''The Michael Schenker Story Live'' is a live album by the

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band

Michael Schenker Group The Michael Schenker Group (often abbreviated as MSG) are a guitar-oriented hard rock band, formed in London in 1979 by former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker. In 1986, Schenker and vocalist Robin McAuley formed the McAuley Schenke ...

, released in May 1997 through Michael Schenker's own record company. This is a double-CD live album recorded during the March 1997 Japan tour. The recorded show was the last one of a series of 5 concerts and were all performed at the

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on 19 March 1997. The concert lasted three hours and the setlist contains 30 songs. As its title tells, it covers the entire history of Michael Schenker musical career - from the

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in 1969 to 1997. The whole concert was filmed and released on VHS in 1999 and in 2005 on DVD with the title ''Live in Tokyo 1997''. The DVD contains also footage from the Unforgiven World Tour of 2000.

Track listing CD1

# "In Search of the Peace of Mind" - ''

'' - 4:18 # " Doctor Doctor" - ''

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'' - 4:59 # "Let It Roll" - ''UFO'' - 4:22 # "Natural Thing" - ''UFO'' - 3:34 # "Lights Out" - ''UFO'' - 5:17 # "Only You Can Rock Me" - ''UFO'' - 4:07 # "Another Piece of Meat" - ''Scorpions'' - 3:52 # "Into the Arena" - ''

'' - 7:04 # "Are You Ready to Rock" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 4:12 # "Assault Attack" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 4:18 # "Captain Nemo" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 3:12 # "No Time for Losers" - ''

McAuley Schenker Group McAuley Schenker Group were an American rock band based in Los Angeles featuring core members Robin McAuley (vocals) and Michael Schenker (guitar), a successor (and eventual predecessor) to Schenker's earlier band Michael Schenker Group. McAul ...

'' - 3:31 # "Save Yourself" - ''McAuley-Schenker Group'' - 7:02 # "All the Way from Memphis" - ''

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'' - 4:22 # "Pushed to the Limit" - ''UFO'' - 3:54 # "Written in the Sand" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 4:03

Track listing CD2

# "Back to Life" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 6:26 # "Love Never Dies" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 5:12 # "Essence" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 6:21 # "Never Ending Nightmare" - ''McAuley Schenker Group'' - 4:49 # "Bijou Pleasurette"not present on the cd - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 2:45 # "Positive Forward" - ''

Michael Schenker Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group. He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker. ...

'' - 3:55 # "Lost Horizons" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 5:41 # "Too Hot to Handle" - ''UFO'' - 3:55 # "

Attack of the Mad Axeman ''MSG'' is the second album by the hard rock band Michael Schenker Group, released in 1981. Producer Ron Nevison's high production values resulted in the recording of this album going over budget, a crippling debt that dogged the band for the r ...

" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 5:41 # "Love to Love" - ''UFO'' - 8:02 # "On and On" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 5:29 # "Armed and Ready" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 5:12 # "Feels Like a Good Thing" - ''Michael Schenker Group'' - 3:48 # "Rock Bottom" - ''UFO'' - 10:21

Personnel

;Band members *

– lead, rhythm & acoustic guitars, backing vocals *

Barry Sparks Barry Sparks (born June 20, 1968 in Lucasville, Ohio) is an American Rock bassist/Guitarist from legendary bands such as Yngwie Malmsteen, the Michael Schenker Group, UFO, Dokken, and Ted Nugent, amongst others. Currently Sparks is part of the to ...

– bass & acoustic guitars, backing vocals *

Shane Gaalaas Shane Gaalaas (born August 8, 1967) is a Canadian-born drummer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter best known for his long running affiliation with Japanese rock superstars B'z, whom he joined in 2002, and his extensive work with guitar virtuo ...

– drums, acoustic guitar *

Leif Sundin Leif Arne Sundin (born 22 March 1971) is a Swedish rock vocalist and songwriter who has performed and recorded with Michael Schenker, John Norum and Brian Robertson among others. Career Starting his career as vocalist with Swedish rock band G ...

– vocals, rhythm & acoustic guitars *

David Van Landing William David VanLandingham (October 6, 1964 – November 17, 2015), known professionally as David VanLanding or David Van Landing, was an American rock music singer, who worked with Mannekin, Michael Schenker Group, Crimson Glory, Erotic Liqui ...

– vocals, percussion * Seth Bernstein – rhythm & acoustic guitars, keyboards, backing vocals

Release history

This album had 6 releases: # 1997 CD Michael Schenker # 1999 CD Michael Schenker 12 # 2000 CD Cargo 992210 # 2001 CD SPV 77267 # 2001 CD Steamhammer/SPV SPV 085-72672 DCD # 2002 CD Import 77267 At the back of the booklet of the 2001 release of Steamhammer/ SPV Shane Gaalaas is incorrectly noted as a bass guitar player. Instead he is the drummer. Another mistake is the listing of two songs not present on the second CD. The missing songs are "Bijou Pleasurette" and "Lost Horizons". Both songs are played on the concert, left out on the CD, but included on the video-registration available on the DVD ''Live in Tokyo 1997'', released in 2005. This is shown on the cd cover image of the backside.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Michael Schenker Story Live, The Michael Schenker Group albums 1997 live albums Albums produced by Ron Nevison Albums recorded at Nakano Sun Plaza