Product Details

• Actors: Yngwie Malmsteen
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram Video
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1991
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301540743
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #307,351 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Maestro at his Youthful Peak, February 5, 2000

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The Ancient (Miamisburg, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trial By Fire [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This Video is an excellent representation of one of the most innovative and virtuosic players ever to don a Strat. The sound quality is very good and the entire band shows outstanding ability and stage presence. I believe Yngwie was about 25 or so in this Video, and plays with fire and conviction. Highlights are: Every Song and ALL the solo bits. As a Guitarist for 28 years, I am still amazed at this video. If you are an aspiring player and haven't really CHECKED this guy out, BUY this and see what exists beyond the Top 40...(Oh yeah.. Beautiful Acoustic bits..)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Awesome, November 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Trial By Fire [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Yngwie Malmsteen is without question one of the greatest guitar players ever. The man is simply a freak of nature. His music is not commercial enough for the public to catch onto it. Yngwie has said in the past that he would never dream of reducing his music to the level of bands today just so he could get more airplay. I believe he is s lot like a Mozart or a Picasso, in that his art will be respected much later. His awesome skills are evident on this live video. I would reccomend this tape to any aspiring guitar player. On it Yngwie shows his lightning speed and I swear on a couple solos I saw sparks coming from his fretboard. I have wathched this video maybe a hundred times and I always learn something new from this GUITAR GOD.

4.0 out of 5 stars Live album tie in, November 16, 2007

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Paul Lawrence "'EJL'" (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trial By Fire [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Yngwies Trial by Fire live VHS video was the perfect counterpoint to both the audio album of the same name but also the late 80's era of the mans career. The second Yngwie live video has a number of advantages over the earlier Live '85 release and that is the broader pallette of music the man was able to draw on. On his earlier release he only had his almost totally instrumental debut and the (admittedly brilliant) Marching Out to draw upon, meaning we got some Alcatrazz material as well. Here Yngwie had his equally excellent Trilogy album to draw from as well as Odyssey.

The production values on this concert compiled from footage of the mans tour of the USSR - still largely a closed market in the pre glasnost days- are not too bad, once again Yngwies predilection for simple stage presentations is on display. The highly successful tour not only has a good vibe, but the band at this point are pretty handy too. Long time collaborators the Johansson brothers on drums and keys with Barry Dunaway on bass and lead vox courtesy of Joe Lyn Turner, who probably got the gig solely because he's worked with Yngwies idol Blackmore. Sniping aside, the man puts in a highly useful performance here and shows his abilities in not only interpreting live the songs from the Odyssey album but also the earlier material from Trilogy.

The music on this release is more in the hard rock vein than that of purely metal as per the Live '85 release and is very indicative of Yngwies direction at the time. Interspersed between the `normal' songs are the inevitable instrumentals, at this point in his career they were still interesting and they do at least book end the tunes with vocals on them.

General rock fans may not get their boat floated by Yngwies fairly one dimensional guitar attack but at this point in his career he really had the tunes to sally forth with a great set of numbers. On VHS there can't be many of these circulating still (my copy has been all but killed by mould - darn plumbing!). But Yngwie fans really should get this on some sort of format to complete their collection. Not to mention that the almost inevitable `behind the scenes' shenanigans are mercifully absent on basically all of Yngwies video releases - here we only have to endure a minute or two...