Yngwie Malmsteen Credits Guitar Hero for New Interest in His Music
Nov 29th, 2008 by Guitar MX Admin
| Yngwie Malmsteen recently gave his blessing to the Guitar Hero game. He attributes the game for creating a new interest in his music among young kids, who have been showing up to his shows, something that wasnt happening happening a few years ago.
Here’s what he recently told the Artisan News Service: |
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I was sitting in the airport in Miami, I don’t know, a couple of months ago, we were flying somewhere, and me and my drummer and my bass player or somebody, my singer too, we were sitting at this restaurant waiting and this little kid, he couldn’t have been more than eight or nine years old, and he looks up at us and goes, ‘Hey, are you guys in a band?, We go, ‘Yeah.’ ‘I want to be in a band!’ And this was so cool because a few years ago that wouldn’t be happening. Plus, I see in the audience when I play now, every night there’s very, very young kids. This is a great.
You can view a video clip from the interview here.
I didn’t watch the video. From the quote you gave, it doesn’t sound like the fact that young kids are coming to his shows has anything to do with Guitar Hero. Does he say it does in the interview? Perhaps there’s just a new recharge in that music scene, that’s all.
Although, it is possible that Guitar Hero has something to do with it. It’s such a silly game, but so fun and people sit around playing it for hours, learning new music along the way. I wish learning guitar or buying a real guitar were that easy…
What do you think of Guitar Hero, Kyle?