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Jimi Hendrix crossed with a phenomenal gospel singer. Way better than Hendrix. Doug's vocals on Summerland after the solo are some my favorite vocals ever recorded.

Ding ding ding ding ding! We have a winner. THAT live Alcatrazz tone was for sure the peak tonally. So much less gain and so much clarity and so much fire. AND, we hadn't heard those licks and runs 2700 times already like we had by the mid period albums. This to me is peak Yngwie:

This whole thread boils down to what year you were born, what year you started getting in to music, what year you discovered Yngwie, and what was the first Yngwie album you got in to. There is a definite theme by the older guys that lived it, followed by a few guys that my guess would be arrived...

It was the same with Van Halen. The first four albums. Then things got a little silly. Still great but not the same. Then with Sammy, yes, it was still Eddie and he still ripped and still got a great but very different tone. There are many people I have spoken to that are younger that their...

I think what those of us who experienced Yngwie's career chronologically experienced was what seemed like he was now chasing of "the big hit" and that is what starting with Odyssey sounded like. Much more commercial. More polished production. So much less raw energy and literally FURY and so...

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And there it is, again! lol

I said earlier in the thread Steeler through Marching Out. Definitive Yngwie to me. Now I own everything through Facing the Animal but I never pull out anything past Trilogy for a listen. I pulled out Odyssey and Fire and Ice because of this thread but they didn't move the needle, at all.

The important thing is what year was that? 89? 91? 94? 2001? Many things become "generic" years and years after they came out. At that time, 1983 there was not much going on at all in heavy music. Ozzy, Priest, Maiden, Scorps, AC/DC, Black Sabbath. A bunch of new stuff was about to hit and the...

What year did you first listen to Steeler?

And one of my favorite bands ever. I actually avoid listening to them because I know if I do, that's all I am going to listen to for 3 months straight.

I think one of the best things we should have all done in this thread and many others is to say what year we discovered the artist and what was the first album of theirs we ever heard. For me it was 1984 and the Alcatrazz studio album.

I think Vescera is a great vocalist

I agree with this completely. Odyssey was his highest charting US album ever.