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  • Malmsteen is certainly fast but i don't hear creativity and composition come out of his playing, just a lot of fast scale runs. Eddie sounds as if he if feeling the sounds in his soul and communicating it to us. Besides, Malmsteen probably learned to play as he does by listening to Eddie.

  • Malmsteen is faster, does sweep picking and despite the fact he goes overboard a lot, does have some decent songs if you look for them. EVH is a better song writer, has better tone and is more versitle. I like EVH a bit better but pick your poison.

  • Eddie Van Halen by far. There is only one of him. I can find hundreds of teenage neoclassical metal heads who can play malmsteen stuff. It's all modes and scales. If you listen closely enough, he is basically playing the same runs over and over again (alternating between sweeping, alt. picking etc). At least Eddie has heart and creativity. I will admit that EVH couldn't play the stuff Malmsteen does, but vice versa. I sure as hell couldn't play Malmsteen stuff either, but I don't care to.

  • They are both inspiring, living legends!!!!

  • eddie is the best i hate yngwie malmsteen at least eddie does singing in the background for van halen malmsteen is boring its just noise

  • if you listen yngwie is not really faster he just never slows down and makes a point which is one thing in my opinion makes eddie better. in this particular solo eddie doesnt make alot of fast runs but if you listen to a lot of van halen ull hear some fuckin rediculous fast passages. spanish fly, mean street, also eddie plays mostly on the bridge pickup so his playing doesnt sound like a chinese sewing machine like alot of seemingly fast "shredders"

  • Yngwie Malmsteen is more fast. He's more creative playing solos. Yngwie is a phenomenon.

  • @TheMrEgabriel yngwie is fast but hes not creative.! ive never heard him play anything but A minor

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  • yngwie is technically more impressive, eddie has more soul and creativity. Love them both. Allan Holdsworth makes both look like musical infants (but he's not primarily a shredder).

  • original music makes all the difference,not sounding like someone else. done with this subject.theres TOO many guitarists out there who can play and critizise other peoples riffs,but how can anyone critizise a persons riffs if your an unknown guitarist.i love paul gilbert 1950ct but his most popular jamming song"scarified"was written by someone else for racer-X DO YOUR RESEARCH. im sorry i didnt mean to offend you,but remember something,leave the critizising to the people you play in front off

  • you were playing eruption at 13 right?but you didnt make it up,that seperates you from eddie van halen.and also van halen is working on a new album soon to be released.if you want to really want to see how hard yngwie malmsteens playing"style" is to play look around on you tube hard enough ,youll see people as young as twelve playing it.where can you show me somebody playing eddies "style"anywhere?you either dont even play guitar or you wish you couldve made up eruption.dont down guitar legends

  • Sorry folks,,Eddie is one of the greats and always will be, however, Yngwie blows his ass out of the water!!!!!!!,,,Hands down,,I was playing this played ass old eruption shit when I was 13 yrs old.....Does he have anything else to offer??,,NO,,,If you really want a good challenge replace Eddie with Paul Gilbert and then you will have a tought decision to make...

  • Malmsteen clearly takes it!!

  • Malmsteen has no phrasing.

  • Evh is better... All malmsteen does is play fast and sweep pick... BORING. Evh is god.

  • Speed = Yngwie Egosteen

    Feelings = Eddie Van Halen

    Rhythms = Eddie Van Halen

    Varieties = Eddie Van Halen

    Musical legacy = Eddie Van Halen

    Riffs = Eddie Van Halen

    Just wasteful mass of ego = Yngwie Egosteen

    I will give Yngwie this credit though. He does have perfect pitch.

  • @unorthodoxtrotsky Malmsteen > Van Halen (Eddie)

  • @Neoclassical29

    You replied like Yngwie's fanboy. Listen to "Hot For Teacher" - its flawless riffs and rhythm, element of rock and funk with amazing solos. Eddie Van Halen have done much more with guitar(that is all aspects of guitar playing rather than just jerking with tiresome arpeggios) in that one song than Yngwie Egosteen did in his entire career.

  • @unorthodoxtrotsky No i didn't, i love them both, but i'd think it's fairly obvious that Malmsteen is better, not by a lot but come on

  • @Neoclassical29

    I used to be a huge Yngwie's fan and definitely thought he was better. After decade of musical maturity and understanding Eddie's playing, I will say definitely not. Yngwie is very good on what he does. He chop his solos very well and he does have perfect pitch. But he's not a good rhythm guitarist. He's solos are limited to modes which he's good at but he lacks variety and definitely lacks depths and feelings. These are what Eddie Van Halen have captured and mastered.

  • @unorthodoxtrotsky Good point.. never thought about it like that, i apologize

  • @Neoclassical29

    It's OK. :) You don't need to apologize. I often find that many who favor Yngwie seem to have very same view I once had. And that is despite the fact that they may praise Yngwie's lead guitar playing, they have less consideration for rhythm guitar. I used to favor Yngwie for same reason. I remember complaining about Eddie's playing as not expanding his solos. I use to praise Yngwie being "too good" to collaborate with other musicians without recognizing that's also minus.

  • Yngwie is a freak at what he does....but you can only listen to him for so long before going insane. EVH is the total package: innovative, song writing ability, unique, etc. Who do you think more people would pay to see? End of story.

  • let me put it like this, all these super fast classical sounding guitarists,they all sound like they all were taught by the same teacher,then they introduce that style into metal.(not}.classical and metal collide musically.some players do it tastefully such as paul gilbert and keep it in the realm of rock,but once you stray to far from rock to classical sounds your straying too far.i wish alot more people discussed this subject bot not many people are hitting on this page

  • when i was 20 years old i seen a 14 year old play like malmsteen,however this kid had no style of his own.yes he was faster then i was,and technically better.but i guess some people will never get the point.playing fast with no soul and just hitting notes means nothing.its like a paper musician.he can play anything when he reads the music off a sheet,but it will always be off time,even if its a micro-second.who is better is not relavent.they are both talented.anyone who makes it in music is.

  • in the end every guitarist ends up with his own style, what you can play and not play doesnt mean anything because in time with practice you will be able to play anything if you have the gift to learn it.my style sounds like a cross between tony iommi and van halen and others.but its my own style.this is what im trying to get across .sounding like someone else isnt what will make a guitarist stand out.sounding like yourself will.this is what i mean

  • unique sound and unique style are two different things.how many guitarists have eddies style?none.... how many sound like yngwie?alot thats a fact

  • Certainly Yngwie!

  • youre all retarded if you believe evh is anywhere near as good as yngwie... im a guitarist and i can play evh stuff, but not yngwies yet... just because he has a unique sound doesnt make him a good guitarist, neither do a few radio hits... van halen is great and all but evh cant compare to yngwie. and evh is WAYYYYYYYY OVERRATED. yngwie all the way

  • EDDIE AND YNGWIE PLAY IN THE SAME SCALES BUT THEIR STYLE IS MUCH DIFFERENT.I LIKE MALMSTEEN ALOT ON THE TECHNICAL CLASSICAL SIDE STYLE .BUT EDDIE IS MUCH NASTIER,AND DOES THINGS THAT CANT BE DUPLICATED,ON THE OTHER HAND , YNGWIE STYLE HAS BEEN COPIED BY TO MANY GUITARISTS,EDDIES STYLE CANNOT BE COPIED.ONLY ANOTHER HONEST GUITAR PLAYER SUCH AS MYSELF WOULD KNOW AND ADMIT THAT.A PERSON THAT DOES NOT PLAY GUITAR HAS NO IDEA WHATS HARD AND EASY TO PLAY.

  • EDDIE AND YNGWIE PLAY IN THE SAME SCALES BUT THEIR STYLE IS MUCH DIFFERENT.I LIKE MALMSTEEN ALOT ON THE TECHNICAL CLASSICAL SIDE STYLE .BUT EDDIE IS MUCH NASTIER,AND DOES THINGS THAT CANT BE DUPLICATED,ON THE OTHER HAND THAT YNGWIE STYLE HAS BEEN COPIED BY TO MANY GUITARISTS,EDDIES STYLE CANNOT BE COPIED.ONLY ANOTHER HONEST GUITAR PLAYER SUCH AS MYSELF WOULD KNOW AND ADMIT THAT.A PERSON THAT DOES NOT PLAY GUITAR HAS NO IDEA WHATS HARD AND EASY TO PLAY.

  • Once, long time ago there was land between Europe and USA...

    But then Yngwie and Eddie had a guitar rock-off and blew the hole shit to pieces...

  • Ritchie Blackmore blows both these guys away. At 60+ years old he still can out play these guys.

  • ritchie blackmore outplaying malmsteen?? dude are you just as retarded as those who say that hendrix is the best guitarist ever?...dude malmsteen could play every blackmoore solo and song at age 10!at pro level...the things malmsteen does blackmoore could never do in his life and thats a fact you just dont wanna believe it

  • @xSHULAIx

    Moron like you are incapable to talk about guitar playing beside technique.  This isn't to denounce the importance of technique. However speed just become speed when one have reached certain level. Yngwie did "master" Ritchie's solos "note by note" when he was in his early teen. But did Yngwie ever captured the level of depth, feelings and kind of lyricism that Ritchie possess? At age of 50s, Yngwie have yet to learn from Ritchie and he knows it too. He just doesn't know how.

  • @xSHULAIx

    The fact is that Yngwie can play thousands of notes in the "speed of light"(to use one of his song title) but Ritchie can blow Yngwie away with one note. Take a look at solos like "Temple Of The King" or "Over The Rainbow". Yngwie's definitely able to play the notes of these solos but he still can't mastered the level of feelings and depth that Ritchie have and still possesses. And anyone who think Hendrix is the best guitarist ever is "retarded"? Obviously you have no ears!

  • Yngwie had his heyday during 80's but after decades, he doesn't have any musical legacy unlike Eddie. Although there are guitarists who are influenced by Yngwie, he's definitely overshadowed by other masters like Hendrix, Page, Blackmore, Schenker and Eddie himself. His influential role doesn't seem to stretch wide like Eddie who have guitarists that play Thrash and Death Metal and still look up to Eddie as their major influence. All Yngwie seem to have left is his arpeggios and his ego.

  • However with Yngwie, he is one of most outstanding technical innovator but his excellence is limited to solos over riffs, virtuosity over feelings, classical over non-classical. He's definitely one of fastest player but he does sound like he's using speed to substitute his inability to slow down with feelings. His live performance seem to really show that he have very little regard for rhythm guitar parts. Compare to Eddie, Yngwie is horrible musical collaborator for group sound.

  • Eiddie Van Halen bits Yngwie Egosteen. Eddie is excellent in almost all aspects of guitar playing and song writing than Yngwie. Eddie have came up with one of the amazing riffs and his playing have more variety of techniques and ability to play with feelings. He can shred but at same time, he know how to chill and killer riffs with awesome rhythm guitar. He had his heyday during the 80's but he is still dominantly influential to guitarists of many rock and metal genre.

  • Who? Yngwie fucking Malmsteen. Thats who!!

  • El arte no se puede comparar, así de simple. El arte es libre y no cuadriculado como un cuaderno de matemáticas.

  • Edward Van Halen

  • Yngwie Vs. Eddie Is Like Classical Vs. Rock!!! They Can't Be Compared!!!

  • I'm personally for Eddie!

  • van halen

  • van halen !

  • Yngwie is talented as fuck but here is why i would vote for Edward: yes malmsteen is fast but relies on classical scales, eddie on the other hand has some classical influences but was not classically trained, and has a bluesy feel and hot tone, can shred fast as well, and has some awesome reach with that pinky. I mean the guy sat in his room for years and taught himself everything with nothin but a guitar and a six pack of beer. malmsteen plays the guitar but edward uses it as an instrument

  • @evh4450 yngwie never went to school to be classically trained either......yngwie can also play blues and many ppl like his tone, and evh really isnt that fast wen hes not tapping....and practice..yngwie played 8 hrs a day he claims.....  but i love both

  • Hmmmm, I like them both. Yngwie plays faster and is more accurate but sometimes he goes overboard. He does have some good songs unlike many other "shredders". On the other hand EVH has great tone and a funky kind of sound that’s often imitated but never duplicated. He also has a catalog of great hit songs and is an uber rhythm player. I go with EVH but I respect YM a lot.

  • @jabberwock11 I like them both too. However, I like EVH a little bit more. It's a matter of style: both are skilled, and Yngwie is a multi instrumentalist (something Eddie can't brag about). But EVH is catchy, and I find him plain irressistible.

  • @MultiDannyboy89 "something Eddie can't brag about" - Sure he can, he plays keyboards :)

  • @jabberwock11 True, but (and not to say that Yngwie is better) Yngwie plays cello and keyboards (unless I'm mistaken). But again, I go for Eddie.

  • @MultiDannyboy89 Eddie plays drums too though. But again I do like Yngwie a lot (I own many YM CDs) . In fact I would say most modern rock guitar virtuosos are a mix if EVH and YM.

  • @MultiDannyboy89 Eddie is also a multi instrumentalist...Piano.violin­,drums, all of witch he's really good so I think he could brag about that.Both are good.different styles,etc.

  • @LuckyAgnostic eddies tapping is very boreing it sounds very repetitive and BOREING! and its not that hard

  • Yngwie won , Van halen sucks!!!!!!1

  • Evh taught himself... Just saying

  • @SuperT0MaT0 so did yngwie 

  • both legends...that's whats matter

  • Alright fuckers here is the real deal. When it comes to songwriting "the most important thing" it goes to Eddie Hands down. Joe Satarani " Chickenfoot" , Steve Vai "David Lee Roth Band Whitesnake etc, Ynwie " His own bands" None of these guitarist has ever come close to guitar mastery and songwriting at the same time like Eddie Van Halen. And all these guitarist kick ass. Joe Satarani has only done one album with a rock band so i will give him some time.

  • @christianjew42 yngwie ofc :D i like his music alot and esp. trilogy suite rocks...too bad he never plays it completly live ;S

  • @christianjew42 ye i found that out too ^^

  • lmfao edv is not great he is good there is a difference between good and great

  • Well since i'm from sweden ofc i Choose Yngve hahaha

  • both of them are my heros, but randy rhoads is god

  • @CrazyEiche you put it perfectly. Randy is god. Only God could play like randy did.

  • @CrazyEiche Rhoads is god

  • @CrazyEiche damn right :P

  • yngwie mops the floor with van halen's ass. evh is a good guitarist and definitley a virtuoso, but any decent guitarist can play his stuff. i have listened to van halen and his most complex song is eruption. whereas yngwie's songs are far more complex. take the song thats playing right now for example. (which by the way is trilogy suite op 5)

  • i love both can't choose.

  • As a guitarist since '78,I remenber hearing them both for the first time. Eddie came out first and it was like gettin' your ass kicked listening to him, But I think Yngwie blew everybody's ass out of the water in '84. He was only like 21 when his first solo album came out and to me he kinda took over where Randy left off with the neo classical metal style. I love them both,great influences,but I vote Yngwie over anybody from that era,and even today.

  • We have a problem ... when you hear yngwie ... start thinking ... "How do I overcome it?", But when you hear EVH ... do nothing ... just enjoy good quality sound! :) But I vote for yngwie

  • Eddie uses tricks to make himself sound better and cleaner, (sweep arpeggios and tapping) Malmsteen is a Real god of guitar, Eddie is a fraud.

  • @tokiwartooth95 "Eddie is a fraud" --- You're a moron

  • Helen= america domination

    Malmsteen=europe domination my vote for Yngwie :) (im from north ame.)

  • @godsguitarists EVH was bigger in europe.

  • These two guys along with Hendrix are the three most influential rock guitarists of all time. Period.

  • whats yngwies song called?

  • @Aremine Im not 100% sure ahaha sorry

  • @DropkickMurphys12 but where do you have it from? sounds like g3 with vai and satriani...but i cant find it here

  • @Aremine I got it from a program called Frostwire, its a free program you can download it for free music.

  • @DropkickMurphys12 i know what its called now :D Trilogy Suite Opus 5

  • @Aremine Sweeeeeeet :D

  • @DropkickMurphys12 Yeeeh I love that song

    

  • malmsteen is my fav :D and EVH only taps

  • in my opinion eddie van halen is the best guitar player ever and all yngwie does is just play as fast as he can

  • EDDIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • yngwie is technically faster with his arpeggios and classical scales but his musical creativity is not even in the same ball park i mean have you ever seen Eddie play he trills entirely with his wrist.

  • My vote goes for Yngwie but  EVH is awesome too

  • I can't choose. They both rule too much!

  • naa i think Ywngie is better, eruption is not that hard to play, its just tremolo picking and tapping on one string , i dnt think a blues trained guitarist could be better than a Classical trained guitarist

  • Eddie is the greatest guitarist of all time, but Yngwie is good too. :D

    

  • yngwie and eddie are both god but yngwie is a litle bit better yngwie are from sweden and me to

  • Malmsteen is better if youre talking of speed or arpeggios, but Van Halen is my favorite guitarrist, hes the god of guitar!

  • Yngwie owns Eddie in every single way, but Eddie is damn good as well.

  • I gotta admit. . . Yngwie kicks ass. . . the clip here was beautiful. . . but for sheer face-meltingness - EVH is God.

  • @revdraco couldn't of said it better myself.

  • Yngwei is good... but Edward was far better...

  • @iaimstraight totally agree haha

  • edward was far better than yngwei...

    fun guitar playing,

    better sounds,

    great style,

    more versatile,

    beautiful tap,

    harmonic,

    i mean... i always agree with what he's doing,

    yngwei was more into speedy and classical...

    edward had everything...

  • eddie is the best guitar player of any generation. all these new guys dont hold a candle to eddie. i dont care if they play with all 10 fingers. eddie makes em look bad with his soloing ability, songwriting ability, 100 million records dont lie

  • eddie van halen nunca va a se mejor que yngwie malmmsten men

    estas mal

  • for me its yngwie. eddi is just tapping but yngwies music is sooo fucking awesome and beautiful to listen to :D

  • My 2 Favorite Guitarists Alive!!! The Two Guys Don't Fall In The Same Style Of Music!!! Eddie Is Metal And Yngwie Is Classical!!! MMM.... Tie!!!

  • Rhaods beats them both

  • @dcat918 Agreed!!! Randy Is My Favorite!!! Randy, Eddie And Yngwie Are My Top 3!!!

  • eddie still has the fastest pick hand

  • im happy you are biased because i am too, eddie the great van halen is was the best fucking guitarist ever to play. such an innovater. these guys like friedman, broderick, etcc.... they dont have anything on edward van halen !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @OralAgreement69 eddie rocks yngwie is good but, eddie will always rule

  • There is no competition here! Eddie FTW - and an easy win at that! :P

  • @mozzy2410 i agree 100% haha

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  • eddie wins!!!!!!!!!!!

  • EVH

  • my vote goes to eddie van halen ! ... he's more funny than yingwie ... eddie after hendrix is still the best

  • @BlackWolfgang70 Thats a good answer!

  • @BlackWolfgang70 Hendrix? Have You Ever Heard Eddie Talk About Hendrix? I Haven't!!! Yngwie Said That Hendrix Isn't Music, He's Just Noise!!! Don't Believe Me? Look Up This Video "Yngwie Malmsteen Never Played Hendrix Riffs"

  • @DylanBStringer91 in another video he calls jimi the jesus of rock and the reason for him to start playing, and in that clip you told us to watch he actually says that he saw jimi smash a guitar and that was just noise. ''Yngwie talks about hendrix'' thats the video you should check out.

  • @Krisetto He May Have Caused Yngwie To Play "Elcetric Guitar", But What does Yngwie Play? Classical Music!!! Jimi Had No Musical Influence On Yngwie, Just Showsmanship!!! Case Closed!!!

  • @DylanBStringer91 and what does that have to do with anything? the point is that yngwie never said that jimi was just noise unlike what you claimed to have happened in that praticular video you told us to watch.

  • @Krisetto search this video: "yngwie i never played hendrix riffs"

  • @DylanBStringer91 yes i've seen it a lot of times and? if this is about that musical thing, why should yngwie have taken musical influence from hendrix if he likes playing more classical stuff.

  • HAAA! Yngwie by a mile

  • Only virtuoso guitartist I like is Eddie, Randy rhoads and joe satriani. Because their music make sense and they like having fun. Other virtuosos just try overdoing things trying to prove themselves. Other than that normal guitarists like Angus, Joe perry and Slash are good because they play for fun.

  • @osricdh All those Guitarists are great, the only one i cant stand is Buckethead hahaha

  • Eddie was more influential in the 80's, but Yngwie is more influential to today's rock and metal guitarists. Nobody does tapping anymore really, but all the new bands shred like Yngwie. I do admit to liking Yngwie more, but really only his first two albums and a few Alcatrazz and Steeler albums. Most of Yngwie's solos have sounded the same for years, I hate to say. Eddie, well, he doesn't even release anything anymore.

  • @RyuHayabusa06 yea you are right but a lot of guitarrist play tapping although the tapping now a days is harder than eddie did in the eighties i don't think that he can tap the arpegios like broderick or romeo anyway both are great and eddie is older so both are great but malmsteen is better at lest in this song

  • well, too difficult. Mb Yngwie. And I dont understand y Malmsteen for u sounds the same. Mb in last albums, but 1-st, 2, 3. It was so cool. Black Star, Little Savage and so ... , where the hell have u heard the same songs? give me a lot of, please....

  • well just listen to derek trucks he is a slide guitaris and i am sure you re gonna love it better then shredding

  • Eddie was a bigger inspiration to me, but Yngwie is just a LITTLE better. Eddie does play a lot of different stuff, but even though alot of malmsteens stuff sounds the same, it is ALOT more difficult than what Eddie plays. Mmmmmmmm...i vote Malmsteen.  Eddie still rocks though

  • i am going to say Yngwie Malmsteen

  • but yngwie is better technical wise,., other than that eddie all the way,.,.,yngwie is great to though?./?./?./?

  • u CANT compare the 2,.,its against guitar rules set down by the ancient gods of rock!!!,.,how DARE you!!!,, i love yngwie but i must say ,.,eddie was a BIGGER inspiration ,.,every guitarist looks up to him,.,., but STILL 2 different styles,.,u musnt compare them........................p.­s. i think edwards better

  • meh i like eddie better, all of yngwie malmsteen sounds the same. just crazy fast arpeggio shredding

  • yea, im a Eddie fan too, yngwies solos get old.

  • malmsteen. no comparison

  • both sucks :D

  • dude....

  • what the hell r u talking about:(

  • dude yngwie owns halen

  • neither really i just had a yngwie solo and a eddie solo and threw together a random video hahaha

  • could tell you were for vanhalen since the yngwie clip you chose wasnt a good one..either that or you dont know whats good from yngwie.

  • dropkickmurphys12 cant say yngwie is the best because he sucks EDDYS DICK WAYYYYYY TO MUCH!!!!

  • Yngwie does suck

  • malmsteen is the win

  • Second part

    i don't really mnd thm i'm not dfendng thm, what fcks me is that a little twat who dsnt know anything of van halen and nither of yngwie writtes without having the foggiest idea.

    so dear frnd lrn to play lrn abt msic and thn u can say smthng,

    by the way it's not edward van hallen it's Edvierd van hallen you mppet.

    i don't wana nab u only to TEACH AND INFORM U.

  • learn to fucking type

  • who the hell do you thnk u are? how can u say that yngwie is a untalented player when probably u dn't even know how to play the guitar or even what a guitar is you shgger, why don't u try a sng u flm it and hng it in u tube lets see who is ntalented .

  • Fuck you, you gluck

  • yngwie malmsteem is the best and will remain the best!

  • I beg to differ!

  • yngwie was a legend b4 EVH and the 2 styles are different eddie plays rock while yngwie plays melodic metal big difference in music

  • @skrawnySabertooth EVH was active long before Malmsteen? I respect both guitarist only Malmsteen should change his attitude.. he's much too "Í"m the guitar god, worship me now!!" EVH has a unique style though, never seen anything like it.

  • dropkickmurphy if u think that eddie is better why u making this video. im yngwie fan an i also think evh is good. they both have different styles

  • I didnt post this vid to say "Eddie Is Better" i posted it to ask ppl their opinions

  • u already had your opinion on whos better. why do u have do disagree on the people who thinks yngwie is better i notice u that on your last comments. but u know what nevermind i dont want to start a fight

  • YNGWIE

  • Yngwie is faster than eddie. NO DOUBT. ut it doesnt make him better becuase eddie has more of that style he puts in his music and Yngwie likes a composer almost

  • Yngwie is faster, but Eddie just has a variety, Yngwie sounds the same in all of his solos

  • Though choice. I think Malmsteen can play things that EVH can't. On the other hand EVH has overall more interesting solos, has a more wicked sound and is a better songwriter/composer. Malmsteen isn't bad in those categories though. I like his stuff better than say Steve Vai who is just bland to me. I guess I'd take EVH if you put a gun to my head but again I like Malmsteen a lot too and own several of his CDs.

  • Yea im a huge EVH fan, i just think that Malmsteens slols sound the same haha

  • Van Halen isn't really a bad guitarist, but he and Yngwie are on two totally different levels of musicianship.

    Eddie's playing is far less beautiful, and just doesn't make quite as much sense. Yngwie compositions are much better, and his playing is beautiful. He also has far superior tone and technique. This isn't really a matter of opinion, this just isn't a great comparison.

  • edward?

  • Yeah your right you cant compare these two, yngwie is fast without tapping, and eddie taps on all his solos. and dont forget malmsteen played eddies eruption solo with one hand, malmsteen destroys him.

  • I disagree

  • EDDIE!!THE GOD OF GUITAR!!!!

  • Are you stupid?

    These two are TOTALLY diffrent guitarists. You can't compare them...

  • Yea, because Eddie Van Halen is better

  • You can't say Eddie is better, and you can't say Yngwie is better. You can not compare them. They're diffrent....

  • There 2 diffrent guitarists because Eddie is so good, yngwie looks like a n00b

  • Looking like a "n00b" has nothing to do with your playing. Eddie is good, Yngwie is good. But you're still not getting my point here.

    YOU CAN'T COMPARE THEM!

    This is like comparing pizza to water. THEY'RE DIFFRENT!

  • E-d-d-i-e V-a-n H-a-l-e-n i-s b-e-t-t-e-r see? i had to spell it out for you, And they both play guitar, so there the same! idiot

  • You are so fucking stupid. You don't know shit about guitar players, and you don't know shit about comparing things. You just don't know shit about anything. Dumbass.

  • Your just mad that you know your fav cant play for shit, all of his shit sounds the fucking same, every single time its the same fucking shit, that gay ass sound i fucking hate it, and we both know the yngwie cant play at all, and we both know the EVH is and will always be the best, Ignorant Buttfuck.

  • Who said Yngwie was my favorite? When did i ever say that? See, now you're making accusations. Yngwie can play. He is very good, so is EVH. You can't say one is better than the other. The only thing you can compare here is speed. And if you want to compare speed, Yngwie will be the best. Eddie can't play as fast. But that is not what you're comparing. You're comparing skill. Which is stupid because they are DIFFRENT. You are fucking stupid. End of story.

  • Eddie van halen is the best, its that plain and simple, I admit, yngwie is fast but he needs a new style, it got old the first time i heard it, Eddie is always making new syles, so thats why Eddie is better, Its just that Simple