Good thing he did not try out for ☆ZAPPA☆

Who is yngwie???

@@jeffreyedwards767 Didnt Steve Vai get that gig ?

@@mikehand5881 That guy who wants to be Ritchie Blackmore lol

@@christineayres7199 get a guitar ,you,can go farr☆

Hilarious!! I'm so there with this! lol

Awesome!

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That's awesome!!! 😂😂😂

"Dream" amazed me. Maybe it was because I was in the Navy and on a bus from Coronado Island going over to Downtown San Diego. I had my headphones on with that 5150 cassette in. Magical feeling!!

Yes and Eddie was saying the same but when he was a kid he listened to a lot of guitar players like Clapton, Hendrix, Blackmore, Jimmy Page...

So when they say 'Oh I only played piano and listened to the radio', it's not true

@@karsguitarchannel6088 😀👍

Any guitarist who hasn't gotten something from Blackmore is probably lying. Yngwie is Blackmore's protege. I'm a big Malmsteen fan too.

@@karsguitarchannel6088 Exactly! I love EVH. He’s my second favorite after Hendrix but he said he only listened Clapton when he was with Cream and then he didn’t listen any music. And I was like “dude… seriously? 😑”

"Nobody walks around humming a Yngwie tune or at least not very many people.' I did and many around me in the 80s and early 90s. I still sing his solos with silly tongue and lip contortions LOL. Check his work with Derek Sherinian. Viking Massacre and The Monsoon are amazing songs!

@@timurhant469 literally the 1 nerd who knows a Malmsteen tune. Van Halen blows him away.

@@-chrisburke might be 😂😂😂

@@-chrisburke Yeah, a guy who sold millions of albums and owns Ferraris and his own house probably only has a handful of fans...

Eddie plays popular and Yngwie classical, maybe thats why the difference, they have their own public.

That's what I assumed too. Eddie was introverted (and also shy) and I remember some interviews with VH where he wasn't there and there was a note somewhere from the interviewer that he didn't feel up to talking. Even before he got sober, Eddie seemed to get worn out around a bunch of people, but if he decided he didn't want to do something then he wouldn't do it too. Maybe he kept trying to catch him on a bad day, maybe Eddie just didn't want to meet him.

Exactly what I've thought since I read this in a Guitar mag interview back when. Just sounds like inflated ego from Malmsteen.

EVH is a notorious introvert but even he wanted to meet Les Paul, and I think he jammed with the late Leslie West too

​@@artmv1149 exactly if he thought he was important or interesting he would have met him

I'm nobody but I met ym in 2004 and he was rude and a real prick. Just sayin

Yngwie is a great guitarist but I never got into his music. I couldn't name one tune.

Ynwie doesn't have to say shit, he IS a great guitarist.

​@@carloscortez-hv2ohHe WILL tell you that though. That's the point of the original comment lol

Okay then id love for you to pull up a video of him saying "I'm a great guitarist"

You must be the GOOD Steven Wilson 😂

Yes. Realy ultra good ♥️

Fair Warning is awesome too.

Diver Down has some greatness

Surprisingly? Try other words

I think for guitar solo's it was Eddie's best album overall. I know I'm the one from the first album is probably his best solo after eruption but VH II had a killer solo in every song except dance the night away.

Except that Eddie's solos were way more melodic and memorable.

James Martin Gurley from Janis Joplin, Ritchie Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth, were the guitarists who laid down the Neo Classical Rock guitar genre. Yngwie took it to a new intensity, approach. Saw his very first gig at a club called Wolfgangs in San Francisco. Rhythm section Anvil Chorus had backed him up. Also few other gigs with his own band, during early to mid '80s. His 1985 tour was the most memorable. Reply

@@hinjurock70 Really? C'mon...Melodic in what sense? Gary Moore and SRV are light years ahead of melodic playing compared to EVH. Eddie was great at what he did but...

@@fenderboy68 You can't compare EVH to a limited player like SRV - he only played blues rock with a little funk thrown in. No way in hell could he play solos as skillful as Eddie. Gary Moore was great, but Eddie's riffs and solos were more original and more memorable.

​@@hinjurock70 Forget it. Once I hat a debate with a guy that knew that Angus Young is a way better player than Yngwie. Shure, Moore and SRV were super good players, but they did not trasnscend the way of guitar playing. Eddy and Yngwie are such players. There are more of them: George Lynch, Randy Rhoads, Steve Vai, Uli John Roth, Alan Holdsworth, Al Di Meola, Shawn Lane, Jason Becker. We have to accept that this type of player is not first choice for everybody.

Unless youre a Tweeker. ...

Eh? Evh was always much more showoffy and into stunt style guitar than yngwie. It seems like on the 2005 internet someone announced yngwie was "too full of himself" and its just been repeated since then by people fishing for approval. It doesn't make any sense. If anything he seems way more jokey and laid back than more rockstars. My theory: american guitarists get stuck at blues scales because of how guitar was taught here for 2 generations, and they hate anyone who doesnt get stuck there with them.

your theory is wrong.People have always said that about him and people only need to read old interviews or old clips (or even what ex-band members or techs has to say about him) to see that this is true. There is a reason he was being laughed at in Sweden. @@user-wu8up5bj9d

I saw Yngwie twice, the first time in the 80s with Turner on vocals, and both shows were completely amazing.

I don't know if I have ever seen an interview by Yngwie and thought he was full of himself, but I have seen some older interviews of Eddie and thought that, both guys seemed more down to earth as they got older.

@@WaltPowellEnt Yngwie was drunk and crashed his car and almost died when he was young, I bet that changed his whole outlook on life.

I saw him back then. It was just the fast alternate picking section that sounds kind of classical. But Yngwie was playing it with his teeth!

I've seen 16 year old kids (and younger) who can play that same solo note for note.

@@bripslag Hell, I can play Eruption pretty damn close. At least well enough to convince most folks, lol! But most of Yngwie's stuff still escapes me. Interesting side note. When most people find out I play guitar, they ask if I can play Eruption. After all these years it's still sort of the litmus test for guitar players. Nobody's ever asked if I can play Far Beyond the Sun.

@@shakebabyhitler I can pretty much play Eruption as well. But what a lot of people don't get is that playing it and WRITING it are two different things. Especially in 1978. Nobody even knew what is was when it came out!

@@butcho7492 Testify! I had been playing (mostly Kiss tunes) for about a year when VH1 came out. We had no idea what Eddie was doing. And you're absolutely right, playing it is sort of impressive, while writing it at 24yrs old in '78 is crazy cool. That said, I think Yngwie was only about 20 when he wrote Far Beyond the Sun. Also an impressive feat.

Best comment here in my opinion👏👏👏👏

@@nicholasdorazio10 …thanks! I always try to think rationally before I comment on such matters. I understand that everyone tends to have their favorite, and as such can let emotions or rumor form their opinion of someone else. For me, there is no “greatest” at any instrument, since all musicians have different styles, techniques, feel, and strengths and weaknesses.

What?! Were you not around in the 80s? I remember reading a few interviews where the Ego made less than flattering appraisals of Ed

the best ones are great rhythm players too and great producers ie page and van halen and hendrix

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Both Yngwie and Eddie were raging alcoholics in the 80's. It's hard to set your ego aside when you are hammered all the time. They probably both threatened each other's ego back then.

@@mariek6993 ABSOLUTELY 🤟🏻🤟🏻

Its called practice. The type of practice that people like you would never understand or have the discipline to do. You couldn't imagine practicing a 6 note lick at 40bpm, day and night for 4 straight years until its pure perfection and you can pull it off without warming up at will, and even do it on an acoustic guitar just as dynamic as an amplified guitar, so you believe goofy theories like what you just wrote. Or might even believe asinine stuff such as, "he was born with something extra". Its just practice buddy. Trust me.

​@@equalleftrights3130 Hey cynicaldickhead! Do you always begin conversations with strangers by assuming their position on something without any evidence supporting your assumptions? Of do you pride yourself in spawning out-of-con-TEXT's (pretty good huh?) claims in hopes you hooked a fool, who wouldn't see the insecure child behind the mask between your 4th & 21st word? Lucky for you; I'm one who will shame your trespasses, then forgive and forget, and not another curse will be spoken to you from me, now. I may not have been clear in my previous reply, as I have had "the gifted vs. the passionate" debate a few times myself, and as you do, I understand this truth. I also believe that with like Eddie or SRV as my example of the guitar being "an extension of their body" ? ? ? (am I correct in putting my own quotes in quotations?) Anyway, I believe this may have to do with starting so young that your body and mind are still in development, therefore when every free moment you have is running round your fret board, this becomes part of your original development like walking, talking and masturbation. Just a natural thing to do. But it would be interesting to know, and then try to comprehend the actual amount of hours = days = years these examples, and others actually had in playing times along with noodling around time. A playing thru vs. noodling vs. intentional practice, scales etc. I'm 55 years old, and started playing when I was 13/14? Alex Lifeson's sound on the RUSH 2112 album on the side with overture has some of the most eargasmic licks (Imo) that still hold top honor for me to this day. I'm a hard & heavy sound fan, so That 2112 album was out in the too far prog realm in appearance, but it changed me, as back then it cost some money to be able to listen to what you wanted to right then, so after school for months I would throw the headphones on and do the entire album daily, and usually fall asleep with them on. Black Sabbath and Mr. Iommi, aka (Riff lord) inventor of Heavy Metal Was the final sound that attached itself to my beings groove bones, so along the way the few songs that I wrote we assumable to have noticeable influence. 2 Were truly fuckn good to great songs, and still haven't played them with a good or correct type singer. High on the Hog & 16 minutes away. They exist nowhere but in my mind, and (no kidding) on a cassette tape of my drummers wife's friend i was hooking up with off and on. For whatever reasons we quit playing around my mid 20's? Wife and kid. Didn't pick it up again for probably 10 years? and not even long enough to get as loose as I once was. Just picked it up again by blessings of covd boredom, and thanks to the internet I have picked a few new ones completely, and who knows how many pieces of hot spots in songs. NOW A CONFESSION. (partially) I Do understand the discipline it takes to just run scales of finger techniques just because you should, I have bacic understanding in music theory, and you were correct... I did lack the discipline to practice any further than playing with the band or learning a new song. I can, or could play any riff at any speed with any alternating pick directions timing etc. I Could just hear it, feel it, do it. I just never took the time to get into leads, and I have always regretted it. High on the Hog has the most difficult ones I play, but a buddy from a different band helped me to get what I heard to strings, and their is some of him that sounded better and stayed. My Riff my lyrics, and my lazy ass was good enough for the other stuff, so I never found that transfer in the pocket do do anything other than sound the same running in order. I know when it's right, I just cannot develop my own, and my lead player was fine for all the know songs, so I didn't bother. Now I hope that didn't bore you too much, with the story of my disappointment in myself. Their were absolute great times as well I am one of the very few who still has his first ax. It gets worse.... I really like the cheap old Chinese super-strat. A kamen GTX-33 with dual humbucks, and a floating Floyd, with the neck lock and quick tunes, that somehow seems to hold tune as well as any other more expensive ones i've had. Maybe because its impossible for me to ever play another guitar for that many hours as I have that one, but I fall in love with something new from time to time, and it's action is so much better, flawlessly smooth neck/fret feeling. Buy whenever I grab that old cheap whore, and get them cheap pods where they bite sustain; we fuck hard bro, it's just i know where ol girls g-spot is. It was in a shed for 10 years in the middle of the US. 100 plus in the summer with high humidity and a few days of sub-zero temps LEANNING against the corner. Headstock cracked, and I repaired. I just love the dirty whore. You don't still have yours do you? If you do your young If both those statements are incorrect It's a very rare club. Welcome

Agreed

Sorry, malmsteen is a phenomenal guitar player but his influence is pretty minor in comparison to Eddie's, or any other big name mainstream lead guitarist. Kirk Hammett is more influential than yngwie, just not as talented.

@@crankfastle8138 Agreed, I also Malmsteen's playing is a bit much. I know many love that style but for me it's a little to much. I have great respect for his playing just the same.

​@@crankfastle8138Rhoads was just as talented and influential as EVH. Only 2 albums to prove it. If Randy would have lived longer, his influence would have been even more revelant. He certainly had more skill than Kirk Hammett. He was a cross between Eddie and Yngwie. It's a real shame we didn't get more music from him.

​@@crankfastle8138Yngwie is far more influential than Eddie. Literally most modern metal guitarists try to copy his Phrygian Dominant/Hatmonic Minor shred style. Eddie wrote more mainstream melodies that everyone knows, but that doesn't mean he's more influential, but more mainstream. There's nothing to copy from Eddie, he just writes great melodies but no style differentiates him from other guitarists. You can literally hear any modern metal song nowadays and be like "oh that sounds like Yngwie".

Myself......

Eddie is better. Very simple.

@@Godloveszaza That's an opinion you are certainly entitled too but it should be noted that pentatonic scales are much easier to use than modes. I enjoy both of their styles as well as many other guitarists out there, and I don't make a habit of comparisons for who is best. I just enjoy and appreciate their music. This whole my dog's better than your dog is really kind of pointless.

Eddie was a classically trained pianist in his youth and won quite a few contests as a child. While Ed downplays he's never taken guitar lessons he certainly was a very gifted pianist at a very young age. To put him in the pentatonic box is to not entirely fair to his catalogue or understand music theory. Look at the part on Eruption with staccato neo-classicism , were he basically plays the classical piece from Etude #2 violin by Rodolphe Kreutzer . Certainly remembered from his youth as a classically trained pianist. If you listen closely to many of Ed's songs you can hear these little classical snippets thrown in quite a lot in his playing. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rt1jfNFjltnGfnU.html Then you look at Cathedral which basically sounds like a classical violin with classically inflected arpeggios. When this album first was released , many musicians did not even know this was played on a guitar. Cathedral kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hOBnead50duZYok.html Then you have the flamenco and classical both influences on Spanish Fly and Little Guitars with Ed's own interpretation of the flamenco style. Spanish Fly kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbNner2Jyq6aXZs.html Little Guitars kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ecpgnJeU0-DIepc.html Then you have the intro to Mean Street with it's almost funk-like bass tapping. Basically he's slapping the guitar like a bass but added harmonics for the melody. Truly groundbreaking for the time and still hard to master today. Mean Street kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5qRntFnypudhIU.html Also look at the harmonics on the intro to Women In Love. With tapped harmonics and the use of delay to add that ethereal like effect. Women In Love kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aMeBmMx4lbGlqok.html There's even a slide guitar on the song Dirty Movies. You can hear it in the background on the intro to this song. He played slide on and old Gibson SG. Dirty Movies kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j7x3aL2ItKipdmQ.html All this and I haven't really even scratched the surface of Ed's influence on guitar players or even gotten into his rhythm parts , a whole other level. I think his rhythm stuff even eclipses his solo work. You really can't put him a category. Did he play pentatonics , yes but he was so so much more. In fact I read so many articles from musicians trying to put him in a defined category as far as scales go , you really can't he changed how we all looked at guitar playing and still do to this day. While I love Yngwie too his playing influenced me immensely he basically uses the harmonic minor scale or its fifth mode, the Phrygian Dominant. This can be heard in almost all of his songs. He's awesome and I pretty much non stop listened to him through much of his early career. But Yngwie as far a innovation was kind of a two trick pony awesome as he is. People forget he damaged his hand and was in a coma , he recovered but I don't think he ever really got back 100% to his days when he played really really tight. Listen to some of those early alcatrazz solos and he's just so crisp and tight.

@@TheAgentAssassin Picking out snipets of non pentatonics in a mostly pentatonic repertoire is not a great argument. Young pianist aside, 90+% of what Eddie was doing was Pentatonics. Stunningly executed Pentatonics but pentatonics nonetheless. And also, being a pianist at a young age and knowing music theory means little when you play mostly pentatonics. Even with ear training, Eddies sound is very obviously pentatonic dominant. And yes, Yngwei's sound has a lot of Phrygian but also quite a bit of most of the other major modes as well, not to mention liberal use of arpeggios and diminished runs. As I said in my previous reply, I'm not saying anyone is better than anyone else, you are. And as I also said before if you want to be a fan boi, be my guest but let me state my opinion without having to defend it every time I post something. After all it is just an opinion.

The biggest difference is Eddie knew how to write a song.

I don't like Yngwie..But i worked on both guitarist..Honestly Yngwie is much better guitarist than Eddie..Eddie is became a legend..so it s doesn't touch

@@ericgisclon8122 technically yes Yngwie is better. I think he just needed to slow it down a bit sometimes. Listening to blazing notes non stop kind of gets tiring after a while. LoL!

I have a feeling so would Yngwie 😆

I'm a Eddie fan but not his solo's; which solo's do you think are classic?

​@@garricksands844 Right Now has a great, radio friendly solo.

Yes I think if Yngwie really wanted to meet Eddie, he had to go and meet him not asking someone to relay a message. On the other hand, Eddie knew that everyone was calling Yngwie the new guitar hero and everybody wanted to play like Yngwie so it's probably true that Eddie didn't want to meet Yngwie.

i truly think he didnt want to meet yngwie. u should hear the interview he had when randy died. the whole time hes just talking about how randy did nothing he didnt do and that randy just took all of his tricks. came off as very jealous

@@karsguitarchannel6088 There's stories of him meeting other monumental guitar heros coming up around the same time who Ed did meet and got along with at the time though. That's what makes me think he wasn't really avoiding him, because he would have avoided Nuno too, or anyone else who was up and coming, I think if he really wanted to meet Eddie he could have. Cause it wasn't like he was the only up and coming contender for the next guitar god back then

Way too much of a catalog and live recordings for that to hold water, friend.

Yeah, BACH on the guitar. I mean, how much of that can anyone take ? Agreed. .A great technician who isa colossal bore

Tell me you don't like blues...

I'm pretty sure they did meet though? It wasn't publicized but I thought I heard Steve talk about meeting him? Like with Nuno Bettencourt, when Eddie died he said they had met and hung out countless times but he has only like one picture of them together cause he was usually in the moment of it. Eddie was introverted and had social anxiety, and as his addiction got worse, he wasn't in a position to see anyone. But even when he got sober he became semi-recluisive. In general it wasn't til Eddie passed that I started seeing photos of people he hanged out with or knew, he just didn't like to do stuff in the public eye, or for publicity. If he thought someone only wanted to meet him to have it publicized, yeah, I wouldn't want to do it either. Eddie was low-key, especially after he got sober

False statement

​@@jb-yi4diI wonder what you could do with a guitar 💀

@@evil6564 There are many guitarists who have high abilities in writing and creativity, and that's what makes people individuals. When you get to the level that these players occupy, it's not about who's better than who, but about enjoying all the different flavors, because it's all good. Any mature musician knows that.

@@jb-yi4di I disagree. Musicians of a certain caliber will agree there's one guitarist whose creativity and abilities transcend beyond the guitar. It's eddie. People who dedicate their life to music, without even touching a string instrument, tend to have a profound respect for eddie. You won't hear many pianists at berkeley trying to play yngwie on a piano.

@@jb-yi4di And my original point still stands. If you think you have ground to stand on saying it's a false statement that eddie is unmatched... I just wonder what you yourself could do with a guitar.

And EVH had tone, instead of the muddy neck position sounding single coil

You can still write music without writing it down on paper - if you come up with riffs and songs and record them, that's also writing music.

@@hinjurock70 Which is what EVH did, whereas, Yngwie wrote in music language, could look at any piece of paper and play it upon first seeing it; That kind of musician, see what I mean?

@@ricktheexplorer Are you sure that Yngwie could read and write notation? He can play a lot of classical licks, but I never read or heard that he was formally trained in music.

@@hinjurock70 How do you think you learn classical? I can read a little, but to musicians better than me, reading music and playing it the first time you read it is standard.

I agree. EVH was a song guy. He wasn't just about mindless shredding. He played some really cool lines that actually added something to the songs and it never sounded clinical.

Sorry but I have to disagree. Yngwie always tells the story how he saw Jimi Hendrix on Swedish TV and they showed Jimi burning his guitar and it just inspired Yngwie to become a guitar player and that's it. Yngwie also says that he wasn't influenced by any guitar player but he was influenced by Bach. I think what he means is that he developed his own style and he uses a lot of phrases from classical violin music. But of course he also uses blues scale and lots of blues rock licks and that's what Hendrix and Blackmore played before him. Thank you Chris for watching the video, much appreciated! Have an awesome rocking day!

Eddie relied too much on the two handed gimmick. It's not difficult to do, but sounds good, so people get fooled by it. he was flash over musicality. He was a very good player, but not the greatest.

​@@gianthillsYou're the one who is fooled. You're overlooking everything that made him great. Tapping is far from the most impressive or influential things he did. But it's the fast sounding stuff that's recognizable to casuals who don't know much, and it's all they credit him for. You're showing your lack of knowledge or skill, and it's embarrassing.

@@evil6564 Been a musician 30 years, so you're wrong. The only reason you think Van Halen was so great is only because the band got big. There were thousands of players do the same thing at the time, who didn't luck out with a band that made it big. Most of his solos are senseless flash with scarcely any sense of musicality.

@@gianthills You're still showing your lack of skill and knowledge. And it's still embarrassing.

They should have done something when he died!

Yes I agree but on the other hand Eddie knew that everyone was calling Yngwie the new guitar hero and wanted to play like Yngwie. That's what George Lynch said as well.

Had the opportunity few years back after a Winger show to ask John Roth when he dropped the Uli. He laughed his azz off. Made his day. ;)

On the Steeler record, Malmsteen plays fast harmoic minor solos and Ron Keel plays the melodic solos.

I'd add TASTE!

I saw him at the grocery store in the late 80's here in the Hollywood area. He is taller than me.

I used to see him play at L'Amours in Bklyn all the time

I always liked Vito because he openly gave EVH a lot of credit for how he developed his playing style --- other rock guitarists in the 80's would try to act coy and pretend that Eddie wasn't an influence and they seemed petty and jealous --- and the solo for "Little Fighter" is so memorable

Vito is a monster player

Vito is refined EVH and Randy Rhoads, vito is a song writer his choice of notes and phrasing is true story telling, as a fan i didnt lose hope to see him get back in the scene

Amen!

Unfortunately. I personally can't stand sweep picking except in minimal doses.

@@hinjurock70 Like or dislike who you want. I like Piggy but I know a couple of people that hate his playing. My only point was that it's hard to accuse Yngwie of being a clone. He was pretty unique when he entered the scene, and while people did sweep picking before him, he was the guy who started the craze.

@@zemlidrakona2915 True.

Big thanks Scott, I appreciate! Even Yngwie was influenced by Eddie Van Halen in the 80s. I did this video to show that.

Randy, in an interview published around early 1982 or late 1981 lamented that he was still playing a lot of EVH's licks. Back then people thought RR was a big EVH clone because they were the only guys on the radio both doing the hot-rodded lead guitar style with the tapping. EVH could have said some nicer things about Randy, but EVH was there first with that style, so he may have been ticked off that parts of his style were getting lifted.

I remember in an interview from back in the 80s of Yngwie saying that he sent invites to Eddie to come over and jam and they were just ignored. On the Eddie vs Randy thing. I think in the early club days Eddie was better than Randy during the Quiet riot days but by the time Randy joined Ozzy not only had Randy caught up with Eddie but Randy was heavier and a better composer playing real heavy metal. Outside of a few tracks Eddie pretty much was party pop rock and I would even say by the time of Van Hagar Eddie's best work was behind him the fire had went out.

@@flazjsg Yep. Remember, Ed would turn his back to the crowd when he tapped, cuz Al told him that people would copy his shit. So up until the first album dropped he never let you see him tap. EVH is the dude I loved, and his rhythm playing and songwriting is his best stuff. He could wail and tap, use the trel bar for little nuances and not just bomb it to flub strings. He was very aware of his competition. Here is where it gets easy for me flazjsg, I can play (with ease) every song RR ever did, solo as well. I cannot do Ed the same way. He is just too hard to get down. We all try to play VH stuff but we will never sound close to him. His pick attack, his bar work, his rhythm playing needs his own hands. We sound the way we do as guitarists because of our hands. But to try to even hit the right notes is so very hard, if you are honest with yourself. RR is so very easy to play note for note. That closes my argument on the thing. RR was super good and wrote great riffs, but also I need to talk about his tone. It sucks. He sounds like he is playing a Pignose amp with an MXR distortion pedal and some flange. It sounds brittle as hell. Ed sounds BIG and clean with good tube overdrive and a lil echoplex and MXR phase 90. Okay , I will shut up now heheee!

@@gib59er56 Agree that Eddie is really hard to copy versus other hard rock, metal players. He had a real unique and grooving sense of time - some of those Eddie licks are just funky and hard to really cop. Maybe other guitarists are faster or more articulate, especially these days, but they seem easier to copy. It’s just fast, not with a strange time feel. Other guys sounded like they practiced a whole lot and are accomplished - but Eddie got the JUICE baby

@@krushgroov1 Well said man!!

This is a dumb comment. Have you ever actually listened to Yngwie? He’s ALL melody. What he never had was great rhythm, which EVH had in spades. Of course EVH is a better songwriter, but they are two totally different players, you don’t need to tear one down to hold the other one up. EVH never wrote many instrumentals, Yngwie’s signature songs are instrumentals. Apples and Oranges

​@@pigpenclymer6098 " You don't need to tear one down to hold the other one up" I love that.

Yes, Eddie had melody, he had rhythm and he had taste. He was the far better and more versatile player.

what reason would that be? He's just another speed freak that brings nothing new to the table.... the world is full of em.... Eddie literally reset the bar for metal and thrash guitar 45 years ago and nobody has reset the bar YET..... Hendrix set the bar in what 68? 11 years later, Eddie stood the planet on its frikken ear and nobody has topped that in over 45 years.... yngwie is run of the mill.

@@1956tojo Brother in rock, spend some time with Trial By Fire Live In Leningrad. Both the CD and DVD versions have a lot to offer in their own right. Even being a huge Lynch, EVH and Yngwie fan for 4 decades, took me a few very appreciative listens to pick up on the masterful melodies YM brings to the entire song, and every solo, with each twist, turn and dive. Kinda think that was his whole point all along. Like Jack White said of their first project; it was by design. If you couldn't follow them along with what they were wearing and the stage/instrument visuals, you weren't going follow along with them on the musical journey and appreciate what they were doing. The real truth is all of these players brought amazing stuff to the table and debating one over the other is like arguing with your dog what smell is the best. It's kind of idiotic and just makes you look a little daffy.

@@1956tojo I take it you don't play guitar? The answer to your question is, Yngwie said a lot of honorable things about Eddie. Which is why I left the comment that I did. Yngwie didn't degrade Eddie after Eddie passed. You see, I too believe Eddie was and is still the Best.

​@@1956tojoyour definitely A jealous clown..they are totally different genres clown boy...eddie could NEVER PLAY YNGWIES MUSIC..what have YOU DONE..what discography have YOU CREATED...what worldwide fan base DO YOU HAVE clown boy...And Most Importantly...what the fuk do you have IN THE BANK CLOWN BOY HUH!!!???....

You mean one reason.

There's an interview with Eddie on KZfaq where he claims that Randy Rhoads ripped everything off of him. I think it's just as it's described in this video. Being considered the king of guitar made Eddie a bit insecure in a way. Didn't want to be dethroned from that position. Of course, fans will argue that that's impossible but no matter how good you are at something, there's always the possibility of someone else coming along who is better. It's not about personal preference - there are plenty of great guitarists out there - just a hunch.

No Bs..a close friend I grew up with back when Steeler first came out and was new ..told me Eddy saw Malmsteen play at a gig and was seen crying and walking out..NOT kidding..This guy ALWAYS had inside info on this stuff and again was right when that album came out and NObody really knew Malmsteen..

And then he started changing his tune over the last 7-10 years. He tries to make himself feel better about himself by claiming he only listened to classical music and incorporated that into the guitar. Guys gotta get over his ego.

He was also clearly influenced by Uli Roth.

Akira Takasaki who is a phenomenal guitarist and song writer in his own right was influenced by Blackmore.

@@PaulC39 I have listen to Loudness, they have a speed metal thing going on a recent release .

Not really, I mean he was a big fan, but their solos and lead style don't sound particularly similar, and unfortunately Yngwie never really featured much of a rhythm style so I don't think of him as much of a clone and his tone is more Van Halen then Blackmore. I don't find Blackmores lead sound anything like Yngwie's . I don't know who mixed some of the early Rainbow albums but I hate the mix on the "the man on the silver mountain" studio version they like buried Blackmores lead playing on it, which sucks cause it's real good but hard to hear, even solo sounds like it's in the background, which is weird cause his stuff was never mixed like that in purple, and you can here it better on live versions

wow, great.

Uli was one of Yngwie's influences and Yngwie put Uli in the list of his influences when he sent his demo to Mike Varney 3:38

Uli "stole" from Jimi Hendrix. They are all great.

@@RichardFriendartist yes but ULI put his own stuff in there. Yngwie rips off ULI verbatim

Who better to learn from!? Blackmore, Uli, Van Halen (the classical bits), etc. However, Yngwie is Yngwie.

@@tenbroeck1958 better to learn from uli

Absolute nonsense!

Interesting, very cool!

Thank you!

Yes but not many people know that in Steeler, on their debut record, Malmsteen played only fast solos while Ron Keel played the melodic ones. That's why those solos sound so great.

Yeahhhhh bro Friedman's a monster

If you have ever been to see Malmsteen play live, you would realize that he really is great. I don't listen to his albums much, but live... man, that's where he really shines.

No , Yngwie is awesome at what he does, no doubt about that. Eddie is both a savant and has musical soul combined with god like talent. No reason to rip on Yngwie. He’s the best technical player I’ve ever heard …he plays like it’s a sport instead of art. That’s his problem..

@@scottmelton3092 he does not like Donuts

There is an interview with Yngwie, where he calls Steve a great player. Conversely, Steve praised Yngwie in one of his own interviews, also mentioning that he went to see Yngwie in concert. They both live in Florida, BTW.

They are friends.

No. Page and Gilmore over any of those.

@@astro-blaster4190 Thanks for your comment. Entitled to be called a guitar god are those who transcends to be known to even ordinary people who dont know or even care for (rock-) music otherwise. Clapton, Jimi, Eddie and Yngwie are the only ones who fulfil this criteria (i.e " can you play like Clapton/Jimi/Eddie/Yngwie"). Although Page and Gilmore are great they did not change/innovate how the guitar was played, let alone were to common people only known to be members in a rock band.

Sorry but I put guys like Vai, Malmsteen and Satriani into the 2nd tier category --- very technically gifted but lacking memorable riffs and legendary melodies

@@fredwerza3478 Thanks for your comment. Malmsteen changed the game with his neoclassical style. Satriani and Vai, although of course great, did not; they only continued from where Eddie left off.

@@stanleywissmar3455 "changing the game" doesn't mean good music --- Malmsteen carved a niche, but EVH became a legend --- big difference in legacy