Natural Thing Mother Mary Let It Roll This Kid's Out in the Street Venus Pushed to the Limit Love to Love Only You Can Rock Me Too Hot to Handle Lights Out Doctor Doctor Rock Bottom Encore: Shoot Shoot C'mon Everybody
@@cynthiamclellan6745 Did you know him then or just researched it? Many front men in great bands were hard to get along with and were considered assholes, but that's separate from their music so I doubt that was a major factor? and besides I'm not so sure they are "underrated" or under appreciated. not even sure how that's quantifiable? They're in my top 5 of rock bands
In 1976 I was a teenage girl attending a Catholic girls’ high school. I was bored during a babysitting gig and until then had only listened to Top 40 AM radio. The couple I was sitting for had a tendency to stay out quite late, and in order to stay awake, I played with their Marantz stereo and experimented with FM. It was then that I discovered, among other bands, UFO. Fast forward 30+ years and my husband and I ended up sitting on their tour bus in San Francisco, sipping wine and chatting. What joy, with a legendary band. ❤️
It was general admission crowd of 2000 maybe. Couldn't have asked for a better venue. We arrived just after the opening band and were able to maneuver and get spots right next to the stage I was front row right next to the amp on the right side I was 10 feet from Michael Schenker. The greatest night of my entire life bar none!! I think I read somewhere this was bootleg video. When I first discovered this here on RU-vid I was ecstatic since then I probably watched it several hundred times. Every time I do I get so emotional because it was so historic it was epic!
that's why I refuse to pay outrageous ticket prices for huge stadium concerts nowadays, where you are designated spots within the pit... it's all or nothing for me... rock concerts used to be you choose how close to the stage you were willing to go
I saw this tour in England and couldn't believe how close they played/sounded it to the original strangers live album. Schenker is on fire. Never to be replaced band of legends.
Regardless of how great MS lead is on Rock Bottom of the Strangers Album…. His Solo on Rock Bottom off this DVD really encapsulates in a nut shell his electric guitar capabilities. Now I’m a 58 year old guitarist that has been following MS since i was a teenager and he is one of my top guitarist of all time and always will be. The Solo tho on Rock Bottom caught me a little by surprise for he is just firing on all cylinders that night! Thanks for posting 🎸!!
I was here. The whole band made themselves available after the show, for free, for autographs near the front lobby. The only thing I could think to tell Schenker was that his solo in Time On My Hands turned me into a guitar student at 12 years old. He looked a bit blank and then remembered the solo while staring down signing my CD and beamed..."AH, that was a pretty one!". I agreed.
I traveled to windy city to see this tour and even though I hated Chicago I loved the concert and the crowd was rocking. It's ashame that the reunion tour wasn't a bigger success because the Walk on Water album is a classic and UFO deserved to be much bigger in USA!
I was also at this show! man, what an outstanding concert that was! I ended up going to this show by myself as it was on a week night and all my friends had to work and did not want to go. I had the week off. Showed up to the Vic without a ticket, bought a ticket from a scalper and treated myself to one of the best concerts I ever saw!
Saw them years ago in Santa Cruz,me and my girlfriend at the time,and close friends. Great show. Played some of their tunes in our band. Wonder how they are doing these days? Oh ,ya ,met them at a record signing the day before at a record store in San Jose. Nice guys. Thank you UFO for great rockn music
Schenker is always perfect. Seen him many times, with his own band MSG. Saw him live in London Walk On Water tour 1995, with UFO. Schenker is the best melodic talented rock guitarist currently, & iv seen live many including Alex Lifeson, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Gary Moore, & Matthias Jabs, all superb guitarists in their own right. Schenker however, is superlative.
This is the classic UFO Strangers In The Night line up, it doesn’t get better. Sadly, Paul Raymond & Pete Way have passed on. Phil Mogg is in his ‘70s & had a heart attack in recent years, & disbanded the Vinnie Moore guitarist UFO 2-3 years ago. Laurence Archer was the only guitar player who correctly reproduced Schenker, & he only did one album & tour, High Stakes & Dangerous Men in 1992, which is a superb recording, including the awesome live cut Lights Out In Tokyo.
I was at this show!!! It was surreal to get to see Schenker play all of my favorites with UFO!!! I still have the ticket stub……27 years later. I was then lucky to attend an MSG show at House of Blues Chicago where I was able to meet Michael at the “meet & greet” after the show (RARE). He was very nice and I was able to get a couple of things signed! 😎👍🏻
I was at the house of blues for Micheal. Arcade in st Charles too. And saw him in garden City Michigan. Was like a hundred people for him there at the most. I got to strand nearly right in front of him.
remember they had to use my friends bandmtes equipment due to stuck semi of their equipment in snowstorm in utah many years ago at the terrace venue was an awesome show!
Yes this was one of the best shows I saw UFO do in the 30 years they came through Chicago. Saw them at SuperBowl of Rock ‘77 again in ‘78 at Randhurst ice arena and also “78 at the Amphitheater when they recorded Starngers live. This show was so up close and intimate it was like a personal concert just for you! Greatest band ever!
I saw them in February 2020 at the Rialto Theater in Joliet, IL on their 50th anniversary tour right before the world shut down due to the pandemic. What a great show.
Thanks for the upload! Michael flows like water here... clarity, control and fire too! The whole band sounds great !! Simon does a great job keeping it all together.❤
I was at this show. It was awesome to see them in such a small venue. I'll never forget there was a long line for the men's room, but the ladies room was wide open.
This is SO great. Thanks for posting this. What a great band. Glad they settled their differences and did WOW. Most underrated band EVER. Schenker was and always will be a monster guitarist. Shame on Phil for his hate on MS He's the only reason the band got where it was. Great vocalist though
I only seen them in concert once and it was at the Amphitheater in Chicago back in 1982 with a group called Saxon that came out first and then UFO 🛸 Started playing and It Was A Great Show but the only bad memory I have from this Concert was that the following day I had ringing in my ears 👂 and I’ve had it ever since that Concert over 42 years ago. I Wish The Rock n Roll Stations Would Play There Music Like They Use To Back In The Day !!!!!! You have a better chance of Hearing them on Sirius XM radio and even that is few and Far between 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I was there for 2 of the 4 performances. Stopped in 1000 Liquors a few months later and the guy behind the counter told me they burst in there one night, all of them quite hammered at the time, proceeded to grab a case of this, some bottles of wine of that, some whiskey as well, didn't even wait at the counter for a ring up, they just threw a $100 on the counter, told him to keep the change, and they walked out as fast as the walked in. The guy rang everything up at the cash machine and the total came out to $98 and some change!! Funny shit!
I got to play with Simon in a UFO Tribute in LA around 2006ish at a place called The Joint...what an honor that was!!! It's so awesome to play when you have a great drummer in the mix! He was very kind as well
Whoever witnessed this live, experienced a one of a kind performance. Speaking from a musicians point of view, the band is incredibly tight here. Every instrument is right in the pocket and Phil sounds great. Michael was at the very top of his game as a player at this stage in his career, and he plays every part just how it sounds on Strangers in the Night. He is on fire in the solo to rock bottom with some small changes, and he cannot play like that anymore. This was also before Michael changed his guitar tone, and he also plays more legato now, which I do not like as much.
Agree with you . Schenker was magical . Then something changed . Saw them the first time when they opened for Foreigner and I couldn't believe how great UFO was . That made me a fan .
Robbie, I can't tell you just how much you have made my year by posting this video!! When I saw that it was the Chicago concert at the Vic theater, it not only surprised the shit out of me, it brought tears to my eyes because of my private, personal memories of the night!! My very first concert was UFO at the Amphitheater in Chicago in, what I believe was, 1978 or 1979. Obviously, it was 1 or 2 years after the, "Strangers in the Night" live album had come out. Judas Priest was the opening band but it just so happened to be the tour that Schenker quit the band on. So many of us at the concert were so disappointed because, if I remember correctly, he quit right before the Chicago concert! Because we were too young to drive, my buddy's father had to drive us to the concert. We were so embarrassed by this that we had him drop us off a block from the Amphitheater so no one would see that "daddy" drove us. LOL So. UFO at the Amphitheater was my very first concert AND this UFO concert at the Vic theater was the very last concert that I would ever attend!! How fitting! Again, Robbie, thanks so very much for bringing back the memories of some of the best times of my life!!
Michael is the best I ever seen and heard. He always amazes me with his playing from different era`s. One can say that today he is at his best. He is the one and lonely because their is no one that creates and plays like him, period.
I played at the Vic theater I also played at the Aragon Ballroom Chicago has the best crowds the best audience bands love to come here but now they all decide they're going to play at the stadium I won't go to the stadium long live UFO
Awesome tour awesome album! Saw them in Santa Ana calif - then Ventura Calif and in my home city of San Diego . 3 awesome shows . Schenker is amazing !
59:53 I own Paul's blue SG standard, and this is the first time I've seen him playing it live, he always used an upside down right handed firebird when I used to go see UFO, thanks for this upload it made my day :o)
They ended up playing 5 nights in Chicago here. I spent 2 hours on the phone to get tickets. I'd have to find my stub to see what exact date I was at. Loudest crowd of over 30 somethings one could imagine.
I saw that tour at Penn's Peak in Pa. Eddie Trunk was hosting it. Got to hang with Vinnie Moore who knew my cousins and Rob DeLuca too. Great guys. Phil, Andy and Paul were busy signing VIP stuff ( gotta make the $$) but did take the time to stop by and say hello. I made a joke to Andy and he laughed about the bus... I tried not to be a fanboy but it was tough. What a magical night!!! 😊😊😊😊
A great show, but not the "Classic Lineup" which recorded Strangers In The Night, Andy Parker didn't tour, so it's Simon Wright on drums, who did a great job filling in.
@Bobo Clown No, it's not Andy, he was working with his family's business at the time, and didn't want to take on the rigors of touring. Plus he said while things were really good in the studio, he was nervous about touring with Michael, and Michael quitting mid-tour.
This is the definitive video of this tour! I saw it at A.L. Gators in S. Pasadena, Maryland outside of Baltimore. Seems like almost all my guitar buddies were there. It was oversold and Michael was literally in the crowd trying to play guitar. I heard he’s been hot tempered in the past but he just tried to ignore it
@@laurapauga8221 it was an unwritten law in those days to be at every cool show, because there werent that many. everybody came thru once a year and you just went. everybody at your school that was cool would be there at the show, bathroom lines and merch boths were where everybody saw each other, even though it was in chicago, you were around friends. not like today.
International Amphitheater, Chicago, 13th of October 1978 was the best concert ever, the first night of recording for the Strangers In The Night album.
WHEN BARDEN REJOINED FOR MIST OF BEAUTY TOUR I TRAVELED ALL OVER TO SEE THEM FOR A WEEK AND IT AS INCREDIBLE. I SAW UFO MSG MANY TIMES BUT THAT TOUR WAS ONE OF THE BEST.
I saw the '95 tour at a small venue, The Edge in Palo Alto Ca. It was a great show just like seeing them in '78 at the Day on the Green in Oakland except a lot closure up. Michael Schenker left UFO 1978 a few months later after a show in Palo Alto. I was fortunate to see UFO with Schenker twice (17 years apart) and a couple more times with Chapman.
Never got to see these guy's thanks. Pete Way is UFO. He's the only guy moving around out there. Michael is like leave me alone Pete I'm trying to play here. This was a time he was trying to get his shit back together. Thanks Again 👍
I can imagine them planning this tour : _Is it going to happen ?_ ......... _Michael's just said he's onboard. Hell yes, it's gonna happen and then some !_
@@spuds6423 Well, John went around for nearly a whole day wearing somebody else's hat and didn't notice until someone said "I didn't know you are a bishop". 🥳😍😜🫥🤬😴
I was at the concert in 78. International Amphitheatre 47 & Halstead in Chicago. Ciry Boy & Molly Hatchet were the opening acts. One of the best live concerts I ever been to. Saw UFO again when they released "No Place To Run" after Schenker left. Just wasn't the same.
Michael was on during a lot of this. I don't know of anyone else who could do the oldish Marshall sound as well. i like the rest of the band as well but still saying...
Saw some great show's,,,,,,,Sabbath in 78,,,Skynyrd in 75, Deep Purple in 75 with Nazareth and Montrose,,,,,many more , but never got the chance to see UFO, i dont think they toured alot in the south,,,,,,,,,The Wild, Willing and Innocent is one of my favorite UFO albums,,,,,cold black steel,,,,your last meal,,,the Hand of Fate has come,,,,,,killer band and in my High School day memories Forever
10:01 was the moment all us drunk & stoned Chicagoans REALIZED that We were REALLY Seeing Michael on stage... it was Aug. HOT Humid and the AC went out at the Vic.... why you see ALL those brand new fans on stage ....
I seen them at the vic too on this tour.....but i know i wasnt there for this night cuz the night i seen them they opened up by playing the 1st 6 songs in a rowno stop. off of the strangers album. Starting with natural thing and not hot and ready. Then they played come on everybody towards the end with crowd participation. We were standing in last row but still great cuz place is so small...it felt like i was back in 1979 again cuz they sounded so good. Glad i went cuz i guess michael left again about a month later and not sure if they even finished the rest of the tour. Pete way way awesome to watch too. Im a huge fan and only seen them once back in the late 70s at randhurst ice arena in mt prospect il. But paul chapman was in the band cuz michael just left. So when i heard they were back in 95 with michael i jumped all over that one Full disclosure. I do love the no place to run album with chapman too.
It’s a shame the reunion didn’t last longer than it did and unfortunately, 3 out of the last 4 tours the band did with Michael were cut short due to Michael’s problematic and unprofessional behaviour ( walking off stage mid set ) .
Holy shit! I was there! The night after my first date with the girl who would become my wife. I went back to her apartment after the show. Our first date lasted like two weeks. LOL
