Beato - Malmsteen Interview - it's out!

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#61

Says “video unavailable” for me :frowning:

Also, I think to a degree, most of us wouldn’t even be on this forum if we weren’t passionate about music and have strong opinions. I think it’s good to remember that the vast majority of consumers of any entertainment product aren’t going to have super sophisticated tastes. In ways, I’m probably a music snob and I think I’d blame my education on it. I’ve been exposed to pretty high quality music, and from a “theory” standpoint I understand what’s so high quality about it. It makes me tend to appreciate things that I don’t even really like…but do to the appreciation aspect, I tend to start liking it more anyway. If that makes sense.

Other “art” forms, such as film…I know nothing about from a technical perspective. I just watch stuff that entertains me. According to Martin Scorsese, some of the stuff I find entertaining is apparently horrible lol! I think the average music listener is much like I am about film.

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#62

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True that Joe, we’re all selective in our sophistication. Retards on the whole, gotta remember that :smiley:

Perlman, but he’s not shredding it at that passage, like Primrose on that.

edit: both awesome though.

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#63

I hear folks say all the time “I dont really like the Beatles…” I usually say something like “…if I played a bunch of ther songs at random, there would be one that youd like and probably sing along to…” point is I think people know the Beatles or have heard them they just dont realize it. I am not sure why but I’d have to say because they were very popular and mainstream…they are before my time, my parents would have been into them in High School etc. But I do appreciate them I always liked the guitar work on “Drive My car” for example and I have played “Come Together” in cover bands etc.

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#64

McCartney’s solo on “Taxman” is awesome stuff and this is insanely ahead of its time.

I think the whole “I hate the Beatles” phenomenon is due to their popularity its a reaction to a band being so universally lauded or their music sounding a bit dated to modern ears saturated by all the music they inspired.

It’s like someone that grew up on modern shredders trying to go back to Clapton.

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#65

Just watched the interview. It’s great, he comes across very well here, and still talks so passionately about gear, improv, recording etc etc.

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#66

If anyone is interested - here is Guthrie Govan discussing Yngwie

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#67

I really like the interview; I think Rick did a good job… but after all these years i was hoping that maybe some new ground would be covered.

First off … Rick, Yngwie never wanted to be a classical violinist… and he explicitly said, he uses a “hybrid set”… not “8s”

Aside from that it was “good” interview, if a bit homogenized.

Rick should realize though that he’s interviewing someone who impacted rock guitar as much as EVH did from a technical standpoint. He was a pioneer of a genre and legion of virtuoso guitarists.

How about asking what he did for those all those hours he practiced. Yngwie didn’t get that good by accident. What he did those endless practice sessions look like?
What areas did he struggle with that later he overcame? How did he come upon
“economy picking” (not sweeping) ?

Who were his “technical influences” . I’ve yet to hear Yngwie disclose any meaningful insight into how he developed mastery over the guitar.

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#68

I think there might be a reason for that. The range of allowed questions were probably worked out before hand. He’s been being interviewed for decades and decades and if he hasn’t said it, I doubt he ever will.

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#69

There was an audio interview with Yngwie from 1983 up on YouTube (potentially on Bill Hall’s channel if I remember right) before Yngwie copyright claimed it where he says his two biggest influences were Al Di Meola and Uli Jon Roth, he even plays a little bit of Mediterranean Sundance in it :grin:

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#70

This is a very well thought out take. I like it.

#71

Damn straight. I remember someone asking SRV in an interview what he thought of YJ and the first words out of his mouth were "Well obviously he has tons of feel . . . " GG is truly terrifying, I love that he gives YJ credit for what I think is his best attribute.

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#72

i realize this is GGs compliment to Yngwie, which is cool… so all the other guitarists who play neo classical are clones to him? For that matter he’s a Satriani clone right?

Just like there were many brilliant classical composers… they’re are many great neo classical guitarists who play vastly different lines and music than YJM.

I’'m sure GG didn’t mean to knock anyone here, but indirectly he did.

#73

Well he’s never going to outright disclose anything, that’s why the interviewer needs to ask these questions.

Has he ever been interviewed by a someone who’s actually a proficient player in his own right? Rick B. can play… he’s not a shred player, but he admires the genre.

It’s just really stupifying. How is a question like this insulting in anyway:

you said you played 8 hours a day, what did those practice sessions look like?

did you study with anyone? were there other technical guitar players that inspired you to play fast, or develop technical ability?

You are interviewing a player who is renowned for being a virtuoso guitarist… you would think he was interviewing Paul Simon.

#74

Dudes been huge and influential for like 45 years and interviewed by every publication on the planet over and over again. Whether I’m wrong or right, the math adds up.

#75

Good chance Yngwie won’t answer.

All this time, there’s no way those questions weren’t asked by more than one person.

Paul Simon would set boundaries for interviews.

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#76

Have to agree, he still says he doesn’t sweep pick, almost always followed by him playing a sweep, much to the confusion of the interviewer :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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#77

I watching a Beato interview with Phil X where he’s asking Phil all about how he plays this particular riff…

So… all of the above. I was just hoping this one interview would yield some things hes never said before.

I will say, on his “Play Loud” instructional dvds he does give a bit more insight into his playing. I’ll just leave it at that.

Phil X’s Insane “Liquid” Climbing Lick - YouTube

#78

1st rule: the name of Art Garfunkle shall not be spoken.

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#79

Paganini called, he doesn’t agree that there is no Melody in YJM 's playing

#80

In my experience with people who have egos the size of YJs there’s always a grain of insecurity, like a pebble in your shoe. Simple confidence doesn’t require constant shoring up, but egoism does; in my opinion YJ’s not there to help the interviewer to understand things, he’s there to be admired. Hands up, how many people rolled their eyes when he started telling that story about his first band, again?

Honestly if he doesn’t want to reveal his secrets that’s fine, but it bothers me that he makes instructional videos and conceals basic facts about his approach. Oh, and the infamous "Okay here it is “slow.”

On the whole I thought Rick did a great job and it was a good interview, but I doubt we’ll ever get more than that.