Michael Schenker 'Doctor Doctor' - The Story Behind The Song | Classic Rock | Louder - video Dailymotion

Michael Schenker tells the story about how he came up with the classic riff for UFO's Doctor Doctor.

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00:00I had just discovered that echo plex, that when you play, a tape goes round, but once

00:26it goes around after a certain amount of time, you can add another guitar to it, and then

00:33you can add another guitar to it, and wow, that was amazing.

00:37I just made up a chord progression, and then I play, the loop goes around, a harmony, the

01:06harmony, and so on, and I went like, wow, this is great, it sounded so good.

01:13I recorded it on this cheap tape recorder I had, and on the way to Christmas with Phil,

01:20and the others, I remember at the Undercorn station on the escalator, I switched it on.

01:27Hey, listen to this.

01:29Oh, that sounds great.

01:30Hey, Michael, can we meet somewhere?

01:31Can we meet?

01:32And so, Phil came over to my place.

01:33I just moved in there basically, and he came into my place and said, hey, Michael, can we

01:36meet somewhere?

01:37Can we meet?

01:38And so, Phil came over to my place.

01:42I just moved in there basically, and he came into my place, and I remember like, you know,

01:49I had a table here, Phil's sitting over there, I'm sitting over here, so he wanted me to figure,

01:54you know, play the chords without the guitar, so that he had something to figure out the melody,

02:01for his vocals and stuff like that, and so that's what I did, and then he took it home, and then basically,

02:19we have done that with quite a few songs in general, you know, that was kind of our, I would come up,

02:25and Try Me was done exactly the same way.

02:27I wrote an instrumental, and it ended up so good that Phil wanted to take out the instrumental

02:35and just let him hear the chords and see what he can come up with, and he would come up with something

02:40really good, and then we just started him singing over the same chords until we got, you know,

02:45after two verses and choruses, we inserted the instrumental part of the song.

02:55I'm on the road, so far away from you and you and you, baby

03:01I'm on the road, so far away from you

03:07You know, to be honest, Dr. Doctor, I'm not really sure how well people took that song in the beginning,

03:30and I didn't focus on it either, I mean, you know, we were playing gigs, I wasn't there for Dr. Doctor,

03:36I was there because I enjoyed, you know, playing and playing lead guitar and so on, and, you know,

03:45took about ten years before Dr. Doctor did anything, really, because I think once it came,

03:51once it made it on the live album, I think that's when it took off.

03:55Living, I'm on the road, so far away from you, yeah

04:03all right

04:12and I'm on the road,都有

04:14and two

04:15I'm on the road, super cuckoo and big

04:18and incredible

04:31Yeah!