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  • i thought yngwie didn't like jimi hendrix's music lol.well i applaud him for playing this,still not very good.i get that shredding & neo classical shit is more his style,but it doesn't cut it with jimi's music.people get so swept up in speed & technique they lose feeling for the music,so it ends up sounding mechanical & soulless.

  • Not a so great solo.. Why does he always have to play so fast

  • Smokin! This shredder has feeling

  • yngwie rocks

  • Love this, he's not Hendrix, he puts his own personal stamp on it. If I wanted the original I'd listen to the original. I like it when somebody takes the familiar and doesn't just cover it, Malmsteen takes this way out there I'll admit, but I think it's kind of neat.

  • Many many notes and techniques, but I don´t know why I like too much jimi hendrix, music is a not racer

  • Many many notes and techniques, but I don´t know why I like too much jimi hendrix

  • at the first note i was quite surprised and i told myself "oh wow he's finally doing a good solo"... but 3 seconds later..

  • @fidiricu92 Dude, I actually thought it was pretty good 8D

  • he has slow fingers

  • He sure can make those little sausages fly.

  • this is the only man that can destroy this perfect song... unvelible! (srry for my horrible english)

  • I'm not a fan of it, but I love the original solo so insanely much! Still, Malmsteen should get more credz for playing this in his own style.

  • i feel nothing from this. it's just garbage

  • this is shit.

    jimy god.

    this's only shit

  • did i see that right? satch, yngwie and vai all onstage together? i think i would've shit my pants to see that live

  • I wonder what i would choose; being as great a guitar player as Yngwie and earning as much money as he does, or being some judgmental prick on youtube who are stocking the shelves in the real world? I know what I would choose, and I don't know why you bother spewing your ignornce here, cause Yngwie probably isn't reading it. He's busy living his life to da max

  • ah vai toma no ..... que merda!!!

  • your never disappointed with yngwie

  • Classical + Blues = Kickass

  • stop bitching PLEASE. G3 plays COVERS. Little wing played by Hendrix had ONE guitar. They have THREE GUITARS. Malmsteen plays HIS way. Jimi played HIS way.

  • I think Jimi would have been amused...You're a great guitarist dude, but even Jimi found value in the less talented players that could play in a way that can make the audience or other musicians feel something. I mean, would you actually knock Arthur Lee, for instance? Jimi respected him. You do need some humility training.

  • malmsteen sucks dick!! this is shit!

  • @AlternativeJoeL Hey Joe, let's hear some of you stuff. I'll match you and then some. Lets go...

  • this solo sucks !

    yngwie sucks ...

  • @emifaltaderespeto

    I'd love to "suck" at guitar playing as much as he does. Good guitarist isn't tuning himself to music score, but rather modify it to his own style. You can hate him for that, but that's how you separate talents from copycats.

  • Vai's solo was MUCH worse than this one, I didn't think it was that bad, I think he managed to capture the vibe, even if he did go a little crazy...but I mean, come on, its Yngwie!

    Satch kills em both though

  • Don't get me wrong, the guy can play, but he should save the shred for another song. But you have got to give it to him to still doing his thing and putting his own style into songs, instead of playing just like the original song, even if it didn't really fit. He's expressing himself, and Jimi would dig it, because he was true to himself, even though it didn't suit the song exactly.

    Anyways, if I have to listen to another guy playing SRV's version again, I might lose it.

  • ok yngwie. you can play fast. we get the message. please stop. kthnksbye

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  • ... shit?

  • YNGWIE GOD !!

  • sweeping in little wing? man that was a wanky solo, good thing satch and vai kinda saved the day there. There are some jimi songs where its ok to show off like that such as "fire" and other songs, but little wing is supposed to be a slower, more melodic solo and yngwie kinda ruined that.

  • yeah, lol, especially vai with his tapping. retard

  • ok, vais wasnt much better, but watch the whole thing again, Vai does the rhythm and the vocals, Malmsteen manages to squeeze in a bit of wankery during the vocals and even when Satch is talking at the beginning, He just doesnt know when to slow down. and whats with the personal attacks?

  • cry me a river. i'd put this solo over vai and possibly even over satch, mostly because I heard too many covers of this song and malmsteen is the first one who did a step before the line to play this solo in his own specific way. i know its hendrixs classic, but i cant see a good reason to close my mind for different versions, like this, shred.

  • It just doesnt sound right, i know hes expressing himself or whatever, but it doesnt fit, it kills the essence of the song. IF someone sampled "yesterday" by the beatles, and turned it into an egomaniacal rap about shooting cops and beating women, yeah it would be different than the other covers, but it would still kill the entire point of the song, and it would sound like ass.

  • bullshit comparison, and it doesnt sound right for you, maybe. got the point?

  • despite this his "own specific way" sucks donkey balls, pure wankery

  • shut the fuck up, you don't know shit about a dead mans perspective

  • Why do people bother showing up on these videos to leave yet more "He can't play with any feel" comments? I mean, that's fine if that's your opinion, but why even look up these videos? Malmsteen has insane technical ability and some people like the way he plays and some people don't.

  • please tell me that this and red house are the only Hendrix songs he butchers. Please. he has immense talent but he never bothered to concern himself with musicality 101. Showing off so-so, adequate talents is no way to make music. Music lovers worldwide Agree! They want to hear the voice, the song of the player. Look, don't try and make love with this approach. Believe that.

  • Jimi would approve because he's not an arrogant shithead with nothing better to do than randomly flame youtube videos with popular, childish opinions, blues fanatics are no better than people who say "Yeah he sucks now, but I like his older work" its just pompous bullshit for people to say who want to feel elite, but obviously dont have the capacity to be elite at anything

  • @dmcgraye too many haters on here. If they watched people like this a little more often they would probably appreciate good music and that might change their frame of mind. Nobody should be talking smack about people as good as Yngwie or anyone in this video. Lets be thankful to be around when these people are alive and producing new music.

  • well, with all the talks in here, on my 30 year guitar experience i think yngwie does a great solo on this 'cause all the rest like steve and his whole legions of shredders sounds the same plus SRVs version, i'm sorry fans is hendrixcsm at his best and to me hendrix is the only man in that style, i am anticipating violent replies...... that is my own point view, .......peace

  • sometimes more is lees if you know what I mean. malmsteen is trying too hard. if you play more notes on a solo doesn't make it better...

    It's like he's playing guitar just to prove he's the best and not because he wants to create something amazing.

    personally, I prefer paul gilbert.

  • sad to say but true :)

  • He's not my cup of tea...sounds somehow unoriginal and trite, but I could never take anything away from the guy. He obviously can play his ass off.

  • jimi n yngwie is my idollllll............owowowo..­.

  • C'mon guys how can you say this solo was awesome? I agree with the fact that in a cover you must play a song in your own way, but this is just pure shredding, he ruined the solo! And yes, the only one who covered this song perfectly is SRV

  • Guthrie Govan would put all three of these guys to shame!!

  • PrivateJoker, I think you're right also! :-)

  • Sorry I don't know why I wrote like shit.When I'm typing fast I make a lot of mistakes :P

  • There great. But I thing this video proves that there's no way to replace Jimi, even the great SRV couldn't.

  • Jimi played fast and loud and was the best of his time...kind of like Yngwie, people dont like yngwie cause he's good, people are told to believe fast solos are automatically bad ones and since people are puppets they go along with it

  • yup people dont even give shredders a chance some accually have very melodic solos even though they are fast. like yngwie

  • finally some ppl who care about yngwie...i hate the other g3 video's comments cuz everyone gives malmsteen crap....it takes a lot of skill, knowledge, and prctice just to come close to the shit he can do

  • if he played it just the like the original and didnt put hes own style into the solo, then it would suck.

    he just played it hes way.

  • When I listen to stuff like this it makes me wonder, if I ever learn to shred, will I ever be able to resist shredding in every solo? Because if not I think I'll just avoid going that far. ;)

  • Amazing! Yngwie rules!

  • he didnt kill the solo he just added his own style personally i dont like it but that dosnt mean its bad... my fav is stevie ray vaughan's little wing

  • sure he plays a good guitar but those sweeps just killed the beauty of that solo

  • how sweeps ae beautiful and full of emotion

  • no dude

  • well what did you expect?

    he is a neo classical guitarrist

    of course hes gonna play that neoclassical super fast stuff

  • I have come to realize that Yngwie is one hell of a guitarist but WHY O WHY does he shredd all the fucking time. He has killer solos but if he just would play slower it would be great. I think he shows of way to much. In this solo you dont want to see mega shredding because he truy can play with feeling. He has great frasing " don´t know if frasing is right in english":P

  • It's phrasing xD

  • i agree with most of the comments saying that he rips the soul out of this, cause i dont like malmsteen, but i find most guitarists that say "speed takes no soul", are just saying that as an excuse to why they can't play fast themselves lol

  • They're full of crap. You can't play like that if you don't care...

  • lol jealousfags everywhere

  • HAHAHA YEAH especially TEEJ017 Im not gonna read all that shit lol

  • Quite frankly, Malmsteen's playing is extremely monotonous. You can't say it lacks soul, because soul is a very subjective thing, but what you can say is that its boring. Of course, at first it may be cool to see a guy play very fucking fast, but after the third or fourth time hearing it, it gets pretty old. All I'm saying is that he should diversify his playing. There's a time, place and song for everything. Little Wing, and any other Hendrix song for that matter are not built for shredding.

  • Crap. Absolutley without soul and feeling. What does amaze me is how he moves those chuuby little sausage like fingers so fast. It must smell like bacon cooking when he gets warmed up.

  • I hate when he does covers and shreds like this.

  • he ruined the song.. poor hendrix

    no blues, men

  • Malmsteen is the best.

  • He's shredding all the soul out of this song...

  • That first note is the longest note I have ever heard Yngwie play...

  • yeah

    lol

  • there is a video were he sustains a note for like 2 min

  • it's true

    listen to Black Star

  • yah, because he's a fucking fast guitar player and hes got no soul. not because he's good.

    SPEED IS DIFFERENT FROM GOOD MUSICIAN

  • @petterblo NO LOOOOL there is one note in a acoustic/ electric guitar version of black star, yes yngwie plays both, where he looks at a watch n a cheese burger and crap, first he plays the acoustic, then te electric there is one note at the end finishing with the electric, a note that has more than 40 seconds, realy...

  • @petterblo funny but actually you should check out black star (live) xd

  • @petterblo Listen to Black Star... he often holds one of the notes for more than 30 seconds

  • the worst improvised solo i have ever heard hee is complete and utter shite amazing technicly but nothing no feel emotion or anything fucking pish

  • I see a lot of youtube musicians aren't open to individual interpretation of songs.. pity.

  • absolutely agreed. fucking haters.

  • yngwie brought a new dimension yet still withat hendrix feel to the song. great sound, great play. love it

  • destroyed the song all shred no feeling

  • THis guy doesn't know blues...sad

  • wow i hate myself

    he ruined a beautiful song

    ruined

  • yeah he overdone the solo

  • that yngwie ruins every song he ever plays on. Someone cut his fingers off and his dick! Obviously someone else already got at his ears. Wanker

  • Ruin? This is great. It's just your opinion, it's not fact. He's clean, melodic and musical here. Nuff said.

  • as i said on another video-

    you can express yourself one way with a thousand notes or you can express yourself a thousand ways with one note.

    fuck malmsteen.

  • Ruin? This is great. It's just your opinion, it's not fact. He's clean, melodic and musical here. Nuff said.

  • Unfortunately the guys that try to express themselves with just one note usually don't pick that right one. They only hang on that one note because they don't have the skills to play anything else that sounds good

  • holy crap he ruined the song completely...as you can plainly see, Yngwie has absolutly no soul in his music, all he does is go really really really fast, which is cool sometimes, but you need to know when to slow down. just like Jimi

  • its his style to play fast, if he doesnt he is no longer unique........... and by soul he has the greatest stae presence, vibrato i have ever seen

  • What does "soul" mean....in your opinion? I ask because it IS just your opinion. I love you guys that think you know something about music by using words like "soul", "passion", "emotion" and you really don't know anything. lol Is it just because he had some faster passages that you think it sucked? Should he have done more LCD and played more sloppy like Jimi? If it's speed that you object to, you must not have liked SRV, Jeff Healey, Carl Verheyen, etc... Soul means nothing.

  • Yngwie wrecked this song.

  • How?

  • speed can fuck up a song worse than anything....a song like little wing is far to emotional to fuck it up with a bunch of guitar here bullshit and metal riffs...im with you on this one turboneger...

  • Man, you can´t fucking play damn arpeggios in that song, cause its full of emotions and not of lightning fast passages. I mean dont get me wrong, I like yngwie but this was too extreme for that beautiful tune.

  • Why can't you? Is it because arpeggios lack "soul" or some meaningless term like that? Tell that to Beethoven.

  • Yes, but beethoven wouldnt play his music over jimis music... cause it wouldnt fit... of course an e-minor arpeggio fits to an e-minor chord, but thats not everything...

  • Beethoven would do it if it was melodic. This is melodic. Even jimi outlined chords. He may not have played them in a sweep manner, but it's still outlining. It's okay if you don't like it...I'm just saying that it is only your opinion, though.

  • How in the fuck does he move those fat sausage fingers that fast......damn.

  • Yngwie ruined a beautiful song. There was no soul in that solo. Just speed. *sigh*

  • shit, sorry about the "-", I did't mean it, Im high and all.. but yeah, nobody plays it like jimi.

  • Thank god.  lol

  • Define "soul" in your opinion

  • i was at this show, G3, it was amazing

  • He can play but I kinda lose interest after a couple seconds because its too fast and not melodic.  Sure is faster than I could ever dream of being however.

  • go for it. the only stage you'll be playing is the local pub infront of the tiny minority that can stand this crap.

  • if you slow him down 25% you can feel it.

  • malmsteen sucks, just technique and no feeling

  • nah he definitely lost some of the feeling but his use of vibrato is pretty powerful

  • i wont say that yngwie had no feeling, he's one of the most soulful guitarist IMO

  • lol

  • im no kidding most people just dont understand, he's one of my biggest inspiration.. ok he's a bit too showy sometimes but strip down those excessive notes and what you get is a monster player, when i listen to vai satriani jp, ok they're pretty damn skillful, but man, where's teh fire and the smoke???? i like yngwie because he still has that rock n roll inside..

  • IF. the problem is he DOES NOT strip unneeded nots and speed. WE ALL KNOW ALREADY he is fast. but thats his syle and why most people hate him like me. i respect the hell out of him for his skill but to me he dont use it right and never will becuase HE doesnt want to.

  • that's why i like him man, IF im gonna be a guitar god or something someday i'll be that malmsteen without 1/32 classical scale runs , pure rock n' roll!!!

  • your spot on, he sucks balls. I get bored after about 5 seconds of his crap solos

  • He "sucks balls"?

    You obviously do not know anything about guitar, do you?

    Come back when you've learned the intro to Smoke On the Water, kid.

  • Wow super comment. Malmsteen always sounds the same, there's little variety in his playing. Same licks at a million miles an hour all the time. All that talent wasted because he is essentially, uninspiring. WE GET IT, YOU CAN PLAY FAST. Why don't you see the full video of this performance and see what satch and vai bring to this song, then tell me that yngwie didnt ruin it.

  • Play your little pentatonic "pattern" and call it feel. Meanwhile, I'll blow your ass off the stage along with the rest of you who can't play.

  • you havent heard all his songs then

  • I love this solo...sure, it's full of the usual Yngwie-isms, but that's why he's famous and none of us are...

  • really shity

  • malmsteen suck's major dick.

  • possessive, because he owns the word suck

  • possesive because he owns the word suck

  • doesnt beat Hammetts. his solo fits better

  • malmsteen plays a great solo

    the satriani's solo it's poor

    if i wanna see that i'd go to a david gilmour show

    i wanna see something new not always the same solos

    even jimi wouldn't do the same way he did in studio

  • You don't know a fucking thing you cunt! don't diss david gilmour.

  • i love yngwie`s solos

  • He fucking sucks its quality not quantity of notes

  • "He fucking sucks its quality not quantity of notes"

    He is better than you LOL

  • does anyone else feel an urge to gain 47 pounds and buy undersized leather pants?

  • Joe's solo was soooo much better... this didn't really fit the song... he's just playing fast....

  • did anyone notice the lefthanded neck, tribute to jimmi! all hail mattrach, the newest guitar god!!

  • Maestro Malmsteen \m/

  • Just because Jonn writes better (or at least catchier) songs, doesn't make him a better player. From a technical standpoint, Yngwie's a thousand times better. I like the Chilli Peppers music (pre Californication only) way more than Yngwie's, but that doesn't make John a better player (and John doesn't write RHCP material alone). I'm a pro musician myself, so believe me!

  • yngwie didnt play for almost three yrs due to wrist injury, after the operation he was told he will never regain full use of his hand, yes he is handicaped, not just by weightlol, his guitar gymnastics, and flying fingers, have suffered, still he is a founding father of neo classical, and developed the technx, most use today! all music is recycled individulisim!

    {chris degarmo, of queensrych}

  • zaccyo you are a fucking legend! John Anthony Frusciante shits down yngwie's throat any day of the week. Close your eyes and listen to frusciante play you can here the energy reverb around the universe playing then listen to something tasteless like this shred that only sounds half decent because of the brilliant foundation laid by the others.

  • so what your saying is that no one will ever b better than john anthony, pla as good, or even b able to tune ther guitar as good as him, lighten up!! yngwie is a god to millions, not because he built on the foundation, but because he fucking crushed it! its not an easy task to combine, the beauty of baroque era sound with modern electric, fuzz and distoration, let alone have the vision!

  • Frusciante is a shitfest.

    He couldn't play his way out of a paperbag.

  • Look, I know that everyone here probably dislikes Malmsteen with a passion, even I find it hard to stomach just looking at him, but you have to give him credit on the fact he is a really good guitarist. Please tell me otherwise why he is not.

  • I've read all that comments and I can say, that nobody gets on Jimi's solo

    One of my favorite covers from this solo is Marty Friedmans

    But Yngwies speed is not everything

    All in all NOBODY can say, that yngwie malmsteen is a BAD GUITARIST

    :-)

    keep on rockin

  • Yep, I think he's an arrogant fuck, but regardless...He is one of the best in the world. A truly superb player.

  • Lo que toca Yngwie...lo convierte en oro.

  • he is fat and tasteless

    FRUSCIANTE IS GOD

  • zaccyo & mcgratdaniel: John Frusciante used to be an awesome guitarist. At one time, he was one of my favorites. Then he became retarded from hardcore drugs like heroin. Now he appears to have motor skill problems as well. You can't compare a guy like that to Yngwie! John's now a decent player at best, but he's still a good songwriter. His skills have went down several notches, but even at his peak, he was never close to being 1/10th as good as Yngwie is.

  • wow....that was, somethin :/ i prefer SRV version then this one, anyways i like when hendrix plays it...

  • Yngwie's sloppy solos make me have to shit.

  • malmsteen lo mejor de lo mejor .. el mas veloz sin duda ..

  • if u listen to malmsteens song expanding his entire career you will notice nothing much changes...u hear the same licks and he doesnt really step out of his comfort zone MUCH. that doesnt mean he is not a good player

  • theocean87 ur wring, yea i get tired too after a while of the same old arpeggio-style shredding, but this was a good solo, and just becuase he played fast does not there is no emotion, he doesn't have to make weird faces, or tilt his head back to show emotion, he just has to play what he likes to play and that's what he did here and personally i enjoyed it.

  • stop whining

  • it's fuckin shit what malmsteen plays. watch joe's solo. malmsteen has abolutely NO feeling in his playing.

  • I agree, it looks like he thinks he should be headlining too. Speed isn't everything, you could give any monkey a guitar and they can gain speed, but the feeling and soul that made this song especially, are personal expression. The solo goes out of the whole blues theme and tempo of the song too. Listen to Jimi play it and you'll know what I mean. Yngwie never really impressed me, goes out of key alot too.

  • YES, SENSE Joe's solo was amazing... not as fast... but it fit the song so much better!

  • Damn good. Althought the original still is the best.

  • g3 rocks

  • nice