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LET IT ROLL - INTERVISTA CON PHIL MOGG DEGLI UFO

After more than 30 years of career, what is the secret that allows the UFOs to fly so high again?
"Alcohol! (Laughter) Seriously, there's never been anything planned. I think none of us imagined to last so long: high and low, dropout and meetings have come to strengthen us.
Perhaps the complementarity of our characters .... "

Da dove deriva il nome della band?
"Da un famoso locale di Londra, che si chiamava, appunto, U.F.O.".

Se non ricordo male era un club dove si "viaggiava" parecchio, ma non in senso tradizionale…
"Assolutamente sì!".

Quanto è stata consapevole la trasposizione di questi… "viaggi" nello space rock degli esordi?
"All'epoca, io, il chitarrista (Mick Bolton, ndr) e il bassista (Pete Way, ndr) vivevamo a Londra e bazzicavamo i Roundhouse Studios, dove era in auge l'acid rock. I Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, i
Free erano da poco usciti allo scoperto; we have contaminated the space rock soured with the blues at that time, in fact, became interested more in r & b and blues. "

From prog psychedelic" Prince Kajuku "(from" UFO 2 - Flying ", 1971, ed) in a very direct form of hard rock: What caused this change?
" We played a short time, we had no well-defined musical identity. When we signed our first contract we had never set foot in a recording studio,
could only boast a performance at the Marquee (famous place in London, ed.) We had no experience in songwriting and recording, and since then we started a scrivere sempre più. Poi, il cambiamento maggiore ha coinciso con l'arrivo di Michael Schenker".

La vostra etichetta, la Chrysalis, era specializzata in gruppi progressive…
"Sì, ma prima avevamo firmato un contratto con la Beacon, che aveva pubblicato i nostri dischi di space rock, e solo dopo eravamo passati alla Chrysalis. Con la nuova etichetta arrivò anche il nuovo chitarrista…".

Perché un tedesco quando avevate un'ampia scelta di musicisti anglosassoni?
"Frutto del caso. All'epoca il nostro chitarrista era Bernie Marsden (poi nei Whitesnake, ndr); dovevamo fare un tour in Germania e il giorno della partenza he forgot his passport at home! We attended a concert of Scorpions and we were impressed by the talent of Michael (Schenker, ed), we did so we 'borrowed' for the concert that evening, and after that
. At the end he set out to join us. Bernie, however, was a great musician, a great guy and fun, except when he took off his shoes and put them under the heating of the car! The heat makes the air very smelly! Once Bernie had taken off her shoes and fell asleep, Pete Way to put in a plastic bag and tossed out the window. "

Of all the hard blues rock band, UFOs are who have kept their best musical identity. What is the secret?
"I think it is a combination of styles: that of Michael, Pete's and mine. We realized when we tried to play with other musicians."

How did you get in touch with Leo Lyons of Ten Years After bassist and producer of "Force It", "No Heavy Petting" and "Lights Out"?
"We were signed to Chrysalis, which also deals with the management of Ten Years After. One day the boss of the label suggested we go into the studio with Leo, and we accepted gladly."

back a moment and "Force It" was a cover of impact ...
"If they took the study Hipgnosis, who had already drawn one of 'Phenomenon' and then realized that the 'No Heavy Petting'."

It was released two versions, one for the American market and one for English ...
"In America you would not show the nipple on the inner side European Union, so they decided to blend the two female figures. Personally We found nothing offensive nor particularly encouraged. Furthermore, the cover was lost by changing the meaning of it (laughter). "

How did you get in touch with George Martin (the legendary Beatles producer who in 1980 looked after 'No Place To Run' ed)?
"Always through our label, Chrysalis. We previously worked with Ron Nevison
(in 1978, for 'Obsession', ed), who had done a great job, but at that time wanted
ourselves with someone else" .

What is your favorite album of UFOs from a strictly musical point of view?

"I do not know. Usually I tend to grade the records based on the memories associated with them, so I might not be as objective in the choice! Remember that we had a lot during the recording of 'The Wild, The Willing and The Innocent '(the first self-produced, ed), as well as' No Place To Run 'and before' Obsession 'and these are just my favorites. The material of the first period I would say 'No Heavy Petting' and 'Lights Out', which represented a milestone in our evolutionary process. "

As a singer who were your masters?
" the old guard as Screaming Jay Hawkins, Sonny Boy Willliamson, Muddy Waters and Howlin 'Wolf. Among the most recent ... Steve Marriott (singer and lead guitarist of Small Faces and
Humple Pie, ed) was one of my favorites, so Joe Cocker and Terry Reid. "

Speaking of solo singers: in this capacity would could affect a lot of records, but you did not. Why?
"It was never the opportunity presented itself, I have always been involved with UFOs and there was not much time to devote to something else. I recently recorded a couple of records as a Mogg and Way
with Sign of 4 .... "

Why did you title your album a "Sharks" ("Sharks", the last with Michael Schenker, in 2002, ed)?
"Because we are surrounded! (Laughter) They're everywhere."

This is paranoia, the topic discussed in "Doctor Doctor" (one of the band's first hit, dated 1974, note), I think ...
"Exactly."

song that brings us back to the past: where does Phil Mogg?
"In the present, here and now, but I have a good memory ..."

(Source: glam-metal.com, my translation)