1/19/2024 0 Comments Lights out reviewStream It Or Skip It: 'The Secret Gift of Christmas' on Hallmark Channel, About A Personal Shopper Who Falls For Her Client While Doing His Holiday Shopping Stream It or Skip It: 'Friends & Family Christmas' on Hallmark, Where Fake Dating Leads to Something Special for Two Women During the Holidays Recommendable! Oldies, but goodies.Stream It or Skip It: 'Merry Magic Christmas' on Lifetime, Where a Math Lady and Theater Guy Come Together to Save a Business and Find Love In a way however, they were ahead of the pack. UFO featured a different style back then than other big, gifted bands employed. One of the best records of their career and undoubtedly the best of this specific period. In conclusion, Lights Out delivers real vintage Hard Rock with an edge. You know, special pants, garish colors and all. For example, Alone Again Or would have found a better home with The Beatles or gigs like Audience. Or it might have served as an entry into one of the infamous pop shows that were in fashion back in that time. There are – as always and very unfortunately – some fillers in this limited number of tracks. I listened to this track about a thousand times. And I kid you not, this track gets my system going alright after a night of heavy music and booze. A real early morning wake-up-and-get-your-breakfast song. Mystical, slow, but rock hard, expertly delivered and interpreted. And then, it’ll bring you back to reality with some wisdom about how a relationship can get lost in life. The latter tries to kill you with a super heavy, psychedelic, but extremely well-executed keyboard intro first. Yet, you can feel the emotions in Phil’s voice. The former talks about a relationship that – probably – never happened. Just Another Suicide contains a surprising riff that lightens up this track that would otherwise be bland.Īnd then there are the rock ballads Try Me and Love to Love. Too Hot to Handle and Lights Out always take me along a journey back to earlier days, still after all these years of listening to this record. But more’s the pity, he left the band (forcibly or not) more times than I care to count. If only this guy just would not have been such an ass on stage and elsewhere, they could have doubled their earnings and gotten to totally different levels in their career. They don’t make ’em this way anymore, unfortunately. All this is spiced up by rock ballads that we need to go look for these days first. The album Lights Out virtually bulges with stellar, vintage tracks, superb riffs ‘made by Schenker’, and powerful lyrics. Nor was their style blues-tinted and bleary-eyed from drug overuse as Led Zeppelin and their ilk of that time. Straight and true with a crunch, but not as hard-assed as AC/DC ever were. Lights Out gets you this special brand of Hard Rock with a sharp edge and Michael’s super-precise guitar play. Once out of UFO in 1978 for the first time, Schenker moved to found the Michael Schenker Group or MSG. That he never managed to stay for longer periods with the band is a pity. Other albums of that period were No Heavy Petting or – then again – Force It. The 1977 Lights Out is the fourth record of this series. Out of the nine albums recorded with UFO, five of them originated from this era. The first stint – the aforementioned Schenker years – were Michael’s longest continued and most productive engagement with the band. His personal issues, however, created enough dissent to have him hired and dismissed several times over many years. His talent undoubtedly helped UFO to shine on the international stage. Anecdotally, Michael’s brother Rudolf still plays for the Scorpions to this day. Michael’s relationship with UFO was spotty, though. Who better to choose than German-born Michael Schenker, a founding member of the Scorpions. Back in the ’70s, a super-gifted young lad, almost too young to be that good a guitarist, joined this band led by Phil Mogg in search of a riff maker. One of the best periods in the distinguished career of UFO are indisputably the Schenker years. They have created great, great Hard Rock over time and helped pave the way into what is today called metal. I admit, the British rock band UFO is one of my long-time favorites.
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