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Nerine · November 2020

I imagine this video has already been posted, but I stumbled upon it last night:

https://youtu.be/3FsBB2unvqI

It’s horrendous.

The 9th comment down provides you with a “set list” of what’s going down at this gig.

It’s rather amusing.

My other point though, is that it’s quite sad to see someone who used to be successful/scarily good at guitar manage to spiral into whatever you call this awful concatenation of events.

I’ve never been a fan, personally. But I almost feel sorry for him. It smacks of desperation.

You can’t hear the band over the guitar. He can no longer play properly. It’s nearly an hour and a half of literal mindless out of time noodling. It’s cringe-inducing throughout. The stage setup is laughable and it looks like it’s in a car park somewhere.

It’s embarrassing.

Apologies if you have already seen it.

usedtobe · November 2020

Saved to watch later..

thegummy · November 2020

It makes me think of an aspect of the guitar world that's alien to me - where it's practically like a sport and the audience enjoy being impressed by how fast someone is able to play or how difficult a piece they can play rather than just getting pleasure from the end result.

Always felt that was more like the sport world than the art world.

Sassafras · November 2020

He's never taken the 'less is more' concept to heart.

soma1975 · November 2020

I saw him 20 years ago and it was horrific.

Sassafras · November 2020

It's too late to do anything about the music but I'm sure the worrying leg spasms could be treated if caught early enough.

Funkfingers · November 2020

Somebody once loaned me a G3 tour DVD. The Yng took the stage, wearing a long leather overcoat, doing high kicks and looking for all the world like Nadia, the Eurovision Song Contest transvestite. I recall nothing positive about his musical performance.

Epsilon · November 2020

That whole wall of Marshalls thing is pretty cringe at this point.

PonchoGreg · November 2020

Yikes.

Not that I'm into shredding, but Black Star is a really great piece of guitar instrumental. Very melodic, obviously scarily difficult/fast at points etc. But it has a sense of purpose to it. So I've always respected Malmsteen for that.

But this is just sad.

Sassafras · November 2020

Maybe a much more powerful smoke machine would've gone some way to muffling the noise.

jhumber · November 2020

Kind of amusing how the drummer, bassist and keys player are crammed into an area no bigger than your average pub-stage, while the wall of Marshalls is visible from space

EricTheWeary · November 2020

I've watched a little bit. It's on a camcorder near the front so the sound is going to be overwhelmed by the Marshalls. I think you'd always expect him to be the loudest thing in a mix anyway.
Other than that it just sounded like Yngwie. I saw him live a few years ago and in the moment it was quite good fun, a bit like going to the circus could be fun but that doesn't mean you want to watch clowns every night.
If he falls apart a bit later on during that performance( and all credit to anyone who can sit through an entire badly recorded Yngwie gig) well we all have bad days.

One of my guitar heroes was Bernie Torme. I saw him live a few times and loved every second of it but pretty much every live performance I've found on YouTube has been a bit shit so I find these things don't mean much.

octatonic · November 2020

It is a form of historical reenactment, performed by a blowhard.

I've always thought of him as the Donald Trump of the guitar playing world.

skullfunkerry · November 2020

thegummy said:

It makes me think of an aspect of the guitar world that's alien to me - where it's practically like a sport and the audience enjoy being impressed by how fast someone is able to play or how difficult a piece they can play rather than just getting pleasure from the end result.

Always felt that was more like the sport world than the art world.

I saw Dream Theater a few years ago. They're not my thing at all really, but my brother bought me a ticket. One thing you can say about them is that John Petrucci is a beast of a guitarist... I couldn't hear his solos though; because every time he played one, everyone started cheering

DefaultM · November 2020

I bought the Live in Leningrad CD when I was about 14 and I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I thought it was absolutely incredible. Next I wanted to see him play so I got the G3 dvd. What a contrast. Fat bloke comes out in tight leather trousers and plays over the top of everyone else.

Gerz6558 · November 2020

It took about 1 and a half minutes of listening before the sound plateaued and my eyes glazed over.

The audience need a medal for sticking it out. Beer no doubt helps.

newi123 · November 2020

Nerine said:

I imagine this video has already been posted, but I stumbled upon it last night:

https://youtu.be/3FsBB2unvqI

It’s horrendous.

The 9th comment down provides you with a “set list” of what’s going down at this gig.
It’s rather amusing.

My other point though, is that it’s quite sad to see someone who used to be successful/scarily good at guitar manage to spiral into whatever you call this awful concatenation of events.

I’ve never been a fan, personally. But I almost feel sorry for him. It smacks of desperation.

You can’t hear the band over the guitar. He can no longer play properly. It’s nearly an hour and a half of literal mindless out of time noodling. It’s cringe-inducing throughout. The stage setup is laughable and it looks like it’s in a car park somewhere.

It’s embarrassing.

Apologies if you have already seen it.

Those comments are awesome...... thanks

Philly_Q · November 2020

I've watched that video before - not all of it, obviously, I'm not insane - and it really is quite something. When you think of all the micro-managed but talented musicians he's hired and fired over the years, and here he is with, effectively, a pub band. But still with the huge wall of fake Marshalls.

I must admit, for all the horrors of the actual music, I'm quite impressed that he has a go at singing nowadays.

DefaultM · November 2020

Just watched some of it and it's particularly bad.

DefaultM · November 2020

I didn't realise Arpeggios From Hell was an actual piece he considered to be a song and would play live. I thought it was just a sort of practice piece he put together for an instructional DVD.

fretmeister · November 2020

I'm wondering if he's got hearing problems how.

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