Originally posted by aiwass
BS! Malmsteen did not invent neoclassical rock! Just listen to solos by Rhoades and Blackmore that were played when Yngwie was still back in STockholm playing his toy guitar! And if I'm not mistaken, Cacophony (Becker and Friedman) was also touring Japan a couple of years before Yngwie arose to take the throne as The King of Shred.

He made it a style on its own... Van halen didn't invent tapping,(Billy GIBBONS and Tal FARLOW had it down before he was born) but he is the one that made it such a big thing for wannabe guitarists. That's the same with Yngwie.