Yngwie Malmsteen: the FCKN fury revisited

The classic Japan airlines flight the made the fury headline news is recounted by Anders Johansson, former Yngwie Malmsteen rising Force drummer... may be there is a video too?

Anders says:

I was lucky, though, because it was such chaos and I don't think they knew who did what, afterwards. I did have a camcorder going most of the fight, though, so if you look for it on the Internet, it's there somewhere.

Anders goes on to cover other bands he's played with in this excellent interview.

Anders:

Well, me and my brother Jens quit around the same time and he joined DIO right away. As a matter of fact, he quit right before I did. Everything was a mess back then. Joe Lynn Turner was fired, Yngwie was drinking heavier than ever, my brother got out of the band, and we were on a new label and so on. So with all of this, I felt that it would be the best thing to get out myself. But it was mainly the money issue of never knowing when or if I'd get paid. So I moved to L.A. and I also started playing with Swedish jazz-fusion bass ace Jonas Hellborg and have up to this day played on two of his releases. I also hooked up with John Sykes (Thin Lizzy) and his Blue Murder band he started after quitting Whitesnake. I didn't really fit in with Sykes and his boys though, I'm mainly coffee and booze and they're hash and opium. Sykes is a very talented and cool guy though.

full interview