Well, I'm certainly not above bashing Yngwie.
He opened for Maiden in Philly on their Powerslave tour, and I'm here to tell you folks, the guy was all smoke and mirrors.
I was maybe 20-25 feet from stage left, maybe 5ft. or so above eye level with the stage, and every single time he went to do anything with his guitar, he went to his pedal board. The thing looked like an F-16 cockpit.
People went nuts when he would do something 'incredible'. Trust me when I tell you...he wasn't doing much.
Obviously, the guy has talent of some sort, or he wouldn't have hung around so long.
But I swear... that board might as well have had a ****** on it, as much as he depended on it to be a guitar god. At least that night, anyway.