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Well, I just got a chance to see the G3 tour here in Detroit last Thursday night...
This is my take on what I experienced that night. I had really great seats so I was able to get a real good view of all three guys.
The show opened with Yngwie, who still looked the 80's metal shredder he always was. Same leather type pants, same hair, and sorry to say...the same arrogance. He was still in great form on the guitar, but his effects box switching was terribly noisy and noticeable too.
The audience was reacting just like a true blue heavy metal audience. At one point my wife looks over at me and starts the classic heavy metal head banging motion. I couldn't help but laugh, because we understand each other's body language so well.
I found that Yngwie was not playing his classic songs all the way through. Almost seemed like he had turned some of his tunes into sort of medleys. I didn't like that!
The fact was, that after two or three songs, I had had enough. By the way Yngwie struts and moves about, you can't help sense that he is one arrogant character.
At the end of his set, I just broke out laughing when some drunk guy who was behind me started screaming, "More Harmonic Minor! More Harmonic Minor!". After laughing so hard for almost 5 minutes I had to stop to explain it to my wife because she didn't know what I was laughing about.
Anyway, Steve came out next. Man, what a show he put on! He had Billy Sheehan on bass, and Tony MacAlpine on keyboards and guitar, as well as another guitar player (sorry, can't remember his name) and an excellent drummer.
Vai was so controlled and so polished, it was almost like listening to the record itself. At one point they were playing a killer jam where all 3 guitar players were doing right hand hammers simultaneously and moving through different counterpoint type lines. It was just incredible to hear all 4 moving voices in sync.
Steve is just a great human being too. He came out by himself before his band even hit the stage and was very gracious to the audience. He even recognized an old friend and supporter in the audience and thanked him for all his years of dedication and support.
Steve was in top form as he played through about 6 or 7 classics that just sounded awesome with the band he was playing with that night. Of all 3, I have to admit, Steve is definitely the best one technically, although Satch is the melody man.
When Satch came out, he just played his classics like "Satch Boogie", "The Extremist", "Always with me, Always with you" and it's funny to see how the audience basically sings the melodies to his tunes that have no words. I think that's definitely the sign of great melody writer.
As always, Joe puts on a good show and although he may not be as fast or technically perfect as the other two, his songwriting skills are superb as his catalog demonstrates.
At the end, when all 3 come out to jam together, it almost seemed as though Vai and Satch had to let Mr. Malmsteen solo a little longer than their own slots permitted. But they were really good about allowing this to give the fans a great show.
It was at this moment that I noticed that Satch and Vai had kind of transcended the 80's by their music and how they were dressed, over Yngwie who still seemed to be re-hashing the same old harmonic minor scale and wearing the 80's leather clothes he was wearing back on his 1st CD.
Anyway, that is what I witnessed that night. And although I listened and studied these 3 guys heavily back in the day, I now understand why I only continue to listen to only two.
Well, I just got a chance to see the G3 tour here in Detroit last Thursday night...
This is my take on what I experienced that night. I had really great seats so I was able to get a real good view of all three guys.
The show opened with Yngwie, who still looked the 80's metal shredder he always was. Same leather type pants, same hair, and sorry to say...the same arrogance. He was still in great form on the guitar, but his effects box switching was terribly noisy and noticeable too.
The audience was reacting just like a true blue heavy metal audience. At one point my wife looks over at me and starts the classic heavy metal head banging motion. I couldn't help but laugh, because we understand each other's body language so well.
I found that Yngwie was not playing his classic songs all the way through. Almost seemed like he had turned some of his tunes into sort of medleys. I didn't like that!
The fact was, that after two or three songs, I had had enough. By the way Yngwie struts and moves about, you can't help sense that he is one arrogant character.
At the end of his set, I just broke out laughing when some drunk guy who was behind me started screaming, "More Harmonic Minor! More Harmonic Minor!". After laughing so hard for almost 5 minutes I had to stop to explain it to my wife because she didn't know what I was laughing about.
Anyway, Steve came out next. Man, what a show he put on! He had Billy Sheehan on bass, and Tony MacAlpine on keyboards and guitar, as well as another guitar player (sorry, can't remember his name) and an excellent drummer.
Vai was so controlled and so polished, it was almost like listening to the record itself. At one point they were playing a killer jam where all 3 guitar players were doing right hand hammers simultaneously and moving through different counterpoint type lines. It was just incredible to hear all 4 moving voices in sync.
Steve is just a great human being too. He came out by himself before his band even hit the stage and was very gracious to the audience. He even recognized an old friend and supporter in the audience and thanked him for all his years of dedication and support.
Steve was in top form as he played through about 6 or 7 classics that just sounded awesome with the band he was playing with that night. Of all 3, I have to admit, Steve is definitely the best one technically, although Satch is the melody man.
When Satch came out, he just played his classics like "Satch Boogie", "The Extremist", "Always with me, Always with you" and it's funny to see how the audience basically sings the melodies to his tunes that have no words. I think that's definitely the sign of great melody writer.
As always, Joe puts on a good show and although he may not be as fast or technically perfect as the other two, his songwriting skills are superb as his catalog demonstrates.
At the end, when all 3 come out to jam together, it almost seemed as though Vai and Satch had to let Mr. Malmsteen solo a little longer than their own slots permitted. But they were really good about allowing this to give the fans a great show.
It was at this moment that I noticed that Satch and Vai had kind of transcended the 80's by their music and how they were dressed, over Yngwie who still seemed to be re-hashing the same old harmonic minor scale and wearing the 80's leather clothes he was wearing back on his 1st CD.
Anyway, that is what I witnessed that night. And although I listened and studied these 3 guys heavily back in the day, I now understand why I only continue to listen to only two.
"Caca-boudin" (Nietzsche, Considérations inactuelles).
