Michael Schenker Group - Live At Rockpalast 1981 (Full Concert Video)
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Published 2023-11-22
Setlist:
1. Intro 0:00:00
2. Armed And Ready 0:00:28
3. Cry For The Nations 0:04:41
4. Victim Of Illusions 0:10:06
5. Natural Thing 0:15:26
6. Feels Like A Good Thing 0:19:02
7. Intro The Area 0:23:53
8. Rock Bottom 0:28:33
9. Lookin´ Out From Nowhere 0:38:48
10. Lost Horizons 0:44:19
11. Doctor Doctor 0:52:03
12. Lights Out 0:58:53
Lineup:
Michael Schenker - g
Gary Barden - voc
Chris Glen - b
Paul Raymond - keyb
Cozy Powell - dr
Michael Schenker has always been an artist who never made false compromises. Even when he was the guitarist in world famous bands such as The Scorpions or UFO, his unique style soon became the trademark sound at the time for each of these bands. By the end of the seventies, the typical confines of being in a band began to limit Michael Schenker more and more.
So he took the obvious logical step to quit UFO, and to form his own band – The Michael Schenker Group. Together with Billy Sheehan (bass), Denny Carmassi (drums) and singer Gary Barden he recorded the self-titled MSG debut in 1980, which to this day remains one of the strongest albums Schenker has recorded.
However, for the following tour, the line-up had already been changed, and few fans today would not regard this later personnel as in fact the most perfect: Schenker and Barden were joined by Chris Glen (bass), Paul Raymond (keyboards) and last but not least the legendary Cozy Powell who already had played drums with Rainbow, and later with Whitesnake, Black Sabbath, Brian May or Gary Moore, just to name a few. It was Cozy Powell’s drumming especially, that crafted and stabled the performance of this formation – and this Rockpalast concert remains one of the outstanding performances before his death in 1998.
Recorded on January, 24th 1981 at the Markthalle in Hamburg, this concert presents the first MSG album almost in its entirely (and almost in the same running order) including the two greatest songs Michael Schenker has created with UFO: “Doctor Doctor” and “Rock Bottom”.
After more than 20 years this brilliant and intense hard rock document finally is available to all fans in perfect quality.
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All Comments (21)
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Gotta give massive props to the late Paul Raymond, a true rock star and one of the very best complimentary players ever in hard rock. Schenker and the entire band are on fire here, even the dorky Gary Barden
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Killer line-up ... Schenker, Barden, Powell, Raymond and Glen ....
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WOW, this is MSG and Michael at their best! Schenker is on fire, and is there a better, more exciting drummer than Cozy Powell? Love this era of MSG!
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Every note is beautiful, penetrating and meaningful. He doesn't just wail away meaninglessly like others. The tone and choice of notes is beyond brilliant. There is nobody like him, he separates himself from the others.
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RIP Cozy Powell!!!
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2024 and Michael is still kicking ass.
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Rest in peace Paul Raymond!
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Rockpalast simply the best thank the lord for youtube so us Brits have the chance to see these gems of music history and legendary concerts ie UFO MSG BIG COUNTRY SIMPLE MINDS U2 BOWIE THE CULT REM THE WHO VELVET UNDERGROUND GUNS AND ROSES ETC ETC ETC AMAZING
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Still remember playing the literal shit out of UFO's "Force It" in my later teens, been a huge fan ever since.
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Saw them in vancouver 4 or 5 years ago..he had 3 sets..he had all 3 singers..200 people ther..he would have played his heart for 10 people..20 buk for the ticket
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フライングブイ、カッコイイ コージーパウエルもノリノリ最高です ６０歳還暦おやじですが、青春時代？を思い出します
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I was lucky enough to see the guys on this tour . I was about 5 ft from Mr Schenker, awesome show . No gimmicks, no crap just a damn good band . Miss those days , glad I was there .
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Great seeing cozy Powell , lost way to soon
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still fresh after 42 years. awesome
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Holy hell... It´s Cozy Powell on the drums.
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Best guitarist i've never seen live
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No autotune, just raw talent, as Lemmy would say. this is rock´nroll
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I was fortunate enough to see Micheal and Paul Raymond with UFO in 77 and 78 saw the UFO live album they opened for Rush, I also saw UFO open with Ozzy's first solo tour with Def Leppard great show, Randy shredded the guitar.
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Gotta be an argument for Cozy being the coolest human being ever.
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Perfect .the music, the musicians, the playing, Gary Barden, what a bod. And voice . If MSG and hard rock is at rock bottom, then I want to be there too
