"Unplugged" Live

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"Unplugged" Live
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Live album by
ReleasedOctober 1992
Recorded25 March 1992
VenueThe Celebrity Theatre, Anaheim, California
Genre Rock, acoustic, instrumental
Length50:30
Label Impact (US)
EMI (Europe and Japan)
Producer Robin McAuley and Michael Schenker
McAuley Schenker Group chronology
Nightmare: The Acoustic M.S.G.
(1992)
"Unplugged" Live
(1992)
Michael Schenker chronology
Nightmare: The Acoustic M.S.G.
(1992)
"Unplugged" Live
(1992)
Thank You
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 4/10 [2]

"Unplugged" Live is a live album by the McAuley Schenker Group, recorded in California, during a tour with a completely acoustic set. Michael Schenker released this live album at the height of "unplugged" mania in the early 1990s, revising his blistering guitar antics as reflective, nylon-string, semi-classical ballads. The album features Shark Island guitarist Spencer Sercombe on second guitar and backing vocals. "Unplugged" Live is the final release of the McAuley Schenker Group, which disbanded in 1993; Robin McAuley got married and retired from the music scene for a few years, while Michael Schenker began working on instrumental solo projects. [3]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Anytime" Robin McAuley, Steve Mann5:42
2."We Believe in Love" Michael Schenker, McAuley6:06
3."What Happens to Me"Schenker, McAuley4:54
4."Bad Boys"Schenker, McAuley4:01
5."Gimme Your Love"McAuley, Rocky Newton3:59
6."Natural Thing"Schenker, Phil Mogg 4:55
7."Perrier - formerly Courvoiser Concert"Schenker, Gary Barden 1:53
8."When I'm Gone"McAuley, Jesse Harms 4:52
9."Nightmare"Schenker, McAuley4:44
10."Doctor Doctor"Schenker, Mogg4:27
11."Lights Out"Schenker, Mogg, Andy Parker, Pete Way 5:21
Total length:50:30
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Paradise"Schenker, McAuley4:24
13."Only You Can Rock Me"Way, Schenker, Mogg4:25

Personnel

Production

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