the 80s) is anyone's guess.
The Fire And Ice Album, A Great Album And A Great Tour! 1992 At A Venue Called Bananas In Santa Ana, Ca.
There's a time and a place for every kind of music. Any musician will tell you that.
Hes right in the point
Wtf 😭 this is hilarious
"I don't slag people off...they can't even play". I love Yngwie.
This guy got more talent in one finger than all grunge acts.
Not songwriting or vocal talent.
@@dmitryowens the grunge stuff neither
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Lol The reason that all those bands sold millions of albums is because they had great songs with great vocals - Layne Staley and Chris Cornell are universally considered two of the greatest hard rock singers of all time and Eddie Vedder is also great. Kurt Cobain had a really cool raw voice and incredible raspy screams as well.
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@@dmitryowens the grunge is overrated. Nirvana was a pop band with raw voice and distorsión and only few songs
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Did I mention Nirvana? I was talking about Soundgarden, Alice In Chains and Pearl Jam.
You gotta love the man.😍❤
this is how I feel about hardcore music right now, everyone’s starting the same band that sounds like knocked loose lmao
I bought his first album. He signed it. And I loved when grunge hit. I was into it. Amazing live shows. Seeing nirvana live three times!!? Seeing all of them. I saw him live in the beginning. It was cool but grunge live was way cooler
Love his honesty!!❤❤❤
Incredible persona
what? - he's just being an ass
Exactly!!
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Hes still so pretty..saw him in West Palm Beach in 1989..he was amazing..and I met Lars Ulrich on my way out of the concert too .he autographed my ticket..😊❤🎉
Writing songs that touch people is the whole point of music.
Homie is just mad he doesn’t get paid by the note.
Not really, he looks at it in terms of musical context, Yngwie knows what he is it doesn’t take a genius to realize that
Exactly.
Writing music that touch people isnt the whole point of music, thats just the trap to fall into bending to other ppls demands, therefore you, musically, dont matter to them. The whole point of music is to express yourself with an instrument and being heard by someone, be it 3 ppl or 8 billion. Thats a misconception, that art, to be art has to appeal to masses, therefore the ppl you're playing for are more important in the first place than what u actually have to say through music. Thats the great thing about music, that it sets you free from other ppls concern about how you do it and what you should do instead, there are politics and laws for that. If ones freedom through music is viewed by others as egocentric, so be it. Music s more democratized than ever with the social media platform, ppl are their own labels and channels and have a voice on the internet. But expressiveness through a musical instrument or vocal talent should never depend on other ppl s veiw, especially of they dont understand music, they just cant hear what's going on, even if they do, their view on that isnt as deep and intimately accquinted as of the creators themselves. A musician should be egocentric and jealous of his art expression if they believe in it, at first, and later realise that the world doesnt revolve around them and it can keep turning without them, so the musician wont be afraid to be themselves knowing that u cant PHUCKING please everyone. The point to be an artist is to gather ppl to behold what youre about to bring about before them, and the means to it are talent and the niche in wich you level the playing field for it to take place. This is why Yngwie s successful, no matter how many artists can gather 3000 times more than yngwie s amount of followers, many of them havent opened ppls ears to a delightful genre and expression. His musical formula is flawed but its a fact he has inspired many ppl to play guitar and to be true to themselves. Period
I have to agree with him!!
Spot on...moving on 🔥 🎸
I feel it. I dont slag people off either, but Grunge can be pretty cringe.
They ought to call it Crunge, or Gringe.
Soundgarden is far from cringe.
@@darkriff777 Is Soundgarden grunge? When they put their first album out critics were complaining they were ripping off Led Zep. Btw Thayyil sucks, but Chris Cornell had a good voice and wrote some great tunes!
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Kim Thayil is great - he plays cool unconventional leads and licks.
The beauty is we have neo classical shredding AND punk and grunge...music is not mutually exclusive!
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Love yngwie he can say whatever he wants tbh he is the best🔥
My friend showed me how to play “Come As You Are” on his guitar when I was like 8 years old. Learned it in like five minutes. Fast forward 30 years, mayyybe I could get some Yngwie licks down. Maybe. 😅
Give him a donut.
Practice guitar
@@hoshangharis6428 damn roasted
@@hoshangharis6428 hes fat and slow
I don’t think he wants any fookin donuts
@@GruppeSechs2004 He wants to SHRED🤟🤟🤟
“I don’t really slag people off” then proceeds to slag people off by saying “I don’t understand how people can sell millions of records and they can’t play” 😂😂😂
Well yngwie. There is a reason why folk blues exist. Not about the music theories but its about the message.
If you can make music that people want to listen to, that's all that matters. You can have all the technical skill in the world, but if there's no heart, no emotion, no feeling, it's not worth anything. Yngwie Malmsteen's music is all skill and no soul. He's an amazing player, there's just nothing there that speaks to me.
If you think songs like "like an angel" by yngwie has no soul you are a chimpanzee
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I’ll never forget when I bought that first steeler album and heard the guitarist was only 19,is guitarist all said ok we just had Eddie and Randy now make room for Yngwie .
I used to see him as much as I could back in the day.
In fact I ran into Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr and two different Yngwie shows in NYC ,they were following him too.
This is actually a great way of looking at it. No point in knocking something cuz you don’t like it….they do what they do well, there’s obviously people who like what they do and they make money so cool. You don’t have to like it but can still respect it
Well said. I feel that way about rap. Don’t like it but I don’t knock it cause millions of people love it and those who do it do it really well
He's indirectly saying that grunge sucks! And I totally agree,,, grunge sucks ass!
Hes always loved his doughnuts
True dat
The best 🔥🤘
Not sure what he’s talking about not being able to play. Jerry Cantrell is an amazing guitarist.
But i get what what he’s saying. Grunge music isn’t music for someone who likes to shred. That doesn’t make it bad though.
Yngwie clearly has only a surface view of grunge. Only heard Nirvana and maybe Mudhoney or something. BTW I’d probably liken Kurt Cobain to a Bob Dylan, not technically brilliant at guitar or singing but used them as tools to get his songwriting across. Yngwie is only listenable for about 15 minutes IMO after that all his shit sounds the same (look at how many notes I can play)
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Everything he said is 100% correct.
Yeah, its possible to have a "negative" opinion of something without "slagging the person off", the difference is the recipient deciding to be offended by criticism
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He's basically comparing Micheal Jordan to a college ball player, he doesn't mean mean they literally can't play, calm down everyone
Yngwie is an absolute legend. Not only a guitar virtuoso that changed electric guitar but a great musician and song writer. He goes from Neoclassical hard rock to almost pop without loosing his essence. He represents the “can do” attitude and of course triggers the resentful ones. Hell I even heard other great musicians talking about his politics and now I respect him even more. He’s a true American to say the least.
True american but swedish🇸🇪
He also treats his musicians like shit, shoves them into the corner of the stage for his live gigs. I agree that he's a good song writer but I think seeing him live was the worst performance I've ever been to. He used to hire brilliant singers but now insists doing it himself, and while he can sing, his voice lacks character. It's a backing voice, not a lead voice. And they'll play his songs but extend the solo by minutes and add new parts completely unrelated to the song structure for him to solo over. They never end up coming back into the final chorus, the solo just ends it. And he plays the same licks over and over.
When I say it was loud!,…let’s just say!,… I couldn’t hear for a week!,…Saw him in the early 1990’s!,…he had that hit!,…”Paradise!”,….it was at the “Stone!”,…in San Francisco!,…his Musicianship went over most of the on lookers heads!,…not mind though!,…thats why I was there!,…I stayed focused all night in amazement!,…Oh Yea!,…his tour bus was parked right in front of the club!,…it had a painting of a Native American s face right on the side of it!,…I’ll never forget that night!,… it was very special for me!
Non-musicians making records - probably desperation for the spotlight : "I want that rockstar lifestyle!"
Always admired his ability. I find music on the rough more honest side more entertaining. I love classical music. I don't expect the same level of play from pop musicians.
Because Yngwie is awesome!! Grunge was an era where it was cool to suck as a band with no talent.
Plus - it's all about the record sales too; money's always the motivator.
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He's about 350 here
This was like the Chappelle skit of Rick James. “I never grinded my feet on Eddie’s couch…….. ya I remember grinding my feet on Eddie’s couch”
He right especially in the last few years. Bands are trashed and can’t play & no real talent . Yet they sell millions of records and millions of dollars
Actually it’s a misconception that you need to play an instrument really well to make awesome music.
You do, the computerized crap sounds like dog water
Yes. Music is about composition, not technique.
Many classical musicians dont know how to play a single instrument but they know what every instrument does.
Think that might be why history remembers most of them as COMPOSERS, and not 'musicians'?
A musician, by definition, PLAYS a musical instrument, or multiple. A composer arranges EVERY part for EVERY instrument in a piece and then directs the musicians to help them play what he's scored on paper for each one of them.
@@adamrasmussen9939 I always thought of a musician as someone who 'works' with music, has some theoretical or pratical knowledge about music and can compose.
When I was studying there was a guy who was infinitely better and had way better technique than me at playing guitar, which was impressive. He was really good. I am very normal and lost interest in improving my skills a long while ago. BUT, if I hear a melody, if its not that technically challenging like Dream Theater, or I hear a chord, I can play it on guitar or sing it in a few seconds and I dont have perfect pitch, I only have relative pitch.
He, on the other hand would hear the simplest melody and would look very confused and couldnt play it. He probably has improved a lot after that
I dont think people realize how much talent it requires to create a song on a computer, or come up with all these tracks or layers and put them together, and I am not really a fan of electronic music but I can appreciate artists like Deadmau5. The future of music is going to be electronic because computers can do what we do with instruments and more...
My favourite band ever (in rock/metal atleast) is Deftones, which is not that technically challenging, although they do some odd time signatures. But nobody does what they do. These guys understand music in a way that no other band or musician understand and in my opinion are arguably the most creative/original band ever in the rock/metal genre.
@joaosustelo5628 Maybe I'm missing your point, but I wasn't grading 'musicians' and 'composers' on a sliding scale, or suggesting a certain level of proficiency was required to be one versus the other, I was just noting that 'history' has remembered the composers of classical music very broadly with accentuating details of their childhood and adolescence and tragic events that may have befallen them throughout their lives. Meanwhile, the actual performers of that music have not been remembered almost at all. This continues into today's modern 'classical' genre, we still have popular composers like John Williams, but most performers with almost ANY professional orchestra are unknown outside their industry. I believe this to be the case because replicating something great is a LOT easier than *CREATING* something great.
Last, I would say most children 'know' what many musical instruments do, and can differentiate between the look and sounds of many different instruments. But if they can't use that knowledge to replicate even a little bit of actual music, then no, I don't consider them a musician. I don't care if someone was a professional luthier, I wouldn't automatically consider them to be a musician if they can't play (at least some of) the instruments they are working on. Obv most luthiers, piano techs etc DO know how to play, it's just an example.
I totally agree with you...people with zero talent make millions and gifted young men try to make a living...Gratz that you dont afraid to mention it out loud man ❤
I totally agree with Yngwie
He’s right
I thought it was like a new punk age also🎼🤘🤘🤘
Yngwie. . Gifted and charismatic
Playing in your local bar next week
I love my brother yngwei from Indonesian guitaris
He looks like my Aunt Sharon.
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People talk crap about him so much but idk man. He just seems to like what he likes and isn’t afraid of being honest.
Brilliant! What kind of opinion should a virtuoso guitarist have? He gave a very intellectually honest opinion! That genre of music prides itself on NOT KNOWING how to play their instruments.
He's just saying facts.
I agree with this one
Hit the nail on the head yngwie I understand exactly that point
This is young malmsteen, so it is to be expected. He probably likes it now.
yeah he likes it now the same way i use to hate backstreet boys and now they don't sound soo bad compared to the shite of this past decade. i mean i'd rather listen to 2000 Britney Spears than any female act of the past year. the music gets worse, so what was previous sounds good lol
Love his accent 🤘🏼✊🏼