The Visitor (UFO album)
Encyclopedia
The Visitor is the nineteenth studio album
by the British
hard rock
band UFO
, which was released on June 2, 2009. It was their first album in three years since the release of The Monkey Puzzle in 2006. Current UFO bassist, Pete Way, has been absent from the recording sessions due to a medical condition affecting his liver. Bass parts have been recorded by Peter Pichl. Since there are no writing credits on the album booklet, they were posted on UFO's official website (June 2009).
Additional musicians:
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by the British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
band UFO
UFO (band)
UFO are an English heavy metal and hard rock band, who were formed in 1969. UFO became a transitional group between early hard rock and heavy metal and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal...
, which was released on June 2, 2009. It was their first album in three years since the release of The Monkey Puzzle in 2006. Current UFO bassist, Pete Way, has been absent from the recording sessions due to a medical condition affecting his liver. Bass parts have been recorded by Peter Pichl. Since there are no writing credits on the album booklet, they were posted on UFO's official website (June 2009).
Track listing
All lyrics written by Phil Mogg, all music composed by Vinnie Moore, except where noted.- "Saving Me" - 5:08
- "On The Waterfront" - 3:50 (music: Paul Raymond)
- "Hell Driver" - 4:26
- "Stop Breaking Down" - 4:55
- "Rock Ready" - 3:06
- "Living Proof" - 4:32
- "Can't Buy A Thrill" - 5:14
- "Forsaken" - 3:57 (music: Paul Raymond)
- "Villains & Thieves" - 3:34 (music: Paul Raymond)
- "Stranger In Town" - 3:39 (music: Robert Barth, Andy Parker)
- "Dancing With St. Peter (2009 Edition)" (Phil Mogg / Jeff Kollman / Shane Gaalaas) (bonus track – only in digipak edition)
Personnel
- Phil MoggPhil MoggPhillip John 'Phil' Mogg is a vocalist for the band UFO, which he formed with longtime friends Pete Way and Andy Parker. Mogg wrote the majority of the band's lyrics, with the music being written by Way, Schenker, and later, Raymond, but Schenker left to launch his solo career in 1979...
– vocals - Vinnie MooreVinnie MooreVinnie Moore is a guitarist and a member of the English hard rock band UFO. Along with Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony MacAlpine, and others, Moore is known as one of the most influential guitarists to emerge out of the shredder boom in the mid 1980s.-Biography:Moore was born in New Castle, Delaware...
– lead guitarLead guitarLead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure... - Paul RaymondPaul Raymond (musician)Paul Martin Raymond is an English keyboardist/guitarist.Raymond began his musical career as a keyboardist/vocalist for the band, Plastic Penny, in 1967. He left after the band split up in 1968. He replaced Christine Perfect in British blues band Chicken Shack when she left to join Fleetwood Mac...
– keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, rhythm guitarRhythm guitarRhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together... - Andy Parker – drums
Additional musicians:
- Peter Pichl – bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Martina Frank – backing vocals on Living Proof & Forsaken
- Melanie Newton – backing vocals on On The Waterfront & Forsaken
- Olaf Senkbeil – backing vocals on Stop Breaking Down, Saving Me, Hell Driver & On The Waterfront
Credits
- Tristan Greatrex – Album Artwork
- Kai Swillus – Band Photos
- Peter Knorn – ManagementManagementManagement in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...