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Post by Admin on Jun 3, 2018 18:01:33 GMT
Nick Bowcott gets a personal tour of Yngwie Malmsteen's guitar rig. If you think that wall of Marshall amps and cabinets is just for show, you need to watch this video...
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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2018 17:54:40 GMT
Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen's September 21 performance at Escenario Santander in Santander, Spain can be seen below. Yngwie will take part in the 2018 edition of the "Generation Axe" tour alongside Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi. Beginning on November 7 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California, the run will return to markets where the inaugural tour was celebrated and hit several new cities for the first time. Yngwie's latest album, "World On Fire", came out in June 2016 via King Records.
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Post by Admin on Oct 7, 2018 18:04:23 GMT
They say you should never revisit your childhood heroes. But in the case of Yngwie Malmsteen I’ll have to disagree. I well remember the 1984 release of the Swedish guitar icon’s debut solo album, “Rising Force,” which I listened to obsessively. Yet, even all these years later, his show on Wednesday night in Tel Aviv was amazing. That first album was a tour de force (though at first it looked like just another heavy metal record) that sent guitarists the world over back to the drawing board — nobody could believe how fast he could play, and without any of that newfangled tapping technique popularized by Eddie Van Halen (who by that time was playing keyboards on pop songs like “Jump” and, though commercially successful, no longer terrified six-string slingers as he had back in 1978). Yngwie burst onto the cover of all the guitar magazines with an unpronounceable name (rhymes with “oy vey”), lots of tight black leather and tons of jewelry, sporting a new Bach- and Paganini-inspired neo-classical sound that inspired a slew of faster-than-fright guitarists racing through harmonic minor scales and diminished seventh arpeggios up and down the guitar neck. Of course everyone soon realized that Malmsteen was basically playing Ritchie Blackmore (of Deep Purple and Rainbow fame) riffs, but about a million times faster and taking them to a brand new place. The obvious clue (apart from the black clothes) was that while everyone else was playing and (posing with) pointy-headed axes, Malmsteen stuck to a blond Fender Stratocaster with a scalloped fretboard — exactly the same as Blackmore had been using since about 1969.
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Post by Admin on Feb 1, 2019 17:32:27 GMT
Yngwie Malmsteen - Sun's Up Top's Down (Official Lyric Video) Legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen will release a new album, "Blue Lightning", on March 29 via Mascot Label Group. On the disc, Yngwie pays homage to those from the blues world who have fuelled his artistic spirit for so long. "Blue Lightning" track listing: 01. Blue Lightning 02. Foxey Lady 03. Demon's Eye (DEEP PURPLE) 04. 1911 Strut 05. Blue Je.an Blues (ZZ TOP) 06. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix) 07. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (THE BEATLES) 08. Sun's Up Top's Down 09. Peace, Please 10. Paint It Black (THE ROLLING STONES) 11. Smoke On The Water (DEEP PURPLE) 12. Forever Man (Eric Clapton) The official lyric video for "Sun's Up Top's Down" will be released on Friday, February 1. Yngwie took part in the 2018 edition of the "Generation Axe" tour alongside Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi.
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Post by Admin on Feb 6, 2019 17:37:51 GMT
Neo-classical guitarist Chris Impellitteri has dismissed suggestions that he is an "Yngwie Malmsteen clone," saying that he views himself as "much more of a child of players like Al Di Meola blended with a [Eddie] Van Halen and [Randy] Rhoads." Impellitteri first made his mark in 1987 with the release of his debut EP, "Impellitteri". Chris has since issued 11 albums under his band name, IMPELLITTERI, including his latest, "The Nature Of The Beast", which features his longtime bandmates, vocalist Rob Rock and bassist James Amelio Pulli, plus ex- SLAYER and TESTAMENT drummer Jon Dette. The disc was recorded in Los Angeles with engineer/producer Mike Plotnikoff ( VAN HALEN, AEROSMITH, IN FLAMES) and Canadian mix engineer Greg Reely ( OVERKILL, FEAR FACTORY, MACHINE HEAD). This past Sunday (January 27), Impellitteri took to his Facebook page to address the comparisons with the legendary Swedish guitarist, explaining that Yngwie is just one of many axemen who have had an influence on Chris's playing. "On a daily basis, there seems to be weird people that constantly try to call me a Yngwieclone or ripoff or something of the sort, so I thought I would have some fun and address this once and for all as I never do," Impellitteri wrote.
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