UFO drummer Andy Parker is featured in a new interview with Metal-Rules.com. An excerpt is availabel below.

Q: What would you say is the biggest difference playing with your current guitar player Vinnie Moore compared to Michael Schenker?

Parker: "They're both incredible guitar players obviously, but for one thing Vinnie is not crazy. Vinnie is a solid guy, one thing I could not stand in UFO with Michael you never did know if you're going to finish the set, or the tour or whatever. With Michael it's one thing and down goes the guitar and he's gone, I can't deal with that. The whole thing about music for me, because I love to play, is that it's got to be enjoyable and when you're worried about if something going to happen it isn't. That's what happened when they toured for Walk On Water with Michael; they had a lot of problems. He disappeared two or three times in that period. With Vinnie you know that he's going to do the set and that's kind of a good feeling."

Q: Was Michael always behaving like that, even in the beginning, or did he become that way more as time went on?

Partker: "You have to understand that from 1974 to 1979 he got in there and he worked. We toured continuously, we toured the States and he did a lot of work. It just got too much for him, I think, and I do understand. It's not the life for everybody, being on the road for months on end away from your family, it's not easy. So I do understand the problem, but when you're in a band there are a lot of people relying on you, it's not just the guys in the band, it's the crew, it's the lights, it's the sound, it's the agents, it's the managers, the people that pay to get the ticket. It's a serious thing and you've got to make a commitment. I have to say he got worse over the years. I can't remember when it was when he first disappeared, in 1978 perhaps, on the eve of an American tour and we had to get Paul Chapman to do it. He'd done good four years, when we had Phenomenon, Force It, No Heavy Petting and all those albums and we had toured with them continuously. Michael worked really hard and he was great. I'm gonna tell you one thing, and I don't tell this to many people, he's the only guitar player, and I can't remember where the show was, but I remember that we were playing and he was soloing and his solo was so amazing that I stopped playing, I kind of lost it because I was listening to him on the monitor and that tells you just how good the guy was."

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