Come on back now do it again
The track with Roger Glover guesting on bass from the upcoming Michael Schenker’s album of UFO remakes has been released as a digital single.
The album is due out on September 20, 2024, via Edel/earMUSIC.
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The track with Roger Glover guesting on bass from the upcoming Michael Schenker’s album of UFO remakes has been released as a digital single.
The album is due out on September 20, 2024, via Edel/earMUSIC.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
The Swede must have listened to a lot of Phil Mogg in his youth, he really has Mogg’s one-of-a-kind delivery down pat. Like a younger Phil with more of a range, but then Herr Tempest was never a bad singer.
Never one of my favorite UFO tracks, the very melodic, almost cabaret chorus and the rock’n’rolly verses don’t go together too well, it all sounds a bit grafted on with Phil singing Schenker’s guitar melody in default mode because he didn’t know what else to do with it. I think UFO’s songwriting really peaked with No Heavy Petting.
August 31st, 2024 at 23:42For the thus inclined: The album will further feature Joe Lynn Turner on Doctor Doctor and Too Hot To Handle.
Adrian Vandenberg and Joel Hoekstra from the 2nd generation DP Family Tree also guest.
September 1st, 2024 at 01:21Yo,
The world of Rock has always primarily featured British & US-of-A artistes, so imo, it’s a great result to celebrate Michael Schenker & his work. Whether with the Scorpions, UFO, or MSG, Michael delivered the goods in boatloads, & remains an archetype musician / guitarist, that anyone would be impressed listening to, especially the young, up-&-coming generation of rock guitarists.
Thanks for the music Mr.Schenker, much appreciated ! You have a big heart full of R&R.
Peace !
September 1st, 2024 at 05:17Schenker grew leaps and bounds as a guitar player with every UFO album, so I feel he was at his best by Obsession. He would then become even better in MSG 🙂 I like Tempest’s take on this great song. Mogg can never be replicated, so better then to do your own thing.
September 1st, 2024 at 06:14About the recruitment of Roger Glover, Michael told Noise11.com, “that was an idea Michael Voss had. Michael Voss is a fan as well. He suggested Roger Glover. I think my record company is the same as Deep Purple. Somehow it worked out that way. He produced by first Michael Schenker Group album but I have never really focused on his bass playing. But he played so good. I can’t believe it. I was blown away when I heard it. At his age as well. He is really, really good”.
September 1st, 2024 at 09:40Roger is actually more busy on that UFO cover than he is on most DP tracks, he’s almost in Neil Murray “I’m writing my own song here”-early Whitesnake melodic introspective playing territory!
That said, Pete Way’s original bass line was far from root note plucking either,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LAhjKLhro
(Way was a, uhum, way better bassist than most people thought as his wild stage and off-stage manners always overshadowed the musician in him; Schenker has lauded his playing as one of the most sympathetic to his songwriting), even similarly melodic to Roger’s in the
“We can’t wait from day to day
‘Cause we’ve got something to say …”
chorus part, but not as embellished and detailed as Glover’s lines in other parts of the song.
Roger plays the song a bit like Chris Glen of MSG/TSAHB would have, I’ve noticed similarities in their style before, they are from the same school of 70s Brit rock bass playing.
Michael has probably forgotten how much DP he heard as a kid (his favorite band was Mountain though) with his elder brother Rudolf, early Scorpions idolized DP as the type of band they always wanted to be. Their paths crossed often, even more so after little adolescent Michael had been abducted by that alien spaceship.
September 1st, 2024 at 16:51What sets Schenker apart from many other hard rock axemen (he’s not really a heavy metal player, but tends to get lumped in with the genre) is his feel in his solos and his groove as a rhythm guitarist. He’s technically awesome as well of course, but so are other people. Michael solos as if he sang the notes.
If he wasn’t such a god-damned weirdo and a little less childlike erratic and naive, who knows where his considerable talent might have carried him further. It’s sometimes a little frustrating that Germany’s two most gifted and original classic lead guitar players – him and Uli Jon Roth – are relegated to recognition in their little hard rock/heavy metal niche worlds only.
September 1st, 2024 at 17:00Michael has rebuilt his career nicely and just signed a 3-album deal with Earmusic. Still prolific in terms of album output and calls the shots himself. I think he’s exactly where he wants to be. Schenker and Roth were never candidates for the Eric Clapton position in terms of crossover potential?
September 2nd, 2024 at 04:39Yo,
Herr Uwe stated re-DP & MS crossing paths…
qt.”Their paths crossed often, even more so after little adolescent Michael had been abducted by that alien spaceship”.
Aha, so that’s where his skills were enhanced to another level, by a visit from his star-family…”Abduction” & “alien” are actually incorrect terms to use when you’ve been picked-up by family yo, because they’re not alien, & you haven’t really been abducted…But the terms do grab peoples attention I suppose !
The music industry is a cruel one, especially when recognizing important people that keep the “circus” sure footed. But there’s a lot of competition out there too, & so on balance, Michael & Uli have done pretty-well imo…The same applies to Yngwie also.
Peace !
September 2nd, 2024 at 12:19To all intents and purposes, the men manning the alien spacecraft at the time (Doc Gregster, I was alluding to the band name ‘UFO’ as the poachers of little Michael, geddit?!), Messrs Mogg, Way and Parker, could have been from another galaxy to sheltered-upbringing-merchant-son Michael S. He had only just turned 18 when he joined in June 1973, spoke no English (and by all accounts had a hard time learning it: though he’s been living in Brighton for ages, his English is to this day rudimentary and full of badly translated German idioms and expressions, and I don’t mean heeze prönöünced deutsche äkzent either). He has a very limited vocabulary, so there cannot have been a lot of communication going on in the UFO camp (or later in MSG for that matter). Phil Mogg adopts a hilariously gruesome bad war movie (“Vee haff ze vvvays to mäke yöü tälk!”) Tshörmenn äkzent to this day when quoting anything from Michael. 😊
Mogg was seven years older than Michael, Way was five years his senior. UFO had an altercation-prone intra-band relationship culture not excluding physical violence that even had someone as good-natured as Bernie Marsden decide to escape from them quickly.
That doesn’t make Michael a saint, he’s exceedingly difficult, introverted, fickle and naive, but to be fair he was extremely immature and still developing when he joined UFO. and got chucked into the hedonistic rock star world of international touring.
These days he has a tendency to rewrite history, arguing that he basically single-handedly made the Scorpions what they are. That is a bunch of bollocks. I WAS THERE when the Scorpions climbed the success ladder. Uli Roth’s work on Fly To The Rainbow and In Trance was all the talk of the town, no one gave a damn about what a (then still adolescent) Michael had done on Lonesome Crow which was by all accounts only another quaint landfill-Krautrock album. When ze Scörps established themselves in Germany and the Benelux Countries + France (they were popular there before they were in Germany), Michael’s legacy with them played no role. And when Michael rejoined them in the late 70s for a short while, he had frequent walk-outs on the Lovedrive tour because he couldn’t stand playing all of Roth’s parts and songs. I saw a gig with Michael on that tour, he was visibly physically uncomfortable with a set consisting mainly of Roth-era classics, think of the faces Steve Howe regularly pulled when he had to play Trevor Rabin’s Owner Of A Lonely Heart (“This is sooo beneath me …”). 🤣 That doesn’t fit in at all with Michael’s incessantly repeated lore that the Scorpions only made it by playing/stealing “his” music.
All that said: He’s a gifted (if not folly-proof) musician and very lyrical player. If the Rolling Stones have you called up for a session invite in 1975 while looking for a Mick Taylor replacement (and you refuse to answer the invitation in terror as Michael by his own admission did! 😁), you must be doing something right.
September 2nd, 2024 at 16:53Yo,
Herr Uwe stated re M.Schenker…
qt.”If the Rolling Stones have you called up for a session invite in 1975 while looking for a Mick Taylor replacement (and you refuse to answer the invitation in terror as Michael by his own admission did! 😁), you must be doing something right.
Agreed ! The same thing happened to another great blues player by the name of Roy Buchanan (RIP)…And yet, it’s hard today to imagine the Stones without Ron Wood. I quite like the “Black & Blue” album, & it’s probably the last album that contained the original Stones sound that they developed & mined for a number of years imo. “Hot Stuff” indeed !
Peace !
September 3rd, 2024 at 01:07Well, the new CD of ze Tshörmän Wunderkind was delivered to my doorstep by those good people from that South American watercourse today, let’s hear:
1. Dee Snider has never been a great singer, but he knew how to entertain live. As he does here, sticking close to Mogg’s rendition of the stomper NATURAL THING. Joel Hoekstra, the beast in Whitesnake’s beauty, gets to play a solo too, careful not to upstage Michael – you know how easily aggravated those Krauts can be and then they send in the Fallschirmjäger again …
2. I’ve commented on Roger’s and Rolf Magnus Joakim Larsson’s aka Joey “my hair curls naturally like this, I just use a conditioner” T’s
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSlThIm0ZkuqlUKVc_x3kQ_laNmZ-cxFQPO1A&s
performance on ONLY YOU CAN ROCK ME before, see above. Cute/söt/gullig.
3. Hoboken’s most famous ex-Deep Purple member calls for the DOCTOR DOCTOR and sticks close to the Mogg blueprint too, nice but hardly vital.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOFppxhx4KA
4. Slash gets to be Slash on MOTHER MARY, makes you smile, yeah, he’s recognizable.
5. The Saxons are coming! With the Armenians in tow! Biff Byford surprises with an interesting version of THIS KIDS, further elevated by Derek Sherinian’s (he plays keyboards on the other songs too) cracker of a Hammond solo citing both Jon Lord and Don Airey. Great!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxR6tGYM4kM
6. Do you LOVE TO LOVE Axl Rose’s screech? I don’t, but hear and behold, he doesn’t screech at all here sticking to almost a baritone delivery. Imagine David Lee Roth (if he knew how to sing and could hit notes properly, hard as that may be to picture) crossed with Stephen Tyler and you get the idea. This is a stunning version of the song, I must admit. (And the only Guns N’ Roses fan in our family is my son, I swear!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h376ncH4ZlM
7. Jeff Scott Soto is one of the few singers on this album man enough to leave the Phil Mogg template behind on LIGHTS OUT. John Norum gets to solo too, amazing how nimble these Swedes can be with their fingers given that they have to wear mittens for most of the year. All that reindeer skinning too!
8. Noch ein Deutscher: Kai Hansen rrrolls the r on R-R-ROCK BOTTOM, always one of UFO’s dumbest songs in an ouevre not populated by intellectualism if you ask me. He tries to sound like Phil Mogg too. Michael does one of his trademarks melodic solos in the extended middle part where he also plays with himself, adding harmony guitar. And he takes his time – but then it’s his album, you pay, you gets to play …
9.The kid from New Jersey returns finding things TOO HOT TO HANDLE. Schenker, a Mountain fan, probably told him to sing it like Leslie West and Joe obliged. Claudia Schiffer aka Adrienne Vandenberg celebrates deutsch-niederländische Völkerfreundschaft on co-guitar. He can do sweepings!
10. LET IT ROLL (another UFO song not really hitting intellectual peaks if you ask me) gets the sped-up heavy metal treatment. Loud organ, but lamentably no solo except from Michael. The other Michael (Voss) tries to sound less like Phil Mogg than most other singers on this album.
11. Rock’n’Roll rodents! Stephen Pearcy, he of RATT fame, dodges the bullets from SHOOT SHOOT and sleazes the song up a little.
And that’s it. It’s not bad, the production is good – not cheap-sounding like on so many “projects” Schenker let himself be talked into over the decades (only to disown them later). Schenker’s solos are sublime throughout.
The new versions stick close to the UFO blueprint, so if you’re an UFO fan you won’t be disappointed. I would have welcomed the reinterpretations going out on a limb a bit more, but this album is fairly and squarely aimed at conservative UFO devotees.
And Axl was very respectful, who’d have thought?
September 20th, 2024 at 21:05