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Yngwie has chilled out a lot in recent years. A lot cooler.

I love modern humble and lovable Yngwie.

This is the greatest Yngwie interview ever.

These recent interviews with Yngwie are so different. He is so cool and the ego isn't overbearing anymore, it's more charming now. Awesome

As a Swede I'm amazed how he can come back home and play classic Swedish songs on an acoustic guitar, still speak fluent Swedish and just be a wholesome dude. Yngie's mother and my father were colleagues in the 80's. His brother lost his life in a freak accident back then.

It took me nearly 40 years to recognize, appreciate, and be in awe of Yngwie. It was watching him perform with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Japan, where I finally got how great of a player and musician he is. His brain is amazing. He plays full orchestral sections and movements on his own. *insert mind blown emoji

I saw Yngwie in 1985 when he opened for ACDC. He played part of Eruption by EVH and then pretended to yawn, as if it was so easy to play he was bored. His ego was a turnoff back then but time humbles all of us.

I met and still have the guitar pick Yngwie gave me after a gig in 85. I met him and Jens that night. Both took the time to spend time with the half a dozen of us that hung around at 2 in the morning. A middle of the summer gig that the walls of the club sweated. Yngwie poured Heineken on us that were down in front. They threw a towel over Jen's head, and he played flawlessly blinded. We stood there dumbfounded by what we saw and heard. One hell of a night I will never forget. "Rising Force" is an album that shaped my own playing back then and is just as powerful today as it was then. He is my "Hendrix" of my generation.

He nailed the original VH lineup - the attitude. Van Halen's first couple albums were very epic, but the attitude is part of what makes them legendary. Van Hagar is dad rock. Van Halen is LEGENDARY ROCK!!

Rick you are a great interviewer who shows respect and let the interviewed talk ✌

as a Yng-becile i enjoyed this entire interview a lot.

I had the pleasure of seeing Ingwie perform from close range. He plays with such incredible speed and precision that I was awestruck. Great voice too...🎸🤟🤟✌️❤️

He truly is amazing live. I have never been a follower of his albums but was invited to see him live. I was floored. Truly fantastic!

The first concert I went to was on Feb, 17, 1987 in Long Beach, CA, at Long Beach Area. Yngwie Malmsteen was the opening band. The arena was sold out for 3 nights in a row. The headliner: Iron Maiden. This was Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time Tour. Yingwie's guitar playing was fantastic. Yeah, the crowed initially seemed mostly interested in Maiden getting on stage, but when Yngwie got on stage, the crowd was definitely into his performance. Great show 37 years ago.

So true , the way he speaks on most subjects , but imparticularly the way it was growing up in the 70s and 80s. Every kid had his or her favorite band , and it was so important to us.We actually bought their albums We wore the tshirt had their patches and stickers and posters. I must say, this is a great interview

Eddie Van Halen was like no other. A musical mastermind. My favorite rock guitarist ever hands down. RIP Eddie.

A co-worker told me a story once: he was a big music freak back in the 80's, and once had back stage passes to an Yngwie show. He approached Yngwie saying "oh my gosh, you are just...just AMAZING!" Yngwie responded with, " Ya, I know." then turned and walked away. I love seeing that he has chilled out in his later years but that story still makes me smile.

Ohhhh how quickly we all seem to forgive or forget Yngwie's 1985-89 comments about what he thought of Eddie Van Halen's talent... He wasn't so "polite" with sharing the spotlight back then at all...

The first time I heard this guy was from the Steeler record. Then he joined Alcatrazz and I heard the live album and was ready to hang up my guitar forever. Then I thought, well if he can do it, then it is not impossible to learn this. So I dove in head first and after years of study and failure I was able to play some of his music. I have since gone on and learned more and more, but I was too old to be a Rockstar by then so I just play at home for my own enjoyment. At 62, I can play with the best of them but I just don`t have the energy to be in a touring band. So I released my solo album DANIEL D. JENKS--FRACTURES IN TIME on youtube and most have yet to know me or hear it, but it was a massive effort taking three yrs to complete. It was the first time I ever recorded anything and I did myself with literally no idea what I was doing. Had very little equipment but it turned out pretty good. I am proud of it and to this day I still don`t know how I pulled off some of the riffs on that record!

Maestro Malmsteen! 🖤 🎶

I remember, at 14 years old, ordering through my record store "Rising Force". When it finally came in, "Trilogy" was already out! 🤣

So true on the Van Halen pre Hagar. That was MY VH and both EVH and YVM had the bass added to their tone and I grew to love that.

I took my son to see Yngwie about twenty years ago at a bar in Louisville, Kentucky. This bar was huge and had a stage and band playing venue on their lower level.. BTW, that Bar was torn down a few months after that show. YM, played so loud in that place that my hearing was messed up the entire weekend from his Friday night shredding on that Fender Strat with those jumbo frets. Just like the one on your podcast. It may have been that very same one. It was that exact color. My son was about 20-21, and he loved that night of drinking beer and hanging out with his Dad and Yngwie! My son is in his 40"s now and has three children.

Its weird, i cant say i could listen to Yngwie play all day, but i could listen to him talk all day and i think he would be great to hang out with. I like his music, dont get me wrong. And i love his Strat sound and scallop board. Cool dude.

Thank you, Rick, for these bite-sized excerpts of the full interviews.

He's immensely talented and sharp!! A smart dude.

Malmsteen's recollection is always off; he didn't arrive in the US in 1982. We (Steeler) picked him up at the airport in the first week of February 1983, probably around February 4th. A year after my arrival in L.A. from New Jersey. Although I was rehearsing with Steeler during the late summer of 1982, I was 'officially' in Steeler as of December 28th 1982 on my birthday. Malmsteen didn't get to L.A. until over a month later.

What a great interview. Looking forward to seeing the entire thing.

I grew up listening Yngwie's music and probably I had the first ever CD's of his in Turkey. My best friend bought his first 4 album from US as a gift for me in 1993. Nobody ever knew who Yngwie was back then in Turkey. Especially Fire and Ice album was my favourite. Thank you for such a great interview.

Love Yngvie! Marching Out one of my favorite albums! Theme song - if I had one - "I am a Viking!"

Woodstockholm!

Very good interview, maybe the best yjm interview I’ve seen. He was so chill , Rick has a way of bringing it out

I first experienced Yngwie Malmsteen when I heard him on the Alcatrazz album Live Sentence. I saw them live in concert shortly after. My favorite Alcatrazz song is “Hiroshima Mon Amour” from that live album and Yngwie just was amazing!

i love that he mention, the Sweet and Thin Lizzy, ...awsome

I'll never forget watching him play Black Star live with Steve Vai backing him up on the Generation Axe tour, awesome!

Foreigner and Journey weren't known in Britain & Ireland back in the 70s either - "Don't Stop Believin'" was Journey's only hit over here and Foreigner only became known here in about 1982. But the same is also true for quite a few British bands that were big in the States but completely unknown in Britain & Ireland ... like 'The Outfield' & 'Sniff 'n' the Tears'

His rendition of the Star Spangled Banner at a Marlins baseball game years ago is still my favorite!

Yngwie is so special and he loves to play guitar! Genuine!

I saw Yngwie play with Alcatraz in San Francisco. The Black Star demo was out, but he had yet to record Rising Force.

He’s a great storyteller! Rick sits back and says, “Okay.”

I wish Yngwie wasn’t so humble. I would like to hear him talk about himself more.

I like Yngvie even if I don't care for dungeons and dragons rock and roll. His guitar playing is so technical it's lost on most people. EVHs music came when I was cruising the same parties as them. I went to school in San Marino right next to Pasadena. We played Eddies high school in football, those were good days. I followed him through his whole career. I do miss him and sometimes a tear rolls down remembering those days.

Never heard a single Malmsteen song I could name, but I could listen to him talk all day long.

Nice to hear that VH 1 had the same effect on him as it did me.

Cool interview. Yngwie's humblebrag game is solid.

This is my favorite interview with him! Thank you 🙏

Great interview with Yngwie. Thoroughly enjoyed it.👍

MORE, Please!

the full interview is better .. I've watched it 3 times. I bought one of Yngwie's albums in the 90's but am awestruck by his live playing now. The man can f'ing play his ass off. Mr. Malmsteen, you are the man.. keep it up.

To get praise from someone as accomplished as Yngwie is one hell of a compliment.

my favorite concert i ever went to was a yngwie concert in seattle at the the paramount theater. it was them, saxon (power and the glory tour) and black and blue. talk about a great show. i was on the top front center row on the overlooking balcony. it was glorious. ive been to many concerts of many other bands. this still is at the top of the list. he did fantastic solos. simply amazing. the whole band was great. all three bands were great. lol.

I meet Yngwie in the late 1980's at The Metron in Harrisburg Pa. watching him play live was awesome. he talked with very one! Partly why i learned to play.

In maybe 78 or 79 I was reading Guitar Player Magazine and they had a feature at the back of the issue that featured up and coming guitarists. One person that featured was Yngvie Malmsteen I think he wa 15 or 16. I could be wong on they dates and his age, but I distinctly remember reading about him when he was a teenager

Back in the 80's when I was in High School I saw Yngwie at a small but famous Brooklyn club called L'Amour. It was late in the evening and I was waiting in line to go in and happened to be standing by the side door where I was able to hear Yngwie warming up. We all just looked at each other in disbelief as we listened to a style of playing that was on another level all together. Then all of a sudden a staff member opened the side door for a few seconds where I was able to catch a glimpse of Yngwie practicing and it was like seeing god. One of my all time favorite guitarists.

I like how you interview people! You are doing an amazing job! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😊

I always said when VH came out, it was like a friggin spaceship just slammed into the earth.

I saw the original Yngwie/Ron Keel version of STEELER band open up for Quiet Riot at Perkins Palace, Pasadena CA. back in May 1983, it was Yngwie's coming out party and his Solo was out of this world, Carlos Cravazo came up next but couldnt compete, I was an instant fan.

If anyone is wondering which band he was talking about that he played with in 1983 in japan, its Alcatrazz. Check out their first few albums. Legendary!

Phenomenal interview on Rick’s OG channel.

I love your interviews. You let people talk!!! Thank you for your work.

3:45 "i became i bit of a snob."

What a humble genius! I could listen to him tell stories for hours, a great narrator as well!

Such warm and gracious remarks

More! Much , 🤘🏻much more of this please.

Yep - I ended up special ordering the very first Yngwie solo CD on Polydor Japan (I seem to remember it was Polydor) from my local shop because his name was everywhere but you needed a private detective to find any record with his name on it. So when I got it it was kind of a strange thing - I was like "so this is it huh?" One listen later I saw what the deal was. I was happy he kind of brought the good old strat back to popularity. I'd play the disc to friends just to watch their reactions.

Great interviewer letting the guests talk.👏

I saw yngwie 3 times in one week. At his Seattle show I looked over and Jeff loomis was standing next to me. It was rad.

i remember that i got his 1st album Rising Force and i showed it to my friend and he said = "what the hell is a Yuh-nig-wee?" LOL then i played the first tune Black Star and all my friend could say after that was "damnit we better practice a lot more".

Interview Steve Stevens. 😀👍

Yngwie is the man. I remember seeing him for the first time in the mid 80s. He sold out the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood Cali. Wow. We brought mini binoculars just to watch how fast he played. And perfectly clean. Unbelievable. This was also the loudest metal concert that I have been to. Stacks and stacks of Marshalls. Very cool

Rick, Thank you! Just subscribed to this channel too. I really admire you for being so Authentic and “real.” You ask the questions and explain your thoughts just like I would. I always appreciate the effort you put into this and I hope you keep it up. 👍

The 1st VH is a masterpiece and they never really ever got close to that ever again. Its singular in their library. It will be listened to till the end of time. Cant say the same about crap like Diver Down, or even the uneven Hagar era. Once VH started using more keyboards than Rush, I had to check out.

After watching the whole interview I couldn't hate Yngwie for his snobbishness throughout his career. Yngwie carved himself for himself only. He didn't need anybody's praise, he just got obsessed with music and he just got popular.

Can't help but love Yngwie

I worked and have a guitar pick from Yngwie at The Boathouse in Norfolk Virginia in the late 80's early 90's and I was absolutely hypnotized

What is also cool about Yngwie is that he loves metal. He eats and breaths metal. He hasn't changed which is very cool. I've been a fan since I heard him for the first time in high school. Around 1982-1983. Hell yeah. He without a doubt one of the metal guitar gods of Rock and Roll!

Eddie the total master...I've seen you all...light years ahead of you and every other player...glad your ego is in check now

I love this guy. I could listen to his stories all day. And yes, I remember the early 80's. This is a different guy.

I didnt know there was another Rick channel.Glad i found it and subscribed.

I don;t much care for his playing but he seems like a fun guy

I seen him open for Triumph in 1986 in Peoria illinois

I remember reading (as we did in those days) an interview with Malmsteen in the 80s and he was so full of himself really put me off... I just came across this by chance and I really enjoyed listening to him reminiscing. Good stuff

This was a great interview!!!

Funny guy!

Yngwie was only complimenting him now that he’s dead and no longer perceives him as a threat.

Brilliant interview Rick, I met your guest for the first time tonight. A cool dude, nice guy. Cheers.

Incredible musician, see him may times. My most memorable time was when he flicked a pick directly at me in St David's Hall in Cardiff. Still got the pick today.

I've had two encounters up close with Yngwie back in the '80s and his personality was so rude and abrasive back then that I lost any "give a damn" for him. I tried watching the video and within the first minute I couldn't listen to him anymore. I love all the other interviews I've watched that Rick has done with other artists but I can't get myself through this one.

That's me! So friken cool...

My first Yngwie concert was Monday October 27, 1986 at the Goshen Theater in Goshen, IN. Helloween and Armored Saint opened for them. Oh. My. Gawd. It was five hours of absolute heaven.

Awesome Rick!!! Super cool!!!

But does he still not like donuts?

Nice to see my old friend from childhood in Sweden we started playing together when we were young I played drums

Figuring out patterns and figures is the coolest thing about learning to play guitar

Keep getting guys like Yngwie and I’m here. Subbed.

Wow. Great interview. He seems much more down to earth. Nice. 👍🏻👍🏻

My guitar hero from the first time I heard him in 1984...I was a new young guitar player. The one thing that stood out to me besides his unmatched technique and style, was his raw pristine tone...To this day, to me is the reason I prefer Strats even for heavier stuff..And as the Maestro once said, "You can't beat a Strat if you want to cut throught"

That first 8-track was played every weekend, every car, every street and field party in 1978. That and Cars debut. First 3 tracks were absurd 1-2-3 punch of greatness.

His Concerto Suite is one of my favorite albums