Listening to this album right now, and it kicks ass!! Great songs and you can tell that it's 100% live!! Michael Schenker just shreads on the guitar!! Listen to Rock Bottom!!
They were in they're prime with that lineup for Strangers.
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Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
They were in they're prime with that lineup for Strangers.
Check your pm's allmanfan21.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
I was 10 when this album came out. Outside of Too Hot To Handle for a brief time in the late '70s, they were not getting real airplay in the US and not doing much touring here either after 1980. For those reasons I didn't find this album or UFO for a good 4 years later...via my older brother via his friend.
As a fan of late '70s / early '80s AC/DC, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Rush, Black Sabbath, and Ozzy, getting exposed to Strangers In the Night was like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls. We couldn't believe they weren't as big as the bands we followed 1981-1984 (in fact, they weren't well known at all).
By the end of High School in 1987, my friends & I were devoted followers of this album and lineup and to a degree some songs that came later. We actually worked through a couple insiders to get as many UFO references as possible into our school yearbook.
This record really served as a "Best Of UFO" and the sound quality/performances were stronger in most cases than the originals. I'm pretty sure it received some studio doctoring like most live albums of the mid/late '70s. Phil Mogg was never a heavy metal screamer. His vocals have a straight up blues rock approach, while he's surrounded by high flying but tasteful Schenker acrobatics, wrapped around some good melodies and choruses.
Yeah, fan here.
The was one of the cool albums to play at many HS parties back in the day. It will always be in my top 10. Rock On! 
Love it also. There are actually lots of shows out there for trade/download that are even better. Schenker can really tear it up.
Thanks for the post. I have it in my collection but it's been at least two years since I've pulled it out of the rack. I will, soon.
I saw the original UFO lineup open for Steppenwolf at Pauley Pavilion (UCLA) in 1974. Yes, they were great. I had no idea who they were going in.........they never got much respect and have been completely ignored by mass media. I'm ashamed to say that to this day I've never seen them again.
This is one of my "Oh Yeah" albums.
About half way through Schenker's first solo, I find myself saying "Oh yeah!" aloud to myself.
I continue to have oh yeah moments through out...:)
Thanks for the post. I have it in my collection but it's been at least two years since I've pulled it out of the rack. I will, soon.
I saw the original UFO lineup open for Steppenwolf at Pauley Pavilion (UCLA) in 1974. Yes, they were great. I had no idea who they were going in.........they never got much respect and have been completely ignored by mass media. I'm ashamed to say that to this day I've never seen them again.
Pauley Pavilion! Right on! Bet that had to have been a blast. Unfortunately the first year I attended UCLA, they stopped having concerts at PP. I think it had to do with the Dead's last gig there… oh well!!
