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by the

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. Originally planned by Schenker as a collection of covers featuring himself and a "revolving all-star cast of guest musicians," the album was labeled and marketed as an MSG album, with the result that Schenker received only a flat fee. In 2008, it was re-released as a Michael Schenker

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under the title ''Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions'' and included four additional tracks (1-2 and 13-14). A Deluxe Digital version of this release is available under the "Guitar Masters: The Kulick Sessions" title. This contains instrumental versions of all the songs on the album except 'Save Yourself'. The album was re-issued again in 2011 with the title ''By Invitation Only'' by the Store For Music label, including the song " Run to the Hills", which Schenker and McAuley had recorded for the

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tribute album '' Numbers from the Beast''.

Track listing and instrumental contributions

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Bob Kulick Robert Joel Kulick (January 16, 1950 – May 28, 2020) was an American guitarist and record producer, who worked with numerous acts such as Kiss (band), Kiss, W.A.S.P. (band), W.A.S.P., Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Meat Loaf, and Michael Bolton. He w ...

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Jeff Pilson Jeffrey Steven Pilson (born January 19, 1958) is an American musician best known for being the bass player in the glam metal band Dokken and currently classic rock band Foreigner (band), Foreigner. He has also had an extended stint with Dio (ba ...

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Felix Pappalardi Felix Albert Pappalardi Jr. (December 30, 1939 – April 17, 1983) was an American music producer, songwriter, vocalist, and bass violin, bassist. He is best known as the bassist and co-lead vocalist of the band Mountain (band), Mountain, whose ...

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Leslie West Leslie Abel West (born Weinstein; October 22, 1945 – December 23, 2020) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He was the co-founder, guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the rock band Mountain. West was named the 245th greatest guit ...

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Phil Mogg Phillip John Mogg (born 15 April 1948, Wood Green, London) is an English singer. He was the lead singer and frontman of the hard rock band UFO, which he co-founded with longtime friends Pete Way, Andy Parker and Mick Bolton in 1968.Buckley, ...

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Jeff Scott Soto Jeff Scott Soto (born November 4, 1965) is an American Rock music, rock singer of Puerto Rican descent. He is perhaps best known for being the vocalist on Yngwie Malmsteen's first two albums, and the lead vocalist for Journey (band), Journey i ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #* Jeremy Rubolino - keyboards, strings

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Tony Iommi Anthony Frank Iommi Jr. (born 19 February 1948) is an English musician. He co-founded the pioneering Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Black Sabbath, and was the band's guitarist, leader, primary composer, and sole continuous member for over ...

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Tim "Ripper" Owens Timothy S. "Ripper" Owens (born September 13, 1967) is an American heavy metal singer who currently performs with KK's Priest, Spirits of Fire, the Three Tremors and "The Tim Ripper Monster Energy Big Band". He first gained attention as the ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #*

Mike Inez Michael Allen Inez (born May 14, 1966) is an American rock musician and bassist. Since 1993, Inez has been the bassist of the American rock band Alice in Chains. He is also recognized for his work with Ozzy Osbourne from 1989 to 1993. Inez also ...

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Tommy Shaw Tommy Roland Shaw (born September 11, 1953) is an American singer and guitarist best known for his tenure in the rock band Styx (band), Styx as co-lead vocalist. In between his stints with Styx, he has played with other groups including Damn Yan ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #*

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Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (19 ...

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Mike Baird Michael Bruce Baird (born 1 April 1968) is an Australian investment banker and former politician who was the 44th Premier of New South Wales, the Minister for Infrastructure, the Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney, Mini ...

- drums # " Out in the Fields" (

Gary Moore Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 19526 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and performed a range of music including blues, blues rock, hard rock, Heavy metal music, heavy ...

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Gary Barden Gary John Barden (born 27 August 1955) is an English rock singer, best known for his work with the Michael Schenker Group. Career Barden was discovered by Schenker upon the guitarist's hearing a demo of Barden's previous band, Fraser Nash ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #*

Chuck Wright Chuck Wright (born September 13, 1959) is an American bassist, best known as a member of the hard rock/heavy metal band Quiet Riot. He originally joined Quiet Riot in 1982, playing bass on the tracks " Metal Health (Bang Your Head)" and "Don' ...

- bass #* Brent Chassen - drums # " Hair of the Dog" ( Dan McCafferty; Darrell Sweet; Manny Charlton; Pete Agnew) - 4:11 (

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Paul Di'Anno Paul Andrews (17 May 1958 – 21 October 2024), better known by his stage name Paul Di'Anno, was an English Heavy metal music, heavy metal singer who was the lead vocalist for Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981. In his post-Maiden career, Di'Anno ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #*

Phil Soussan Philip Raphael Soussan (born 23 June 1961) is an English bass guitarist, songwriter and producer, known as a member of the rock bands Last in Line, Ozzy Osbourne, Vince Neil Band and Big Noize, as well as writing and producing for Dokken and Tot ...

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Vinny Appice Vincent Samson Appice (born September 13, 1957) is an American rock and metal drummer best known for his work with the bands Dio (band), Dio, Black Sabbath, and Heaven & Hell (band), Heaven & Hell. Of Italian descent, he is the younger brother ...

- drums # " I Don't Live Today" (

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Sebastian Bach Sebastian Philip Bierk (born April 3, 1968), known professionally as Sebastian Bach, is a Canadian-American singer who achieved mainstream success as the frontman of the hard rock band Skid Row from 1987 to 1996. He has acted on Broadway and h ...

- vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #* Tony Franklin - bass #*

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Pete Brown Peter Ronald Brown (25 December 1940 – 19 May 2023) was an English performance poet, lyricist, and singer best known for his collaborations with Cream and Jack Bruce.Colin Larkin, ''Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music'' (Muze UK Ltd, 1997) ...

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cover) #* Jeff Pilson - vocals, bass #* Michael Schenker - guitars #* Brent Chassen - drums

Track Listing from ''Doctor Doctor: The Kulick Sessions'' (2008 re-release)

# "Save Yourself" (

Robin McAuley Robin McAuley (born 20 January 1953) is an Irish singer. He is best known as the vocalist for the rock band McAuley Schenker Group from 1986 to 1993, during which time the band released three studio albums: '' Perfect Timing'', '' Save Yoursel ...

; Michael Schenker) - 5:55 (with Robin McAuley) # " Finding My Way" ( Alex Lifeson;

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) - 5:19 ( Rush cover) #* Sebastian Bach - vocals #* Michael Schenker - lead guitar #* Bob Kulick - rhythm guitar #* Tony Franklin - bass #* Eric Singer - drums # "All Shook Up" # "Blood of the Sun" # "Doctor Doctor" # "War Pigs" # "I'm Not Talking" # "Money" # "Out in the Fields" # "Hair of the Dog" # "I Don't Live Today" # "Politician" # "Doctor Doctor" - 6:16 (

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version) # "War Pigs" - 7:25 (instrumental version)

Track Listing from ''Guitar Masters - The Kulick Sessions (Deluxe Digital Version)''

# "Save Yourself" # "Finding my Way" # "All Shook Up" # "Blood of the Sun" # "Doctor Doctor" # "War Pigs" # "I'm Not Talking" # "Money" # "Out in the Fields" # "Hair of the Dog" # "I Don't Live Today" # "Politician" # "Doctor Doctor" (instrumental version) # "War Pigs" (instrumental version) # "Hair of the Dog" - 4.14 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "I Don't Live Today" - 4.20 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "All Shook Up" - 4.26 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "Money" - 6.10 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "Blood of the Sun" - 3.57 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "Out in the Fields" - 4.30 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "I'm Not Talking" - 4.16 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track) # "Politician" - 5.49 (Instrumental version) (Bonus Track)

Track Listing from ''By Invitation Only'' (2011 re-release)

#" Run to the Hills" ( Steve Harris) - 4:05 (

cover) #*Robin McAuley – lead vocals #*Michael Schenker – lead guitar #*Pete Fletcher – rhythm guitar #*Tony Franklin – bass #*

Brian Tichy Brian Tichy ( ; born August 18, 1968) is an American musician, best known as having been the drummer for Whitesnake, Billy Idol, Foreigner, Sass Jordan, and Ozzy Osbourne. He was the drummer of Whitesnake from 2010 to 2013. His surname means ...

– drums # "Save Yourself" # "Finding My Way" # "All Shook Up" # "Blood of the Sun" # "Doctor Doctor" # "War Pigs" # "I'm Not Talking" # "Money" # "Out in the Fields" # "Hair of the Dog" # "I Don't Live Today" # "Politician"

Credits

*Bob Kulick - producer, arrangements, mixing *Brett Chassen - producer, engineer, mixing *Jeremy Rubolino - keyboards, strings production, digital editing * Bruce Bouillet, Bob Held,

Billy Sherwood William Wyman Sherwood (born March 14, 1965) is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer, record producer and mixing engineer. He is best known for his tenures in the English progressive rock band Yes (band), Yes as guitarist and ke ...

- engineers *Kris Solem - mastering *Brian Perera - executive producer

References

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