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Yngwie J. Malmsteen: “I Never Felt That Art Is a Sport”

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

SHRED!!

The tennis-playing, art-enthusiast, Ferrari-collecting shredder talks about his passion, his practice, his love for the Strat, and who he thinks is the greatest guitar player who’s ever lived.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast. I'm your host, Corey Wong. I'm chilling in

0:08.5

festy season right now. It is deep in festy season already this summer. It's summer to me at this

0:16.1

point because I don't know, the weather's turning and it's feeling good. Summer comes a little bit

0:20.6

late in Minnesota where I'm from, but I've been traveling a lot.

0:23.8

I was in Europe for a couple weeks, spent some extra time in Amsterdam for like five days

0:28.9

and other areas of the Netherlands because I love Netherlands.

0:33.1

Came back, hitting some festies, ready to get back out in festy season.

0:38.3

So fun. Just good hangs, good vibes.

0:42.3

Another fun thing about playing festivals for musicians is that I get to see a lot of other bands,

0:47.3

not just on stage playing, but also backstage and like the green room hangs, the catering area.

0:59.5

I have a lot of internet friends that I've actually never met in person where we end up meeting at festivals or I do have actual real life friends that are musicians where we don't always get

1:05.5

to see each other's bands because we're out on tour at the same time in different areas or

1:09.4

different countries or whatever. And festivals are a fun time for bands to connect and, you know,

1:14.4

figure out times that they can actually hang and collab and that sort of thing.

1:19.0

That is one of the really fun things about festivals for me.

1:21.3

I'm stoked.

1:22.1

I got a bunch of festivals coming up.

1:23.7

It's Corey Wong, some fearless flyers stuff, Wolfpack.

1:27.4

It's going to be great.

1:28.8

I'm happy, happy to be out there playing live music.

1:33.3

It's fun.

1:34.0

It's very fun.

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