The ‘I’ man, Yngwie Malmsteen explained in a recent press conference why he started to handle the vocals on his 2016’s “World on Fire.” Check it out:
“When I started out when I was a kid in Sweden, I had a band called Rising Force, I was the singer. Then I came to America and I was playing with Steeler and Alcatrazz, they [had their own] singers.
“I always thought that singers have the Elvis Presley syndrome – they think they’re Elvis Presley. They’re not Elvis Presley.
“Because I write the music, I write the lyrics, I write the vocal melody lines – I write everything. Just because I let somebody sing something doesn’t mean they’re more important than the bass player or the keyboard player or the drummer.
“Because I write all the parts – I write the drum parts, the bass parts, the keyboard parts, the guitar parts, and the vocal parts – like a classical composer. And I really kind of got tired of dealing with their bulls**t, really. So I decided to sing myself.”
Isn’t he adorable and humble?
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!