Friend of mine had the chance to hang out with one of the sound guys for Joe Satriani last year and got this AMAZING story about one of his former employees, Mr. Yngwie. Said Yngwie is a real d!ck to his crew. One night something wasn't right and he took out his anger on this particular sound guy, cussing him in front of everybody, etc.

So the next night the sound guy took a pitch shifter and set it 3/4 of a step below Yngwie's guitar. He put it on the vocal channels going into the main outs but not the monitors, so Yngwie heard himself singing perfectly but the crowd heard him singing 3/4 of a step below what he was playing. Yngwie saw the weird looks he was getting and kept looking at the sound guy who was set up in the crowd. Sound guy kept giving him the "thumbs up" like nothing was wrong. He got fired after that, but he said it was worth it.

hehehehe Don't mess with the sound guy, eh?

The original post about "King-Veigh", if you made time to click the link to the video in the blog that my post referenced, would show a spoof on an Yngwie instructional video...the post was intended to make people laugh. My sides split when I heard a Schwarzenegger-like voice in the place of Yngwie's and I nearly had a heart attack when the guitar playing was overdubbed by a kid who apparently drank too much Kool-Aid. Ah well, you can't be everything to everyone. Cheers!

Sorry dude... Can't click links to video or music where I work. It's all blocked. No way of knowing what you posted. Spoof is a good thing though.

Just find it funny that no one had posted anything for a few days and when I post a "There's more to life than Yngwie" topic, there's suddenly action.

Oh, and yeah, Yngwie is a dick to the people who work around him. A COMPLETE dick. It's not uncommon. Andy Griffith is even more of a dick and you just wouldn't expect that from the man. Our solution in these instances is that we don't work for these people. My brother walked off an Andy Griffith set, not for a personal reason, (he wasn't the focus of misplaced ire,) but because the man just treats everyone like shit. There have been several live gigs where we walked off the sound system because the band felt they knew better and weren't the least bit knowledgeable of what we had to work with. As long as someone thinks they can do better, we let them try to do it themselves. Some learn, some don't. They're out there. And there's more of them than you might think.

Yngwie is a jackoff and ibz's post/blog is awesome.

On the day when they gave the lesson on Karma, Mr. Malmsteen was probably giving it to himself real good in the restroom. I'm sorry, that was unforgivable. I meet Jeff Soto at a friends engagement party and after he was asked if he truly was 'The Viking' he told us he was making $500 a week singing for Yngwie's band. Awe and grief stricken on his behalf, we bought him shots even though his then current trousers probably cost more than all four years of my collegiate meal plan!

$500.00??? That's IT???

Good lord... It sucked to be a rock star, eh?