Yngwie Malmsteen: classic rock revisited interview

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05-10-2008:

Yngwie:
You have these guitar games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band, so all these kids want to be rock stars. I was sitting in the airport having a cup of coffee and this little kid, who was maybe seven or eight, comes up and says, "Are you guys in a band? I want to be in a band." That is new; it is coming back again. I did two months in Europe this summer and we played these festivals with Priest and it was great. Now Zeppelin and Sabbath are all getting back together because it is coming back. Every fucking day I am doing all these interviews, it is crazy. Everything is happening and going on. It is a combination of the internet and people realizing that the bands they grew up, bands that played two chords and didn’t do guitar solos... When they hear someone that can really play, they go, "This is bad ass." It is very refreshing for me to see this. I have been through it all. I have seen punk and disco and all that shit and I was just doing my thing then. It is coming back in a big way.


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