Yeah I saw Yngwie Malmsteen for the first time open up for Iron Maiden for their Somewhere On Tour. It was Yngwie touring for his Trilogy album. It was on of the best metal concerts I have ever seen back in January 7th 1987 at the Omni in Atlanta, GA. Its long since gone.

Saw one of the last shows with Mark on vocals at a small place in Toledo. Glass City Boardwalk. Sept 1986. It was amazing! Saw Yngwie a few weeks later in Cincinnati and Jeff was back on vocals. Love this album!🤘🤘

I saw the same show the same week in Jacksonville FL. What great days those were

Saw the Trilogy tour in San Antonio Texas at Sunken Garden theater, a beautiful outdoor venue. just an amazing performance !

I agree, definitely a peak. My favorite Yngwie album. Although, I do have deep love for that Steeler record. I listened to "Queen in Love" and "Suite Op: 5" about ten times each while I put this video together.

@@fullinbloom Right on, man so many great tracks on there(Can't forget Fire, You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget and Dark Ages as well)....he talks about Yngwie's chops and of course they're incredible...but man so many beautiful solos with some of the best bends and vibratos in the biz, no shortage of feel there.....The solo for Fire...just a beautiful solo(I love the little grooves in some of his lead lines)....I could go on and on about Trilogy.....BTW, if you love Trilogy....man Check out Alchemy....He got back with Boals again and Yngwie took it all to those all time levels and even surpassed them, even new licks...that album is a Masterpiece as well! I'd say that Album is his all time peak, and that's a big statement I know but I stand by it! Thanks so much for this cool interview! Added: Engineering credits to Chris Tsangarides on Alchemy.

@@youvsyou945 nobodies talk about his heavy riffs

Trilogy was a K2 peak for Yngwie. I think Rising Force was the Everest. I think the drums on Trilogy was a Roland R8. Too bad. In RF he had Jetrhro Tull's drummer...Barlow . Trilogy Suite OP5 however was was groundbreaking. I don't think there was rock music like that EVER played on the planet. Some of his most melodic and emotional solos and playing where in Trilogy. Icarus, Fire, Liar and the unparalleled CRYING. To people who think Yngwie had no soul, melody and emotion...the solo on Crying is something even he himself cannot duplicate. It just came from the deepest depths of his emotion. Had that Gilmorish sound as well, very rare Yngwie stuff. The guitar solo on crying may have been his greatest solo ever improvised in his life. The acoustic lines are something Al Demeola would have been envious or proud of. And Yngwie was so young then. Imagine how mature he sounded then. He plays like a kid today. But a master none the less. The one and only. The King of Neoclassical Shred Guitar. He still kills anyone onstage who steps on stage to play with him. G3 ? G6? They play chords when Yngwie plays. They stand back. Nobody really stands toe to toe with Yngwie. Brave of Vai to unleash his patented enless legato assault on Little Wing, but he seemed to be pushing. and appeared timid, almost shy. Yngwie was just groovin and having a good time. He showed everyone who was in charge. Satch didn't even bother. He just played the Blues. Yngwie even told him to trun up his amp LOL. So ends my rant on Trilogy and YJM.

@@fullinbloom i just listened to the Trilogy record on Apple Music on my flight home yesterday. That album plays in my head constantly, esp. the opening riff for “Fire.” You should do a video on the Fire and Ice album. What an underrated album!

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Yay!!! I'm so glad you mentioned Yngwie plays with emotion or feeling. That's a misconstrued critique of him not playing with emotion. How much feeling do you need to see him play with? Depends on the song.

@@PaulC39 So true👌I honestly think Yngwie play with more soul than 99.9% of guitarists (tho thats just my opinion). Its sad peeps look past his more emotional solos and songs

trilogy is one of his best for sure, there is a group of them i like i couldn't pick the best. one of things about shredding and yngwie compared to many others is shredding to the beat, a lot of the pretenders just play superfast and its cool and all, but it is not to the beat of the song they are playing it. took me a long time to understand this, fusion jazz guitarists taught me this. eyes opened.

Odyssey is far superior. Easily his best.

wow! didn't know that.. so far from Miles' musically and image/genre.. would've know that~

Really? Holy crap. Going to search for that. If anybody's got a link please post it.

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Did you ever find it?@@mikewallace1270

Lightening in a bottle...like he said...

I remember pictures of Jeff Beck holding that pink jackson. That song gets to me every time I listen to it.

Who cares?

@@Davidbrompton58 Obviously OP cares.

@@MeAndTheBoys_paul stanley banged your dad.

I was 17 when I bought Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising Force on Vinyl. I was talking to a friend at Peacock Park and I was saying that I thought Rik Emmett was underrated. Compared to EVH at the time. He said check Yngwie Malmsteen who he thought was overrated but just not really known. I went home and listened to it and it blew my mind. Awesome album.

Thank you, Douglas. I always wondered if anybody even watched the videos or if I was just wasting my time. Thanks for letting me know and thanks for listening.

hell yeah, one of the greatest guitar albums of all time easily in my book.

This audio engineer was stuck in the smoky pool-hall music genre and simply not ready for Yngwie.

@@stringfellowhawk4843 definitely not ready for Yngwie. Clearly still isn't. Sad that Mr Delena was a part of one the greatest metal albums recorded and just tosses it aside. Clearly he doesn't understand the value of that album.

The Tascam cassette 4-track, the true gateway drug.

@@fullinbloom You aren't kidding. Me and my buddy went in halves on it. He maybe used it once, while I found myself up till 3AM recording stuff when I had to be at work at 6AM haahaa. Needless to say I missed a few days of work! Ahh, the good old days. Keep up the good work my friend. Always look forward to your posts.

@@strivingx67 Thank you, Bruce. I always enjoy your comments.

I have to disagree, well at least partially. I like a lot of the albums he made in the 90's (Eclipse actually being my favorite album from him) but I do agree that by the time the 2000's rolled in he just gave up and got lazy.

@@Horrorfreak106 - Eclipse is a damn good album. Other than his debut, I think it's the best thing he ever released.

I know this is an old post but I totally agree. The sonic quality of malmsteen's last albums is really bad. Being a great musician and a great engineer is actually rare. It's difficult to be great at both. Although there are some who have. But also recording in small home Studios you cannot get a large room sound for the ambience. But malmsteen's drums are over compressed as everything else is. The record sound really really bad and I can't listen to them.

I have an unpublished excerpt I'll post soon where we talked more about that Wildside album at Eddie's studio.

@@fullinbloom awesome! I look forward to listening to that! Thanks!

Thanks for listening, Rick. I was kind of thinking he might be straying too much while I was doing the interview. He did deviate some, but usually, he included a certain engineering technique or approach into those stories. But when I listened back to this interview from start to finish, I felt like I saw a different side to it. I know many people are just listening for a cool story, but I started doing these interviews because I'm a recording engineer myself. At this point, I've talked to a lot of producers and engineers, and usually, I already know what they are going to say before I ask the question. There are certain rules to the game, and they're pretty standard, and I've known about those rules for a couple of decades. However, in this interview, I thought he offered some great insight. That mic placement technique on the cone was taught to him by Eddie Van Halen. An engineer can chug along for years before they get a pearl of wisdom like that, and it came from Eddie Van Halen!! Priceless. Now, anyone who listens to this interview can know about it. I wanted to interview Ricky because I love the sound of this Yngwie record, and I thought he gave us all a good idea about his approach and how he got that sound. Having said all that, I get what you're saying. I don't know how many engineers actually listen to my podcast, I would think it's nothing compared to the people who just want cool stories. I dig the cool stories, too, but personally, these are the interviews I love.

your comments are as gold as your interviews. brilliant! thank you for your postings

@@DevilTigermoth Much appreciated. Thank you for listening....and reading.

Haha

I just found out that Anders has written a memoir. I wonder if it's in english? I would love to read it

I live in the USA and completely agree with your sentiments ....

Flat racist!? It's just a generalization! Have a cry!

You cou have also just said : " Ok Boomer" 👍

I was hoping he was going to ask about that but he never did.

Music that is classical inspired isn't soulful, but that's ok. It's more intellectual than emotional.

If music moves you to feel or react in any way it has soul. To say Yngwie plays or his music as a whole has no soul is insane.

Facing the Animal was the album right before Trilogy, right? Oh, wait. It was years later. Maybe Yngwie changed his approach to soloing by then. I'll take the word of the co-producer of the album about how solos were recorded over some sensitive fan with demos from an unrelated album. Not sure why you are so angry with the dude.