Attention: Yngwie fans
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fretburner
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I guess Yngwie won't need his NS2 and DOD anymore? Looks like an awesome amp!
I guess Yngwie won't need his NS2 and DOD anymore? Looks like an awesome amp!
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Nice!
I remember back in '85. I had been through my Rhoads phase and gotten into Akira Takasaki of Loudness. I had read an article about this dood from Sweden whose name I could not pronounce ("Yangie?" LOL) in a band called Alcatrazz and he seemed pretty cocky. Even had the tab for "Hiroshima Mon Amour" in the same issue of GFTPM, but without really hearing it had no idea what he was all about.
So my brother was away for some school band trip at a larger city and brings home the first "Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force" record. I put it on the turn-table that night and just sat there all night long with my jaw on the floor, listening to it over and over. Could not believe that someone could do that with a guitar. I ended-up practicing about 8 hours a day, mostly just learning that whole albume note-for-note. Used to play through it about three times a day for my practice regimen. Did a medley of "Black Star" and "Icarus Dream Suite" for my senior high school talent show in '86. Got beat-out by the popular daughter of the town mortician who sang "Rocky Top" (LOL!). But several of the adults who were on the judging panel came-up to me afterwards and told me they voted for me and that I should have won. I learned about popularity contests from that experience. I was a "nobody" in town. Anyways... my band the next year played "Kree Na Koree" (sp?) for another school's talent show (Catholic High School). But we did it as our encore. For our judged song we did Maiden's "The Trooper". They told us that had we done the Alcatrazz tune for our main one, we would have won. Oh well... we were just having a good time!
Those were the days -- because in the state of Montana, there weren't a whole lot of people who'd even heard of Yngwie, much less be able to play his stuff. I went-on to major in Classical Guitar Performance at MSU-Bozeman. Christopher Parkening was the head of the guitar department then. One of his protoges was my teacher. He was also a good jazz player. But when students of his came to him wanting to learn something in Yngwie-style, he would send them to me. Good times... I miss them...
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I remember back in '85. I had been through my Rhoads phase and gotten into Akira Takasaki of Loudness. I had read an article about this dood from Sweden whose name I could not pronounce ("Yangie?" LOL) in a band called Alcatrazz and he seemed pretty cocky. Even had the tab for "Hiroshima Mon Amour" in the same issue of GFTPM, but without really hearing it had no idea what he was all about.
So my brother was away for some school band trip at a larger city and brings home the first "Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force" record. I put it on the turn-table that night and just sat there all night long with my jaw on the floor, listening to it over and over. Could not believe that someone could do that with a guitar. I ended-up practicing about 8 hours a day, mostly just learning that whole albume note-for-note. Used to play through it about three times a day for my practice regimen. Did a medley of "Black Star" and "Icarus Dream Suite" for my senior high school talent show in '86. Got beat-out by the popular daughter of the town mortician who sang "Rocky Top" (LOL!). But several of the adults who were on the judging panel came-up to me afterwards and told me they voted for me and that I should have won. I learned about popularity contests from that experience. I was a "nobody" in town. Anyways... my band the next year played "Kree Na Koree" (sp?) for another school's talent show (Catholic High School). But we did it as our encore. For our judged song we did Maiden's "The Trooper". They told us that had we done the Alcatrazz tune for our main one, we would have won. Oh well... we were just having a good time!
Those were the days -- because in the state of Montana, there weren't a whole lot of people who'd even heard of Yngwie, much less be able to play his stuff. I went-on to major in Classical Guitar Performance at MSU-Bozeman. Christopher Parkening was the head of the guitar department then. One of his protoges was my teacher. He was also a good jazz player. But when students of his came to him wanting to learn something in Yngwie-style, he would send them to me. Good times... I miss them...
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Gamera
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Good read. I too remember '85 like it was yesterday and discovering Yngwie. It's easy now to dismiss him since so much of his music was dismissed with the "hair band" genre. But what kids fail to understand was how he really did define an entire musical genre and even lent some classical class and sophistication to a genre that for some was based solely on fashion and hair. Good times indeed. Although I haven't bought an Yngwie album in awhile, he'll always be a favorite of mine for what he has accomplished. Kind of like Metallica bashing was cool after the whole Napster debacle, I'll be a fan forever because I can say "I knew them when..."
Good read. I too remember '85 like it was yesterday and discovering Yngwie. It's easy now to dismiss him since so much of his music was dismissed with the "hair band" genre. But what kids fail to understand was how he really did define an entire musical genre and even lent some classical class and sophistication to a genre that for some was based solely on fashion and hair. Good times indeed. Although I haven't bought an Yngwie album in awhile, he'll always be a favorite of mine for what he has accomplished. Kind of like Metallica bashing was cool after the whole Napster debacle, I'll be a fan forever because I can say "I knew them when..."
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For sure. Had it not been for Ynwie, I would have never been inspired to learn Bach violin concertos on my electric from sheet music, which means I'd have never gone-on to study "real" classical guitar in college. HE opened my mind to classical music period. And now I have an appreciation for some of the great, classic composers (Bach, Scarlatti, Rossini, Bizet, etc, etc) because of him. I certainly found other great rock and jazz players who inspired me during that period (Holdsworth, Gambale, Uli Roth, etc), but it was Yngwie who really gave me the love of classical music. He was (and still is) a monster player, and when you hear him you know it's him. There may have been a lot of subsequent Varney shredders, who ultimately watered-down the neo-classical genre to the point that I got bored with it and walked-away. But Yngwie will forever be THE icon of that genre (Uli and Blackmore notwithstanding) and I still think highly of him as a player.
I get SO tired of people over the years who've dismissed him with a casual remark such as "he just plays a million notes per minute", as if anyone can do what he's done. He's certainly become repetitive over the years and at times a bit of an over-the-top charicature of himself. But a careful listen to his early work (specifically that first Rising Force album) reveals a VERY mature player and songwriter. And he was in his late-teens and early-20s when he did that stuff!
For sure. Had it not been for Ynwie, I would have never been inspired to learn Bach violin concertos on my electric from sheet music, which means I'd have never gone-on to study "real" classical guitar in college. HE opened my mind to classical music period. And now I have an appreciation for some of the great, classic composers (Bach, Scarlatti, Rossini, Bizet, etc, etc) because of him. I certainly found other great rock and jazz players who inspired me during that period (Holdsworth, Gambale, Uli Roth, etc), but it was Yngwie who really gave me the love of classical music. He was (and still is) a monster player, and when you hear him you know it's him. There may have been a lot of subsequent Varney shredders, who ultimately watered-down the neo-classical genre to the point that I got bored with it and walked-away. But Yngwie will forever be THE icon of that genre (Uli and Blackmore notwithstanding) and I still think highly of him as a player.
I get SO tired of people over the years who've dismissed him with a casual remark such as "he just plays a million notes per minute", as if anyone can do what he's done. He's certainly become repetitive over the years and at times a bit of an over-the-top charicature of himself. But a careful listen to his early work (specifically that first Rising Force album) reveals a VERY mature player and songwriter. And he was in his late-teens and early-20s when he did that stuff!
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Yup... he's nailing Black Star. I've seen other YouTube vids of guys nailing it with completely different gear too. Mostly about the player's ability to make whatever he's playing sound just like it. I wish I had video of me doing Yngwie. I was 17-18 at the time. Been over 20 years. I'm sure it wasn't as impressive as some of these YouTube fast guns. But [thankfully] there's no evidence to the contrary...
And before anyone asks, I haven't played an Yngwie song or swept an arpeggio for many years. My daily "practice" regimen for nearly the past two decades has consisted of my putting a CD on of whatever mood I'm in, and just improvising leads to it until I felt like it was time to hang it up for the night and do something else. Luckily, I've been inspired with my new rig as of late and that daily jamming time has gone back up. From 45 min or an hour, to 2-3 hours. My chops are starting to get tighter and more "sure-footed" as a result. In fact, I have put a few tunes on this past week that called for some Phrygian #3 shredding and been enjoying the hell out of it. Feels good to be re-inspired again.
Yup... he's nailing Black Star. I've seen other YouTube vids of guys nailing it with completely different gear too. Mostly about the player's ability to make whatever he's playing sound just like it. I wish I had video of me doing Yngwie. I was 17-18 at the time. Been over 20 years. I'm sure it wasn't as impressive as some of these YouTube fast guns. But [thankfully] there's no evidence to the contrary...
And before anyone asks, I haven't played an Yngwie song or swept an arpeggio for many years. My daily "practice" regimen for nearly the past two decades has consisted of my putting a CD on of whatever mood I'm in, and just improvising leads to it until I felt like it was time to hang it up for the night and do something else. Luckily, I've been inspired with my new rig as of late and that daily jamming time has gone back up. From 45 min or an hour, to 2-3 hours. My chops are starting to get tighter and more "sure-footed" as a result. In fact, I have put a few tunes on this past week that called for some Phrygian #3 shredding and been enjoying the hell out of it. Feels good to be re-inspired again.
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couldn't agree more, my other favorite criticism of YJM is when people say he can't play the blues..the last thing we need is another white guy playing the blues and the guitar shouldn't be relegated to playing a single genre of music...
couldn't agree more, my other favorite criticism of YJM is when people say he can't play the blues..the last thing we need is another white guy playing the blues and the guitar shouldn't be relegated to playing a single genre of music...
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He actually plays the blues pretty well! Well... if you're into "blues shredding". Which I happen to be, because my favorite blues player has always been SRV, who was a bit of a blues shredder himself.
He actually plays the blues pretty well! Well... if you're into "blues shredding". Which I happen to be, because my favorite blues player has always been SRV, who was a bit of a blues shredder himself.
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Oh yeah, Yngwie can definitely rock some blues. He has an incredible feel and not to mention a blues tone to die for. An all around versatile player that deserves much more credit than he's getting. I'll forever look up to the guy.
Oh yeah, Yngwie can definitely rock some blues. He has an incredible feel and not to mention a blues tone to die for. An all around versatile player that deserves much more credit than he's getting. I'll forever look up to the guy.
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Amen to that. His vibrato is pretty cool too. Of course, it's pretty easy to milk an "extreme" vibrato out of strings when they're .008s! (I assume that he still uses .008s.) Back in my younger days I used .008s for a time. Geesh... I can't imagine using that light of a string now. On the rare occasion I ever use .009s now, they feel like rubber bands. .010s are my guage of preference these days.
Amen to that. His vibrato is pretty cool too. Of course, it's pretty easy to milk an "extreme" vibrato out of strings when they're .008s! (I assume that he still uses .008s.) Back in my younger days I used .008s for a time. Geesh... I can't imagine using that light of a string now. On the rare occasion I ever use .009s now, they feel like rubber bands. .010s are my guage of preference these days.
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I'm content with 9s, myself. But don't forget, his vibrato also comes from that scalloped neck. I don't know if you've played on one, but it's pretty easy to accidentally fret a string out of tune on those! Combine that with 8's and it shows what a unique touch he has.
I'm content with 9s, myself. But don't forget, his vibrato also comes from that scalloped neck. I don't know if you've played on one, but it's pretty easy to accidentally fret a string out of tune on those! Combine that with 8's and it shows what a unique touch he has.
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http://www.daddys.com//detail.php?itemTitle=rhino-beast&itemNumber=RHI0031
$450 but they're having a used gear weekend this weekend anyway... To be honest this is the first i've ever seen one of these amps
http://www.daddys.com//detail.php?itemTitle=rhino-beast&itemNumber=RHI0031
$450 but they're having a used gear weekend this weekend anyway... To be honest this is the first i've ever seen one of these amps
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seems to be simular idea to the Marshall JCM 800 KK Kerry King amp... built in pedals... wish i had bought the 800KK i saw last summer for $800 brand new... local store blew it out for less then half price! some sort of government incentive program for giving retailers tax breaks if they blow out old stock at a discount... trying to boost the economy...
seems to be simular idea to the Marshall JCM 800 KK Kerry King amp... built in pedals... wish i had bought the 800KK i saw last summer for $800 brand new... local store blew it out for less then half price! some sort of government incentive program for giving retailers tax breaks if they blow out old stock at a discount... trying to boost the economy...
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i own some signature amps and guitars... i don't 100% play and sound like the names on them... but what is really cool is pros on the road have their gear so customized so it does what they want it too. and that is where some very cool ideas come about for the masses... and it's cool that Mods that cost these guys a small fortune to add to their rigs can be bought on the open market...
like the 5150 amp was the first amp i remember seeing that had an ON/OFF FX LOOP switch on the footswitch! that does come in handy! little ideas like that comes from the minds of pros on the road and the people that work for them...
so ya i'm sure YJM's Marshall has some pretty cool features for the modern day real world too... i'm not a huge YJM fan... i own one greatest hits cd and a dvd... but i'd rock this Marshall loud and proud if it was one that worked for me! Can't wait to try one just for the hell of it... i have no need for more Marshalls, or loud heads in general... I have 5, 50 and 100 watt heads sittting that i hardly use... i end up using small combos myself more often...
i own some signature amps and guitars... i don't 100% play and sound like the names on them... but what is really cool is pros on the road have their gear so customized so it does what they want it too. and that is where some very cool ideas come about for the masses... and it's cool that Mods that cost these guys a small fortune to add to their rigs can be bought on the open market...
like the 5150 amp was the first amp i remember seeing that had an ON/OFF FX LOOP switch on the footswitch! that does come in handy! little ideas like that comes from the minds of pros on the road and the people that work for them...
so ya i'm sure YJM's Marshall has some pretty cool features for the modern day real world too... i'm not a huge YJM fan... i own one greatest hits cd and a dvd... but i'd rock this Marshall loud and proud if it was one that worked for me! Can't wait to try one just for the hell of it... i have no need for more Marshalls, or loud heads in general... I have 5, 50 and 100 watt heads sittting that i hardly use... i end up using small combos myself more often...
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I think that it's great that Marshall is giving YJM a signature model. What I'm not so happy about is that this 'sig' amp is not even based on a MKII which is Yngwie's amp of choice. Kind of like issuing the guy a Malmsteen sig Telecaster. I mean, it's all good and I hope the amp sounds killer but why release this as a YJM sig?
I think that it's great that Marshall is giving YJM a signature model. What I'm not so happy about is that this 'sig' amp is not even based on a MKII which is Yngwie's amp of choice. Kind of like issuing the guy a Malmsteen sig Telecaster. I mean, it's all good and I hope the amp sounds killer but why release this as a YJM sig?
fretburner
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Aren't both circuits very close? I think there's a reason for having that switch from 100w to 50w. Also, from this link it says, he used both MkII 50-watters and 1959 100-watter plexis.
Aren't both circuits very close? I think there's a reason for having that switch from 100w to 50w. Also, from this link it says, he used both MkII 50-watters and 1959 100-watter plexis.
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Yeah, during the late 80s and early 90s, all I played were strats with scalloped necks (did that myself has not too many people did it back then). Took me a few necks to learn not to scallop so deep on the fretboard, as it only takes a little wood removal to make your fingertips not touch the freboard. Had a couple of the early necks twist on me -- I assume because I had weakened them to the point they wouldn't stay true.
It got to the point that I couldn't stand playing on any neck that wasn't scalloped. I felt that I had severely limited myself that way and ended-up with no scalloped neck guitars. Part of that was based on me getting a pair of PRS Custom 24s with bird inlays. Certainly wasn't going to scallop those!
But I do miss the control that I had with scalloped necks at times. I've been eye-balling an Yngwie sig strat for a while to have one to play on again.
Yeah, during the late 80s and early 90s, all I played were strats with scalloped necks (did that myself has not too many people did it back then). Took me a few necks to learn not to scallop so deep on the fretboard, as it only takes a little wood removal to make your fingertips not touch the freboard. Had a couple of the early necks twist on me -- I assume because I had weakened them to the point they wouldn't stay true.
It got to the point that I couldn't stand playing on any neck that wasn't scalloped. I felt that I had severely limited myself that way and ended-up with no scalloped neck guitars. Part of that was based on me getting a pair of PRS Custom 24s with bird inlays. Certainly wasn't going to scallop those!
But I do miss the control that I had with scalloped necks at times. I've been eye-balling an Yngwie sig strat for a while to have one to play on again.
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LOL! An Yngwie Tele! That would be pretty cool acutally! Look out Brad Paisley! Yngwie plays country!
Actually, I've been kicking around country/classic-rock bands around here for years. And I have thought it would be pretty cool to scallop a Tele neck for that. I tend to play my country leads in the fast-paced Paisley style, so I think it would be pretty awesome to have a Tele like that to take it to a "ho... nuva... levo".
LOL! An Yngwie Tele! That would be pretty cool acutally! Look out Brad Paisley! Yngwie plays country!
Actually, I've been kicking around country/classic-rock bands around here for years. And I have thought it would be pretty cool to scallop a Tele neck for that. I tend to play my country leads in the fast-paced Paisley style, so I think it would be pretty awesome to have a Tele like that to take it to a "ho... nuva... levo".