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* JustHereForGodzilla: Some fans go crazy for his famed instrumental shred pieces and don't notice and/or care about the revolving door of vocalists, as those songs are mere fillers to them.
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* MemeticMutation: In addition to the "fucking fury" thing, his less than pleased reaction at being offered donuts by Music/{{Pantera}} became this.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: One of the most definitive examples among guitarists. While he has garnered praise for his technical proficiency and inspiring guitar players all over the world to practice and excel at the instrument, he also has a certain degree of detractors who claim he represented everything wrong with shred guitar playing by focusing purely on style over substance, guitar wankery over songwriting, etc. His Jerkass attitude certainly doesn't help improve the latter opinion.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: One of the most definitive examples among guitarists. While he has garnered praise for his technical proficiency and inspiring guitar players all over the world to practice and excel at the instrument, he also has a certain degree of detractors who claim he represented everything wrong with shred guitar playing by focusing purely on style over substance, guitar wankery over songwriting, etc. His
Jerkass attitude certainly doesn't make things any better.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: One of the most definitive examples among guitarists. While he has garnered praise for his technical proficiency and inspiring guitar players all over the world to practice and excel at the instrument, he also has a certain degree of detractors who claim he represented everything wrong with shred guitar playing by focusing purely on style over substance, guitar wankery over songwriting, etc. His
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* LoveItOrHateIt: One of the most definitive examples among guitarists. While he has garnered praise for his technical proficiency and inspiring guitar players all over the world to practice and excel at the instrument, he also has a certain degree of detractors who claim he represented everything wrong with shred guitar playing by focusing purely on style over substance, guitar wankery over songwriting, etc. His *Jerkass His
Jerkass attitude certainly doesn't make things any better.
Jerkass attitude certainly doesn't make things any better.
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*LoveItOrHateIt: One of the most definitive examples among guitarists. While he has garnered praise for his technical proficiency and inspiring guitar players all over the world to practice and excel at the instrument, he also has a certain degree of detractors who claim he represented everything wrong with shred guitar playing by focusing purely on style over substance, guitar wankery over songwriting, etc. His *Jerkass attitude certainly doesn't make things any better.
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* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Big In Japan]] *Whoever moved this to YMMV tab, doesn't get it. His best-selling album in Japan is Fire and Ice from 1992, an album that remained unreleased in the US until 2000. The audiences in Japan kept Malmsteen's career going in the 90s when virtuosity was a swear word elsewhere during the grunge craze. Hell, he even performed his Concerto live with a Japanese philharmonic orchestra. He is big in Japan!*
* MorePopularSpinoff - Rising Force was supposed to be a ''side project'', but after the success of his debut album, he left Alcatrazz to focus on it.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap - Malmsteen's band is the first band that Tim Owens didn't form himself whose fans didn't want his head on a platter in the last two decades.
* MorePopularSpinoff - Rising Force was supposed to be a ''side project'', but after the success of his debut album, he left Alcatrazz to focus on it.
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* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Big In Japan]] *Whoever moved this to YMMV tab, doesn't get it. GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: His best-selling album in Japan is Fire ''Fire and Ice Ice'' from 1992, an album that remained unreleased in the US until 2000. The audiences in Japan kept Malmsteen's career going in the 90s when virtuosity was a swear word elsewhere during the grunge craze. Hell, he even performed his Concerto live with a Japanese philharmonic orchestra. He is big in Japan!*
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