Episode 233: U.F.O. Doctor Doctor year 1974. English Version.
00:00:00 - HALROB CLASSICS their stories today we have to call the doctor finding classic rocks all time the most incredible stories and anecdotes musicians Bruce Dickinson want to see us and you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it
00:00:57 - It's really a kind of a privilege to be, you know, 51 years old and being able to go out just still to have a voice.
00:01:13 - Let me.
00:01:14 - Well, it's spelled differently than everything.
00:01:15 - It's called orgasmatron.
00:01:18 - Rudd Helford.
00:01:19 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important trying Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley but piano was inconceivable I mean you can't you can't just got by a piano his guitar is much more accessible I think I was very driven period it was to compensate to make myself feel more worthy
00:01:48 - Ufo is a British hard rock and heavy metal band founded in 1968 in London, England.
00:02:14 - The group began their career in the early 1970s, with a hard rock-oriented sound, but with hints of space rock and psychedelic rock.
00:02:22 - Dr. Dr., written by the band's guitarist Michael Schenker and original singer Phil
00:02:27 - Mogg, and released as a single from the album Phenomenon in 1974, entered the UK Singles
00:02:34 - Chart.
00:02:36 - The first album Phenomenon of the Schenker years, and the third studio album in UFO's long history is probably also one of the most famous. Without a doubt, the young Michael
00:02:45 - Schenker and his guitar prowess hit the hard rock scene like a time bomb. Phil Mogg, at least on this album, behaves like a good vocalist, that beginning, that unmistakable guitar phrasing.
00:02:58 - Iron Maiden uses Dr. Dr as the entrance music in all their concerts. Everyone knows we play Dr. Dr, before we go onstage, explain lead singer Bruce Dickinson at
00:03:08 - It is February 11, 2022, spoken word show at the Vic Theater in Chicago.
00:03:13 - So, before the intro tape, there's five minutes of Doctor Doctor.
00:03:18 - It's brilliant, so people are like, oh, quick, stop peeing, drink the last pint, go to your seats.
00:03:25 - Sounds Doctor Doctor.
00:03:28 - They were the greatest exponents of the new wave of Anglo-Saxon heavy metal along with Saxon, Iron Maiden or Def Leppard and I think they have also been a band that has not been sufficiently recognized as such.
00:03:40 - Without a doubt, this song has become a rock classic over the years.
00:03:45 - Michael Schenker tells us.
00:03:48 - I had just discovered that the echoplex, that when you play, a tape goes around, but once it goes around after a certain amount of time, you can add another guitar to it and then you can add another guitar to it
00:04:04 - And wow, that was amazing.
00:04:10 - I just made up a chord progression.
00:04:13 - Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:04:17 - And then I played.
00:04:17 - Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:04:22 - The loop goes around, harmony.
00:04:24 - Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
00:04:26 - And so on.
00:04:27 - And I went like, wow, this is great.
00:04:30 - It sounded so good.
00:04:34 - I recorded it on this cheap tape recorder I had and on the way to crystals with Phil and the others, I remember at the undercon station on the escalator, I switched it on, listen to this, oh that sounds great, hey Michael can we meet somewhere, you know can we meet and Phil came over to my place, I just moved in there basically and he came into my place and I remember like you know I had a table here first sitting over there I'm sitting over here so he wanted me to figure you know play the chords without the guitar so that he had something to to figure out the melody for his vocals and stuff like that and so that's what I did and then he took it home and and then basically we have done that with quite a few songs in general you know that was kind of our I would come try me was understand the same way I wrote an instrumental and it ended up so good that Phil wanted to take out the instrumental and just let him hear the chords and see what he can come up with and he would come up with something really good and then we just started him singing over the same chords until we got you know after two verses and choruses we inserted the the the instrumental the part of the song.
00:06:05 - Songs and anecdotes.
00:06:10 - Memories, laughter and tears.
00:06:24 - In classic rocks all time, the rock podcast.
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00:07:27 - Doctor, doctor, please
00:07:31 - Oh, the mess I'm in
00:07:34 - Doctor, doctor, please
00:07:38 - Oh, the mess I'm in
00:07:41 - She walked up to me
00:07:44 - And really stole my heart
00:07:48 - And then she started
00:07:51 - To take my body apart
00:07:55 - Living, loving, I'm on the run, far away from you
00:08:02 - Living, loving, I'm on the run, so far away from you
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00:08:38 - She's turning paranoid
00:08:42 - That's not a situation
00:08:45 - For an unnerved boy
00:09:08 - Oh, oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh-oh Dr. Dr. please, oh, oh,
00:09:20 - The mess I'm in Dr. Dr. please oh, the mess I'm in
00:09:28 - But you look so wrangled as I crawl and crush your floor
00:09:36 - She's got the strength
00:09:39 - But I can't take any more
00:09:42 - Living, loving, I'm on the road
00:09:45 - So far away from you
00:09:49 - Living, loving, I'm on the road
00:09:52 - So far away from you
00:10:06 - Dr. Dr. please, Dr. Dr. please
00:10:13 - Dr. Dr. please, Dr. Dr. please
00:10:19 - Dr. Dr. please, Dr. Dr. please
00:10:26 - Dr. Dr. Dr. please