Ode to Yngwie Malmsteen's 'Black Star'

"I've been playing 'Black Star,' or variations of it, since I was a teenager in Sweden," Yngwie Malmsteen recently told his fan club. When I'm feeling inspired, the music just flows out of me. "We recorded all the basic tracks and then Yngwie had to go on the road with Alcatrazz," recalls keyboardist Jens Johansson. There are probably three guitar tracks on `Black Star,' and I remember watching Yngwie doing them and being blown away at how he could effortlessly synchronize the vibrato if he was