Imo, the most under appreciated guitarist in history. He chooses musical freedom over fame and fortune. His body of work is simply amazing. Flying V's forever
This is top notch guitar stud ALL you songwriting players a cassette player whenever you write or riffs push play stop get something u like get it down its older gear but mikey does it i have got my best songs wrote on a cassette player that sat in a box at 11 years iam 60 just wrote a song in 4days picked up in Nashville a famous country artist so cool way u no
M I say his solos ARE more to learning than you may think to hit bend scale tap just his technique to copy takes work but....when you get it its so. So groovy mate your friends say dam that WAS bad hot man play it again Stevie
When your 80 and you look back I hope you know how much you inspired probably every guitarist of our generation (I'm 59). Your heavy edged melodic leads, great writing, with what I feel is just the absolute perfect sound has always moved me and made me keep playing and you get better every day. You're my guitar hero and I'm glad finally everyone is recognizing what I, and all your fans, have always known. Thank you for playing and please keep going as you're the best.
Well said SPONDNO8, Michael has been my favorite guitarist since Phenomenon in 74, and he deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest ever. Thank you .
Mark Caroll Thanks Mark. I enjoy reading comments about Michael because he truly has been totally overlooked by the corporate music world but not his fans and if you're like me I was hooked the very first solo I heard of his (in Dance your life away) in 74 in think. He's sounds a good as ever today. How do you like the Dean flying V sound he's getting? Thanks again Geoff Lake SPONDNO8
This guy has had such a charmed Life : the whole spectrum, being on top of the world, fame fortune etc.. and complete crash and burn , pawning guitars that guitar players would pay thousands for just because of it's sheer place in history (yes, he pawned the blck/white flying V when he was homeless for a short while in Az). Classic Rock owes a lot to Michael Schenker , hell.....Rock N Roll owes a lot to MS. His contribution can't be overstated.
@@blender1188 not a virtuoso?! Lmao, have you ever heard all of his instrumentals?! Electric and acoustic? The man was on neoclassical stuff years before Yngwie appeared on the scene!
This is the first interview I've ever seen with Michael, he seems like a very nice guy. You can hear that British accent he picked up from UFO too, behind the German accent, lol. Love you Michael you'll always be my favorite hard rock guitarist.
+MetallicBill I've been watching and reading interviews and articles about Michael the last few months - and one mentioned one guy in UFO - crew, not band, IIRC - who did speak some German. And that British is even more apparent in interviews during the earlier years - be interesting to see if he still says "A to Zed" after living in the US for a while.
He is so unassuming and humble and though he is getting older his eyes till shine with that young boys love for his guitar when he played it in his bedroom with his first amp when he was young :D He has brought so much happiness to millions of fans of his instrument which he loves to play for others enjoyment, as well as his own. His hands are gifts from God to us for him to play what we want to hear Beautiful, powerful, raw, melodic Rockin Roll. Thanks Michael for always giving us your best when you perform, with your band mates ,music that comes from your heart and soul and spirit. Eternal life found here >> John 14:6 i mention this because when we see and hear music so well performed it reminds me that the best in life can go on forever truly forever if you "Believe"in he who is life eternal the author of life ( Jesus Christ)found in this verse i share> 1 colossians 1:15-20
@user-kt5jf1st3x 1 hour ago Как верно вы написали! Действительно, он подарил счастье услышать и узнать его музыку миллионам людей ! @@user-kt5jf1st3x “How correctly you wrote! Indeed, he gave happiness to hear and know his music to millions of people!” Translation of the comment in Russian of my post ty
Michael really speeds along but covers his whole career here. What shocked me personally is that he said he was in Chicago w/Uli Roth and there are the guys w/the Dean guitar. Because of my disabilities and not getting help from House of Blues to get a seat, (They said they would) for a Frank Marino show in July 2000 I saw Uli and Michael in Milwaukee the day before in a little club named Shak Hall after a Spinal Tap reference and it was the last show I ever saw. So to here that dean was there for Michael the NEXT day is astounding to me. Talk about the end of an era...How stupid was Gibson not to name or develop a Fluing V guitar for Michael Schenker? Hendrix played it....others as well but when one sees the Flying V they think Michael Schenker. So glad he is happy. He has given joy to so many with his dedication...and yes, he is like a monk...plugged into and unaffected by the sounds around him. It is a gift. God bless .
How utterly foolish of Gibson guitars to NOT have offered Michael Schenker a signature Flying V guitar. He was and is synonymous with the Flying V. But Dean guitars stepped in and for the last 15 years it is Michael Schenker and Dean's Flying V guitar. I had a cane back then and Uli got me a seat at the Milwaukee show....Michael closed. I could've been at the HOB show in Chicago where I lived but the *%**&^%staff would not allow a cripple to sit before. No regrets. Uli and Michael. Both at 49 y/o and they both kicked ass. best show of my life and that is saying a lot. Keep rocking as God's will be done. Amen.
Goddamn. Michael is modest - but I remember the years in between his "sightings" and he experienced some dark and trying times. It takes many people years upon years of therapy to heal from the kind of indulgences and the mental and emotional debris that those things leave in their wake. And here he is, one of the most positive, genuine, sincere, kind, and seemingly happy people/musicians around. Great guy.
Kevin Kiso I've been only seeing him live for about 15 years - the first few, he would just play - never turned in a bad performance, always was "the Michael Schenker", but it didn't seem that he was enjoying himself. In the last 5 years, I think, whatever happened that got him sober also brough about a joy in playing on stage. I noticed it 3 or 4 years ago - that suddenly he was actually engaged with the audience on stage (before that, he would come out, sign autographs, talk to people - but after the show). He's really enjoying what he's doing, and who he's doing it with - but whenever he does one of his solos - that is what he is doing - he notches the guitar and magic comes out.
Diana Gregory Yesss... You must be talking about the years when he'd wear hockey shorts and a hockey jersey onstage... Or when he died his hair black around '95, with UFO... He's also gone through a couple of really messy divorces, and thefts [one of the wives was his "manager" and apparently ripped off some treasured & priceless guitars & equipment]. I see exactly what you see; a man who's rekindled his love of his instrument and his music. A man who smiles and laughs. I remember finding UFO's "Force It" vinyl LP in my sister's collection of records in '76 or '77, I was 9-10, and I was just captivated and totally enthralled by this guys guitar playing and sound. Peace.
I saw UFO on Strangers in the night tour in Chicago. Was at show they taped Lights Out at in the Chicago Amplitheater. I will never forget watching you play your ass off. Your playing was indescribable.
Michael I can't believe that I think the same way & from the very first time I heard you play, it was just like I played only why don't I play as good as you and I'm twice your age, nearly LOL, anyway rock and roll dude I love you and I love your style and I love your songs, you e always been my hero in guitarists, & I guess if I'm going to be a (true), me, I need to quit listening to you not really rock on, you are GREAT, & I love you bud.
Legend has it that shortly after he joined UFO Michael got a call from The Rolling Stones asking him to join after Mick Taylor left but Michael turned it down because he thought the gig was too big for him.
Michael Schenker is such a genius that if he had joined someone like Ozzy that the brief and framework of darker abstract themes would have pushed Michael to test his abilities. I think it's a bit of a shame that he wouldn't be willing to play Randy's stuff as my understand was that Randy was a huge fan of his. Michael never went down the heavier route and that could have been an insane moment to have him flex as avante guarde as possible. Collaborations are created through some sort of friction of style. But Michael is literally at the height of his abilities now. I hope he considers Ozzy or some of the others for new horrizons as he's so underrated and insanely ahead of his time. Schenker said his music was a gift from the 70's to the 80's. Well why not outdo those that came before you and create the greatest opus ever?
I would love to listen to he's real music inventions besides and beyond Into The Arena... No pressure at all, but he went weird....after that musically trauma..
Michael Schenker is a great guitarist. In this video he looks like a homeless person or whatever. When he was with the Scorpions at first there was no fanfare. The Crow album reminded me of a bunch of yuppies on a Ski Resort high up in the Alps with a bunch of guys dressed in Turtle Neck sweaters circa 1968. When he joined UFO, his style improved immensely. UFO's albums "Light Out," "No Heavy Petting," "Obsession" And the ever famous live album, "Strangers In The Night" were outstanding.
When UFO released no heavy petting, the song on with the action th-cam.com/video/zhyrc82NJyM/w-d-xo.html link to song. Blew me away . He could make the guitar sing. Just listen to the intro and solo. Michael at his best.
Hey! We ARE FYRE! the supporting band for Michael Schenker in SPAIN, in November!! so, we are looking forward to meet you there and rock the night together with this amazing GUITAR HERO!!! :) www.FYREofficial.com Trailer: FYRE ! Trailer - TOUR 2014 with ANASTACIA & MICHAEL SCHENKER
Id grab him and lock him in a studio with Rudolph. XD Hey ..let me out Sheisse! No michael. You make a few songs and you are out. You have time to clear up things. Jajaa xD.
Imo, the most under appreciated guitarist in history. He chooses musical freedom over fame and fortune. His body of work is simply amazing. Flying V's forever
Don`t believe all what he said. It was hard to work with HIM.
@@philfrank9226 may I ask in what capacity you say this?
under appreciated is your ass, whoever know rock'n roll puts him on a pedestal
@@Contato1001 ?
Uli Roth is probably MORE under appreciated.
He is genius. So honest. No wonder he is amazing!
yea he Is he fkn rules
This is top notch guitar stud ALL you songwriting players a cassette player whenever you write or riffs push play stop get something u like get it down its older gear but mikey does it i have got my best songs wrote on a cassette player that sat in a box at 11 years iam 60 just wrote a song in 4days picked up in Nashville a famous country artist so cool way u no
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I say his solos ARE more to learning than you may think to hit bend scale tap just his technique to copy takes work but....when you get it its so. So groovy mate your friends say dam that WAS bad hot man play it again Stevie
When your 80 and you look back I hope you know how much you inspired probably every guitarist of our generation (I'm 59). Your heavy edged melodic leads, great writing, with what I feel is just the absolute perfect sound has always moved me and made me keep playing and you get better every day. You're my guitar hero and I'm glad finally everyone is recognizing what I, and all your fans, have always known. Thank you for playing and please keep going as you're the best.
Michael was the MAN in the hard rock world before Van Halen, and I still think he outdid Eddie on many fronts.
Well said SPONDNO8, Michael has been my favorite guitarist since Phenomenon in 74, and he deserves to be recognized as one of the greatest ever. Thank you .
tacomadc on all fronts
Mark Caroll Thanks Mark. I enjoy reading comments about Michael because he truly has been totally overlooked by the corporate music world but not his fans and if you're like me I was hooked the very first solo I heard of his (in Dance your life away) in 74 in think. He's sounds a good as ever today. How do you like the Dean flying V sound he's getting? Thanks again Geoff Lake SPONDNO8
+SPONDNO8 I play in A UFO Tribute ....Oh how grateful I am to have been so influenced by Mr. Schenker....hes priceless
Michael Schenker, a huge Rock influence for me, and.....best guitarist ever!!!! Period!
IMHO Michael and Alex LIfeson have the absolute highest integrity of all the guitar players of note.
I really hope that someone sits down with him and gets his life story for a book
He probably won't do it for fear of the consumer may get misled
A true musical gift!.......Michael!
One word...LEGEND. He was, is and always will be my favorite guitarist and biggest influence on MY guitar playing since I was a child.
This guy has had such a charmed Life : the whole spectrum, being on top of the world, fame fortune etc.. and complete crash and burn , pawning guitars that guitar players would pay thousands for just because of it's sheer place in history (yes, he pawned the blck/white flying V when he was homeless for a short while in Az). Classic Rock owes a lot to Michael Schenker , hell.....Rock N Roll owes a lot to MS. His contribution can't be overstated.
So very true, great comment!!
He’s one of my guitar hero’s
J Page
M schenker
Johnny winter
Bill Nelson
Dave Davies
Michael you are the best at what you do, self expression is the best thing and why we are here...probably !!
UFO MSG and Scorpions great music. Thanks to you. Jeff Ketelsen
One of the Truly GREAT ONES!
Schenker is a national treasure. All the UFO albums belong in THE HALL OF RECORDS for future millennium
I admire his thing of wanting to just create and do your own thing rather than play other people's stuff
Brilliant Minded, True Virtuoso, The Maestro M.Schenker.
Not a virtuoso but great feeling in his playing.
@@blender1188 not a virtuoso?! Lmao, have you ever heard all of his instrumentals?! Electric and acoustic? The man was on neoclassical stuff years before Yngwie appeared on the scene!
This is the first interview I've ever seen with Michael, he seems like a very nice guy. You can hear that British accent he picked up from UFO too, behind the German accent, lol. Love you Michael you'll always be my favorite hard rock guitarist.
+MetallicBill I've been watching and reading interviews and articles about Michael the last few months - and one mentioned one guy in UFO - crew, not band, IIRC - who did speak some German. And that British is even more apparent in interviews during the earlier years - be interesting to see if he still says "A to Zed" after living in the US for a while.
Rock Bottom live!
In the late seventies, this dude had a shirt that said "Schenker's best, F the rest"
He IS music!!!
way to go Paul!
Untouchable in his prime, along with Frank Zappa, and Scott Henderson - Michael is one of the most self-realized guitarists I have ever seen.
Michael is the best...i caught his last sunday at a club in manchester nh...nice show!!!...he seemed very happy...and healthy....Rock on Michael!!!!
What an inspiring legend, a true guitar God!! 🤘🤘
He is so unassuming and humble and though he is getting older his eyes till shine with that young boys love for his guitar when he played it in his bedroom with his first amp when he was young :D He has brought so much happiness to millions of fans of his instrument which he loves to play for others enjoyment, as well as his own. His hands are gifts from God to us for him to play what we want to hear Beautiful, powerful, raw, melodic Rockin Roll. Thanks Michael for always giving us your best when you perform, with your band mates ,music that comes from your heart and soul and spirit. Eternal life found here >> John 14:6 i mention this because when we see and hear music so well performed it reminds me that the best in life can go on forever truly forever if you "Believe"in he who is life eternal the author of life ( Jesus Christ)found in this verse i share> 1 colossians 1:15-20
nice
Как верно вы написали! Действительно, он подарил счастье услышать и узнать его музыку миллионам людей !
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Как верно вы написали! Действительно, он подарил счастье услышать и узнать его музыку миллионам людей !
@@user-kt5jf1st3x “How correctly you wrote! Indeed, he gave happiness to hear and know his music to millions of people!”
Translation of the comment in Russian of my post ty
In the very top group of True Greats of all time
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Michael really speeds along but covers his whole career here. What shocked me personally is that he said he was in Chicago w/Uli Roth and there are the guys w/the Dean guitar. Because of my disabilities and not getting help from House of Blues to get a seat, (They said they would) for a Frank Marino show in July 2000 I saw Uli and Michael in Milwaukee the day before in a little club named Shak Hall after a Spinal Tap reference and it was the last show I ever saw. So to here that dean was there for Michael the NEXT day is astounding to me. Talk about the end of an era...How stupid was Gibson not to name or develop a Fluing V guitar for Michael Schenker? Hendrix played it....others as well but when one sees the Flying V they think Michael Schenker. So glad he is happy. He has given joy to so many with his dedication...and yes, he is like a monk...plugged into and unaffected by the sounds around him. It is a gift. God bless .
How utterly foolish of Gibson guitars to NOT have offered Michael Schenker a signature Flying V guitar. He was and is synonymous with the Flying V. But Dean guitars stepped in and for the last 15 years it is Michael Schenker and Dean's Flying V guitar. I had a cane back then and Uli got me a seat at the Milwaukee show....Michael closed. I could've been at the HOB show in Chicago where I lived but the *%**&^%staff would not allow a cripple to sit before. No regrets. Uli and Michael. Both at 49 y/o and they both kicked ass. best show of my life and that is saying a lot. Keep rocking as God's will be done. Amen.
Fan from early 70s ,( you guys started a new era,( great rock- n- roll deep in to the rock sole u f o lives
love u michael
Goddamn. Michael is modest - but I remember the years in between his "sightings" and he experienced some dark and trying times. It takes many people years upon years of therapy to heal from the kind of indulgences and the mental and emotional debris that those things leave in their wake. And here he is, one of the most positive, genuine, sincere, kind, and seemingly happy people/musicians around. Great guy.
Kevin Kiso I've been only seeing him live for about 15 years - the first few, he would just play - never turned in a bad performance, always was "the Michael Schenker", but it didn't seem that he was enjoying himself. In the last 5 years, I think, whatever happened that got him sober also brough about a joy in playing on stage. I noticed it 3 or 4 years ago - that suddenly he was actually engaged with the audience on stage (before that, he would come out, sign autographs, talk to people - but after the show). He's really enjoying what he's doing, and who he's doing it with - but whenever he does one of his solos - that is what he is doing - he notches the guitar and magic comes out.
Diana Gregory Yesss... You must be talking about the years when he'd wear hockey shorts and a hockey jersey onstage... Or when he died his hair black around '95, with UFO... He's also gone through a couple of really messy divorces, and thefts [one of the wives was his "manager" and apparently ripped off some treasured & priceless guitars & equipment]. I see exactly what you see; a man who's rekindled his love of his instrument and his music. A man who smiles and laughs. I remember finding UFO's "Force It" vinyl LP in my sister's collection of records in '76 or '77, I was 9-10, and I was just captivated and totally enthralled by this guys guitar playing and sound. Peace.
+Kevin Kiso he dyed his hair black at the time in memory of his father who had just died.
Couldn't have said it better!
@@chuckfriebe843 Thanks Chuck. Peace.
Great Interview, I know I have learned a thang or 2 about Rock history & the German Blonde Bomb ! 🎸
15 years old when he played on Lonesome Crow. His work on that record was great.
just saw him in NYC don't miss it 2015
love ya mickey see you in two weeks SAN JOSE CA YEAH LIVE ROCKBAR
Freakin' excellent interview.
I saw UFO on Strangers in the night tour in Chicago. Was at show they taped Lights Out at in the Chicago Amplitheater. I will never forget watching you play your ass off. Your playing was indescribable.
Michael I can't believe that I think the same way & from the very first time I heard you play, it was just like I played only why don't I play as good as you and I'm twice your age, nearly LOL, anyway rock and roll dude I love you and I love your style and I love your songs, you e always been my hero in guitarists, & I guess if I'm going to be a (true), me, I need to quit listening to you not really rock on, you are GREAT, & I love you bud.
This is the greatest electric guitar player I can think of and for the more I think they should make guitar picks out of stainless steel
They do
Shawn Lane was the best. But he played a different kind of music.
Legend has it that shortly after he joined UFO Michael got a call from The Rolling Stones asking him to join after Mick Taylor left but Michael turned it down because he thought the gig was too big for him.
Michael Schenker is such a genius that if he had joined someone like Ozzy that the brief and framework of darker abstract themes would have pushed Michael to test his abilities. I think it's a bit of a shame that he wouldn't be willing to play Randy's stuff as my understand was that Randy was a huge fan of his. Michael never went down the heavier route and that could have been an insane moment to have him flex as avante guarde as possible. Collaborations are created through some sort of friction of style. But Michael is literally at the height of his abilities now. I hope he considers Ozzy or some of the others for new horrizons as he's so underrated and insanely ahead of his time. Schenker said his music was a gift from the 70's to the 80's. Well why not outdo those that came before you and create the greatest opus ever?
Michael is a king
I would love to listen to he's real music inventions besides and beyond Into The Arena...
No pressure at all, but he went weird....after that musically trauma..
Michael you will never be an old man even when you are 80.
Michael Schenker is a great guitarist. In this video he looks like a homeless person or whatever. When he was with the Scorpions at first there was no fanfare. The Crow album reminded me of a bunch of yuppies on a Ski Resort high up in the Alps with a bunch of guys dressed in Turtle Neck sweaters circa 1968. When he joined UFO, his style improved immensely. UFO's albums "Light Out," "No Heavy Petting," "Obsession" And the ever famous live album, "Strangers In The Night" were outstanding.
When UFO released no heavy petting, the song on with the action th-cam.com/video/zhyrc82NJyM/w-d-xo.html link to song. Blew me away . He could make the guitar sing. Just listen to the intro and solo. Michael at his best.
Now it's time to care about the forging of new jaw-dropping music instead of generic material. Let's celebrate yes but let's keep focus xDDD
Hey! We ARE FYRE! the supporting band for Michael Schenker in SPAIN, in November!! so, we are looking forward to meet you there and rock the night together with this amazing GUITAR HERO!!! :)
www.FYREofficial.com
Trailer: FYRE ! Trailer - TOUR 2014 with ANASTACIA & MICHAEL SCHENKER
Make amends with your brother before you pass away dummy. Thats what I would tell him. Forget ego..just for a while.
Word!
Id grab him and lock him in a studio with Rudolph. XD
Hey ..let me out Sheisse!
No michael. You make a few songs and you are out. You have time to clear up things. Jajaa xD.