Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on Yngwie and Mike Portnoy-CAMEO
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- Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on Yngwie and Mike Portnoy 5/31/20. The great Bumblefoot (Sons of Apollo, Guns N Roses, etc.) waxes on about Yngwie Malmsteen and Mike Portnoy. Terrific video; great guy! :)
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There are some strings attached, 6 on the fretless and 6 on the normal neck. But that's okay.
I can't believe he just played the Jet to Jet solo, harmonising with himself. Incredible
And he’s so casual about it. The guy is a freak. Insane talent!!!
For real! Bumblefoot has been hidden from me until SOA. He’s a freakin God ! He’s amazing and so humble
I actually learned how to tap that part after watching this. It's pretty simple actually but sounds SO GOOD.
He’s good!
How the hell is he just casually chatting while playing Yngwie runs? Phenomenal!
The Jet To Jet harmonized part with tapping is freakin' crazy! Bring him to the doctor!
Ron is as genuinely nice as he is good on guitar. It is utterly impossible not to love the dude!
Its funny how many guitarists went down the same path. We were mesmerized by Randy's classical eloquence, blown away by Eddie's nu-skool funk ingenuity......then Yngwie showed up and made us rethink our lives all over again. Rising Force was the album that lit my eternal fire at age 16 and I still play the old licks today at age 50. Great music truly never dies, we just learn to appreciate what groundbreaking geniuses these guys were back when. Cheers Ron!!
Incredible guitarrist and truly nice guy.
Chugging out old school Yngwie like it's nothing.....damn.
right!
For him, it probably is nothing. Ron is unreal.
@Cool Hand Mark Nah... THAL is BEYOND pretty much all other guitarists alive right now. His fretless work ALONE confirms that! His thimble stunts!?!! Vai can't touch him!
Ron Thal is a musical genius & a true gentleman
Yngwie was such an influencer. Just can't argue with that.
I still think Bumblefoot, Vai, Chastain, and Rich Davis were always better than him. As insane as the man was
Cameo videos are normally 30-60 seconds! This is over 6 minutes--awesome!!
I love when he realizes yngwie had such an impact on him that he remembers all his stuff and struggles remembering his own haha
Lol he makes those Yngwie licks look sooo easy.
that tour was awesome, i loved seeing bumblefoot and yngwie in one night
Dude, you are phenomenal!!!!
Woww! The best yngwie imitation i've ever seen. Its just a fact, all master when mentioning and play him put their on style what is normal, but if u close your eyes seems like malmsteen! So shocked, even the vibratos!
Amazing how indelibly etched those licks and riffs are burned into our ears after all these years. Thanks for sharing the memories Ron, I'm right there with you with Yngwie. Back in the early Rising Force days I hung out with him and the band a few times in their Woodland Hills place up on Almazon Rd. Great time! Jeff was a beast then, he's a beast now!
Ron Thal says YM's a funny guy and Rudy Sarzo said he's the funniest guy he's worked with, that it's a lot of fun around the man. Did you witness the same?
Ron! The man.... This was so great…. you playing old Yngwie, I love it. Thx for sharing. Made my day!
my pleasure! :)
I wasn’t expecting to like this video this much. Holy cow! What an awesome video!
Ron "Bumblefoot" is such a down to earth guy 😍
That hot on your heels solo is perfection
He just played the jet to jet solo from memory like is nothing
Whether you love him or hate him, yngwie influenced millions of players during the 80s.
Yeah, it's just a shame he has such an ego. Doesn't even seem to acknowledge Uli and Blackmore.
@@Obrisevac - he talks about them all the time. The first album he bought was Deep Purple's Fireball. He loves Blackmore and Uli.
Nobody hates Yngwie
grassabrutta nah a lotta people hate him
@@sunep9082 Even people who hate Yngwie don't hate Yngwie
How awesome . great pro player shows some much class & respect for another pro like Malmsteen. .
Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal on Yngwie and Mike Portnoy 5/31/20. The great Bumblefoot (Sons of Apollo, Guns N Roses, etc.) waxes on about Yngwie Malmsteen and Mike Portnoy. Terrific video; great guy! :)
Thanks dude! You rule
Thanks again Vince!
Awesome dude! He is sooo good! In 2013 I was asked to shoot him and his appearance while a clinic he did in Switzerland. I must confess I only knew him for his work with Axl‘s Guns‘n‘Roses... since the audience was a bit shy (as we Swiss people are - not being English native speakers might not help as well) I answered Ron‘s call for song requests. I told him to play Rain in Blood from Slayer but meant it as a joke hoping he would even know the band name. Little did I know how crazy good he is and what incredible knowledge of the whole rock (and way more) scene he has. Of course he played the Slayer riff without blinking... After the gig he was soo cool! It was his Birthday and some fans brought him a cake they had made. He wasn’t suspicious at all and ate from it without hesitation. He also posed for my pictures (which he wasn’t contracted to - he did just for my good - he‘s a real champion! Who ever read his philosophical and spiritual thoughts on social media knows: This guy is the whole package! BTW: I played in a band with a NY born Keyboarder named Martin Dickey who claimed to not only know Ron personally but also states to have played regularly with him. I would love to hear if Ron remembers.
Thank you Vince!
MARTIN BAUR FOTOGRAFIE thanks for sharing!
What did you shoot him with? A .44 Magnum? .50 Desert Eagle? ;)
Fantastic. I live in Basel. Hoping Sons of Apollo will come by Pratteln soon. It got cancelled in March.
Wow. Great Cameo. He really gave you his time! Awesome guy!
And now, somewhere, people are asking what's it like to play with Ron Thal! You yourself are one of kind! Your playing is unique and next-next level😉, and love your easy-going, laid-back and approachable nature. Your brand of enthusiasm is contagious for sure!
Happy New Year to ya sir!
I never realized that Ron was a full on virtuoso before this... insane how casually and smoothly he plays those ridiculous line.
I've been working on Far Beyond the Sun for almost a year and he just rips it appart casually in a cameo video.
Thanks for sharing this, Ron seems like a down to earth dude!
What a cool guy
It so cool to hear Ron talk about Steeler and Alcatraz. I wore out my Alcatraz no parole from rock n' roll cassette tape. Then some years back I FOUND that cd in a local record store NEW!!! So much music from the 80s paved the way for bands like Dream Theater and the like. What a great time period to be alive. I had both the Steeler and Alcatraz tapes back in the 80s and so many more like Keel and Vain. There was so much great music back then and now with Sons of Apollo...
The most talented fingers in the universe.
I wish the guitar was louder. Ron you are an amazing player.
Best. Cameo. Ever.
Jrh007 it is awesome! ❤️❤️❤️❤️👍
Shedding that guitar will help that hum.... a lot. You rock!
Ron, I got to see uou the first time at Guitar Gods with Mr Malmsteen himself you came out into the audience right behind me! Amazing! I am amazed at hiw much you sound like Yngwie here, tone, feel, your vibrato is completely spot on. Thanks!
@bumblefoot is awesome! I have never heard ANYONE tackle the Steeler solo...and so perfect, too!
Damn!
Not the first time I’ve seen Ron play Yngwie, but I’d love a lesson from him!
WOW!! Thanks for sharing that was amazing. To see Ron playing Yngwie that well of the top of his head was phenomenal. And a 6 min clip too - very generous of him with his time.
Met him back in 2001 in the UK when he was relatively unknown at a Vigier stand and he was so was happy to chat and was a lot of fun. Met him again a couple of years ago, and ‘fame’ hadn’t changed him a bit - he was happy to give a few extra mins of his time after the guy in charge of the meet and great had pretty much booted everyone else out the room😂 Monster player and performer too - as good as anyone I’ve ever seen👍
Ron! How could you forget Ritchie about the classical influence;)?
I looooooooove him so much - great, great awesome human and also one THE best six string acrobats on this planet! And humble as humble can be! Gosh... I‘m outta words! Thank you Ron for being that supersuper cool great guy and thank you Vince for sharing this awesome stuff with us 🙏🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
xyz 008 my pleasure!
Ron forgot to say that before Malmsteen and Roth (to include classical music in hard rock songs)...there was Ritchie Blackmore in first, already in 72-74. And Jet to jet was mostly a copy of Rainbow's Spotlight Kid. Same riff! So the thrue originator of the genre is Ritchie!
Thank you, finally I´m not the only one shouting into the void about this.
Yeah but Blackmore didn't have the fast chops like Uli and Yngwie to match those baroque-classical greats, that's what he's talking about. He's not just saying "these guys were the first to play classical sounding licks on guitar".
More proof as to why SOA is much better than modern day DT. Bumblefoot fucking slays! IMHO, Malmsteen's solo on 'Kree NaKoorie' was his defining moment and 'Icarus' Dream Suite Op.4' was his magnum opus. However, the intro to 'Hot on Your Heels' was the shot across the bow to all axe slingers. \m/ \m/
I saw Bumblefoot open for Yngwie. He wowed the crowd. Very nice fellow too.
Love this dude. So good. 👍
WoW !! He is generous!! 6min long!!
Again, so great to follow you Vince .. haha we get to have the news before blabermouth haha
I did my 1st cameo, and waiting for it !!
Martin Plante awesome! Hey, thanks 😊 😂👍👍
Awesome player
there were great guitarists in classical bluegrass country jazz etc since the beginning.
when Yngwie came out it just sounded so fresh and raw and new because of the rock metal context which made his style fit so nicely.
I think Bumblefoot and Jason Becker are the two greatest guitar players of all time when it comes to technical prowess. They both seem to have this next, NEXT level of ability. Superhuman. 🤘🏼
Gotta throw Guthrie Govan in there, too, IMO.
John Petrucci?
this made my day!!
Amazing guitarist. I have one of his pics from a GN'R show.
OMG is this wonderful!
Great Videos! Now that Yngwie is on cameo hopefully you can get a video of him answering questions one day. :-)
Never- he wants 500 dollars for them.
Wow!!!
best Cameo video EVER!
Great guy and player
Yea i remember when Yngvie came to the scene with that "Rising Force" LP.
Before him there were ridiculously fast players Holdsworth, Di Meola, Blackmore and such but usually they were all Jazz-Fusion guys not rock.
Yup, Yngvie, he played unabashedly outrageous and gratuitous songs that were all just solo after another all the time.
If were compare Al di Meola Race with the Devil to Yngvies "Far Beyond the Sun" Al plays fast like 15 seconds of 6 minute song where as Far Beyond is over 5 minutes of constant burn, and most important of all, it was not Jazz, lol.
Yngvie truly was something else.
He plays it better than Yngwie these days....
Pride comes before a Thal😉
Instant subscribe man!
ronnie ,, you are just sic..lol
Ron's genuine love of yngwie comes through here. His appreciation for the style is humble considering he's a shredder lol. Reminds me of being at a party and a shredder plays bits and pieces of his favorites
Ron, that ruled!
WHOA! this guy is great though!!!!! what a player
Before Uli, Randy and Yngwie there was Ritchie Blackmore
He should form a Yngwie Tribute band. 😂
I really want to take a shit but I can't until this video is over.
Always liked this guy... if I could have a sit down with one player ,( besides Rhoads ) it would be him.
Always liked this guy... if I could have a sit down with one player ,( besides Rhoads ) it would be him.
Awesome!
God damn it I've spent 15 years trying to do those yngiwe runs.. That's the difference between skill and talent
So beautiful
,,,,dude,,,,,,hello..!.😯............wow, no rust here,,play those old mainstream tunes off the cuff.!!!..😯..A-PLUS...tnx,pat.
wow!!!!!!!!!
Vince, you’re channel is becoming one of my new favorite ! Haha
Martin Plante awesome! Thanks, man! I have three Portnoy Cameos, one of LaBrie, one of Rudess, one of Mangini, one of Soto, one of Bumblefoot and one of Kotzen, as well as my iPhone videos from the two Neal Morse shows I saw. More Portnoy to come; maybe others. I have now hit up everyone who is on Cameo that is connected to Portnoy--Petrucci, Sherinian, etc are not on.
Playing young Yngwie with no leather pants on? Sacrilegous.
Ron is such an amazing player, and sings waaaaay better than me.
Youri Lévesque - And no LSD whatsoever! I bet he makes the best pancakes ever, too. Wouldn’t even surprise me in the least.
He’s always been too good for the bands he’s played with❗️🤯
Ⓕⓡⓐⓜⓔ Ⓖⓤⓣⓐⓛⓐⓧ That was my thought too. But Sons of Apollo is a good choice imo.
Great
You are so fluid in yngwei thing !
" I still remember it " XD
holy &^*! He played amazingly and for a long time, too~~~
What a cool guy!
Yngwie could learn a lesson or two from this guy, seriously
Er.. that's like saying "the Playstation 2 could learn something from the Playstation 4".... Yngwie pushed things in the direction for guys like Ron Thal to spring up from. As you can obviously tell by the fact that he knows a ton of Yngwie tunes off by heart.
Why does Yngwie need to learn anything? What for?
Guys, let's face it. Yngwie was an asset for the instrument and he definitely helped set the bar high, but nowadays he sucks ass.
@@silasrodrigues4838 - That's nonsense, he is still a monster. He still plays at an extremely high level.
Killer video
if Bumblefoot and Jeff Scott Soto will ever do an Yngwie revival set (like how Mark Boals did with Kelly Simonz) I'll totally go see that :D
Hey Ron, if you read this, you should start an Yngwie tribute band and call it “BumbleSteen”!
Would love to hear a Bumblefoot/Rudess collaboration some time
Ynwie : he is the father of all
Well certainly not all, but he was the first in that style.
What about Blackmore, to me, he is a huge part of yngwies dna
TheEnderBand Keep in mind, Sons of Apollo performed a note-for-note rendition of Gates of Babylon. Ron’s solo was identical to Ritchie’s studio version.
Totally! Agree 100%!
No doubt Blackmore was a huge influence on Yngwie. The first album he bought was Deep Purple's Fireball. But with that said I don't hear Blackmore's licks when I listen to Far Beyond the Sun, I'll See the Light Tonight, Rising Force, Seventh Sign, Disciples of Hell, Demon Driver, Trilogy Suite etc... Yngwie has a distinct style.
Yeah, you might hear a lick here or there that sounds like Blackmore but the majority of his stuff is completely different.
The way I look at it is Blackmore is mostly blues with a touch of classical, whereas Yngwie is mostly classical with a touch of blues. They are similar in some ways, yet very different.
Both are great, and both are forever linked. Yngwie took what players like Uli Jon Roth and Blackmore started and brought it to a different level.
epic103 Yngwie mainly took Blackmore’s look and poses onstage. There is a touch of his style, here and there, but I really hear a lot of Uli. Still, despite these influences, Yngwie does have his own style.
Check out jet to jet by Alcatrazz and then listen to spotlight kid by Rainbow- that and Yngwie stealing Ritchie's singers after they left lol
I know that "best guitarist" is an amalgam of many thinks including how influential you have been etc. BUT, as far as innovation and talent and ability and technique..Ron is No1 and far above ANY No2...He is NOT in MY top5 guitarists list, BUT credit given were credit due I know for certain as a guitarist myself the Ron's ability and comprehension of the instrument is beyond human...He CAN play anything anyone else plays...and more.
Well....and then there is Buckethead.
Turn on captions and you’ll get Ron Bumble Football
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Hendrix, EVH and Malmsteen. The only three real game changers in e. Guitar. That doesn't mean that they are the favourite of people. Maybe I prefer Gary Moore or Mark Knopfler but that doesn't rule out my first statement. Malmsteen is a MAJOR influence.
True that!
Batio. Quad guitar and ambidextrous playing.
@@superblondeDotOrg Batio didn't change the world for guitar players...
@@kraftwerk974 batio sure did. maybe you are unaware. vai took the double guitar idea and three neck heart guitar from batio original double and quad guitar playing. bumblefoot took the double guitar idea from vai and also went fretless. as well as many other ideas taken by others from batio. whether they know it or not.
@@superblondeDotOrg If Batio changed the world of guitar playing thousands would be playing quad and double neck guitars... probably 10 at best! Batio was just a gimmick and people are still buying les Paul's and strats. So nothing has changed.
Mas afortunados los que han podido tocar contigo.
🤘🦶🎸🧀
Duude Bumblefoots awesome,I saw him on the Axes and Anchors cruise n was shredding some yngwie on a ukulele,he gave me the Nickname UkWie.Ukwie J Malmsteen😂😂never for get it.then he continued to just play like 5 solos from yngwies older albums.great guy and player👍👍
Nicholas D'Orazio sweet!
Nicholas D’Orazio - That’s freakin’ awesome, man!!
He sounds like Barney Rubble
Uli Jon Roth, Randy Rhoads.
Ritchie Blackmore,- anyone?
Yngwie the great