Yngwie is a gigantic asshole. That is part of his shtick. He is Yngwie and he is the fucking best. According to Yngwie.

I don't know heaps about him but have weird appreciation of his music on a purely technical level.

Also when I was in high school through sheer publicity a few buddies and I got Yngwie voted in to every "political" position at school. He won by a landslide.

We used all sorts of imagery on the posters we spammed the school with. Though the main theme we went for is "I shred". The school was pretty mad about it and the next day they had another election after an announcement how Yngwie wasn't a student.

Also Yngwie fucked his hands up in a motorcycle accident. When he got the news that he would no longer be able to shread he taught himself to play guitar.

I have seen him live and he always wears tons of rings and shit while he shreds, it is impressive.

Yngwie is super cheesy, he always gives an encore. Always.

When I saw him he tried to do a move and swing his guitar around his body with the strap. He accidentally threw it up in to the air. Yngwie looked up and got blinded by the stage lights, panicked and ran away. I guess if you have your own model of Fender breaking a guitar isn't a big deal.

Yngwie appears to always be married to a beautiful eastern europen woman. She was at the show and so seemingly was Yngwie's mother in law.

Video of Malmsteen being his usual self.