Yngwie Malmsteen
Inspiration


Tracks:

1. Carry On Wayward Son
2. Pictures Of Home
3. Gates Of Babylon
4. Manic Depression
5. In The Dead Of Night
6. Mistreated
7. The Sails Of Charon
8. Demon's Eye
9. Anthem
10. Child In Time

Line up:

Yngwie Malmsteen - guitar, vocals on track 4
Mark Boals - vocals on tracks 5,7,9,10
Jeff Scott Soto - vocals tracks on 1,3,6
Joe Lynn Turner - vocals on tracks 2,8,11
Jens Johansson - keyboards
Mats Olausson - keyboards
David Rosenthal - keyboards on tracks 1,10
Marcel Jacob – bass guitar on track 1
Anders Johansson - drums

Record Label / Year of Release:

Music For Nations (Europe) / Pony Canyon (Japan) 1996

Notes:

Inspiration is a tribute album by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released in 1996 through Music for Nations (Europe) and Pony Canyon, Inc. (Japan), and reissued in 2000 through Spitfire Records with a different cover. A remastered edition was reissued in 2003 through SPV with again a different cover. It consists entirely of covers of various bands who influenced Malmsteen.

Bonus track on Japanese release: "Spanish Castle Magic"

David Rosenthal: "This album of covers was recorded as a tribute to the music that Yngwie grew up listening to. I was called in to play on two tracks: "Carry on My Wayward Son" and "Child in Time." The sessions were a lot of fun because these were also songs I grew up listening to. This was the first time I had met Yngwie, and it was during these sessions that the idea of the Millennium Concerto was born."