Unleash the Fury World Tour 2005:.
"Yngwie Johan Malmsteen" is a Swedes/Swedish guitarist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. Malmsteen became known for his Neoclassical metal/neo-classical playing style in heavy metal music/heavy metal.
More Yngwie Malmsteen on Wikipedia.The classical world is a completely different planet from the rock world. But I was welcomed with open arms by the orchestra musicians. I walked into their world, they didn't walk into mine. Once I worked with them they were very impressed and I gained their acceptance.
This was a huge, huge undertaking. I composed this concerto from the ground up. It took about two years total to compose, but there were interruptions when I was touring and making rock albums.
Yeah, I do. To me, the audience can be one person. I'm so critical of myself that it's really hard for me to like get high on my own shit. I sometimes manage to do it, but most of the time not. So if I have somebody in the room that I'm sure they'll dig this. I like that. But it could be one person or it could be a hundred thousand.
The classical realm is dying because nobody cares about new classical composers. My concerto suite was an injection of something new.
I'm completely stunned that the DVD came out as great as it did. There was some greater power watching over us. It was a huge challenge, ... We only had about a half day's rehearsal and were supposed to film for two nights but only did one night. I also did all my playing by memory without the score in front of me. Maybe the crazy circumstances made it better.
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