Yngwie Malmsteen | 2019 Interview | Gi64
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- Many guitar players these days are labelled as a 'virtuoso' or a 'maestro', however, arguably there are none more deserving of either of these titles than this issue's cover artist, Yngwie Malmsteen. With a brand new album titled 'Blue Lightning' out now and a major U.S. tour about to kick off later this month, Nick Jennison caught up with Swedish guitar giant at Handel & Hendrix in London, the location of Jimi Hendrix's 1960s Mayfair flat.
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Great interviewer, He gave Yngwie time to answer, asked intelligent questions and showed the viKing respect.
I asked my parents for a guitar at 7 years old after watching "The Buddy Holly Story", then again at 8 years old, then again at 10 and at 11 I got a broken acoustic (body face was lifting away). My parents said I wouldn't stick with it and it was an expensive investment to make if all I was going to do was put it down and never play it again. Finally at 14 I got a cheap electric (Mako Exotic), this was in 1994. I have been playing since then and I have to say decades later my parents were wrong. Yngwie was an inspiration to me at around 24 years old along with Becker, Vai, Johnson, Petrucci etc etc.
As a full grown adult, parents if your kid asks for a musical instrument give it to them. An early support will lead to future endeavors.
Yep, instead of buying video games.
Ditto. All my instruments I had to buy myself. The reason why I first got a job.
I’ve been teaching guitar for 20 years. Students under 10 years old very rarely take it seriously. Now and then I’ll get a 7 or 8 year old that actually wants to learn to play.
It is always really interesting to see Malmsteen in an interview. Far too many people say that he is an arrogant asshole but he comes of as quite decent, actually.
Well you should have met him in the 90´s... big fucking rockstar diva. He is mostly know for that, which is sad. Now he is a nice, humble guy.
I've always thought he was greatly misunderstood
i honestly think the playing mid- interview is disrespectful and he dismisses the interviewer a little bit too. He also has good qualities i'm sure, bit this video isn't a good example for them...
@@palbo7871 hahaha I think Nick enjoyed the noodling thoroughly :)
@Keith Nowak i agree with him on the singers thing though, i don't think that's egotistical, even when he said kirk hammet was a mediocre player, he is right about most of the things he has said, only he is very arrogant amd dismissive
4:04 quick badass solo mid interview while he stares into doods eyes
There are 3 guitar players that changed the way of playing for generations and they are Hendrix. Edward van halen and malmsteen
yep
I agree...!!!
I totally agree. Of course, there are many other guitar players in the background that also contributed to change how an electric guitar should be played. For example, a few weeks ago I saw a video of Frank Marino performing in 1975 and it was killing. There was a lot of SRV and EVH there, so people like him also have something to do about guitar evolution. Of course, the three you mentioned were huge and a game changer :)
@Bob Sebring i would say malmsteen. yes alan did invent a whole new style but masses didn't pick up on it. it was too difficult to process as music for a common listener and also play his non diatonic sounding stuff. BTW i love holdsworth.
Ritchie Blackmore Peter green Jimmy Page Jeff Beck Django Reinhardt Frank Zappa Roy Buchanan offcource Hendrix
Say what you want about Yngwie besides being an amazing guitarist the man has a clear vision of what he wants to accomplish as a composer. Been reading his interviews for years and never heard him say anything different. His music, his songs and his way. So it's take or leave it
He does have a vision which is good for a musician to have but he is now heavily budget restricted - hence doing homemade badly produced albums with him doing nearly everything. Yngwie is a bigger name than e.g. Impellitteri, Magnus Karlsson, Timo Tolkki, etc but those guys are doing very professional recordings with top musicians and singers. If he wants to try reignite his career he needs to hire top musicians and a good singer and get them in the studio not doing homemade stuff. Recent albums by Magnus (Kingdom Of Rock, etc), Impellittteri (Nature Of The Beast), Timo Tolkki's Avalon, etc BLOW AWAY any recent Yngwie album and the reviews/acclaim show that. He doesn't realize it but that is unfortunately self sabotaging his own career and harming his legacy.
@@CloudsBeyond yeah he is too stubborn for his own good.
@@magrittedeau It is TRAGIC to see him release these crappy badly produced homemade albums and play live with that awful band he has now. But the future will unfortunately be more of the same.
If only you were right. Just one of the million Yngwie interviews I remember: During Seventh Sign, when he was suggesting that the "band is great", they are all Swedish and they have a great understanding and they love classical music and he sees this band lasting forever.....Yngwie persuaded himself about his "own path" that even made him lose his attention to detail in his albums, attention to his phrasing and soloing.....attention in general.
CloudsBeyond self sabotage legacy my ass. Yngwie can continue to do what he wants and we will always love him.
I saw Yngwie in STEELER in Hollywood in 1983........so..........i can honestly say.....Yngwie is the guy that changed the way modern neoclassical/ metal guitar is played. He is a TOTAL musician.
Thank you for this video and this interview. Always happy to hear Yngwie. No one did for guitar as much as Mr Malmsteen. ❤
Great interview Nick!! Two absolute beasts on the guitar right there!
I know hes not what he used to be, but damn, he is still awesome for being 55 years old and will be 56 June 30.
Yngwie & Vai paved the way for shreddy guitar players! The 90s just dumbed down all technical aspects of guitar playing! Now you see it's coming back!
Shredding was looong before him
The World needs an Ynwie for 1000 years
Just go back and look at the early live Alcatraz and witness his magic. That is what the kids witnessed back in the day that makes him the legend he is.
Thanks for being you Lord Malmsteen.
I know Yngwie writes EVERYTHING, but in all honesty he did leave quite some space for Jens to work with/contribute to. It was far more interesting when it was more of a "band", and a LITTLE less Yngwie.
great point...anything after alchemy or war to end all wars starts to feel a little bland
So true.
Obviously you must remind yourself there is ;the right way -the wrong way- and of course the Yng-Way!!!!!!
Exactly. YJM thinks that what made him successful was working and being the focus of everything, but that's not true. He had mainstream success and had big hits when he was in a band (then Rising Force). The way he works, being the focus, being the owner and just paying the members made him decline 100%!
The peak of his career was on the album Odyssey, as a band and not "solo" as he tries to pass it off as.
one of the best interviews. I have actually been enjoying watching Yngwie interviews lately. Been listening to his music since the 80s. But, never get to hear him talk about his music. Now i know why he is who he is. :)
Due time for him. I've heard him in records and I've seem him live. With that vibrato the guy plays KILLER KILLER blues!!! Much appreciated.
Great interview, thanks :-)
Har följt dej jätte länge, du är nog den bästa sverige har !!!
zlatan ,abba - är inte ens nära dej , älskar din musik - och nu är jag
själv över 50 år , och hoppas få höra mer av din musik !
I have to hand it to Yngwie, his hair is still totally on top of its game, feathered and layered it falls beautifully onto his shoulders perfectly complimenting his bone structure while those sideburns add icing to the cake. It doesn't get much better than this people.
What on earth are you going on about, his hair is now thin on top his face is bloated and now he has botox too, he's obese and he sounds ridiculous...
@@mojopin70 he has lost some weight though, I remember some time ago he was looking really hefty. I don't think he's quite obese now
394pjo Seriously? He looks ridiculous!
Malmsteen seems to be back on the right track. Glad to see him slim and fit! :)
Great interview ... ✌️
Great interview!
I'm a big Fan of yours Yngwie, since alcatraz in Cali ! Rock on Maestro..
Yngwie feels like he has to explain, because so many call him an asshole. He just knows what he wants with the arrangement. Other writers may not know, and bring people in to help them figure it out. Just because he has the parts and wants people to play them doesn't make him an asshole.
pseudosun
Hand me the check! I would gladly do whatever, if I could in a timely manner. I can and could, it just takes me a year or two. By then he’s already toured and on to the next....
Yngwie Malmsteen is and has been my all time favorite guitar player ever since I first listened to I'll See The Light Tonight video on MTV'S Headbanger's Ball back in 1988. I was barely 10 years old and his guitar playing really blew me away. I love mostly everything that he has done including Steeler, Alcatrazz, and his own solo band Rising Force big time. The last studio album I bought was Relentless. I love Yngwie as a guitar player, not as a lead singer. Even his live band these past eight years or so are not the amazing musicians that his past bands were. He started out so strong with Jeff Scott Soto as his lead singer, Jens Johansson as his keyboard player, Anders Johansson as his drummer, and Marcel Jacob as his bass guitar player. The most current band he has now is nowhere close to how amazing his first touring band was. I have never thought that he has a huge ego because it is his band. He wants total control on all his albums which includes writing all the songs, lyrics, music, melodies, playing all the instruments, producing, mixing, and engineering the album because it is his band and his name is on the product. I just wish that he would get a proper band, make studio albums in a proper studio, and especially get a proper lead singer. He is still my all time favorite guitar player , but I hate what his band and albums have become in the last eight years or so. He is much better than this, and I hope that he will realize it one day really soon.
Love you yngwie I'm a long time fan
I saw Yngwie perform at Bangles in the 90's in Denver, CO. when the keyboard solo came, the keyboard player made SURE to point down at his keyboard as if to say, "This is ME not Yngwie"
All i got got to say is he can play that guitar and i want a blue Malmsteen guitar when they come out
Yngwie Malmsteen. A legend. Love the guy and what he did for rock guitar. Always laugh when people say negative things about him: it's not a coincidence that NONE of them can ever play like him - not even a snippet of what he can do. Instead they convince themselves they love blues players in a feeble attempt to justify their own shortcomings. Not just a great guitarist but also a larger-than-life personality not afraid to say what he thinks about anything. The world needs more people like that...
You don’t have to be able to play like Malmsteen to not like his music! That’s like saying someone doesn’t like oranges and it’s not a coincidence that they’re not colored orange.
You are right man. If everybody would play slow pentatonics stuff like BB king or Eric Clapton the world would be boring, in spite of these guys are great players.
he is a one of a kind. Or was the original of his kind. Like the music or not even the most clapton lover shred hater surely is amazed by how he can play.
Dd Ss the problem is, it’s all about being as fast as possible at the expense of melody. Some people like it, I don’t. The same goes for math metal bands. But hey, to each their own.
@@pacovl46
Listen to "crying" and tell me if malmsteen can't compose melodies....
Its cliche to say its all about play fast
I also remember vividly someone showing me a yngwie album pre internet. He still stands alone
he never ages
Oh thank goodness he’s alive. I just stumbled upon him tonight, never heard of him, but been watching a ton of him and as I watched the older things like Far Beyond the Sun I kept thinking “This Guy died of an overdose in the 80s or 90s didn’t he?”
SO GLAD U CAME TO USA, 1983 LISTENING TO ROCK 102 MEMPHIS, BLACK STAR COMES ON..NEVER THE SAME THANK YOU! SAW U AT HORSESHOE THEATRE DALLAS TX 1986.. I WAVED AT U FROM BALCONY, YOU SAW ME, N KINDA FREAKED OUT LOLOL
My hero. Yngwie J. Malmsteen.
Lol, all these negative comments. What do you guys expect from Yngwie, what kind of improvisation outside of rock do you expect from this guy. So many people have this "definite" idea, of what a phrase and lick is.
💥Another Great Interview 🎸👍🏻💯
Ha! gotta love Yngwie, never humbled not even in the home of Hendrix.
humbled but confident. He knows he can sing and play it isnt like hes saying hes the best lol but ik what u mean.
@@OrignalElidest can he ? I don't think he can play.
Seth Black Yngwie can play like a mutherfucker. one of frank zappas fav guutarists and a god to generations of musicians.
@@vanguard4065 Did Zappa really say that? When and where? I'm a big fan of Zappa and Yngwie, but I've never heard zappa even mention him.
Seth Black And he most definitely can’t sing.
The first time I heard Yngwie it was on "Island In The Sun" I heard the guitar, and I was fucking stunned. \m/
A living legend!
He's very honest! Ego I heard about is long gone.
Love you Sir!!! You are a legend
Some people say he's comes of as arrogant or whatever but I respect him fully like as of recent he is the one who has inspired me to pick the guitar back up and start taking it seriously again but honestly I respect him because he's has a great work ethic and knows what he wants and he will strive to achieve what he wants so nothing hut respect here
I would like to think he wore this to school meetings for his son.
I'm sure he does. There is no stage clothes etc for him. This is how he dresses all the time. He is the lifestyle.
I'm sure he does. There is no stage clothes etc for him. This is how he dresses all the time. He is the lifestyle.
I'm sure he does. There is no stage clothes etc for him. This is how he dresses all the time. He is the lifestyle.
I can confirm! In a Ferrari no less.
Four colors and one is sonic blue. That's exciting.
16:37 - Says "pickup"....and then has to pick his "pick up".......coincidence? I think not. Spoke right into existence!
I'm not a huge fan, but you have to admit the guy can play!
Ok so as a lifelong Yngwie fan love him I have to say he is living in denial unfortunately he hasnt written a great album for years and years. Yngwie says that he wants to control everything but their is a reason why his earlier stuff is far superior with real singers. The production now with drum machines and him singing everything is not good and his playing now is just speed earlier he played with more feeling by far and this guy saying how great this blues album is just PERPETRATES the myth. I hate saying all this because again I love him but he needs a producer better songs and live drummer and a REAL SINGER😪
My thoughts exactly man.
Yes! He needs to get off drugs and alcohol also....
Perfect words.
.,..or it propagates the myth.
I'm with you on that. As a big fan of YJM I think his latest stuff blows. He needs to get back into his earlier form instead of his current rut.
6:22 Yngwie’s jewelry doing some funky slapping.
Yngwie the Viking from Sweden !!! (love from sweden) ....
Playing while looking into the interviewers eyes?? Hahahaha. Love Yng
He should do a elvis presley album with those side burns.
Jerry Fraker or Mungo Jerry
Nothing but haters, only a legend would still be going strong after 35years.let me tell you what makes a legend it’s someone who created a sound that only he has and on top of that’ll he created the genre of playing neo-classical guitar not Blackmore he was blues even Hendrix wasn’t shit the crap he was doing was done long before he was even born,Rhodes wasn’t shit either.A legend is a player that has a sound nobody else has except the clones a legend creates a genre and Malmsteen is The Godfather of neoclassical shred so haters I say to you give the master his due and by the way Vai is in the same boat as Malmsteen meaning he’s a master too so get over it!
You speak of blackmore and copy cats, but what about Uli Jon Roth?
Damn- wouldn't mind meeting your drug dealer. I could use a total dis-connect from reality.
Tremont Lewis no I speak of Blackmore wearing a jesters costume and playing shit music but I can’t say anything bad about uli but he’s no Malmsteen like I said in another post Holdsworth is the only player that was in Malmsteens Universe he was awesome
Ram Tough Going strong?He literally plays in front of 30-40 people crowds.His last album is atrocious.His first 3-4 albums were fucking great though.He has my eternal respect for creating this neoclassical shred thing.Sadly after 3-4 songs you heard everything he has to say.
Eddie Van Fucking Halen...He hit one note and you instant knows who's playing..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He's doing what he is doing. Like a man. Cuz he can! You try to do what u want and live a life. Pay bills, having troubles.. Nobody think about that it's always a challenge .
I think Nick was letting the illusion of the scalloped board fool his eyes. You can hear the strings have a bit of that “pinging off the fretboard” sound, that low action gives. I think Yngwie has a fairly standard/low action.
I went there 2 weeks ago but I forgot to bring my sunglasses.
Yngwie, love ya, please stop singing.
😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Right !
Just listening and LOL
@Keith Nowak I used to. Soto, Bowls, Turner. Great singers
Boom!!
If you go through Hannon exercises for piano on guitar , you will get different approaches for mixing Econo and alternate , you will notice Hannon exercises sound like Mac Alpine
how can less be more? it's impossible. more is more
maybe the singers wanna write a song, and Yngwie wants to write a 8 minute solo
haha. I understand... I've been a Yngwie fan for 30 yrs and been to many shows. It just gets tiring hearing 2 hrs of arpeggios sometimes. Like, let the song breathe a bit. His stuff with JLT is my favorite
@Ron Gillespie Opera begs to differ.
Cool lamps.
I wish he would get a female singer like those women from ABBA, combined with his vibrato that would be so sweet. But that’s just me , I have been a fan and inspired to playing guitar since 85. Thank-you Mr. Malmsteen. Life would surely be a mistake without your music 🎵 🎶
Yngwie seems like a kewl dude...
9:03 that Black Star lick still kicks my ass, I just can't play that up to speed
I'm digging the Buddy Repperton
sideburns thing he's cultivated.
Christine was a great movie.
16:36 so when Yngwie drop a pick he can find them easily?
I don't remember his early mentions of Genesis being an influence in his earlier interviews. I think thats fantastic. Thirty some years ago Genesis was Phil Collins top 40. No internet or way to discover the Gabriel years. Alot, of readers what of thought....."huh"!? Genesis!? Clue me in Yngwie fans did he talk about Gabriel Genesis in early interviews. Deep Purple and similar bands were mentioned.
Markus Antonio this is where the concept of song Rising Force intro came from.- czcams.com/video/bETFh4eRdM8/video.html
No internet but there was still radio to hear music. And yes Yngwie mentioned Genesis in his early interviews. Both genres ( prog and neo classical metal ) own that classical influence ( Through Bach, Beethoven and so on ).
Back that we went to record shops, looked at the covers, and bought the albums. You heard about new stuff through word of mouth or on the radio. You bought albums often having no idea what it would sound like. I remember guys coming to school with the first van halen album and boston’s first album. Happy days. You didn’t have the internet and didn’t need the internet. It hadn’t even been imagined.
@@aakeynote Yeah, those progressive rock bands in the 70's were amazing.
What a fucking legend. I just wish he had a real manager and producer, because these days, we only get 80% of Yngwie. He's a trailblazer. Nobody could copy him.
There are a lot of guitarists out there that can do Yngwie style of neoclassical metal and be just as good if not better than YJM and this coming from a fan.
@@jahiddle Don't disagree. But they ain't Yngwie.
Most influencial guitarist of the 80's period. Everybody wanted to play like Ingwie back then.
yea always tweek a lead lick during the host asking questions. Real classy.
イングヴェイさんは、ギター🎸があるからこそ、いきれるのかな、生かされているんだ！
Him, Vai, and Buckethead are my favorite of the “shredders” although I hate that term. Complex and technically brilliant but melodic, passionate, and tasteful with it. I’m primarily a jazz/fusion, prog, and blues guy but man those guys do something to me. I never understood the idea that if something is musically complicated it automatically equates to being “soulless”. I have no idea how you can listen to Yngwie’s intensity, wide expressive bends, fiery vibrato, etc, and call it devoid of emotion. A lot of the hate for technically demanding music (in my experience as a pro musician for 20 years) comes from these Indie guys that love to brag about not practicing...lol. Nothing wrong with Indie of course.
Hanging with Vai and Satch seems to be good for Malmsteens weight. :)
You can hate Yngwie but your guitar god doesn’t, they most likely thought he was god at some point and studied his work extensively. He’s the original shredder, love it or hate it that’s the undeniable truth.
For one thing Yng is substituting All the minor scales ,and Bebop blues,
it's not JUST the harmonic minor, in his solos , the verse melodies ARE harmonic minor YES , but the solos, all bets are off on that one
look at As Above So Below in tab , the run right before the verse there is a Major 7th and a flat 7 there it's the harmonic minor with a flat 7 , that is a bebop harmonic. ONE of the Bebop scales
a good book is playing ii Vs by Joseph Alexander , it shows all those things
When you play the Minor pentatonic , that is the 2ed mode of Meodic minor Phrigian natural 6
I wrote sweep arp city the winter of 97 , my singer worked for Yng and played him my Demo as a challenge , Yngwie laughed and said , why must they all take the sweep arpeggio from my style
And when he recorded Alchemy , he really was out to prove the mix of single note lines with sweeps were what it took to make the whole sound come together
Really blown away by the Alchemy CD .
Blue Lightning has some great examples chock full improv , the hendrix stuff is great
Yngwie J. Malmsteen is the world best master Lead Guitarist in the world
those sideburns are weird to me still Marching Out RULES
0:48 Yngwie literally biting his tongue after that.
Answer to first question: probably 10% truth and 90% a story woven around the truth with the benefit of hindsight.
Everyone keeps ranting about doughnuts? It’s freaking Ice~Cream!
I used to worship this guy when I was 10.. how people change! Whether it is us or them.. don't quite understand.
To those that say YJM is just speed is pure ego. If you listen to his songs it's not purely about speed it is also technical, and very soulful. He revolutionalize and fuse classical music and heavy metal and created neo-classical music. His music is communicating to audience. There are a lot of guitar players who are technical but can't produce the same feel, charisma and magnet like Yngwie does.
I hope i can you please play with you my music brother Yngwie Malmsteen in Love Jimi the Rat
You forgot the J. 😂
I love Yngwie, but he will never break out of his shell.
one of the things I love about him! I has benefits and disadvantages but I think he's chosen his path correctly.
Seen a few interviews & he basically tells the same story, of family classical influence, Hendrix guitar smash, genesis selling u.k £ album...
Cuts interviewer off at 2:35 😂
I wear my watch on the same hand as Yngwie, since i was i kid, its natural to me, and im right handed !!!
It's etiquette to wear your watch on the opposite of your writting hand but I'm ambidextrous and wear one on each
how come all these other shredders dont have scalopped necks?
Please do "Merlin's Castle" with today technology!!!
It will ruin the raw , thrashy and occult sound mood of it.
You can't take it from him, in 1992 yngwie was asked to describe himself and he said i'm fire and ice with nothing in-between, as we can all see, he is true to himself, and for that I have a lot of respect to him, with yngwie you have one way street, I always considered him as the best guitar player in the world but I changed my mind in the last three years, there are two better guitar players than him, both of them are dead, the first is criss oliva and the second is allan holdsworth, so he is the third, he is in good company
Who tf gave dislikes?
I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about how he likes to work. It’s just like a movie being made. Actors play their roles as written and directed. Any leeway given is at the discretion of the people in charge of the picture. If they don’t like go write your own movie. 😹
Do you think he plays all of the instruments on newer albums because he can't afford to pay for musicians due to music not selling? He practically has 'no names' for his touring band. Loved all his 90's albums that carried me through the grunge era. Hasn't done anything since War to End all Wars.
I would a fourth to that list...SRV....
HE NEEDS 2 DO MARCHING OUT 2 WITH JEFF SCOTT SOTO. J.S S IZ 👍
Solider Without Faith is his greatest solo imo
His first 4 albums were solid as fuq!!!
@15:53 Duuuuooooiiiinngggggg
@10:31: "How do you keep it fresh?"
Nothing of Yngwie's material in at least the last 17 years has sounded fresh to me. Still, he is one of my all-time favorites. On the early stuff, he played some of the most intense solos I've ever heard. Maybe it would serve him well to collaborate with someone, to achieve something fresh, for a change.
Yngwie classified as the guitarist who plays when somebodies talking to him 😂
Talk about Prof. Joe Stump at Berkelee tapping that arse.... crickets