RISING FORCE: UP, UP, UP AND YNGWIE!!!

It’s drizzling in Southern California, and the natives, most of whom have never seen rain outside of the Universal Studio tour, are panicking. Traffic on the highway has slowed to a crawl. It wouldn’t really matter, except for the knowledge that in a distant, nondescript rehearsal studio, Swedish guitar whiz Yngwie Malmsteen is waiting for me with an egg timer running.