A musician who doesn’t take heed to new music would possibly sound like an oddity in in the present day’s world, however as Michael Schenker explains, there’s a wonderfully good cause behind his resolution.

The German guitarist, identified for his iconic work with the Scorpions and UFO, has opened up about his artistic course of in a latest dialog with Portugal’s Steel World. He explains that quite than listening to different folks’s music, he a lot prefers to look inward for inspiration in terms of making his personal.

The musician beforehand advised Basic Rock that he “by no means” listens to different artists, and that “listening to music could be poison” for him: “I have to be utterly empty with a view to create what I have to create,” he mentioned.

Now, requested if he nonetheless doesn’t take heed to any new bands or take note of the rock world in a brand new interview, Schenker replies [via Blabbermouth]: “Yeah, I did [in the past]. To start with, once I was jumpstarted, [I was] impressed by all of the late ‘60s guitarists.”

“However then, [when I was] 15 years previous, I already subconsciously knew that that was one thing I wished to do. And once I was 18, I made that call to keep away from [listening to new] music to self-express.”

Attributing his resolution to the obvious decline in music high quality between the Nineteen Sixties and the Nineteen Eighties, Schenker explains: “As a result of once I heard the guitarists within the late ‘60s, all of them had their very own model. And it was actually good — every part was, like, ‘Wow, that is nice. Oh, that is nice.’ All totally different.”

“However [in] the ‘80s, every part was the identical. And that was mainly watered-down ‘70s; [they] made it easy and commercialized it [to] become profitable. However the ‘70s [and] late ‘60s guitarists, it was artwork; [they were] pure artists.”