![]() ![]() All this is spiced up by rock ballads that we need to go look for these days first. The album Lights Out virtually bulges with stellar, vintage tracks, superb riffs ‘made by Schenker’, and powerful lyrics. Nor was their style blues-tinted and bleary-eyed from drug overuse as Led Zeppelin and their ilk of that time. Straight and true with a crunch, but not as hard-assed as AC/DC ever were. Lights Out gets you this special brand of Hard Rock with a sharp edge and Michael’s super-precise guitar play. Once out of UFO in 1978 for the first time, Schenker moved to found the Michael Schenker Group or MSG. That he never managed to stay for longer periods with the band is a pity. Other albums of that period were No Heavy Petting or – then again – Force It. The 1977 Lights Out is the fourth record of this series. Out of the nine albums recorded with UFO, five of them originated from this era. The first stint – the aforementioned Schenker years – were Michael’s longest continued and most productive engagement with the band. His personal issues, however, created enough dissent to have him hired and dismissed several times over many years. His talent undoubtedly helped UFO to shine on the international stage. Anecdotally, Michael’s brother Rudolf still plays for the Scorpions to this day. Michael’s relationship with UFO was spotty, though. Who better to choose than German-born Michael Schenker, a founding member of the Scorpions. Back in the ’70s, a super-gifted young lad, almost too young to be that good a guitarist, joined this band led by Phil Mogg in search of a riff maker. One of the best periods in the distinguished career of UFO are indisputably the Schenker years. They have created great, great Hard Rock over time and helped pave the way into what is today called metal. They are inferior in quality, worthless in collectable value, a total waste of money, and should be avoided at all costs.I admit, the British rock band UFO is one of my long-time favorites. The enthusiasm of mini-sleeve collecting must be tempered, however, with avoiding fake mini-sleeves manufactured in Russia and distributed throughout the world, primarily on eBay. The obi's are collectable, and should not be discarded.Īll mini-sleeve releases are limited edition, but re-pressings/re-issues are becoming more common (again, not always). Bonus tracks are only listed on the obi, maintaining the integrity of the original LP artwork. The obi lists the Japan street date of that particular release, the catalog number, the mastering info, and often the original album's release date. There also may be bonus tracks unavailable elsewhere.Įach Japan mini-sleeve has an "obi" ("oh-bee"), a removable Japan-language promotional strip. Then, there's the sonic quality: Often (but not always), mini-sleeves have dedicated remastering (20-Bit, 24-Bit, DSD, K2/K2HD, and/or HDCD), and can often (but not always) be superior to the audio on the same title anywhere else in the world. An English-language lyric sheet is always included, even if the original LP did not have printed lyrics. Also, anything contained in the original LP, such as gatefolds, booklets, lyric sheets, posters, printed LP sleeves, stickers, embosses, special LP cover paper/inks/textures and/or die cuts, are precisely replicated and included. The disc is packaged inside a 135MM X 135MM cardboard precision-miniature replica of the original classic vinyl-LP album. Mini-sleeve CDs are manufactured in Japan under license. ![]() Have you ever lamented the loss of one of the 20th Century's great art forms, the 12" vinyl LP jacket? Then "mini-LP-sleeve" CD's may be for you. So, unless you're just dying to have the LP mini-sleeve for five times the price, don't knock yourself out. This is the same master used for the 2000 version. So, you bought the 2000 EMI remaster & now you think you have to do it all over again? ![]()
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