I don’t put myself into that situation. I play and discover. You have to imagine a kid in a sandbox. You’re just having fun. You’re not expecting anything; you’re not looking for anything. You’re not following a trend; you don’t do something that needs to be similar to something else. It is actually from within yourself, which is endless. It’s like a kaleidoscope—you shake it and you have a bunch of new ways of doing things. So I think this block only happens to people who expect something, or who want something or are chasing something or who are trying to write something that sells or whatever. If you don’t look at all of these aspects, if you’re just having fun with notes, it doesn’t happen.
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Michael Schenker
Rock guitarist
Germany · b. 1955
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Michael Schenker is a German guitar virtuoso who made his recorded debut at age 16 on the Scorpions’ Lonesome Crow album. He quickly rose to fame as the guitarist of the English hard rock band UFO while influencing the entire generation of guitar players that would define 1980s heavy metal. He returned to the Scorpions briefly in 1979 for their classic album Lovedrive before forming the Michael Schenker Group, which lasted until 2010. He currently leads the band Michael Schenker Fest.
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