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    Posted: March 01 2006 at 16:05

Besides the first Rising Force album, there are two albums I must recommend to anyone who likes Prog Music. This is for those who want to explore the non-metal Malmsteen.

The first is called "Inspiration". On this album he does covers of Kansas, Purple, Rush, UK, Hendrix and others. His cover of Carry on wayward son is excellent! He doesn´t just cover it but adds new life to them, paying tribute to the greats.

Second is "Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor Op 1" where he plays with a full orchestra. He composed the whole thing too. This is in my Top 5 of all timeClap

Lets keep this thread to the topic and about these albums with no hate postsEmbarrassed
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Originally posted by Dr Know Dr Know wrote:

 "Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor Op 1"

Talk about pretencious..........

A friend of mine gave me a 'best of' compilation of his. The instrumentals I like, but the stuff with singing sounds like hair metal.

He is an absolutely incredible guitarist by the way.

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Points: 439 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2006 at 18:24
Yngwie even has a prog suite - the Asylum trilogy from the Alchemy album.
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I haven´t heard Alchemy, is it worth checking out?

I also like his Instrumental stuff more. My favourites are the first album (2 tracks with singing) with great intrumentals like Far beyond the sun and Icarus Dream Suite.

The Concerto is all instrumental. On the track Prelude to April he plays fantastic acoustic.(Best to listen to on headphones) At one of his last shows Alan Holdsworth was in the audience. When Frank Zappa first heard him he said "Now this guy is serious about guitar!'

I don´t like his hair metal stuff, but there are the odd intrumental tracks on albums that really stand out. But for anyone who is buying their first Malmsteen I reckon the first album and Concerto are a good place to begin.
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Originally posted by Dr Know Dr Know wrote:

I haven´t heard Alchemy, is it worth checking out?



It's a good album. I'd say it's best post 80s album. Blitzkrieg (his fastest shredding ever), Blue (very creative... he plays different harmonic minor key changes but doesn't play any blues chord progressions at all), and the Asylum trilogy are incredible instrumentals (prog suite) , and it even has Mark Boals doing vocals (the singer from the Trilogy album).

I'd start out with the debut and the rest of the 80s albums. I love them all.

The quality declined in the 90s.... but Fire and Ice, Alchemy, and supposedly 7th Sign are good. I like his last two albums too, and of course, the Concerto album.
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I wasn´t too keen on Eclipse and Fire and Ice (except Dragonfly), I think it had a lot to do with the vocalist at the time. Some of Odyssey is great, songs like Krakatau are brilliant. Crying off Trilogy is good and of course Trilogy Suite.

I haven´t heard his new one Unleash the Fury but a lot of people are saying it´s one of his best.
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Originally posted by Dr Know Dr Know wrote:

 

Second is "Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar and Orchestra in E Flat Minor Op 1" where he plays with a full orchestra. He composed the whole thing too. This is in my Top 5 of all timeClap

 

I know that album and I don't think that he did a good job at fusing the two "worlds". It rather seems like a traditional orchestral piece with an electric guitarist "attached", trying to fit in. But most of the time the guitar is buried in the mix of the other instruments (an arrangement/compositional problem) or develops a life of its own ignoring the other instruments.
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^^^^^

I don´t really agree about the guitar being buried in the mix

Did you listen to it on headphones ?
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Yngwie at his most prog:

http://www.blabbermouth.net/yngwie_tokyo_flight.mp3



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Points: 532 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2006 at 09:02

^^^^^

^LOLLOLLOLLOL

That was when some woman poured water over him!
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