

" Mogg later claimed that I left UFO over a disagreement about which version of 'Rock Bottom' appeared on Strangers," Schenker recalled, "but don't believe everything you read." During this tour the band had recorded six concerts, from which selected tracks would make up their live album Strangers in the Night, released after he left the band. Despite successful albums and tours, Schenker unequivocally quit UFO after their show in Palo Alto, California, on 29 October 1978. His career with UFO was turbulent, sometimes walking off mid-song and causing shows to be cancelled. Schenker cowrote most of the songs on UFO's major label ( Chrysalis Records) debut Phenomenon. (The Scorpions replaced him with Uli Roth.) With Rudolf's blessing, Schenker accepted. Schenker was invited to be lead guitarist for UFO (taking over from Bernie Marsden, himself a temporary replacement for Mick Bolton). Īfter recording their first album, the Scorpions opened for up-and-coming UK band UFO in Germany. Schenker played with the Scorpions on their debut Lonesome Crow at the age of 16. He played his first gig when he was 11, with Rudolf and the Scorpions in a nightclub. His main influences were Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Leslie West, Johnny Winter and Rory Gallagher.

Schenker started playing guitar at an early age, after his brother Rudolf got a Gibson Flying V guitar for his birthday, which captured his imagination. He has been called "a legendary figure in the history of metal guitar." Career Early career and rise to fame: Scorpions and UFO Schenker continues to perform and record. He has rejoined UFO three times, producing an album each time. He left the band in 1978 to found the Michael Schenker Group. In the mid-1970s, Schenker joined UFO, playing lead and rhythm guitar. He was an early member of the hard rock band Scorpions, a band co-founded by his elder brother Rudolf Schenker. He played in the rock band UFO and leads the Michael Schenker Group. “Their experience suggests that the combined forces of nature and human fallibility outdo even the most incredulous science fiction.Michael Schenker (born 10 January 1955) is a German guitarist. Coast Guard contend that there are no supernatural explanations for disasters at sea,” NOAA says. NOAA says environmental considerations can explain away most of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances, highlighting the Gulf Stream’s tendency towards violent changes in weather, the number of islands in the Caribbean Sea offering a complicated navigation adventure, and evidence that suggests the Bermuda Triangle may cause a magnetic compass to point to true north instead of magnetic north, causing for confusion in wayfinding. In fact, as The Independent notes, Lloyd’s of London has had this same theory since the 1970s. He told The Independent that the sheer volume of traffic-in a tricky area to navigate, no less-shows “the number that go missing in the Bermuda Triangle is the same as anywhere in the world on a percentage basis.” He says that both Lloyd’s of London and the U.S.

“There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean,” NOAA wrote in 2010.Īnd since 2017, Kruszelnicki has been saying the same thing. 7 Conspiracy Theories About the Bermuda Triangle.Is the Denver Airport Run by the Illuminati?.In fact, the loss and disappearance of ships and planes is a mere fact of probabilities.

Both have been saying for years that there’s really no Bermuda Triangle mystery. Each one has a story without an ending, leading to a litany of conspiracy theories about the disappearances in the area, marked roughly by Florida, Bermuda, and the Greater Antilles.Īustralian scientist Karl Kruszelnicki, along with the United States’ own National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), don’t subscribe to the Bermuda Triangle’s supernatural reputation. Pick any one of the more than 50 ships or 20 planes that have disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in the last century. While the conspiracy of the Bermuda Triangle has existed for decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and Lloyd’s of London has long championed the same ideas.Add in suspect weather, and iffy plane and boat piloting, and Karl Kruszelnicki believes there’s no reason to believe in the Bermuda Triangle phenomenon.An Australian scientist says probabilities are the leading cause of the Bermuda Triangle disappearances.
