Malmsteen: “I’ve never listened to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath”

The guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen In an interview with Eon Music he spoke of his musical development, when he was asked if the nineties had represented a golden era for the instrumental albums for guitar.

This is the response of the 61 -year -old virtuoso of the Six Swedish ropes: “I never considered things in this way. I have never been part of a wave of any kind. As a child, I recorded and wrote stuff because my uncle had built a recording studio long before I was born, and eleven or twelve I could already go there and tinker. Symphonic ‘or something like this.

Malmsteen still continues saying: “The older brothers or friends at school could have a” School’s out “album by Alice Cooper, and it was cool. When I was eight years old, I took the” Fireball “of the Deep Purple, but I never heard the Led Zeppelin, I never heard the Black Sabbath, I never listened to anything like that, so I never followed her, I never followed her, Trend, of no kind, I never remember that I was in the first or second grade when punk and the new wave arrived, and I was already a rather affirmed musician.