My 'New' 2003 Yngwie Malmsteen Strat

[Mudfuzz]

It's funny, the better I get as a musician the more I am drawn to extreme sonic chaos

it wasnt until the last few years that I will sit down and just let my shit feed back.

No... I've always done that... I remember the first time I discovered feedback Was when I leaned my bass against my amp and it started to feed back in a droning pattern

[Derelict78]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8F5YSA1Oz0[/youtube]

Is this a joke? Are these kids Retarded?
How is it that no one around these douches has told them they are making fools of themselfs?
WTF do they actually sell records?
Where is my shot gun

[tuffteef]

I call "BIG JOKE" on this thread.

Like the guy on The Gear Forum (wait... T.G... oh, P) or The Gear Page or whatever that baits everyone with the Dumble tube vacuum shit.

Good show!



C

lord dumble does not wait for 2 minute ramen
2 minute ramen waits for dumble

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Alright can somebody please explain these dumble things to me?????

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[htsamurai]

Wow all the haters here and unfortunately becoming so typical of many forum users today. What does it get you? Maybe you want to be that way, after all the mob rules so more power to you. It's just ugly and sad.

I just wanted to show off the guitar that I just got and discuss my Strat. In other forum topics I just talk about DIY pedals I've built or developing for my own use.

Look I don't care if any of you like Yngwie or not. I don't even care if you like the styles of grunge or nu-metal. I don't care if you like classical violin, blues, classic rock, heavy metal, or neo-classical rock just like I do. But I won't slam your favorites if you mention them in particular, because that is your personal choice what to like regardless if I privately may not like that particular style of music or the celebrity doing it. It's not my duty or goal to convince you they are not worthy of your listening or fandom. To each his own and rightly so.

Yeah I'm a member of the Yngwie Malmsteen fan club and I've even hung out with Yngwie (and Rudy Sarzo) on his tour bus in 2004. In personal face to face terms Yngwie is no asshole at all and very kind - so at least I know some of you don't have that in common with him to worry about! Even while tired at 3:30am he was very nice and graceous to me and my wife to have us visit with him, as well as some other 'so-called fans' waiting in a long line outside the bus who were there getting their huge piles of stuff signed just to sell on Ebay. In the press maybe he comes across that way because he just tells it like he sees it while always confident in his own abilities. He is quoted as saying 'some of the guitarists' appearing in guitar magazines "shouldn't be giving lessons, they should be taking lessons" - which is totally true! How many of the nu-metal rock bands even know how to play a solo, at least until recently. Yngwie championed a whole genre of rock music since coming to America in the early 80's, and he was doing his signature style of playing well back in the 70's as a young teenager too.

Yeah and he bases his style on the great classical composers like Bach, Paganni, and Vavaldi - so what? You can't point to any current rock guitarist who doesn't base what he/she does on their own prefered styles of the early blues/rock guitarists who came before him before integrating it into their own? You pretty much base your own style and perferences on a mix of what you liked listening too when you were young. Be proud of what you personally like, but don't hate out of spite what others choose to like instead.


http://home.comcast.net/~yngwie100

while I couldn't disagree with the bolded point anymore, I do agree with just about everything else.
(in fact the bolded point kinda goes against everything else you said, but thats beside the point)

quit hatin guys. srsly.
as mentioned in this thread earlier, I'm no yngwie fan, but this isn't about him, this is about the strat. Which is awesome.
I've always loved the idea of a scalloped neck, I hope to play one some time soon but around here they don't really get stocked...at all :/

[foomanfat]

Ooooh ooooh, I want in!

I really don't dig strats and scalloped necks scare my poor technical abilities.
Also, I'd have to say my preferred shredder of sorts is Al Di Meola.
And, while I think his tunes are cheesy, I have nothing against Yngwie (aside from his treatment of fine guitars).
There, I've officially added nothing to this topic.

(The above statement is not sarcasm)

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I've always loved the idea of a scalloped neck, I hope to play one some time soon but around here they don't really get stocked...at all :/

When i lived in florida there would be at least three or four of them sitting in the local sam ash every time i went in. Apparently there was some dude that had a yngwie cover band or whatever and was constantly buying them then selling them when he found a lighter one. One time dude was actually in the store when i went in....it was an experience. He was all decked out in leather pants and one of those those cheap rayon button up shirts that they used to sell at spencers that had like DRAGONS AND MANGA DUDES on them. He had a silk scarf tied around his head and some big clodhopper boots with flames on them. i almost fucking died laughing bro cause there this guy was in the middle of sam ash with a strap doing around the worlds with the guitar....i asked one of the guys who worked there why they let him do that and he was like that guys account is probably 10% of our total guitar sales every month. many lols were had by me and my friends that day.

As for how the guitar itself played....i really didnt feel too much of a difference for what its worth. Theyre usually pretty well put together as, from what i was told when i asked about it, they used to be put together by the guys in the custom shop like the old ritchie blackmore sigs (the one with two single coils, a roland pickup and scallops) but built on the production line. Kind of like a custom production guitar...i guess its because they werent ever in that high demand so they just did a couple batches a year. In the end it still felt like a strat to me which is a really bad thing. I've always liked the looks but can never manage to bond with strats....they just arent right for me. My hand always hits the volume knob, my pick always hits the middle pickup, the million-way switch feels weird to me, and i can never raise the action at the bridge high enough to compensate for the giant clunker body so it always feels like i have to wrap my arm around a fat guy to get to the strings. Im just more of a jazzmaster kinda guy.

In response to my earlier post i guess i sounded really mad or something but that really wasnt the case. I just get annoyed really easily with the whole "LOL U NEED 2 PRAKTIS MOR SO U KAN MAKE SOLOZ" mentality. Everyone i went to highschool with was like that. Its like the music wasnt even good if it wasnt meshuggah or TECHNICAL DEATH METALS. Although somehow WEX BORLANDS was the best guitarist ever and the guy from THE SLIPKNOTS was best drmmr.

[madmax1012]

while i'm not exactly a virtouso guitarist fan, i do have a love for eric johnson. i wish i could have one of his signature strats. anyways, sorry to hate on yngwie, and congrats on the guitar! never played a scalloped neck, but i'm sure it'd be cool to try out

[htsamurai]

Ooooh ooooh, I want in!

I really don't dig strats and scalloped necks scare my poor technical abilities.
Also, I'd have to say my preferred shredder of sorts is Al Di Meola.
And, while I think his tunes are cheesy, I have nothing against Yngwie (aside from his treatment of fine guitars).
There, I've officially added nothing to this topic.

(The above statement is not sarcasm)

mind linking some of his shreddy stuff you like?
I LOVE him in Return to Forever and all of his fusion stuff from those days, but haven't really been introduced to his later mats :/

I've always loved the idea of a scalloped neck, I hope to play one some time soon but around here they don't really get stocked...at all :/

When i lived in florida there would be at least three or four of them sitting in the local sam ash every time i went in. Apparently there was some dude that had a yngwie cover band or whatever and was constantly buying them then selling them when he found a lighter one. One time dude was actually in the store when i went in....it was an experience. He was all decked out in leather pants and one of those those cheap rayon button up shirts that they used to sell at spencers that had like DRAGONS AND MANGA DUDES on them. He had a silk scarf tied around his head and some big clodhopper boots with flames on them. i almost fucking died laughing bro cause there this guy was in the middle of sam ash with a strap doing around the worlds with the guitar....i asked one of the guys who worked there why they let him do that and he was like that guys account is probably 10% of our total guitar sales every month. many lols were had by me and my friends that day.

As for how the guitar itself played....i really didnt feel too much of a difference for what its worth. Theyre usually pretty well put together as, from what i was told when i asked about it, they used to be put together by the guys in the custom shop like the old ritchie blackmore sigs (the one with two single coils, a roland pickup and scallops) but built on the production line. Kind of like a custom production guitar...i guess its because they werent ever in that high demand so they just did a couple batches a year. In the end it still felt like a strat to me which is a really bad thing. I've always liked the looks but can never manage to bond with strats....they just arent right for me. My hand always hits the volume knob, my pick always hits the middle pickup, the million-way switch feels weird to me, and i can never raise the action at the bridge high enough to compensate for the giant clunker body so it always feels like i have to wrap my arm around a fat guy to get to the strings. Im just more of a jazzmaster kinda guy.

In response to my earlier post i guess i sounded really mad or something but that really wasnt the case. I just get annoyed really easily with the whole "LOL U NEED 2 PRAKTIS MOR SO U KAN MAKE SOLOZ" mentality. Everyone i went to highschool with was like that. Its like the music wasnt even good if it wasnt meshuggah or TECHNICAL DEATH METALS. Although somehow WEX BORLANDS was the best guitarist ever and the guy from THE SLIPKNOTS was best drmmr.

massively agree with this. Can we throw all the Tool fanboys in there too?
"Omg, Maynards singing about my life man, you just don't get it. You've never been there."

I started playing guitar towards the end of my freshman year of highschool, I'm 21 now, so it's been about 7 years or so.
I was sooooooooooooo one of those guys, I know I said somethings like this on multiple occasions "oh..you listen to 'that'? Listen to real music, steve vai and yngwie malmsteen. noob, you'll never be a real guitarist."

I was never the leather pants wearing, bandana around head having, guitar smashing guy....
..I was that long haired prick with the guitar that would go talk crap to everyone else with a guitar, CAUSE I HAD A REAL FENDER AND NOT A SQUIER AND PLAYED BLUES.
but I do love those really flamboyant guys who feel the world revolves around their crappy band
subversive crap-talking is the best, "hey dude I heard your amp cutting out during your set." "no man, my amp doesn't cut out. You're hearing things." "yeah you're probably right, I really need to learn to play better." *get on stage, show up the idiot w/ the 3 mile long pedalboard of boss pedals*
I'm so much more like the folks on this board nowadays anyway (not that theres really an ILF mold per se, but for the most part everyones just relatively laid back and used to being at the receiving end of the abuse :/ ), but still love me some technical playing. It's just that the vast majority of it is jazz and often times has no guitar in it.





this thread reminds me of the hiphop/rap threads we've had here where people fall into that typical guitarist mentality of "RAP SUCKS"
then someone will be all, "hey man, shut up and dig the beat OR get the hell out of this thread."
then everyones like, "yeah man...I just don't like lil wayne..."

[htsamurai]

while i'm not exactly a virtouso guitarist fan, i do have a love for eric johnson. i wish i could have one of his signature strats. anyways, sorry to hate on yngwie, and congrats on the guitar! never played a scalloped neck, but i'm sure it'd be cool to try out

NO STRING TREES <3<3<3

[The4455]

Al di Meola is amazing, I have his Tour de Force Live albumn, tis amazing - get it, now.

I also like Yngwie's music, not liking a person adn not liking their music are two totally different things i.e. I like the song "Welcome to the Jungle," I do not like AXL Rose or Slash.

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then everyones like, "yeah man...I just don't like lil wayne..."

I like lil wayne.

[MaxMaps]

All I have it say that the Ramones did a one note guitar solo and it was just as affective as a bajillion note Malmsteen 10 minuet solo.

Aside from that, over the years I have grown to love music for what it is and I rarely hate on any one band or act. I just walk by and shake my head as I hear 15 year old kids talking about how Tool or Skipknot are the greatest band ever and everything else is just crap.

I used to be one of those shit heads. Only I was heavy in the the early 90's death metal. ( Morbid Angel, Deicide, Carcass, Cannibal Corpse, ect...) and used to talk shit.

Now I listen to George Benson and Hall and Oats and ENJOY IT. ( yes I know I turned lame)

[rbtr]

Man, hall and oats.....don't tell anyone, but... SO GOOD