So I saw Yngwie last night, and I dread saying this, but it was a little disappointing. First of all, the whole stage was backwalled with Marshall full-stacks. Keep in mind this is a small bar. I'm guessing there were 16 cabs on that stage and about 8 different heads running together, it was WAYYYY too fucking loud. I seriously have never been to a show this loud. Not in a good way, either. In fact it was so loud that you couldn't hear the drums, keyboards, or vocals for shit about 75% of the set. Moving on, I was very let down by his performance of the songs. Over half the material was all improvised, off time, and just messy!! No rhythm, no flow, and not the way the songs are on the record. Why does he change them and flubber them like that? It was basically just watching him improve over all his songs and his drummer and keyboardist falling off time constantly. This especially bothered me when he played Far Beyond the Sun. Rather, it was 3 minutes of the basic structure of the song and him wanking to hell and back as if he's forgotten all the melodies and licks that made this song what it was. Even someone who's never heard these songs would scratch their heads and say ''uhm, something seems off and strange about this''. Then one of the more entertaining features of the night, they were running so much smoke from the smoke machines the detector went off in the club. Yngwie looks at his roadie, makes a terrified facial expression like its the end of the world, runs off backstage like the Indians are trying to harpoon him. The rest of the band just laughs and continues playing trying to not make a scene about it. The audience and the rest of the band all realize its just the smoke thats making the detectors go off, but whatever. Yngwie decides to pound a few more redbulls and get on about 15 minutes later (considering he took about 2 hours to start playing after the opening band, my legs were already stiff as rocks). One thing that seemed weird to me, is the guy couldn't have prepared and paid anymore people to set his shit up and get everything as smooth as possible and throughout the whole set he must've went through a cycle of 20 guitars, and everytime he'd change them for almost no definite reason he'd let it feedback for like a minute straight while he was bitchin at his roadie or whatever. Then bitching about his acoustic setup stopping along the way while he's performing, before and between the performance. Wtf? Most of the time it almost seemed like he didn't care what he was playing and just noodled off with anything in key just to assess a new problem with his band or the sound or someshit. I just think if you're going to take 10 hours to setup and keep yer fans waiting, not bother to shake any of their hands leaving the stage, and furthermore.. play all of your songs completely different and horrificly, at least run a smoother and more professional show! Christ sakes. So anyways, yeah I'm just a little troubled after this. Just didn't seem like the guy I've idolized since my early teens and I expected just a little.. err, a lot more. That is all!!!