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YNGWIE MALMSTEEN Singer Slams Illegal Music Downloading

September 25, 2007

MelodicRock.com recently conducted an interview with hard rock vocalist Doogie White (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, CORNERSTONE, ex-RAINBOW). A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Q: So any news about the new Yngwie album?

Doogie: I spoke with him the other day and he is very pleased with the way the album is sounding. We have not set a time for me to go in. It was gonna be July but that's well gone now. Yngwie and the band went to Russia and did a show with Joe Lynn Turner over the summer.

Q: Are Joe and Yngwie going to do a record together?

Doogie: I don't know. It never came up in conversation with him. I'll be catchin' up with Joe [Lynn Turner] in Madrid next week. What I do know is that Yngwie has asked me to sing on the new one and we have agreed in principle to do it. So the answer is when he is ready then I'll take three weeks or so and go to Miami and we will just tear it up again.

Q: How do you feel the business is going at the moment?

Doogie: Do you have all night? If I am honest, there are too many bands desperate to get their album out and the record companies pay them a small, token payment and they go away happy. A deal's a deal's a deal, right? But there is little, if any quality control with music that 5, 10 years ago that would have stayed in the bedroom and is now flooding the market. Some of the compilation sample records I get sent are quite shocking. But the record companies make their money back and more. If they didn't they would not do it. The bands get the albums out. So it's win-win all around but it's not "healthy" for the genre and music we love. There are really good bands out there getting lumped in with the rest and its suffocating. The cream no longer rises to the surface. It gets whipped round and lost. LA PAZ didn't get a deal. MIDNIGHT BLUE didn't get a deal simply because we were not good enough. Now I get asked if I want to release those songs, albums, demos, whatever. No, I don't. What makes them better now than then? That's the point…well, one of them anyway.

Just don't start me on illegal downloads. 2500 on ONE site for "Two Tales" [CORNERSTONE], two weeks before it was released. Only journalists had copies. Why would one of them up load it? What's in it for them? I understand folk wanting something for nothing. But if you came to a gig and stole the T-shirts or merch you would be: 1. arrested, 2. prosecuted, or 3. have the shit beaten out you. Odd then that some, not all but some "fans" feel its okay to steal the very music they enjoy where by, by consequence, they might prevent that band or artist recording again. A CD costs 15 euro and T-shirt 25. We all buy the shirt. Right?

Read the entire interview at MelodicRock.com.

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