• Times like this one, when you have the chance to talk to a real legend of the hard rock and metal music, you get anxious, your hands are getting cold, you make mistakes, your heart is beating faster. For UFO and for Phil Mog in specific this was just another intevriew, but for me...well...for me...it was a lifetime experience!

• It's called "Sharks". I think it's a little bit more...hhmmm, we got back to being a 4 piece on this album, very little keyboards and stuff and I think it's a lot more back down and rocking on comparison to the last albums since Michael's been back in the band. It's a more basic rock album without many frills on it.

2.YOU ARE ALSO PREPARING A DVD. RIGHT?

• Eemmm...I'm not sure about that. I keep hearing that this is gonna happen, but...

-YES, WE HAVE NEWS FROM YOUR LABEL SAYING THAT THEY WILL SOON RELEASE A DVD FOR YOU...

• OOohhh!!!Wow! Fantastic!!

-YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THAT?

• No!Nooo!!! I don't know but I will find out.

3.YOU HAVE DONE MANY LIVE SHOWS. DO YOU REMEMBER ANY FUNNY SITUATIONS HAPPENING TO YOU WHILST YOU WERE PERFORMING LIVE? HOW DID YOU REACT?

• Oohhh..Hhmmm...Funny? Tragically funny! No, nothing that's funny to laugh, they are all like..unfunny! No, I can't think of anything that's really funny funny...

4.WHEN YOU ARE LISTENING TO A SONG WHAT INTERESTS YOU THE MOST? THE SENTIMENTS OR THE TECHNICAL PLAYING?

• I think it's kind of a wish to combine the two. If the technical playing is there, and that is great, then you can just get a trace on the sentiment or you should try to find a groove where it feels right. I think that's the actual sentiment in the filling of these two.

-I SEE MANY VIRTUOSO'S GUITARISTS, THAT THEY PLAY MAINLY TECHNICALLY AND THEY FORGET THAT THEIR MUSIC IS ALSO LISTENED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW MANY THINGS ABOUT MUSIC...

• Yeahh! Generally it would be feel, even if you got a good technic you need feel cause otherwise you'd be widling away for ever. If you can not combine these two then it'd definitely be the feel. The feel rules over technical ability.

5.YOU ARE DEDICATED IN MUSIC FOR MANY YEARS. HOWEVER ARE THERE STILL DREAMS AND AMBITIONS THAT HAVEN'T YET COME TRUE? IF YES, COULD YOU TELL ME WHICH ARE THESE?

• Finally it goes as far as doing the next album. I love the UFO albums, they are great. I have a new album with another band that's gonna come out so I am happy with that. No, I don't have any other ambitions...
• I've got an album coming with a band like a solo album band thing called The Sign Of Four and that's coming out I believe in October, so I am happy with that. No great ambition beyond that.

6.CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME MORE INFORMATION FOR THIS SOLO ALBUM?

• It's called "Dancing With Saint Peter" and the band is called the Sign Of Four and the guitarist is the one I played with in Chocolate Box. It's very different from  the UFO stuff. It's a very different style, is more bluesy. It has a bluesy feel. We are not playing blues rock.

7.WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO COMPOSE MUSIC?

• Hmmm...I don't know! I'd probably do as little as possible! hahaha
• No!I don't know...I haven't thought about it, but now I will sure think about it!hahahaha

8.WAS THERE A TIME THAT YOU WANTED TO QUIT EVERYTHING?IF YES, HOW DID YOU GET OVER IT?

• Yeah, there's lots of times when you are wiped out and not responding to the medication at all. I think it's like everything else, if you have a break from that and is not in your face all the time, you tend to hear something good from the radio and you say oohh this is good! And you are back!

9.CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT KIND OF CHARACTER IS MICHAEL SCHENKER? DID YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH HIM?

• Michael is either very very good...

-SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING BUT WE READ IT IN THE MAGAZINES THAT HE HAS AGAIN PROBLEMS WITH THE DRUGS...

• I really don't know what Michael does. We kinda get together and play, but I don't know what Michael gets up to with Michael. I just know that Michael is either very good or he is very naughty!

10.IS IT POSSIBLE TO SEE YOU FOR A LIVE SHOW HERE IN GREECE?

• We are hoping we can do some festivals in Europe next year and that would be nice. If we could get to Greece that would be terrific! That would be great! I'd love to come to Greece! In fact I'd like to come now, the weather is getting very bad here...hahahaha

-THE WEATHER IS AWFUL TODAY HERE TOO. IT'S RAINING ALL DAY

• Oooohh!!!Is that so????

11.HOW DO YOU REACT WHEN PEOPLE JUDGE A BAND'S VALUE BY THE NUMBER OF CD'S THEY SELL?

• No, not really!I still think that a band is gonna be good live. I'd get more offended if someone came and told me I saw the band play and you weren't very good. I find that probably the most...I prefer to maintain our success by the band playing good live.

12.HAVE YOU LISTENED TO ANY NEW BANDS YOU FOUND INTERESTING AND YOU THINK THEY ARE ABLE TO GIVE GREAT RESULTS IN THE FUTURE?

• I've listened to all the new stuff coming out, the american stuff and everything else and I tend to go and see the bands, see what their live experience is like.

13.SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THIS NU METAL THING?

• I find hard to mix hard rock with rap a little bit. It's good but I find it a little bit novel, it's a novelty. I listen to the death metal stuff, I love it to wake me up! Getting up!

-YOU LIKE DEATH METAL?!?!

• No, no, no! You use music for certain occasions and I use death metal to wake me up from drifting a bit and I need to get out of the house and do something. I'll put on and it'll drive me out...hahahahahaha
• I like bands like Nickelback and Creed but not as albums that I would like to keep and cherish, but I think that the Red Hot Chilli Peppers are good.

-DID YOU LISTEN TO THEIR NEW ALBUM?

• No, I haven't got that one yet! I liked their previous album though. Last week I went and bought some older albums. It was really enlightning cause there are some really good bands.

14.CAN YOU POINT OUT SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE MUSIC INSUDTRY OF THE 70'S AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AS IT IS NOWADAYS?

• Well, I think that the in the '70s it was kinda a great booming, bands trying stuff, lots of clubs and a very warm atmosphere until the greed of the '80s. It was a warmer atmosphere, but I don't know... Lots of bands did lots of different things. If you went through the '80s things were more excess and greed and lots of everything. It has come to be very manufactured the business. Things in the '70s were more free, there were more independant labels they were signing up a lot of bands. Nowadays the companies are few and no independant labels at all...

15.IF SOMEDAY YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET THE CREATURE THAT CREATED THE UNIVERSE, WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ASK HIM?

• Oohh, that's hard!... Why the pain? Why the pain? hahaha
• Why all this suffering? That's about it or maybe why me?
• hahaha

16.IF TIME TRAVEL WAS POSSIBLE, WHICH HISTORICAL PERIOD WOULD YOU LIKE TO VISIT AND WHY? WHAT WOULD YOU MISS THE MOST FROM OUR TIME?

• Ooohh..it would be in he period of discovery. Yeah that! I wouldn't want to put up with all that stuff that went with it!hahahaha I don't mind visiting it but not experience all the hard things that went with it. If I could visit in luxury that would be great!hahahaha

17.WHAT WOULD YOU ADVISE A NEW MUSICIAN THAT WOULD LIKE TO START PLAYING MUSIC NOW?

• I think wrap yourself with individual writer so that your stuff really shines. You need to find a couple of people that you have kind of a gelling. people that you have a good chemistry with in a band. This is usually what sets apart a band. That's the hardest thing, finding people that you can work with.

18.THANK YOU FOR THE INTERVIEW!

• Thank you!!! Bye bye!