Swedish speed merchant Yngwie Malmsteen once said that he arrived in America “with one guitar, one toothbrush,” and a dream, before a Guitar Player spotlight, on a search for “the next big guitar hero ...

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After 30 years, two bands (Steeler, Alcatrazz) and 19 studio albums, Yngwie Malmsteen certainly has a story to tell. And the rock guitar hero from Sweden plans to tell it in the very near future.

In the early ’80s, Yngwie Malmsteen was one of the hottest guitar players in the world. But one famous rock singer found the Swedish shredder a little too hot to handle. Malmsteen was still a relative ...