When did you decide you didnt want to be Yngwie Malmsteen ?

Fishboy7

Hmm, I still want to be like yngwie.... a little bit I guess....

Bucket

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

Fishboy7

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

stratman3142

Fishboy7 said:

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

I think not. But I'll stand corrected if you can post a clip of you doing it and prove me wrong.

Telejester

Fishboy7 said:

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

 scalloped neck makes vibrato a whole lot easier, and 8 gauge strings tuned to E flat, need I go on ?  id like to hear his vibrato on a  stock tele tuned to E and  strung with 11-49, im sure it would be markedly different.

Garthy

Telejester said:

Fishboy7 said:

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

 scalloped neck makes vibrato a whole lot easier, and 8 gauge strings tuned to E flat, need I go on ?  id like to hear his vibrato on a  stock tele tuned to E and  strung with 11-49, im sure it would be markedly different.

I'm fairly certain that he'd manage it.

JMP220478

phenomenal technician , great vibrato , changed my opinion on strat sounds completely but desperately needed a band with musicians who could write songs and control his ego - on his own he's a total spinal tweet  without any humour / self awareness ..

warhead

Telejester said:

Fishboy7 said:

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

 scalloped neck makes vibrato a whole lot easier, and 8 gauge strings tuned to E flat, need I go on ?  id like to hear his vibrato on a  stock tele tuned to E and  strung with 11-49, im sure it would be markedly different.

I always thought people get/set up their equipment the way it fits them, in order to get the best/easiest results......didn`t know we should get/set up our equipment to make playing harder on ourselves??
I`d love to see how would Billy Gibbons play on 27.5 scale guitar with 13-70 gauge strings tuned to E.

thegummy

warhead said:

Telejester said:

Fishboy7 said:

Bucket said:

Danny1969 said:

One thing I would add is his vibrato is pretty impressive as well, I like that single coil tone too.

His vibrato is the best thing about his playing. It's superb.

True, but with 8s on a scalloped fretboard my cat could get pretty good vibrato going 

 scalloped neck makes vibrato a whole lot easier, and 8 gauge strings tuned to E flat, need I go on ?  id like to hear his vibrato on a  stock tele tuned to E and  strung with 11-49, im sure it would be markedly different.

I always thought people get/set up their equipment the way it fits them, in order to get the best/easiest results......didn`t know we should get/set up our equipment to make playing harder on ourselves??
I`d love to see how would Billy Gibbons play on 27.5 scale guitar with 13-70 gauge strings tuned to E.

I really don't understand holding that against him, if I thought changing my set up would make achieving what I wanted any easier I'd do it instantly.

As much as I am impressed by good musicians, I'm not listening for the purpose of being impressed by someone doing something difficult, I'm purely listening to what I like to hear.

Fishboy7

I wasn’t being serious – my cat can’t even play guitar, he mostly plays bongos. 

 

Seriously I would struggle to play anything on 8s, tuned down on a scalloped neck.  Yngwie must have a super light touch.  

stratman3142

Fishboy7 said:

I wasn’t being serious – my cat can’t even play guitar, he mostly plays bongos. 

Damn, I was looking forward to seeing a video of a cat playing guitar. It would be good to see a bongos clip though.

Telejester

Fishboy7 said:

I wasn’t being serious – my cat can’t even play guitar, he mostly plays bongos. 

 

Seriously I would struggle to play anything on 8s, tuned down on a scalloped neck.  Yngwie must have a super light touch.  

yngwies axe would like playing a guitar strung with strandsof spaghetti, id just say feck it and add some tomato and basil sauce and have them for lunch

Telejester

Fishboy7 said:

Hmm, I still want to be like yngwie.... a little bit I guess....

that song is just horrendous on many levels

Ravenous

I was impressed by what I read about Yngwie - until I actually heard it. (Might have been on Tommy Vance's Friday Rock Show, it was around that era.)

Somehow all those notes seemed better written down - not much point when they're played too fast to hear

Octafish

Telejester said:

Fishboy7 said:

Hmm, I still want to be like yngwie.... a little bit I guess....

that song is just horrendous on many levels

Wisdom - isn't it just. Ignoring the unmemorable detritus of a composition, that has is some of the worst production I've heard for a long time, sounds like it was mixed through a Goodmans Midi sytem purchased from Argos in 1986.

Telejester

Octafish said:

Telejester said:

Fishboy7 said:

Hmm, I still want to be like yngwie.... a little bit I guess....

that song is just horrendous on many levels

Wisdom - isn't it just. Ignoring the unmemorable detritus of a composition, that has is some of the worst production I've heard for a long time, sounds like it was mixed through a Goodmans Midi sytem purchased from Argos in 1986.

graham bonnet is singing like he had been stabbed in the throat the previous day, i do like yng's playing on hiroshima and find it pretty tasty.

HAL9000

I’ve never wanted to be a ‘look how many notes I can play per second’ type of player. That kind of playing leaves me cold. I’d much rather play fills instead of solos, and prefer players like Robert Cray, Peter Green, etc.

Sadly just about all the players I've ever wanted to be have suffered personal tragedies such as Clapton (death of son), Parfitt (death of daughter), Peter Green (mental health issues). No matter what level of talent, skill, fame, worldly goods it might bring I wouldn’t swap places with any of them.

Strangefan

Well for me the Miestro Alex Gregory was the turning point for me,

flying_pie

Neill said:

Some years ago (I think it was) Guitar magazine put the speed gun on ten guitarists who folk had suggested were the fastest players.  It was a bit tongue in cheek but they devised a way of measuring notes per second.  IIRC Malmsteen didn't even make the top five.

I recall that when the charity song Stars was recorded there was a shred off between the guitarists to find the fastest alternate picker. It wasn't Malmsteen or Lynch. Apparently it was Neal Schon 

Telejester

If you want to hear truly the worst of what shred has to offer do yt searche on rusty cooley or francisco fareri and make sure you have headache tablets and a glass of water at hand......i kid you not