Yngwie Malmsteen: super round up

News:
08-10-2008:
Blogcritics Perpetual flame review

The second half of Perpetual Flame is particularly strong and contains many classic, please excuse the pun, examples of Yngwie’s undeniable mastery. The instrumental tracks will underline just how on fire the man is.

full review

Yngwie says:

Let me tell you, yesterday I was doing something for television with VH1 and their thing was to ask everyone, ‘who was the most influential heavy rock band Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin?’ When it came to me I said Deep Purple. They looked at me like I was crazy. But it was hearing the power of In Rock that did it. I can remember seeing Hendrix on television and watching him burn his guitar. Then I listened to In Rock and that was it. I knew what I wanted to be.

When I heard some of that early Genesis stuff, you know Selling England By The Pound, I could hear all these classical progressions. You know it was the symphonic stuff that I really wanted to do and the hard rock of Purple, In Rock. I always wanted to do that, the double bass drum, the works. When I heard the violin, Paganini, that was it. I knew where I wanted to go with it all. I wanted my guitar to be played like a violin.

full interview

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