None of the musicians Michael worked with after UFO complemented him except Robin McAuley? This is an asinine statement and makes me question every thing this guy said. The album "MSG" is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorites of all time.
I think that UFO achieved the sublime. In terms of depth and authenticity, Phil Mogg was on par with the absolute greats of the 70s. In Schenker's career, other vocalists didn't have that.
He may have meant that most of the other players had issues, too. Cozy raced cars 6 months of the year, so he wasn’t always available to tour. Pete Way played with MSG, too.
I was just a Florida barband guitar player in the 80s and I was pretty fucked up a lot. Real money and fame would have killed me. Point is, Michael is a person. We're all susceptible to self destructive behavior.
Same here. In retrospect it's great that I never made it or I know 100% for sure I'd be dead now. Ironically, what saved me was being fucked up all the time which ensured that I wouldn't make it.
@@jeffreybrady927 Mr. Schenker is Coke Snortin Drama Queen and you talk about credibility??? The Album was aborted. No wonder. btw Browde worked on 7 Nugent albums, starting his own production company in 82 producing W.A.S.P. Was involved in the Los Angeles glam scene in the 80s. Produced and arranged Poison's multi-plat debut album and Faster Pussycat. He's recorded 36 albums and sold over twenty-seven million records earning 8 platinum and 11 gold records.
Michael schenker has been through a lot with his addictions and believe??has a handle on it now. Anyone who saw a schenker fest concert nows how good a lot of those 80s musicians are. Phenomenal!
I amazes me all these stories are 2nd & 3rd person. Never heard of this guy. Schenker is huge now and always was respected. One of my top 3 . Golly he says I was the only straight guy in the 80’s…..?!?!????????? What a worm
This guy made several statements that makes me want to call b******* on just about everything he said, and nobody complimented Michael except Robin McAuley come on now, just about every guitar player on the planet from that era was influenced by Michael including myself, I met him in 93 and he seemed to be just fine to me then, it's well-known that he can be hard to work with that's a fact I've never heard of this so called producer.
I was stationed in Germany from October 1986 - December 1989. Michael Schenker was the the Eddie Van Halen of Europe. His image was everywhere. He had joined forces with Robin McCauley and formed a new MSG, the McCauley Schenker Group and put out an album called "Perfect Timing" which in my mind at the time was one of the best albums out there. It was easily as good as the 1987 Whitesnake Whitesnake album that was so huge at the time. Great songs, killer riffs and solos. Robin McCauley had a golden throat too. Even with all that going for him at the time, that group never broke as big as it could have. Michael Schenker just didn't have brand recognition in the U.S. at that time, not like the band his brother was in, the Scorpions or Bon Jovi who was the biggest act at the time. It's disappointing to hear he had such drug problems leading up to that. But it makes sense now why he didn't have the recognition in the states before that MSG album dropped. He was more into drugs and himself than he was the music.
Many great have sung with Michael Schenker. Robin McAulay, is one such. But I just saw Ronnie Romero, superb. Chris Glenn a solid bass player and Ted Mckenna was another stalwart drummer with great pedigree.
Burnin Down the House! Wow. How messed up to do that! Glad Michael has that in his past. A buddy and I saw Michael Schenker Fest in Anaheim in 2018. What a fantastic show with so many of his past singers! Michael played to perfection IMO. What an awesome marketing decision to have Gary Barden, Robin, Graham, etc sing their songs and share the stage/show. One of my favorite concerts.
🤔 Yeah, maybe that was the subject of The Talking Head's "Burning Down the House"! I don't quite comprehend Michael's "honor system". It's supposedly "dishonorable" to burn down a high ranking producer's home as a threat to get coke. But it's "honorable" to burn down your own home where your wife and kids live(??)
Such old news Schenker is a legend Rick Browde produced Poison Schenker is making legendary concerts on tour right now, so sorry Rick caught Schenker at his lowest points amazing he turned out great albums during those years
Ric Browde seems like the most trustful person to keep your secrets. 😳(sarcasm..) His anecdotes are priceless but I guess sometimes it's a really vile, obscure person.
4:46 i always thought rudolf was a nice guy who came from a nice and supportive family. damn... that car thief is now worth hundred millions of dollars. i hope he gave back to his community where he have commited sins.
Don't believe the clown that's saying all of that, he sounds like a druggie trying to make a buck with this interview. Listen close to his fast chatter druggie way of talking.
I love Michael's playing, but I have to say that it's a real shame that "if you don't get coke to me, I'm going to burn my own house down" didn't make it into This Is Spinal Tap! 😂
coce, yesss i knew it. a look at one interview and i knew it: leather jacket- no tshirt- hair kinda greased back, one look and i thought...coke. because it doesnt make sense, except on coke or speed
after UFO , the best he had was robin macauley ?? LOL didnt hear the first first two MSG albums i guess or the one with Graham Bonnet, all great albums
Totally agree! Robin is a good singer but just not the right match for Michael's guitar...hes on the BOTTOM of my list lmao, 1.bonnett 2.barden 3.keeling 4.doogie 5. Doesn't matter.
Michael talked about that several times he said he just didn't want to go back to working under somebody he was doing his own thing and was in charge. The main reason he said he just thought his style wouldn't fit with Ozzy, it's like when Eddie Van Halen was asked to join Kiss I mean come on now.
@@bojangles6444 Dont think its even about that. He turned down Deep purple, motorhead and others too. He just wants to do his thing. He's no way near as rich as he could've been but he's not living in a council estate is he lol
@@jackb348 yes but Michael should have been charged w/attempted murder of his wife an child with Arson in his own house for Coke..i say thats a little crazier...to each his own 🤣
I heard this story before. Ray Kennedy. Hmm. On the Hammersmith video Michael's hair did look like mine...all thinned out when I was prisoner to the blow way back in the day. Though the playing was great on that show he was sweating bullets too. Then I saw him in April 84. Years later I got the end of that tour w.Ray Kennedy and Feldman on bass? Chris Glen and the late great Ted McKenna were gone in Japan. Michael walks out of a hotel room holding a bar of soap in the video like, "I'm clean." And he played great. But that was the end of MSG
Full In Bloom is The Absolute Best when it comes to Rock 🪨 🎶 music interviews. How are you getting with the engineers and producers and the people there in the studio I think it’s just fantastic I can listen to the stuff all day from the time I open my eyes till the time I go to bed and I never get bored because it’s that good it’s Full In Bloom 🌺 The full in bloom song his song is so killer it sounds like heroin at the end when the guy goes all crazy slow with his voice
God damn drugs all they fucking do is destroy! So glad Mike seems very together now and his recent tours he's playing amazingly well and his current band kick arse!
Regardless of what Michael did even what people think his worst guitar playing was which. I wouldn't have any idea what that would be he is still one of the world's best at his trade
I talked to Michael over email around 2001 when he was going through his sell off period. His ex wife was taking him to court, I asked Michael about all the kids he was having with all these women and why he wasn’t using protection. This was when he actually posted all the dirty details of his personal life on his web page. That was another low point but he survived.
@@DavWallhe wasn’t phased by the condom question. He just made excuses for it, like what he was doing was normal. He was messed up at that time and probably can’t even remember that period any more,
I needed to hear this. I often wondered how bad Michael really got. He eventually sold his prized guitars on eBay ($20,000 each, so I heard) back in 2001 to pay his debts. That’s why he has that Dean endorsement (signature guitar). I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years…you can’t tell me a Dean Flying V is gonna feel as good (the same) as a Gibson. But if you PAID me to play your company’s guitar…I’m sure I’d sacrifice a little. 🤣
Being a massive Schenker fan and a full-time guitarist, I have Flying Vs from several manufacturers including Gibson, Dean, Edwards/ESP etc and I can happily tell you that there is nothing magical about the Gibsons, much as I like mine from '81,92 and 2008.
But... Didn't Michael go through a rehab prior to his 80 record thus the whole theme of the album cover I always figured he was clean and sober after that
@@dwade6322 yes i was wondering if he was smoking it. sounds like it was 1982ish? i did a lot of blow but i never could do that much personally. no more for me. but if youre drunk i could see accidentally partaking. so you think smoking it is “healthier” ? i think your nose cant take regularly doing too much. 🤷🏼♂️
@@dwade6322 lol. i never smoked it. i drew the “line” at that. everyone i knew who started smoking just disappeared. no more for me. doesnt even seem real now stuff i saw a year or two ago was straight garbage. i even quit drinking. 😂 had a hell of a time though.
Why didn't Ric Browde rant on about his own human failings n faults,instead of throwing Michael under the bus for a dang tubeyou interview?! That would be more interesting...for reals.
Ric Browde sounds like a fast chatter druggie trying to make a buck off of this story. Could be very possible that Browde is the one that got caught up in drugs..I mean he is surrounded by drugs and tries to act like everyone but him got caught up.
He almost definitely had a substance abuse problem when I met him at a club in Las Vegas near the Rio about 15-16 years ago. We arrived at the venue a couple of hours before the show to have dinner and there he was pacing back and forth, pupils dilated looking dishevelled and emaciated with Fed Ex envelope firmly tucked under his arm.
McAuley was the absolute worst WTF? Michael Schenker puts out do much stuff it s crazy.Most of it is very very good.Some stinkers compare him with Judas priest and other bands like that that keep rehashing crappy crap crap over and over again and shouldn't still be Toring Michael seems to stay at least
Saw him in Manchester in 2007 opening for Scorpions and he literally could not play a single solo. I mean he could not put three notes together, It was shameful- he got booed off the stage. So glad he's healthy now.
All the bs stories about Michael Schenkers Rock'n'Roll bad boy behaviour is totally out of importance. Let the magic of his beautiful music do the talking. Love MSG ❤️
Michael would not play unless he had as much blow as he could do. When he would then expect to have as much coke as he could do then again. He never wanted to buy his cocaine, he wanted it given to him. Never wanted to buy it just it provided to him. Crazy. This means he could not buy enough but wanted it provided on top of what he could afford. He was the Scarface of Guitar players
UFO was just on the cusp of breaking huge in America with "Strangers in the Night" but Michael left. That momentum was lost. Even Klaus Meine of the Scorps said that Michael was "not in tune with himself" around that period of the live album and then helping Scorpions on "Lovedrive." Schenker has said that he had very bad stage fright and used the substances to help him cope with that. It was just a vicious circle. Watching the guy play "Doctor, Doctor" in '83 with his band plus Klaus and his brother Rudy, Michael really seemed on target. The guy looks completely healthy, not to mention fucking cool, but I guess that he really wasn't.
Is this the same cat that Dave Mustaine considers to be his favorite guitar player ..or one of them..I know Malcomb Young and Jimmy Page are also Daves favorites..
That house fire was a very ghostly incident. The house is in Oxfordshire. I believe it was a rented thatched house. Reports said Michael's guitars were damaged. You can imagine hearing eerie guitar solos at night in that house.
LETS BE HONEST ! ITS NOT DRUGS ITS THE (TYPE) OF DRUG ! ROCK AND ROLL IS MADE FOR DRUGS AND ALCOHOL OTHER WISE IT WOULD SUCK ! Michael is German ! Everybody I met there is weird to begin with . The whole ww2 thing fd them up to this day .
His instrumental stuff is pure genius. Like all of us , he had his ups and downs. He’s definitely on the up now.
Like all of us…. Yeah we all burned our houses down.. what?
@@dougleydorite😂
Gary Barden, Paul Raymond, Cozy Powell and Glenn Was Michael’s Best lineup!! By Far
So glad Michael is doing better. One of my favorite guitar players.
Michael Schenker is one of my favorite guitarist.
Schenker with Mcauley was pure magic! Loved those MSG albums!
None of the musicians Michael worked with after UFO complemented him except Robin McAuley?
This is an asinine statement and makes me question every thing this guy said.
The album "MSG" is an absolute masterpiece and one of my favorites of all time.
Yes I agree not even the great late Cozy Powell didn’t complement Michael either..
The fact that none complimented him does not diminish his talent.
I think that UFO achieved the sublime. In terms of depth and authenticity, Phil Mogg was on par with the absolute greats of the 70s. In Schenker's career, other vocalists didn't have that.
@@lanceraustin Phil Mogg was/is a fabulous front man. But Gary Barden's work on the 2nd MSG album is even better IMHO.
@@scottwhite2757 Michael was very lucky to have him. Only the best have their own "signature sound" to their playing.
Michael Schenker is doing very very well for the last 10-12 years now, both personally, musically, and financially.
Genius. Eccentric. Legend.
Your interviews are absolutely mind-blowingly graphic. I love it.
Check out his “Thank you” albums when he seemed to clean up. The quality is shockingly great as is the writing.
simon phillips i guess sucks? this guy is crazy schenker played with many talented players.
He played with Cozy Powell also. One of the greatest heavy weight rock drummers ever to hit the skins.
He may have meant that most of the other players had issues, too.
Cozy raced cars 6 months of the year, so he wasn’t always available to tour.
Pete Way played with MSG, too.
I was just a Florida barband guitar player in the 80s and I was pretty fucked up a lot. Real money and fame would have killed me. Point is, Michael is a person. We're all susceptible to self destructive behavior.
Same here. In retrospect it's great that I never made it or I know 100% for sure I'd be dead now. Ironically, what saved me was being fucked up all the time which ensured that I wouldn't make it.
@@pf100andahalfNow that is ironic, and some keen perspective... Glad you made it, though you didn't...👍👌🙏🙂
Has anyone even ever heard of this guy? Not recognizing Gary Barden is beyond insane.
Have any tunes with Michael schenker with this producer ever been released? No credibility if you ask me
@@jeffreybrady927 Mr. Schenker is Coke Snortin Drama Queen and you talk about credibility??? The Album was aborted. No wonder. btw Browde worked on 7 Nugent albums, starting his own production company in 82 producing W.A.S.P. Was involved in the Los Angeles glam scene in the 80s. Produced and arranged Poison's multi-plat debut album and Faster Pussycat. He's recorded 36 albums and sold over twenty-seven million records earning 8 platinum and 11 gold records.
Michael schenker has been through a lot with his addictions and believe??has a handle on it now. Anyone who saw a schenker fest concert nows how good a lot of those 80s musicians are. Phenomenal!
Gary Barden is my favorite
Yes I think k.he was the best with Gary Barden singing
Schenker will always be my favorite rock guitarist. Schenker, Van Halen and Rhodes In that order.
He’s my second favorite. Uli Roth is my number 1. Michael may have been crazy, but he plays like no other!
the fender rhodes
Michael/Randy/Lynch
You got that order spot on !
Michael Schenker was the man in the late 70s/early 80s
Don’t be tricked. Addiction takes you to the end of the line.
That’s the fact. Glad Schenker climbed out of it. Embarrassing.
@Carl Rheinhardt Snorting whiskey, drinking cocaine. Same boat as Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Seagull Rock Squawk . PT fan ?
Who said he was addicted?
@@seagullpoet lol nice Pat Travers reference
I amazes me all these stories are 2nd & 3rd person. Never heard of this guy. Schenker is huge now and always was respected. One of my top 3 . Golly he says I was the only straight guy in the 80’s…..?!?!????????? What a worm
You've never heard of him? He MUST be a nobody then.
This guy made several statements that makes me want to call b******* on just about everything he said, and nobody complimented Michael except Robin McAuley come on now, just about every guitar player on the planet from that era was influenced by Michael including myself, I met him in 93 and he seemed to be just fine to me then, it's well-known that he can be hard to work with that's a fact I've never heard of this so called producer.
You've never heard of this guy? He must not me anyone then.
I love Full In Bloom
Stumbled upon it. Glad I did. Fascinating stuff
@@r.edward5701 It’s the things you stumble on in life that are always the best.
These interviews are amazing! Stories you'll never hear about anywhere else.
I was stationed in Germany from October 1986 - December 1989. Michael Schenker was the the Eddie Van Halen of Europe. His image was everywhere. He had joined forces with Robin McCauley and formed a new MSG, the McCauley Schenker Group and put out an album called "Perfect Timing" which in my mind at the time was one of the best albums out there. It was easily as good as the 1987 Whitesnake Whitesnake album that was so huge at the time. Great songs, killer riffs and solos. Robin McCauley had a golden throat too. Even with all that going for him at the time, that group never broke as big as it could have. Michael Schenker just didn't have brand recognition in the U.S. at that time, not like the band his brother was in, the Scorpions or Bon Jovi who was the biggest act at the time. It's disappointing to hear he had such drug problems leading up to that. But it makes sense now why he didn't have the recognition in the states before that MSG album dropped. He was more into drugs and himself than he was the music.
Many great have sung with Michael Schenker. Robin McAulay, is one such. But I just saw Ronnie Romero, superb. Chris Glenn a solid bass player and Ted Mckenna was another stalwart drummer with great pedigree.
Burnin Down the House! Wow. How messed up to do that! Glad Michael has that in his past. A buddy and I saw Michael Schenker Fest in Anaheim in 2018. What a fantastic show with so many of his past singers! Michael played to perfection IMO. What an awesome marketing decision to have Gary Barden, Robin, Graham, etc sing their songs and share the stage/show. One of my favorite concerts.
🤔 Yeah, maybe that was the subject of The Talking Head's "Burning Down the House"! I don't quite comprehend Michael's "honor system". It's supposedly "dishonorable" to burn down a high ranking producer's home as a threat to get coke. But it's "honorable" to burn down your own home where your wife and kids live(??)
@@HighlanderNorth1 I thought the same thing. I guess there is Honor Among Pyros? Not just thieves?
Such old news Schenker is a legend Rick Browde produced Poison Schenker is making legendary concerts on tour right now, so sorry Rick caught Schenker at his lowest points amazing he turned out great albums during those years
Second MSG album was the best. Paul Raymond was a great addition!
Gary barden and cozy Powell were chopped liver according to this dude
I remember reading in Kerrang magazine back then about Michael's house burning up. Didn't know the story behind it.
Ric Browde seems like the most trustful person to keep your secrets. 😳(sarcasm..)
His anecdotes are priceless but I guess sometimes it's a really vile, obscure person.
He rats out everybody and usually shits on the band as well. His Poison and WASP interview are brutal, lol. Do not get arrested with this guy!
@@allsystemsgo8678 Agreed. Being arrested & sharing the same cell.... ZERO chances of surviving! 😳🔪
The guy it's definitely LETHAL.
4:46 i always thought rudolf was a nice guy who came from a nice and supportive family. damn... that car thief is now worth hundred millions of dollars. i hope he gave back to his community where he have commited sins.
Don't believe the clown that's saying all of that, he sounds like a druggie trying to make a buck with this interview. Listen close to his fast chatter druggie way of talking.
Micheal Schenker ZEE mad rock and roll scientist!!!
That last sentence takes it all.
🎶burning down the house 🎵🎶
I love Michael's playing, but I have to say that it's a real shame that "if you don't get coke to me, I'm going to burn my own house down" didn't make it into This Is Spinal Tap! 😂
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug..."
You LOVE it.
Does every asshole in the world have to say that stupid phrase everytime coke is mentioned?
@@allsystemsgo8678 Calm down Mike, Rick was just making an observation.
@@Betrayerslayer Yes I do but love my guitars and my house more😆
agreed, cliche bollocks and unoriginal
coce, yesss i knew it. a look at one interview and i knew it: leather jacket- no tshirt- hair kinda greased back, one look and i thought...coke. because it doesnt make sense, except on coke or speed
Said he'd burn his house down if he didn't get coke and he did. Man of his word.
after UFO , the best he had was robin macauley ?? LOL didnt hear the first first two MSG albums i guess or the one with Graham Bonnet, all great albums
Macaulay sucks.
Totally agree! Robin is a good singer but just not the right match for Michael's guitar...hes on the BOTTOM of my list lmao,
1.bonnett
2.barden
3.keeling
4.doogie
5. Doesn't matter.
I gonna say this again, if Schenker can work with Ozzy after Randy’s passed, that would be a gigantic hard rock/metal group. But history is history….
Michael talked about that several times he said he just didn't want to go back to working under somebody he was doing his own thing and was in charge. The main reason he said he just thought his style wouldn't fit with Ozzy, it's like when Eddie Van Halen was asked to join Kiss I mean come on now.
@@badmonkey2222 Sharon doesn’t pay shit
Michael does his thing not Ozzie's.
@@cammontreuil7509 yeah for real screw that lol
@@bojangles6444 Dont think its even about that. He turned down Deep purple, motorhead and others too. He just wants to do his thing. He's no way near as rich as he could've been but he's not living in a council estate is he lol
Michael Schenker is f**king amazing! top 10 best ever!!!
I never knew Sig Hansen from Deadliest Catch is really Michael Schenker?!!!
10/10
Omg. I see it now. That explains why I was oddly attracted to that fisherman 🤦♀️
Michael is the best man. What a story though.
Amazing transformation!
Ray Kennedy co-wrote the 2 best songs The Babys had, Isn't it time and Every time I think of you.
I saw Schenkers guitars on E-Bay.
Man...people think RICK JAMES was a crazy coke-head...not even CLOSE to Michael. Wow.
Michael didn’t go to prison for kidnapping a woman and torturing her as a sex slave.
Rick James did. So no, Rick was worse.
@@jackb348 yes but Michael should have been charged w/attempted murder of his wife an child with Arson in his own house for Coke..i say thats a little crazier...to each his own 🤣
I heard this story before. Ray Kennedy. Hmm. On the Hammersmith video Michael's hair did look like mine...all thinned out when I was prisoner to the blow way back in the day. Though the playing was great on that show he was sweating bullets too. Then I saw him in April 84. Years later I got the end of that tour w.Ray Kennedy and Feldman on bass? Chris Glen and the late great Ted McKenna were gone in Japan. Michael walks out of a hotel room holding a bar of soap in the video like, "I'm clean." And he played great. But that was the end of MSG
Whats name of ending song
Full In Bloom is The Absolute Best when it comes to Rock 🪨 🎶 music interviews. How are you getting with the engineers and producers and the people there in the studio I think it’s just fantastic I can listen to the stuff all day from the time I open my eyes till the time I go to bed and I never get bored because it’s that good it’s Full In Bloom 🌺
The full in bloom song his song is so killer it sounds like heroin at the end when the guy goes all crazy slow with his voice
I remember hearing the burning down his house story but never knew it was becuz he wanted COKE?!?
God damn drugs all they fucking do is destroy! So glad Mike seems very together now and his recent tours he's playing amazingly well and his current band kick arse!
Regardless of what Michael did even what people think his worst guitar playing was which. I wouldn't have any idea what that would be he is still one of the world's best at his trade
michael is a guitar God
@Hot Rockin'
one more for the rodeo
the old school sixties team
a great new wide awakening..
meanwhile michael rips all over it...
i dont like when people talk about personal stuff like this
I talked to Michael over email around 2001 when he was going through his sell off period. His ex wife was taking him to court, I asked Michael about all the kids he was having with all these women and why he wasn’t using protection. This was when he actually posted all the dirty details of his personal life on his web page. That was another low point but he survived.
Yikes… well what did he say? Haha
@@DavWallhe wasn’t phased by the condom question. He just made excuses for it, like what he was doing was normal. He was messed up at that time and probably can’t even remember that period any more,
I needed to hear this. I often wondered how bad Michael really got. He eventually sold his prized guitars on eBay ($20,000 each, so I heard) back in 2001 to pay his debts. That’s why he has that Dean endorsement (signature guitar). I’ve been playing guitar for over 35 years…you can’t tell me a Dean Flying V is gonna feel as good (the same) as a Gibson. But if you PAID me to play your company’s guitar…I’m sure I’d sacrifice a little. 🤣
the problem is he seems to be the ONLY endorsee to a dying brand.
@@RamonesFan201 …more like “dead” brand…😆
Yeah and all he does is blame his brother for everything. Great guitarist but a total dick
I have both.The Dean actually sounds better to me.
Being a massive Schenker fan and a full-time guitarist, I have Flying Vs from several manufacturers including Gibson, Dean, Edwards/ESP etc and I can happily tell you that there is nothing magical about the Gibsons, much as I like mine from '81,92 and 2008.
Amazing Guitar 🎸 player though 🔥🔥🔥
Raising Arizona, Michael is doing things....wow, the sister was a looker
I saw Michael wandering up Ventura Blvd by guitar center
When?
Wandering around in the Valley? That guitar shop is in Sherman Oaks, right?
Damn Mike!
Ric Browde is three for three in shitting on bands/musicians he's worked with. 😂
he's full of hugs and sunshine, that's for sure. But, at least he can keep a secret.
Love the MSG first three albums.📀📀📀 And spirit on a Mission.
I have to respectfully disagree with you. The era of live at budacon was great with the whole band kicking ass! 👍🎸🔥🎶
Sounds like bipolar disorder. A classic case, my father was (rip) and it sounds very familiar. Probably. Music saved him, thats for sure.
The Colombians were laughing, people paying huge amounts for something that lasts about 30 minutes.
Damn schenker keeps it real!
Real weird, real bad
Dude could qualify for an episode of “When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong” from Chappelle’s Show lol
@@bucknasty69 🤣😂😅🤣😂🤣
Always great interviews!
All talented people have a dark side.
But... Didn't Michael go through a rehab prior to his 80 record thus the whole theme of the album cover I always figured he was clean and sober after that
Ya rehab does not have a very good track record of people being one and done
i always wonder how much coke people were actually doing. like was he doing like 10gs a day or something? hard to imagine.
Your not snorting 10 grams a day and living long...but you can smoke that much and get away w/it for a while.
Coke was prob better back then but definitely a quarter a night
@@dwade6322 yes i was wondering if he was smoking it. sounds like it was 1982ish? i did a lot of blow but i never could do that much personally. no more for me. but if youre drunk i could see accidentally partaking. so you think smoking it is “healthier” ? i think your nose cant take regularly doing too much. 🤷🏼♂️
@@jdg6336 well smoking isnt healthier so to speak,but ive done both in my youth and...well,good luck snorting 10 grams of good stuff ..Lol
@@dwade6322 lol. i never smoked it. i drew the “line” at that. everyone i knew who started smoking just disappeared. no more for me. doesnt even seem real now stuff i saw a year or two ago was straight garbage. i even quit drinking. 😂 had a hell of a time though.
Appreciated hearing more of your song. Actually like it better after hearing more of it. Guitars sound rad.
Why didn't Ric Browde rant on about his own human failings n faults,instead of throwing Michael under the bus for a dang tubeyou interview?! That would be more interesting...for reals.
Ric Browde sounds like a fast chatter druggie trying to make a buck off of this story. Could be very possible that Browde is the one that got caught up in drugs..I mean he is surrounded by drugs and tries to act like everyone but him got caught up.
"Rock bottom, rock bottom!"
He was the original Dr Rockso !
I miss Metalocalypse.
Michael Schenker you got to love him
Why? Because he can play guitar? He always sounded like a trainwreck of a person, very little there to love.
@@JesseJuup meet the man and you might change your mind.
His brother is great, except not according to him… According to him… Rudy’s a bully…
3-5-82 got see ufo at diary of madman concert. I bought a ufo shirt..
When you're day is done and you want to run 🏃♀️ "cocaine
My goodness things you do when on drugs
He almost definitely had a substance abuse problem when I met him at a club in Las Vegas near the Rio about 15-16 years ago. We arrived at the venue a couple of hours before the show to have dinner and there he was pacing back and forth, pupils dilated looking dishevelled and emaciated with Fed Ex envelope firmly tucked under his arm.
To paraphrase Mitch Hedberg, my Fed Ex driver is a drug dealer, but he doesn’t know it.
Pink E's. I found out about that gig the next day. Bummed.
THE STRUGGLE IS REAL *CATER*
McAuley was the absolute worst WTF?
Michael Schenker puts out do much stuff it s crazy.Most of it is very very good.Some stinkers compare him with Judas priest and other bands like that that keep rehashing crappy crap crap over and over again and shouldn't still be Toring Michael seems to stay at least
Did Ted Mckenna join Rory Gallagher's band after this??
No he was playing with Rory before.
Wild
Damn !
The best guitarist ever
Saw him in Manchester in 2007 opening for Scorpions and he literally could not play a single solo. I mean he could not put three notes together, It was shameful- he got booed off the stage. So glad he's healthy now.
I love how coke smells!
Always be around woman and guitars when using coke.truth!!!!great interview
@@thevoid6818 Don’t get me started on Pine-Sol!!!!!
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All the bs stories about Michael Schenkers Rock'n'Roll bad boy behaviour is totally out of importance.
Let the magic of his beautiful music do the talking.
Love MSG ❤️
Michael would not play unless he had as much blow as he could do. When he would then expect to have as much coke as he could do then again. He never wanted to buy his cocaine, he wanted it given to him. Never wanted to buy it just it provided to him. Crazy. This means he could not buy enough but wanted it provided on top of what he could afford. He was the Scarface of Guitar players
UFO
UFO was just on the cusp of breaking huge in America with "Strangers in the Night" but Michael left. That momentum was lost. Even Klaus Meine of the Scorps said that Michael was "not in tune with himself" around that period of the live album and then helping Scorpions on "Lovedrive." Schenker has said that he had very bad stage fright and used the substances to help him cope with that. It was just a vicious circle. Watching the guy play "Doctor, Doctor" in '83 with his band plus Klaus and his brother Rudy, Michael really seemed on target. The guy looks completely healthy, not to mention fucking cool, but I guess that he really wasn't.
Is this the same cat that Dave Mustaine considers to be his favorite guitar player ..or one of them..I know Malcomb Young and Jimmy Page are also Daves favorites..
Yes, Dave loves Michael Schenker. He’s talked about his influence in handful of interviews too haha.
Egomaniac show off like his Brother.
An aborted album, after victory? I could be wrong but ‘aborted and victory’ do NOT sound familiar?? Is it just , why is this guy hard to understand??
Is he still alive?????
Yes, and touring. In good health
@@mellowjim Yes, and so is his brother and by extension the Scorps.
Armed and Ready.....my ass.....
MS Top 5
No blow no play
That house fire was a very ghostly incident. The house is in Oxfordshire. I believe it was a rented thatched house. Reports said Michael's guitars were damaged. You can imagine hearing eerie guitar solos at night in that house.
LETS BE HONEST ! ITS NOT DRUGS ITS THE (TYPE) OF DRUG ! ROCK AND ROLL IS MADE FOR DRUGS AND ALCOHOL OTHER WISE IT WOULD SUCK ! Michael is German ! Everybody I met there is weird to begin with . The whole ww2 thing fd them up to this day .
"Schenker looks great" really? HAVE YOU SEEN THAT HAT?!!!!!!!!!!
Do we really care? NIKKI SIXX takes up all the airwaves.