Tuesday
Mar032015
Michael Schenker Releases New Video

I worked about a bajillion hours yesterday and my brain is fried. Lucky for me, I can relax and watch the new Michael Schenker video for "Live and Let Live." The song is from the forthcoming album Spirit On A Mission.
Reader Comments (7)
p.s. Good Point, JAT! "Big City Nights"!
Schenker is the crazy cousin to Roth's hippie uncle. Nice to see both of them still out performing.
Eh, not sure it would happen . . . any of them back in or anything close to those albums. Schenker hates the confines of a band he doesn't control. Ditto for Roth, out there on his own spiritual journey playing happily to smaller crowds. Rarebell, the lyrical genius (and I do think people forget how integral he was), doesn't seem inclined to step back in even if he has guested on occasion. And Buchholtz, a lesser overall contributor when set against the above, is a non-starter after internal issues forced him from the band.
And yet, three of the four mentioned play together, and two of the same have sat in on sets with their former band-mates. I tend to think--and I really don't know--that working with Meine and the other Schenker might just be too taxing at this point in their lives and their careers.
Thus we are stuck with unplugged and rejiggered hits, and middle-of-the-road rockers. But we still get a fairly good show for men their age, even if it is by now a very, very, very well-oiled machine designed to hit on cue and not shock or surprise.
And therein lies the rub. If I should win the lottery, it would become a quest to just pay them all off for a one off. Same goes for Britny Fox, KIX, L.A. Guns, Sex Pistols, Poison, Cinderella, Crüe, Great White, London Quireboys, WASP, and any other band who's members are still alive but not playing together. Am I forgetting anyone?
The caveat? We at BBG! make the set lists with Allyson having the final say!
p.s. Yes, I know Cruë are still together but we want control of the set list!