| |
| | Yngwie Malmsteen |
 | | Combining a dazzling technique honed over years of obsessive practice with a love for such classical composers as Bach, Beethoven, and Paganini, Malmsteen 's distinctively Baroque, gothic compositional style and lightning-fast arpeggiated solos rewrote the book on heavy metal guitar (see his rig). |
 | | The new band's first album, also called Rising Force, was released in 1984; it was a largely instrumental affair spotlighting Malmsteen 's incendiary guitar work and Johansson 's nearly equally developed technique. |
 | | The album was an immediate sensation in guitar circles, winning countless reader's polls in guitar magazines, reaching number 60 on Billboard's album chart (no mean feat for an instrumental album), and receiving a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. |
| www.myguitarsolo.com /Players/YngwieMalmsteen.htm (878 words) |
|