One of the greatest guitarist ever, just an incredible musician, I just wish more younger players knew about Micheal!

Michael is among top 15 guitarist 😮 of all time 🎊 🎉 🎉talent guitar flow he is never lost for notes 🎶 just flows🦅🐦‍🔥🕊️flies

One of my all time favorite guitarist. I mostly liked him with, UFO. I’am a huge fan.

Never heard this album. Must check it out. Schenker is one of the all-time greats.

watching this guy play the guitar is so mesmerizing. I know he doesnt really care to show his playing when its not on stage, the feeling for him is everything and the feeling on stage brings out his best. I saw UFO in chicago in 1979 (i think) and michael was all in black, never really moved, and played the stuffing out of his guitar, it was amazing.

Genius, whoever did that headstock repair with drumsticks is also a genius

My all time favorite guitarist. I heard him play in UFO when I was about 7 years old and I have followed him ever since. The Blonde bomber. Someday I hope to meet him. I love all hos music especially with Robin Mcauley

His musicality is undeniable...

Met Michael in 92 was touring with Mcauly. I had some connections played in a band but got backstage after the show we talked for about 45 minutes. I had heard he could be kind of an azzhole but he was actually really cool, he actually me hold the original Flying~V the one he's holding in this video and he was showing me about the headstock and how it had been repaired many times with drumsticks. Was just a really iconic memory for me, I was a fledgling young 22yr old guitar player and meeting him was just the most awesome thing at the time, i wasn't all geeked out or nothing it was just awesome to meet someone that influenced me so much. I've been blessed and lucky enough to meet most of the guitar players that i idolized growing up have been very lucky indeed.

Lifelong MS fan here. Around 8:22 you can faintly hear "F***" when he frets the wrong note. Love that it happens to the best. Makes me feel better about my playing.

One of the Best, and Fastest, and proficient guitar players in the World..

Ah can we go back to this time and live it all over again

Much respect to you Michael!! 👊💪👍

Totally Awesome...The 2 sections of him playing are Spectacular...Killer Post AXE.

robin and michaels band should have been huge,,i love the albums they made wish id went to see them live..!

He's so talented and gorgeous , didn't know about him being an introvert .

he is not just a great guitarist he is a humble and wounderful person thatnk you axe

Love this. Thank you for sharing!

Great interview, thanks for posting Axe.....................you da man ;)

I remember seeing him in Wolverhampton. They put out his flying v and it was like shit he's gonna be there any minute now. Lights out and he rocked the shit out of that guitar. Amazing

Fantastic. Can't imagine how I have not listen to him play before. Magical to hear him noodling around on the guitar.

Steve Mann is a very good guitarist too, this crew of band members was great in last two of albums of MSG's 80s era.

Awesome...thanks for posting it!

That was mad hearing Vivian Campbell talking about Schenker....two enormous European guitarists

perfect timing one of my favorite albums

Thanks Axe! Shared it on our Facebook fan page; Matthias Jabs/MJ Guitars/Scorpions Fan Page and on Robin Mc Auley's page today. Things like this are so very fun!

Thanks Axe.....great upload! :)

I still prefer the tone he had with that Gibson, over all the Dean guitars.

Man!! How do you do it?? This made my day!! From 1989!! Incredible!! Thanks!!

I got hooked on UFO as a teen. As a young guitar player I also figured out what I liked so much about UFO. Obviously Michael's guitar playing and sound. At 61 I still like it. I actually got to work with them in the UFO prime period with UFO at a concert in West Virginia of all places. I was the union steward, a very young one of the stagehands union. What a great day that was. I agree about the 50 watt marshall. 100 watts is to much. Tube amps are great. I just played in small and midsized clubs. Even a 50 watt was to much so i used a fender deluxe reverb. Bands would bring 50 and 100 watt amps in the bars and it pushed the volume up so loud that you couldn't possibly get a good mix with clarity. I was also a young learning audio engineer and figured these things out fast. It doesn't matter how good you are if the finished product is garbage because the musicians didn't have the sense to keep the volume at a reasonable level for the sound person to be able to create a good mix. Great days none the less. We all lived and learned.

so many great guitarists started out playing Shadows songs

Incredible technique... looks like a 70s style hand position using 3 fingers...yet sounds like someone doing tapping at one point!

Great Guitar player

The Magic hands of a maestro :D "The who live at leeds" My generation "was his stepping stone to go beyond the power live of the who :D

😻😻😻

Warfield, San Francisco, Ca. 1989 Save Yourself Tour w/Great White + Havana Black + Tower Records, Mtn View, Ca. pre-show

You cant teach or learn that you have to be born with it

Survived the 'times'.

You've gotta start with The Shadows if you wanna solo.

Loved this mf band! So legit.. Soundtrack of my life

Michael Schenker and Uli Jon Roth are greatest and best guitarists ever after Jimi Hendrix.

He`s really a one off.

In my top ten

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Spinal tap missed one classic joke: “this new album is the best we’ve ever done.” Every band says this. Hilarious.

Nice to see an interview i havent seen already! I love everything Micheal Schenker! Crazy I guess for a middle age woman.I will someday see him live! Its on my bucket list!Anyway,thanx for the upload! Cheers!

Good God, no wonder Randy Rhodes told Ozzy to replace him with Schenker.

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I wonder where all those groupies are now? 31 years on

Axe thanks for all those great videos of Schenker, one question: do you have a Schenker website?

axeflyer does it again,no 1!

👊🏿🔥

Choice is yours, attend a self-proclaimed guitarest preview, or attend a very extraordinary guitarest on paper preview. Cookie cutter ot actual near genious within any stage.

Thinking they was with girlfriends at that party 31 years ago..They still with them?🤔🤔

This era was way over the top for me in every regard. A lesson in how to overdo every aspect of a record. More is less.

seems like he did speak better english 30 years ago...

This is so eighties!

8:07 ......and 8:44 best of interview!

Michael is a Born again Christian.

Oh, that Gibson..never had that pure sound since he play"s Dean guitars..

Whenever I see rock stars show their drinks to the camera, it makes me think that they are trying to hide their cocaine use.

STILL my hero :)

The end of analog.

Does anyone know the name of the song playing at the end of this video?

Michael did the shred when yngwie stil was in his diapers

The guy in the red shirt was wrong about one thing: Nobody is "as good or better" than Michael.

a unique sound, like metal + jazz

He used his pinky!

One of the best for sure. UFO certainly had their best years with Michael. He defined that band. Same with the Scorpions although they still had a good following with out him. Just not as big. I went to a concert in Pittsburgh to see UFO and it was when Michael had left the band. I didn't know it and the entire audience didn't either. UFO certainly didn't advertise it. Chapman had taken over for him. the theatre was pretty well full. It was the Stanley Theatre in the downtown cultural district. A big theatre. When UFO hit the stage before the first song was over more than half of the crowd were on their feet screaming Shenker, Shenker, Shenker and booing and screaming where is Michael. Phil stopped the show and actually and begged the audience to give Paul a chance. Every one calmed down and it was decent show but it wasn't UFO with Shenker. I was disappointed. I did like the band so i stayed but I would not have bought tickets if I had known he wasn't going to be the touring guitarist with them. I suppose this around 78 maybe a bit later. i cold look it up but why bother. First tour with Chapman after Michael left. Chapman is a very good player but he doesn't have that special magic the Shenk has. I also worked a few UFO concerts as a stagehand while Shenker was with them. I could tell some good stories about one of those shows in particular but i won't.

9:50... “A to Zed...”

Other than the tapping technique what did EVH have over Shenker?

anybody knows what strings he played? 10s or 9s

13:50 ... is this what I think it is?

13:50 ... ?

What happened to that Gibson V???

What part of the song is the riff from 11:28?

Posy Cowl :-) :-) :-)

The Dean doesn't have that tone.

1:44 Vivian campbell and Marc Ferrari

13:50 ups

Not so sure about the Nazi salute as it's known that Schenker isn't a fan of German Nazi history?

Was that his son at the end?

Too many mullets for just one venue

I love Schenker but for me the period with Robin Mcauley is the least creative, the least inspired

Hey! Beautiful women and below-average-looking guys. It must be a rock documentary. ;-p

Hes a lot more paler these days for some reason

13:50..! 💩

That elvis hairstyle looks stupid

Great moments on the guitar there from Schenker while he's playing by himself. Lord know how that talent turned into such a terrible, overblown, schlock period of music for that band. I blame incompetent record companies pouring money into the wrong areas. That and the weird "lifestyle-pop" musical taste of McAuley.

Love the hell outta MS, I just think this was an era that seemed a bit uninspired

Look at the loser with his shirt unbuttoned and the cliche loser stuff. 😂

Lol he is definitely not the Mark. He had nothing on Mr Paul Chapman. In my opinion and we all have one.hes definitely overrated. There's a lot of guitar players that where way better than this guy.

Met Michael in 92 was touring with Mcauly. I had some connections played in a band but got backstage after the show we talked for about 45 minutes. I had heard he could be kind of an azzhole but he was actually really cool, he actually me hold the original Flying~V the one he's holding in this video and he was showing me about the headstock and how it had been repaired many times with drumsticks. Was just a really iconic memory for me, I was a fledgling young 22yr old guitar player and meeting him was just the most awesome thing at the time, i wasn't all geeked out or nothing it was just awesome to meet someone that influenced me so much. I've been blessed and lucky enough to meet most of the guitar players that i idolized growing up have been very lucky indeed.

Michael did the shred when yngwie stil was in his diapers