Man, that sounds more awesome than a swift cockpunch.

tnpir: Man, that sounds more awesome than a swift cockpunch.

Few things do.

His first album was freakin' awesome. All downhill from there.

That said, I will listen to clips of this in the iTunes Music store with an open mind.

Too many notes.

Kind of old, but still a classic:

YNGWIE SHREDS

awfulperson: Kind of old, but still a classic:

YNGWIE SHREDS

lol, I hadn't seen that one, it's brilliant, I loved this one but I think it's even older.

I love Yngwie by the way, because these videos could just as easily be the real sound recorded.

This guy makes futile wank records, whose core audience are guitarists who take themselves way too seriously. I can't think of anything more trite, useless and less influential

Yngwie once did a tour with PAntera, and they farked with him a bit. this is a video of Pantera trying to give him donuts (new window)

/old vid is old
// I DONT LIKE DONUTS!

He claims Blackmore as an influence, but only mimic's one aspect of his style.

I hate technically precise guitar. It's got all the emotion of an iPhone. I'll take a crazed, whacked-out, unpredictable soloist over an OCD flash jammer any day.

Once had a roommate who couldn't play guitar for shiat, but was a big Yngwie fan. He would spend hours trying to play various Yngwie riffs. Not songs, just the same riffs over, and over, and over, hour after hour, day after day. After a year and a half he still sucked.

If he's a Farker he'll show up here, so I thought this would be a good time to fess up.

Dude, your cat didn't run away. He shredded curtains better than you could ever hope to shred a guitar so I took him to a shelter.

How come this blabbermouth has its b capitalized? Has Yngwie's influence spread to links?

Following in his mentor's footsteps. Before you know it he'll dress like an Elf and let some broad he's banging front his next project...

... and I'll still buy it.

awfulperson: Kind of old, but still a classic:

YNGWIE SHREDS

That's a great video...
if I ever need a Smattering of Applause audio.

Yeah..how dare someone with a passion for music and a natural talent practice endlessly until they have a complete mastery over their instrument. We should set him on fire and then use his burning limbs to bludgeon to death other dirtbags like Les Paul and that rotten no good evil bastard Chet Atkins.

Best comment on the video

"I wonder if the cops ever found the fat guy that ate Yngwie and stole his guitar"

/saw him on the g3 tour
//silly, but the guy can play

"Yngwie sucks."

-John Frusciante, at a Chili Peppers concert in 1990

Pretentious: A word to use for music you don't like, in an attempt to make yourself look teh smart.

Never have so many notes sounded so bad....

Slow down man, find some soul.

I have his cd "Concerto in A Minor for Guitar" or some other title like that. Orchestral accompaniment, and more notes that scabs on Courtney Love's hoo-hoo.

I like highly technical guitar playing (Satriani, etc.), but I've never gotten a thing out of Yngwie. Pure twaddle.

Boritom: He claims Blackmore as an influence, but only mimic's one aspect of his style.

I hate technically precise guitar. It's got all the emotion of an iPhone. I'll take a crazed, whacked-out, unpredictable soloist over an OCD flash jammer any day.

yeah, heaven forbid the guy play with a high level of skill. I'd much rather listen to tom morrello wank into a fuzz box for 7 minutes. it has soul, man.

not a fan of yngwie but im so sick of people hating musicians because they're technically sound. most ridiculous statement i've ever heard. hate him because his music isn't to your liking, not because its technical.

/love the psycho petrucci video where he says yngwie is his guitar tech and just sits around all day eating cheesecakes.

Subby? I bet you would find an orchestral version of Metallica
awesome, though, wouldn't you?

I still enjoy his first album. Mostly instrumental stuff, great keyboard support. Some of his later stuff isn't bad either, although he doesn't really vary his technique all that much.

And it's rather baroque music. A Bach cantata isn't exactly James Brown or Muddy Waters, too.

Boritom: I hate technically precise guitar. It's got all the emotion of an iPhone. I'll take a crazed, whacked-out, unpredictable soloist over an OCD flash jammer any day.

check out Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel.

yeah, heaven forbid the guy play with a high level of skill. I'd much rather listen to tom morrello wank into a fuzz box for 7 minutes. it has soul, man.

not a fan of yngwie but im so sick of people hating musicians because they're technically sound. most ridiculous statement i've ever heard. hate him because his music isn't to your liking, not because its technical.


I don't hate the guy for his music.

I hate him because he's a DICK.

/there, I said it

Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary: Boritom: He claims Blackmore as an influence, but only mimic's one aspect of his style.

I hate technically precise guitar. It's got all the emotion of an iPhone. I'll take a crazed, whacked-out, unpredictable soloist over an OCD flash jammer any day.

yeah, heaven forbid the guy play with a high level of skill. I'd much rather listen to tom morrello wank into a fuzz box for 7 minutes. it has soul, man.

not a fan of yngwie but im so sick of people hating musicians because they're technically sound. most ridiculous statement i've ever heard. hate him because his music isn't to your liking, not because its technical.

/love the psycho petrucci video where he says yngwie is his guitar tech and just sits around all day eating cheesecakes.

His music is technical to a fault. If you want to spend 5 minutes of your concert ripping some of your famed speed-arpeggios, then sweet, but don't record an album of that shiat and call it song writing or get pissed when you are described as overly technical.

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Do the MAIN RIFF 2x finish

Sounds just as monotonous as it looks

itazura:

I hate him because he's a DICK.

/there, I said it

well as long as we agree on something. that pantera video was hilarious.

Silovik:

His music is technical to a fault.

thats probably true, obviously his music is not for everyone. different strokes for different folks i suppose.

Sweet.

Here's Paul Gilbert with Racer X playing YRO. YRO = Yngwie Rip Off. (new window)

Love that shredding after all these years!

I've got mixed feelings about Yngwie myself. As a practicing guitarist myself I just had to see his show in '08. Of course, it was obvious that this guy has a ridiculous command of the guitar and could do whatever he wanted to with it. Seeing him in person lets you know that you've a LONG way to go on the instrument yourself. If you play, its at least entertaining, exciting even. He's POWERTHIRST on six strings.

But the guy hits on a good idea in a song just every so often it seems. Some of what he does, I would say is good, even. I wish he'd play TO people, instead of AT people. Some guitarists use shred as the equivalent of a well placed exclamation point, some are the equivalent of typing in all caps with a million exclamation points with some 1's thrown in.

/thinks Shawn Lane, Allan Holdsworth and Buckethead mop the floor with Yngwie.
// Has Yngwie become the KennyG of guitar? Or is that Satch?

I like to think of Yngwie as the extreme end of a musical spectrum, the other end being James Brown. One makes me dance and the other sounds like a dude masturbating with his own poop as lube. It's amazingly technically sound masturbation though.

David Gilmour suck.

Wait, what?

Wow, that video is just sad. Once upon a time, he actually a wrote a few decent tunes...

Disciples of Hell (new window)

I never get tired of the first two Yngwie albums. I got bored with his constant same old style and same old singers after Trilogy though.

// did get a 91% on Rock Band hard guitar playing Caprici Di Diablo so I feel qualified to quote here *snark*

yeah, I really dug my Rising Force and Trilogy cassettes back in the day.
sure his playing is a bit of a wankfest, but I'd give this new thing a listen.

Everything that guy plays sounds exactly the same.

As a guitarist who takes him too seriously, and plays more notes than there are Radiohead threads on here, I'm getting a ..
Never mind.

High comedy in concert. He throws his guitar in the air and catches it like it's an egg toss. Odd the first time, but by the 15th time it just seems surreal.

Also, I've never seen so many people in leather pants fight over a guitar pick. Or so many people in leather pants come to think of it.

puckhead: yeah, I really dug my Rising Force and Trilogy cassettes back in the day.
sure his playing is a bit of a wankfest, but I'd give this new thing a listen.

You pretty much summed up my opinion so THIS.

backfire1000, is that the tab for arpeggios from hell?

John Frusciante is a pretentious hack himself.

Yngwie may be fat and smug but his shirt is always open.

Ah, yes...pretensiousness.

To all the enemies of pretense in entertainment- I suppose it would be real entertainment if a construction worker came out and banged on a garbage can and talked about using a jackhammer for two hours? ALL entertainment is based on pretense. Complaining that any performance is too pretentious is like complaining that a buffet has too many items.

But in general, I can understand why people wouldn't like Yngvie's music.

ExclamationPernt: Ah, yes...pretensiousness.

To all the enemies of pretense in entertainment- I suppose it would be real entertainment if a construction worker came out and banged on a garbage can and talked about using a jackhammer for two hours?



FTW

You've unleashed the farking FURY! (pops, NSFW language)

Surprised nobody has posted this yet.

an all-instrumental acoustic album of his old ballads, with string and choir arrangements added for extra pretentiousness


'I've always wanted to do a collection of my acoustic numbers with the London Philharmonic.'

His ballady stuff may translate well acoustically -- it is the more 'soulful' and 'feely' part of his catalogue.

Bring back Joe Lynn Turner and we'll talk.