Michael Schenker - Doctor, Doctor: The Kulick Sessions - Guitar Master
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Artist: Michael SchenkerEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Cleopatra
Soundtracks:
- Save Yourself
- Finding My Baby
- All Shook Up
- Blood of the Sun
- Doctor Doctor
- War Pigs
- Im Not Talking
- Money
- Out in the Fields
- Hair of the Dog
- I Don't Live Today
- Politician
- Doctor Doctor [*][Instrumental]
- War Pigs [*][Instrumental]
Free Music Notes for Doctor, Doctor: The Kulick Sessions - Guitar Master
Free Music Review: a reissued set of cover tunes, from the prodigious Mr. Schenker . . .
Hit: 4 Stars
In a career that spans nearly forty years, Michael Schenker has been one of the most influential and productive guitarists in heavy rock and metal. An immensely talented musician, through the years Schenker has explored a number of styles from acoustic to electric, playing in bands like Scorpions and UFO, leading his own band MSG, and as a solo artist.
The Kulick Sessions (2008) contains the same material found on the 2005 MSG album Heavy Hitters, but with four additional tracks. The material is primarily cover tunes featuring the versatile guitarist playing some of his favorite songs, with an all star lineup of featured vocalists and musicians. The collection of rock classics is given the full Schenker treatment, as Michael stretches his musical wings, lacing the tunes with his blistering lead work.
Among the new tracks is a faster version more energized version of Save Yourself, with Robin McAuley on vocals, and Schenker providing supercharged leads that are more furious than the 1989 original. Another terrific addition is a cover of Rush's Finding My Way, with Sebastian Bach on vocals. The remaining bonus tracks are the album versions of Doctor Doctor and War Pigs, with the vocal tracks removed.
In general the guitars and vocals dominate in the mix, with the bass way back and hardly audible. Like most collections of cover tunes, there some hits and some misses, when it comes to capturing the spirit of the originals.
Pink Floyd's Money, features Tommy Shaw singing, and Edgar Winter on sax, but doesn't come close to capturing the vibe of the original. Elvis Presley's All Shook Up, is given a totally modern reworking with Joe Lynn Turner singing, but is something of an anomaly here. With so many other versions already recorded, unless vocalist Jeff Scott Soto absolutely insisted, selecting Doctor Doctor over all the other UFO songs available, seems like wasting an opportunity to do something really new.
An driving version of Nazareth's Hair Of The Dog, with aggressive vocals by Paul Di'Anno, reaches out and grabs you by the throat. Mountain's Blood Of The Sun, featuring Leslie West singing, has tons of Schenker's ultra smooth guitarwork. With Gary Barden's vocals, and minus the keyboards of the original, Gary Moore's Out In the Fields sounds stripped down, and quite edgy and energetic. Schenker's style doesn't have much in common with Tony Iommi, but featuring the screeching vocals of Tim "Ripper" Owens, War Pigs is far less dark, but is still a pretty interesting listen. Multi-talented Jeff Pilson is underrated as a singer, but he does a fine impersonation of Jack Bruce's singing style in Cream's Politician. For more of Jeff's singing look for the Lynch/Pilson album, Wicked Underground (2003).
Overall, this is still a solid collection with plenty of incendiary guitar from the mad axeman. Apparently there was an issue with releasing Heavy Hitters as an MSG album, which it clearly was not, hence this subsequent release under Michael Schenker's name. If you already have Heavy Hitters, a rebuy for essentially two songs, probably is not warranted, but for others interested in hearing Schenker doing more cover tunes (similar to the Endless Jam recordings), this might be worth checking out.
Doctor, Doctor: The Kulick Sessions - Guitar Master Poster
1. Save Yourself feat. Robin McAuley (The McAuley-Schenker Group)2. Finding My Way feat. Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
3. All Shook Up feat. Joe Lynn Turner (Rainbow)
4. Blood Of The Sun feat. Leslie West (Mountain)
5. Doctor, Doctor feat. Jeff Scott Soto (Yngwie Malmsteen)
6. War Pigs feat. Tim Ripper Owens (ex-Judas Priest)
7. I m Not Talking feat. Mark Slaughter (Slaughter)
8. Money feat. Tommy Shaw (Styx)
9. Out In The Fields feat. Gary Barden (Michael Schenker Group)
10. Hair Of The Dog feat. Paul Dianno (ex-Iron Maiden)
11. I Don t Live Today feat. Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)
12. Politician feat. Jeff Pilson (ex-Dokken)
BONUS TRACKS
13. Doctor Doctor (Instrumental Version)
14. War Pigs (Instrumental Version)
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