HERVE PICART CHRONICLE BEST MAGAZINE

HERVE PICART CHRONICLE BEST MAGAZINE April 1979 No. 129 Page 78
9 ° 33 rpm albums 1979 Ref: Phonogram 6641 912
The UFO has really been slow to take off. English hard this group has matured slowly and its modest early career has long been regarded as a series of group B. It is only with "Obsession" we realized that the Small UFO was grown, he was a pretty darn restless music, and he had two great talents in Phil Mogg, the singer and the young cute guitar murders, German Michael Schenker, who has since joined Scorpions. "Strange In The Night" is the last album with Schenker. So enjoy this double live album to discover this group which really worth. The hard rock of UFO is not of those stupid metallic races forward, heads down, these great roar hammered that waste energy instead of using it. If UFO full of vigor and does not hesitate to make you feel, it also has a strategy (can one speak of subtlety?) Who consists in providing its effects to those of fever the best performance by preparing carefully . UFO is these perverse group that caress and cajole before suddenly stab you and lacerate your breast. More than sadistic brutal, divinely this group plays with your nerves. In addition, he has his double live on this is excellent. The riffs are clear, precise, gleaming like a well-sharpened blade. The voices come out with a good relief keyboards are not buried in the storm; perfect balance. In this context, the group's compositions achieve outstanding efficiency and Michael Schenker only has to go up in long solos and dazzling lectures that confirm its value. Surely all those now delight in the "Tokyo Tapes" Scorpions will be delighted with this "Strangers In The Night" UFO, which is the same hot and lyrical vein. Geez, that old hard rock that punks were preparing to bury getting better and better. AC / DC, Van Halen, Angel, Scorpions, and finally, all the same, UFO: the new wave is not being where we thought she was!