So good to see Schenker is well again & playing as beautifully as he ever did.

that unmistakable singing vibrato. MS is king! i've read somewhere mikey once fired a tech for cutting off the excess strings of his guitar because he believes the soul of the guitar is in there.

Schenker has one of the best touches in rock, he squeezes everything out of each note, with bends beautifully felt & dead in tune.

@AeolianReflex he is coming through here in a few weeks definetly going to support his efforts. Looks like his tour schedule is a ball buster. Thank you to you and all who post this stuff. It has kept me busy.

amazing seeing this from 2011 and such great clarity of video...thank you for posting!!

Schenker is a legend! It's good to see him tearing it up again...

I was front and center for this event! He was ON that night!

Michael looks great. Keep up the great playing...

Schenker is God!....and that was Awesome!...more!

Very nice video, thanks for sharing.

Michael is ripped ! The Schenker brothers got some really good genes! :)

Mucho love to a great man and guitarist always xoxo

NOT much to say..SUPERB!! havent seen Michael's playing like this for so long..

Man, he is as good as ever !! geez!

One of the greatest Rocksongs of all time. ;-)

awesum!

@ChristIllusion024 Hell yeah he is playing this year. I just saw him last night in Corona and it was awesome. He is playing better than ever and having a lot of fun on stage. No doubt the best set I've seen him play and that saying a lot since I've seen him 11 times including back in the 70's with UFO.

Nice job on drums Brian!!!the ole HM ensemble payed off big time!!still here in beantown with Jeff, Tony and the gang!!!sounds GREAT!!!!!!as always!!TM Boston

Michael Schenker is a very good guitarist! Love him :)

@stratdoc I agree..I first met him in 2003..and subsequently many times later...this is the best he's looked since I've ever seen him. Clearly he has cleaned up his life. If you watch my videos of Leslie West from the same show...that's Michael's former bass player and drummer playing with Leslie.

Note perfect!!

wow!!!!

Schenker is who made me want to play in the first place, and it's no different now. Except now, he's not so high, that at least when he plays, he moves around a little. But, even high, he'd just stand there, in UFO, but he wouldn't miss a note!!!

Badass drums

really sad this guy was always brilliant - even looking at footage of him you can see how just from 1981 - 1983 he had already got faster & better he was great. But many fall off their perch no matter how brilliant they are (and I think I'll stick with schenker from the 80's, thats the way I want to think of his flying fingers & that Gibson Flying V just incredible....

@khower Wow really i love his black and white guitars and barely started listening to this guy don't know much but that sounds crazy must be a crazy dude!

Why does this make all the hairs on my arms stand up at about 2:50 until the end? Oh its Schenker! F in rocks!

@LordGandor3 thanks

@khower Haha ok for sure i love this guy, his solos are amazing and i'm already taking some pages out of his book on soloing this guy is awesome!

@khower the guys an amazing guitarist

@AeolianReflex I`ve heard he is sober so that would account for his excellent performance .

@Machinehead18 If you just got into Michael Schenker....Do NOT pass go, DO NOT collect $200...go straight to Amazon or iTunes and download the UFO album Strangers In the Night...it's a classic. Then my next suggestion would be the first and 2nd McCauley Schenker (MSG) albums from the mid 80s. Great stuff. That's the singer from this show..Robin McCauley.

@ChristIllusion024 , Google Michael Schenker official website & check his tour schedule. He is playing in San Diego , Ca Sunday Feb 26 W/ Mcauley

So FUN! Glad I watched this. I just posted my NEW shred guitar clip. IT's FUN! Cheers. -Demi

@martynmcgilvray01 Its Scott Travis...this is Racer X playing.

@stratdoc Well Said! Its the quality not always the quantity but the Mad Axeman has the best of both!

@ChristIllusion024 I don't think so. He played that year at the Dean event.

@khower Is that right ? Christ I had no idea

@believer2005 That would be a good double bill....Are the Scorps still going out this summer....Last summer was supposed to be their retirement tour.

check out Robin in Raiding The Rock Vault

Fuckin Schenktastic!

@stevegrierson Welcome to nearly 10 years ago.

Does anyone know for sure that he is using the "lights out" dean pickup set in this V? It sounds incredible! I know he endorses the dean stuff but just want to find out if this dean actually has those pu's in it?

@PJHAIGHT Sorry..it's just a cam corder....did you want a pro mix? LOL

Hugely influential player!!!!! They don't make em like anymore.

@stevegrierson Yeah...he sold his most famous Black and White Gibson....like 2002? on eBay. When his wheels really fell off his wagon. My friend played on Be Aware Of The Scorpion in 2001. There was a big blow up at the end of recording...Michael canceled zillions of shows...the Bay Area show..he wandered off...and they "lost" him. He tattooed the Cross on his forehead (it's been since removed)...needed money..and sold his gear....that's when he got the Dean gig...so I'm thinking 2003.

I guess you missed the part were he played the guitar .

@AeolianReflex Sorry, Gary Barden. He sold his original V ????? Whoever he sold it to ought to sell it back. Thanks for the info.

2:40 EPIC GUITAR LICK.

@Machinehead18 Hundreds of thousands learned to play from Strangers in the Night. Licks galore.

Wtf!!! 5 dislikes, funk me Westlife must have a KZfaq account.

keep your camera on Schenker!

I went of schenker when he was at rock and blues, the solo he did was so wrong. He was out of his face and didn't know where he was.

Hey Elliott, you need to use more Thumb! :)

is he playing again this year?

@believer2005 Come on now....Black...not blank...get it right. If I remember....someone was talking to me. Since I can't chew gum and walk, you can see the problem. I saw Michael Thursday (I posted 2 songs) and he was brilliant. I'm so glad he's stopped drinking.

Whatta fk I thought the guy must be dead. Three true boozers in guitar history Eddie Schenker and of course Keef

Nice. lower the phone during the peak moments of the song.....

@believer2005 Nobody sat in with MSG on any songs...James who?

Remember when MSG stood for Michael Schenker Group?..Not McAuley Shenker Group.

yeah, that's brian tichy indeed

@AeolianReflex You are lucky to have seen him with ufo. They were the best bad of all time with the schenker,mogg, way , raymond ,parker line up in my humble opinion.Schenker had just left UFO when I saw them. Chapman was good but no schenker. I saw MSG twice w GB on vocals man, I could never put my arms around some of the songs, all the instrumentals were great. What is the talk here of Schenker sober? Did he fall of the deep end again in recent yrs? I kind of lost touch.

Is that Pride & Glory's old drummer?! :D

@4tanker When you saw them with GB do you mean Gary Barden or Graham Bonnet? Bonnet kinda sucked but I thought Schenker's playing was really good then. He did go off the deep end & quit playing and even sold his original V. I think the drugs and booze were really inflating his ego. He cleaned up his act a few years ago and he has been getting better and better ever since. When I saw him at the 2010 NAMM show he was really cool and humble and talked one on one with just about everybody.

@khower Well needs must when you are a tortured genius

his top like Kenshiro from Hokuto no ken

@baker1392 I'll be sure next time to tell them to put their camera's down in front me. :rollseyes:

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Yeah he uses the lights out pups. They are amazing! Put em in my axe. The poop!!! As good or better than anything out there.

@netrioter No it's not.

@stevegrierson Gibson wouldn't give him the time of day...he needed the income and Dean stepped up and gave him a deal. I say good for him....

Anyone else notice the freakishly large veins on his left arm?

@awellam Bald...but no...not Maynard. :)

@slowhand19 LMAO!! That's like saying CC Deville is as good as Randy Rhoads lol

@khower PS Am i right in thinking that Dean guitars are shit ?

he is a true guitar god!!!...but i hate guitar techs who dont cut off the ends of the strings when they put new ones on...[looks sloppy}...

hmm, he is a bit thin?

Opinions vary for guitars. The fact is, it's not the guitar that makes the sound as much as the PLAYER. Schenker is past his prime but he will wipe the stage with anyone from these recent "rock" bands.

I'd love to see Westlife stay retired,lol.

マイケルシェンカーも老いてしまったね。

Stop filming the people that are filming.

Say it isn't so.........Schenker giving up his Gibson for one of those shitty Deans

Schenker = outstanding. I don't know who the other guitar player is, but his tone here is beyond terrible. Really takes away from what is otherwise good stuff.

The rhythm guitarist's tone is just horrible. When he started playing I thought it was static, ruining Schenker's sound. :(

Dean guitars aint shit!i got a dean 7 string and its great! if anything,gibson guitars are way overated and over priced.

That rhythm guitar tone is god awful

@AeolianReflex I`ve heard he is sober so that would account for his excellent performance .