Yngwie Malmsteen: The Complete 1984 Alcatrazz Interview

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Yngwie Malmsteen: The Complete 1984 Alcatrazz Interview - Tape 2

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Welcome to my Talking Guitar podcast featuring Tape 2 of one of Swedish guitar great Yngwie Malmsteen’s very first interviews in America.
If you haven’t already heard it, you might want to first listen to Tape 1, which is also available on KZfaq. Our 85-minute interview took place on January 3, 1984. At the time, 20-year-old Yngwie had just completed his first round of shows with Alcatrazz, the band he’d formed with singer Graham Bonnet. Here's the link for Tape 1: • Yngwie Malmsteen: The ...
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@ritualee10 Жыл бұрын

The utter sincerity of his enthusiasm at learning he could get Guitar Player for life for free was THE best. "Oh yeah... Oh yeah!"

@MrZardoz777 Жыл бұрын

I know! He can easily afford to buy magazines but he's so happy, after all those years of being a fan. He comes across as really intelligent, matter-of-fact, and respectful of other players. "How far can you reach from the 7th fret?" "I don't know . . . do you want me to check?" Awesome.

@grgwashnton23 9 ай бұрын

100% pure musician driven not on anything else but his own virtuosity! i completely respect this man over anyone else. he didn't have to build his own companies record labels and sh$t to survive. he was and always worked at a level that everyone wanted to hold him up high in his peak! he made it!

@xjbomb4463 Жыл бұрын

At 20 years old he's like a old soul who is up on everything I have forgotten so much. HES insanely great .he was so far ahead of guitarist from the 80s

@ActivateBeastMode1 Жыл бұрын

This is a fascinating interview just hearing yngwie in an open and honest way discussing this era

@larrylon3wolf1984 7 ай бұрын

This is the best interview I’ve heard with Yngwie! You asked every question I had! Especially about “no parole from rock n roll”

@VincePalamaraJFK Жыл бұрын

Awesome interview! I was a massive Ritchie Blackmore fanatic (still am) from the age of 15 in 1981 to 1984, but Yngwie blew my mind and I became an Yngwie fanatic in 1984. Today, at age 57, I still love them both and I go back and forth as to who is my very favorite. I guess I would give it to Ritchie for "being first" and all his bands (Deep Purple, Rainbow, Blackmore's Night) AND his effect on Yngwie's playing. Still, Yngwie was and is amazing. 22 solo albums later and just turned 60 on 6/30/23. Yngwie's only problems are not going for a full band "thing" any longer on his cds and his songwriting isn't in Blackmore's realm overall. But, playing wise, Yngwie is still incredible. Interestingly, as we all know, Yngwie has used many of the same musicians/singers on his cds as Ritchie (JLT, Bonnet, Dio [live jam/Dream On/We're Stars/almost in his band], Daisley, Powell, Doogie White, David Rosenthal, etc.) + he even jammed with Deep Purple live on stage in 2009 [the Steve Morse era band]! Finally, both Yngwie and Ritchie are Grammy-nominated artists: Yngwie for his first solo album and Ritchie for the instrumental Anybody There from the Rainbow album Bent Out of Shape.

@therealkurtjames554 Жыл бұрын

Notice that he never mentions his use of the DOD overdrive preamp 250, which was essential to his sound. At that point he must have felt that it was his "secret weapon" !

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

A lot of Yngwie's sound comes with his fingers on that scalloped fingerboard actually . Before any cable signal comes out of the jackplug socket right there on the fretboard......Other players could pick up his Axes & Marshalls but they couldn't sound like him....What really amazed me also was his off hand ability to establish really interesting classical configurations within really SMALL TIME FRAMES ....It would Zap your head ,,,like 'Ooooh , What was THAT ?? ...& you would take the vinyl needle on the record back to hear it again. And when you would slow his stuff down to half speed & drop it an octave every note was as clean as a whistle to your ear.

@marktaylor1213 Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for that, too. Can't say I blame him for keeping some of his cards close to his vest. Case in point: Saw a breakdown of Joe Stump's rig years after this, and it was the exact same thing as Yngwie's. Scalloped strat > DOD 250 > Marshall.

@mickdestiny6542 Жыл бұрын

You could almost hear him holding that one back..

@transparent6748 Жыл бұрын

The preamp 250 is not really doing anything sound wise other then boosting the amp into more distortion/overdrive with fixed transparent eq

@joekrjoharimahdzar8821 9 ай бұрын

And that is why he is the G.O.A.T...a pure true passionate musician true and through...till the day he die....truly no other comparison....

@bonzey1171 Жыл бұрын

The thing of recording yourself and then forcing yourself to learn your off the cuff improvisations is really great advice. I enjoyed this more than I thought I would, nice that DiMeola gets a mention

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

I remember those fast picked HARMONY solos on Jet to Jet…That was one of the first showcases of how PRECISIONAL Yngwie’s picking technique really was. To get fast note picking in harmony at that speed takes TREMENDOUS accuracy.

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

When mr. Vai took over the guitar spot in Alcatrazz in 1985 during this part in Jet to Jet he switched to playing it as a 2 handed tapping part because at the time nobody could keep up with Yngwie’s speed picking.

@VincePalamaraJFK Жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 I like Vai but did not like the Alcatrazz album with him, nor did I like his interpretations of Yngwie's solos live. Vai sounds better being Vai.

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

@@VincePalamaraJFK I think Mr. Vai did that part with 2 hand 'tapping' because in those days not even he could keep up with the speed/precision of Yngwie's alternate picking.

@VincePalamaraJFK Жыл бұрын

@@walterevans2118 Definitely! So true, man. I DID like when Yngwie and Vai played together (on Black Star) on the Generation Axe tour in 2018.

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

@@VincePalamaraJFK I remember in 1984 hearing Yngwie’s stuff on No Parole From Rock n Roll…when he was still just a teenager…. There was no one like him. Anywhere. As a player myself back then I recall the sheer SHOCK of hearing what he could do. Nobody was playing like him back then.

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

Yngwie wasn’t motivated by ‘the gunslinger competitor’ mentality at all really. You can hear it here when Jas brings it up by the sound of Yngwie’s reply - ‘that’s kind of funny really’…It was the music press that tried to set up those comparative conflicts..’Press material company’… Yngwie, quote’ -‘We are all musicians not sportsman’…Also interesting to hear a young Yngwie trying always to improve whatever praises were heaped on him. Nice that Yngwie got to meet Allan Holdsworth.

@KishanKamal Жыл бұрын

This is one of his best interviews. Thanks for uploading this

@mickdestiny6542 Жыл бұрын

Ha ha, Yngwie's response to being offered Guitar Player for life is priceless..

@mrshredder0076 Жыл бұрын

so intense for a 20 year old. i still wonder what kind of player he would have been had he not gotten in that car accident before the odyssey album / wish he found one good singer and stayed with him. he could have been bigger but he’ll always to go down as one of the greatest ever past present and future.

@RichardFriendartist Жыл бұрын

so many gems in both of these if you listen to what Yngwie says. man this is sooooooooooooo cool!!

@RichardFriendartist Жыл бұрын

thank you Jas. I can't believe I am going to hear this. I have to wait a few hours before I can, but couldn't help posting just to say thank you. I am sure I'll be posting as I listen to the interviews too a little later today. You rock!!!!!!!!!

@MusicTherapyLaz Жыл бұрын

Hey Jas... glad I knew about you through Johnny Beane... tape one was really cool! I've always loved Yngwie's tone and playing... so smooth and fierce at the same time. That Alcatraz show I saw was a really small venue in Colorado back in late 83 or early 84. I also saw him live for the Rising Force tour at the San Jose Event Center in California... great memories... some guy fell from the balcony down into the crowd below that night! It was wild... but the show went on... and it was amazing! 😎🎸🤘🔥

@TalkingGuitarJasObrecht Жыл бұрын

We saw the same show. I took those photos of Yngwie seen in the Tape 1 and 2 podcasts at the Rising Force show at the San Jose Event Center in June 1985. Talas, with Billy Sheehan on bass, opened. Brilliant show!

@therealkurtjames554 Жыл бұрын

@@TalkingGuitarJasObrecht I remember running out to Carl's Jr. to get him a western bacon cheese burger and thinking to myself, I can't believe I'm actually buying a burger for Yngwie. It was so cool. Good times for sure!

@mickdestiny6542 Жыл бұрын

@@therealkurtjames554 Ha ha, that's gold!

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

Jas makes an interesting point about some listeners ears not being discerning enough when they were trying to compare other guitarists to Yngwie.

@8448ish Жыл бұрын

What a Fantastic Interview!! Loved it!!

@JPM777 Жыл бұрын

Man!! That last question!!!... I wish Jas Obrecht had asked me that one back on 1988 when I first started collecting Guitar Player Magazine. 😁 My fist issue was with Kirk Hammet o the cover talking about his ...and justice for all just released record. Since than and for many years I religiously bought GP every month even though it was kind of expensive in my country of origin. I also learned English mostrly reading GP. Thanks again Jas!!! Great interview.

@geezberry8889 8 ай бұрын

interview just before the japan shows (videos of that show on YT). he was immediately offered a solo album deal after that show

@mrshredder0076 Жыл бұрын

wonder if yngwie knew his time with alcatrazz would be over …. couldn’t tell from interview. seemed like he was having fun, wonder what changed ( the japan pulled chord fiasco or strangling of graham ) wonder if they talk today would be cool to see a reunion tour. going to see him end of summer with bassist : singer from purple( glenn hughes ). would love to see them put an album out together

@VincePalamaraJFK Жыл бұрын

Graham and the guys are friends with Yngwie now. There was BAD blood during the Vai years and for a few years after, but no longer.

@mrshredder0076 Жыл бұрын

that’s good to hear time heals wounds would be cool to do a reunion i think they would have fun

@silverstone3228 Жыл бұрын

This jas guy is so meticulous, the details of the details of the mother effin details were asked , best yngwie interview i have heard

@jccharles2157 Жыл бұрын

Great interview...and loved the questions. Yngwie comes across as a really sincere and serious musician . I was wondering if you had any interviews with Gary Moore you could release??

@skolcityblues2132 9 ай бұрын

U staying with the band ? Oh yeah we r getting better and in 20 days off to Japan . In Japan Yngwie was approached to do a solo album which become probably the greatest selling import album of all time Rising Force. I paid 100 bucks for the Japanese album before it was released in the USA much later and it blew my mind.

@heyjarrod Жыл бұрын

Only 20 years old!!! 😯🤘🏻🎸

@andrewbroughton65 Жыл бұрын

Why change the strings every night if the Guitar wasnt played ? That seems crazy..poor tech Man.

@walterevans2118 Жыл бұрын

I think Yngwie tried the Floyd unit Ed helped develop but it ultimately didn’t work for him tonally…Even Ed talked about the Floyd’s metal as creating a ‘brittle bright’ sound than required a lot of amp equalisation.

@KishanKamal Жыл бұрын

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