YNGWIE MALMSTEEN - "When I Was On Big Labels Like Polydor, Atlantic Or Elektra, I Always Felt That I Was Pushed Aside And I Felt That I Was Never The Priority For Them"
January 20, 2009, 15 years ago
Swedish guitar hero YNGWIE MALMSTEEN spoke with Chartattack.com about a number of topics recently including his most recent opus, Perpetual Flame, released through his own Rising Force Records label.
"When I was on big labels like Polydor, Atlantic or Elektra, I always felt that I was pushed aside and I felt that I was never the priority for them anyway," Malmsteen explains. "To me, if you have good PR, which I have the best, and if you have good distribution, which I have the best, then we can do as good, if not a better job, than those bigger labels because we don't have anyone in our way and we don't have to compete with anyone. We just started, you know. The record is only a month old, but so far it's been going well."Perpetual Flame also marks the first time Malmsteen has worked with Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH)
"We've known each other for a long time," Malmsteen says about his new singer. "What happened with this record, I recorded it a little differently. I started writing songs while I was on tour for the last album [2005's Unleash The Fury]. I had all these ideas, and I went into the studio with the drummer and recorded the drums and went back on tour. I came back and did some guitars and bass and went back out on tour. I came back and did some keyboards and wrote some lyrics. And as this went on, the songs started taking shape. And when the songs were finished, I realized that [former vocalist Doogie White] wasn't going to cut it because the songs needed a different voice to deliver it. So Tim's name came up, and he came down to Miami and we fucking laid it down and it was awesome, and from there it was a no-brainer."Read more here.
