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_tom_

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« on: July 30, 2007, 05:16:51 PM »
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=77771

 :o :?

I dont know whats going on there, but its truly awful.. hope its some kind of joke :(
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« Reply #1 on: July 30, 2007, 05:20:36 PM »
:o  :o  :o  :oops:

thats...... well......


yer.
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« Reply #2 on: July 30, 2007, 05:21:56 PM »
and i thought my piss taking lead playing sounded bad...... if thats serious i will never intentionally play bad again as it sounds better than that
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« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2007, 05:25:21 PM »
One tee many martoonies? That's what happens when you 'rink too much! It's ruined his life!!
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« Reply #4 on: July 30, 2007, 05:27:19 PM »
TO is he a drinker? as in, problem drinker...  i had no idea   :(  :o  :evil:
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« Reply #5 on: July 30, 2007, 05:47:15 PM »
Quote from: sambo
TO is he a drinker? as in, problem drinker...  i had no idea   :(  :o  :evil:

NOTORIOUS drinker and very volatile/violent personality, to boot.


Lot of problems, unforuntately.
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« Reply #6 on: July 30, 2007, 05:52:46 PM »
daaaamn! what a waste...

i've never really followed his career much, can't believe i didn't know about this!  :oops:  :lol:
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« Reply #7 on: July 30, 2007, 06:06:42 PM »
Ouch. =X
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« Reply #8 on: July 30, 2007, 06:53:21 PM »
I read that Guitar World interview with him that someone mentions in the comments on blabbermouth. Sad state of affairs to say the least.
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« Reply #9 on: July 30, 2007, 07:18:54 PM »
:D Ouch ! that was bad...........very, very bad !

he also has a drugs problem as well. [heroin]i`d heard in a article in Guitarist that he`d managed to blow all his money & was giving guitar lessons for a few hundred bucks a time but i didn`t want to believe it. Looks like they were right.

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« Reply #10 on: July 30, 2007, 08:40:23 PM »
it's a real shame, he can play the $%&# out of that Vee when he's ON.

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« Reply #11 on: July 30, 2007, 09:02:36 PM »
Wow, that was bad. Which is a real shame, because he used to be an excellent player. Best anti-drug/drink advert I've seen in a long while.
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« Reply #12 on: July 30, 2007, 09:03:49 PM »
That is sad.
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« Reply #13 on: July 30, 2007, 09:20:49 PM »
Journalist Dave Ling's firsthand account:

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Compared to his elder sibling, who threw shapes and played the rock star to absolute perfection, MICHAEL SCHENKER was an utter disgrace. He'd turned up at the site mid-morning with a bottle of Courvoisier cognac inside him. After an altercation during the soundcheck, Schenker threw his guitar across the stage, trying to hurt the agent who'd booked him for the show, before threatening not to perform. The rest of the day was spent in his portacabin, attempting to sleep things off. It didn't work.

Excuse the language, but Schenker played like a complete c**t. Looking visibly glazed, he could scarely walk let alone play guitar. After 45 minutes of his alotted 90, having been booed and jeered throughout, Michael stumbled into the wings to the strains of the footie chant, "You're shite and you know you are". Then, incredibly, he returned.

There was a momentary improvement, but any thoughts that Schenker might get out of jail were rudely shot down during the ensuing half-hour.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is $%&#ing improvised but we do the best we can, okay?" slurred Michael before UFO's 'Too Hot To Handle' - a song he must've played a hundred thousand times before, the simple riff to which had suddenly become infinitely beyond his grasp. Believe me, the song 'On And On' had never felt more appropriate. Once it was all over, Michael and his brother Rudolf came to blows and the pair had to be separated by security. The word 'pathetic' doesn't even begin to cover it. It'll be interesting to see whether he makes it to Manchester or Hammersmith.
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« Reply #14 on: July 30, 2007, 09:25:40 PM »
Quote from: Simon D
Wow, that was bad. Which is a real shame, because he used to be an excellent player. Best anti-drug/drink advert I've seen in a long while.


Yep, exactly what I was thinking. Schenker wrote some of my favourite riffs and solos but it seems as though the alcohol has ruined him :(
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