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No, it’s a fundamental matter, because someone who plays the guitar, when listening to a Malmsteen as well as when listening to a Britney Spears, pays particular attention to certain things rather than others (for better or for worse, meaning it neither implies that they see more nor that they see less; rather, they see DIFFERENTLY.)

Ah, a greeting to you too, jetto! We're still here fighting for the usual things ;)

ajeje :D so 1. I don't only listen to guitar hero, take a look at my reviews and anyway, even if I did only listen to guitar hero, it wouldn't mean I'm musically ignorant... but that's too hard to explain to a simpleton like you, stuck in clichés ;) 2. Naturally, when you say "most of the guitarists I know," you mean those you know personally, right? I know that most of the guitarists you know despise it; in fact, most of the guitarists I know can't even play the guitar; or do you think playing an instrument is for everyone? 3. Stefano Benni once wrote that "Ozzy Osbourne eating a bat creates more culture than the Strega Prize for literature." For someone who reads and especially reflects a little, there's nothing paradoxical in this statement. What about you, ajeje? 4. I'm sick and tired of repeating the same things I like about Malmsteen, and anyway, these things are very subjective; if I didn't play the guitar, maybe I wouldn't like them because I wouldn't even be able to perceive them. Can you at least hold a guitar in your hand, ajeje? 5. Now my needs exhaust the world of guitarists? :D Fantastic, now I'm the arrogant know-it-all! Well, ajeje, you're light-years away from the sensitivity needed to seriously discuss certain things... go back to elementary school... even that would make you a bit more thoughtful and careful than you are now...

here this is significant: "someone who says that others must accompany without too much fuss while the guitar must be in the spotlight and similar nonsense makes you understand the depth of his musical conception"...but ajeje..listen a bit...can there be anyone else besides you in this world? Moreover, when it comes to culture, it really would be laughable to tears...what level have we reached, even giving out culture licenses...well, here everyone is a professor! Especially those who have never even been students. Anyway, I want to say one thing...before Malmsteen, the figure of the egocentric guitar hero who makes the sun shine or rain did not exist. a Van Halen, a Ritchie Blackmore, a Hendrix were not strictly guitar heroes, indeed, they often put the guitar in the background...historically they certainly contributed to culture...maybe it's a culture that some people don’t like, but this someone should learn to shift their gaze a bit from their own nose...

Malmsteen really has style... a repetitive, exaggerated, verbose style... but in some respects, it's incredible; he has an occasionally amazing touch... it's really hard to make the guitar sound like he does, and it's not just a matter of speed; indeed, it's only a minimal part of speed. Let's say the arrangements are worse than anyone else's. So what? Is this enough to define his music as crap?

ajeje, from experience I know that discussing with critics is a waste of time... it takes humility to listen to music just as it takes humility to play it, and judging a musician the way you do, believing your criteria are absolutely correct and that's it, is a sign of childishness... surely a person with a minimum of humanistic education who has seen how difficult it is to understand certain things doesn't go around shooting judgments... try to be less totalitarian and don't delude yourself that your evaluation criteria (now you’re talking to me about arrangements for example) are the only correct ones... on the other hand, I've never heard of a person capable of playing the guitar who despises Malmsteen and nothing else like you do... a little humility, come on... after all, to listen well, you also need to know how to stay silent...

Frank Zappa (and this is clearly stated in the G3 DVD) said about Malmsteen that "he was someone who really knew how to play the guitar." Get the DVD and check in Uncle Yngwie's biography if you don't believe it. Well, Frank Zappa definitely knew how to play music. Not just talk.

dear ajeje...a text, a song, any cultural product is always a bottomless pit...there's always something to discover...and each of us manages to glimpse what we are most inclined to see (for various reasons)...you judge everything you can't understand with a casualness of a youngster...please don’t be so totalitarian in your approach to music...it's a truly Nazi-like attitude....

what a receptacle of nothingness this site has become....

Are you annoying, does something bother you? Anyway, it’s not copied, it’s all my own work. Whether you like it or not. A heartfelt thank you to two champions who lowered my average. You’re really two evil geniuses :D