Malmsteen was born on June 30, 1963, as the first child of a musically talented family in Stockholm, Sweden. At age seven, he saw a television news report on the death of Jimi Hendrix. To quote his official website, "The day Jimi Hendrix died, the guitar-playing Malmsteen was born". At the age of 10 he took his mother's maiden name Malmsten as his surname, slightly changed it to Malmsteen, and Anglicised his given name Yngve to "Yngwie". Yngwie also created his first band "Track On Earth" at the age of 10...
These are photos from concerts where Yngwie J. Malmsteen played, so they may be of other bands that played the concert as well.
Joe Satriani / Steve Vai / Yngwie J. Malmsteen Nov 2, 2003 Pensacola, Florida, United States Uploaded by Hackblowfist
