Michael Schenker tells the story about how he came up with the classic riff for UFO's Doctor Doctor.
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00:10 I had just discovered that echoplex, that when you play,
00:23 a tape goes round, but once it goes around after a certain amount of time,
00:29 you can add another guitar to it, and then you can add another guitar to it.
00:34 And wow, that was amazing.
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00:47 I just made up a chord progression.
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00:59 And then I played.
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01:04 The loop goes round, harmony.
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01:08 And so on.
01:09 And I went like, wow, this is great.
01:13 It sounded so good.
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01:24 I recorded it on this cheap tape recorder I had.
01:32 And on the way to Christmas with Phil and the others,
01:37 I remember at the Undercon station on the escalator, I switched it on.
01:43 Hey, listen to this.
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01:46 Wow, that sounds great.
01:48 Hey, Michael, can we meet somewhere?
01:50 Can we meet?
01:51 And so Phil came over to my place.
01:54 I just moved in there, basically.
01:57 And he came into my place, and I remember I had a table here.
02:01 Phil's sitting over there, I'm sitting over here.
02:04 So he wanted me to play the chords without the guitar, so
02:09 that he had something to figure out the melody for his vocals and stuff like that.
02:14 And so that's what I did.
02:15 And then he took it home.
02:16 And then basically, we have done that with quite a few songs in general.
02:23 That was kind of our, I would come up, Try Me was done exactly the same way.
02:27 I wrote an instrumental, and it ended up so good that Phil wanted to
02:34 take out the instrumental and just let him hear the chords and
02:37 see what he can come up with.
02:38 And he would come up with something really good.
02:40 And then we just started him singing over the same chords until we got,
02:45 after two verses and choruses, we inserted the instrumental part of the song.
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03:12 >> To be honest, Doctor, Doctor,
03:23 I'm not really sure how well people took that song in the beginning.
03:30 And I didn't focus on it either.
03:32 I mean, we were playing gigs.
03:35 I wasn't there for Doctor, Doctor.
03:37 I was there because I enjoyed playing and playing lead guitar and so on.
03:42 And took about ten years before Doctor, Doctor did anything really,
03:49 because I think once it made it on the live album, I think that's when it took off.
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