Guitar Clinics and Publicity Appearances

Guitar Clinics 1999

Yngwie presented the following 1999 Master Guitar Clinics sponsored by Fender Musical Instruments.

March - New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. Grand Opening for Guitar Center.
March 6 - Frankfurt Music Fair. [Performance by Yngwie, Mats Olausson, Anders Johansson, Marcel Jacob--for this date only.]
March 8 - Munchen, Germany
March 9 - Burgeburch (Munich), Germany
March 10 - Munchen, Germany
March 11 - Ibbenburen, Germany
March 12 - Hamburg, Germany
March 15 - Bologna, Italy
March 16 - Milan, Italy

Promotional Trip to England and Europe,
September 21 - 28, 1999

To promote the European release of Alchemy, Yngwie made a publicity trip to Europe sponsored by Dream Catcher (formerly Music for Nations), doing appearances for TV and radio, plus magazine photo shoots and in-store appearances.


Left to right: Yngwie with Dream Catcher boss Martin Hooker and friends; photo shoot in London with Paul Harris; TV-3 interview in Sweden, Foo Fighters bandmate on left.

  • Sept. 21, 1999 a.m.: Yngwie and his family are in London today. He's doing interviews and a photo shoot, possibly some magazine covers. Where to next?
  • Sept 21, p.m.: Well, tonight, he's in France. Just got a call from him in Paris! He says his schedule is really hectic, plus everyone's jet-lagged except Antonio. He's happy to report that Dream Catcher is ordering the largest shipment they've ever done for him. Alchemy is generating huge excitement, and rock seems to be making a comeback inParis. Yngwie has nonstop interviews scheduled from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Then they have to run to catch a plane for.... ?
  • Sept. 22: Yngwie and family are now in Stockholm, arriving around 11 p.m.
  • Sept. 23: Looks like this is going to be a really long day! The record company has scheduled back-to-back interviews and publicity appearances from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Schedule includes Arbetet, a cameo walkon appearance on the "Late Night with Luuk" show, Metro news daily, Bright Eyes metal magazine, Aftonbladet, GT daily news, Hallandsposten news, TV 3 live (Foo Fighters on at the same time). Then at 8:30 p.m.Yngwie will be playing an impromptu gig in Stockholm at a mid-town club called Encore. He'll be playing Marcel Jacob and Mats Leven, who play there as a regular gig. The club only holds about 300 people, so expect a huge crowd outside in the street!
  • Sept. 24: More nonstop interviews and appeances on TV and radio. Starting at 10:30 a.m., slots are scheduled for GP news daily, Z-TV, FUZZ magazine, Expressen, SLITZ magazine, Avisa news daily, Radio K college rock, Chili school magazine, Metal Fortress fanzine, Victim fanzine, Radio Fury college rock station, P 3 radio (interview with his old friend Leif Edling).
  • Sept. 25: Finally, Yngwie has a day off. He hopes to show April and Antonio around the city, but we bet he might just sleep all day instead. Early tomorrow they're back on the plane, heading for ...?
  • Sept 26-27: Today he's in Munich, Germany. Many more press interviews and TV/radio spots.
  • Sept. 28-29: Back in London. Yngwie has a few more interviews and press events to take care of, then he and his family will return home to the USA.

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