Talk:Yngwie Malmsteen/Archive1

I have no comment on whether or not that was Dimebag Darrell in that video, or if that video should even be linked, but I just couldn't take the horrible use of the English language. Mstromb 06:07, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi everyone this is an updated version of the bio I made cos' some wacko wrote a bad one so .. hope you Appreciate this new one and like it any suggestions please write at

Sal Kadiameen April-01-2006

I reverted back to the previous version. Reasons:


 * There is no point including detailed information about individual records in the main page, since all the records have their own pages. Furthermore, main page should link to the pages on individual records. The old tabular format was better.


 * The new text was unstructured. One should split the text into paragraphs having headers. Table of contents should be visible on the top of the page, possibly after a very brief introductory paragraph.


 * NPOV requirement means that both criticism and good points should be included into the article. Thus, one should not remove the criticism-chapter.


 * Encyclopedic style requires that one should stick to facts, not express personal opinions by such expressions as 'legend', 'his prodigious style', 'exploding guitar style' etc.


 * One should give references. If you say that the Concerto Suite is critically acclaimed, please give references to a couple of critical reviews of the Concerto Suite.


 * One should preserve the categories and external links at the bottom of the page.

Please read NPOV before contributing.

Update: The article was apparently copypasted from, which probably is a copyright violation.

Ok Bitch stop eating shit for a while and fix the shity things you called facts, this is so fuckin' wrong, this is a shity encyclopedia which has it's political and crapy head thoughts I just wonder if you have any fuckin' Idea about music probably you are in the sewer business and be carefull about these shity words cos' someone might get realy mad and crazy on you cos' this man is A GOD

bye bye shity heady

If you think there are factual mistakes in the article, could you please point them out so that they could be corrected. Please give also verifiable references to some reliable sources which prove that your corrections are valid.

I have no idea about who Yngwie is but when i tried to find out by reading this page i was disgusted. This sounds like a bad bio from his PR agency.

This article is terrible - it makes Malmsteen out to be someone deeply significant in the guitar world, which he certainly isn't - noteworthy and deserving of an article, yes, but he is regarded as an anachronism and possibly even an embarrassment by most guitarists. (I studied guitar at both Berklee and GIT, so I don't think I am out of my depth here).


 * Hehehe.... I can see you probably had classes with Joe Stump at Berklee? . I have to agree in part with you. YES Malmsteen is repetitive, YES malmsteen have cheesy lyrics - but he DOES have a technique (Well, he is fast). And being pragmatic, his earlier stuff is quite good (Live In Leningrad). What I'm trying to say, really, is that editor's taste shouldn't reflect in the article. This should be as unbiased as possible. Moreover, wilst talking about Malmsteen life, shouldn't this article mention his problems with Cocaine and his constant history of abuse to his Wife? --Pinnecco 15:06, 28 July 2005 (UTC)


 * Why would he be considered an "embarssment" by most guitarists? That is the most ridiculous, and obviously jealous, thing I have ever heard. I am not precisely a big fan of his music, but if there were any musicians that would be "embarassments", wouldn't those be the ones that do drugs, beat people up, and rip off other people's music?


 * Yngwie is significant in the guitar world as Eddie Van Halen or Jimi Hendrix was. One only needs to glance back and compare any guitar magazine before 1983 and after 1983 to realize the change he brought about.  Rabit 23:15, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

''Well they're embarrassments too. Malmsteen is an embarrassment because he is the epitome of style over substance and gaudy flash over emotional or intellectual content. Oh, and the ego...''

One - this is a talk page and I am free to put my opinions here. Malmsteen is an embarrassment because of all of his "I am the greatest ever" nonsense. Plus as the previous writer noted, the "style over substance issue". And I can play the 5th caprice on guitar as well - it just takes a lot of practice. It doesn't make me a great musician. There ARE guitarists I am definitely and openly jealous of - Steve Vai, Allan Holdsworth, Eric Johnson, Scott Henderson. Malmsteen certainly isn't one of them. - MMGB


 * Malmsteen is a talented performer, and this engenders a lot of jealousy from people who, frankly, don't have the same level of skill he has.


 * Yngwie's best works were his first couple of albums and anyone who claims that they are more style over substance probably has a tin ear. Aside from speed, Yngwie was also quite a soulful guitarist and had the vibrato and intonation of a master violinist.  Sadly, he's never fully recovered it after his car accident.  As for your claimed mastery of the 5th Caprice, try to play it with the mastery and passion of Yngwie and then you may have some credibility.  (FYI, I taught myself all the caprices before I was 16, so what?) Rabit 23:15, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)


 * two words - span dex.


 * I used to be a massive Yngwie fan in my teens but I have grown out of it. I came to realise that 98% of his music was basically meaningless and yes he is a wally! HOWEVER, that still leaves songs like Black Star which just cannot be described as anything other than legendary guitar playing. He DID have a BIG impact on late 20th century electric guitar playing. Respect to the guy who studied at GIT but I will be blunt and disagree with you. Richie Blackmoore and Uli Jon Roth were using classical motifs in their rock songs years before, but Yngwie went right back to the source and did quite a good job of analysing Bach's music and took rock to another level. Again, listen to the first few bars of electric guitar soloing on Black Star...amazing control, tone, phrasing (yes, absolutely), and melodic mastery for someone in "popular" music. If I wrote a million bad songs but just one Beatles-standard one then I hope then that song would stand out on its own rather than be judged by the others. That wouldn't make sense otherwise, would it?

I'll be rewriting it considerably to put Malmsteen back into some sort of perspective. - MMGB

MMGB, you did a great thing here -- the original was lifted directly from Malmsteen's own website, which is surely not kosher, copyright wise. (Nor, as you point out, objectivity-wise!)

Can I ask you a favor? Can you be sure that your rewrite doesn't contain anything from the original, i.e. that this is not a 'derived work'? Having the same facts is o.k., and even relying on the original for some facts is fine, but the wording should be all Wikipedia. --Jimbo Wales

Jimbo - I rewrote every word - the only thing I cut and pasted was the phrase "19th-century violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini" which I don't think is a copyrightable phrase. - Manning Bartlett

Sweet. You've crushed my apelike illusions about the magesty of Yngwie's talent, though. :-) -- Jimbo Wales

Manning, thank you. I myself was so crushed by the majesty of his 'burning strat licks' in the previous version that I couldn't even begin to rewrite. (p.s., he's a representative of 'neo-classical metal', the Heavy metal page, says! Me, I'm a sucker for neoclassical anything.) --MichaelTinkler

Malmsteen transcribed and mastered these pieces on guitar, which was concurrent with the development of a prodigious technical fluency, previously unknown in the rock guitar world.

This sounds somewhat fishy to me. Was there really no guitarist with such "prodigious technical fluency" before Malmsteen? (I don't know myself... Manning? Anyone?) --Stephen Gilbert


 * Even as someone who regards Malmsteen as a complete twat, I have to concede that his technical fluency was unknown in the rock world prior to his appearance in 1983. This is not to say there was no-one (which I obviously cannot say), but there was no-one "known". Of course, it didn't take long for people to catch up, even I was caught up in the wave there for a while and was practicing my Paganini Caprices. - MMGB


 * Uli Jon Roth preceeded Yngwie by quite a few years and he had a very similar style. Rabit 23:15, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Ok, sounds good. --Stephen Gilbert


 * I bet you had the spandex too, -- GWO


 * As God is my witness, I NEVER wore spandex. However I will refuse to answer any questions relating to long hair and/or a perm, or MC Hammer baggy pants, on the grounds that I might lose whatever shred of respect I have around here. - MMGB

Joke from somewhere: Yngwie Malmsteen is Swedish for "opening act". Or maybe it is Swedish for Keith Emerson. Ortolan88

I reverted this to an earlier version, because somewhere in the last few edits somebody added badly phrased advocacy (or, more to the point, criticism of Malmsteen). If it could be better put, it should be added back in. --Robert Merkel

I also heard that Yngwie is Swedish for "master". I think that fits him more =)Malmsteen Maiden 18:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Yngwie's attitude is a turn off
But his complete technical virtuosity over the guitar is unmatched by anyone.

Malmsteen's picking ability far surpasses that of Al DiMeola. His control of the pick makes Al look like an amateur. Al may play with more variety and have more command over different styles, but yngwie's picking and control of speed and time borders on the supernatural.

Yngwie's picking technique far surpasses Al's? I like both guitarist very much. Yngwie's "speedpicking" technique may be better than Al's on an electric, but Al's "speedpicking" on acoustic plain blows Ynwgie away. One thing important to note, is that Yngwie basically plays about 5 scales, and has a few shapes in each scale that he likes to use. Yngwie's harmonic choices are brain dead compared to Al's. I listen to an Yngwie lead, and I ALWAYS know what is coming harmonically and rhythmically in the run the first time I hear it, he is extremely predicatible.

Also, in regards to picking, Al's playing requires mastery of crosspicking, playing intervalic demanding intervals. He does this flawlessly. Yngwie is no doubt a very gifted musician, but since he never picks like this, esp to Al's extreme, Yngwie can't compare, he would show to a gun fight with a twig.

In regards to Yngwie broadening everyone's horizons, he broadened my horizons, for sure. However, did he broaden many horizons outside of narrowly minded rockers? Sure, but not to grandiose extent.

ROCK ON!



I don't know why i'm doing this as i've never participated in online arguments but what the heck... as someone who has worked with both Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin (and numerous other high-profile musicians), I must say the previous statement about malmsteen being far superior to Al is ridiculous. Now, I am an Yngwie fan myself and have met him a few times at trade shows; and i'm not saying that al's playing is far superior to yngwie's either; i don't participate in such arguments. However, i just can't understand how someone with such an obvious lack of musical maturity can compare the two (and falsely at that). I love yngwie's playing, but if you give him a clean tone or an acoustic guitar, his technical prowess is greatly affected. I have witnessed this first hand. It's perfectly natural, electric and acoustic are not the same instruments. Despite what many thing, being proficient on the acoustic does not mean electric will be cakewalk. Anyway, Yngwie definitely has great ears and great timing. However, what impressed me the most out of Al when i worked with him is his unnatural command of rhythm, absolutely incredible. To say that yngwie's timing far-surpasses that of Al's is ridiculous... at the same time, i'm not saying al's timing is superior to yngwie's as i have never seen yngwie play such rhythms and i doubt he'd be interested given the style of music he plays.... In any case, THE absolute most incredible guitar players I have seen are people you probably have never heard of; music is not a competition but when I first saw Bireli Lagrene play at age 14 or so, I felt like giving up, Larry Coryell felt the same way I heard... He is now in his late 30s and a thousand times the guitarist and musician he was at 14. He is one of the only guitar players I know who has command over a number of styles be it fusion, straight ahead jazz, gypsy jazz, rock, funk, blues, country, etc... Hearing one record of his is simply not enough as he is recorded in so many different styles, it's utterly ridiculous. I just got his Live in Vienne DVD and urge everyone to check him out!

While I do consider Yngwie an important guitarist, I must repectfully disagree with the statement "technical virtuosity over the guitar is unmatched by anyone". Complete technical virtuosity would include more than a limited Neo-Classical style. You state that he makes Al Di Meola look like an amateur, so I must wonder about your ability for musical analysis. Listen to Al's solo on Mediterranian Sundance from the release "Friday Night in San Francisco". If speed is what you wish to judge, and since music takes place in time this is easily verifiable, then Yngwie does not achieve this level of mastery or precision. Something even he admits. (Note: This is not to be critical of Yngwie, because he is certainly a founding master of the Neo-Classical style and puts on one of the best shows I have ever seen. If you listen closely to his compositions, you will discover quite a bit of diversity within a seemingly limited harmonic structure and form). -- Infortis


 * Yngwie's technical ability on electric during Rising Force and the first few albums were absolute mastery, but Al DiMeola is technically a better picker and it's most obvious when you listen to ANY of his live acoustic work, then compare it with, say, Yngwie's solo on the recent G3 tour DVD (I was there to see it in California!). Rabit 23:15, 24 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I'm not just referring to speed when I'm talking about Yngwie's unparalled virtuosity. Malmsteen's picking is faster and more importantly, cleaner, than Al's if you compare the heights of their live speed. But that's just one element. I'm talking about his general control of the pick and fretboard.

The thing that sets Yngwie apart from other "virtuoso" guitar players like Dimeola, Shawn Lane and Say, Micheal Angelo, is Yngwie's smooth and flowing playing.

Listen to Dimeola or John Mclaughlin pre 85. Their playing is very fast and impressive, but it doesn't have the cleanness, speed, flow, fluidity and smoothness of Malmsteens playing. Malmsteen sounds like he is literally flying through time. He plays with finesse. Flowing bursts of 64th notes that suggest a rocketing forward or strong feeling. He displays a dramatic and fine control of time. And his picking is clean. Their playing sounds choppy at times and not as defined at very high speed. You can hear Malmsteens individual notes even when he is absolutely zooming. Listen to the live Alcatraz solo or Rising Force for examples.

As far as Friday Night in San Francisco goes, I'm a lot more impressed with Paco's playing to be honest. He is really good.

I just think Malmsteen doesn't get the credit he deserves. Malmsteen use to terrify audiences back in 84. And he did it because no one had seen that kind of playing before, and not just rock fans. A very rare occurence of true instrumental virtuosity.

There are valid criticisms, and many of the guitarists mentioned above are a lot more versatile, but you could point at any guitarist and come up with things you don't like.

Joe Satriani said it best when he said, "thank god for Yngwie".

Even Steve Vai said of Malmsteen's playing, referring to when malmsteen first arrived in the US, as being impossible.

Yngwie broadened everyone's horizons.

Obviously Malmsteen isnt the best, there are FASTER or there where ( jason becker, rusty cooley etc.), but why do people talk this stuff of him, the day you guys become "virtuoso" (i dont care if you went to berklee or the moon)or appear in magazines or anything like that, you can talk crap about yngwie, his playing is unique. Hands down

I really think that this debate is really pointless in the way that someone is trying to prove who's a better guitar player. Someone mentioned that music is not a competition, that's RIGHT. It is NOT a competition. The composition is important, not speed, not faster or slower picking. Speed, picking technique, hammer ups, pull downs,..these are only "accessories" for making music. Just look at world's greatest compositors like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Paganini...and tell me, does it REALLY matter which tempo is it going to be? I don't think so. If you buy yourself 5 best radios in the world and play a same song on both of them..I don't think you'll notice the difference. If the song is dumb...it doesn't matter whether the sound is clean or not. That is my point.

Article on Yngwie J. Malmsteen
I have never heard Mr. Malmsteen's music, but I do look forward to sampling it.

Perhaps ManningBartlett is just a little envious of Mr. Malmsteen's ability? (Just a speculation!)

My only concern is that with articles like this where the person's name is from a language other than English (which in itself is not always that simple!), can we get some help with the PRONUNCIATION of some of these names? I personally am not familiar with Swedish pronunciation, so to me, Mr. Malmsteen's first name is pronounced "Ya-NIG-wee" How do you say this guy's first name? Oobopshark


 * "ING-vay" --Thedangerouskitchen 14:01, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * I don't know if this is worth noticing, but for a Swede, his anglicised name definitely parallels his music and overall attitude as almost pastiche-like. For example the unprovoked use of the W, Malmsteen should be compared with Springsteen. Salleman

"IN-way"

My 2 cents.
Ok this is rock n' roll children, not classical music. I dont care about how well you can pluck the strings on an electric guitar and how clean it sounds. Rock music is supposed to have a certain amount of rawness in it to begin with.

I dont care about how well someone can play the guitar. I cant play the guitar or read music so, except for nu-metal guitaring, it all sounds alike to me. I can still appreciate a good guitar riff, but it needs something to back it up like a good beat or good lyrics.

It matters about how good the music that someone makes. Having a virtuoso ability means about as much when it comes to making good music as being a technically skilled topiary gardener. Yngwies music aint that hot. It's mostly boring instrumentals where he shows off his pretenctious playing and the few songs with lyrics have dumb/cliche lyrics and a vocalist singing them that sounds like Yngwie himself or sounds like a castrato singing it.

Though to be quite fair, ide take Yngwie Malmsteen over death metal or rap anyway.

Just thought ide menction the actual music part to the Wikipedians. Arm

Well, that's just you... I happen to love Yngwie's music and I very much appreciate musicians with virtuoso instrumental abilities, and I can't play guitar or read music either (well, hardly). When I listen to music, I usually pay attention to the instrumentation and vocals, not the lyrics. Dumb/cliche lyrics is what I've come to expect when listening to metal.Malmsteen Maiden 19:20, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

?!?!?
"His understanding of Paganini, Bach, et. al. is probably unparalleled in the rock world."... what?!? --Thomas 16:27, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Image
We need images. 19:21, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, you can't really understand Yngwie until you see him. T IMBO  ( T A L K )  05:32, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Yngve?
Hi, I noticed that the current article states Yngwie was born "Lars Johan Yngve Lannerbäck", while his official site says "Lars Johann Yngwie Lannerback". Is this simply a typo? Also the birth date is repeated twice in the current article. Again, Jimi Hendrix is mentioned merely as one of his influences, while official site says Yngwie had no interest in music until he saw Hendrix on TV. I'm planning on editing the article. Any comments on the points above?Tkalayci 14:46, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Be bold. --Sn0wflake 14:58, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * His birth name was "Lars Johann Yngve Lannerbeck." See yngwie.org for the full details. - MordredKLB 11:43, August 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * I quoted from the biograpy page on the same site. These variations seem to exist: Yngve-> Yngwie, Lannerbäck -> Lannerbeck -> Lannerback, Johan -> Johann. I'm gonna minor edit based on my best estimate.Tkalayci 14:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Yngve" is the normal spelling of the name in Swedish. "Yngwie" being his artistic version. "-beck" is a common variation on names ending with "-bäck" (the latter is more common). Sometimes Swedes use one variant in practice although their birth-certificate names are different. "-back" is probably just "-bäck" written by someone with an english keyboard. "Johan" is Swedish, "Johann" is the German version, although for English readers "Johann" gives better pronunciation since it's a long "a" sound. --BluePlatypus 00:48, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Yngwie airline fury incident date
(from a discussion on my Talk Page)

All sources indicate 2002 but I guess you have the information first hand. Are you Yngwie? :) 85.101.166.181 22:14, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nope, sadly I'm not. However, the audio clearly mentions Barry, which is referring to Barry Sparks (not Dunaway) who was no longer with the band by 1995.  Yngwie himself has stated that the incident happened a long time ago, it only hit the internet in 2002.  I've been trying to find the interview where he explicitly stated this, but I'm not having much luck. - MordredKLB 23:06, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

pronunciation
hey, can one of you yngwie weenies (used affectionately, of course) slap up a "sounds like x" pronunciation tip in the opening paragraph? i always say "inghvay" (right before "sucks" &#8212; heh heh), but i haven't seen the latest papal bull on the matter. thanks! SaltyPig 10:48, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Unleash the Fury
i just heard about this, and downloaded the audio clip of the airline incident. he said, "you released the fucking fury. you've released the fucking fury" &#8212; not unleashed, as appears to be the common transcription. that second "released" is too clear to mistake as something else. should the text on this be slightly modified (not the title, but how it was named after the incident), or does it matter? why does most everybody think this is "unleashed"? weird. SaltyPig 11:14, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

tab
Just listened to it. He quite clearly says "unleashed."

Hi aeneas!!!

Alrite, how u doin? reckon camp-bell will unleash the fury on us?

Ye of course he wil. How do u think that ed an andy r doin now? yngwie is good(i had to write that cos it didnt let me at first)

Yngwie is the worlds greatest guitar player for a few simple reasons.

1. Innovation 2. Talent 3. Fantastic Ear 4. Not following trends and sticking to HIS style.

He is a living legend, that should never be underestimated.

People who critisize him or taunt him clearly dont know the meaning of music, you should respect it, and if you dont like it, dont listen to it. Real musicians should appreciate different styles of music.

Even Now, Yngwie Shreds.

Thank you! Whoever wrote this knows the true strenghths that Yngwie Malmsteen has. Anyone who has heard any of his albums fully will be overwhelmed by the sheer skill and talent he has. He, is the worlds greatest player, and I think nobody else matches his standard! Listen to him, NOW!!!

Yngwie is fast and clean, and his solos are lovely until they get boring, but I certainly wouldn't call him the world's greatest guitar player, or even necessarily the world's greatest rock guitarist. If you know (I know I'm underexaggerating a lot, but in principle this is correct) a few scales you can play much of Yngwie Malmsteen's work; it's just a matter of lots of practice. I enjoy his music as much as the next guy, and it's great practice, but he is no Paganini (whatever his thoughts on the matter may be).

''Well they're embarrassments too. Malmsteen is an embarrassment because he is the epitome of style over substance and gaudy flash over emotional or intellectual content. Oh, and the ego...''

Sorry, I think I'll have to pick this little snippet up on being a statement completely based on opinion. One persons ego is anothers 'character', and to call him an embarassment clearly depicts your unwillingness to acknowledge the man has any ability whatsoever. Intellectual content? Please...

Pronunciation
> Could someone with some skill with the detailed pronunciation system > (it's name escapes me right now) add the pronunciation of his first > name? Spelling it out how it is at the moment looks awfully naff. > Lambyuk 15:59, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

His original Swedish name, Yngve, is pronounced ['ʏŋ'vɛ]. To be precise, Yngve has what is known as the ”Swedish accent 2”, which would be marked in the transcription with a grave accent (`) over the [ʏ], but I don’t think there is such a character in Unicode. This accent is difficult to describe (linguists can’t even agree on what it is technically) and hard for foreginers to pick up and pronounce. The best approximation is to stress both syllables.

The name as it stands now, however, americanised to Yngwie, is pronounced in Swedish as ['ʏŋ'vɪ]. The change from v to w does not register in Swedish, where there is no particular w sound and w is pronounced as v – the letter is only used in loan words (webben, ”the web” – arguably the w sound from English is entering the Swedish language here) and in names, where it can replace the v for decoration.

The last name is pronounced ['malm'ste:n] in Swedish. Sweden, by the way, is full of people with all sorts of decorative spellings to their names – z for s, x for ks, ee for e are not uncommon and especially not w for v.


 * Wow, thanks Bossk-Office. I happen to now live with a Swedish girl so I will run this by her, and then add it. Many thanks again. Lambyuk 00:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Nowadays, when there`s no whatever quality, complexity, emotion in the mainstream music-industry (we are being fed by dance,rap, "alternative" or worst for more than a decade now) people get fed with grotesque caricatures of "music" and they are thaught to consume whatever the media puts in their front by the use of comercial radios and the MTV, I think all should respect such a rare quality of musical finesse and nonconformism as it is shown by Malmsteen. Nevertheless, I think that separating style from content is not a proper aproach to music. And the content of music is definitely not in the lyrics. If I want intelligent "lyrics" I would rather read some poems or philosophy, but when it comes to listening to music I do not really care about lyrics, for they are just secondary in importance. Human voice in Malmsteen`s music is only another instrument. Calling such singers like those were or are singing in Malmsteen`s works as being "castrate"-likes is something that tells a lot about the person who wrote it. The thing I can`t understand is: why those who claim they know a lot about music as an art-form do not spend they`re energy and knowledge to criticize the truly "unintellectual", "unoriginal", "feelingless", etc. manifestations of noises which poluates our everyday living emanating from those brainwashing sourses I have been mentioned? Because if there`s no much artistic value in Malmsteen`s music (as some seemed to hint this) then certainly has a pedagogic value, for I was led by him to the real classical music, to complex progressive rock and jazz, because it made my ears sharp. Thank you for the music!

No one cares what you think of him
This discussion page concerns the wikipedia article on this guy, not your personal opinions of his music or weight problem or whatever. No one cares if you like Yngwie Malmsteen or not, so shut up.

True 68.45.21.165 04:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't pass this up
"This article is terrible - it makes Malmsteen out to be someone deeply significant in the guitar world, which he certainly isn't - noteworthy and deserving of an article, yes, but he is regarded as an anachronism and possibly even an embarrassment by most guitarists. (I studied guitar at both Berklee and GIT, so I don't think I am out of my depth here)."

Wow, you went to college to learn how to play guitar. Did they teach you how to drive a car there too? After studying at Berklee and GIT, how many gold or platinum-selling albums have you recorded? Play sold-out arenas all over the world? Wait, here's the best one:

Have you ever written an entire symphony -every note of every instrument- before?

No?

It's obvious when it kills people that someone who has never had a single lesson -much less gone into debt for college tuition- has accomplished more than they have. Bless your heart!

Just for the record, I like Yngwie's Concerto Suite, but Michael Schenker is still my favorite rock guitarist.

Malmsteen is Mafioso
Malmsteen is the best guitarist i have ever seen in my life.Until the time i first heard of him i was listening to bands like Metallica,G'nR,Led zeppelin,Scorpions,Van Halen,Black Sabbath I thought that Kirk Hammet(Metallica),Slash(Guns and Roses),Van Halen and Jimmy Page(Zeppelin) were the best in life guitarists after Hendrix and Clapton.Then I heard The Arrpegios From Hell by Malmsteen.From then i was a Fanatic i was impressed and excited as the first time i heard metallica(Master Of Puppets).I have almost all the discography of Malmsteen.After that I was thought about his great company of Steve Vai,Satriani(teacher of my favorite guitarist Kirk Hammet).G-3 live in Denver is the best concert i have ever seen in my eyes I was crying when i first saw Satriani play the Satch Boogie and I was rolling around when Malmsteen played Evil Eye and Soloing in Voodoo child.Well i know the guitar very well.Malmsteen plays the 5 basic scales and he uses only a few thousand of the millions ways he could!!! play but that's his style.To tell the truth he is not the fastest he is the third faster guitar solist but he is the the cleanest and is emotional as nobody.On stage he is a god i must admit.He is boring sometimes in the middle of the songs but always he comes with an outstanding solo in the end in 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23 of the E,B,A strings and no one can reach him in that section of the guitar It's not so good in rhythm and Bending as Satriani and no so good in tapping like Steve Vai or Van Halen but he is the fastest and cleanest solist in scales burst and licking.I heard about Al Meola that he is better in some section i will try to listen to him and i will send my opinion. Athens,Greece THE HOLYGUN

For those that dont know Greece have great solists in many instrumnents such as guitar drums and classical instruments like trompette and clarinette.

And only a few internet users of which the one and only can't even manage NOT to make the most simple of the more simple sentences look like it was smeared in pig shit then deposited into the shit bank then watered down with manure. --84.249.252.211 15:51, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Second Fastest?
I heard that Malmsteen is the second fastest guitarist in the world. Can anyone varify this? fishhead2100 May 22, 2006 10:38PM (UTC)
 * i know that Michael Angelo Batio is considered the fastest, and all the others up there are sorta obscure. i don't think that's correct. Joeyramoney 22:13, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Temporary Block
I recommend we put a temporary block on this article because of the continuing vandalism. --EMC 22:23, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

His name
His name does not mean "Young viking chief". No way. His bourn-name means nothing really. It's just a name. Malmsteen is Orestone. Yngwie is like a sick version of Inge (a name) and yngling (or something) which means young. However, it has nothing to do with vikings. Uhuh. Bikl 20:03, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Car crash detail
I changed -again- the bit about his car crash in the 80's. He crashed his Jaguar XKE. (Specifically, it was the car in the cheesy "You Don't Remember..." video. He has Ferraris now, but Yngwie didn't buy one until a few years after his famous crash.

So that's twice I've had to change that. Whoever is convinced he crashed a Ferrari then, please substantiate it.