
Guitar World magazine “dug out” an older article published in 2009, where Michael Schenker answers readers’s questions. One of them asked how come he liked playing with a Flying V shaped guitar…
“For me, it’s not really about the shape; I came to play a V by accident. I was playing with the Scorpions, and I broke a string and had a solo coming up, so my brother and I swapped guitars really quickly.
“He had been playing a V, so that’s what I ended up playing, and I just loved the combination of that guitar and a 50-watt Marshall. And once I got used to the shape, there was no going back. Plus I loved Leslie West, and he used to play a V.”