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Points: 1823 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 03:29
I bought Yngwie Malmsteen's Concerto album last week. Wow! Great stuff.


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Points: 848 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 03:36
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

There's no doubting the mans musical prowess..
But, for me Malmsteen always seemed to create really hateful music. Dreadful, cheesy, over the top rubbish. When a friend of mine was learning the guitar, he got Malmsteens 'Rising Force' album, 'Marching out' as well as Malmsteens 'Trilogy' Both had me rolling around the floor in the hysterics. My friend was trying to point out how technically brilliant it was. I pointed out, that despite being technically brilliant, it still sounded like comedy rock, so therefore the artists obvious talent had gone to waste IMO.
Playing 300 notes a second and basing everything you do on classical music may be very clever, but it does little to entertain me, as I hear it as showing off and nothing more. Frankly I'd rather listen to Dave Brock of Hawkwind tuning up.

Well, I have to say that I rate Marching Out an impressive effort, also thanks to Jeff Scott Soto's excellent vocals!
Other good albums by Yngwie are Fire & Ice and The Seventh Sign. I admit, however, that most of his production is mere technical pyrotechnics...with no added value in terms of composition.
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Points: 12797 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 13:04
Originally posted by Dick Heath Dick Heath wrote:

Oh BTW I have the Malmsteen concerto, dull, dull, dull - anybody's for 8 quid plus p&p (played once, one careful owner)!

 

Underwhelmed by zero offers, and we have  now got to late November.
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Points: 20421 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 13:11
Originally posted by Wizard/TRueStar Wizard/TRueStar wrote:

Cocerto is OK.

Rising Force is by far the best thing he ever did IMHO. Probably because its his first and it is a culmination of his lifes (Up to that point) work.

Agreed.

Im not reading all these posts but no one is mentioning Jason Becker.

With this guy you can kiss satriani goodbye (Except for his first 3 or 4 albums) and Marty Friedman (i hate him don't make me start on this guy)

You know that they played together in Cacophony, don't you? BTW: His album "Music for Speeding" is KILLER.

Steve Vai Is excellent and contrary to popular opinion he is very prog within his guitar playing and the rest is zappaesc for obvious reasons

 That's exactly the right way to put it.

oh by the way i went to see malmsteen and he walked through the crowd and this guy ask if he wanted a donut  (yngwie got fat, he has Greg Lake Cheeks)

These are not only from doughnuts (if you catch my message in a bottle).
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 13:53
This album has been on my shopping list a while now!
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