liquidguitar - if you'd ever seen Yngwie live, you'd realise that what he says is correct. He literally does improvise every solo, albeit around the main theme of the recorded solo. I've seen him 7 times, and he's played Far Beyond The Sun every time, and it's always different in some way. Some might say that's a bad thing, and he should stick more to what is on the recording, but it's what makes his shows more exciting, you never quite know where he's going next.

WOW!!!

Now that's one HELL of a Joe post!

We're gonna get 'Slick'!!

For those hoping 'The Eight Steps' will be on Anthology, I'd be extremely surprised if it is.

The Japanese have those bonus tracks to try and encourage sales of CDs in their own country, and they usually have them locked pretty tight, so that they can't appear on albums in other countries (although Korea seems to be getting them these days).

I know this, being a big Yngwie fan. When Spitfire re-released his back catalogue in 2000, they were unable to get permission from the Japanese record company, so they couldn't put most of them on those re-releases, and especially not the recent ones. I imagine it works the same way with Joe, and anybody else.

That "Yngwie on the plane" incident was 1988, which is a bit more than "a little time ago". He's not as much of a hothead now! :-D

I really MUST post my story of the time I met Yngwie sometime, coz everyone seems to think he's an arsehole all the time, and he really isn't.

Heh! Without wanting to sound rude, I always find it funny when I watch the local Michigan weather and the forecasters are going nuts over "wind gusts of UP TO 30 MPH!!!!!". Even in the hurrican, it was hilarious when the Weather Channel guy got blown down the street in 50 - 60MPH winds. That's not that bad! In the part of England where I used to live, 60MPH sustained winds were fairly common, and it wasn't unusual to have gusts over 100MPH, and we just walked around and got on with it. Odd how there was hardly ever any structural damage to houses/power lines down, too, in 60MPH winds.

Well, I married an American and logic at the time dictated I move over here. Wouldn't mind us moving over there though, to be honest, but that's homesickness for you.

Anyway, yeah, there's a huge stretch of road where you can do those amazing jumps! I remember we were going up to Jedburgh when I was little and there were loads of these huge rolling hills in the road, and then we came to a little one, so my dad speeded up to go over it, and there was a huge drop down the other side! He took it a bit easier after that....

Ah, Longframlington, Alnwick....all place names I know well, although they were a bit out of my way (been a few times though). Whitby's nice too.

G3 DVD + CD

I notice that you don't get the full setlists on either the DVD or the CD, although you will get all the tracks if you buy both. I would be getting both anyway, but it's a shame that the full show couldn't be released on DVD (even if it was a 2 disc set).

Do The Stu

The track listings are on the Sony Music site, although they are hard to find. In case these links don't work, you have to go to the Shop, then search for G3.

G3 Rockin' in the Free World

G3 Live in Denver

I'd love to know who's bright idea it was to call Yngwie's tour "The Guitar Gods Tour". It's just a straightforward Malmsteen tour, with Lynch Mob opening. I'd be hugely surprised if there was any onstage interaction between the two. I suppose management somewhere must have thought it was a good idea.

Wow, someone mentioned Chris Rea! Haven't heard that name in a while. Anyway, he was/is a bluesy guitar player/vocalist from the north east of England that had some huge selling albums in Britain a decade or more ago. "The Road To Hell" is probably his best known one.

I'm happy.

Zenfish - Yngwie IS working on another Concerto Suite/classical type album.

However, it's very much a work in progress, and he's only working on it when he's got time. He's very happy with his rock stuff at the moment, apparently, and needs to take a lot of time off from that to concentrate on something as complicated as a classical-style album.

And so, at last, now that I'm back living in the backwater that Europe appears to be, today I finally got Super Colossal. AT LAST!

Quick question for anyone in the UK that ordered the Diamond package, or anyone else that would know:

What should we expect to receive before the show? I've got the show tickets, they came ages ago. Do we receive tickets for the backstage event, or an e-mail telling us what to do on the day? According to the e-mail I received when I ordered the packages, I would "receive tickets 14 days before the event". Well, it's now 14 days before the event, and I'm none the wiser.

Anybody else in this situation, or that knows how this all works?

Thanks for that, Suzie. As I suspect is the case with you, it wasn't the merchandise I was concerned with, rather the timing of the whole thing, and whether we had to bring anything (ticket, printed e-mail, whatever).

It looks like we'll just have to wait a bit loinger to find out the specifics. Thanks a lot for posting that. :D

EDIT: And yes, I am looking forward to meeting him, although I've met him once before, in Detroit a few years ago. I want to clear up with him that I'm not actually stupid, because I probably came across that way the first time! Obviously, my accent stood out in America, and Joe asked where I was from, and I just said, "England!". To which Joe replied, "Uhh.. yeah... which part?" and I just said "The North-East!".

I think Joe probably knows his way around England quite well by now....