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what a fucking BEAST!

yes his music is sometimes absolutely god awful to listen to, filled with dungeons and dragon memes but his vibrato and fluidity is just unmatched. Hes such a legend its beyond words. I remember as a kid listening to Rising Force for like a year straight without any relief. what a great album. hes such a BAUS.

I'd be lying if I didn't say Yngwie wasn't a major influence on me at one point, the guy is crazy talented but after a while it does get tiring to listen too. A little of Yngwie goes a long way for me, but the albums that I only really listen to from him are his first three or four albums. Marching Out is probably my personal favorite.

I guess my main problem with Yngwie is that after a certain point he never went anywhere different with his music. The guy can play anything if he wanted too. I would love to hear him just slow down for once, and not rely on the same harmonic minor/diminished licks he uses all the damn time. It's the same old same old from him album after album. He's so stuck in his ways and his ego has become so inflated that he has become a caricature of himself.

Because for all his great guitar playing dude never wrote decent song.

Also in before Pontiac Fiero.

I don't care what anybody says...I friggin' love this album...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U863spZBGZc[/video]

As much as I despised the glammy hair metal back in the 80s, Yngwie's debut totally kicked ass

[video]http://youtu.be/xuwlgaNYntk[/video]

And this.

Good grief, he kinda looks like my old bass player (rip brother) in that pic.

K-Bizzle wrote:Because for all his great guitar playing dude never wrote decent song.

THIS!

He's got really great technique and about one or two passable songs and all the rest just sounds very much the same thing - diminished arpeggios and harmonic minor scale shredding. There's not much musicality to him.

K-Bizzle wrote:And this.

I was coming in to say once I heard he doesn't like doughnuts I was just done with him. WTF? Who doesn't like doughnuts?

meedley meedley lots of notes all the time this never gets boring wooooooooooooooo hooooooooooo!!

Murdoch wrote:Is he talented? Sure. Hellaciously so. But he's also an arrogant, narcissistic, pompous, egomaniacal insufferable cunt.

minus the talent part he would fit right in the fb group, wonder what kind of car he drives

I never could make myself get into it. constant weedly weedly weedly & awful razor thin 80's tone.

Talented, yes. Just not my thing.

He should be beheaded for fucking up all those old big head strats. I cringe when I see those scalloped necks.

Gunslinger wrote:I'd be lying if I didn't say Yngwie wasn't a major influence on me at one point, the guy is crazy talented but after a while it does get tiring to listen too. A little of Yngwie goes a long way for me, but the albums that I only really listen to from him are his first three or four albums. Marching Out is probably my personal favorite.

I guess my main problem with Yngwie is that after a certain point he never went anywhere different with his music. The guy can play anything if he wanted too. I would love to hear him just slow down for once, and not rely on the same harmonic minor/diminished licks he uses all the damn time. It's the same old same old from him album after album. He's so stuck in his ways and his ego has become so inflated that he has become a caricature of himself.

This. Once you have the first three albums, you can stop there.

Tyrone Biggums wrote:I don't care what anybody says...I friggin' love this album...

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U863spZBGZc[/video]

+1

There is some great material on the first 4 albums.

I like Blackstar and love hearing him play Hendrix tunes, but other than that I cant listen.
That said, he kind of proliferated a genre of guitar playing that made a lot of people a lot of money, so he deserves kudos I guess.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B4pZBmI_gU[/video]

little secret about mike youngblood: has never heard yngwie. not once.

Murdoch wrote:he's also an arrogant, narcissistic, pompous, egomaniacal insufferable cunt.

This is why it's so enjoyable to not talk about him.
I could spend hours not talking about Yngwie.

Reverse Entropy wrote:

Murdoch wrote:he's also an arrogant, narcissistic, pompous, egomaniacal insufferable cunt.

This is why it's so enjoyable to not talk about him.
I could spend hours not talking about Yngwie.

I liked his early stuff when it first came out, but then I lost interest in the whole neo-classical genre altogether. For the style, he's hard to beat though.

nightflameauto wrote:

K-Bizzle wrote:And this.

I was coming in to say once I heard he don't fockin eat doughnuts I was just done with him. WTF? Who don't fockin eat doughnuts?

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