Yngwie Malmsteen and G3

I've got "Live in Leningrad" on vinyl which ably demonstrates his obviously huge technical ability. As PR pointed out he's more of a show off than a great musician.
John

Let me start to say that Yngwie is a great player. His debut album Rising Force (Black Star is great) is definately his best. ALso his previous work with former Rainbow singer Graham Bonnet with Alcatrazz is worthwhile (he was followed up by Steve Vai after one studio and one live album), however, forget Graham's terrible singing.

I disagree that he is technically better than people like Satriani. He keeps repeating the same schedules at incredible speed, but everything sounds the same. People like Satriani and Vai have much more variations in techniques and styles. On top of that Satriani is also a great songwriter!

When 3G comes to Europe I'll definately go!

JP

PR,

Yes, Trilogy is great, isn't it? When this was releaased I used to listen to guitarists like Vinnie Moore, Tony McAlpine, etc. I discovered John Mclauglan only a few months ago. I bought a few albums on vinyl for 1Euro of his Mahavishnu Orchestra. I am not really into jazz (although I recently bought a Kind of Blue of Miles Davis and was very surprised I like this a lot), so it is really new and difficult to understand for me (allthough I am a complete early Genesis addict, until "seconds out". Do you have recommendations for more accessible stuff from McLaughlin?

Thanks in advance,
JP

Actually I have another album with him: Friday night in San Francisco, with Al di Meola and another bloke.

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Al di Meola and another bloke

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This 'other bloke' is Paco de Lucia and IMO he beats the two others hands down. He's a full-blown Flamenco player - Al Di Meola is just devoid of feelings of any kind and John McLaughlin is just too good at too many styles.

Cheese

I went to the G3 gig last thursday. I got the tickets late so they weren't great. I was sitting up on a balcony over the left edge of the stage, and above the left speaker bank. I was in the front row of the balcony so I had a great view, but not the best sound in the house since I was sitting on top of the speakers almost!

Yngwie started the show with his set. I didn't recognise any of the tunes since I don't know much of his music. He goes through picks at an amazing rate, throwing them into the crowd every minute, even has his own roadie that runs on and attaches a bunch of picks to his mike stand.

Then on came Mr Vai. His set was probably best of the three, he is a superb live performer and really got the crowd going.

Then Joe Satriani came on as last of the three. Of the three he is my favourite and I really enjoyed his set, but he doesn't seem to have that slight edge live that Steve Vai had. I'd love to go back and see a full set from Satriani.

Each of them played for about 40 or 50 minutes and then the three of them came on and did about a 30 minute set which was definitely the highlight of the night.

I've also seen (well told by a friend) that Paco de Lucia is playing here in Toronto early next year, can any of you people recomend any of his albums to check out before probably going to get a ticket?

PR -

Given the astounding photos of messrs Hilboune and Malmsteen I am also surpised at the lack of interest.

I would have thought that this is exactly the kind of raw clinical material that many research psychiatrists are looking for.

Tim