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A remorseless review of Malmsteens "inspiration"


I decided to post this in the GCC section cause there is all this debate going on that Malmsteen would make a better replacement of Ritchie than Steve.For me to say that you don’t like Morse in DP is acceptable.To say that Yngwie would do a better job is equally acceptable(we have democracy-everything is…)but it is sooooooo ridiculous
Let’s take a look at this album and see who is really massacring Blackmore’s classics…
1)Carry on wayward son
Actually it doesn’t start that bad.It is just a cover that you hear lightly mostly cause of Soto’s great vocals,It doesn’t give anything new to the song but nor does it prepare you for the trash that follows.-2/5
2)Pictures of home
Speakin’ of the trash that follows.This is one of the most ridiculous pieces of music ever.It starts from the intro(played on the boot!!!!!).Then JLT’s vocals enter(no comment…).The guitar solos are BORING.The keyboard solo wouldn’t be that bad if it didn’t have HORRIBLE sound.-0/5(if this isn’t a massacre I can’t imagine what it is…)
3)Gates of Babylon
The intro isn’t that bad.Yngwie can’t play that fast on sitar and for the first time he uses his imagination.The song itself sounds weak towards the original(Soto is great but he is not Dio).But all this acceptable stuff is forgotten when the solo starts.It is so uninspire...The only good part is when he uses some of Richies licks.The rest is just some fast crap.-1/5(just for the intro and the ending)
4)Manic Depression
Kind of better.And his voice isn’t that bad.2,5/5
5)In the dead of night
I won’t rate this one,as it is the only one I haven’t heard the original…
6)Mistreated
Just when I thought that it was getting kind of better…All the fire and pain that Ritchies guitar is spitting in the original version,is replaced by uninspired fast licks in classic scales.Moreover the harmony after the quiet part sounds weak and lame.-0.5/5
7)Sails of charon
This ain’t as bad as I’d fear it to be.Still far under the original and Uli’s playing.Mark Boals makes a good solid performance(maybe the best vocals on the cd)-2/5
8)Demon’s eye
The half solo is quite the same with with Blackmore’s one.It doesn’t sound bad,but that’s not the point of making a cover.At least he adds some new ideas in the song(intro,key changes).For that it gets-1,5/5
9)Anthem(by Rush not DP)
For covering rush it takes a great band.A great bass player(Yngwie ain’t even a bass player.To play the guitar does not mean that you can play Geddy Lee on bass) and drummer.Marc Boals does a good job(I never liked Lee’s vocals anyway).Only for him-1/5
10)Child in time
Just my favorite rock track ruined in every way possible.Even Boals is awful in this one(I hope Doogie does it better)-0/5
To sum up,I believe that a best fitting title for this album would have been “Yngwie Malmsteens Masturbation”.The covers are just acceptable at best and total crap at worse.The most spoiled tunes turn out to be Blackmore’s ones.Glad this fellow will never be in DP...
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I downloaded a couple of these songs a month ago to give em a listen....but for the most part I find tribute albums (which usually have more than one artist) a total waste of my time. This one is no different. Yngwie's noodling on his own stuff doesn't bother me in the slightest, but on other songs it sort of ruins the song. I have all of his albums except the orchestra stuff. This is one Yngwie album I won't be buying, never have wanted to.

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Well, I am a huge Yngwie fan (much more so than Morse's, whose solo albums I find dead dull, you should check a couple of them sometimes, music for musos or what) but I don't think he would ever be a good match for Purple, not only because of his playing but also because of his attitude (he's been a solo artist for nearly twenty years now).

Having said that, I really rate Inspiration. The singers on it are ALL (yes, including JLT) top notch, Soto and Boals are both fantastic vocalists (demonstrated best on Gates... and Sails Of Charon like you've said) and I loved JLT's work on Pictures Of Home and Demon's Eye, especially the latter. It sets a great groove and both him and Yngwie put some great work in, the ending solo in particular is very nifty and fitting. I have to say that the best track on the album for me is Gates..., I love the solo in the middle and the sitar (intro) and acoustic (outro) short solos are exemplary and very inventive too. Sure, the 'less is more' attitude of Ritchie probably works best but you tell me that those wild bends and perfectly executed sweeped arpeggios Yngwie does sound out of place... IMO this one gives the original a good run for its money (sacrilege I hear some people cry but still!). Another one that is probably better than the original is Sails Of Charon, the Scorpions track is pants compared to it for me, both Boals and Yngwie make sure of that.

Granted there are some covers that don't work (and one that doesn't work AT ALL, namely Child In Time which is awful, he should have left that one out and did Burn instead, there are some great covers of it on bootlegs) but taking it for what it is (Yngwie never said he'd reinvent the wheel for this one, it is just cover tunes he's done to pay his respect to music he likes) I find it very enjoyable. Also, to cap this off, Steve has also done a tribute album with influences from his favourite artists too... I'll let you guess how many Purple songs were there. ZILCH is the answer!
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I prefer the non-Purple covers on this record. Carry On Wayward Son and In The Dead Of Night are superb.

Of the Purple-related stuff, there's a mixture of good, bad and plain ugly! Good = Demon's Eye, Bad = Child In Time, Ugly = Gates Of Babylon.

Rainbow's GOB is untouchable, absolutely perfect! Why spoil it with a supremely naff sitar intro and an absolutely horrible guitar solo? emoticon

Yes, Burn would have fitted better than Child In Time.
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Big J wrote:
Rainbow's GOB is untouchable, absolutely perfect! Why spoil it with a supremely naff sitar intro and an absolutely horrible guitar solo? emoticon



I agree entirely. The Yng's geography is obviously questionable when he's playing an Indian instrument to get an ethnic feel for a song about a Middle Eastern city, the outro where the slow, haunting violin is replaced by pointless widdling on a horrible sounding nylon string guitar is even worse, (yet another example of his famous production skills), the other instrumentation sounds generic and tacky and the guitar solo gets the same treatment as his massacre of Sails of Charon, a landmark moment in lead guitar and one of the classic solos of all time perfectly balancing technique, melody and taste is replaced by some stupid widdling that goes nowhere and says nothing other than "hey, look at me, I can play really fast".
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Thought I'd heard everything about Malmsteen till you slagged him off for using a sitar on Gates Of Babylon!!! emoticon I suppose using an orchestra (as the original does) is "geographically" more fitting, they sure have plenty of those in the Middle East! emoticon I wish sometimes people admitted they just don't like Yngwie's music no matter what he does instead of coming up with (silly) excuses for it...
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Christos Gatzidis wrote:

Thought I'd heard everything about Malmsteen till you slagged him off for using a sitar on Gates Of Babylon!!! emoticon I suppose using an orchestra (as the original does) is "geographically" more fitting, they sure have plenty of those in the Middle East! emoticon I wish sometimes people admitted they just don't like Yngwie's music no matter what he does instead of coming up with (silly) excuses for it...



The original intro didn't use any ethnic instruments but it was perfect, the slow buildup setting the scene and creating a mood, the Taurus pedals making this ominous sound and the music has an Arabian feel, it prepares the listener and suits the song perfectly. Yngwie on the other hand starts out right away bashing something out on a sitar and instead of the doomy thud of the Taurus pedals we get some cheesey synth effect really, really low in the mix, rather than transporting your mind to the mysterious east it sends you right outside a curry house in Bombay, no buildup, no atmosphere, completey inappropriate.

The "orchestra" doesn't sound like an orchestra to me, it sounds like a sampler, if it is a real orchestra then Yngwie has surpassed himself in the sphere of making multi-million dollar professional recordings sound like a Mickey Mouse outfit working out of someone's garage.

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I guess everyone has their opinions about how to play guitar, but as a longtime fan of YM's, I kinda liked the Inspiration album. I thought it was the best release that he had in the 1990s.

BTW
What is so wrong about covering tunes from Deep Purple, Rainbow, Kansas, and Hendrix? I don't think I've gone a week in my life without listening a tune from either of these great bands.
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bad mofo wrote:

I guess everyone has their opinions about how to play guitar, but as a longtime fan of YM's, I kinda liked the Inspiration album. I thought it was the best release that he had in the 1990s.

BTW
What is so wrong about covering tunes from Deep Purple, Rainbow, Kansas, and Hendrix? I don't think I've gone a week in my life without listening a tune from either of these great bands.


I'm always interested in hearing other peoples versions of DP tunes. I have the wingees Inspiration and the other tribute called Smoke on the Water. The one thing they do for me is to make me appreciate just how good the originals are. It helps me to understand, that any of the tunes chosen would never have achieved greatness unless they were first performed by the masters.



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it sends you right outside a curry house in Bombay



Can I just point out that you don't get curry houses in Bombay? That's a British thing! emoticon

A more appropriate comment would be that Malmsteen's Gates of Babylon sends you right outside a curry house on Gateshead High Street! emoticon

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