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.

01:29Didi-di-di-di-di, didi-di.

01:30Oh, that sounds great.

01:31Hey, Michael, can we meet somewhere, you know, can we meet?

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

01:33I just moved in there basically, and he came into my place.

01:35And then, he came into my place, and then he came into my place, and I was looking for

01:51a full display of bands.

01:54to my place i just moved in there basically and he came into my place and i remember like

02:00you know i had a table here first sitting over there i'm sitting over here so he wanted me to

02:06figure you know play the chords without the guitar so that he had something to

02:10to figure out the melody for his vocals and stuff like that and so that's what i did

02:15and then he took it home and and then basically we have done that with quite a few songs

02:22in general you know that was kind of our i would come up try me was done exactly the same way i

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

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

02:39really good and then we just started him singing over the same chords until we got you know after

02:45two verses and choruses uh we inserted the the the instrumental part of the song

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

03:15you know to be honest doctor doctor i'm not really sure how well people took that song in the

03:29beginning and i didn't focus on it either i mean you know we were playing gigs i wasn't there for

03:36doctor doctor i was there because i enjoyed you know playing and and playing lead guitar and so on and

03:42you know um took about 10 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

04:12yeah

04:35yeah