Five different guitars, four amps, a cello and a bunch of songs to vandalize – that’s Marcus’s idea of Heaven! Slow, fast, soft and completely distorted, twisted and insane… is this bloke having a ball or what? :-) He does indeed… or he did, as we convinced him (finally!!!) that we were out of tape to record any more of this nonsense and – after a few days of redundant squeaks (believe it or not, but he still calls it “playing”!!! :-) shipped him away safely… phew :-)His somehow psychopathic enthusiasm is simply astonishing (and, quite frankly, a bit annoying): he’s in the studio at least an hour before anybody else and – after the session’s over – still sitting there for another hour or two, pretending to be B.B King on speed (maybe he is, who knows? :-)
Everybody and their dog’s been explaining to him how little his “creative” outbursts really mean to this kind of music (and haven’t these guitar solos been obsolete for years now?) but to no avail: probably, they’re putting something in the water (in Sweden) that makes these people to believe so strongly that its absolutely impossible to record a good song without including a guitar solo of sorts… Ask yourself: which country did Yngwie came from? See – all of the sudden it all make sense.
So – for a very few of you out there, who still think that guitars rock (oh naïve, misguided souls :-) – knock yourself out.