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I hate Yngwie haters even more than they hate Yngwie. The guy loves what he does and does what he loves. Total respect for him.

i saw him in 03 at the riviera in chicago after his set, i was in awe and i went to the bathroom he was surrounded by about 5 women all dressed in the same almost athletic/cheerleader outfits as a 16 yr old, i ran up to him and he asked, "do you play?" i nodded and said "yes, sir" he responded "well you dont play enough, get back to it" he changed my life and i did start playing more God bless you, Yngwie. you were a legend before and more than a life changing experience to me now

I find Yngwie's slow playing to be incredible. Amazing sensitivity to vibrato, etc. Same with Jason Becker. They get the label as fast players...but people that think that haven't listened to enough of their playing. Or they have mud in their ears.

I don't understand why this guy has a bad rep with some. Every time I see him, he's classy.

Despite all the negatives, he remains an absolute classic, also brilliant non classical hard rock/blues player and true hard work ethic, also the best strat Marshall tone.. still love Alcatrazz

i wasnt a big fan of yngwie until i heard his songs. most underrated song writer ever! hes not just a "shredder"!!

The interviewer played in a band called Grim Reaper in the 80s. Absolutely killer band.

I LOVE YOU YNGWIE...I saw you in 1985 and it transformed my life and made me want to be a serious musician. Thank you so much. You played Eruption with your teeth.

YJM acting so Cool & Nice … Classy. Thank you for your Contribution To Music….

Not your typical interview - excellent questions - relay down to earth. Mailmsteen seemed to feel very happy here as well. - Good job!

Yngwie, the last guitar hero

Last piece of advice is pure gold. Long live Yngwie J. Malmsteen.

I do not care about what people think... I love this man. And he is LEGENDARY. Have a good one ya'll.

Great interview, Nick Bowcott does a great job at these, very professional and genuinely interested in the interviewed person.

The first time I saw him in person, he was touring in support of his "Rising Force" album, opening for AC/DC. What a show! I saw him again in 1988 supporting the "Odyssey" album. It was festival seating and I made it to up the stage right in front of him. Getting to see how effortless he made everything look blew my mind. I put YJM right up there in the ranks amongst the best to ever play the guitar.

Fantastic interview! Thanks to SW and Mr. Malmsteen.

Awesome I grew up listening to both these amazing musicians. Great interview!!

Great interview and nice to see that he has gotten back into shape! Rock on Yngwie! \m/ \m/

A very confidence and dedicated man who never lost his North

great interview...haven't seen him live since 89. Definitely driven.

Great interview. I was obsessed with his music in my teens.

Great tour... great book. love Yngwie.

Well that was fucking incredible. The final piece advise he gives, even though I've heard it a million times over and over from other people (and I do try and follow it myself) really is amazingly well put.

Intresting interview! Thank you!

Just bought a YJM signature Fender Strat from Sweetwater, I cant wait for it to come in!!

Awesome guitarist, seen him many times.

Great interview... Do what you love...don't listen to what other people say. Malmsteen still going strong after all these years.

Really great interview!

Great interview Nick! YJM looks so young! He had to have had some work done because he looked bad for awhile. Glad he’s doing so well.

Funny I knew in advance what Malmsteen was gonna say to the last question. Great advice!

Golden words from the golden hand!

Love how he has stuck to his root's of his influences. Great sense of humour also and loved all his albums mostly the Goran Edman era!

I have to add that my brother and I got to watch Yngwie soundcheck before a show in 2005. It was in Sauget, Illinois. Yngwie just looked at us but didn’t throw us out. That’s just how cool Yngwie is.

Great interview!

Great document.

His last response is just fantastic, it sums what everyone who wants to be a real artist must do; you must play and do what you really love. Because there wil be critics, there will always be people who love and other who hate what you play. The haters you have to ignore and keep going, doing what you love to do.

I was aware of Malmsteen thru interviews but had not heard his music. Saw him at a G3 show and I've been a fan ever since. He understands what rock n' roll is all about.

Saw him with generation axe still play's eith passion and his tone was awesome definitely cuts thru the mix.. Pick up an Yngwie strat feels like quality guitar.. YJM marshall would be nice to.. Jyst like to say thanx Yngwie for giving me tremendous inspiration

When Yngwie goes into the blues-type parts with his style mixed in, there is nothing better. Like on the tune Little Savage. He destroys on that song.

First saw this man at 103 KDF's One For Sun concert at Hermitage Landing in Nashville Tennessee in '80 or '81. I was 13 or 14 years old. He was with Alcatrazz and I remember swimming in front of the stage (stage was on lake) thinking..."What the hell is this?!!!!" How does he do all that?!!! He was ripping up the neck like there was absolutely nothing at all to it! Unprecedented. Also saw him with ACDC at their Fly on the Wall tour several years later when his solo career was taking flight. Puts on a great show! Love watching him play...always have.

Hes cool, calm, collected, wise and down to earth

pretty damn cool interview!

2 of my favorite guitarist! That Yngwie tone and the underrated hellish tone of Nick in grim reaper!

Great job, Sweetwater.

The real deal! One of THE greats!

Wow ... Respect ... Beast of a player

Yngwie is a master of over the top excess. Sometimes I think who the hell does this guy think he is? But the answer is a one of a kind guy. Nowadays honestly underrated with a lot of younger people like myself. He’s a fascinating guy whether I’m feeling it or not. He made me realize how awesome a Strat is for fast heavy music. The clarity will expose everything if your technique and feel isn’t there.

2 brilliant musicians!!!

Great job Nick!

Great advice.. FIND WHAT YOU LOVE!!!

didn't realize the Genesis influence that's cool. Music Masters learn from everything

This guy is an incredible professional. Very dedicated.

I can't quite recall how I discovered Yngwie. It was somewhere around 2006 and I got this DVD called "Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond The Sun" that I still have, but if I already knew him or if that DVD was the sting that stung me idk. He got me into playing guitar and got my first short after. What's is sure though is that that DVD captivated me like never before, I was 14-15 years old and his madness really got me fired up, his music send chills through my body and took over me and made me the best air guitarist in the world 🤣 The solo in "Heaven Tonight", "Riot in The Dungeons", the main riff and solo in "Deja Vu" followed by that funky bluesy lick, the intro and riff in "Evil Eye", the infectious rythm in "Queen In Love" as in "You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget"... Well the entire songs really, I was tranced. The best of his arguably 2 best albums 'Trilogy' & 'Odyssey'. 'Eclipse', 'Magnum Opus', 'Alchemy' and 'Perpetual Flame' (which the previous album should've been like with it's name) are killers too. 'Fire & Ice' and 'Facing The Animal' are highly recommended too. 'Rising Force' and 'Marching Out' are great too if you have no grudge with Soto cuz Yngwie's work was ground breaking and the first real foundation of the new genre. Everything else except his Concerto Suite-album is just meh or not worth it in general. But if you like them then fine :)

good advice nygwie. Work hard, love what you do and boo to the haters! Been listening to malmsteen since 80s!

Malmsteen rocks. Got my start with Marching Out

this guys make me like a guitar, and love to play it

Yngwie is beyond awesome! I caught his show in Kalamazoo this year, it was fantastic! Great interview!

It's ridiculous to assert that babies are born to do one thing and one thing only but this fella might as well have been wearing leather diapers...YJM was born to play rock guitar. He looks the part...he plays the part. It doesn't matter if it's 1982 or 2017, he's all in.

Good interview

Awesome

Yngwie is one of the best... The true electric guitare virtuoso... Beast technique, feeling and taste... Big influence for a lot of guitare players...

So cool 🤘🎸

I Love this guy:))

I agree,do what you love.is the best advise I give to everybody.do what calls you,and be good at it.thank you.♥️😁

Great video

Guys, that is what perfection is!

I read the book....fascinating read

Gotta say Yngwie holds true... over the years when grunge happened and other musical genres came and went Yngwie did Yngwie... saw him live and I don't care what the haters say Yngwie kicks ass big time.

The one, the only!

I remember Yngwie sending shockwaves to the Guitar world so long ago, one of the greats.

Solid advice 👏

King!!!

Una leyenda viviente saludos master

I remember as a young rock chick i was always into Van Halen he was so popular in 80,s LA but when my bf of the time gave me the Rising Force album it was like Wizardry i could not believe Yngwie could play so fast on guitar he honestly made EVH look like an Old Man in comparison , YJM is the best Neo Classical guitarist ever fact.

He brought the love of the fender Stratocaster back!! No doubt about it!

Well, that's a different perspective. Usually the people that interview Yngwie are dwarfed by him. Awesome interview. I have seen him 3 times now and have his book. i need his will to practice and all would be well.

He is awesome

The legendary six string supernova himself indeed ;)

AT THE TIME OF THIS INTERVIEW, Yngwie was 54 years old (!) At that age, we should all hope to look and act so youthful and healthy - and to have such GOOD HAIR.

As i heard the first time Black Star it was if i am smashed to a wall. It completely changed my view how to play a guitar. But then came Jeff Beck. He reached my Heart with one single Note full of Emotions. Yngwie needs hundred notes to get the same effect.

Unleash the fokkin fooree!

Couldn't agree more -follow ur heart, to hell with what anyone thinks ;-) Thank you for this video -very cool!!!

Props to the roadies for draggin around 80 marshalls city to city 🤘🎸 thats rock n roll

Wise words: Do what you love!!!

Yngwie is the man

I dont know why but i love how yngwie loves blues players and even the younger ones like mayer.

The same interview since 1984 lol. Love YJM, but come on. Ask him something new for a change.

The king of new classical rock/metal shred! The one and only. And those leather pants, if he is comfortable in them, I think we are OK. 👍👌👏

nobody can play like him, even if you dont like him or his music you have to respect his level of virtuosity.

I would have never guessed that he played guitar.

lol...I love that guy!! and to all the haters out there...he doesn't give a rats ass if you don't like his muse

The great Yngwie.

That's interesting. I had no idea that Genesis inspired Malmsteen's passion for baroque music. I think Steve Hackett is an understated guitar hero.

Fender is alive in the Strat & Tele department because of him. That’s for sure!

HOLY CRAP. Nick taught me rock guitar through the power of a VHS cassette, feel like I just saw a ghost

Guitar Idol

I saw Malmsteen open for Dio, ‘85, New Yrs’ Eve; AMAZING. Dio let him borrow the robot dragon!

"More is more.", YJM

Remember your favorite shredder (Post Malmsteen) that uses any type of neo classical runs or sweeps ,is influenced either directly or indirectly by this man. I don't care if they play twice as fast, use 20 neck guitars, or wear a bad wig. they're owned by Yngwie.