So a coupla days back I decided to give Lights Out another listen and guess what? I love it! It’s the greatest heavy metal album ever! Okay, so it’s not as good as Kix’s debut LP, or Van Halen’s 1984 for that matter, but it packs a big dumb sonic punch that lights up my pleasure receptors every time I put it on.Īt times Lights Out rocks harder than those bozos in Foreigner ever would (compare “Too Hot to Handle” to “Hot-Blooded,” I dare ya!), at others it anticipates Def Leppard’s glossy pop-metal sheen. Shit, I didn’t even like Foghat, and what kinda way is that for a person to live? The snooty teenage me looked down on metal, thought it was dumb, but my good taste has gone to shit over the years and good thing, seeing as how good taste (and this has been scientifically proven!) takes all the fun out of life. UFO’s 1977 Lights Out was certainly an odd choice for something to ask for, seeing as how I never much dug hard rock or metal and didn’t even like Led Zeppelin. Those fuckers were always leading me down the primrose path. Hell, I have no idea what possessed me to ask for it in the first place. I suspect I listened to it once, went “Bleh,” and tossed into the discard pile. Recorded in 1974 at Atlanta’s Electric Ballroom, the multi-tracks for this concert were recently discovered in the Chrysalis vaults, and have been given a brand new mix at Abbey Road Studios.įeaturing rare live outings of ‘Give Her The Gun’, the pre-Chrysalis song ‘Prince Kujuku’, and most interestingly, UFO’s eight minute interpretation of John Lennon’s ‘Cold Turkey’, this gig offers a unique insight into the early days of this important and influential, British rock institution.Ĭompleted by the top ten breakthrough double live album, Strangers In the Night, recorded on Michael Schenker’s “farewell” tour, the package also includes liner notes based on a recent interview with UFO vocalist, Phil Mogg.How deep an impression did the British hard rock band UFO make on my teenage years? Well, I got this baby on 8-track for Christmas one year and I can’t remember a damn thing about it. As well as BBC radio sessions recorded for Bob Harris and John Peel, single edits and rare remixes, this collection boasts a previously unreleased 45 minute concert from UFO’s debut US tour. This 5 disc set chronologically charts UFO’s career, from the obscure 1973 German single ‘Give Her The Gun’, up to 1979’s hit single version of ‘Doctor Doctor’, backed with it’s live b-side, ‘On With The Action’ (available on CD for the first time).Ĭollecting together all five studio albums to feature wunderkid guitar virtuoso Michael Schenker (who was only 18 when he originally joined the band for 1974’s Phenomenon) this anthology also includes Force It (1975), No Heavy Petting (1976), Lights Out (1977) and Obsession (1978). Across 81 tracks, the set collects together all of the songs UFO recorded for Chrysalis Records during the 1970s. UFO's new set of five CDs, titled Chrysalis Years Volume 1 (1973-1979), is due for release on July 11th.
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