Guitar legend MICHAEL SCHENKER (MSG, ex-UFO) is featured in a new interview with Classic Rock Revisited founder Jeb Wright. An excerpt is available below:

Jeb: I saw you in Oklahoma when you sat in with the SCORPIONS and you and your brother were both smiling at each other throughout the songs. It was not always that easy.

Michael: "I don’t know if Rudolf realizes this as much as I do, but we had two visions. When I was 16, he was already 21, and I knew what I wanted. He also always knew what he wanted. Our visions were slightly different. My vision was to focus on the guitar and his was to focus on the band. The funny thing is that forty years later, we have kept our direction and we have focused on what we originally focused on. That is one of the reasons that we didn’t do our journey together, which I suppose many people would have liked to see. I’m not sure he is really aware of it but I am very aware of it. We could not have fulfilled our visions as accurately as we did if we had not done it that way. It was important for both of us to go our different ways. His vision is very strong but my vision requires different surroundings and a different type of momentum; it is a different journey. It would have been very much torture if we had tried to fulfill our visions together. We would have clashed."

Jeb: Rudolf told me last year that there will be a Schenker and Schenker album.

Michael: "Yes and the reason for this is because we’ve completed, more or less, our individual visions. Now, since we’ve done what we needed to do, we can relax. We have accomplished what we needed to do and it is now time to do something like that."

Click here for the complete interview.

The tracklisting for Michael Schenker's new album, Temple Of Rock, is as follows:

'Intro'

'How Long'

'The End Of An Era'

'Saturday Night'

'Fallen Angel'

'Hangin' On'

'With You'

'Miss Claustrophobia'

'Scene Of Crime'

'Lovers Sinfony-Speed'

'Stormin' In'

'Speed'

'Before The Devil Knows You're Dead'

'How Long' (Guitar Battle Version)

'Remember' (Bonus Track for Japan)

“The Temple of Rock is within me", says Michael, "where I create since I was introduced to the amazing invention of the distorted guitar which is for me the most enjoyable and the best possible way to express myself. The rock guitar sound that I fell in love with, mostly expressed as lead breaks, is what I have nurtured and treasured all of my life. Combined with the infinite spring from within and the amazing musicians around me I keep expressing an on going development of my art (being)."

“With Temple of Rock", Michael adds, "I am entering a new stage of my life, a new level of existence enjoying life more than ever, reaping the joy of all sorts of developments from the past. These days I just want to go out there, play and have fun. Also, it seems to me that collectively, with true expressive makers of rock music, we have been building the external Temple Of Rock for many years and have now come to the point of putting on the roofing and celebrating the almost completion of the Temple. All generations of this period are meeting all over the world on one stage it seems celebrating an era of "hand make rock", which will never be the same again due to invention of new technology but of course New Temples and New Wonders will arise to enjoy expressions in new ways”.

Lineup:

Michael Schenker - Guitars

Michael Voss - Vocals

Herman Rarebell - Drums

Pete Way - Bass

Wayne Findlay - Keyboards

Also featuring:

Schenker Brothers

William Shatner (Captain Kirk from Star Trek)

Leslie West (MOUNTAIN)

Michael Amott (ARCH ENEMY)

Doogie White (ex-RITCHIE BLACKMORE, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN)

Robin McAuley (SURVIVOR, ex-MSG)

Don Airey (DEEP PURPLE)

Paul Raymond (UFO, ex -)

Simon Phillips (TOTO, MSG, ex-JEFF BECK)

Carmine Appice (MSG, ex-Jeff Beck)

Chris Slade (MSG, ex-AC/DC)

Chris Glenn (MSG, ex-ALEX HARVEY)

Neil Murray (MSG, ex-WHITESNAKE, ex-GARY MOORE)

Brian Tichy (Whitesnake)

Elliott ”Dean” Rubinson (Owner of Dean Guitars, MSG, Michael Schenker)

Schenker's new song, 'Miss Claustrophobia', from the upcoming Temple Of Rock album, can be heard in the YouTube clip below: