Malmsteen: “The Beatles arrived today would not matter to anyone

The Swedish guitarist Yngwie MalmsteenIn an interview granted to Jordi Pinyol, he spoke, among other things, also of how digital has totally changed and transformed the world and the music industry.

Very frankly, like his costume, the 62 -year -old virtuoso of the six ropes said: “Today there are no major record companies with local representatives in every city. They no longer do it because there are no distribution chains, there is no system. Of course, there are some, but very small. But I am referring to when Richard Branson said: ‘I want to make money, so I open a recording label’. Today, perhaps a record label opens up, Not to make money. “

The guitarist then explained how digital platforms changed the impact potential of the music scene. “Now with YouTube and everything else, anyone could make a record. Anyone could make a video and so on. So everything has diluted. There is no longer any impact. Nothing has an impact. If you go back even further back, in 1964, the Beatles arrived in America. They made a television program and it was a success. They were the most famous band in the world because there were two television channels.”

Always using i Beatles As a high example to highlight the profound changes that occurred in the industry said: “If they arrived and did the same thing today, if they did it on YouTube today, no one would import nothing. This is what happened then and this is what is happening now. So you have to do something about it. And I don’t know what.”