Comments on: Fender Giving Away An Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Stratocaster

By: Don

Don — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:16:41 +0000

Cary, you OK out there?

By: Musician's Plaza

Musician's Plaza — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 07:24:46 +0000

Yeah I heard about this. Too bad they ain’t giving away a Lenny ;)

By: Tennyson Williams

Tennyson Williams — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:44:04 +0000

I play every style under the sun, but I didn’t pass this up. I’ve always wanted to try the scalloped neck, and Malmsteen was a childhood hero.

By: Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com

Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:53:30 +0000

The same shit, the guitar goes only to USA residents. Man, I hate this thing, I am located in Romania and such limitations make me nuts, you can no imagine, there is no contest for people located around the world, USA, Canada and a few other locations…I understand the reasons but come on…

By: Cheap Guitars

Cheap Guitars — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:08:32 +0000

I still listen to some of the hair bands, just not as much now. Sans Direction summed it up with “20 years ago”. I do still like rock, can’t quite get a hold on country, gives me a headache if I listen very long!

I would love to win the Yngwie Malmsteen Signature Strat, One can’t have too many guitars!! Guitars to me are like shoes are to my wife, I need every color and style.lol

I could handle a room full!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:58:12 +0000

The Malmsteen strat is a great guitar for blues, rock… Surprisingly, it is not made for metal: special fingerboard do not ease speed and vintage-output pickups might have difficulties to make your amp scream. Of course, with a monster amount of gain, it is also ok for metal, with the nice signature Malmsteen sound (‘like a flute’, but greasy on big strings)
You can check the review of the Malmsteen strat on my blog (in French only)
Cary: good to see how your blog is moving forward. I like it. Thanks!

By: agatzebluz

agatzebluz — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:34:27 +0000

Hi Gary

Just a small error in the post

“just giving Fener “. Isn’t it Fender ?

I guess that as usual it is a US Resident only giveway … Doesn’t matter, that not my kind of guitar, but as you said a free guitar is a free guitar.

By: Stratoblogster

Stratoblogster — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:33:00 +0000

Though I haven’t played a scalloped neck, I think they might be great for Blues too, and anything with big bending. I have super jumbo frets on one of my guitars, and had to adjust my fretting pressure for intonation. Just seems like a scalloped might make for a helluva Blues guitar– and you could string it really heavy gauge too!

Guess I should stop talkin’ and register…

By: Sans Direction

Sans Direction — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:36:01 +0000

I’m metal. Well, I used to be metal. 20 years ago.