Johansson said:
haha whats wrong with you guys? yngwie is the best guitarist of all time, man nothing pisses me off more is people bad mouthing yngwie...i've listened to yngwie for nearly a decade and his stuff never gets old, i'd like to see someone find a better tone than yngwie, or even before that, play like him!
Which Yngwie are you talking about here? Are you talking about the young, innovative Yngwie who was treading new ground back in 1984? Or are you talking about the Yngwie that followed a few years later who wrote hair-metal songs and displayed his lack of versatility by trying to play neoclassical solos over them? Perhaps you are talking about the more recent Yngwie Malmsteen, who prefers to ignore time and cleanliness while playing his runs live?
Yngwie is a good guitarist, and definitely had a massive impact on the scene, but the best? Give me a break dude. There are people who would rip him to shreds on a technical level, let alone songwriting and/or versatility. Just listen to him on the jams at the end of the last G3 DVD. He sounds more out of place than Elton John in a room full of drunken college girls.
Oh, BTW, about his stuff "never getting old"...
There was a reason Jens Johansson left the band way back when. Not too long after he left, he was interviewed up in the balcony during a Malmsteen show, and said this (not verbatim):
"When we first started this band, we were doing something ORIGINAL. Things that had never been done before. Look at him now."
He was also quoted at another point to say that he wished he would never have to hear another minor chord for a long, long time.
So while it may not get old to you, other people get sick of that stuff over time, including musicians like Jens, who performs on a level most people could never even begin to understand...just check out his solo work.
