Mark Twain once critiqued the Fenimore Cooper's The Deerslayer in an essay. He thought it sucked, and after quoting a few people who praised the novel, his response was, "It was far from right for the Proferssor of English Literature at Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. It would have been much more decorous to keep silent and let persons talk who have read Cooper."
I believe the same can be said in your case, Silent Song. Yngwie is anything but mechanical. Perhaps you should get yourself a copy of Fire and Ice before you go around making claims about someone you don't seem at all familiar with. A lot of people don't like Yngwie's playing or his music, but to call him mechanical displays how unfamiliar you are with his music. Just listen to his soloing in the intro of Leviathan, or the entire song for that matter, and tell me that he is too mechanical. Have a listen to Far Beyond the Sun and tell me that he is mechanical and cannot play melodically.
Seriously people...if you're going to critique somebody, at least know who you are talking about and what you are claiming about them. If you don't like Malmsteen, that's one thing, but if you are going to make bold claims like some people have been doing in this thread, you'd better be ready for someone to call you out when you start bullshitting to try and justify your opinion, even though you're just going to wind up showing how little you know about what you are saying...
