IMO,humble opinion,we had Blackmore and Rainbow,we had Rhoads on those grear Ozz albums but Yngwie is the architect of the Neoclassical sound,all i can remember at 14 when i discovered most of what i still love today Satriani was Billy Gibbons on Heavy steriods,Vai was from another planet,brand new sounds,and Yngwie who sounded like he grew up at Juliard but with the best hard rock feel of any of that makes sense. On another i had discovered EVH and Randy Rhoads way earlier.i think the incredible thing about it,they never really copied each other!all of them true virtuosos,but IMO opinion Neoclassical is all Yngwie's doing,and he does it so well!
Yngwie deserves credit for being an amazing composer as well. He just happens to be great on guitar too. Check out his "Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar in Eb Minor" album. He composed every instrument and every part on that album, even if he did recycle some parts from his older albums in there. People who say he plays with no feel have nothing to say after hearing that album, or better yet, watching the live version of it with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
Now I like the sound of harmonic minor/phrygian but when I saw an yngwie lesson and when they slowed it down to see what he was doing it sounded better to me
Nope. My opinion, for what it's worth, hasn't changed in 40 years or so of hearing about Yngwie. Technically brilliant, but I can't feel it. So he gets a solid no for me.
He lost his tech. brilliance quite a lot. Doesn't practice anymore and got really (!) sloppy. His early works had an interesting feel to it, but swapped for copy/paste..
Really? Listen to the song "Brothers" and then imagine you wrote that song after your brother died. If that's too much to start with, try the song "Blue" and see how Yngwie masterfully blends his neoclassical shred with flawless blues playing that's levels above his influences like Hendrix, Blackmore, etc.
I always hated the way his acoustic guitar sounded live. every time it was overly compressed. if he would have backed off the compression it would have sounded alot fuller and even.
I have to agree. He never did nail that live acoustic sound for my taste. The nylon string approach sounds great on his albums though. I always liked the sound of the acoustic on "Takada's Theme" from his "power and glory" EP.
He has many songs that are not full speed shred. Try something like "Like an Angel" from the "facing the animal" album, or if that's not your style, he always puts one or two classical instrumentals on his albums like "Cantabile" or "Golden Dawn". Yngwie gets placed into the neoclassical shred box too quickly I think. He's a very versatile player.
I’m a huge Yngwie fan. I respect the fact that He created his own sound and has not deviated from his vision.
He'd love hearing that!
IMO,humble opinion,we had Blackmore and Rainbow,we had Rhoads on those grear Ozz albums but Yngwie is the architect of the Neoclassical sound,all i can remember at 14 when i discovered most of what i still love today Satriani was Billy Gibbons on Heavy steriods,Vai was from another planet,brand new sounds,and Yngwie who sounded like he grew up at Juliard but with the best hard rock feel of any of that makes sense.
On another i had discovered EVH and Randy Rhoads way earlier.i think the incredible thing about it,they never really copied each other!all of them true virtuosos,but IMO opinion Neoclassical is all Yngwie's doing,and he does it so well!
Would probaly credit more to uli roth but yngwie brought it more attention
@@RtroyD yes!!!Sails of Charon!!!it makes me wonder where some of the early pioneers got that motivation, Definitely good choice!!
@@RtroyD wasn't Uli or a peer of Uli's the first to have a pro model with Fender and I think it was a 7 string,?
Yngwie deserves credit for being an amazing composer as well. He just happens to be great on guitar too. Check out his "Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar in Eb Minor" album. He composed every instrument and every part on that album, even if he did recycle some parts from his older albums in there. People who say he plays with no feel have nothing to say after hearing that album, or better yet, watching the live version of it with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
If you want to really hear Yngwie play bass, check out his "alchemy" album from 1999. He has some really creative stuff on there.
Thanks for pointing this out!
Now I like the sound of harmonic minor/phrygian but when I saw an yngwie lesson and when they slowed it down to see what he was doing it sounded better to me
Find a video of Yngwie playing with Vai and Satriani. He hangs with them easily.
Nope. My opinion, for what it's worth, hasn't changed in 40 years or so of hearing about Yngwie. Technically brilliant, but I can't feel it. So he gets a solid no for me.
He lost his tech. brilliance quite a lot. Doesn't practice anymore and got really (!) sloppy. His early works had an interesting feel to it, but swapped for copy/paste..
Really? Listen to the song "Brothers" and then imagine you wrote that song after your brother died. If that's too much to start with, try the song "Blue" and see how Yngwie masterfully blends his neoclassical shred with flawless blues playing that's levels above his influences like Hendrix, Blackmore, etc.
Exactly 💯
I always hated the way his acoustic guitar sounded live. every time it was overly compressed. if he would have backed off the compression it would have sounded alot fuller and even.
I have to agree. He never did nail that live acoustic sound for my taste. The nylon string approach sounds great on his albums though. I always liked the sound of the acoustic on "Takada's Theme" from his "power and glory" EP.
I get that a lot of people like his stuff.
To me it always sounded like schizophrenia in string form. Just too busy and all over the place.
He has many songs that are not full speed shred. Try something like "Like an Angel" from the "facing the animal" album, or if that's not your style, he always puts one or two classical instrumentals on his albums like "Cantabile" or "Golden Dawn". Yngwie gets placed into the neoclassical shred box too quickly I think. He's a very versatile player.
AAbility off the chart...not enjoyable. Sorry not sorry.