Overhyped artists

335clone said:
Not even close to correct. There is no EVH to YJM line at all. Most of his influences were classical anyway, Paganini and Bach were his favorites. He got a copy of Deep Purples 'Fireball' not long after he got his first guitar, and learned it note for note.

Also, Ritchie played a Strat with a scalloped fretboard....Hmmm

Eddie, not so much.
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I’m right. Too much to type to support it, not worth it at the moment. A subject I have no passion about.


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Andrew Sak said:
Yngwie was influenced by a violinist and a pianist. Paganini and Bach. He's rated right where he should be as a guitarist. I get it that he doesnt have any catchy or easy to listen to songs that bring in the money. I'm not sure of any songs he does that resemble Eddie's playing. There is no way Y M copied him. Yon Winter might agree with you. He would probably choose The Edge.
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Flamencology said:
Favourites, perhaps, but there is zero influence there. Anyone who’s spent any serious time studying Bach knows that Yngwie, um, didn’t. Maybe he signed up for the course but the lectures were too early? Idk. Either way, I don’t care whether he loves the music, but he sure as hell didn’t learn it.
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The Bach influence really is skin deep in Yngwie. It's always sounded to me like he listened to it for about 15 minutes, then made a career out of it. I have huge respect for his technical ability in his right hand though.
 
Fumbles said:
The Bach influence really is skin deep in Yngwie. It's always sounded to me like he listened to it for about 15 minutes, then made a career out of it. I have huge respect for his technical ability in his right hand though.
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Yes, exactly.

Except for the right-hand bit. Sure, he’s that going on. But he’s not on par with plenty of bluegrass or gypsy players who’ve got killer plectrum technique and who, astonishingly, actually make smart music.
 
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Technically, all the famous ones are overhyped when one considers the legions of talented but unsung artists out there.
 
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