Anybody see Yngwie on TMS?

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Did anybody catch Yngwie on "That Metal Show" recently? It was the one with Joe Satriani as the main guest.

Man Yngwie looks really different, lost weight and apparently he has befreinded botox and hair dye. Did his usual shred/sweep meedly meedly thing which was cool. Maybe it's me but he seemed to lose a bit of the smoothness of his playing.

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It was on VH-1 classic... haven't seen anything online yet but here's a pic... airbrushed to hell but this is pretty much what he looks like now:

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He also played last week when the winery dogs were on. He seemed somewhat sloppier on the episode with SatchSatch
 
He did some interviews last fall and alluded to getting his shit together. Good for him.
 
Got his shit together, lost every sense of musical conviction. He's become increasingly wary of good musicians, surrounding himself either with 3rd level hacks or, in the studio, himself and a drum machine. His last album is just him doing everything, including vocals. Now, for many musicians, this is often a good thing, like when Paul McCartney does it. But Yngwie, he's his own worst enemy, and now that his wife basically controls his life, things are just getting worse and worse.

That being said, 2010's Relentless wasn't all bad, despite consisting mostly of leftovers from the Perpetual Flame sessions. But dammit, one of the reasons I listen to Malmsteen is for the vocals, and while Yngwie himself has a decent enough voice, it can't carry tunes the way Boals or Soto does. I still argue that Yngwie's last great album was Alchemy, and that was 15 years ago.
 
Even "lost a step" Yngwie is still pretty terrifying. Not a huge fan, but man does he make something incredibly difficult look easy.
 
Psychotronic said:
Even "lost a step" Yngwie is still pretty terrifying. Not a huge fan, but man does he make something incredibly difficult look easy.
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Great at making a lot of noise. He certainly has amazing skill but he is unlistenable and his stage presence is laughable. Someone gave me a video of him when first started playing and I didn't know who he was, I really thought it was a Spinal Tap type parody.
 
Maybe so, but "unlistenable" is certainly subjective. He changed rock guitar playing in the early 80's. It's easy to laugh at him, but man does he have some ridiculous chops. For those of us who tried hard to develop real chops back in the day, he was one of the benchmarks. Although he is anachronistic in many ways, I do admire him for sticking to his guns for 30 years.
 
Psychotronic said:
Maybe so, but "unlistenable" is certainly subjective. He changed rock guitar playing in the early 80's. It's easy to laugh at him, but man does he have some ridiculous chops. For those of us who tried hard to develop real chops back in the day, he was one of the benchmarks. Although he is anachronistic in many ways, I do admire him for sticking to his guns for 30 years.
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Like I said amazing skill, but the blitzkrieg of notes without much of a melody gets old very quickly. I much rather listen to Paul Gilbert.
 
One mustn't forget that Yngwie's one of Paul's biggest heroes. I mean, can anyone claim with a straight face that they enjoy old Racer X but think Yngwie is too OTT?
 
mystixboi1 said:
He also played last week when the winery dogs were on. He seemed somewhat sloppier on the episode with SatchSatch
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Agree, he did seem sloppier in that episode and his tone was more fuzzy/undefined. He used to be dead on, very crisp in his playing.

I wouldn't say he's unlistenable but for me I can't take much more than a few songs of his. For non-guitar players the reaction is interesting when they first see YJM. My wife was watching the G3 DVD with me and Yngwie came out and is sweeping and shredding all over the place and my wife was like "He's like Mozart on the guitar!"

About 3 minutes later she said... "Is that all he does?" I had to answer with "Yeah pretty much..."
 
Yngwie's G3 stint was pretty sad to me. I'm not a big fan of the concept to begin with, especially not the jam parts, and seeing Yngwie during his worst his fat Elvis period jump around stage like that was just not very inspiring. I enjoyed some of it as an Yngwie fan, but I can easily see why it would be off-putting to the casual viewer/listener.
 
reverend1 said:
Like I said amazing skill, but the blitzkrieg of notes without much of a melody gets old very quickly. I much rather listen to Paul Gilbert.
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Agreed on both counts. Saw him in concert once back in '87 or so. I was completely bored after the first 1/2 hour. I'm surprised I made it that long.
 
I really really really dug him in Alcatrazz. He had the whole " I wanna be Ritchie Blackmore " thing going on,and he was forced to play within the framework of the tunes.
 
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