Yngwie Malmsteen - I Am A Viking

[Thesunbursticeman]

@deadhands1981 Dude you had me rollin from that. One up for Jeff

[AthleticMusician91]

how th hell does this guy sing like that??

and malmsteen is on a whole nother level of epic guitar playing....

why is music today so boring?

[dogkicker101]

@AthleticMusician91 Because people just dont buy it...were all to blame.so next time we download something from Itunes,Make it a grate song like this and not just the flavor of the month..

[deadhands1981]

3:39 Only jeff can pull that off and still be a warrior and still light years ahead of any rock vocalist you have today whom you would gladly have a fist fight with win or lose just because you dont like their cute faces and cute style.

[JoeyFNFingers]

Man it's been soo long since I've seen this footage. I forgot that he had a scalloped neck even back then. and Jeff is still by far my favorite singer that he ever had. Joe Lynn Turner being a close second. This is the album that got me into Yngwie and I still like it better than anything else he did.

[sanbrunojess]

I saw Yngwie Malmsteen @ Day on the Green in 1985..went mainly to see Metallica (with Cliff Burton RIP), but Yngwie & JSS tore it up!!! This is a great song!

[apai06]

credits to the lead guitarist..!!! u make the day!!!

[turkishsniper]

very good one when u workout. its a masterpiece...

[jonatankills]

3:18 Ingwie, get the fuck out!!

[TurtleFL]

All the way up to F#5 with Jeff Scot Soto there. I get over my cold, I might be able to pull it off.... ONE OCTAVE DOWN LMAO!!!

[goodygoody23]

@TurtleFL My favorite singer today is Ripper Owens. But Soto was truly the best fit for Malmsteen. His voice is so powerful

[JoeyFNFingers]

@TurtleFL Yeah Jeff was and still is an awesome singer. Saw him with Yngwie on the Trilogy tour when they opened for Maiden when they were on Somewhere in Time. And again with him fronting Journey a few years back before they got the Phillipino guy. Not sure how many peeps know but he did the vocals of the original singer of Steel Dragon in the movie Rockstar.

[sonicbluebolt]

Jeff Scott Soto sounds amazing live! I wish I could've seen him w/ Yngwie back in the mid 80's...then again...maybe I did and I was too fucked up to remember it?

[clovis2012]

Soto OWNS this song

[MrD21X]

nice . i like it

[TheLordOfCoal]

Why it looks like the audience was clapping all the time?

[pickupthePWN]

6:12 'yngwie, stop being so clumsy!'

[pickupthePWN]

soto's more on track than yngwie lol

[wumpscut1]

Blue tights and pink top, and one of the best metal singers ever \m/

[cashewedalmonds]

Jeff soto is so damn accurate live. So Great!!!

[mayopo]

Alguien sabe si existe algun video de alguna otra presentacion con scott soto y malmsteen ???

[SuperBubbleworld]

^_^ I STILL LOVE THIS SONG

[SuperBubbleworld]

my favorute song. i may be 12 and people say stop going to hevy metal conserts but i say HELL NO SO BACK OFF

[V00D00Strat]

@SuperBubbleworld You rock the F%^k out!!! Be respectful, help others in need, and above all else be true to yourself!!! (and rock the F*#K OUT!!!)

[henryrudess]

The best song ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[RamsesCairoC]

At 5:23 when it changes key, that particular moment (in the history of guitar playing)is just sublime at least for MEEEEEE

[ThePucca4u]

into the sea yeah yeah!

[YaScreen]

Does anyone know where this footage is from? Where can I get it in hi-res?

[YaScreen]

Does anyone know where this footage is from? Where can I get it in hi-res? DVD?

[sothis48]

yngwie is the greatest guitarist ever.....much better that hendrix!!!!

[722erodz]

great song great album/cd great guitar player y.j.m. : )

[electrickithara]

Bach and roll! ☺

[GuitarSlinger2112]

Soto is the only singer to put equal balls to Yngwie's... I've seen them all live and Soto is the only one able to prove he doesn't need a studio spit shine to sound bad ass.

[Freyja1133]

Can A Valkrie also go out to war/Go raiding?

Curious

[NordicBlood84]

Anybody notice Scott soto voice he nailed this song to the point. This tells you yngwie has a good eye for talent, maybe he should be the next American idol judge. Just kidding.

[918509]

dear bother Yngwie; Your very blessed with musical abilty may I say with playing guitar like when perform. In my opinion your one the best guitarist in the century. From prometalguitar Billy James Prosser thank you Yngwie.

[mollers92]

"you are a loser, and its such a shame". This is Spinal Tap.

[monkeybutthailey95]

:/ Not to sound like a bitch or anything but all these chord progressions are typically common amongst music and same with the rhythms and melodies.

[Testamentslayer]

He totally looks like a viking..

[martyfridman]

He s my God , Y J Malmsteen 

[NisseEricsson]

Best guitarist ever, nobody else comes even close.

[DarthAlex666]

This is definitely not an overdub. I listen to this song from the real CD (no burns) all the time and it sounds slightly, but noticably different.

[SwedKarr]

i remember seeing this keyboard player running around the keyboard and still playing.. does anybody know where i can find this video?

[andyguitarz]

@SwedKarr search far beyond the sun leningrad 1989

[SwedKarr]

@andyguitarz right on chum.. thanks alot

[mnunezper]

@SwedKarr far beyond the sun live

[SwedKarr]

@mnunezper thanks there bud.. can't believe it's far beyond the sun.. i had this video.. but damn.. thanks though

[Freyja1133]

@SwedKarr this isn't far beyound the sun... It's I am A Viking

[SwedKarr]

@Freyja1133 well of course i know this isn't far beyond the sun.. i was looking for the video of the keyboardist running around his keyboard.. and i couldn't find.. soo i just asked the questiopn on this.. mainly because people know more about yngwie then me..

[Freyja1133]

@SwedKarr you know about as much about YJM as I do..being a singer ,I tend to

pay more attention to the frontmen of rising force ( for their voices ,and their looks)

[xangelinuyashax]

thumbs up if u werent born in 1985 but think this music is better than most of the crap made today :]

[JERSEYTARPIT]

Is this video intended to make me think I'm on LSD or does it just look like that? Whoa...

[drummerinSD]

he looks just as powerful as he sings! fucking awesome

[gravbong]

why was i born 10 years too late.

[jani14jani]

@gravbong Ye me too (1992)

[TETENKX]

versi laen dr lagu maju tak gentar ... lol

[71bee383]

Best song on YJM's 2nd solo project by far! great, GREAT licks!

[lawrenceguitars]

most amazing rock voice i have ever heard, why have i not heard of this man before!? best OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEAHHHHHHEEEEE­EYEAAAAAAAAAEEAAAAEEAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAA ever!

[derangedband]

this is a song i will never ever get bored of. surely one of my favorite songs ever. i wanna hear new singers that can do what jeff can. seems all the talent was in the 80s and everything before it...my generation seem to think the most amazing original thing is lady gaga! bleh! bring back talented musicians. i wanna see jeff go on tour with queen!

[Strikerx20]

HES A VIKING DAMMIT

[bubo1337]

Epic voice ! 

[TomTom40202]

i learned this whole song in two days!!! im still working on the solo though, those twelth runs are not easy

[69ofdoom]

Back in the days where good musicians were actually needed to become a successful musical artist.

[frikinfrank1969]

no shit.....got a tattoo based on this song in 1989.....ferocious song......love it to this day.

[Freyja1133]

@frikinfrank1969 I'd a runic tattoo myself

[Freyja1133]

Bassist,songwriter,vocalist

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Beauty,white,43& 1/2 Scandinavian

Influences: TNT,Yngwie Malmsteen,Stratovarius etc

Have rehearsal Space

EMail Address: Valfreyja133@aol.com

No Dramas,Insincerty& Legal Problems

Name changes are wanted

[arclight777]

YJM and JSS rulled in the day....come to think about it...they are even better today

[bazza31]

agree!! Jeff Scott Soto has to be in the top 5 metal vocalists of all time!!!

[CallingCrowe]

@bazza31: Right next to Warrel Dane, Mikael Akerfeldt, Roy Khantatat, and Rob Halford. =)

[Flakevee]

lol slash as vocals ?

[Wgrant]

That. Was. Awesome.

[joshmattg]

jeff scott soto you fuckin legend

[tyramax]

awesome improvisation at the solo !!

[HeavyMetalSwede]

Love this song!

[jfwong]

what's up with the constant loop of the audience cheers in the background :(

[CapnKeys]

@jfwong

They really really really really really really really really really really really like this song.

[vikingilvikingo]

Yes I am  a Vikingilvikingo

;)

The very best Y.J. Malmsteen

[thealexvid]

yes i am a viking !

[ralphsorce]

Soto Rules!

[TheOrangeKnight579]

its viking or biking? (soto says it like biking not viking)

[LifesaGardenDigit1]

biking as in riding you bike..

[YukonRoxx]

@TheOrangeKnight579 Could be the new weird Al parody. I'm going biking :)

[TheOrangeKnight579]

lol im going biking XD

[PeacockDrops]

@YukonRoxx

Oh yeah, cuz wierd al can sooo play this

[MassiveMods]

lol I am a biking ...

[perpetual61]

Without a Doubt Yngwie's Greatest Singer Ever. Years Later Many Have Tried To fill His Shoes and Many Have Failed. Hats Of To Jeff Scott Soto For Giving us What Many Only Dream To.

[MaddMaxxArt]

I totally agree with you! If you watch VH1 they call him a sound alike for Journey!! No one sounds like JSS!!

[Darkulla]

@perpetual61 whats up with the cap letters?

[theblitz8]

Soto is such a badass singer

[juanstor1]

The beginning is Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni. Yngwie plays lots of interpretations on classical pieces during his concerts He didn't copy it and pass it as his own composition; think of it as a cover lol!

[zeldagana]

rock yur mfuc... brains out.

[dmcgraye]

badass solo towards the end@! good job yngwie

[BelialUK]

mdee13S is right :)

[MINIATASAMI4210]

incredible

[Warbleucivan]

the beginning is bach. they didn't write it

[yngwiemalmsteen8]

IS ALBINONI!!!!!!

[sonotahippie]

whos the guitarist ?

lol

[No1RHCPfan]

the singer kinda sounds like bruce dickinson of iron maiden

[perpetual61]

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 !!

[Hermand1973]

jef scot soto, u can see soto whit new band too

[Aikitiem]

thanks =)

[Aikitiem]

whats the singer name?

[ChrisSRApplePie]

Damn, this song makes me want to crash into a store while riding a shopping cart in battle-armor. Awesome song.

[TheCaptainLulz]

this comment is EPIC!!!!

[sonotahippie]

lol fucking rock on dude that has officialy because the badass quote of my day

[ChrisSRApplePie]

haha, cool.

[sonotahippie]

become* lol

[TheGreatDuck]

Whats the name of that classical composition at the beginning?

[mickiew4]

the beginning section is a piece of yngwie's "icarus dream".

[Warbleucivan]

no its bach. i can't believe they actually copied it.

[mickiew4]

well, it's also an yngwie song called "icarus dream"

[mdee13S]

You are both wrong..it is NOT  Bach OR Albinoni...

The opening is Malmsteen's Icarus' Dream Suite..which IS based on "Adagio in G Minor for Organ and strings"...

That piece has often been credited to Tomaso Albinoni...but was actually written by Remo Giazotto and was first published in 1958

[littleVogty]

whatever it is, the intro is killer

[beroth77]

@mdee13S ITS NOT BASED IS EXACTLY LIKE. EVEN THE DOORS RECORDED THIS MUSIC . CHECK IT OUT

[PauloNessaBosta]

soto is the best singer

[udz24]

Soto is a Viking!

[b34nsNc0rnbread]

Soto is the father of every person watching this video.

[prsguitars92]

hahhahha

[udz24]

Jeff Scott Soto gets the recognition from other muscians. The top forty will never recognize the power of Soto. It never has and never will!

[HighZombiesRule]

Man, what a bitching voice Jeff Scott Soto has! I wonder why he hasn't gotten the recognition that he deserves, especially in the 80's? His voice is powerful!

[b34nsNc0rnbread]

his voice is the perfect match for Yngwie's playing XD

[HighZombiesRule]

It was. Only Tim Owens can match up imo.

[quipola]

Intro de adagio de Albinoni

[tyramax]

this live solo version is wonderful...

[SANNAFABICH]

5:24 to 5:44 80's gay ass video effects

[mexrilla]

lol.....

[TheRealAxelFury]

Jeff Scott Soto it is indeed one of the most memorable rock voices of all times, Alongside Dio, and Gillan, but it is just my opinion :D

[oj8b709q]

your opinoin is just like mine

[kraker30south]

jeff scott soto + yngwie = the best to ever happen

[CBRbanshee420]

wtf is the drummer wearing?!?!?!

[kenjay]

Guitar GOD Yngwie

[gcracka120]

HAHA!!! 6:28

[intro510]

flawless guitar playing, he is an artist

[citizenbirdtube]

I was seriously concerned that singer would swallow the mic at 2:34.

[icyfire011]

hahahaha

[lordsvarte]

I never saw such a thing, he's so good at singing that he sounds like a fuckin' playback!

[erikthered9]

@lordsvarte ....Yeah, i agree, its a choice clip.

[lordsvarte]

@erikthered9 after one year from my first commentary, now i do think it's a overdub, i mean, there's no variation in his voice, not even during his movements, his mouth movement, i don't know...

[erikthered9]

@lordsvarte ...You are probably right....its almost too perfect...he has a new cd coming out now.

[DuDe1040]

@lordsvarte well i ikinda disagree cuz you can hear his talking when yngwie is rocking out and solos are improvised so i dont think anyone would overdub

[MetaLGuitarHero666]

damn i love this song =D!

[icyfire011]

people that say he plays with no feeling should watch this

[icyfire011]

I cant get enough of this guys music

How could you not like him?

[KillerBeBop94]

Jeff Scott Soto is so incredble

[Funkygotcha]

@KillerBeBop94 He played a Show at my 8th birthday party back in 1990. He's friends with my family.

[KillerBeBop94]

@Funkygotcha WoWW ! that should be a nice birthday ;)

[Funkygotcha]

@KillerBeBop94 ya. there was 5 bands. including my dads. I didn't really care for Jeff Soto at the time. I was more interested in hearing the death metal band that showed up. He ended up being a pretty cool guy. I think i hold the record for most beer drank at an 8 year old birthday party. not me but everyone there.

[PANNOGROSSO]

i just fucking love malmsteen

[calialltheway]

awesome guitar work, i love when the guitar sqweals like that. right before "I am a Viking".

[PaulC39]

A really good ol' song from Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. I have this dvd and its a treasure. Great post dude!

[Shoronsina]

its on Marching Out not Rising Force

.

[PaulC39]

Yes I know I was just mentioning them as a band. Believe me I know.

[icyfire011]

his first album was called rising force

[CombatArchery]

';'

[verystoned]

nice version of 'adagio'

[intro510]

the solo is so fucking bad ass

[mstrsrch]

hell yeah!!!!

[MPierrot666]

fuck amazing