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I've got an mp3 of Yngwie Malmsteen covering Gimme Gimme Gimme by Abba

it's fucking ace
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:30, 9 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Almost
as bad as McFly detroying an ABBA track on the Olympics exhange doodah thingy.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:33, Reply)

it's not bad in any way
a) Yngwie Malmsteen is Swedish
b) he is a virtuoso so it has musical merit
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:35, Reply)

Genius!
Also, McFly have done worse, they covered 'Pinball Wizard'
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:41, Reply)

Al
You may have my metaphorical virtual babies.
(Ethelred is watching cheese grow, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 10:56, Reply)

If you made it
Yngwie J Malmsteen it could be even more confusing.

I like some of his stuff, but it does get a bit self indulgent after a while. It's a bit like the prog rock excesses of the 70s - Emerson, Lake and Palmer for example.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 11:09, Reply)

it can be excessive
but I find it more listenable than Steve Vai or Satriani these days

I tend to only listen to a few choice pieces, like his covers of Deep Purple songs, or some of the classical stuff
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 11:15, Reply)

Weird Al
Unless it's a Weird Al version, I'm not interested :)
(james_tiger_woods is going to start his killing spree on the, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 12:15, Reply)

I have
Paul Gilbert doing Dancing Queen from Acoustic Samurai. I wish I had Bumblefoot doing some ABBA songs =(
(Dangerous Disco Trev Isn't my real name, Wed 27 Aug 2008, 13:17, Reply)

I had
a YJM guitar instruction video once - it was bloody funny (and you could see he found it so as well).

He'd run through an Am (or similar) arpeggio stupid fast (sounded good mind), then he would show you step by step how to do it.

He'd then say "and here it is slower" - and proceed to play it at the very same speed he started (i.e. impossibly fast for a mortal human).

...but f*ck me, it was brilliant to watch. I enjoyed it better than when I saw him live to be honest.
(dchurch bah, Thu 28 Aug 2008, 16:01, Reply)