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  • guitar torturer !! lol

    he is...hm... perfect xD he always leave me speechless

  • Yungwi Bon Jovi

  • fuck, jd roberts was the best, those were the days

  • This is a good interview.

    He asks exactly what he should be asking.

  • Eh Yngwie has the right to be an egotistical asshole.

    He basically pioneered an entire genre of very technical, very incredible, very ass-kicking music.

    Oh yeah, and that I mention that he's a guitar god, shredding virtuoso?

    Yep, slipped my mind that one.

  • yngwie malmsteen got soft and cheap

  • jeh jazz sucks right yngwie

  • This was just before his donut-years.

    I find it ironic that he says "I won't let it get into my head". Few years later he would become an egoistic asshole.

  • Yeah, what happened to him over the years? I wish Malmsteen stayed like this.

  • i want more yngwie interviews i have watch all these 1000 times imy drug is yngwie fuckin malmsteen

  • Wow he was much less of an ass back then

  • This is around the time he discovered the wonders of donuts.

  • JD Roberts. Yeah! Much Music back in the 80's. Yeah! Back when MM was imaginative and about the damn music, not flash, trendiness, obviousness and predictability. Christopher Ward and JD were the best damn VJ's MM ever had! They cared about the MUSIC, did their homework, asked good questions and were total pros! Many of the VJ's after them were all looks and no substance!!!

  • He has proved.

  • nobody can touch yngwie !

  • holy shit, the guy from That Metal Show

  • @Megatrane holy shit , yngwie malmsteen :D

  • 0:03 thats it !, Ing-Vay. The mystery of Yngwie solved !

  • OMG!! THE JACKET!! WHERE CAN I GET A JACKET LIKE THAT ?!?!?!?! ;P

  • @xStiltzkinX absolut. the best of all is the jacket! in need it and wear it day and night

  • I don't think it's a matter of him being less humble or more cocky these days, he's a cranky ole' VERYdisciplined musician who is frustrated with the screwed up state that music and especially the industry is in these days. As well as other music Fans that see the str8 fuckery of what's being shoved down our throats by some (certain) shallow, untalented artists 2Day!

  • Hendrix and Blackmore and stuff like that lol!

  • The guy interviewing him is such a non-musician it's almost painful.

  • @pinksynth Nah. Have you seen John Roberts on CNN jamming with Rush?

  • he's soooo handsome :*

  • dear j malsteen hi its mr barry vinger judaspiest i mr barry vinger have odne some songs proffesionl of your music and mixed my music in it profeissionly i think you should lesten to our musci together and also i would like to do some orginal music with you and a new vidoe with you with my face blue glitered with a kramer voyageoru guitar blue gliterized so my face appers to have lightning on it also blue glite contact the real judaspriest vinger barry at 561 865 2884 ask for mr vinger

  • Nice boots at 7.50...

  • 4x12 Haha you´re absolutely right! He seemed way more humble back in the day, nowadays he is too cocky.

  • @jagdiskarsen

    I think it has to do with the fact that he's not very inspired anymore. He seems very bored all the time, and uses the same classical music influences. He seems almost frustrated with the lack of dynamics nowadays.

  • He is absolutely right when saying that most ofthe guitarist take influence each other and that's why they are not that much different form eachother. He took a different aproach and that's why he invented something new. Way to go!

  • funny... he seemed like less of an ass back then. I guess the foockin fury wasn't unleashed yet!!

  • @4x12 loooooooooooooooooooool hahahaha

  • 8:03- Ladies and gentlemen, I present, Classical Music!

  • Isn't that interviewer the guy from 'That Metal Show'?

  • 80's douche interviewer

  • Lol Yngwie was annoyed at the guys total lack of understanding of music theory. I don't think the guy understood any of what Yngwie was telling him.

  • These guys are both coked up

  • malmsteen is the deamon of the guitar

  • he was vicious with that guitar!!!!!!!!

  • KUNG!!! hur mår du jag mår bra tack hehe KUNG!!

  • Hahaha yngwie must of felt like an idiot when the V.J mentioned the song "God Blessed Video" becuase Steve Vai wrote that song with Alcatrazz soon after Yngwie left

  • well i would think david lee roth would do the lyrics since hes a bad ass singer and i say that yngwie made better songs than steve vai

  • What made J D stand out from all the other Much Music VJ doh-doh-brains was that he was genuinely good-natured, truly interested in rock 'n' roll music, did his research, asked good questions and was dynamic enough to react well to any given interview situation. He set a benchmark for others to follow, which is far more than I could say for Erica Ehm, who was as bright as a burnt-out lightbulb and as pleasant to listen to as a screeching smoke alarm!

  • @gorillabelly1 wow, VERY well articulated. I always thought the JD Roberts interviews were like a chat between friends or experienced colleagues. Reminds me of Jon Stewart's style of interviewing, along with the solid bank of knowledge in the interviewer.

    Erica Ehm was eye candy, a nice aspect of Much but definitely never gonna be any deep interviews with her!

  • 7:50 Jesus, Blackmore !

  • kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk...........­...meu passado me condenaa....uAHSuHAsuAH

    q feuraa

  • Wow, Yngwie wasn't a douche here!

  • malmsteen never was a douche..its only jealous bastards that complain..im asking you now..have you met him`? did he punch you in the nose?..what´s with all those idiots..just because you bought a ticket for 25 bucks to see malmsteen don´t mean he gonna suck your balls and be your best friend..you payed to see him play LIVE..and its as far as i know its always good..but if you did not like malmsteens live performance then you won´t see anymore lives from him and try something else.

  • Well... You know. I based my opinion on how he is in later interviews where he kind of acts like he is the best and there is no one better etc etc. Of course i cannot really know how he acts in real life because i have not met him but i can in interviews since i can view them here on youtube. And, yes, in some he acts like a complete douche. I'm not saying he is not talented, just that he kind tells everybody how much more talented he is than they are. Thats the classic douche!

  • wow, did I miss some stuff back then! Been following Yngwie since his arrival and never got to see stuff like this. I see John on CNN, or is it HLN?, and never suspected...He looked genuinely interested in interviewing Yngwie and asked lotsa good questions.

  • The guy from That Metal Show! Ha!

  • genuine interview

  • This is back when John Roberts reported on important things

  • hehe!

  • John Roberts sporting a feathery mullet. LOL!

  • wow...i remember seeing this back in the day. thanks for posting this TrikesAndTrails!

  • aaa el gordo una masa !!

  • On August 2009 Time Magazine Named Yngwie #9 on its List of 10. Best Electric Guitar Players Of All Time. Congratulations To The Neo-Classical King. Keep On Rocking Forever !!

  • nice jacket

  • cool interview !

    how old was he there?

  • It depends if it was before June 30 then he was 22 after 23. Rock On Yngwie !

  • The 80's look so far away!

  • Yngwie you are god

  • not

  • This is a really good interview, despite Yngwie's reputation as a self-centered prick he doesn't show any of those tendencies. Also, he sounds like a really smart guitarist with a very clever approach to music, he actually gives some interesting answers instead of "practice practice practice" to the question "what's your advice to young players?"

  • loool I heard so many times the "practise practise practise", it s in every country... He s self centered, but don t forget he s a genius, and the genius are isolated...

  • good ,that older stuff is what I want to see! I hope to see some early Macalpine shows exerpts

  • its funny, he calls him a "guitar hero" and like 20 years later he's endorsing the video game.

  • we should bring these hair styles back

  • yep. good idea

  • @sicktkdchick yes!

  • @sicktkdchick Yes that would be sick!

  • @sicktkdchick This should not have any thumbs up. Shame on you old farts.

  • @sicktkdchick

    I`m 13 :P

  • @xPurpleDrinkx9001 just not the sholder pads....eew lol

  • @sicktkdchick i put my hair like that haha and im only 15, never seen the 80z =(

  • @sicktkdchick we should bring the 80´s back XD

  • @sicktkdchick

    yeah... defenetifly !! and the clothing style damn that would be amazing !! :D

  • not any sorrier than i feel for you :p

  • ahhh...back when you actually needed talent to make music (and not just bling and few chicks with ghetto booty)....

  • this is one hell of a good interview!

  • bite my ass!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Yngwie still wears those shades

  • for a few years he wore the Howard Stern/John Lennon style. Those looked cooler.

  • Speak Slowly ! I don't know what they're saying haha.

  • how could that dip shit interviewer ASK Yngwie about "God Bless Video"??? Hello!!!!

    Vai, asshole was the cat on that track, OMG< that shithead should do some homework before sitting in front of the Maestro.......Frickin Much Music VJ IDIOT!

  • do you realize that you are insulting a crappy much music interview that's over 20 years old????

  • need more interviewers like J.D(John) Roberts ...............Yngwie Malmsteen rules!

  • As a matter of fact: yes! he very much does! as a swede my self I can hear the swedish accent!! and in the very beginning of this interview the reporter asks " Hur mår du?" = How are you? in swedish and Yngwie answered in perfect swedish "Jag mår bra tack" (with a Stockholm accent) and by the way Yngwies real name is Yngve Malmsten, a pretty common swedish namne!

  • hey i thought his real name is Lars Lannerbach something

  • no, it's actually Yngve Malmsten - a pretty common swedish name

  • oh ok i wasn't sure, but i saw that u were swedish so I thought i would just ask

  • His name before he changed it was Lars Yngve johan Lannerback

  • nooo it's not common :I

  • Ja, Yngve is a common name in Sweden. All his did was Americanized his name. He dropped his last name and added his mother's last name Rigmor Malmsten, but this was also Americanized, i.e., Malmsteen. I hope this helps.

    He is an amazing showman. If you haven't seen him live you should.

  • are you a swede..... i am and i know better than you its not common but thnanks for trying to help

  • He Was born Lars Johan Yngve Lannerback.

  • He was born naked....

  • He was born with a guitar in his hand..

  • If he was born with a guitar in his hand I really dont want to imagine how much his mother suffered when delivering Yngwie... ROFL.

  • Ouch, lol.

  • Geez I lol'd

  • fenders are quite smooth

  • let's just hope for her sake that the guitar wasn't a B.C. Rich guitar... THAT would've hurt!

  • @gitarmats

    lol, you know what would hurt even more? michael angelo batio's quadruple guitar O_O

  • Hahaha yeah that would have been even worse!

  • What do you mean Canadian??? He's Swedish!!

  • his stage antics are aka-Blackmore though....

  • wow, hes a pretty nice guy

  • Nice, he is pretty humble in this interview.

  • this is mad as

  • why do you hate rock and roll? i am metalhead and i am listening thrash and heavy metal but infact the metal is one of the rock n roll subgenres

  • I hate how he says rock n roll. Yngwie is neoclassical metal.

  • i used to listen to yngwie for years,now i listen to jazz/fusion,i always loved his stuff,i dont care that people say that he has a huge ego and say he is a fat fuck or so.This gut influenced millions,so give him gredit for that,back in the day nobody could play his stuff.He is indeed still cool

  • I think this is before his ego took over.

    Dont get me wrong talented indeed, but kind of passe now.

    So MANY other talented guitarists that pass him these days. But this flashback is  making me feel old...

  • Hhahahaha

    Thats the same guy that interveiwed Anthony and Flea from the Red Hot Chili peppers.

  • He says chromatic later, but truly a lot of jazz is chromatic...well neo jazz, jazz fusion.

  • Actaully he says jazz is more common...in sweden...not chromatic hehehe

  • SkidRoses98. you are a muppet. go run into a wall.

  • He is though.

  • Are you just doing this to show how crazy you are or because you have no life so you have to start typing rubbish about something you wish you could do

  • you know hım??

  • and ı m ur father :))

  • So . . . you fucked Yngwie Malmsteen? Did his dick have frets?

  • "jazz is more ... cromatic" he said :S

  • no. He said, classical music is more cromatic.

  • I dont think so, at 4:16 he says something about jazz chords and scales... and then he says "(jazz) is more cromatic"

  • hm. so that's how you pronounce his name.

  • Back when JD Roberts was cool. Now he's a grey hair geek on CBS. Ma

  • ughh, it pains me so much, to see a guitar get smashed

  • he was so cool back then

  • Yngwie is still cool. That interviewer isn't though.  haha.

  • This interviewer is a bit of a tart, he forgets Vandenberg was out at this time.

  • Ah Adrian Vandenberg is much under appreciated!

  • Although the interviewer is a twat, hes a tad more informed than some of the interviewers I've seen. My biggest gripe is the interviewer is completely in control because of his assertiveness. He leads every step of the way. Yngwie is sitting in the palm of that twat's hands. Shame Yngwie wasn't more assertive then as it would have been a much better interview. I agree YJM looked very uncomfortable. A Fish out of water perhaps??? YJM Rocks!

  • I don't get that feeling at all. The interviewer seems to be taking a lot of interest in him. He seems to be asking intelligent questions.

  • Agree with you, Stan!

  • The interviewer is trying to act like hes asking intellegent questions but really hes just making YJM feel uncomfortable.

  • YJM is immortal...the great Viking guitar god!

  • no matter what people say down here, YJMalmsteen will always be for every post-80's guitar men the GOD of Guitar. Period.

    None composed a song like Far beyong the sun... Queen in love, You don't remember (I'll never forget) etc. Only a God could do that. And it was a God named Yngwie Johann Malmsteen.

    For ever and ever.

  • If you think that's good, you should listen to his Classical (non fusion) work like Toccata. He is a control freak and all arrangements and production values are his alone. Very under rated in North America as most Excellent musicians are.

  • "I don't really let it go to my head too much" Yeah right. He's still awesome though.

  • yeah, that was back then d:

  • yea this interviewr is trying to make him feel uncomfortable or something, he's a creep

  • the host looks like carson daily

  • That's actually John (J.D.) Roberts. Before he went south and hit the big time in the White House and CBS and CNN, he ws a video DJ on the Much Music channel. And yes, he's always been a total douchebag.

  • lol the interveiwer sdude sounds like mel gibson! jus throught i;d mention it

  • I don't know of the interviewer being an asshole but he obviously has a BIG ego and the interview is mostly a big clash of their both egos. Both of them would like to have all TV-time for themselves - if they somehow could... Malmsteen is always entertaining to listen to. Actually he's like a B-movie - a lot of cheesy parts with some gems in between.

  • guys 1st off this guy is an asshole put asside what u may think of yngwie but hes purposly saying inaporpriate things (spelling) to get something out of him or sending some sort of sublimanal message saying u are SHIT u dont play music u play excersices and the hole video with him smashing shit and playing with his feet thats a ritche blackmore stage performance not hendrix infact no where near it this guy is a douche yngwie wanted to kill him but he kept his cool, this moron has a mullet lol

  • Doesn't let it go to his head....ha ha!

  • If I were a guitarist I would have a Strat, and only one, modified and hooked up exactly how I'd want it, and have all the versatility I'll ever need. I couldn't believe Yngwie just tossed his guitar around like it was a worthless piece of junk. same thing with jimi

  • i agree. anytime i see someone smash a guitar, it is just so gay. but i can assure you that this strat is just a stage prop, probably a mexican made (no offense mexico!!) 300 dollar piece of cardboard disposable garbage, sacrificed in the name of a little rocknroll entertainment. there is no way in hell that yngwie would ever do that to his prized custom scalloped, pre CBS produced, 1960's american made fender strats. those are worth more to him than the ferrari...

  • yeah, on the G3 live in denver dvd from 2003, he uses a cheap white mexi strat with a rosewood neck (at this point he no longer played rosewood necks live) the back had duct tape on the back, as it was pre split for easier smashing lol

  • Actually, you're right about that guitar not being one of his good ones, but i own that video and i can tell you it is scalloped and it sounded very good, the only thing it was missing was the middle pick up and it has a rosewood fretboard instead of his usual maple, it didn't look that great though...so yeah, it was in fact a cheapo with swapped parts.

  • basicly LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL he so funny when i said that ore stuff like that

  • Steelers first cd is hard to find, it was ok though the genesis (officially released around 2002)was way better though

  • Yngwie, you don't take from direct classical themes? Your first record is loaded with themes directly from classical composers.

  • this unprepared interviewer jerk is just a pain in the ass! hats off to yngwie for being so patient. one of the greatest.

  • His name is John Roberts and he is the morning anchorman for CNN and was to replace Dan Rather until they did a 180 with that mistake Katie Couric.

    An interview is about asking questions and finding out more on the subject.

  • Thats where i've seen that little bitch.....thank you.

  • His commentary on not just listening to guitar players shows that people overlook his advice on composition and overall musicianship. Classical composition is a great avenue for learning and improvisation. And a REAL bitch to copy sometimes!

  • guitar; could the same be said for listening to swing music?

  • They named it Van halen not just for Eddie !!

    and also for his brother Alex ,and recently Eddie's son Wolfgang Van Halen !!!!!

    the interviewer is soooo stupid

  • yune, van halen waas names after alex's & eddie 's father

  • Relax peeps, the interviewer is fine, and actually alot better than most.

    Just be cool.

  • Ya know, a lot of people have been saying that he's arrogant, but he actually handled this pretty well..that interviewer was a fag

  • fer sher

  • I was born in 1986.........damn...