Live In Leningrad Trial By Fire Music Cd

Yngwie Malmsteen - Live In Leningrad Trial By Fire

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Live in Leningrad: Trial by Fire      Artist : Yngwie Malmsteen      List Price : $11.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1989-10-12      Studio : Polydor / Umgd      Label : Polydor / Umgd      Avg. Customer Rating : (12 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Live In Leningrad Trial By Fire      Yngwie's Finest Hour      Rating:      I love Yngwie Malmsteen, I'm sorry, I may not be that objective in my opinion (but I don't think so), forgive me if this is the case, but that's it. I love the man and his music (at least his BEST music like the performance recorded in Leningrad). I'm a guitar wanker from the eighties too in the end, so I can't do nothing but LOVE the man. He in the eighties meant something very special, a new way of approaching the instrument, the techniques, the music, the same idea of the guitar hero role. He is a GIANT in the history of the guitar, noone can deny this thing. He did his time, probably his career may be considered closed now, because artistically he has already given all what he could give, ... but man, at the time when this album was released, he was the King. This album is Yngwie's finest hour in my opinion. Apart from the LEGENDARY first record, Rising Force, this is the album I would suggest to someone who would ask me the album to know and appreciate Yngwie Malmteen's music. We all know of course which music is it. Neoclassical music, an hard rock shaped with some classical forms and parts here and there and with a mindblowing guitar work allover. So I'll not spend too much words on Yngwie's brand of music. I'd simply say that this album is the recording of a fantastic concert, where Yngwie played almost all his best songs and instrumentals (some of them may have been left out, but hey ... it's just a single cd), with great intensity and passion, displaying all his arsenal of licks and ideas with an attitude SO bad that is a pure delight!! The band is tight (fantastic are the duels between Yngwie and Jens Johansson the keys player) and supports Yngwie in the best way. I'd point out the "Black Star" version which is PHENOMENAL, at some point even better than the one recorded in the first album (take not of how Yngwie enters with his solo at 1.28, a MONSTER!!!), a wonderful version of Hendrix's favourite "Spanish Castle Magic" where Yngwie proves without any doubt that he is a real GIANT of the instrument and its languages and not only a shredder. He literally EATS HENDRIX ALIVE!! The solo Trilogy Suite/Spasebo blues is a GEM in itself and alone deserves the price tag (in the Blues section Yngwie blows any Clapton away ... listen to how Yngwie shapes the solo, how he has mastered the style, his knowledge of the blues language and the licks, his vibrato ... astounding). For real. Yngwie is a GIANT in the history of the guitar, be respectful because he deseves to be remembered as one of the 10 or 15 more important rock players ever!!! He eventually stands shoulder to shoulder with his heroes Blackmore and Hendrix because he didn't copied them even if they influenced him heavily (and he always admits this), but he used what he loved in them to shape his own style, which is perfectly recognizable from the very first note, and this is a sign of GREATNESS. YNGWIE IS A GIANT. Thank You Yngwie J. Malmsteen for 25 years of inspiration, for your purity, honesty, integrity and committment to music! PS (I interviewed two times the man few years ago for a very well know metal magazine here in Italy. I can say that he was really nice, warm and funny. He was in Florence for a concert one of those times and when I told him that in my hometown there was Paganini's violin IL CANNONE on display in a museum, he prayed me to go over there in Florence with my car and to take him back to the museum to see and pay tribute the master's instrument! He even asked me to take a bottle of Brunello di Montalcino with me so we could drink together! =))) he was really funny! It never happened because I couldn't go, but he was lovely!)     Customer Reviews for Live In Leningrad Trial By Fire Cd      GREAT CD, HOWEVER, 3 TRACK ARE MISSING!!!      Rating:      Anyone that's a hardcore Yngwie fan should know that Yngwie has never opened a show with "LIAR". He opened this show with "RISING FORCE", which should be on this CD as well as "FURY" and "RIOTS IN THE DUNGEON" (I still have the Leningrad show on VHS). I love the CD a lot and I trust there will be a special edition of this CD coming out in the near future. Rock on and Play Loud!!!