Be Aware of Scorpions

Playing the guitar, writing songs, producing albums, going on tour – for Michael Schenker, music is more than a job or simply a way of earning your living, it’s the ultimate focus of his life. Not a day goes by without Schenker picking up one of his beloved guitars, preferably a white Gibson Flying V, and letting his apparently inexhaustible creativity run wild. Schenker: “I play the guitar every day, and I record most of my ideas on a small recording machine so I can develop the best of them into proper songs later. That’s how I’ve always created my numbers, everything is spontaneous and natural. My compositions are always authentic, they’re an accurate reflection of what I happen to be feeling at the moment.”

Yet Schenker leaves no doubt that the albums that his band MSG has produced live off the chemistry between the musicians involved, and so his current offering Be Aware Of Scorpions is the result of a constant giving and taking of ideas, inspirations, and emotions, based on Schenker’s fantastic guitar work. In Chris Logan, MSG have found a young, previously unknown vocalist whose talent is impossible to ignore. “Chris was recommended to me by Mike Varney, who has a reputation of having a sure instinct for talented young musicians. I think we will hear a lot about Chris in future.” He enlisted the services of his old U.F.O. crony Jeff Martin to play the drums, and Martin in turn suggested bassist Rev Jones. The thirteen new tracks were produced by Schenker in collaboration with engineer Ralph Patlan at the Schenker Records Recording Studios in Phoenix.