Speaking in a recent interview with “Talk Toomey”, former Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Jake E. Lee has slammed legendary guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. He said:
“He’s a dick — that’s my main problem with him. He’s an arrogant fucking asshole, and he always has been. I don’t know if he is right now, to be honest — I haven’t seen him in forever.
But I can only assume that if when you’re younger, you’re that arrogant and that big of a dick, that you really never change.
So I assume he still is. But no, he was just — he was a dick. And he was a great guitar player. But even then, he was really good at one little thing that he does — doing the sweeps and arpeggios and playing fast — and that’s all he could do. That’s one of my problems with him — it’s a very narrow band of guitar playing.
He just focuses on this one part. He’s a shitty rhythm player; he can’t write a song worth a fuck. And I’m saying this, and this sounds bad — I feel a little bit bad — but knowing what an asshole he is, I don’t feel that bad.
You can’t be that arrogant if you’re only really good at one minute aspect of the art of playing guitar. And that’s all he was… And … yeah, fuck him.”
You can listen the entire interview from below.
