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Great album you've probably not heard

Allister Fiend | Baltimore, MD United States | 09/24/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I wore out my cassette copy of MSG's Perfect Timing back in the day. Years later I found it on CD and rediscovered what a great record it is. A few weeks later I ordered Save Yourself (save your $$) and then this one, which I never even knew existed until recently.



Note to Michael Schenker: probably not a great marketing idea to call this record MSG considering you already had an album called MSG released back in '81. Good way to confuse fans. Just look at the reviews for this disc here on Amazon--some of them are actually reviews of the '81 album. (Worthless trivia: Ratt did the same thing--an EP called RATT back in the 80's, then their big comeback disc a few years ago. Same title. Maybe they got this idea from Schenker when he played with Ratt as a sub for Robbin Crosby??? Told you it was worthless...)



In spite of the duplicate name, this album is really good. Jeff Pilson plays bass and James Kottak (ex-Kingdom Come, ex-Warrant, Scorpions) plays drums. The first tune, Eve, is the best song on the disc. I'm surprised I never heard it on the radio back then. Every album in this genre is apparently required to have at least a ballad or 2, and this disc is no exception.



The pairing of McAuley & Schenker was great, albeit short-lived. This 3rd disc was their last. Since then, Schenker has put out about 47 more albums with about as many line-ups, but none (in my opinion) match the quality of Perfect Timing or this MSG disc."