To keep that V in position
Ok, so he just veed in his pants, that makes a difference, danke.
Schenker is a gifted rhythm (often forgotten) and lead guitarist. He can also write a song or two.
But he's also plain weird and totally naive. It's like UFO robbed him out of the cradle to drag him on tour around the world by his hair and there is a certain part of "adolescence merging into young adulthood" missing in his development to this day. Some of the stuff he says here is plain delusional. He reminds me of Britney Spears to an extent.
Get over being the little brother - Rudolf Schenker built the success of his Scorpions on being consistent, something that always escaped his baby brother.
And when I learned about the Scorpions in the mid-seventies in Germany, no one spoke of Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth and his Hendrix style was all the rage. Lonesome Crow (the album with Michael) had been a gruesome flop. The Scorps climbed to national attention with Fly to the Rainbow (which to be fair still featured some Michael compositions) and, especially, In Trance. You would read about Michael in the papers when he was once again AWOL from UFO and nobody knew whether he was still alive. At the same time, the Scorpions were gigging every little shit hole left and right in Germany, France and the Benelux countries, cementing their live act reputation.
I even saw him with the Scorpions on the Lovedrive tour. He was clearly unhappy within the Scorpions and I was - being used to Uli Jon Roth's awesome solos - underwhelmed by his very introvert playing and stage presence. It was clear it wouldn't last.
Finally, apologies for his heaffy äkzent - after close to 45 years living in either the US or the UK, you would think that he would no longer sound like an extra from a WW II Nazi movie.
