Originally Posted by Luke Nightshader
I have respect for Satriani, Vai, Johnson, and Petrucci but Malmsteen has never done anything for me at all. I think its the fact that he did that flop of a project back in the 80s that was such bad hair metal with cheesy guitar solos. I think it was SMG or something like that.
Like Zack said... Malmsteen is great alone but with a group like G3 he sucks. He can't do team work and in G3 team work is key. Satch taught Vai a lot about the technical aspect and they have a lot of respect for each other. Malmsteen was the lone gun man in that arena. So he kinda uses his ego which becomes a massive downside.