Is Ywingie Malmsteen Prog? |
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decypher
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Posted: November 29 2005 at 21:21 | |
I agree, his influence was huge. Just like groups like Symphony x,
Shadow Gallery or Adiago adopted those scales, I see that stuff more as
metal on a higher instrumental level than being really progressive. but
I´m not here to judge what´s progressive or not (in my personal opinion
King Diamonds "Abigail" is so damn progressive... or Crimson Glory or
Titan Force etc. (and I loved Shadow Gallery´s Debut)). It doesn´t
matter, anyway, Malmsteen wrote more bullsh*t than any other so-called
prog musician, including Phil Collins.
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Destrio
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 04 2005 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 193 |
Posted: November 29 2005 at 22:16 | |
No! All 3 of those people are piss poor songwriters. Although I do like some of Satriani's stuff. |
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MarkCsigs
Forum Groupie Joined: January 07 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 83 |
Posted: November 29 2005 at 22:31 | |
Funny that this thread shows up now. I just today heard a radio ad for a Malmsteen concert and it specifically says "An evening of prog rock"
and I thought "Malmsteen is prog?!?" and "Funny ... seems like most
prog bands lately are actually trying to deny that they're prog ..."
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I repeat myself when under stress.
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beat
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 13 2005 Status: Offline Points: 100 |
Posted: November 30 2005 at 03:25 | |
Absolutely NO..
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Lindsay Lohan
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 25 2005 Location: Norway Status: Offline Points: 3254 |
Posted: November 30 2005 at 03:26 | |
That was lindsay lohan...famous actress |
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Bob Greece
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 04 2005 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 1823 |
Posted: December 01 2005 at 07:37 | |
I never heard of her. I checked www.imdb.com and found that she has been in a few films but I haven't seen any of them. Mind you, I never go to the cinema any more. |
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Lindsay Lohan
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Posted: December 01 2005 at 07:53 | |
Well you propably would not like em anyways but i think forexample Freaky Friday is great fun! |
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Masquerade
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Posted: October 20 2006 at 18:06 | |
yngwie`s rissing force (first album) is a kind of progmetal?...maybe...probably |
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SolariS
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:24 | |
I don't think so. There's nothing prog about sweep picking scales on every song your write. He's very impressive as a technical guitarist, but his music is what we're discussing here...and the truth is he can't write interesting solos or lyrics. He didn't invent sweep picking either. |
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SolariS
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Posted: October 22 2006 at 13:25 | |
I actually don't like Satriani's early stuff that much (with the exception of a few songs here and there). Always with you Always with me is a great track. Strange Beautiful Music is the best album effort I've heard from him. |
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Chus
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 16 2006 Location: Venezuela Status: Offline Points: 1991 |
Posted: October 26 2006 at 12:43 | |
in wikipedia, on the Steve Hackett article appears Yngwie as being influenced by him... but barely technically really... Yngwie was really near neo-classical prog-metal in the first album "Rising Force", in which he wrote quite ambitious titles such as "Icarus Dream Suite" and "Far Beyond The Sun". But from that album on he just plain imitated Eddie Van Halen (in songwritting, mind you, the tapping and sweep picking was pioneered by someone else: you-know-who) and other metal outfits. But of course when the music is drowned by the technical ability that's where the "prog" term suffers greatly. I had watched his "concerto suite for electric guitar and orchestra" and that's the first time he implemented a sort of allegro or even sarabande piece. Most of his metal albums are in the same mood... some sort of adagio, and that gets repetitive quickly, but that's probably the mood that metal wants to give us in the first place, and that's one of the reasons I don't like metal (just one of the zillion of reasons I don't like metal). Lately he sounds like an imitation of late 90's power metal bands (Rhapsody, Sonata Arctica, etc), and for me they're just a parody to classical music, as well as Yngwie's work after his first album, and that album was not a cornerstone of classical music in the first place.
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