What is that horrible shit @ 2:10 right after Ian Paice talked about not making crap trendy music just for the money? It wasn't Deep Purple... must have been some '80s hair band.
Yngwie Malmsteen is great at what he does, but he has ripped off Blackmore in some ways. It's not so much his playing, which sounds more like Michael Schenker on amphetamines, but the way he's chosen to present himself, and his insistence on working with ex-Rainbow people - Bonnet, Turner, White, Cozy, etc. He even claims to be an Abba fan, and Blackmore's been saying that for decades.
What's the point of having someone set the bar quite high if others can't try to match it? There's nothing wrong with Yngwie modeling himself after the best. That's his "voice." I would love it if he could Tweak what he knows into something different the way Ritchie did when he heard Hendrix. He might still do just that. Hey Yngwie, time to go to Louisiana for a while and jam with us blues guys. See ya in Shreveport. James Burton would love to have you visit..
What's the point of having someone set the bar quite high if others can't try to match it? There's nothing wrong with Yngwie modeling himself after the best. That's his "voice." I would love it if he could Tweak what he knows into something different the way Ritchie did when he heard Hendrix. He might still do just that. Hey Yngwie, time to go to Louisiana for a while and jam with us blues guys. See ya in Shreveport. James Burton would love to have ya.
If you are smart enough you understand that there isn't 1 truth.Everyone looks at things at their own narrow selfsurving way and there are many sides of witch you can look at.I am really dissapointed from Purple they should know better than to put down someone because they don't like what he is doing.
I love Deep Purple but here they are just talking trash....Yngwie never played 1 note as ritchie blackmore.Tone is not the same,Target tones not the same,Speed not the same,vibrato is not the same.Why do they need to compare 2 totally different generations of guitarists.Stupid and absurd and btw Malmsteen has many great songs.
@AtanasovPeter I absolutely agree. These two old men who have had incredible luck to be in the right circumstances with the right people at the perfect time and achieved more than anyone could ever dream of.... sound like some ignorant 14 year old high school brats bitching and bitching with no end.
"I absolutely love the music these guys have recorded but I don´t think I will ever like them as people!!"
Ian paice respects Frank sinatra's music, but "he doesn't think he would like him as a man". Wow!!! I couldn't agree more. Fuck corruption and the glamourization of america's past AND present mob history!!!!!!
"They are two a penny, those guys that can throw their guitar plectrums 100 feet". Yes, people that are insecure, and frankly stupid enough to turn the guitar into a purely technical exercise, make no contribution. A weird compulsive activity producing nothing more than a superficial circus act, or athletic event. Mildly distracting for 2 minutes, but ultimately very boring. What's the point? if their playing expresses nothing - then there is none.
But really HOW DOES YNGWIE SOUND LIKE RITCHIE? Is Ian trying to suggest that Ritchie could ACTUALLY make his guitar destroy all like Yngwie? Could Ritchie play with such technical ability and yet still be able to compose a wonderful melody like Amberdawn, Overture 1383, or Icarus Dream Suite?
Before you get pissed off, Ritchie is a god of the guitar, and I love them both equally BUT there are definitely certain things Yngwie can do that Ritchie can't and vice versa.
I know for a fact that Yngwie begged to be in Deep Purple. I also know, as a fact, that Yngwie, to this day, tries on a weekly basis to get in contact with Ritchie. even to the point of knocking on his front door many times. Great guitarist though!
Man, Gillan couldn't have been further off in his comments on Yngwie. Yngwie will go down as one of the all time great rock guitarists (as will Blackmore). Yngwie wasn't a Blackmore clone and these comments show that Gillan really either had never listened to Malmsteen or he disliked him for some reason. Pity.
@TruthSurge I agree completely, to simply brush off Yngwie as a Blackmore clone is ridiculous. Yngwie is one of the best in the world and he would be even more popular if he was a decent person. You can't compare YM's and Blackmore's riffs but the solos and compositions? Yngwie hands down.
@RhoadsLynch Gillan is just clueless OR wanted to sound badass in an interview. Either way, sad. YM is a great guitarist and technically way beyond Blackmore. But Blackmore was there first and you always gotta give credit to those guys who paved the way. Ozzy sounds like a whiney twat BUT he was doing the heavy thing back when few people were even doing it. So, you shouldn't just wipe away someone who's carved a HUGE chunk of music history for themselves.
@TruthSurge Especially when you view the video i will paste below. But in this video it is clear Ian is putting up with Yngwie more than he is enjoying his company. Usually Ian is pretty respectful when talking about other musicians, even Ritchie Blackmore. He even mentions how Blackmore is a much better guitarist and that Yngwie's greatest accomplishment is kicking picks into the audience with his feet.
@RhoadsLynch People confuse YM's talent/ability with his cocky attitude. Just like Blackmore. No, we don't like arrogant buttholes. BUT, we do like great musicians and so let's give some credit where it's due. :) I saw that clip maybe 2 or 3 years ago. Even Yngwie was dissing his own country in that clip. That's why he migrated to the US because at the time he was ready to rock, they weren't. Lucky he didn't give up, eh?
@RhoadsLynch I disagree I would much rather listen to Blackmore as I personally think he has more style, taste, & restraint than Yngwie. I'll admit that I haven't heard anything from Yngwie in years, but he always bored me after one or two songs as it always seemed all out speed ALL THE TIME. Perhaps he has changed.
@TNO73 I prefer Blackmore, all I said was Yngwie's solos influenced more players soloing than Blackmore. Songwriting, riffs, and quality? Blackmore. Yes Yngwie is about speed but try playing those scales and modes that fast. It ain't easy. I agree Yngwie has become stale. He is capable of amazing, melodic solos though. See his cover of VH's "Light Up The Sky".
As much as I like Ian, he sounds really confused as to what side to be on, and seems to bite the hand that feeds: Doesn't want to do videos, and calls the record company people idiots, and then says the music didn't sell well, because it wasn't promoted ('obviously.')
But if you don't want to do videos, how are you going to promote a band in this day and age (especially a band on it's final downswing?) Even the legendary DP now has a hard time making it on their name alone. They've had to go from sold out arenas, to playing small concert theatres.
So true Ian. Yngwie is a very pale imitation of Ritchie. Ooh he can throw his guitar around his shoulder every 30 seconds and play a million notes a minute, not much substance though. I can listen to Ritchie everyday of my life and not get bored. I can only listen to Yngwie for a few minute at a time. History will tell who wrote the timeless classics in 30 yrs. " Yngwie who" !!!
I know I'm probably gonna get loads of "thumbs down" for this but I totally agree with Gillian's assessment of Malmsteen. He's a showman, plain and simple. Though I don't suppose there's anything inherently wrong with that.....but......
its like petar8706 says "Blackmore is a great composer..." Yngwie can play great provided he has someone there to write the tunes for him. Good showman, but I hold writing/composition to be more important...and certainly more lasting.
What I meant when I said "he's a showman plain and simple", was not that his style was "plain" or "simple" but that its the "plain and simple" truth that Malmsteen is just a showman. Technical ability and next to no compositional qualities...at least not close to Blackmore. A little misunderstanding there
I'm a bit surprised by Gillan choice of words, too. For me his voice on the Born Again album is one of my top 3 favs of all time, of ALL styles, and will remain so. But even to say that he's just simply (as a "truth") a showman and that's it iswrong. He's proven himself to be a prolific composer. He went FAR beyond Ritchie as prolific writer. He's written, to this day, MANY very pleasant sounding ballads and rock hooks that radio ignored, but were more worthy. Yngwie's style, and dexterity.....
...exceeded Blackmore's. IMO, RB's rock-chops and songwriting just stagnated after Perfect Strangers, he was trying too hard for the bluesy single-note riffs too much. He sounds incredible though with an acoustic in Blackmore'sNight, I love that stuff. But, Yngwie DID move past the Ritchie influence. Problem is DP is more blues-based and Yngwie became classically based, and he's stated that the blues is nice, but he wants more, and thats ok. Pple really should stop with "Yng's only fast" stuf.
What are "Like An Angel, Alone In Paradise,AnotherTime, Cross the Line, I'd Die Without You, Prisoner of Love, Miracle of Life, Making Love,What Do You Want, Save Our Love, You Dont Remember, ForeverOne,Im My Own Enemy, BedroomEyes,Brothers, Meant to Be?"...VERY radio-playable songs. Not speedfests. Not demon'n'dragon themes. There's piano/keys. Slow songs. Drama, feeling. There's blues, wah-pedal, rock, classical,ballads. These may not be classics like SmokeOnTheWater, but they also, aren't....
....anything on Rainbow Rising, (thee hard-rock guitar album of the 70's) but as much as I like that album, who can relate to anything on it? Listen to what Ian Paice says about compromise--think Yngwie lives, writes and performs by that idea? and yet he's kinda being dissed, at least by Ian. Everyone still has this misperception that he only plays fast and has no soul, and it's not so. How many of Yngwie's 'children' have written any lyrics? Probably only Paul Gilbert?
Not sure what you mean by relating to anything on Rising, it's a hard rock album with some mystical fantasy theme..mostly...so what are we supposed to relate to?
What i'm getting at is, generally speaking, anything (maybe until the the past decade or more) that makes it onto and stays on the pop and Billboard charts, if it doesn't just make people dance, usually has some kinda theme/lyric that people must be able to relate to on some small human level, to be "accessible." And i think most, not all of RB's solo rock work has failed to do that, truthfully(not just IMO,) even as nice as some of that material has sounded and that i liked it even a little....
...and that a great many of YM's songs done in that vain are no worse than RB's or even DP's to an extent. I think that both can claim only a handful of truly accessible, radio-friendly material that actually charted. If you know any of those songs I mentioned earlier, they alone are an even greater handful of songs which are more accessible lyrically and, minus the 'difficult' solos of his, are REALLY very good songs. Not everything RB did solo or with DP was gold in its relative infancy either
...but, now IMO, i do think that those 16 YM songs i mentioned here earlier on this thread, and maybe a few others i missed, are very strong, well-constructed and played songs, even better in the quantity AND quality than what RB did over an entire rock career, even as much as i was a great RB fan until about '95...I never thought RB w/Rainbow/DP would have to play a concert club, but he did have to, the last Rainbow incarnation with Doogie White. Was a good show. I think RB saw the end near.
@MadJohnEscapes The difference between Blackmore & Malmsteen is Blackmore knows when NOT to play. Sometimes less is more. Whne ever I listen to Yngwie I get bored fast cause it always seems for lack of a better term "Too Much" The last person I would think of as being a great musician is Gene Simmons, but I think he said it best when he said " Given me a single chord instead of a thousand notes that just sound like an angry bee."
@MadJohnEscapes Although I can see the point I Wouldn´t put it that way. What did Ian really achieve outside of Purple and Sabbath? Honestly I think Yngwie composes a lot better than Ian solo and there are a lot of awesome Yngwie songs. He has recorded a huge amount of albums and they are not too versatile but his best certainly beats than of Ian´s best solo! Apart from some stage moves + the harmonic minor scale - what did he actually copy from Richie? Oops, harmonic minor was from classical!
@MadJohnEscapes I happen to agree with you. Some of Yngwie's earlier stuff (first 3 albums) was pretty good, but it's so obvious that he's a Blackmore knock off! Every modern rock guitarist owes much of their style to Ritchie, and in my opinion, he will always be king. No surpirse that some of my favorites take much from him. (Mark Reale, Criss Oliva, Ronnie Montrose.)
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Gilan is talking with his ass here!
yngwie never played one note that remotely reminds of blackmore....i really like deep purple but they are pushing it too hard!
richie is a great composer but when it comes to playing he has to live another 300 years to get on things yngwie did when he was 19 years old!I am pretty sure gilan doesnt know what a diminished scale is and he is musical judge?
If G. really said this, He went too far. YM is a very great guitarist. His technic is unbelievable. But after a while is a bit dull. The less is more - from tunes. Must be soul, spirit etc. behind playing. Blackmore does have.
well that i kinda agree malmsteen doesnt have as much soul as blCKMORE BUT IS TECHNICALLY BETTER AND I DOTN THINK HES SUCH A BAD COMPOSER HES ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD AT IT
i agree with the last part of your statement there Jaffa (and the 1st part of GBWagner1's.) A prevalent part of human nature, is that we want things as easy as possible, and so Yngwie's style doesn't fit with most people's. The public's listening tastes are real f'd up you know? Who can explain why Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me" is such a hit, and a very real work of art and masterpiece such as YM's concerto barely gets any attention. People wanna cry about musicianship, then again, they don't...
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That isn't Rush. That's Boley's Horn Poon. I saw them in Ottawa in '78.
Ariel62073 2 months ago
What is that horrible shit @ 2:10 right after Ian Paice talked about not making crap trendy music just for the money? It wasn't Deep Purple... must have been some '80s hair band.
soyounoat 3 months ago
"Accidently on Purpose"? Never heard.
1980rockfan 3 months ago
Yngwie Malmsteen is great at what he does, but he has ripped off Blackmore in some ways. It's not so much his playing, which sounds more like Michael Schenker on amphetamines, but the way he's chosen to present himself, and his insistence on working with ex-Rainbow people - Bonnet, Turner, White, Cozy, etc. He even claims to be an Abba fan, and Blackmore's been saying that for decades.
GreenerHill 6 months ago
Gillan looks like a hitman,and he is talking utter rubbish
sysrq120 6 months ago
1:37-1:50 AMEN!!!!!
Mastasn1pa 8 months ago
got to love Jon at 1:33 "He He He"
ElwoodBlackmore 8 months ago
finally a good perspective on making music - DO IT FOR THE MUSIC NOT THE MONEY. Good job Ian & Ian... throw his plectrum 100ft rofl
BrotoBro 10 months ago
Malmsteen sounds like shit sort of like Joe Satrianni the Kenny G's of guitar.
lamentfly 11 months ago
He's right but the fans love their heroes and love to see them perform.
paulbuzu 11 months ago
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What's the point of having someone set the bar quite high if others can't try to match it? There's nothing wrong with Yngwie modeling himself after the best. That's his "voice." I would love it if he could Tweak what he knows into something different the way Ritchie did when he heard Hendrix. He might still do just that. Hey Yngwie, time to go to Louisiana for a while and jam with us blues guys. See ya in Shreveport. James Burton would love to have you visit..
artcore3030 1 year ago
What's the point of having someone set the bar quite high if others can't try to match it? There's nothing wrong with Yngwie modeling himself after the best. That's his "voice." I would love it if he could Tweak what he knows into something different the way Ritchie did when he heard Hendrix. He might still do just that. Hey Yngwie, time to go to Louisiana for a while and jam with us blues guys. See ya in Shreveport. James Burton would love to have ya.
artcore3030 1 year ago
Hahahaha Poor Yngwie
edgarrg94 1 year ago
Ian Gillian is an ass
buddahmaster 1 year ago
If you are smart enough you understand that there isn't 1 truth.Everyone looks at things at their own narrow selfsurving way and there are many sides of witch you can look at.I am really dissapointed from Purple they should know better than to put down someone because they don't like what he is doing.
AtanasovPeter 1 year ago
I love Deep Purple but here they are just talking trash....Yngwie never played 1 note as ritchie blackmore.Tone is not the same,Target tones not the same,Speed not the same,vibrato is not the same.Why do they need to compare 2 totally different generations of guitarists.Stupid and absurd and btw Malmsteen has many great songs.
AtanasovPeter 1 year ago
@AtanasovPeter I absolutely agree. These two old men who have had incredible luck to be in the right circumstances with the right people at the perfect time and achieved more than anyone could ever dream of.... sound like some ignorant 14 year old high school brats bitching and bitching with no end.
"I absolutely love the music these guys have recorded but I don´t think I will ever like them as people!!"
ClonerKing 1 year ago
Ian's in a good mood (not).
TheWhupper 1 year ago
Ian paice respects Frank sinatra's music, but "he doesn't think he would like him as a man". Wow!!! I couldn't agree more. Fuck corruption and the glamourization of america's past AND present mob history!!!!!!
TheArbiter74 1 year ago
"They are two a penny, those guys that can throw their guitar plectrums 100 feet". Yes, people that are insecure, and frankly stupid enough to turn the guitar into a purely technical exercise, make no contribution. A weird compulsive activity producing nothing more than a superficial circus act, or athletic event. Mildly distracting for 2 minutes, but ultimately very boring. What's the point? if their playing expresses nothing - then there is none.
nessiebreath 1 year ago
Gotta love Gillan, he is one honest and straightforward chap.
SilverTounge85 1 year ago
But really HOW DOES YNGWIE SOUND LIKE RITCHIE? Is Ian trying to suggest that Ritchie could ACTUALLY make his guitar destroy all like Yngwie? Could Ritchie play with such technical ability and yet still be able to compose a wonderful melody like Amberdawn, Overture 1383, or Icarus Dream Suite?
Before you get pissed off, Ritchie is a god of the guitar, and I love them both equally BUT there are definitely certain things Yngwie can do that Ritchie can't and vice versa.
Whackooyzero 1 year ago
I know for a fact that Yngwie begged to be in Deep Purple. I also know, as a fact, that Yngwie, to this day, tries on a weekly basis to get in contact with Ritchie. even to the point of knocking on his front door many times. Great guitarist though!
ianharkin 2 years ago
Yes, he is great in his own right, but he's not Ritchie Blackmore, nor the founder of Deep Purple, and that will bug him 'till his last day.
charlessavarese 1 year ago
Man, Gillan couldn't have been further off in his comments on Yngwie. Yngwie will go down as one of the all time great rock guitarists (as will Blackmore). Yngwie wasn't a Blackmore clone and these comments show that Gillan really either had never listened to Malmsteen or he disliked him for some reason. Pity.
TruthSurge 2 years ago 2
Yeah it's stupid and mean because you have to remember IG actually played with Yngwie at a certain point.
Whackooyzero 1 year ago
@TruthSurge I agree completely, to simply brush off Yngwie as a Blackmore clone is ridiculous. Yngwie is one of the best in the world and he would be even more popular if he was a decent person. You can't compare YM's and Blackmore's riffs but the solos and compositions? Yngwie hands down.
RhoadsLynch 1 year ago
@RhoadsLynch Gillan is just clueless OR wanted to sound badass in an interview. Either way, sad. YM is a great guitarist and technically way beyond Blackmore. But Blackmore was there first and you always gotta give credit to those guys who paved the way. Ozzy sounds like a whiney twat BUT he was doing the heavy thing back when few people were even doing it. So, you shouldn't just wipe away someone who's carved a HUGE chunk of music history for themselves.
TruthSurge 1 year ago
@TruthSurge Especially when you view the video i will paste below. But in this video it is clear Ian is putting up with Yngwie more than he is enjoying his company. Usually Ian is pretty respectful when talking about other musicians, even Ritchie Blackmore. He even mentions how Blackmore is a much better guitarist and that Yngwie's greatest accomplishment is kicking picks into the audience with his feet.
Ian and Yngwie in 1990 .com/watch?v=VEE6EOdp4vY
RhoadsLynch 1 year ago
@RhoadsLynch People confuse YM's talent/ability with his cocky attitude. Just like Blackmore. No, we don't like arrogant buttholes. BUT, we do like great musicians and so let's give some credit where it's due. :) I saw that clip maybe 2 or 3 years ago. Even Yngwie was dissing his own country in that clip. That's why he migrated to the US because at the time he was ready to rock, they weren't. Lucky he didn't give up, eh?
TruthSurge 1 year ago
@TruthSurge
Gillan clueless?
Dream on, he's one of the most intelligent and articulate people in the rock world..and he was being honest as he always is, not trying to be badass.
seventiesclassic 1 year ago
@RhoadsLynch I disagree I would much rather listen to Blackmore as I personally think he has more style, taste, & restraint than Yngwie. I'll admit that I haven't heard anything from Yngwie in years, but he always bored me after one or two songs as it always seemed all out speed ALL THE TIME. Perhaps he has changed.
TNO73 1 year ago
@TNO73 I prefer Blackmore, all I said was Yngwie's solos influenced more players soloing than Blackmore. Songwriting, riffs, and quality? Blackmore. Yes Yngwie is about speed but try playing those scales and modes that fast. It ain't easy. I agree Yngwie has become stale. He is capable of amazing, melodic solos though. See his cover of VH's "Light Up The Sky".
RhoadsLynch 1 year ago
As much as I like Ian, he sounds really confused as to what side to be on, and seems to bite the hand that feeds: Doesn't want to do videos, and calls the record company people idiots, and then says the music didn't sell well, because it wasn't promoted ('obviously.')
screaminone 2 years ago
Maybe..he referred to them as idiots..because they didn't promote the album properly ?
theyorkshirewhites 2 years ago
But if you don't want to do videos, how are you going to promote a band in this day and age (especially a band on it's final downswing?) Even the legendary DP now has a hard time making it on their name alone. They've had to go from sold out arenas, to playing small concert theatres.
screaminone 2 years ago
here in canada Muchmusic hardly plays videos just pop garbage
Xeper1979 1 year ago
So true Ian. Yngwie is a very pale imitation of Ritchie. Ooh he can throw his guitar around his shoulder every 30 seconds and play a million notes a minute, not much substance though. I can listen to Ritchie everyday of my life and not get bored. I can only listen to Yngwie for a few minute at a time. History will tell who wrote the timeless classics in 30 yrs. " Yngwie who" !!!
purpledude603 2 years ago
Ian Gillan was a good singer in 1972.
His voice has suffered right after "Gillan" a lot.
L485 2 years ago
cause he's a heavy smoker
mouloudo 2 years ago
I know I'm probably gonna get loads of "thumbs down" for this but I totally agree with Gillian's assessment of Malmsteen. He's a showman, plain and simple. Though I don't suppose there's anything inherently wrong with that.....but......
its like petar8706 says "Blackmore is a great composer..." Yngwie can play great provided he has someone there to write the tunes for him. Good showman, but I hold writing/composition to be more important...and certainly more lasting.
MadJohnEscapes 2 years ago 18
I`m not a fan of Malmsteen, but his capability doesn`t sound simple -this is plain untrue.
He is inspired by Richie, this is true and even admitted by Malmsteen himself.
Ridiculous that Gillan speaks pro-Richie in here.
All forgotten ??
Maybe Ian Gillan should
ommit the one or another interview...
L485 2 years ago 2
What I meant when I said "he's a showman plain and simple", was not that his style was "plain" or "simple" but that its the "plain and simple" truth that Malmsteen is just a showman. Technical ability and next to no compositional qualities...at least not close to Blackmore. A little misunderstanding there
MadJohnEscapes 2 years ago 2
I'm a bit surprised by Gillan choice of words, too. For me his voice on the Born Again album is one of my top 3 favs of all time, of ALL styles, and will remain so. But even to say that he's just simply (as a "truth") a showman and that's it iswrong. He's proven himself to be a prolific composer. He went FAR beyond Ritchie as prolific writer. He's written, to this day, MANY very pleasant sounding ballads and rock hooks that radio ignored, but were more worthy. Yngwie's style, and dexterity.....
screaminone 2 years ago
...exceeded Blackmore's. IMO, RB's rock-chops and songwriting just stagnated after Perfect Strangers, he was trying too hard for the bluesy single-note riffs too much. He sounds incredible though with an acoustic in Blackmore'sNight, I love that stuff. But, Yngwie DID move past the Ritchie influence. Problem is DP is more blues-based and Yngwie became classically based, and he's stated that the blues is nice, but he wants more, and thats ok. Pple really should stop with "Yng's only fast" stuf.
screaminone 2 years ago
Nothing but the truth, could not agree more. Cheers !!!
purpledude603 2 years ago
What are "Like An Angel, Alone In Paradise,AnotherTime, Cross the Line, I'd Die Without You, Prisoner of Love, Miracle of Life, Making Love,What Do You Want, Save Our Love, You Dont Remember, ForeverOne,Im My Own Enemy, BedroomEyes,Brothers, Meant to Be?"...VERY radio-playable songs. Not speedfests. Not demon'n'dragon themes. There's piano/keys. Slow songs. Drama, feeling. There's blues, wah-pedal, rock, classical,ballads. These may not be classics like SmokeOnTheWater, but they also, aren't....
screaminone 2 years ago
....anything on Rainbow Rising, (thee hard-rock guitar album of the 70's) but as much as I like that album, who can relate to anything on it? Listen to what Ian Paice says about compromise--think Yngwie lives, writes and performs by that idea? and yet he's kinda being dissed, at least by Ian. Everyone still has this misperception that he only plays fast and has no soul, and it's not so. How many of Yngwie's 'children' have written any lyrics? Probably only Paul Gilbert?
screaminone 2 years ago
...being dissed by Ian Gillan, that is.
screaminone 2 years ago
Not sure what you mean by relating to anything on Rising, it's a hard rock album with some mystical fantasy theme..mostly...so what are we supposed to relate to?
seventiesclassic 2 years ago
What i'm getting at is, generally speaking, anything (maybe until the the past decade or more) that makes it onto and stays on the pop and Billboard charts, if it doesn't just make people dance, usually has some kinda theme/lyric that people must be able to relate to on some small human level, to be "accessible." And i think most, not all of RB's solo rock work has failed to do that, truthfully(not just IMO,) even as nice as some of that material has sounded and that i liked it even a little....
screaminone 2 years ago
...and that a great many of YM's songs done in that vain are no worse than RB's or even DP's to an extent. I think that both can claim only a handful of truly accessible, radio-friendly material that actually charted. If you know any of those songs I mentioned earlier, they alone are an even greater handful of songs which are more accessible lyrically and, minus the 'difficult' solos of his, are REALLY very good songs. Not everything RB did solo or with DP was gold in its relative infancy either
screaminone 2 years ago
...but, now IMO, i do think that those 16 YM songs i mentioned here earlier on this thread, and maybe a few others i missed, are very strong, well-constructed and played songs, even better in the quantity AND quality than what RB did over an entire rock career, even as much as i was a great RB fan until about '95...I never thought RB w/Rainbow/DP would have to play a concert club, but he did have to, the last Rainbow incarnation with Doogie White. Was a good show. I think RB saw the end near.
screaminone 2 years ago
@MadJohnEscapes The difference between Blackmore & Malmsteen is Blackmore knows when NOT to play. Sometimes less is more. Whne ever I listen to Yngwie I get bored fast cause it always seems for lack of a better term "Too Much" The last person I would think of as being a great musician is Gene Simmons, but I think he said it best when he said " Given me a single chord instead of a thousand notes that just sound like an angry bee."
TNO73 1 year ago
@MadJohnEscapes Exactly,Malmsteen does nothing for me as a guitarist,and not beacause i am agreeing with Gillan.I have ears of my own........
littlequeen64 1 year ago
@littlequeen64 Thumbs up my man
lamentfly 11 months ago
@lamentfly You mean, WOMAN....... : )
littlequeen64 10 months ago
@MadJohnEscapes Although I can see the point I Wouldn´t put it that way. What did Ian really achieve outside of Purple and Sabbath? Honestly I think Yngwie composes a lot better than Ian solo and there are a lot of awesome Yngwie songs. He has recorded a huge amount of albums and they are not too versatile but his best certainly beats than of Ian´s best solo! Apart from some stage moves + the harmonic minor scale - what did he actually copy from Richie? Oops, harmonic minor was from classical!
ClonerKing 1 year ago
@MadJohnEscapes I happen to agree with you. Some of Yngwie's earlier stuff (first 3 albums) was pretty good, but it's so obvious that he's a Blackmore knock off! Every modern rock guitarist owes much of their style to Ritchie, and in my opinion, he will always be king. No surpirse that some of my favorites take much from him. (Mark Reale, Criss Oliva, Ronnie Montrose.)
McCartyrocks 1 month ago
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Gilan is talking with his ass here!
yngwie never played one note that remotely reminds of blackmore....i really like deep purple but they are pushing it too hard!
richie is a great composer but when it comes to playing he has to live another 300 years to get on things yngwie did when he was 19 years old!I am pretty sure gilan doesnt know what a diminished scale is and he is musical judge?
petar870602 2 years ago
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Ynwie's style is based on that of Ritchie Blackmore??? Nonsense!
It's based on that of Bach and Vivaldi.
TRambo55 2 years ago
what was his last words here about yngwie i cant hear?
petar870602 2 years ago
I think Gillan said:
"Yngwie is a showman. There are plenty of those guys that can throw there guitar pick away a hundred feet. That's his greatest achievment"
TRambo55 2 years ago
If G. really said this, He went too far. YM is a very great guitarist. His technic is unbelievable. But after a while is a bit dull. The less is more - from tunes. Must be soul, spirit etc. behind playing. Blackmore does have.
GBWagner1 2 years ago 3
well that i kinda agree malmsteen doesnt have as much soul as blCKMORE BUT IS TECHNICALLY BETTER AND I DOTN THINK HES SUCH A BAD COMPOSER HES ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD AT IT
JaffahProductions 2 years ago 3
i agree with the last part of your statement there Jaffa (and the 1st part of GBWagner1's.) A prevalent part of human nature, is that we want things as easy as possible, and so Yngwie's style doesn't fit with most people's. The public's listening tastes are real f'd up you know? Who can explain why Poison's "Talk Dirty to Me" is such a hit, and a very real work of art and masterpiece such as YM's concerto barely gets any attention. People wanna cry about musicianship, then again, they don't...
screaminone 2 years ago
...going into lotsa tangent, grey area, i know...
screaminone 2 years ago
Its the riff to "Sometimes I feel like screaming"...
GillanTeamGal 3 years ago
Its the riff to "Sometimes I feel like screaming...
GillanTeamGal 3 years ago
Can someone please tell me what is that song starting on 0:29?
Seikima 3 years ago
that's steve morse's shitty riff of 'sometimes i feel like shitting..sorry screaming!'
0205210 3 years ago
where do you guys get this stuff?
repetitivemotion 3 years ago
ian gillian? WTF
his name is ian gillan
ElwoodBlackmore 3 years ago
Ian's telling it how...IT IS.
olhole 3 years ago 8
He sure is and so he bloody well should ;-) good on him I say hey hey! cheer cheer GillanTeamGal!
GillanTeamGal 3 years ago 2