Guitar legend Michael Schenker is on roll since last 4-5 decades with continuously churning out good music.
In a new Interview with eonmusic‘s website, Schenker talks about declining Ozzy’s offer to join his solo band.
He said:
“Ozzy Osbourne was definitely not too happy with me having to experiment with my vision because I wouldn’t have made him any money.
He added:
“The thing was, Cozy Powell [drummer] said; “Michael, you can’t join Ozzy Osbourne. We are in the middle of doing ‘Assault Attack’”, and I was tempted to do it, but then I had to remember my time with the Scorpions and with UFO, and I said to myself; “If I join Ozzy Osbourne, then I never needed to leave UFO in the first place, because it would be just more of the same thing”. For me, I had reached my peak with ‘Strangers In The Night’, and for that was it.”
Schenker also talks about the positives of declining the offer, saying:
“If I had of joined Ozzy, maybe I wouldn’t still be alive, and secondly, I would maybe have gotten a lot of money, but would not have taken care of myself, so I went the right way, and it was all meant to be this way.
He further added:
But now I can make up for what I couldn’t hold for the ‘80s; I dress like an ‘80s rock star now, I drive a sports car, and I celebrate! So, I’m making up; I took care of the necessary first; I build my house on a rock, a good solid thing. There is a saying; if you stay true to yourself, then everything else will be added onto you and more, and that’s exactly what’s happening.”