Shaping with the lights on is a track off the new album revelation by the group my coaching fast. Shank who was born in soest it near hanover in 1955 he grew up playing the guitar with his older brother rudolph. Played initially together in school but michael moved on to becoming that he could charge for british rock band you left out of my coaching his career spans 5 to cant stand has made him one of the most famous german guitarists in the world. And hes with me in the studio Michael Sanker well. Its a valid so great to have you here youve got your new album revelation congratulations looks like you guys are having a blast there now this is really classic hard rock with a bunch of guys that youve worked with for years Robin MccauleyGraham Bonnet whats the message here is this is this a celebration yeah its michael shank of fast and you know i realize that i have performed the most popular music of like this thank god but not with the original singer somehow we have gone full circle and cycle and you know i thought it would be great if i could do the you know maybe not live the clouds film maybe the 80 singers of the. Theyre awaiting the musicians the same thing you know that is known as something that was meant to be to everybodys head and so much fun i want to i want to stop a 2nd so that we can listen to the guitar solo from the rock steady of all the music of the field and its a. Major style so unique. But maybe when i see your spouse in the hall because you dont listen to music since i was 17 i discovered and i knew that we are all unique and if we are all unique i dont need to do what everybody else is already doing so i do i open up myself nobody knows whats in there if i open up on a daily basis yearly basis the by product. Style. Legend has it that you played your 1st gig with scorpions in a nightclub when you were 11 years old is that even true that was actually my 1st concert which is kind of for the remarkable because i forgot about the reminded late that it was a twist and 10 and its ok so when you left scorpions at 17 to go play with u. F. O. And you didnt even speak english at the time had quite a turbulent career with them really back and forth and yet people still speak of the shanker years with u. F. O. And i think i think it was what do you remember from that time how do you look back on that period and yeah it was a blessing that i didnt speak english let the do music do the talking so we were focusing on the music number one which was very important. You know developed in lights the speed of light for form phenomena to force to know have it bad light so it obsession strangers in the night by everybody im going to do my own thing now. And theres over the years obviously been a lot of a lot of friction spoken about in the media between you and your brother rudolf of the scorpions. How do you feel now about your time as a scorpion well little son i have 6 and a half years apart you know im 16 obvious younger than rudolph and weve really only lived together. Things together when i go through the spoken some months some for. This and the rest of the year really didnt really hang out together or anything because i was living in i just played which i made with them quite successfully. With that with the lonesome crow that was when i was 50 and 60 and then i joined your fall and then you know i was invited to do i was asked to help the scorpions with off drive. And you know and i think of one more but he didnt tell me that but you know then the tried to persuade me to stay in in the band and i went out during with but i think we were good you know hed be back actually crying on the phone Michael Please stay in the band again because i felt so bad for him you know and he talked about bringing the original guys back for a year for this album and you actually won an award back in 2010 for rock n roll excess and for living on the edge that was the marshall 11 what about now are it would you say youre mellowing out is it possible for Michael Shanks to just mellow out a little bit. More out of that then that is really true about this because if you have a talent and on the top people want to come up with Great Stories and i think that there are a lot of Great Stories. A lot of stories that dont they are not true you know people under sorious that youve even had a guitar named after the dean Shanker Schenker v which i wish you brought. Look at that this is true i put the micro sync. Guitar im actually more than one ok. Youre going. Or in the u. K. Next year to celebrate this album as well youll be in japan in 15 years of Michael Schenker music whats whats your feeling going into that. In japan actually were doing 4. Years m. S. G. Special and we do actually quite interesting show with Simon Phillips and. Drums be said were playing 2 nights tokyo 5000. 00. And then to all the fans are looking forward to it and well be watching from here thanks very much for joining us right. Well if youve ever had the good fortune to live in paris which i did for many years youll possibly relate to the feeling of comfort that arises when you return and 1st see the eiffel tower again for me its a feeling of warm familiarity but jasper white wondered what it was like for people who actually enjoy the view of the eiffel tower every day. Really paris you feel. In front of you. To see it every night every morning it was important for me when we chose this but. I had to see it. Just as the photographer from london he wanted to know how the iconic landmark is viewed by the citys residents and visitors people lucky enough to live with you all including. Who lives in the 16th with a husband just to watch research eventually turns into a book project called 2 i found a collection of pictures showing the tower from the homes of police and residents. This. Is and you just. Have to use. Somehow i have to kind of use this tower to tell a story about art. And thats how we started. Since 2014 jasper has visited 40 homes from a luxury apartment on the sand to student digs on the city outskirts what they all share is a view of the eiffel tower. Very interesting to find out how people bonded a little shes growing up with this view the parents they were at night they leave the curtains open there isnt any night light you know and she has this amazing relationship with the tower and then when they tell stories all the stories they kind of a lot of them involve the tower so they play a play with that she has this really emotional bond that. Just the white plans to finish and publish it to i fell book project. The reason rooms with. Yes a sight that definitely warms my heart well our weekly book tips is a novel thats been called the perfect book for paranoid times but ive gotten him was a german author and poet back in communist east germany and the 2nd novel i wrote the internal struggle struggles of a writer who is doubling as a spy for the dreaded east German Secret Police and thats of course the stasi to look at that somewhere there might be a record of you watching this video ok but what about those other sites youve been visiting. Those sites today with the internet its easy to get paranoid but surveillance is nothing new. In. The novel i was going to his base is about mass as spinoffs well before the web its about a country that if you own citizens as a potential threat and spies on them all its not Science Fiction its about east germany and its secret police force the sht ozzie and this was their headquarters. 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