McAuley Schenker Group

The McAuley Schenker Group ( MSG short ) was a hard rock band that existed from 1986 to 1993. Its founders and principal members were the Irish singer Robin McAuley and the German guitarist Michael Schenker.

Career

After he had put his own band in 1985 Michael Schenker Group from private and health reasons on ice, sought the former Scorpions and UFO guitarist Michael Schenker for his next project an equal partner. He found him in the former lead singer of the Irish band Grand Prix, Robin McAuley, of and at that time with the launched by the German producer Frank Farian rock formation FAR Corporation and the cover version of Led Zeppelin track " Stairway to Heaven" in England Germany had a top 10 hit. In order to maintain the on the music scene now familiar abbreviation of his former band, MSG, offered to McAuley Schenker to occupy the first part of the band name with his last name. McAuley agreed after some thought.

In the further course of the year, McAuley and Schenker presented with the guitarist and keyboardist Steve Mann, bassist Rocky Newton and drummer Bodo Schopf a music technically advanced band together in 1986 on the German version of the Monsters of Rock festival delivered an impressive debut, and then album Perfect Timing recorded, which was released in 1987. This was followed by a Japanese tour as the opening act of Whitesnake.

Following a tour as the opening act for Def Leppard in 1988, the band returned to the studio and recorded their second album Save Yourself, which was released in 1989. After Perfect Timing was granted by the initially surviving live support little commercial success, made ​​it the McAuley Schenker Group still, among other things, the success of the follow-up single Anytime in the U.S. charts to address with this work a larger number of buyers. Nevertheless, there were within the band, the first cracks, as in the course of 1990 first Schopf and later husband and Newton left the band due to disputes with management. As a replacement McAuley Schenker and bassist Jeff Pilson dedicated to ( Dokken and Dio ) and drummer James Kottak (Michael Lee Firkins, Kingdom Come, Warrant, Scorpions ). For the keyboard parts of the next album Jesse Harms was committed as a studio musician.

Although the third album MSG was already completed in the summer of 1991, the American record company refused to release the album in order to await the developments at the currently very strong standing in motion rock market. McAuley Schenker and then went along with the Shark Iceland guitarist Spencer Sercombe on a promotional tour, during which old and new pieces were presented in a purely acoustic version. The response was so good that even an acoustic EP was released, entitled Nightmare, which included the single of the same and some new and old pieces in acoustic guise.

In the spring of 1992, MSG was finally published yet. Worn down by the constant friction management to McAuley and Schenker, however, had now grown apart. To fulfill contractual obligations, they released in 1993 following their last tour, the album Unplugged live, a recording of the show in Anaheim, California as part of the acoustic tour in 1991. Afterwards, the band broke up.

Michael Schenker returned briefly to UFO, focusing since 1995 but again give priority to the newly formed Michael Schenker Group. Robin McAuley began a solo career and also contributed guest vocals to several songs on samplers. In July 2006 he was confirmed as the new lead singer of the American rock band Survivor.

Discography

  • Perfect Timing - 1987
  • Save Yourself - 1989
  • M.S.G. - 1992
  • Nightmare - 1992
  • Unplugged Live - 1992
Rock music Singing Bass guitar Electronic keyboard UFO (Band) Kingdom Come (band) Warrant (American band) Survivor (Band)
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