Yngvie Malmsteen unleashes the fucking fury!

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Oh dear heavens, this is brilliant, and I hope it's legitimate. According to a post on the Metal Sludge boards:

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Threatens To Kill Passenger On Flight - Dec. 9, 2002

YNGWIE MALMSTEEN threatened to kill a fellow passenger on a flight to Tokyo, Japan after the woman poured a glassful of water on the guitarist.

The passenger, who had no prior contact with Yngwie, allegedly overheard Malmsteen making derogatory comments about homosexuals and decided to show her disapproval by emptying the contents of her glass on the hefty axeman.

A member of Yngwie's touring entourage, who was traveling with Malmsteen at the time, had a tape recorder running and managed to catch Yngwie's reaction on tape immediately after the guitarist was "assaulted" by the offended passenger.

And the mp3 of this tape can be downloaded here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Should be YngWie in the headline, of course. Ah well!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Nothing has ever been funnier than this. Makes Peter Buck seem like a piker.

― Matt C., Monday, 9 December 2002 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot seem to find said MP3. I can, however, find the Roadrunner Records site from that link (?).

― hstencil, Monday, 9 December 2002 16:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Should be Yngwie J. Malmsteen actually, we wouldn't want to get him confused with all those other Yngwie Malmsteens ;-)

Oh well, another neo-classical metal guitar idol loses his halo.

;-)

― meirion john lewis (mei), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The mp3 is there, I just heard it.

So now, does musical character == personal character?

― meirion john lewis (mei), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, I was in a lousy mood because my fire alarm kept going off for no reason and waking me but this makes it all better! Thanks Yngwie!

― original bgm, Monday, 9 December 2002 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

ahahahaha... "YOU'VE UNLEASHED A FUCKING FURY!"

― Aaron W, Monday, 9 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no idea who this person is.
(the tape is still funny tho')

― Jeff W (Jeff W), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yngwie is a guitar geek's guitar god (if you like crap). Dave Q probably can come up with a better description of him, but if you want to laugh at some entertaining follies, his official page is here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

LOL! Shame Ian Brown wasn't caught on tape.

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 9 December 2002 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That's fucking hilarious.

"Nej nu jävlar!"

― , Monday, 9 December 2002 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

This further underscores the irrefutable fact that one should never try to swear in a second language, as it only makes one appear (more) ridiculous (than he already does.)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 December 2002 17:07 (twenty-two years ago)

With that and the Enrique Iglesias tape, the next edition of *Celebrities at their Worst* is gonna be sooo great!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"I like how he puts 'Yngwie J Malmstein' on his signature pedals, so as we don't confuse him with some other Yngwie Malmstein. - David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"i am a viking," indeed!

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

life is good!

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

to think, this was a guy who wrote a song called "the queen in love"

― Tad (llamasfur), Monday, 9 December 2002 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Metal!!! (Pinky and index finger in the air) What a pompous ass-sounds like he's drunk-is he still a cokehead?

― mal2478, Monday, 9 December 2002 23:35 (twenty-two years ago)

If only his albums were this entertaining.

― james devon, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't he beat the shit out of his wife a while back? classy guy.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, this is SO going on my next mix CD.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Hats off to good ole Yngwie!

― Billy Fairfield, Wednesday, 11 December 2002 02:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"You've unleashed the fucking fury!"
http://www.hmm.ro/foto-trupe/yngwie-malmsteen-1.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 12 December 2002 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

This is such a great clip. I don't know though, I'd probably be just as pissed. I mean, if I paid for a fucking first class seat, I wouldn't stand for this fat bitch throwing water on me for no fucking reason!!! njar Blanpkot! Snal HURG de Blanpkot, SNERRLYOOT!!!

― Dan I., Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

He's no Guy Mann Dude...
http://www.chedsey.com/images/mann/sleight.jpg

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 12 December 2002 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, now there is THE MAN. There was a station ID of his at KLA which was abused.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Please tell me that _Dude_ is the name of that album! I don't think I can cope with the concept of the last name Mann-Dude.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha ha ha! No, that was his full stage name. Guy Mann-Dude. SUFFER!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

KILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILLKILL

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

If you go here, it's a page about a guy who once played with "shredder guitarist Guy Mann-Dude" -- and after that, he played with Yngwie!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 December 2002 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.blabbermouth.net/yngwie_unleash.jpg

― original bgm, Friday, 13 December 2002 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't he say released, not unleashed though..?

― , Friday, 13 December 2002 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

"You fat fuck, with your ugly white shirt"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 13 December 2002 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Last time I saw Yngvie he wasn't the definition of slim himself but who know, maybe he has been working out. Alot.

― , Friday, 13 December 2002 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

if someone hasn't already done so, i think someone should send this .mp3 to Howard Stern (or at least alert him to its existence). this is exactly the sort of thing he loves.

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 14 December 2002 10:05 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

UNLEASH THE FUCKING FURY AGAIN!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 10 November 2003 04:45 (twenty-one years ago)

There is a lot of really brilliant Swedish swearing in there :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 10 November 2003 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Yea well this guy rips it up on guitar! It is true he has too much of an ego, Rhapsody has a good description:
The only thing grander than Yngwie's guitar playing is his ego: at one concert, Malmsteen began to play Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption," stopped in the middle of a lightning lick, and yawned, moving on to a hundred-mile-per-hour solo of his own invention. Malmsteen revolutionized guitar playing in the '80s with a combination of Jimi Hendrix's stage flair, Ritchie Blackmore's (Deep Purple) searing Stratocaster tone, and classical composer Niccolo Paganini's rapid-fire arpeggios and self-destructive personality. After teasing guitar fans and his hair in Alcatrazz and Steeler, Yngwie recorded his first (and best) album Rising Force (1984), mixing Metal riffs and Baroque harmonies to spearhead the neo-classical guitar movement. Though many of his U.S. fans have moved on to grungier pastures, Malmsteen still draws them in internationally, with rabid fans in his native Sweden as well as in Japan.
- Jesse T.

― Leland Smith, Sunday, 2 January 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

the best thing i've downloaded linked from ilx

also, guy mann dude's cover of paint it black = classic

― jake b. (cerybut), Sunday, 2 January 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Doesn't he say released, not unleashed though..?

-- ( ...), December 13th, 2002.

sounds like "released" to me.

― contribute, Sunday, 2 January 2005 07:27 (twenty years ago)

Step #23: Own Your Shame...

December 5, 2004
Official News

Yngwie Malmsteen's upcoming album is
UNLEASH THE FURY.

Recording Band:
Yngwie Malmsteen - All Guitars
Doogie White - Vocals
Patrik Johansson - Drums
Joakim Svalberg - Keyboards

Official album release details will be announced soon.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

Doogie White?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Though many of his U.S. fans have moved on to grungier pastures, Malmsteen still draws them in internationally, with rabid fans in his native Sweden as well as in Japan.

He can still regularly pull forty at the Crocodile in Allentown, easy. Iggy's main liability is that none of the forty buy his records. They go for one modern equiv of "the rassling bear" phenomenon.

― George Smith, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Doogie White?

Doogie Howser's cousin.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I figured that, but does he have a PhD?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Please tell me that I'm hearing correctly, and that someone on that tape is saying "waste of water."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:17 (twenty years ago)

The harmonies on Rising Force do not sound Baroque to me.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

"If she wants a war, we'll give her a fucking war."

I also like the part in the beginning where Yngwie says "Look at me, fucking look at me!" and someone says "I see it and I feel it!"

― contribute, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

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im not sure i couldve imagined anything more on brand

― marcos smart (Spottie), Friday, 1 February 2019 23:12 (six years ago)

He is unleashing the focken blues.

― A. Begrand, Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:00 (six years ago)

“The top is down...on my CAR”

Just that wee touch of ESL pushes it from travesty to the sublimely ridiculous

― eva logorrhea (bendy), Saturday, 2 February 2019 01:46 (six years ago)

the lyrics are so hilariously not-blues, like a weird Van Halen b-side

also the video: here are all my guitars, here are all my cars lets party with the blues okay

<3 Wingie

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:04 (six years ago)

"Blue Lightning" track listing:

01. Blue Lightning
02. Foxey Lady
03. Demon's Eye (DEEP PURPLE)
04. 1911 Strut
05. Blue Je.an Blues (ZZ TOP)
06. Purple Haze (Jimi Hendrix)
07. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (THE BEATLES)
08. Sun's Up Top's Down
09. Peace, Please
10. Paint It Black (THE ROLLING STONES)
11. Smoke On The Water (DEEP PURPLE)
12. Forever Man (Eric Clapton)

― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:13 (six years ago)

1911 Strut has to be about a gun and that's going to be incredible

― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:14 (six years ago)

FOREVER MAN???

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:20 (six years ago)

He loves all the Strat wranglers I guess. I wonder if he ever cheats on his at home, puts a towel over it and plays some Dickey betts / joe Walsh bullshit on a les Paul

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:22 (six years ago)

lol

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:29 (six years ago)

God he is a fucking piece of work

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 2 February 2019 03:52 (six years ago)

I've never heard that many notes played over a blues progression.

― Marty8501 (Marty Innerlogic), Saturday, 2 February 2019 15:06 (six years ago)

That track sounds like Eric Johnson with ADHD.

― earlnash, Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:05 (six years ago)

while my guitar gently weeps is les paul tho

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:08 (six years ago)

i love how completely he's still committed to a completely outdated idea of what a rock star is, having 8000 identical rare Strats and cruising around in a Ferrari

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:23 (six years ago)

He's finally realized shred metal is never coming back, not even in Japan and Germany, and now he's chasing that sweet Joe Bonamassa money.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:29 (six years ago)

Even Ferraris get the blues

― earlnash, Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:33 (six years ago)

I've probably made more mistakes than anybody. But I don't dwell on them. I don't expect people to understand me, because I'm pretty complex, and I think outside the box with everything I do. I've always taken the untraveled path. Obviously, people have their opinions, but I can't get too wrapped up in that, because I know what I can do and I know what kind of person I am. And I have no control over what anybody says about me. Back in Sweden I'm 'Mr Personality' in the tabloids, but obviously I can't take that seriously. I know in my heart that if I do the absolute best I can do, maybe ten years from now people may turn around and say 'he wasn't that bad'.

YM, 2005

― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:36 (six years ago)

his taste in Ferraris stuck in 80s Magnum PI era as well (video rolled into Yngwie, Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde and Nuno Bettencourt playing Bohemian Rhapsody. Yngwie relatively restrained).

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:37 (six years ago)

sun’s out guitars out

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 16:58 (six years ago)

To be fair, musicians flaunting their wealth has never stopped being popular, it just doesn’t really work the other way around when you’re not that famous anymore.

― Siegbran, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:06 (six years ago)

maybe if he unbuttoned his shirt more

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:07 (six years ago)

Mr Personality?

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:13 (six years ago)

Tabloids?

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:13 (six years ago)

'Cause he's so ugly?

― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:14 (six years ago)

He’s stuck in a very specific time and place and it’s perfect really

― marcos smart (Spottie), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:29 (six years ago)

I like how they have to blur his license plate

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:31 (six years ago)

i wish they’d blur his chest

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:33 (six years ago)

😂

― i stan corrected (morrisp), Saturday, 2 February 2019 17:38 (six years ago)

“It’s not the notes you don’t play, it’s the many many notes you play.”

― Sam Weller, Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:49 (six years ago)

Tbf his music would be way more interesting if he adopted New Complexity tenets.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 18:55 (six years ago)

“It’s not the notes you don’t play, it’s the many many notes you play.”

Feel like he gets the short shrift in this area. The notes he plays *are* interesting. He just plays them and the accompanying ones really fast.

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:20 (six years ago)

From his wiki page:

"As a teenager he was heavily influenced by classical music, particularly 19th century Italian virtuoso violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, a German multi-instrumentalist and composer of the 18th century."

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:20 (six years ago)

Prime material for the 'unusual details in Wikipedia articles' thread.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:23 (six years ago)

It takes time to learn how to listen though. It’s not something one could pick up on first or second hearing

― calstars, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:23 (six years ago)

I like that he's described as a multi-instrumentalist first and a composer second.

― pomenitul, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:24 (six years ago)

Not to be confused with Sebastian Bach, lead singer of Skid Row.

― Siegbran, Saturday, 2 February 2019 19:31 (six years ago)

I didn't realize Tommy Wiseau played guitar

― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:21 (six years ago)

the early Rising Force stuff is really pretty good Euro trad metal.... he really was astonishing, much better when he sticks to neoclassical

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

Yeah, his first three albums are really good, and the two recent ones with Ripper Owens on vocals are better than they had any right to be. But "Yngwie plays the blues" is an idea no one should have encouraged.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:39 (six years ago)

I like his old stuff
as a persona he’s a total cheeseball egomaniac & i kinda love it

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 2 February 2019 20:56 (six years ago)

omg this is a gift

love yngwie's take on the late career back-to-basics recd. gtr could be a little wetter tbh

― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Saturday, 2 February 2019 21:45 (six years ago)

Everything wetter than everything else.

― peace, man, Saturday, 2 February 2019 21:58 (six years ago)

yngvie malmsteen unleashes the fucken furry lewis

― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Saturday, 2 February 2019 21:59 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHZ48AE3TOI

― earlnash, Saturday, 2 February 2019 22:34 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-qmRS3-a4
If you shred for me baby
I will turn your Yngwie (J.) Malmsteen

― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 February 2019 22:37 (six years ago)

He makes Joe Bonamassa look like Charley Patton, ffs.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:34 (six years ago)

The insanity makes this vastly more entertaining than any Bonamassa I’ve heard tbh

― louise ck (milo z), Saturday, 2 February 2019 23:49 (six years ago)

loool Nick B

― brimstead, Sunday, 3 February 2019 00:27 (six years ago)

I watched the youtube vid and the hollow ringing sound of endless decay has stuck in my head for 24 hours

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 3 February 2019 02:54 (six years ago)

I saw this dude back in '85 opening for AC-DC with his "Rising Force." He was a 22-year-old goofball then and now he's a 55-year-old goofball. He was charming, but...

I suggest people listen to Ritchie Blackmore.

― Josefa, Sunday, 3 February 2019 03:11 (six years ago)

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