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I wonder if we are all kind of coming from the same place? The very first Yngwie I ever heard was the Alcatrazz studio album and then when it came out the Alcatrazz live album. To this day I like them a little more than the first 2 solo albums. Was Odyssey the first Yngwie that Tech really ever...

Agree on 2nd sentence. Third sentence I guess depends on what beginning of his career means. He's been doing this for 42 years so maybe the first 5 years is the beginning of his career. This is what his career looked like in the USA: Alcatrazz album reached #128 in the USA Rising Force album...

And in 1983 liking Priest, Maiden etc was not mainstream. It was maybe like 10% of the high school were in to hard rock or classic metal. It wasn't underground or mainstream. Somewhere in between.

Right. But none of us knew about any of those bands in the USA in 1983. There were no fanzines readily available. There were very few import record stores. Those bands were just incredibly underground and extremely obscure. Lars knew about a bunch of them being European and with him traveling...

I was playing out live in metal bands in Chicago in '83 and then made the big move to LA when I was 18 and did the exact same thing here until '91. Maiden and Def Leppard were the only NWOBHM that made any kind of inroads into the USA at all.

Blech

Nope. Rhoads absolutely set the entire guitar world on it's ear in between Van Halen and Yngwie. Not even a discussion for anyone who was playing guitar through that era.

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.