1. he looks like a complete turd. hair, facial hair, clothes, poses? complete doucher
2. props to him cause he sounds like he has improved in the playing department. kelly simonz is way better than him still. joe needs to improve the feel.. he is to robotic.
I seen Joe Stump play LIVE at a bar by my house on my 21st birthday. I come walking through the door i hear him playing Yngwie Malmsteen PERFECT. BEST 21ST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER!!! THANKS JOE!!!
So I guess we can't say that Stump and Malmsteen are BOTH amazing guitarists? This is music people, not the F'in NFL. Real musicians don't "compete". We're all out there just having fun anyways. In which case, it comes to seem that Stump and Malmsteen have equally the same fun.
Joe Stump is an Yngwie clone, a very good one though. Even though he made great original music you cannot compare him to the God Malmsteen who made everything that Joe plays possible. No Stump without Yngwie
@NisseEricsson And no Yngwie without classical musicians like Vivaldi, Paganini, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Yngwie didn't invent a genre, he just played the guitar in a classical sense that already had been done by the violin.
@OfAeon Sure. 1st of all, he didn't adopt anything from Mozart or Beethoven. He focused mainly on baroque music. But that aside, you don't get Yngwie's sound by simply playing violin music on guitar. His "bread and butter" is basically playing phrygian and harmonic minor licks and linking them together with diminished chords. Something he adopted from Bach/Paganini. He also chooses notes and chords that he believes they would have, while still sounding like rock and not classical music.
@OfAeon BTW, you could say then that Michael Jackson did not invent a genre either, but like Yngwie, he is unbelievably original and a total innovator in his field. Anyone who just happens to have the "same style" as either of them, is obviously just a lame imitation. For some reason, many people can not distinguish the difference in skill that it takes to copy someone, than it does to actually come up with the all the stuff on your own.
I just don't get how you can spend your whole energy and your entire career on copying another guitarist. I mean: there IS the one and only Yngwie Malmsteen! This guy is a great guitarist, but why does he not try to get his own style????
Love this song. Lots of cool elements to it. I'm currently learning this song and I'm up to the main solo at 2:45. By the way, what line 6 amp is Joe using here? Just wondering. Sounds awesome. JOE RULEZ!!!
Holy shit you never cease to Amaze me Joe. You are a true inspiration for guitarists. Once again an epic Jaw Dropping Sweep harmony from 3:53 - 4:12 by the master
your picking and fretting hand is virtuosic . Hope you come to Canada some day soon!
This is a very awesome instrumental, one of the best from I've seen. Joe is very dedicated & inspirational guitar player. Even Yngwie would like this song & the riffs.
After listening to this song again I will say it's probably one of the most perfectly melodic neo-classical instrumentals ever, the dynamics are all over never losing melodic integrity, the scales & arpeggios form a musical brilliance very few can do, this song in my opinion is really above Yngwie & most professional shredders.
yeahh.. joe is doc.. malmsteen, jason becker marty friedman, is my inspirational but joe stump inspire me to explore fingerins techniques,positioning,, riffs,, jason the arpeggios master,,marty the strange lick.. i want get phd ,, like JOE STUMP....
WOW! The beginning is WAYYYYY to similar to Yngwie's "Ship of Fools." same chord progression. I don't know how Stump gets away with half of his "compositions" if most of them are yngwie's songs lol. Go listen to Ship of Fools, you will hear the same intro.
Well, if you listen to him doing interviews or commenting his tunes you'll hear he deliberately puts short passages of his heroes' music. He did it with Paganini and Bach and Blackmore and so did Yngwie - I see no reason why he should be blamed for this.
And really, if you look at this without Yngwie glasses on you'll see Yngwie can't touch this from either compositional, technical, melodic or just pure power point of view . Just for the record - I'm also a fan of Yngwie.
Yes, Yngwie uses "passages" from classical composers BUT Yngwie never uses passes of OTHER GUITARISTS in his own songs like Stump does. It also goes a lot deeper than the music itself. HERE: 33.3% of Stumps guitars are YNGWIE SIGNATURE strats. He uses Yngwie YJM pickups and HS-3's. He has Yngwie Singature "Black Star" Rhino amp head, has an old Marshall that belonged to Yngwie. Uses Yngwie signature DOD Pedal..even uses Yngwie Signature Dimarzio Strap. That seems like a little too much. Sorry.
You can hear Blackmore all over Yngwie's tunes, but that's not the point. Yes, Stump was influenced by Yngwie and a lot more other guys (much more by Blackmore BTW). It's in fact an honor that this guy who surpassed his idols still idolises them and pays them respect in his music. As a fan of Yngwie who knows his tunes I can say Stump is original and has his own easily recognizable style.
Ppl can surpass their idols, history & the present is full of that example. Joe Stump is clearly one of the top shredders in the world any real guitar player with ears, ability & knows how to shred knows it, clearly better than Michael Angelo & Yngwie.
He took neoclassical music on a whole new level that's well beyond Yngwie's reach (something like what Yngwie did to Blackmore in the 80s). It's useless arguing about this, can't we just enjoy the music. Even if you think he's a clone you should then be able to enjoy one more, a bit different Yngwie then :))
neo.classical.fast arpeggios.alternate picking and dramatic song writing.stump owes EVERYTHING his entire repertoire to malmsteen+he isn't as fast and as clean(i love joe stump!!!!).stump is 15 notes per sec and malmsteen is 17.8 ( guitarist magazine... if ur into that sort of thing ) who cares...but he is original and a wonder....period.i saw yngwie in early 90's and again 2008...my god he's like a force of nature...awesome.
We can disagree about who makes better music (Stump most certainly for me), but when it comes to guitar skills it's simpy a fact - Yngwie can't touch Joe. If you can't see that you don't know shit about guitar.
@jfutach Yngwie and Joe are both awesome. Joe may has more skills at guitar, but Yngwie has an amazing tone, a unique vision (he was the pioneer), he´s an stage animal, and his playing showes passion and power like no other. Although Joe leads the neoclassical guitar to a higher level and he is a very melodic player (like Yngwie used to be when he was younger) and I bet if you ask joe about Yngwie he inmediately gets his hat off as he considers him one of the absolute masters of the guitar.
@jfutach I don't mean to be rude, but that is horribly wrong. Yngwie is the one to incorporate Bach and Pagaini's music into rock. He chooses notes and chords as he believes they would have. Stump just copies him, DOWN TO THE CLOTHES HE WEARS! His song writing, note choice, and ORIGINALITY is nothing compared to Yngwie's. Infact, Yngwie's friends and family probably laugh their asses off when they see this guy. I'm sorry, but If you can't see that, you don't know shit about guitar.
If you did your homework you'd see Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth did neoclassical way before Yngwie,and Yngwie was a big Ritchie fan,down to the clothesm jewlery and,guess what,strat.You can hear diminished,and other sweeps on lot of Uli's work.Yngwie raised it up a notch, and Stump added heavier fat sound, riffs and more extreme technical demand.STill,that's of little importance:I listen to him because I like his music! and I prefer it over Yngwie's(I do like Yngwie too).
@jfutach I can see why you might think that, but just because he wasn't the first person to play a diminished chord means nothing. It is well known that Yngwie's "bread and butter" is linking the harmonic minor and phrygian scale with diminished chords. Something neither of Uli or Blackmore did. To think Stump is more technically demanding is as laughable as saying he comes anywhere close to Yngwie's songwriting ability, note selection, and ORIGINALITY.
@jfutach You know, I'm kinda sick of people kicking Yngwie. For my money, Joe Stumpe, Yngwie Malmsteen, Chris Impelltteri, and Michael Romeo are ALL awesome Neo-classical players and each approaches it slightly differently. Similar tonality, scales, techniques but different minds, ideas and execution. One of these days we'll have to have them ALL on stage together. could call it "Neo-classicon"
It's a matter of taste. I love Yngwie too and listen to him often (I've listend to all of his albums loads of times). I find him a bit repetitive and boring when it comes to soloing, although he does have awesome chops and he obviously influenced all shredders including Stump.
@jfutach Well that's the problem when you listen to a guy's entire collection of opera, you WILL hear repetitions. I'm sure that, if we listen to enough Joe Stump, or Michael Romeo, or Steve Vai or Joe Satriani (just to widen the players out) the same would eventually be true.
I've been reading Joe Stump's website, and he actually cites Yngwie (as does Michael Romeo) as a major influence, so perhaps people should give him more respect and credit.
It's a matter of taste. I've listend to everything Yngwie recorded but I've listened to Stump even more and he's much more interesting. The influence is undeniable but for me it's like comparing Ford T with a modern Ferrari. For might have invented it but I'm not gonna drive in it these days. Yngwie today seems too focused on shredding it as fast as possible and while doing that he forgets the music and the fact that people like Stump can shred twice as fast without blinking.
@jfutach Well, I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree here. You are clearly a stump fan, while I am an Yngwie fan who has an appreciation for other Neo-classical players, like Stump, Impellitteri etc. I do think that you're being unfair to Yngwie though, probably because of his last album (relentless) which wasn't as good as the two previous. You really CANNOT call "Attack" or "UTF" unmusical though. "twice as fast"? I don't think so. Plus stumps licks ARE Yngwie's licks, remember that.
We'll agree on Attack and UTF, these are great efforts unlike Perpetual flame and especially Relentless. And yes, not twice as fast, that was a metaphor, but certainly much more difficult passages. For instance advanced arpeggios Yngwie never plays....
@jfutach Well I agree, relentless was disappointing, I think mainly not because of the guitar playing, but because of his collaboration with Tim "Ripper" Owens, whose voice I can't stand. As for arpeggios, have you not heard "Arpeggios from Hell"? I'd LOVE to hear Stump play that! I'm as sure that Joe could, as I am that Yngwie could play "....Dragon"....oh and could either play Screaming Symphony by Impellitteri? lol Just a thought, the opening to "...dragon" is basically, "ship of fools"
@skingaz he actually can play arpeggios grom hell when i have my lesson with him one time he played a little of arpeggios of hell then played all of blitzkrieg first try it was fuckin nasty
@ESPSHREDDER1293 That's cool ESPSHREDDER1293. I'm sure that shows what an Yngwie fan he is. Equally though I'm sure that Yngwie could play this (especially consider Joe's "borrowing" of Yngwie licks) I think we just need to accept that both are awesome players who are miles ahead of the rest.
@WildBillJP Horribly wrong how exactly? Are you going to continue the trend (which seems so popular these days) of bashing Yngwie? Or are you saying that I've got it wrong when I say that a lot of Joe's pieces contain large chunks of Yngwie's stuff? Because THAT is demonstrable the case.
@skingaz No. Just that this specific "neo-classical style" is not a style at all. It's specific to one person, the person who originated it, Yngwie. He is the phrygian and harmonic minor master. Yngwie's music is both unbelievably original and extremely inspired. Both Stump and Impelitteri basically just imitate what he has done, which is why they are both watered down versions of him. Romeo, however, may be INFLUENCED by Yngwie, but def drew from other inspirations and music as well
If you play guitar and come to a certain technical level,you can approximate how hard something is to play.Yngwie has many demanding chops, I can't play them all for sure,but can imagine playing them much sooner than most of Joe's stuff, especially last 2 albums. Psycho shred suite pt. 1 & 2 or Red Priest, Killer Instinct, Witching hour etc. are pure sick. Arpeggios there are much much more diverse and demanding than Yngwies.Or intro toRapid FireRondo!Try and play that!
@jfutach You can imagine playing Yngwie's stuff much sooner than playing Joe's stuff??? LMFAO. Wow. You must be really good at imagining playing the guitar.
@jfutach No offense, but your preference of Joe Stump over Yngwie would be like preferring an Elvis impersonator over Elvis himself. If someone sang, danced, and DRESSED exactly like Michael Jackson, would you say that he is just the same style of musician? I highly doubt it for your sake.
you are absolutely right!stump is fantastic.i own 3 albums.but yngwie is the master.blackmore and yngwie are chalk and cheese.both great but yngwie is the ultimate player.beyond any neo classic player.he wrote the book and is pushing it further
your and idiot dude yngwie has ton of Richie blackmore riff in his music and allot of joes classical riffs are original where yngwie will just copy it note to note JOE STUMP RULES!!!!!!
@EricImpMusic come on is a huge mistake say that yngwie copies blackmore he did a great stuff but he never in his whole life has played like yngwie i agree that stump is great he is playing a great neoclassical shred i think that malmsteen is great because he was the first who made the very first neoclassical album i mean all the tracks were neoclassical stuff so he is the father of neoclassical metal and stump has improved the style so both are great evon do malmsteen was great younger than joe
where im from "chasing the dragon" means smoking heroin. and im sure its know to others as that too. lol
uhokstupid 3 weeks ago
see this guy with MAB live
guillotinedeath 1 month ago
1. he looks like a complete turd. hair, facial hair, clothes, poses? complete doucher
2. props to him cause he sounds like he has improved in the playing department. kelly simonz is way better than him still. joe needs to improve the feel.. he is to robotic.
bellevuetlr 1 month ago
the master!
rockgeorge7 1 month ago
I'm inspired once again! :)
pointyguitarz 2 months ago
He dont play guitar. He is the guitar
butter736 2 months ago
Que limpieza de este hombre wow excelente técnica \m/'-_-'\m/ te admiro Joe Stump
Drullmetal 2 months ago
To me Joe Stump sounds more classical then Yngwie just saying!
toxicdooney 3 months ago
OMG!!! EPIC SONG, EPIC PLAYER!!!
xExeBurgosx 3 months ago
elini öperim
eKotRot 3 months ago
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Jesus Christ those sweeeeeps!
kristof007 3 months ago
Awesome! Perfect & Awesome! Gotta go practice now, this just makes me happy and makes me wanna go practice! ....yeah, Awesome!
skyzito08 3 months ago
I seen Joe Stump play LIVE at a bar by my house on my 21st birthday. I come walking through the door i hear him playing Yngwie Malmsteen PERFECT. BEST 21ST BIRTHDAY GIFT EVER!!! THANKS JOE!!!
HeyItsCoop 4 months ago
no se como llegue a este canal . bueno te dejo el voto
MARGADIANA 4 months ago
Great!!!!!!!! Very inspiring!!!!! I have a Charvel Coming by the end of the year. I designed it after this ESP!
1norville 4 months ago
So I guess we can't say that Stump and Malmsteen are BOTH amazing guitarists? This is music people, not the F'in NFL. Real musicians don't "compete". We're all out there just having fun anyways. In which case, it comes to seem that Stump and Malmsteen have equally the same fun.
generalgenocide667 4 months ago
@ArpeggioFelatio
" And who the fuck are you to have expectations for yngwies creativity haha morons"
We're the people who makes his living from, dickhead.
keithreeder 5 months ago
Hey guys I am the only one thinking he looks like Nikki Sixx?
xaxexixoxa 7 months ago 12
@xaxexixoxa not anymore, Nikki shaved his head last night
darkjoker123321 3 months ago
@darkjoker123321 Lol why would he do that? Anyway I really hope Joe won't do it...
xaxexixoxa 3 months ago
I just shit my pants.
megatron515 8 months ago
Joe Stump is an Yngwie clone, a very good one though. Even though he made great original music you cannot compare him to the God Malmsteen who made everything that Joe plays possible. No Stump without Yngwie
NisseEricsson 8 months ago
@NisseEricsson And no Yngwie without classical musicians like Vivaldi, Paganini, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Yngwie didn't invent a genre, he just played the guitar in a classical sense that already had been done by the violin.
OfAeon 4 months ago
@OfAeon I don't mean to be rude, but you are horribly wrong.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@WildBillJP Could you explain why?
OfAeon 1 month ago
@OfAeon Sure. 1st of all, he didn't adopt anything from Mozart or Beethoven. He focused mainly on baroque music. But that aside, you don't get Yngwie's sound by simply playing violin music on guitar. His "bread and butter" is basically playing phrygian and harmonic minor licks and linking them together with diminished chords. Something he adopted from Bach/Paganini. He also chooses notes and chords that he believes they would have, while still sounding like rock and not classical music.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@OfAeon BTW, you could say then that Michael Jackson did not invent a genre either, but like Yngwie, he is unbelievably original and a total innovator in his field. Anyone who just happens to have the "same style" as either of them, is obviously just a lame imitation. For some reason, many people can not distinguish the difference in skill that it takes to copy someone, than it does to actually come up with the all the stuff on your own.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
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JOE STUMP THE BEST SHRED!!!
sergiofbanda 1 year ago
JOE STUMP I S THE BEST SHRED
sergiofbanda 1 year ago
mi mayor influencia en la guitarra junto cn Paul Gilbert e Yngwie
Joe Stump rules!!!
sergiofbanda 1 year ago
locooooooooooooo esteeee es grosoooooooo q melodiaa q rapidez y q proligidad
krackenrata 1 year ago
I just don't get how you can spend your whole energy and your entire career on copying another guitarist. I mean: there IS the one and only Yngwie Malmsteen! This guy is a great guitarist, but why does he not try to get his own style????
Scottmaster84 1 year ago
Love this song. Lots of cool elements to it. I'm currently learning this song and I'm up to the main solo at 2:45. By the way, what line 6 amp is Joe using here? Just wondering. Sounds awesome. JOE RULEZ!!!
NeoClassicalFan 1 year ago
a este man lo admiro por su gran tecnica es un verdadero hijo de sumadreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee y grandes composicionesssssssssssssssssssssss
heavymetalchecho 1 year ago
JOE STUMP RULES CHECK MY LIVE VIDEO
youtube.com/watch?v=wHDxjzRblOY
yellowraven8 1 year ago
Holy shit you never cease to Amaze me Joe. You are a true inspiration for guitarists. Once again an epic Jaw Dropping Sweep harmony from 3:53 - 4:12 by the master
your picking and fretting hand is virtuosic . Hope you come to Canada some day soon!
SauronSatan 1 year ago
BRUTAAAAAAAL
SECONER1 1 year ago
I hate Joe's vibrato and bends
TauruVikingur 1 year ago
this dude is amazing!! but its just Yngwie.... he's got some serious chops though..man
dozerification 1 year ago
This is a very awesome instrumental, one of the best from I've seen. Joe is very dedicated & inspirational guitar player. Even Yngwie would like this song & the riffs.
asherasator 2 years ago 5
After listening to this song again I will say it's probably one of the most perfectly melodic neo-classical instrumentals ever, the dynamics are all over never losing melodic integrity, the scales & arpeggios form a musical brilliance very few can do, this song in my opinion is really above Yngwie & most professional shredders.
asherasator 1 year ago
yeahh.. joe is doc.. malmsteen, jason becker marty friedman, is my inspirational but joe stump inspire me to explore fingerins techniques,positioning,, riffs,, jason the arpeggios master,,marty the strange lick.. i want get phd ,, like JOE STUMP....
junidiesoindi 2 years ago
WOW! The beginning is WAYYYYY to similar to Yngwie's "Ship of Fools." same chord progression. I don't know how Stump gets away with half of his "compositions" if most of them are yngwie's songs lol. Go listen to Ship of Fools, you will hear the same intro.
ernielight 2 years ago
Well, if you listen to him doing interviews or commenting his tunes you'll hear he deliberately puts short passages of his heroes' music. He did it with Paganini and Bach and Blackmore and so did Yngwie - I see no reason why he should be blamed for this.
And really, if you look at this without Yngwie glasses on you'll see Yngwie can't touch this from either compositional, technical, melodic or just pure power point of view . Just for the record - I'm also a fan of Yngwie.
jfutach 2 years ago
Yes, Yngwie uses "passages" from classical composers BUT Yngwie never uses passes of OTHER GUITARISTS in his own songs like Stump does. It also goes a lot deeper than the music itself. HERE: 33.3% of Stumps guitars are YNGWIE SIGNATURE strats. He uses Yngwie YJM pickups and HS-3's. He has Yngwie Singature "Black Star" Rhino amp head, has an old Marshall that belonged to Yngwie. Uses Yngwie signature DOD Pedal..even uses Yngwie Signature Dimarzio Strap. That seems like a little too much. Sorry.
ernielight 2 years ago
You can hear Blackmore all over Yngwie's tunes, but that's not the point. Yes, Stump was influenced by Yngwie and a lot more other guys (much more by Blackmore BTW). It's in fact an honor that this guy who surpassed his idols still idolises them and pays them respect in his music. As a fan of Yngwie who knows his tunes I can say Stump is original and has his own easily recognizable style.
jfutach 2 years ago
Ppl can surpass their idols, history & the present is full of that example. Joe Stump is clearly one of the top shredders in the world any real guitar player with ears, ability & knows how to shred knows it, clearly better than Michael Angelo & Yngwie.
asherasator 1 year ago
He took neoclassical music on a whole new level that's well beyond Yngwie's reach (something like what Yngwie did to Blackmore in the 80s). It's useless arguing about this, can't we just enjoy the music. Even if you think he's a clone you should then be able to enjoy one more, a bit different Yngwie then :))
jfutach 2 years ago 17
neo.classical.fast arpeggios.alternate picking and dramatic song writing.stump owes EVERYTHING his entire repertoire to malmsteen+he isn't as fast and as clean(i love joe stump!!!!).stump is 15 notes per sec and malmsteen is 17.8 ( guitarist magazine... if ur into that sort of thing ) who cares...but he is original and a wonder....period.i saw yngwie in early 90's and again 2008...my god he's like a force of nature...awesome.
mreid01 2 years ago
We can disagree about who makes better music (Stump most certainly for me), but when it comes to guitar skills it's simpy a fact - Yngwie can't touch Joe. If you can't see that you don't know shit about guitar.
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caniman 2 years ago
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@jfutach Yngwie and Joe are both awesome. Joe may has more skills at guitar, but Yngwie has an amazing tone, a unique vision (he was the pioneer), he´s an stage animal, and his playing showes passion and power like no other. Although Joe leads the neoclassical guitar to a higher level and he is a very melodic player (like Yngwie used to be when he was younger) and I bet if you ask joe about Yngwie he inmediately gets his hat off as he considers him one of the absolute masters of the guitar.
caniman 2 years ago
@jfutach I don't mean to be rude, but that is horribly wrong. Yngwie is the one to incorporate Bach and Pagaini's music into rock. He chooses notes and chords as he believes they would have. Stump just copies him, DOWN TO THE CLOTHES HE WEARS! His song writing, note choice, and ORIGINALITY is nothing compared to Yngwie's. Infact, Yngwie's friends and family probably laugh their asses off when they see this guy. I'm sorry, but If you can't see that, you don't know shit about guitar.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@WildBillJP
If you did your homework you'd see Blackmore and Uli Jon Roth did neoclassical way before Yngwie,and Yngwie was a big Ritchie fan,down to the clothesm jewlery and,guess what,strat.You can hear diminished,and other sweeps on lot of Uli's work.Yngwie raised it up a notch, and Stump added heavier fat sound, riffs and more extreme technical demand.STill,that's of little importance:I listen to him because I like his music! and I prefer it over Yngwie's(I do like Yngwie too).
jfutach 1 month ago
@jfutach I can see why you might think that, but just because he wasn't the first person to play a diminished chord means nothing. It is well known that Yngwie's "bread and butter" is linking the harmonic minor and phrygian scale with diminished chords. Something neither of Uli or Blackmore did. To think Stump is more technically demanding is as laughable as saying he comes anywhere close to Yngwie's songwriting ability, note selection, and ORIGINALITY.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@jfutach BTW, send me a video of Stump playing and show me a specific part where he plays faster and more technical than Yngwie, I dare you...
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@WildBillJP
For a guy who doesn't like Joe, you sure are making a lot of traffic here. Get a life, play your music, copied or original, and-rock n roll!
jfutach 1 month ago
@jfutach You know, I'm kinda sick of people kicking Yngwie. For my money, Joe Stumpe, Yngwie Malmsteen, Chris Impelltteri, and Michael Romeo are ALL awesome Neo-classical players and each approaches it slightly differently. Similar tonality, scales, techniques but different minds, ideas and execution. One of these days we'll have to have them ALL on stage together. could call it "Neo-classicon"
skingaz 10 months ago
@skingaz
It's a matter of taste. I love Yngwie too and listen to him often (I've listend to all of his albums loads of times). I find him a bit repetitive and boring when it comes to soloing, although he does have awesome chops and he obviously influenced all shredders including Stump.
jfutach 10 months ago
@jfutach Well that's the problem when you listen to a guy's entire collection of opera, you WILL hear repetitions. I'm sure that, if we listen to enough Joe Stump, or Michael Romeo, or Steve Vai or Joe Satriani (just to widen the players out) the same would eventually be true.
I've been reading Joe Stump's website, and he actually cites Yngwie (as does Michael Romeo) as a major influence, so perhaps people should give him more respect and credit.
skingaz 10 months ago
@skingaz
It's a matter of taste. I've listend to everything Yngwie recorded but I've listened to Stump even more and he's much more interesting. The influence is undeniable but for me it's like comparing Ford T with a modern Ferrari. For might have invented it but I'm not gonna drive in it these days. Yngwie today seems too focused on shredding it as fast as possible and while doing that he forgets the music and the fact that people like Stump can shred twice as fast without blinking.
jfutach 10 months ago
@jfutach Well, I think we're gonna have to agree to disagree here. You are clearly a stump fan, while I am an Yngwie fan who has an appreciation for other Neo-classical players, like Stump, Impellitteri etc. I do think that you're being unfair to Yngwie though, probably because of his last album (relentless) which wasn't as good as the two previous. You really CANNOT call "Attack" or "UTF" unmusical though. "twice as fast"? I don't think so. Plus stumps licks ARE Yngwie's licks, remember that.
skingaz 10 months ago
@skingaz
We'll agree on Attack and UTF, these are great efforts unlike Perpetual flame and especially Relentless. And yes, not twice as fast, that was a metaphor, but certainly much more difficult passages. For instance advanced arpeggios Yngwie never plays....
jfutach 10 months ago
@jfutach Well I agree, relentless was disappointing, I think mainly not because of the guitar playing, but because of his collaboration with Tim "Ripper" Owens, whose voice I can't stand. As for arpeggios, have you not heard "Arpeggios from Hell"? I'd LOVE to hear Stump play that! I'm as sure that Joe could, as I am that Yngwie could play "....Dragon"....oh and could either play Screaming Symphony by Impellitteri? lol Just a thought, the opening to "...dragon" is basically, "ship of fools"
skingaz 10 months ago
@skingaz he actually can play arpeggios grom hell when i have my lesson with him one time he played a little of arpeggios of hell then played all of blitzkrieg first try it was fuckin nasty
ESPSHREDDER1293 9 months ago
@ESPSHREDDER1293 That's cool ESPSHREDDER1293. I'm sure that shows what an Yngwie fan he is. Equally though I'm sure that Yngwie could play this (especially consider Joe's "borrowing" of Yngwie licks) I think we just need to accept that both are awesome players who are miles ahead of the rest.
skingaz 9 months ago
@skingaz I don't mean to be rude, but you are horribly wrong.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@WildBillJP Horribly wrong how exactly? Are you going to continue the trend (which seems so popular these days) of bashing Yngwie? Or are you saying that I've got it wrong when I say that a lot of Joe's pieces contain large chunks of Yngwie's stuff? Because THAT is demonstrable the case.
skingaz 1 month ago
@skingaz No. Just that this specific "neo-classical style" is not a style at all. It's specific to one person, the person who originated it, Yngwie. He is the phrygian and harmonic minor master. Yngwie's music is both unbelievably original and extremely inspired. Both Stump and Impelitteri basically just imitate what he has done, which is why they are both watered down versions of him. Romeo, however, may be INFLUENCED by Yngwie, but def drew from other inspirations and music as well
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@skingaz We may be on the same side lol
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@jfutach Sounds like a bunch arpeggio's just like Yngwie. Dont get me wrong i like it. But he's as good as Yngwie but no better or worse.
metal4life68 4 months ago
@jfutach hmm I dont hear that. Mind Explaining to me how?
93thrasher 2 months ago
@jfutach He took it to a whole new level beyond Yngwie's reach???..... Um, can you explain that please?.... No?..... Yea, I didn't think so.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@WildBillJP
If you play guitar and come to a certain technical level,you can approximate how hard something is to play.Yngwie has many demanding chops, I can't play them all for sure,but can imagine playing them much sooner than most of Joe's stuff, especially last 2 albums. Psycho shred suite pt. 1 & 2 or Red Priest, Killer Instinct, Witching hour etc. are pure sick. Arpeggios there are much much more diverse and demanding than Yngwies.Or intro toRapid FireRondo!Try and play that!
jfutach 1 month ago
@jfutach You can imagine playing Yngwie's stuff much sooner than playing Joe's stuff??? LMFAO. Wow. You must be really good at imagining playing the guitar.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
@jfutach No offense, but your preference of Joe Stump over Yngwie would be like preferring an Elvis impersonator over Elvis himself. If someone sang, danced, and DRESSED exactly like Michael Jackson, would you say that he is just the same style of musician? I highly doubt it for your sake.
WildBillJP 1 month ago
you are absolutely right!stump is fantastic.i own 3 albums.but yngwie is the master.blackmore and yngwie are chalk and cheese.both great but yngwie is the ultimate player.beyond any neo classic player.he wrote the book and is pushing it further
mreid01 2 years ago
your and idiot dude yngwie has ton of Richie blackmore riff in his music and allot of joes classical riffs are original where yngwie will just copy it note to note JOE STUMP RULES!!!!!!
EricImpMusic 2 years ago
@EricImpMusic come on is a huge mistake say that yngwie copies blackmore he did a great stuff but he never in his whole life has played like yngwie i agree that stump is great he is playing a great neoclassical shred i think that malmsteen is great because he was the first who made the very first neoclassical album i mean all the tracks were neoclassical stuff so he is the father of neoclassical metal and stump has improved the style so both are great evon do malmsteen was great younger than joe
jhonas43 2 years ago
thats awsome, was he just running his guitar through that line 6 amp?
ibanezbuyer 2 years ago
yes but also connected a DOD overdrive in between his guitar and the amp.
Samhamade 2 years ago
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@ibanezbuyer Heavy metal finally has its own Elvis Impersonator... Except Yngwie is still alive... And 3 years younger
WildBillJP 1 month ago
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jihad66 2 years ago