James you are absolutley right!!!
i mean the beatles could barley play any chords at all when they started to perform but i think people will remmember them much longer then malmsteen...
i can understand why people like speedy guitarists than can play millions of notes in no time, but their music to me is feel-less... because all they do is just hitting the strings.... my favorite guitarist is angus young , who is much slower than malmsteen or that guy from metallica... as a matter of fact i think that almost anyone who learn guitar more then 2-2.5 years can play any song of ac/dc
but when you hear a song of ac/dc it's like big ball of energy explodes into you... when i fist time heard ac/dc i was about 10 years old, and the song was "you shook me all night long" and although i can play this song easily and i can't play most of malmsteen songs i think, to me ac/dc are much greater guitarists and to me one their song worths all yngwie music