Plenty of players have impressed Malmsteen, but it was a solo violin performance that would have the biggest influence on his lead style ...

He played the guitar like a man possessed, as if the fret was an extension of himself. When he stood on stage and improvised over various pentatonic scales, the notes came as easily as words do for ...

The plucked pizzicato strings and clever guitar and piano interplay give it the ska ... but instead opts for the feeling of the titular Egyptian capital. The use of pentatonic and harmonic minor ...