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Ynwgie Mamsteen<\/a> is one of rock\u2019s great guitar icons, equally loved and ridiculed for his light-speed shredding<\/a> \u2013 and his often outrageous proclamations about his own talents. In April 2019, as he released his new album Blue Lightning, he looked back over his fast-fingered career.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been in joints like this before,\u201d Yngwie Malmsteen says as he settles into his cell. The posh Soho hotel where rock\u2019s premier neo-classical speed demon greets Classic Rock is, it turns out, a former courthouse once visited unwillingly by Oscar Wilde, Mick Jagger<\/a>, Keith Richards<\/a> and John Lennon<\/a>; a painting of the latter on the wall looms over the guitarist\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n

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Even Wilde might have thought twice about Malmsteen\u2019s entrance into the place\u2019s now chic lobby. With his crow\u2019s-nest hair, long leather jacket, leather trousers and black shirt open to the waist, he looks like Gene Simmons crossed with Elvis. Metal bracelets jangle when he raises his hand and peers over mirror shades to make a point. Tall, with the comfortable build of the King circa 1973, he also recalls Presley in a southern softness to his accent, its Swedishness now burnt out by 30 years living in Miami.<\/p>\n

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The charges levelled against the cell\u2019s temporary new occupant are minor but long-standing: he has riled his detractors by the blizzards of notes which have blown through his records since he arrived in the US in 1982, and sent bandmates spare by dictating every sound they make. \u2018So what?\u2019 he\u2019ll shrug. \u2018Ever heard of Beethoven?\u2019 He\u2019ll similarly contend he\u2019s no mere shredder (despite helping to popularise guitar playing as an Olympic speed trial), instead launching the playing of his instrument into new realms of classical range and technique.<\/p>\n

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Yngwie Malmsteen in 2019 (Image credit: Austin Hargrave\/Press)<\/p>\n

A TV glimpse of Hendrix burning his guitar at Monterey<\/a> was one formative influence on Malmsteen the Stockholm child prodigy. Niccol\u00f2 Paganini, the nineteenth-century violinist whose fiery flights led to Robert Johnson-like rumours of supping with Satan, mattered more.<\/p>\n

Other guitar players that hire singers, like Schenker and Blackmore, let them sing whatever the hell they want. But then it\u2019s not my full message.<\/p>\n

Yngwie Malmsteen<\/p>\n

Malmsteen\u2019s 1998 album Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar And Orchestra is his self-declared pinnacle. And the DVD of its live debut with the New Japan Philharmonic shows him in his element: a florid frock-coated soloist in a concert hall, eyes squeezed shut, fingers flying up and down the frets as dozens of musicians faithfully play his mutant magnum opus.<\/p>\n

The fervent Deep Purple<\/a> fan was both developing Jon Lord\u2019s concept for their Concerto For Group And Orchestra and merging his classical upbringing with his metal maturity. Although it\u2019s sometimes absurd, and Beethoven needn\u2019t roll over, his serious joy in work he totally believes in is a pleasure to watch.<\/p>\n

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Ynwgie in the early 1990s (Image credit: Neil Zlozower\/Atlasicons.com)<\/p>\n

Malmsteen\u2019s new album, Blue Lightning, is by contrast a blues album (suggested by his label, Mascot), with new songs alongside covers both highly familiar (Smoke On The Water<\/a>, Purple Haze, Paint It Black) and left-field (Eric Clapton\u2019s Forever Man).<\/p>\n

What makes this more surprising is his characteristically blunt opinion on the blues a decade back. \u201cMy whole approach to guitar playing,\u201d he told journalist Steven Rosen in 2008, \u201cwas to remove myself from that incest of the blues mentality\u2026 I don\u2019t want to have anything to do with blues, which is the most limited, the most pathetic kind of music\u2026 It\u2019s like staying in first gear in a Ferrari. I don\u2019t want to do a whole blues album.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, it\u2019s a great thing that you brought that up,\u201d he raps back. \u201cI know that I used to be quite outspoken in a lot of different ways, and sometimes I take it back. But this time I want to explain what I meant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And so he does, at length and at breathless speed much like his playing. As he traces his unusually difficult relationship with the blues, he also tells the origin story of Yngwie Malmsteen the respectable Swede who gave it all up to play lightning-fast rock\u2019n\u2019roll as if it was a symphony.<\/p>\n

And this thing which was supposed to be Graham Bonnet\u2019s thing became my thing. It started a lot of frustration with the other guys.<\/p>\n

Yngwie Malmsteen<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in a classically trained family \u2013 opera singers and pianists and violinists,\u201d he says of his childhood. Aged five he was learning piano, flute, trumpet, drums and \u201cclassical rudimentary whatever\u201d, until that glimpse of Jimi flamboyantly destroying his flaming guitar on a news item the day of his death (September 18, 1970) made seven-year-old Yngwie pull an acoustic guitar he\u2019d been gifted from the wall. \u201cNobody taught me, I played what sounded like a bluesy thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I heard Deep Purple\u2019s Fireball when I was eight. That was an extension of the blues again, because Deep Purple, let\u2019s not be mistaken, was a blues band. And I was so fanatical about my guitar-playing that I would play fifteen hours a day when I was seven. I mean, I could play anything \u2013 \u2018diddle-e-diddle-ee-diddle-ee\u2019 [imitating his infant-school shredding].\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ynwgie Malmsteen (left) with Steeler in 1983 (Image credit: Chris Walter\/WireImage)<\/p>\n

The point of Malmsteen\u2019s story today is that he was playing the five-note pentatonic scale that all blues is built from. \u201cThen I heard Genesis\u2019s Selling England By The Pound, and that freaked me out. And I also heard [its non-pentatonic, inverted notes] in my mother\u2019s Bach and Vivaldi records. Then I saw Paganini\u2019s 24 Caprice No. 5 on TV, and it stirred me. But have you heard of a ten-year-old kid who wants to play classical things on the electric guitar? No. So why would I do that? Because I like the challenge. And I had some weird idea that it was what I was meant to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his old dismissal of the genre he\u2019s just made an album in, he only half takes it back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I meant was that I revolted against the pentatonic box, which every guitar player you can name is in \u2013 Hendrix, Keith Richards, Schenker, Van Halen. And Blue Lightning isn\u2019t all pentatonic. So I stand by that.<\/p>\n

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Alcatrazz in the 1980s: Ynwgie Malmsteen (centre) with Graham Bonnet (left) (Image credit: Randy Bachman\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was a harsh statement,\u201d he adds of his blues diatribe. \u201cBut I\u2019d like to point out that I admire Buddy Guy, I admire BB King. A lot of blues players, I love them. Angus Young is a blues player, and he\u2019s a fucking good one, because he really means everything he does. ZZ Top\u2019s Billy Gibbons \u2013 come on! I love these guys! I really love them! I just have to say that\u2019s not where I\u2019m going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike those hard-line bluesmen and rockers, though, Malmsteen\u2019s roots are European, and classical. So did blues seem kind of dumb?<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Dumb\u2019 is the wrong word. Because I hear BB King play one note, and that one note has more meaning than fucking\u2026 I don\u2019t even know how to explain it. I get chills just thinking about it. I don\u2019t want to call that dumb. For instance, when I play on stage every night I play Albinoni\u2019s Adagio In G. That\u2019s a classical piece. But I play it with a feeling of blues. So is blues an expression, or is it the pentatonic scale? I think it\u2019s an expression. So I don\u2019t think \u2018dumb\u2019 is a good word. \u2018Limited\u2019 is.\u201d<\/p>\n

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If Malmsteen\u2019s feelings about blues seem to be the most tortured of any major guitarist, wait until you hear him on his homeland. To many, Sweden is an enviable egalitarian utopia, symbolised by ABBA\u2019s sunny optimism. The nation\u2019s most revered rock instrumentalist begs to differ<\/p>\n

I debate with myself: \u2018Would this be the right thing, or not?\u2019 But I\u2019d say most of the time I\u2019m pretty clear.<\/p>\n

Yngwie Malmsteen<\/p>\n

\u201cGrowing up in Sweden in the seventies was a very bare thing,\u201d he says. \u201cThere was no external input at all; there was only one TV station, there was only one music radio station, there was a record store, a music store, and your friends at school. No one knew what was going on. I liked Deep Purple, but no one told me what Rainbow was. You had to have a lot of internal imagination. And no one was telling me what to do and what not to do. Or maybe they did and I wasn\u2019t listening properly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cold War with Sweden\u2019s near neighbour Russia required his dad \u2013 an irregular presence since divorcing when Yngwie was a baby \u2013 to become, his son discovered later, a \u201c007\u201d, spying on the Soviets. Young Yngwie, meanwhile exaggerated his natural intransigence to be declared unfit for national service, claiming he\u2019d turn the army\u2019s guns on himself. No, it wasn\u2019t the threat of World War III which made Yngwie mad. It was how fucking fair everything was. \u2018I\u2019m a genius, he seethed \u2013 get me out of here.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ynwgie with his solo band Rising Force in the mid-1980s (Image credit: Gary Gershoff\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very un-Swedish then, and I\u2019m un-Swedish now,\u201d he explains. \u201cI didn\u2019t fit in at all with the mentality that no one\u2019s better than anyone else. If everyone\u2019s the same, there would be no art.\u201d<\/p>\n

Art class was one battleground.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy uncle was an illustrator, and when I was younger I was very talented at drawing,\u201d he says. \u201cBut the teacher would go: [adopting a Muppets Swedish chef accent] \u2018Let Lars and Anders do the drawing, because everybody is the same.\u2019 And their drawing was like a stick man, and mine was really fucking out-there, Salvador Dali shit. There\u2019s this word in Swedish that doesn\u2019t exist in any other language \u2013 lagom \u2013 that means \u2018not too much, not too little\u2019. My mentality is more is \u2018More!\u2019 And I\u2019ve always been like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adolescent Yngwie drove his motorbike into school, got into fights for telling classmates they were idiots, and favoured playing guitar over attending at all. And yet his long-suffering school was a model of supportive sympathy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was treated really well,\u201d he concedes, \u201cbecause they would let me have a key for the woodwork studio so I could go in there and file out frets and shit on my guitar. They were really nice, actually. And I did have straight As in everything, although I didn\u2019t even go.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spells with a luthier and a classical conservatoire saw him to the end of compulsory education. What a nightmare it all sounds.<\/p>\n

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Yngwie with Rising Force singer Joe Lynn Turner (Image credit: Getty)<\/p>\n

Landing in the USA in 1982 to realise his rock dreams, 18-year-old Malmsteen found his promised land.<\/p>\n

I had a brain haemorrhage, and it fucked up some of the nerve endings, which resulted in my right hand not being able to move properly.<\/p>\n

Yngwie Malmsteen<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was California, so there\u2019s no classical music, and they don\u2019t read [music],\u201d he says. \u201cBut it was more upbeat. I felt much more like I belonged. I later learned that they\u2019d say in schools: \u2018You could grow up to be president of the United States.\u2019 In Sweden we were basically told: \u2018Stay in your place, and shut the fuck up.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, Donald Trump is Malmsteen\u2019s kind of President. The economic achievements he reels off might benefit from fact-checking, but putting America first makes \u201cperfect sense\u201d, the guitarist believes. The president also does exactly what he wants, paying little attention to pesky rules or even his own party. This would surely be President Malmsteen\u2019s approach?<\/p>\n

\u201cHa ha, yeah\u2026\u201d he muses of being the main man in the White House. \u201cThe thing is that Congress has almost equal power, and if I were to get to a position like that I would have to work with that. But that\u2019s why I probably wouldn\u2019t do that sort of thing. Actually, I can\u2019t,\u201d he remembers, \u201cbecause I wasn\u2019t born there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Along with Swedish society, school and democratic checks, Malmsteen also doesn\u2019t dig being in bands where anyone but him has a say. Although he was backed by a regular line-up of his band Rising Force during the 80s, as time went on drummers would find their kit tuned, and every beat weighed and planned by their boss in the studio, as if the musicians were just notes on a score. Lead singers such as former Rainbow frontman Joe Lynn Turner were let go one by one. Now, on Blue Lightning Malmsteen sings and plays everything himself.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome bands wouldn\u2019t really function without each other, like Led Zeppelin, and that\u2019s awesome,\u201d he considers. \u201cI was never like that. Even as a student I was thought of as an egomaniac. Which even if I might be, that\u2019s not why I work that way. I do so because I have no confusion about what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

He views other musicians not as bandmates but employees, paid to play his music, and regrets his early weakness in letting singers write their lyrics. \u201cOther guitar-players that hire singers, like Schenker and Blackmore, just let them sing whatever the hell they want,\u201d he reflects. \u201cBut then it\u2019s not my full message. And that\u2019s very important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yngwie Malmsteen with Deep Purple\u2019s Ritchie Blackmore in 1985 (Image credit: George Bodnar Archive\/IconicPiX)<\/p>\n

And yet so much great music has been created from the mysterious sparks and magic of musicians being together in a room. Has Malmsteen really never got anything from collaboration?<\/p>\n

When it comes to something that\u2019s an obstacle, I just crash right through it. Because failure\u2019s unacceptable<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe weirdest thing is that I have to really sit here and think about that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

There have been pleasant times with his peers, like his three tours since 2016 with Steve Vai\u2019s guitar supergroup Generation Axe, which also features Zakk Wylde, Extreme\u2019s Nuno Bettencourt and Animals As Leaders\u2019 Tosin Abasi. \u201cWe hang out on the bus,\u201d he says, \u201cand it\u2019s a really great feeling.\u201d Participating in Vai\u2019s arrangement of Bohemian Rhapsody last year as part of this \u201cguitar orchestra\u201d was \u201can interesting test of discipline\u201d.<\/p>\n

Malmsteen finally can think of just one musician who told him something he didn\u2019t know: Cozy Powell, one of his \u201cheroes of all time\u201d, who he \u201cdrew maps\u201d to make his own drummers sound like, played on his 1997 album Facing The Animal. \u201cCozy told me: \u2018You have to have two ballads on the album.\u2019 And the only time I\u2019ve ever listened to anybody was Cozy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It makes you wonder how he managed when he was first invited to America after demos for Swedish CBS found their way on to Californian college radio, leading to him joining Ron Keel\u2019s metal band Steeler for their self-titled 1983 debut. Malmsteen then switched to British singer Graham Bonnet\u2019s band Alcatrazz, shortly after Bonnet had been ousted from the Michael Schenker Group. Even straight off the plane aged 18 and in a strange land, Malmsteen confesses he couldn\u2019t hide his frustration in these other people\u2019s bands.<\/p>\n

\u201cSteeler was Ron Keel\u2019s band, a hundred per cent,\u201d he explains. \u201cAnd it was my ticket to the United States. I figured I can make an album, and he let me play whatever the fuck I want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Malmsteen\u2019s live debut with Steeler, on March 3, 1983 attracted 30 people to LA\u2019s Country Club. A week later, word of mouth brought many more to their gig at the Troubadour. Soon, \u2018Yngwie Is God\u2019 graffiti spread.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember we played some shithole in Long Beach, and Phil Mogg came, and he said: \u2018Hey, I\u2019m putting together UFO again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Malmsteen was offered the guitarist spot with both UFO and Bonnet on the same day.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Neil Zlozower\/Atlasicons.com)<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I called Graham from Phil\u2019s house and said: \u2018Okay, I\u2019ll join your band. Couple of things. Get a new drummer\u2026\u2019 And this thing which was supposed to be Graham Bonnet\u2019s thing became my thing. It started a lot of frustration with the other guys. It was supposed to be me as part of a band, but it ended up not being that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcatrazz\u2019s success in Japan led to Malmsteen signing a solo deal there. \u201cSo my Rising Force record was recorded one year after I came to America.\u201d It hit the US Top 60, and his compromising days were done.<\/p>\n

Asked if he ever doubts himself, he pauses, as if flummoxed by the thought.<\/p>\n

\u201cI debate with myself: \u2018Would this be the right thing, or not?\u2019 But I\u2019d say most of the time I\u2019m pretty clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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At the height of his American success, in June 1987 he ploughed his Jaguar into a tree. \u201cI had a brain haemorrhage, and it fucked up some of the nerve endings, which resulted in my right hand not being able to move properly,\u201d he told Rock Scene soon afterwards. Around the same time, his mother died. When he woke from his coma, physically shattered and unable to play, surely even he paused to doubt?<\/p>\n

Before, if I went round the States, it would be: \u2018Hey, are you in Bon Jovi?\u2019 Now it\u2019s: \u2018Hey, you\u2019re Yngwie Malmsteen<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen I first came out of the coma I was all drugged up, so I didn\u2019t think about anything. I was kind of laughing. But there were times, of course. The worst part was my mother passing. And on top of that I was ripped off with all my money, and my house. But I think that\u2019s a test. It was definitely the darkest time. And I often think back to that when something doesn\u2019t go my way \u2013 if I can fucking go through that, I can go through anything. That was maybe the worst ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

So was his only reaction at that desperate time to plough on?<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely. Hanging it up never entered my mind. It was, okay, fucking crunch time. How I was going to do it was a different thing. Basically the way I looked at it is I\u2019m not dead. So obviously there were some doubts. But I\u2019m pretty determined. When it comes to something that\u2019s an obstacle, I just crash right through it. Because failure\u2019s unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After his hand had healed, he practised even more. His biggest US hit, Odyssey, followed in 1988.<\/p>\n

He is clearly not like other people. And as he explains his indomitable nature, and lists all the privileges and support his highly artistic family and loathed Swedish system gave him in his formative years, I\u2019m reminded of interviewing another rock star for Classic Rock. Kid Rock, too, was a likeable guy, who was raised, I discovered when I visited Romeo, Michigan, in an idyllic village. Like Malmsteen, he was a rebel in paradise, seemingly impatient with less fortunate souls who couldn\u2019t help but fail.<\/p>\n

Malmsteen does, though, readily acknowledge where he\u2019s living these days. \u201cMiami doesn\u2019t seem like a paradise, it is!\u201d he exclaims. \u201cAs soon as I get home I just go play tennis, and take the [convertible] top down in January, no problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s also self-aware enough to concede that there were some advantages to isolated, winter-dark Sweden. \u201cOne time I was telling my son Antonio how much I love Miami. And he goes: \u2018Yeah, but if you grew up here you probably wouldn\u2019t end up where you are.\u2019 He\u2019s probably right. Because I would be on the beach, not working in a cold studio. So in the end it was useful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Austin Hargrave\/Press)<\/p>\n

Europe, other Swedish rockers who made it out in the 80s, are these days revered in their home town of Upplands V\u00e4sby. As with so many things, though, Malmsteen\u2019s relationship to his roots is less simple.<\/p>\n

\u201cUmm\u2026 I don\u2019t really get back there very often.\u201d He pauses. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel like home. I\u2019ve been away thirty-seven years. I suppose they have put a \u2018legendary\u2019 status on me there, for some reason. But I don\u2019t really think twice about that stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

He slips into something he is comfortable with: being a shameless, happy, classic rock star. \u201cI drive round in my Ferrari with my top down and baseball cap on and no shirt, and I don\u2019t try to look like nothing,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd they know who I am anyway. It doesn\u2019t matter the fuck if it\u2019s Sweden or America. Before, if I went round the States, it would be: [hick voice] \u2018Hey, are you in Bon Jovi?\u2019 Now it\u2019s: \u2018Hey, you\u2019re Yngwie Malmsteen.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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