On June 30, 1963, in Stockholm, Sweden, lars johann yngwie lannerback was born. The beatles had just made a small name for themselves in Liverpool, England, and exactly 20 years later, when the grown-up, brunette-haired baby stepped onto the ground at LAX airport, a glorious musical path would be officially paved.
Shortly after yngwie was born, his military officer father and artist mother divorced. Of the members of this single-parent family, yngwie was the youngest. His mother, rigmor, sister ann louise and brother bjorn all agreed that as a child, yngwie (named after one of his mother's old lovers) was wild and unruly, and that "there was a wildness in everything he did".
Music, and especially the guitar, didn't initially catch little yngwie's attention. He had tried to take some piano and trumpet lessons earlier, but they all went nowhere, and the acoustic guitar his mom bought him for his fifth birthday had hung on the wall unattended. It wasn't until that day, September 18, 1970, that things radically changed. On that day yngwie saw a special report on television about the death of guitarist jimi hendrix, and it was as if something had touched his heart. Seven-year-old yngwie was amazed to see hendrix playing like a drug addict, shaking the audience with a huge reverberation in front of the speakers, and finally torching his guitar, all of which made the young yngwie find his own way. jimi hendrix died on the day of the birth of the guitarist yngwie.
Yngwie's first guitar was an old mosrite, then a cheap stratocaster, and he practiced songs by bands like Deep Purple to improve both his musicianship and his guitar skills, and he was influenced by the classically-influenced playing of Deep Purple's guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore. Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore's classically-influenced playing style influenced him. His sister's love of classical music also inspired Yngwie to play the masters: Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven and Mozart. As Yngwie began to incorporate these classical structures and patterns into his guitar playing, the beginnings of his unique style were born. He practiced diligently, almost moment by moment, every day, often falling asleep headfirst on his guitar as he played.
At the age of 10, yngwie took on his mother's name, officially changing it to yngwie malmsteen, and by this time he was so focused on practicing that he was skipping school. At school, he was seen as a troublemaker, as he often got into fights with the quot;guys who specialized in stupid thingsquot;. The only thing he excelled in were the two subjects he was interested in, English and art. His mother clearly saw her son's musical talent, so she gave her permission for yngwie to skip school and stay home to play the guitar and record player. In this way, his guitar playing skills rapidly improved.
How to find a bridge between the normal patterns of classical music and the improvisation of hendrix, the 19th-century Russian violinist Nicola Pagorini, seems to be the answer. When yngwie saw a Russian violinist play Pagorini's famous 24 caprices on TV, he began to see how he could graft his love of classical music onto the appeal of stage improvisation.
When yngwie drove his motorcycle onto the school's main street at age 15, it became clear that the school could no longer tolerate the wild man and he had to pack up and go home. yngwie's first job was as a mechanic at a piano shop, where his carpentry skills came in handy. It was here that he made his first monolithic neck. The cost of this neck was a 17th century pipe organ, and he prepped the neck for the tone pins and then gutted the excess so that the remaining protrusions were in good taste. He fitted this to an old organ and tried it out, and was so pleased with the results that he removed his favorite guitar and replaced it with this monolithic neck. yngwie found the end result to be, shall we say, slightly more difficult to play than a normal guitar, but with considerably more control over the strings. So the monolithic neck became a standard feature of yngwie's equipment in the future.
Yngwie formed a number of local bands whose styles revolved around his heavy guitars, a huge test of the listener's ear and patience in a Sweden where abba-inspired pop music was rife at the time. 18-year-old yngwie was drafted by the army because he scored high in an IQ test, and perhaps only yngwie could have done it - he took a guitar with him. Perhaps only yngwie could have done it - he rushed to the recruiting office with a gun in his hand, screaming that he would rather die than join the army. When the recruiter realized he wasn't kidding, he let him go, and that's how yngwie defended his right to play the guitar. Yngwie and some friends recorded three demos for the Swedish label CBS, but they were never released. Disappointed and knowing that Sweden was not the place to fulfill his musical aspirations, yngwie decided to pursue his career abroad and started sending demos to record labels and bands abroad. One of the demos luckily landed in the hands of the founder of Shrapnel Records, guitar scout Mike Varney, who was surprisingly impressed with the young Swedish guitarist. So he invited yngwie to come to L.A. to play in shrednel's new band, steeler, and that's where yngwie's history really began.
The ron keel-centered steeler's debut album was a typical heavy metal album, with yngwie leaving a terrific introductory solo on the song hot on your heels. by the time the album began to be well-received by fans, yngwie had already made his way to alcatrazz, a band formed by frontman yngwie's time in alcatrazz was, shall we say, good, but since the rest of the band was quite talented, yngwie didn't really stand out from the rest of the band, mostly doing his job, only on a few songs like kree, nakoorie, jet to heels, and the other songs he played on, did he get to play a little bit? nakoorie, jet to jet and hiroshima, only on a few songs does he give a surprising solo performance. That's clearly not enough for the hungry yngwie, and it seems the only way to go is to go all out on his solo path.
After recording two albums, no parole from rock'n'roll and live sentence, yngwie left alcatrazz. yngwie's debut solo album, rising force, was an instant success, peaking at No. 60 on the U.S. album charts. It was an exciting result for an album that featured mainly guitars and no commercial promotion on the radio. The album even earned yngwie a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Performance, and the list of accolades that followed was overwhelming: readers of several magazines voted him Most Talented Newcomer, Rock Guitarist of the Year, and Rock Album of the Year. ......
Many musicians and bands have had the best debut albums of their careers, and yngwie was one of them. While yngwie's style of music on this album left something to be desired, the album had a passion and hunger that would not be matched by later albums. This album, now being hailed as the bible of neo-classical rock, is undoubtedly the first and truly the best of this type of music. yngwie neo-classical rock and roll album The Sustainability and the Sustainability of the Milestones is the first and best album of its kind in the history of the genre. Can I get a good deal on a new album? Seal rilogy (trilogy) and marching out (advancement) are more skillful than rising force in both lyrics and music. By this time, yngwie's unique guitar technique and songwriting ability had already made a huge impact on the rock world, and many musicians began to experiment with this neo-classical style. A number of yngwie's imitators and yngwie second, yngwie third, etc. tried to copy his technique rather than grasp the neo-classical style from that unique musical concept. Lacking yngwie's musical savvy, these clones always sounded a bit slick and pretentious, which cast a negative shadow over the neo-classical rock movement.
The unfortunate event occurred on June 22, 1987, just days before his 24th birthday, when the Jaguar yngwie was driving crashed into a tree, his head hit the steering wheel, breaking it, and his head hemorrhaged internally to form a blood clot that pressed on a nerve in his right hand. After being in a coma for nearly a week, yngwie woke up and realized that the hand that held the paddles was completely disabled. Was this the end of the musical road? With deep concern, yngwie began a long course of physical therapy, during which the nerves in his right hand gradually began to regain function. Shortly after he fully recovered from his injuries, another piece of bad news came, the person who gave him the greatest strength and inspiration in his life, his mother rigmor, died of cancer in Sweden. The most hateful thing is that one of yngwie's agents fell on his sword at this time and rolled away all of yngwie's belongings, leaving him with only a thick stack of medical bills - all of this would have been a fatal blow if it had happened to an ordinary person, I'm afraid. Instead, yngwie didn't give up, and he quickly shifted his spirit from grief and pain to music again, the only way to save himself.
Odyssey was yngwie's first album after his comeback, and he himself wasn't very happy with it, but it brought him a much wider audience and a mainstream market. A single and its musical movie heaven tonight became yngwie's first attempt to shift his style to something suitable for rolling, and it propelled the album to sell nearly half a million copies in the United States. Of course, it was also thanks to joe lynn, lead singer of the original rainbow, that a successful odyssey tour, backed by him, expanded yngwie's audience beyond guitar fanatics, and by february 1989, the tour had sold out shows in the former soviet union, with Moscow and Leningrad being particularly successful. (It was only six months after yngwie that bands such as bon jovi made their debut in the USSR). The last show in Leningrad was recorded and released as a live video called trial by fire - live in leningrad.
After the tour, the band, known as rising force, finally broke up, with the members going their separate ways and yngwie having to start looking for a new partner.
New band in Miami yngwie moved to Miami to start his new band, and he quickly recruited an all-Swedish band. The lead vocal position was filled by former john norum singer goran edman, whose high-pitched voice fits right in with yngwie's classical melodies. The other members of the band were unknown Swedish musicians, but they proved to be musically talented: svante henryson on bass and strings, mats olausson on keyboards, and michael von knorring on drums. eclipse, the first album from this new lineup, was recorded at Miami's Criteria Recorded at Miami's Criteria Studios, the album finds yngwie making accessible pop-oriented music without sacrificing his classical style.
The album didn't sell well in the U.S. due to poor promotion by Polygram, but eclipse went gold and platinum in Japan and Europe. yngwie finally let go of the worries that had been looming in his mind since the breakup of rising force. Out of dissatisfaction with Polygram Records, he decided to leave a place that couldn't take him seriously. As yngwie himself used to say, his life was like "fire and ice, it's either really good or really bad, there's no middle ground." Once the negative influences from the record company were over, everything seemed so promising. A new manager, nigel thomas, struggled to find yngwie a new home until March 1991, when yngwie signed with elektra records.
Yngwie's debut album on Elektra, fire and ice, eliminated the overly commercialized elements of his previous albums and returned to the classical styles he was best known for. The album, like its cover, burns with yngwie's fiery passion. The album is baroque-influenced, full of intricate arrangements and elaborate embellishments, and yngwie was finally able to fulfill a longtime wish of his: to record strings on this album. In the song no mercy, yngwie reworked a badinerie from Bachochestral suite no.2 and recorded it, and the result was quite good. fire & ice went straight to number one in Japan as soon as it hit the charts, and sold more than 100,000 copies on the same day it was released, and the album went gold in Europe and platinum in Asia. The album went gold in Europe and platinum in Asia.
Yngwie's life was really like fire and ice, and when he returned to Miami to prepare for his new album, a series of misfortunes struck him again: Typhoon Andrew swept through Miami in August 1992; in January 1993, his manager of four years, Nigel Thomas, died of a heart attack; and in March 1993, elektra decided to stop working with him. elektra decided not to renew yngwie's contract; in July of the same year, yngwie broke his right arm in an accident; and in August, yngwie was arrested by the police, creating international news, which eventually proved to be a case of mistaken identity.
In September 1993, all the forces arrayed against yngwie weakened, and during October, when his arm had fully recovered, yngwie signed with Japan's pony canyon record label. The new lineup was michael vescera (ex-loudness) on vocals, mike terrana (ex-tony mcalpine) on drums, mats olausson on keyboards, and yngwie himself on bass (barry sparks from los angeles would take on bass duties on future tours). work).
On February 3, 1994, the band began rehearsals for their upcoming world tour. The new album the seventh sign was released on February 8, 1994 in Japan. The album was a return to the aggressive style of yngwie's earlier albums, heavier than their previous albums, with similarities to their early marching out. the seventh sign quickly reached number one on the international charts in Japan and went triple platinum in Japan alone. cmc International Records bought the rights to distribute the album in Europe and the United States. The seventh sign was released in Europe and the United States, and with cmc's aggressive promotion, yngwie fans all over the world got their hands on the album. Although yngwie still couldn't sell well in the United States, the seventh sign, along with yngwie's previous albums, sold out in Europe and Asia.
In September and October 1994, pony canyon released two albums, power and glory (the title track of which was written by yngwie for Japanese judo champion takada) and i can't wait (which featured two unreleased tracks and several live versions of tracks recorded at Tokyo's budokan theater). (including two unreleased tracks and several live versions recorded at the Budokan Theater in Tokyo). The live performance at the Budokan was also recorded and released on a Japanese video, which cmc promoted worldwide. During this time, yngwie toured all over the world, and it wasn't until November 1994 that the band returned home to Miami, having been on the road for most of the year and really needing a break.
In December 1994, work began on yngwie's own recording studio in Miami, with laminate flooring, recording equipment, controls, and everything in order. At the same time, preparations began for yngwie's new album magnum opus. Because yngwie and his manager agreed that cmc had problems with the record distribution mechanism, they decided to disassociate themselves from cmc, and in June 1995, while the master tapes for magnum opus were being sent to Japan, yngwie and his manager began to look for new European and American agents.
The magnum opus tour began in Japan in September 1995, and after completing a 17-city run in Japan, the band traveled to the UK and Europe for a two-month tour. There was a bit of a hiccup in the middle of the tour, as vocalist Michael Vescera had a cold that developed into bronchitis and missed a few shows. The shows went on as usual, with Yngwie himself on vocals, but some of the planned songs were canceled due to the pitch being out of Yngwie's vocal range. michael recovered from his illness and rejoined the band in Germany just in time for a festival there that featured four other bands, including the legendary metal warriors Saxon. At the end of the year, yngwie and the band returned to the U.S. for a vacation from touring.
Yngwie's Studio 308 was put to good use at the start of the new year. yngwie brought in some old friends, including joe lynn turner, jeff scott soto, david rosenthal, marcel jacob, and mark boals to work on the new album. For a long time, yngwie's heart has longed to record an album of covers that would pay tribute to those who have influenced his guitar playing and songwriting style, including deep purple, rainbow, u.k., kansas, scorpions, rush and jimi hendrix. with old friends the johansson brothers on drums and keyboards, the inspiration album began to take shape. in mid-April, the mixing of the album was completed and the cover artwork was finalized, which was designed by Japanese artist asari yoda, who composited some element of the bands being covered on the album into a single drawing, from which we can vaguely distinguish the names or pictures of these bands.
After the release of the album inspiration, yngwie started planning a new tour. The tour featured arguably the strongest lineup of the band, including bassist barry bunaway from the live in leningrad album, vocalist mark boals from the trilogy album, longtime collaborator and keyboardist mats olausson, and an unusual drummer, tommy aldridge (who has been a member of ozzy osbourne). ozzy osbourne, whitesnake, pat travers band). The first stop of the tour was in South America, where Brazilian and Argentinean fans filled yngwie's shows to capacity. The band then traveled to the U.S., Japan, and Europe, and while grunge swept the world, yngwie's shows still maintained large crowds, proving that hard rock/heavy metal, with its speed, power, and melodicism, isn't dead - it's still alive and well.
The '96 tour continued through the end of the year, a tour on which yngwie broke 12 guitars. The audience response was so enthusiastic that yngwie went into the studio with renewed confidence. This time the album was going to be very special. Months of hard work later, in Miami's Studio 308, yngwie finally wrote his first classical work, concerto suite for electric guitar and orchestra in eb minor, op. 1.
In January 1997, yngwie arrived in Prague to begin official recording sessions. The orchestra was the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, which had just celebrated its 100th birthday. After three days of recording work, with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's conductor, yoel levi, yngwie's dream of many years was finally realized. For some reason, anxious fans had to wait until 1998 to hear this extraordinary album, and that wait was nothing -- many fans had been waiting since 1984, when yngwie's debut album was released.
Without waiting to celebrate the release of the strings album, Yngwie rushed back to Miami to record facing the animal, scheduled for release in '98. The new album features veteran cozy powell on drums. The album, with its dark moods and heavy rhythms, is an outstanding album in the eyes of both critics and fans, and is considered to be Yngwie's strongest work in the last decade. Promoted by Mercury Records, Yngwie's U.S. and European distributors, the album finally received considerable attention in the U.S., with interviews and reviews of the album appearing in a wide variety of magazines across Europe and the U.S.
April of '98, the Yngwie's had no time to take on the new roles of parents, as they were on the road together on tour. The show wasn't delayed by the birth of little antonio, so it wasn't until three weeks after the baby was born that he got his ID. April yngwie, like all fathers, was in high spirits, cracking jokes on planes, trains and automobiles.
While yngwie celebrated the birth of his son, he also had to deal with a tragic loss for the entire rock-music community: cozy powell's life was taken mercilessly in a horrific car accident in England. Shaken, yngwie decided to continue facing the animal's touring program, and he recruited a new drummer, jonas ostman, to join him on the road. The band went on to play shows in Japan, South America, and Europe, and a successful show in Brazil was recorded and released as a live album simply titled, yngwie malmsteen live! Unfortunately for fans in North America, most of the band's North American shows were canceled due to lack of support from sponsors and record labels. After the tour, yngwie returned home to Miami and began to adjust to the role of a father. Fatherhood has been challenging again, and yngwie's enthusiasm and ambition are beginning to return to the level they were fifteen years ago.
The new album, alchemy, released in 1999, was almost a return to the hard-edged style of rising force, and the sound was a bit more European than the previous album, facing the animal. This return to the roots of yngwie has made yngwie's status in the eyes of music critics and fans increase dramatically, and many long-lost fans have returned to yngwie's music. At a time when rap metal and hardcore are prevalent in the United States, yngwie brings us a refreshing breeze with the most direct heavy metal, and it can be said that alchemy is European music produced in the United States, and this kind of music can always make us excited. yngwie malmsteen has been through all sorts of ups and downs in his 20 years of music, and his debut, rising force, has undoubtedly become a monumental piece of work. Although he has released a number of less than stellar albums over the course of 20 years, his newest work is a reminder of the promise he has given us. Let's hope that yngwie continues to bring us true heavy metal in the new century.